Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1874, Page 7

+Church could not afford to e ———————— ey e THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. AUGUST 29, 1874 BEECHER--TILTON. (Continucd trom Fivat Page.) at loast made baso propounls to Mra, Til- ton; on_ the contrary, ho spoke freoly of Mr. Beocher's admissions of guilt with yeapeot to hor in {his way, and of tho fuot that soveral pomons In b congrogation: know of his impurity, aud quoted Mr. Beochor's worda to him, to this effoct ¢ ** Men talk of the courngo required to faco the eannon's mouth ; but that s notbing comparad with what I bave Lnll to ox- ercieo, theso yoars back, in looking wm tho faco and pronching to persons who kuow that I Lad been guilty of auch things.” Ilo nssnrod nio that Mr. Beeohor had boeu very dosirous, at first, to have tho nowspapor project succeed, snd ta withdraw from tho miuistry, unylng to M, that " bis work wwas abont dono in that liuo, thal 1t Liad principally boon a destructivo work, pulle ing to pioces tho old theology, and thab somy 10 olso must now arwe with contruolzve ability o mako & now sohiemo.” 1lo sald_bo had jus coma from n ooufarence with Dr. Blorrs on th Bubjact, to sea what conld be dono to save tiy mlhlln fall of Mr, Beccher ; and he pulled fron 1 voaL-pockot a small pieca of papor on whidi wero minuted down three or four poluts whidy eould bo mado heforo the publio w doninl «f Mrs, Woudhull's statemont, without tonehing nuything elso. ropliod that suoh & Eol_lny could nover s~ eeod, and that I did not boliove that Dr. Stors, on reflection, would counsol any deaaption of tlo Ppubiie by sonding forth a deulal of one stab- ment, au'though that covored tho whole of tle rou caso, when Lo kuew that sctual guilt nove- thelous existod. 3lr. Carpentor mnde his stab- ‘monts to me in the presence of my vrother (wio 18 now in Europo), sad that Lo was ln daily fa- torcourse with Doocher and Tilton on the swb- jeot, nad exptaimed that part of the plan sbot ho howepaper was, that Tilton ehould go abrod for two or throo yonts, corrospond with tho papor, get o now ot of aesuciations with his Bame in tho puolic mind, and thon come hoho, aund go, petunrs, ou the editorial staff. Findly, heoffored to take mo to Mr. Beeohor, that I miglit bear tho samo things from Lus lips. Aly seply was: ®Icould not endura tho pain of such an futerview. Theso many years I Inve honored Mr. Beechor as & mau and & miuigor, whilo difforing from momo of bhis thoos Jugical and roformatory viows, tho efect of which I foir, and our occaslonal por- wonal intercourso Laa beeu friendly; und I wuld not boar to look bim in the face, Iu tho hotr of 1is humiliation, nnlers positive duty required it. But hero ara his lifs.long ministorial sssocittos, D:a. Storrs, Budington, aud othoea ; it is forthem to doal porsonally with bum, under such pinful admissious." ‘Thoa he urgod mo to go and wlic ‘with Mr, aud Mrs, Tilton, 'Ihis I also refused 80 do, as I did not wish to Lo implicated i any manaer with Mr. Tilton, and wanted to be ablo to uay that I had nover exchanged a worl with &im on this subjoct, my faitl in him not being patticulnrly stroug,’ Nor did I alter my purpose, whon a fow days later Mis. Carpenter communic entad to mo a request from Mys. Tilton to call on hier. Perhaps I orrdd i thesodecisions; but my heart waa sad, snd I had heard toomuck already, Xad Ioven fmagined that Mr, Boscher deried theso obarges o thews confldentinl friends, I should havo gouo to seo himj but I would uot unocosuniily humilinte Lim, on their invitation, o liear bim confess, [L should have added hicte, ia the copy of thiy stitement sout to tho Com- mittoe, that, at thnt time, Mr, Beacher had mads 1o doviul of tho chiargos bofore ihe public, and thosa statemouts of Mr, Carpeuter seomed to harmonizo with that fact, W. W. P.] ‘Whilo roturning to Chicago I soomed grad uslly to discern duty. 1 bad learned from Mr, Carponter that tho actual facts wera known to quito o cirale of porsous, tocluding two or threg oditors and several prominent eleigymen. Su 1 advised with tho Rov. Dr. Bacon, of Now Ha- you, and we ngreed that nothing could be said or dotio a¢ present but to await developmonts; ag posribiy Mr. Onrpontor might bo mistaken in some of his aesertions; but that atsome timean investipation must take Elnua, a4 Plymouth ave such chiarges ro- main without denial or disproof. So, on reach- ing home, I publised in the Advance an edito~ xial entitled *! Mistaken Sitence,” which madeno uao of the information I had privately recoived, ‘but Lased & call for adenial by Mr. Beochor upon what Lud ulroady _comio bofore the public, fucluding Mr. Tiltou's famous lotter to a * Com- plaiving Friend,” Having dono this, T felt tuat my duty was dls- charged for the time beiug, But at onca communicated my private_information to Houry Viard Beochor's brother William, that ha might take such stops as he thought wiso to as- corinin the wholo truth. 8eyeral monthe attor, I called oo Henry M. Bmith, who bad been the. publisher of the Ad- vance, but wus thon mauaging editor of Tux Curcaco Tminoye, and reforring to the poaition which I bad somo time before taken in the Ad- vance, said that it was more and more plaiu that an investigation must come at last, and that I thought the wholo sccular and religious prees ought {o assume that ground, that Plymouth Ohurch might undorstaud that 1t was not a cass. to ba avadad but mat, Ou his exJ)resniug doubts as to Low sorious it was, 1 coufidentinlly gave Lim an outlinoof what I hod loarnod, that Lie mighl, withcut auy publi~ cation or allusion, undorstand in his own mind, 08 itews relating to it came up, how the ceso was to Lo treatod, Lo wit,: simply o5 ono domanding investigation if Mr. Beecher was to be vindieatod. T gnid that I Lad done all that the Advanar could properly do, without subjecting itself toa Daso ana Talse charge of being stirad by rivalny with the Christian Union, I said nothing about Nr. Bowen’s having received a doath-bed cori~ “feasion trom bis wife, or of Mr. Boacher's hav~ ing loft tho Independent on imputations againnt hiy character, aud nover heard of those allega~ tions from any quarter till within a fow weels_ “Ihe sefereuts to Miss Prootor was simply tera statenent made In some of the mewspapers about hor, Mra, Woodhull's paper and otheis, I Baid nothing of having had a consultation with leading divinos, who sgreed that Mr, Bosclir must be oxposed; but simply aiatod my inter- view_witn Dr. Dacou, aa abiove explaitied, I Mr, Bmith made such siatements to the roportor of the Argus (which I doubt), he has minglod with his ‘recolioctions of what I said thirags whicl Lo heard {rom athers, or bad read in ‘tho papers, The wmiticls in the Arqus is o incor xect that Mr, Sunth hos disavowed it, as I ree by the Now York Tribune, I will only acd, that as I mado writtcn moemorands, fuat after my interviows with Carpenter, while evey- thing was freh snd docply fnbressed on my mind, 1 fool certain of the substandal correct~ ness of this statemont, Bat 1 subsoquantly, at difTerent tinos, inguired of my brother, aa ta tho Becuracy of my memory in the leading facts, nnd bis recollaction accorded exactly with mimo. When I saw Mr. Carponter, be was very coxdial to Mr. Beeoher, and ansious to help him throngh bix troubles ; but, soon after, my brotber vote mo that Mr. Carpenter had changed s nivod, and “ was denouncing Mr. Boechor as a cowrard and a lige ™ ‘This is.nll that now ocours to mo as wortlry of moution in connoction with my knowledie of thia sorrowful matter. If, through your Cotomit- teo, God can dissiputo tho dsrkuoss, milllols be- sides mysolt will rojoico, Youra traly, 1LLAx VW, PaTroN, Omoaqo, Aug. 27, 1874, e TOE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE'S REPORT, New Yonk, Aug. 28.—Plymounth Ohburch: was densely packed this ovening, every availablnapot of sitiing or utanding room being oconpied, and oven the rostrumn was eucroached upon by the surging multitudo, At tho cast end of the plat- form, aud on tho table adjolning the preaiding oflicor’s Bont, wore vasos of rare exotics. Prob- wbly ovor 8,000 peoplo were presont, sud many had t0 go away for want of accommodations, ¢ ‘Tho following is the roport of ihe Investigat~ ing Comuitteo: VELOUER'S REQUZYT FOR AX INVESTIGATION, V20 the Exgmining Commuttoeor Plymouth Cliuyeh : .” Dean Lneringx: The pastor of Plyruuth IOlmmh, the Rov, Henry Wurd Boochor, ad- drossod to us a letter June 27, 1874, of, which the following is & copy: BrooxLyx, June a7, 1874, @enTLEMEN: Tn the presont stato 0f puldid feellng {Lowa it touy fifsnds, aud 1o the Clinrch and the So- ‘cluty over whivh I am pastor, to bave somo proper 11~ \¥estigation made of “tho rumors, insinmatious, or ‘chiaryos wado rospocting my conduct as compromised by the late publicatfons muds by Mn ‘Fiiton, UL Lave thougut thut both the Ohireh sud thn Hocloly should bo represnted, and I fake tho lherty of asking tho following gentionien 16 yerve in s Liquiry, wud to do_that whicl truth s Justice will considor tau au i Lo an wonally sout to him, nmely ¢ g Lo FROM THE ORURGW, - Honry W, Bage, Augustus Blorr, enry b1, Olovelund, FUO THK SOOLETT, Torsos B, Olaflln, ", White, T dealre you, whien you hinve satlufed yourselves by aut fmpartlol std thorouph examination of sll sources of evldonce, to commuuieate to the Exsuinlug Cois- mittee, OF to the church, such uotion as thion may svew o you right aud wise, 5 (Bigued) HENNY WaAND DEROUER, The Committoa named huving wynitiod tholr wllllnlfnmw to uervo ju the gravo nitilors #0 ro- farved to thom, Mr, Beocher sent {he following LETTER O TUK KXAMINING COPRMITPEE of Plymouth Churclss 4 Jusy o, 1974, Baus Basrmwot 1 1incloss o you § liter fu whith Johu Witislow, ueated throo gontlemon from the Ohurch L eilis Hoolowy of Tipmotih Oliiitol fons tlomen of unimpoachable’ ropito, aud who have not Leon fuvolvod i xny of tho irials tirongh which we Tave paused during tho yoar, to mnko a tiorough and Tyt fal oxamination of ull chiargos or inalniations agoiowt my good mamo, aud fo roport the sumo (o you, sl 1 now roipertfully requeat that you will give to this Commitice the authority o act in your bebulf algo, 1t ncomud wite to mo thit tho re~ Tnost shiould pracced from me, tud without your fore- ol knowletigo, sud thal’you aliould giro to it Authority to act in your bebulf, i ao far ns a tloraugh Investiyation of (ha facks slvuld bo ponearnod, (Bliguad) T{exny Waup Drronen, ATOLOGETIO. Tfierounon tho Exainmng Committeo duly authorized tho Committeo named in the lottor of Juno 27 to not in their bohalf, Also, Second—Your Commitios eannot hero rofrain from roferriug to the {noxprossible rogrot which thoy in common, with all good mou, fool that uncontrollable ciroumatances binve mado it necewsiaty to disonss in the most public manuer the uuhappy scandal which is tho subject of tho prosent }u niry. But, nccumlnz the situation as we found it when wo onloro upon the high and solomn fiust thus imposod, wo hnve been profoundly impressed from the be- luning with tho grave importauce of tho work ofors us, Forn cooslderablo timo vaguo and indetivite rumors wero i circulatlon touchmg in avital maunor the Clristfan Intogrity of our beloved pastor. Mt nothing had ayipoared from nlu‘nlawn rogponsiolo source in & taugivle form umt THE LETTER OF TMEODONE TILTON TO TUM REY. DIl DPACON, which waa published on tho 26th day of Juno, 1874, Itsvas tire appoarauco of (his lotter thot moved Mr, Boesior, two days aftorwards, to re- quost an imnodiate juvestigation. It wili boseen by tho tormn ot sush request that some propoer invostigation i asued for by him of the rumurs, insinuations, or charges made rospecting hiy conduct a8 conpronused by the late publicasions modo by Mr. Tilloa. Wo wore tavited to minke an fmpartial aud thorough oxaminnation of all tho soureos of v vidonos, and to adviso such action as may seom right and wise. IWONK OF THE COMMITTEE, Third—In eonducbiog this investigation we havo faithiully ondenvured Lo mako it thorough and impareial; and {0 obiain fuch facts as ae rolevaut to inquiry from all attainfiblo sources of evidonca, For this purposa wo havo summonod or roguesbad tho aitondancs of the following pereous Lo Lostify Loforo tho Committuo Mrs, Elizabioth R, Tilton, Thowas M, Vaill, Mre, H, W. Theoctivr, E, M, Holuies, 8 mual Wil kuson, lion,'N. 1L, Morao, Jobn . Heuvard, AMrs, Miry B, Dradshaw, Theoduro Lilton, Juseph Richrds, Sumuol E, Tielclior, Mins Zidzabath A, Turner, Ars. N, B, Feoncis W, Bilies, M, D, Qilver Jolusor Charles Qurez, M, D, Rov. R, B, 1itotrs, D, Dy Dr, Aonion, Dwigiat Jol mon, 3iiss Oukley, Thaso K, L. nley, Birs, Eidzabath A, Ovington Mrs, Putusin, 3irs, Wallaco Tev. 8. B, thallfda; ‘Tlhiomas G, Suear: Benjamin F, Trac Rictiurd ¥, Buck, Fruiscls D, Moultou, Francls B, Corponter, Franklin Woodrad, Atbort ¥, Borton, John W, Harmou, Lav, Henry Ward Deschor. CARPENTER AND MOULTOX. Most of thio porsons nomod have attended os raquost:d bofors the Committea. Ono noutadlo excoption {8 Fraucis B. Carpentor. Mr. Francis D, Moniton promised to festify fully, but has tailed 0 doso. He has submitted thice short statemiints in writing to the Committes, ‘consist- ing chiofly of the repson why Lo deolined to tes- {ify, m3d of promises to teatily at the call of the Cuanm{ttes, The Committes have called him thren times with tho results stated. ln addition to tlier ovidence of the porsons named, wo have exatuinod o considoraule number of lottars sud. other documentary evidonca which in ol may were sutiposad to relute to the aubject matierof the wmquiry. Wo have held in tho pruscoution of our wyestigatisia twenty-eight sews lous, Johu W, Mhuson, Rev, W, W, Pation, Mary O, A hues, TILTON'S ONIARGES. Fourth—Mr, Tilton, in his Jetier to Dr. Bacon, published on the 25th day of June, 1874, states that knowledgs came to him in 1870 that Mr, Becohor had committed no olfanso againet him whiol be forbore to name or characterize, and in the sams letter introduced what ho alloged to be extraots from alettersignod by Mr, Boocher and dated dum, 1878, This alleged leltor, the wholo of which spponrs n Mr. Tiltou’s subsequont statement bofors (o Committce, has come fo be known an the lottor of apology, When this Commistes commenced its labora thers was, thoroforo, no allogation before them excopt such vaguo alla- sion to an olfeuso of some su:t sald to have boen committed by Mr. Boochor againss Mr. Tilton, 2nd for which, according to tha samo authority, lie nd spologized. It will thus be seen that tha \uostion bofore t1is Committes, then, was what, if any, offenso had Mr. Bocchor commutted against Mr, Tilton, Fifth—At an early period of the invastigation Mr, lton was called befors the Commistes, and made an exteudod writton siatoment, and, in a senes, specitio cbarges which showed that the offenss retorred to in 1ihe Bacon lotter so-called wag, as Mr. Tilton now n‘ln;aa. adul- tery with his wife, Mrs, Elizaboth R. Tilton. B this statement, so made by Mr. Tilcon, the fiol of inquiry wa¢ somewhat enlargod by slloged :nctu, lectors, aud circumatances therein sob orth. . It is proper in tbis connection to state that the offense, as alleged by Mr, Tilton during some four years, and until “recontly, to nuwerous per- ¥ous in writivg and otberwieo, war an improper suggoation or woiigitation by Mr. Boocher to Mrs. Tilton; but, - sa timo rpassod snd pur- posca matured, this charge passed and matured jnto avother form " and sub- stanco. ~The offeuse committod by Mr. Beechor, as pow alloged by Mr. Tilton, is stated substautially in the third and fourth sub- divisiona of his statement beforo the Committeo. Tue charge in offect 15 that Dir, Beccher, at hig reaidonco an the ovoning of Oct. 10, 1803, or thoreabouts, committed adultery with Llizabeth R. Tilton, wifo of heodors Tilton ; that this sck was followod by a similar act of criminality Le- tween the samo parties at 3fr. Tilton's rosidonce on the subscquent Baturday eveniug, followed aluo by other slmilar acts on vatious occasions from tlio sutumn of 1808 to the spring of 1870, tho places boing the two reaidences aforosnid, aud occasionally _other. places to which her pestor would juvite and accompany her, or at which ho would meot ~bLor Dby ‘provious appomtmevt. The remmnder of llyr.gl‘flmn's oxtended statoment v made up of citations of alleged fucts and circumstancos which he seems Lo conslder rolovant snd impor- tl}ut g evidouco suatainmug lus churges as avove given. The Committee bhave given the evidenco their most careful consderation, and find thorefrom that, ln 1361, Mr. Beschor bocame editor and r. Tilton ausistant-oditor of the Independent, and ihat during this rolation they bocanin WAL AND INTIMATE ¥UIENDS, Ou or about 1863, Mr. Tilton ooxan to nrge Ar, Beecher to visit Lis (‘Dilton’s) house, aud he ba- came 1016 [ntimatoly la(immlled with Mr. Til- tov's fumily, o urgod him to do much of his editorinol writing in his study, as it was more couvenient to wrile thore than at the ollica of the Independent, Mr. Beechor visitod his Louso, and a friendly relation sprang up between tho wife and family of Mr. Tilton nud Mr, Beecher, which continued down to December, in 1870; that the fiiondly relationy exiuting betweon Mr. DBocclior and Alrs, Tiiton were siwaya woll kuown and understood, sod mot with Mr. 1ilton's cordial approval. Home yoars before sny open troublo appesred betweon™ Mr. Bocchor and Mr. Tilton, his (Mr. Tilton's) dootrines as set forth in tho Independen?, of which he had bLocome editor, arousad a storm of indignation tnd oppo- gltton” in the Woat, where this way widely cirouluted, Alft:r much P )[';E cusslon, tiiR led to the siarling of the Advance newnpsper in Ohicago, to uper- seda the Independent, Mr, ’X‘llbqn.g while editor of the Independent. s londivg roligious newspa- er, bad como to douy the inapiration of tha g«:rmmml aud divinity of Ohrist. Iiw social viows about this time also underwont a radiosl chongo in tho dizection of Treo Jove, This marked change in tho roliglous and woelal views of Alr. Tilton wna a source of greas griof and sorrow to Mra, Tilton. " Mrs, Tiltun soemed to bs & VERY RELIGIOUS WOMAY, her deyotion amounting almost to'enthusiasm, and, when this chunge oceurroed i her husbay abe naturally sought hier pastor for counsol ..3] sympathy, BSho eot forth in strong terms tho suftoring ber hnsband's course was causing hor, It now appeara that duriug theso yoara Mrw, il ton bocame strongly attached to Mr, Becchor, and fu July, 1870, confosued to her husband AN_OVEUBUADOWING AFPECTION FOI MER PASTOR, On or about the 10th of Docembor, 1870, Alre, Tiiton separated from hor husband, golug with bher childron to hor mothor's houso. Sho sunt for Mr, Bogokor, and on his visiting her sho mado 1o L » statoment of hor sufforings and tho abuse which she hud received at tho honds of hor hus. bund, which groatly shookod Mr. Boechor, iTo aslod and roceived permission to wond to Mra, Tilton kis wifo, whoso judgmeont in such matters ho conudored bettor thun hisown, Hubtequont- ly he agreod in advisiug with his wife that it waa dosirable that blra, Tilton should. HEFABATE FROM HEL HMUSDAND Mr, Tilton, however, subsoquently forced his wife to return to hig Liouse, by sonding for and obtaluing postcssion of the youvgost child, who was gick with tho oroup, during Mis. Tilton's temporary absouce frous hor mother's houso, Ble suffersd a misoariage thie noxe day after hor Keburn, on tita dith, which resulted In s serions {liness, contiuing uutll after the 14t of January, hor physician bolng In daily attondanca on Lor l{um tho 24th to tho Buth of Decombor, inoju- sivo, 3 TOWEN AND TILTON, Enrly In Docomber of this yoar, owing to a marked obango In- Mr. liton's rollgious and so- cial viows, Mr. Bowon feit constrained to give Inm notlco tunt his sorvicos as editor of tho In- dependent would torminate at a day named in tha notics, Bubiequontly to this notico, And on or about the S0th of Decombor, Mr. Buwen Latd ontored fnto a contract with Mr. Tilton by which ho wna to ba oditor of the Brooklyn JDaily Union, and chiof quntributor of thoe Independent; | but, within o fow dave aftor making this con- tract, Mr. Bowon rocoived such informatlon of Tulton's immorality ne alarmod him, and lod to .an intorview botweon himsolf, Tilton, aud Olivor Johuson, at the houso of 3Ir. Bowen, on the 20U, day of Docembor, 1870. Al this in- torview, Mr Tilton sought to retnin Lis placo and Bowen’s confidenco by offering to join Bowou 1n AN ATTACK ON M1, BEEONE, This intorviow resulted lu the insolent letter which Mr, Tilton wroto and nlquud on tho 27th of Decomber, domanding that Mr. Booolier leava Plymouth pulpit aud Biooklyn., That ovening Mr, Boweu, on bis way home, dolivored this let- iur to Mr, Boochor, 3r. Beacher, on reading it, oxprosaed his astonishmont at tho reveipt of such n luttor, and donouuced its autbor, Mr, Bowen thon derided the letter, and gave some account of the roagous why ho had teduced Tilton from tho aditorship of tixo Judependent to tho subordinate position of & contributor, saying that all 8Ir. Tilton’s roligious and social views wero ruining the papor, ana that ho was now consid- exiug whothor he could consistently rotain him 88 oditor of the Brooxlyn Union or as chiof gon~ tributos of the Independent. ‘I'tiey oanvorsed for somo time, Mr, Bowon wisling ‘Mr. Boochor's opluion, which waa i1coly given. Mr. Bocolor #aid o did not aoe how Mr, Bowou could rotain hia rolations with Mr. Tilton, Mr, Beeolior spoke strongly of the throaioning lottor and the rovo- Iation bo bad just had concerning Tlton's do- moaio affairs. Mr. Bowon roud Tilton's threat- ening lottor, aud waid that if troublo camo ho would STAND DY MR, BEECHER. It sooms that Mr, Bowon communteated to Mr, Tilton on the following day the conversation had with Mr. Bescher, and lus fntoation to stand by bim (r. Bovchor), Though be hiad no doubt that ilton would Lisva lost hia place, h o erw that hisnfuonce was decinive, and aaticipated Til- ton's overthrow, Itnow appoars that oo tho 29th of Docembor, 1870, Mr. Tilton bLaving lournod tho advice M. Boocher gavo M. Buwon, and whiok was likoly to bring bim face to faco with the loss of place and position, extorted from his wife, thon Iying ill of miscarriago, A DOOUMENT IMPLICATING MR. BEECHER, a documont ovincing har love for bor patior, and accusing bim of having made an improper eolic- itation. On the following day he sent Moulton to Boecher, rn?uumlug an intorview with Mr. Beecher at Mr. Moulton's Louso that ovoning. Mr, Beochor lcuurdmgi{ met Tilton at Moulton's house. Tilton recoived him with & momorands in lus hand, and procoeded o charge Alr. Boech- or with being unfriondly to bim, with seok- ing bis dowafall, npraldlni injurions rumora sbous him, undermining him,” sud advising Dowen to dlsmiss him, injurlng bim fn lua Tamily relations, joining his (Lilton's) mothor- in-law in producing discord in biu houss, advia- ing » separation, sliouating his wife's affection from him, with gaining hor love more than any Living being, with corrupting her moral virtuo with ™ teaching her to be iusincere, liing, an hypooritical, and ending by charging tiat ho ‘mado wicsed proposals to her. 'Tiltou thon pro- duced » wnitten paper purpoiting to bo & momo- randum of a coufcasion made in the July revious to him by lis wife of her ove for AMr. Boocher,and that e had made proposals to Lior of an Impuro vsture, r, G- tom, in tho twenty-scoond snbdivision of Lis stotoment bofore ile Committeo, reforring ot tho time to Decombor, 1870, atatea Lis grievances end canse of complaint to Ar, Becchor, touching Tiiton’s business relations with Blr, Bowon, in these words: ** That Lo (Mr. Becchor) thon par- ticspated in & conspiracy to dogrado Tasodoro Tilton before the public, n{ lous of place, bual- nass, and repute.” It 14 clear that on tho 20th dny of Docember, when the so-called momorandum of confossion was procurod trom Ars, Tilton, tho chlof inciting cause for that stop on Titon's ‘patt waa hia beliof that Mr. Beachor had cansed him the loss of {:lnou, business, and roputo, Mr, Boccler eaya this chargs of impura proposals foll upon him like & thunderbolt. Couid 1t be possiblo Mra, ‘Tilton, whom he had regarded ag tho type.of 50 much moral gaodnesn, could hava mada such false and atrocious statomonts? 'Iil- ton requested MNr. Deocher to ropair to his houso, whore Elizaboth was walting for him, and learn from hor lips tho trath of tho stories in 8o far s they concorned hor. Tho interview wag bad, and resulted ln A WRITTEN RETRACTION of the charges of Mra, Tilton, who mesmod in grent distress, Ina gort of postsoript to the retiaction, aho denied expiicitly that Mr, Beachor biad ever offered sny improper solicitations to her, that belng the only charge made by Tilton or roforred to in the statoment about tho con. feasion in July, > On tho noxt evening Moulton called at BMr. Beechor’s houso and went up ioto s bedroom, Ho sald that ho and Tilton had learned that Mrs, Tilton had givon tho retraction. He expostu- Iated, and said tho act was unmunm{ and would not meud matters, and that Mrs. Tilton had at- ready recanted the retraction; that Tilton had alroady destroyed his wifo's irsé papor of cou- fession.” Moulton olaimed that MR. DEECHEDR HAD ACTED UNFAIRLY; tbat all difficultics conld be sortled without such papers, and that Alr, Boocher ought to give it up. mont. Ho mada no vorbal thrests, bat displaed = pietol pnd laid it on the bureau nenr which "he stood. The paper was given to him, aud afler & fow momouts’ talk ho loft, It is Au amazing pity that at this junature Moulton was ot handed over to tha police. It would havo savod much that followed, which is dooply deplored, Mr, Beochor's distress =t tho situntion was bonndiess, Ia saw the oril of boing even falsoly accused. He blamed xxmunlr for wuch that had ocomred. — He could not {ell how much of the impouding trouble could bo attributed to DY, TILTON'S UNDUE AFFEOTION FOR HI, whick it was bis dnty to havo reprassied. ‘‘ My earnes; desiro,” he ssye, “to avoid a publo ncausation and the evils which must nosessarly tlow frow it, and which bave now resulted from it, has beon' oue of tho leadg wotives that must explain my action duriug these four yoars in this mateer.” Winle in a morbid condition of mind, produced by those distrossing dilicalties, Moulton again oallod on him. 1lis manner - way kind nud con- altory. He professed, however, to bolisve that Mr, Becchior bud beon secking Tiltow's downfail’; had leazmed with 3Mr. Bowen sgainst hg, and by Lis advico Lind came nenr destroy- jug 'Tilton's fumily. Alr. Buccuer oxprossod mauy aud strong 1ogrets at the mixfortunos of thut family. MOULTON CAUGHT UP 80MHE OF THESE EXPRESSIONS and wrote them down, saying that, if Tiltou could soo them, thore would be ho troubls 1a proouring & reconcilintion, ‘This paper, which 18 dutod Jan. 1, 1871, was intrnsted by Mr. Beecher {o Moulion's keeping witiout reading it, wor wnsat ruad to him, This paper, some- tiwew called ¢4 Tuy ATOLOGY," £nd sometimos the coufession, s in no proper sonse Mr, Boechor's production, or a corvoot To- port of what he said.* No mau will believe, for inutanco, that Beecast nid, **I humble wmysolf betora him llitiou) aw 1 do Lefore my Cod." Anotlior xautenco, *“ Ier forgivences [ have,” Mr. Boecher staton it wav uot it, nor the som- blance of 1t, P'ausing horo, the very important questiol arives m this conuaction TO WILA'T DOES TIIK APOLOQY REFER ? «2t doolares Mru. Tilton guiltloss, and yot Tilton unys It rofers to adultery, which Mlr. Toochor do- vies, Withuut now considering tho weight of credit to which the respootive pnrtios aro ontitled whore thero iv a contlict betweon them, wo baliove, and propouo to show from the evidence, that the original charge was *hnproper advances,” and that, a8 time passod aud tho conspirucy deoponad, it was enlarged into “adultery.” ‘I'he importanco of tiue s apparont, because, it tho charge has boen 50 olnged, thon buth Tilion and Meulton are conspirators and conyieted of a vile fraud, which neceasarily ouds their influonce iu this controvorsy, Whatis tho {)monhut the chargsiu the first indtauco wad adultory? It iw waid bt it was, and that the momorandum in tho laudy of Tilton in his wire's hand-writing wus to such effoct; but this iu donied by botl Mr, Boochor and Mrs, Tiltow, and tho writton paper i4 not produced. It ' iy _ould, mrhmr. that Alr, Boo chor confessed the fact of adultery, bup this Is @ gaw dovied by him, and such allegod confession is inconsistent with the rotraction that lio recoived that evening from Mry, ‘L'ilton, It ho Lad confessed, what servive conld tho ro- traction ronder 7 Why procure ono at oll, if, ag aullogod, Leocher hud' thut avousng confassod adultery to Tilton aud Moulton, or to either ? ‘What, then, was the churge preforred on the evening of Deo, 107 Waanswer, It wag ¢ jm. propor ndvances,” which, of sourse, Mr, Bepchor domiod. What ocoursod In tha mutier of robrao- tioun that evening, and all the wubsequent con- veruations, sctw, mud loltors of the vacious porsons directly concerned 1n dealing with the seandal aro conslstont with this view and no oth- er, ‘Cno ratraction prooured referred to impropor advancen, aud to nothing olao, Is It Iikelyif the maln offvuse bad boou elarged Aly, Decalier Mouiton tvas undor grent apparont exoits- - day o would have bsen satinfiod with anything ahort of a rotraction of that 7 Thors ia s sort of pout~ script to the rotragtion, in which the charga of tmpropor ndvaucos Is oxplioitly denied, thus nhowing, wo Bubmit, that this was tho charga that was in tho minds of both Mrs, Tilton and Alr, Boochor, and vo vthor offango, Bue look furthor: Mr. Tillon, in thoe Iast four {unnq.)ma mausy timos anid, verbally and In writing, hat the nhnrfio wad the lossor offonse, This f‘ important nuder rulo that, whore a complainant has mado difteront and inconnlstont atatemonta of tha offonse ho alloges, his oredibitity {s dam- nged, and, in most onscs, destroyed, In the writton statentont of tho offenso shown to Dr. Btorrs by Tilton and Carpentor, which way mado i Mre, Tilton's handwriting undor the demand of hor husband, wlo anya ho dlotated the procisa words oharactorizing the offenso, the chargo was AN IMPURE PROFOSAL. This statemout Mrs, Tilton rotracted, and aays sha protosted againat {¢ a8 false when signed, and_oftorward saw Dr. Storrs and told him so. Dr. Btorrs fu a lottor to tho Committeo confirms iho rotraction. In the manurcript propared by Tilton, which ho ealied *Tha Truo Biory,” tho offeuso was atated to bolmproper advances, This *“true atory ** Tilton was in tho habit of reading to nowapaper men, petsonul frionds, and to others, without, it would saom, much digerlmina- tioa conaidoring low anxloua ho professod to be oot to make known his focrot. 3fr. Beachor testillos thnt Lo met Tilton on the forry-hoat about two wooks after tho publication of the Woodhull soandal, and thoy talked tho mattor avor. He eaya that Tilton was at first mysterious and non-committal, but on thelr way home in Brooklyn Tilton {uvited him Into his bouse, whaoro the true atory was oxhibited o Mr., Doccher, and & T.—olongn oouvorsation was bad which losted until miduight, aud durfug all this not one word was sald or hinted by Tlitop that Lo bolievod Beecher had committed adultery. x?ci‘ tho ;:ox:tlrnry;llx‘u nuffi-wd l:llu """1'3“"3 con- ence in his wifo's purity, and complained onl; of tho improper .soucnnm’;}m 5 ¥ EX-SUPLRVISOR HABMOX, who, likae ¥r. Beeclior, {s ang of our well-knowa and reputablo citizons, tostifloa to substautially the same experionco with Tilton aa to the natura of the ohmrge. Mr. Harmon goes furiher, and teatifies aot anly thet Tilton read to fum the “trno wtory," in which thoro wan o allegacion of hdultery, but that ‘Lilton desoribed to hiin bis firat {atorviow with M. Boechor on_the evoulng of Dee. 80, and thew informed Mr. Hormon that e atthat timo cbiarged Mr, Beachor with the of- fonae of impropor advances, Mr, Harmon ex- plicitly staces that in all his converaations, whicl wolo numorous with Tilton for more than two yoars, ha at na time allaged aidultery su the of- lonee of which o complained. Tho testimony beforo tha Committeo showa SIMLAR BTATEMENTS BY TILTON to varions other ‘mmuna up to within & rocont poriod. The fusthor fact that Tilton treated the matter during four yonra a8 an offense which could be properly apologizad for and forgiven i wholly inconsistont with tho enargo in its pros- eut form. Mr, Tilton in his written dtatemont complains that Mr. Beceherabused his (Tilton's) forgivencss. It is bolioved no cads of adultery on record can bo produced whoso an injured husband, upon loarnmg of bis wife's infidelity, kept tha fact to himealf forsix mouths, snd then, after private complaint to tho offending party, receive and accopt an apology far the offouso, and _declared it forgiven, and this followed Dby 8 restorstion of tho courlesios of friendship. All those and othor considerations to bo horeaftor roforred to show tuat in noscnse could tha offenss have Dbeou tho orims of rdultery. It might bave been tho charge of cio lossor otfense, but it is not con- coivable that Tilton, in view of his couduct, be- lioved oven that. Still further that the so-called “wpology ™ WAR NOT FOR THE MAIN OFPENSE Tilton biwmsell, in his cross-oxumination, clearly wroves. Mark his worda: Ho eays that the day afior it waa procurad, ha was in Moulton’s room, aud thoro mot Mr. Deccher, when the following econe ocewrreds Ho (Boechor) burst out in an exprossion of great sorraw to mo and eald ho hoped the comwmunication which he Lind weat me by Ar, Moulton was satisfactory to mo, He thon'nnd there told Mr. Moultou ho Tind dono wroug, but not 8o much as som othora had, reforring to hix wife, who bad mado stato- meuts to Mr. Boweu thaé ought to ba unmade, nud be thore volunteored to writo a lettor to Alr, Bowen concoining the facts which ho had mis- stated, Moro is cloar light as lo what the apol- opy doea not refer to, It diaposes of tho apola- gy forever a8 & papor rafertivg to adultory, It rofers to uothiug of the kind. If the wrong done to which My. Deccher refors was adultory, how could theso srords bo used in roforeuce to it: “He had dono wrong, pot so much as somo others"? The absurdity of auch a olaimis alear, ‘I'hose words aud the apelagy ara suscep- tible of but one construction. They refer, as Mr, Beachor says, to his doop rogiot for stato- ‘ments which e and his wife had, under cortain formation & fow days before, mado to Ar, Bowen, which led him to oxecuto a purposo al- ready entortained of romoving Wilton from tho Brooklyn Union and Independent. 1t sppoars, also, that the next day ilr, Beecher did write a lotter to Alr, Bowen, which Lilton ways he volun- teored to writo, and whicn roferred to Tilton's business troublos with Bowen, Noxt considor MOULTON'S COURSE with a viow of still furchier tosting what was in lus miod a8 woll as in Tilton's s« to the charac- tor of the offense, If Mouiton uuderstood the chavge to bo aduitory, then Lis i entitied to the credis of invention, or discovery that this crimo could bo the subject of an apology, aud o resdy forgiveness or concilintion on the purt of the offouder and injurod husband. That Moulion did not bolieyo or undoratand that uffensc was adultery, i8 shown by the samo class of ovidenco thut Lias boen stated” in reforonce to Tilton. Ho ropeatodly declared to many persouns thore was no adultery, Fortunately wa hove & Btatement in writing sotting forth Moultou's eatimata of tho naturo of the offense, ir. Boechor wrote a lettor dated Juno 1, 1878, to AMoulton in which, among other things ho CUMPLAINS OF TILTON'S THREATBNING and inconsistont vonduct, and doclares his pur- PO8S_to Wasto uo more enorgy in trylng to satisfy Tiltow, who, ut this time, was complain- ing of tho publication of tho tripartite agroo- ment, 8o cailed. In thin lotter Mr. Beochor says : *My mind 18 elear. Iam not in hasto. Isuall wriie for thopublic n statemont tlut will bonr tholight of iho judgment-day. God will take care of mo and mino.” 080 are not the words of a fiumy mind. Moulton replics on the samo at publicity was no pmit of hig, protound policy, and bo bLustons to objock. Ab lrst o wiites thoso . words, “1f tho trath must bo gpokon et it bo. I kuow you can stand if tho wholo caso wasg published to-morrow.” Apparently foating that this might rather tond to dotermino Mr, Bocohor to publish the wholo case thou otherwiso, ho crussod out these nud othor lines with a ponoil, aud comwonced anew. In this now elfort ontho snme paper those words ocour : ** You can stand it the wholo caso were published to-morrow." Moulton was right, ho pity is that Mr, Bocohor did not publish forthwith; and B0 be- come ouco more froe, sud eud tho ma~ onhinutions of Tilton and tho mutual Iriend. Lhoss two, whatover olse thay wuutod or do- mienod, did not boliove thelr purposcs would ba thon subserved b& publicity. Tilton soon be- oamo graciouy and kindiy,—but what shall be su1d of Moulton, who now AGSEUTS YOR TUE PILST TIME TIAT ADULTERY WAS TUE OFFENSE ? Is it possiblo this man iy so low in his moral porcoptions aa to beliove that a miuistor of tho Gospol, and that, too, of Plymouts Church, could siand up befara Lis church aud_ tho_world agawee the orime of adultory? Nol Tilton sayw hie wifo was possessod by the idea that adul- tery with hor pastor was all iight aud Bo Blu,— that she did not dwcover Ler mustako from readiog St. Paul, bot Griith Gouut. But wo bavo 1o evidence that this balluciuation biad renotiod aud taintod tho diplo- wutic mind of Moulton, Ic is right thal wo should say hora that wo do not believe the sin- less charadtor of adultory was & dogms bolieved io or ever knowu to Blrs, Wilion, excopt, per- haps, =4 s unotlon of the \Woodhull school, of which hor husband bad bocowe a disciplo and u shining light, and with which sbo Lud no symputhy, TUERE 19 DUT ONE FAIR CONULUSION to be drawn from sloulton's lotter ot Juno 14 to Mr. Boocher. He kucw that Mr. Boechor bad boon salsoly accused of npuro advances, aud thot Lo desired in his inwost soul to su) press tho seaudnl, yot ir the shmplo truth were published, he could stand, Knowing this, he #nid w0, Whatover dloulton may say now, since his malice has boea oxcited by cor- taih oxposures, is of hitlo cousequenco. Ho now oponly stunds with ‘Uiiton whore he has sooretly Lwon from the baginping, Woe conoludo, there- fore, In view of theso facts and ciroumstauces, that the original chargo of Impure sdvauces, {ulvo tuough ft was, ban beou dropped by thouo acousurs, und adultery, at this late day, boon subutitutad x4 au act for thought, Wo bisud this performanco as a fraud thut ought to ond all controversy Bs to the junovouca of Mr. Boochor, Pursuing the uarrative s little further, we find Moulton, who tirat sppoared us Tiltow's fuiond, alter procuring tho so-oslled spology, quietly bocuming the triend of both tho partius, TUE MUTUAL FRIEND, Mr, Moulton, as bo disclosos his oharacter fn these procoodings, appeais Lo bo n vory plaumble mun, with wore rigor of will than conscience. Oue thing Ls unfortunately clear thad from this v o ] tims on ho contrived to obtain aud hold tho aons solonco of Mr. Dooohior, both in his ability and ‘purposs to koep tho paaco, in good faith, Thoro was certalnly room for an honost peaco-malker, Mr, Boeohor kuow lio had boen falsely acoused of an impuro offonso, and tlrat the repuiable womsn by somo means had boon induced to make tho neousation, It Is trne tho clarge bad boon withdrawn, and its force wau, in s sonse, broken, Btill fho fact remained that ho ad boon acoused, Mr. Deecher naturally folt that tho situation wasoritical for bim, a clorgyman of world-wido famo. To bo ovon faoly accusod was n calamity ; to provent pub- licity would navo still groater calainity, lio folt —and in tho light of results may we not eay ho was right 7—that a publio cliarge of such an of- fonso would, as hia exprossod it fu Lis lotterto Moulton of Fob. 5, mako n couflagration FOR REASONS OF MALICE AND IEVEKOE it becama apparant that Tilton was proparing to mako s dondly assoule upon him. This Mr. Boocher belicved, It was bis suprome duty to provent it by all vosalblo honoratlo monns, Moulton_professed to deprecato Tilton's pur- oso, and declarad if 3r. Boocher would trust to im fio conld and would provont it, and a0 now bo- gou ngorios of lottors and stops under thie dircation and advico of tho diplomatic and mutual frien’l, having for thoir object, a8 Hr. Beccher bolloved, the suppression of tho scandal and the rostora- tion in some moasute, It practicable, of Tilton to position and omployment, In paesing judgment upon themeans cmployed to aocuro thoso rosults it is fair to remembor that all tbrough theso four yours BIt. Bocoher was porforming groat labors, and hnd moro and greater rospousibilitios upon im than, at avy othar period of hiy life, Boultou said "' LEAVE THESE DIBAGRREADLE MATTERS TO ME. I will soo that Tilton acts right. I will kuo] bim in control, It was true, in cortain moot ho s tbxofllcnh\fi aud unjust, but ho Aoou re- covers and {s kind and rensonable,’ As timo possed slong it was evidont thae Tilton wus most troublosome when Lo was unorosporous in business affm, Tno roforanca in his stato- mont to “Loss of peaca and business ™ is sig- vilicant. At times Mr, Boochor vecame discour- aged, a8 Indlicated in bis lsttors to Monlon. Much has boen suid, aud not witbout womo juutlco, of the EXTIAORDINARY WORDS AND TENOR OF M. BEECHER'S LETTERS, but in interproting thoso lotlors it must be ro- mowbored, first, that Mr. Beechor, under tho oxcitomont of déop foclhi, uses strong worde and omotional oxpressions. This 18 sud always hus boou a markod quality of his mind, Second, in this soro trouble, he was dealing with 'Lilton, who hiad sliown himolf at times fickle, malicious, rovongeful, and merconary. In tho light of thego facts, thore is not a letter from M. Boochor, nor an act of his, howaver ill-judgod, through these four years of suxioty aud grief, that cannot be accounted for upon the plain theory that ho wae fighling to msup~ pross. an_ outragoous scondal, which con- sistod of » falso accusatlon agmmet niim, mado by & roputablo woman ; and. furilar, that he was endeavoring to help a man whom be felt that ho lind unduly injurod in business mat- tors, upon represon ations which be was after mado to beliove, chiefly by AMoulton, were not woll-founded. Tha statemont of this branch of the case would not bo completo without reforencs to the faot that MR, DEECUED XAD A WARM FRIENDAIIP FOR MTS, TILTOY, which began in her eatly womaabood, and that Mre. Tilton, reciprocating bis f1iondship, began, 88 her domastio troubles came on, to look mora than over to Mr. Beechor for sympathiy and ad- vico ; that this fooling on Mrs, Xilion's part be- came, nuder tho circumstances, so_stroug sy to diminish the proper influenco that Lolonga to every good Lusband, {8 not unhikel iy. In tho conrse of ovonts, sud especially in +December, 1870, Mr Baocher recoived the im. pression from ‘ilton and Aloulton that he lind cstranged Mra. Tilton's offections from hor hus- band. Tue possibility thet such a fact ag this might bo added to the responsibilities then rest~ ing upon Mr. Beechor, constituted, o3 bLo ex- prossed it in his lottor of Feb. 5 na partof “¢ho environmonts tunt suirounded him.” This was to him the occasion of deop grief and soguish. Mr. Becohor conceived that possibly ho had boen dirolect in duty, be, the strang man and ?“""r‘ iu uot runm!slng at once any unduo affection for him ou the part of tlis distressed Christian woman, who wus TEABNING FOR SYMPATILY THAT SIIE FOUXD NOT 1N JIER HOUSELOLD, and wo oannot but expross our rogret at two ore rors Iuto which it is apparont Alr.” Beccher foll, While wo recognize tie appalling disastor which eoomed imminent whon be was coufrouted by & profossedly iujured hasband with a charge on the part of bis wife of an impure proposal from him to har, & disaster which throateued to brand with infamy s pamo which, throngh years of public service as & philanthropiat and mmister of tod, hind maintained the nust Lionored place fn the world's-asteem, vot we feol that, in the liour of such demoralization ag this culamity wighe justly work, the pastor should havo BODGUT COUNSEL FROM CHRISTIAN JEN of his own brothorhood, rather thau rely upon tho coungol of & man of whom lhie know 80 little, and whose chinracter, as the soquol proved, b 50 sadly wisludged aud it 1 also apparaii from Br. Beecher's own statement, 1 viow of the pro- found sorrow iuto which he was plunged, aid the oxprossion which he gave to his fooliugs, that he bad erred in not guatding 8o closely hin rolations with the family of Mr. Tilcon thab thors conld bo no possibility for foar 1 hia own mind, evon of an unduo affection by Mrs, Tilton for Lim, through any heedloss friendahip or agency of his. M. TILTON'S HOME. Mr., Tilton, in his statoment bofore the Com- oittce, speaks of bis home 83 ouo of unusual barmooy—*‘an ideal home." But upon bis croas- oxsmination it clearly appeared thas it was any- thing but a happy or harmocions homo. 'Cho truth as to this fs material both aa affeoting Til- ton's credibility, and as showing the character of Mra. ilton's domestic troublos, and the influ- ences that roschied her daily Iifo. Iler painful testimony roveals a l]ms!nul husbaud accusing her of infidelition with ditforent mou, and of ox~ ertiug a sousualinfluonce upon all. She declarey that her busband bLad frequently com- peiled hor, whon sick, copy. or from lua dictation write, confossions which sho beraelf did not understand, and i hor despaire ing condition of mind cared little about. At tinios bo throstoued lior, lockod hor up, and do- clared bimeelf ashumod of hor presenca when among frionds whoso socioty waa moroattructive to him. Hor account roveals hitm full ¢ solfish actions, —indifferent to hior wants, neglectful ju her illness, foreing disreputablo women into her sociaty, till sometimes slio llod for pesce to tho graves of hor children. Blrs, Tiltow declarea he id not hositata to avow Lis righs to commit adultery on his lecturing tours whenever ho ciose, and yot, in sonson and out, we flud this muan dribbling out bis cuarges againat Ius wife, This is & diemal revemstion from the **ideul homo,” but one cannot road it and boleve it pos- giblo that sho haw invonted this recital of her ?llllublnd's charactor and life, This sccount of o DOMESTIO MIBENY OF THE TILTON PAMILY i corroborated by tho tostimony of noveral wit- uessos, and very fully by Miss Elizaboh A. Turner, who is now 23 yoats of age, and was na mmate'of the family ecight voars. ''Llis young woman is & toacher of music in a ladios’ somi- pary in Ponusylvania, Bhe is a person of un- ususl intelligouce, and her apuearance and mannor before the Committes impressod all who beard her tostify that she was sincoro aud roli- ablo, and woll understaod tho tacts of winch she waw spoaking. ‘Thio condition of this family, in connaction with distressing circumstancos reforr- ed to, aud that appoar in tho history of this dif- fioulty, conspired to make taeoccusion one full of peril, not only to MMr, Baochor, but to otuers whom ho felt” bound to protect to tho last mo- mont, to uay nathing of tho groat interosts of Iy DELOVED PLY>OUTIE OHDNOI and ather mtoroats of Ligh concera, ull of which mustbe involved if publicity shoutd bo given to tho falso and seandslous muttor that was sesl- ing expreguion from tho houted and malioious wind of Theodora Tilton, Will funoceut men blackmail? Will innocent mon, and espoeially clergyiman, fight as for tholr lives Lo supprowd ai {njurious seandal, even though it bo born of ex- toition, falsehood, and revonge? ‘“hose ara questions that unbappily bistory has too ofton auaworod i tho afirmativo, It is oany, now that wo soo what mannor of mon _‘lilton aud Moulton are, to wonder that Mr. Boechor should intenst any uterost of his to thoir keon~ ing, Whon wo look buok upon the rovord mado by thisssd atory, wo feel like visiting even upon tho sufforing head and heatt of our pastor THE BEVERUST OENBURE, oand this not tho leas bocauso wo rovera and lovo Lum, avd kuow thac no man in all our laud is moro beloved, It is, wo might eay, becauso ho is 80 beloved ; beoauso that fn Lim coutred so many aad o groat interestd of churoh and hu- munity; booauso he stands to-day foromost amoug man of mastor minds, of eloquonco and power, that wo chido bim in uo uncortam words for imperlling so much and so often the precions interesta conndad to bim by the God who mads }iuu. and who, wo bave uushaken faith to bo- ovo, to WILEL DELIVER DIt from all dangers. Y'ho ouarge made by tho acouser in one eaxily proferrod and uos oumly duproved, It iy nut enough for tho aceusor fosay: ‘1 muko thi tormluing ohsrgos of this kind, snch proof of {‘l‘;flh and alrcumstances sa polut unmisiakably to o GUILY OF THE ACOURED 88 aro not conaistont with auy theory of inno- cenco, Lord Stowell, se cited by Groentoaf, ono of tho bost writers known to our jurisprudonco, and ospocially on rulos of evidonce, says: *In overy oaso nlmost, Lho fact 18 inforred from cir- oumstances that lond to it by fuir infereuco, a8 & nucossary vonolusion, and unlesr this wero tho case, and unloss this woro no hold, no pro- tection whatevor could be given to maritul right+. What aro the airoumstances which lead to. such a condluslon caunot bo lad down universslly, though many of thom of & more obvious naturo and of mote frequant ocourronco aro to bo found in the anciont bools. A the samo timo it is jm- posnible to indicato them univorsally bocauso thoy may bo nfinitely divorsified by the situn- tion and charactor of tia partios, by tho stnto of goneral manners, sud by many othor incidantal Ciroumstuncos, spparantly slitht and dolieato in thomeolvos, but whioh mny bave most important ' bearings in declsions upon tua particalar CuRO. Tho only onoral Tulo that ean bo jaid down upon the subjoot is that, tho clronmseaticos must bo such as would lend tho guarded discrotion of a ronsonable and Just man to tho conclusion ; for it is not to lead to & rash and intomporate julgmoat, moviug 11pun appearanees, that ato oquaily capablo of two iuterprotations.” Greenloaf 1urtbor illus- trutos tho kind of ovidence required to PROVE ADULTERY 88 followa: ‘“‘Adultory of tho wire may bo proved by tho birth of & child and non-accoss of tho husband, he heing out of the realm, Adul- tery of the Labits of aduliorous by the Dirlt, malutuinanco, and seknowledgment of a child. A macried man goiug into o known bro:hol rulges a suapicton of adultery, to_bo rebuttod only by th vory bost ovidence. Ilig going thero and remaining somo timo iu & room with & common prostitute i suf- ficient proof of tho crumo, The circumstanece of & woman going to suvh & placo with & man fug- nishes similar prout of aduliery,” These cita- tions nre zmlnlud. but useful. Undor the guid- suce of Lhoso procedents and principles, 1v is ossentinl to observe thut tacro in NOTUING WHATEVER DISCLOSED by the ovidonce thiat proves that the accused parties havo evor baon found togethor undorany Buspicious circumstanoes, such as in NOme un- ‘usuul houso or pluce, or consuiting togetber in some secrot way Lo avord obervation O expog- uro. Taere i8 no proof of clundestive cor- regpondence, nor attompts io that directiou. Mr. Béeclier's lottors, as o rulo, wero oponed, ar- rungod, and read by hin Bho testifled that sho ind rond aud anawered ny many as 1,000 in threo months, Buch as reached the Christian ‘Union oliice were openod by ottiors, and thoso that weut to tho chureh wora opeaed, by the dircclion of Mr. Beecner, by the clerk before beinr plnced on the desk. No sort of restrictions wi imposed a5 to luy lotters. ‘The usual facts snd circumatancos sug- geslive of wroug coing = ABE UTTERLY WANTING in this case. What then docs the case, as pnt Ly the accusor, rest upon? We auswer: Upon niere wordn sud assortions, supported by no circamstances whatevor that ara the usual indi- cationn of adultery, Teton says he knows tho tact from wtorconras, and 118 WIFE'S CONFESSION aud from her supsequent con- fossiona to Moulton aud to_ler mother (Ars, Morse). T'his 18 thusauswered : Firat, that Mra, Tylton’ mays u efect that thig confession, whatovor it was, was oxorted fiom lior by an imperious, malicious husband, and by moeang July 3, 1870, that, in & moral #auso, wers fraudulent. Pro- tauses woro mndo that sho muat may somothing to oxtricate Thoodore out of his busivess por- plexitics, Sho was wado to boliove thora WAS A CONSPINACY againat ber husband, Tho fact that Mra. Tilton withdrow tho charge whon Mr. Beccher first coulrouted hor, aftar o had heard of it, on the evoning of Doc. 80, 18 in ordor in this connec- tion, togother with ths furthor fact that she Las aver ewca denied tho truth of tha charge when free from dominating influcuco of hor hnis- band, Bho explicitly donics that thio charge was adultery. Wo now sea her coming bofore tho Qomuittoe with oxpreasions of joy, that at last 8he cau come and SIEAK THE TRUTIH, and in the moat solemn mannor she denics ubsolutely tha charge, and proceeds to set forth facts and circumstances wiich domou- strato thut this unbappy woman las for yesrs beea the plastic vietha of ex- torted falsohood., Tilton's allozation that eho confessed to her mother (Mrs. Mouse) is pronounced false by the mother, who tostitled beforo the Committes. ‘I'ho source of the scan- dal, then, is tho alleged words of drs, 'Lilton, whioh 8ho explains i such & mannor us to do- prive the allegution of all torce aud eredit. THEN COMES M. BEECHER, who solemnly declares that, whatever words, by whatover menug, have booh drawn from Ars, “Tilton by hor busband, bo is innocout of auy and all inyroprioty towards hor, whethor relating to ymproper advanuces or to adultory, It is wot for tho Commitleo to defond the courso of Mru, Tilton., Hor conduct, ou sny theory of Luwan responsibilivy, 18 INDEFENSIDLE. Our hope s that it may bo nade cloar as the testimouy; we have much ronson to boliove that this distressed woman way #o besot by her de- wigning busband when in states of mind diffor- ing lutle, if at all, from mental aborration, brought on by illness, and domostic sorrow, and gloom, sd to indiice her, at least passively, to ko = charge of improper advences by Mr. eecher, But whon hor attention was pointedly calied to the grest wrong BIIE HAD DONE ahe quickly took it back in surrow and penitenco, a8 futlows : Do, 40, 1870, Wearled with importunity and weakenod by rick nese, I gavaa lotter implicating my frioud Heury Ward Beechier, undur assutunces that thiat would reuiovo il dullculties Lotween me and my Lusboud, Tht letter I uow rovoke, Iwag persumded to it, simoat forcod, ‘whon T ws in » weakioned siats of mind, 1 vegret ft, and recall all its slatementa. E, R, Triivoy, I desire to say explicitly that Mr. Beecher hus never offored uny livproyor solicitatious, but bos alvass treated mo in a wauiier bucowiwg & Cbristivn sud s gentloman, . I, TiLToN, Thore is medical tostimony bofore the Com- mittes, givou by tno ewinont physicians, Drs, b%uumn uud Corey, to the offcet that such cuses o MENTAL POWER AND DNONINANCE DY A NUSPAND of strong will over a wifo, woakened by disuase and domestic tiouble, are not infrequont. Dr. Couoy, who is emwent, aud huy had lurge oxporis enca m mental disouscs aud phenomons, sayd such conduct ou tha part of Alis, ‘Tilton, when subjecied to the influouce reforred to, is evon coupistont with su houost miud. Wae obsorve that Mr, Moulton parades n latter purporting to havo Deou writtou by Mra. ‘Tilton to lum, in which she ways she iu a perfect cowmd in his (Diton's) prosonce, nud it s o pbysical juiposubil- ity to toll_the truth. In uudthor letter, same to same,” whe sayw: “With all my womun's soul, I am innocont of the crime of impuro oonduct alloged azumst wmo,” In her statement, procuied under the direction of Til- tou and Carpeater, of Dec. 17, 1874, and which wus taken by thew to Dr. Sturrd, Mrs, Tilton shows that she was mado to beleve thut a gon- wpitacy was foriod cpuiust her busband. Hur words are: * 8ix mouths aftorwaras (that is, af- tor July 8, 1870) my husband fel Impallod by tho clreumslauces of & conspiracy sgniost luw, in which Mr, Boechor had u part, to liave an jutor- viow with Mr. Beechior,” 1y refors to tho in- toeviow of Uilton with Mr, Beecher procnred by Mounlton on the ovening of Dee, 80, 1870, when Milton producod a writton churge, in two lines, in the lundwriting of Miw, Tulton, It will bo seon it wag under the iufluenco of utartling utatomoents of couspiracy aguinot hor husbaud chiat Mrs, Tilton was moved L0 nppear to nct ou this occasion, We flud her subsequeutly in o lolter asiing Mr, Loechor's foigivenows for the sulleribgs shie bad cuused im, We hoar much from Tilton of CONFESHIONS MADE DY WIS WIFE TO HINM, Woare obliged to recoive his statomout on this point, if at sll, without corroboration ; but o1t ouo uceasion, ‘hou Tilton was assuiling his wife, we loarn trom the TLSCINONY OF MIBY ELIZADETU A, TURNER in what waouner Tilton's sceusations woro mob Ly his wifo. Quostion—Did ho (Tllton) at any time on this day say that sho bud made uny confession o him in rogard to Mr. Beechor ? Answor—llo sald sho kiad confessed to him that sho had beon criminaily mtinate with Mr, Booeher, Bho (Mra, Tilton) was provent whou o suid that, and sho wud, **Oh, Tuosdore, how can you LolT that obild such base'Lon ? " aud then sho burst out erving. Q.—Whon tray thut ? —This all ocourtod on thoe day that we wont ek, 1 tho fall of 187, This wes the dng whon this witness tostifica that a scono of vivlanca oecurred, Tho witiess, belioviug that Tilton was about to strike Ing wife, iutorfored to save hor, und was knocked dowa by Titton, This witiess s the sumo por- uon who, 1t is said by Tilton and Moultou, wis Aont to & bourding-school to got rid of her bo- causo ehio bad heard Titton makechargos aguivst Becchor, Le is fuither gaid that Mr. Boechor was o anxlous to bvo Lor leave town and Loap away, that ho paid somo §2,000 for hor soheol oxpeuses. cherga; now let it be diaproyen, or bo takeu ag confonsed,” All tribunaly, both coolosauttcal and legal, in thelr wisdom have required, in do- I'hera is uo doubt tho §2,000 wore paid, Lut for }ulln another puspose, Aliws Lurnes ,d Mn_f. “Liltou buth sgree in saylng thad L was Tilion's husband may bo proved by | plan to have hor go away hecausa she hind ataf To'Bor friands thi Tittow Td ol TWICE ATTEMPTED INTIMATR RELATIONS WITR nER wbile in bed, and dwing the atrouco of Mra, Tilton In tho country. Tilon was fast losing placo and position beeauss of hig woelal views and pinctices, and 1esred tho publieity of tals RITY's statomont, who ab thab tino was 20 yours aof ago. Tha absurdity of supposing Ut Mr, Tocchor would invest 2,000 o pieco to Rot por- son to leave town to whom Tilton lnd hoon peddiing dus seandal agatnst him ia trausparent. Porsous. to whom Tiiton had talked in some form of tho seandal, sometuney fn uno whape and thon fu anodier, were 100 numerons Lo Justily un invostinout of 2,000 on ench of them by anybody whoso wealth could nok be countod by millions. It shonld ba noloed thnt just s Miss Turnor was leaving fur the voarding-sehoo), '1il- ton procurcd from her, with the aid of his wifo. o lotter aouying tha roports of his impropor Ny ertion, Hota aguin wo fiud "Lilton & manufuo. turer of ovidenco. M. TILTON, It in not for us to pass judgment on Mrs, Til- ton uncharitably, Bho hus sulered uupurellcled trials. Moulton quotes her o3 saying In o lottor to him, a8 wo have soor, thul it 'was physically imponsiblo for Lior to toll the trath m bor bus- bund's prosonce. It wilt be notod that tho pro- tended confesslon was oblulned in that prosetice, _and furthor it was when shua was away from him and from hume at Scholinrio that sho btuted lior vin Lo Lo liko that of Cuiher~ 1no Gaunt, an unduo affection for hor pantor. In this lattor 1o her husbaud sbio ways:> ** 1 felt un~ faltoriugly thut the love L fult and rocolvod Lliurmed no oug, not oven you, uutil tho hoayenly vislon dawned upon mo ™ ; and again, ** Ob my dear 'Lhoudore, though your opiuions ara nob rosLful or congonial to my soul, you my integrity and purity aro sucred aud holy taings to me. Liloss God with mo far Cathorine Guant, and for ail tho suro lesdings of n) all-wiso and loving Providoncu." 'thiy lotter wny writton Jube 20, 1871, avout a yoar afier the protouded confesslon. In no seuso can its words bo cou- sirued as rofcrring to adultery, Tilion, whon before the Committoo, wheu reforonce was firab ntuda to this Sehobarie letter, scomed to think that tho otfonso tn the storvof Griulith Gannt was adultery, and accordingly relied upon ihis lotter as incantrovertiblo evidunco of his charge. o this he wun mistagon. It was a principle of tho common law that o mmried woman catinog commit or boheld to commit a crime porvotratad in tho presonca of hor husband, and thw upon tbo jaca taut the husvana's prosonce and intluonce amount to duress, and that she 18 theroforo not responsible. Whethor it I8 nocosary to invoke this rulo of law to ox- cugo Mrs, Tiltou or not, wo mny seo iu what Til- ton was able to extort from her withont bor vo- lition or real aesout, komething of the reasons which moved the early oxpoundors of the Bue {;ln-h common law {o assert thy ductrine roforred: 0. ‘THE ACOUSER. We hiave now roviewed . as briofly as we conld the ovidence boforo we, Thero are muny fucts aud details we havo uot disoussed. Wo have cited tho more wmportant of thoso, and dis- cussed tho salient poiutu, Wo havo crofully exanuned the ovideuce rolied upon by tho ac- cusor to sustain the churges, wo are neked to beliovo, Tinally, who 18 this acousor, that ho mnakce 0 Lold a face.? Wo may learn trom tho testimany, as well ua by common roport, wihouk descenditry to unplesssut particulars’or porsons alitios, that Theodoro ‘Lilton buns in recont yours become a vory difforont man from what ho was tormerly ropuced Lo be. Ife will hardly deny that, otk bofora and after his espousal of tho now martial plilosophy, siens of degenericy wors sebuing in, which liavo mado him n discred~ ited man fu tus commuvity. Iu the now rolo, his culmination and dowufall .are woll stated by rocont words by au ablo writer, who, in skoteting (See Twelfth Page.) SPECIAL NOTIOES, Many who are suffering from the offocts of the warm wwoathor and aro dobilitatod, aro ad visea by physiclans to take moderato amaants of whisky two or throo times durlng tho day. In a littla while thoso who adopt this advico froguontly Incronso the number of **drinks,” and i thwe bocono confirmed lu- ebristos. A boverago which will not croate s thirat for Intoxicating liguors, and which is Intendod cspecially for the bonoflbof dobilitated poreans, whothor at homo or abrond, {s Dr. Bohenok's Soa-Woed Tonje, Contatnlog the juices of many wmedicinsl horbs, thls proparation does not craate an appotite for tho intoslcating aup. The noutlsling and thel fe-supparting proportios of many valu- able nataral productions contafnod in it snd woll known to madicsl mou havea most strengthentag influcneo, A wioglo botile of the Tonto wilt dowonstrata its valusble qualitfos, For debility arlsing from sicknoss, ovor oxor. tion, or from any causo whatavar, a wino-glasaful of Sea- ‘Wood Toslo takon after moals will stiengthion and oreate 3 appotitofor wholotome food. Toall who sre about loaviog thiotr bomes, we dosire to say that tho oxeoliont offects of Dr. Solionck's seasonabla romedios, Soa-Weod Tonte, aud Mandrake Pilly, are partioulstly evidont whon takon by thote who ara iojuriously affooted by s chango of waterand diot. No porson should leavo homo without takiog s sapply of theso safogusrds along. Forsaloby alldrusgists. LADIES’ GOODS. 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