Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 19, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, lé74. ro Mr. Boochor kuew that sho had botra * himj aud, of courao, beforalio had® indited own equally agoulzing * lottor of contrition.” It | e written befors Mre, I'illon’ hadl any iden’ (Lr futuro: publio proceodings by a cliurch gommit- | which tho above card grow, I woll- romombers |- +~{e6 who wonla huk kor to deuy tho truth in ordar | 'and sonte trace of ‘It nppoars in Mr. Daschior's, to snve Mr, Bacclier, ‘1t wan written before Mrs. | roinfniuconcos which ho gave -to tho. Commitioo Moruo oxpectod'to bo called upon to ndd hor own - alnahogdu to hor dAuEhEors for Ebla samo puce. poig. It was -wiitton with' no suspiclon that | yel boeh mads publi . theso joint “falschoods of methor and daughior () “woro thus to bo oxploded by thoe countor-rovordy | rebuked Lor for imptiting to: mo_the publiention of tlioir awn ‘corraspondonco | On both _theso polnts tho Committea's own [ publishing It was.dotio by my. fricud,.crilio, and witaesses falsify the Committea's own vordict, “freely-forgivon- calumnintor, Mr, Bamuol Wilkge* Cnndor noty requives mo (o stnto that the Com- [ gon, Mr, Tocoher's Hotspur of a partuor 3 mitteo avo correct in one point, Thoir report - Bnys: 3y plastia victim of extorted fulschioods, : Tha Committoe are correct in this viow. Mra, [ FAH0E N et W ‘ o huve utterly overcoms'we, T Tilton Lon indued_beon *'iho- plantic viotim of [ ol me susterday, vorconi-wie. { extorted falsehiooda.” Thauo aro tho falsehoods | Forats vegly st w0y Indess b nfs oxtortod from hor during: her cross-cxaminn- tlow ; *oxtorted faluehoods ™ which tho Com-. | nil tho Wickednesn into your safs caro—und 1 ami yes mitles roproduco in their verdict as trio, namo- Iy: fhat sho wasn victin to my * ill-trontiont,” | Judyeand injurs 7. aa 1 did ; yet 1 cerlaln stitca of, aoluding doprivation of * food and. fire," ** im- risonment under lock ‘and ' kby,” and other Enrduhlpn":rom which #hio *fled for pondo to the graves of hor childron;” * oxtortod falschoods™. | —Dy-bya: never prompted by Mrs, Wilton’s own mind (if Ly nlfl\ rnm‘niun tho kindly and tendor-hearted ‘«omauwhomn I know), but: extorted from lior as ‘. tho plastio victim " of Mr, Beechor's attornéys, fouae, hiavo sinc repudiatod tho yory tostimony which they thus extorted from her, pronouug- | gamo causo. 10g it worthloss oven for- tho Lage purposo’for which it was thus oxtorted from ‘this” plastle | fesston of Jul ly 38, 1870, togethor with the various vietim." i y facts which clus § MBS TILTOX'A LETTIES TO J(ER TUSDAND, about any othor single branch” of this. ease,.I V. Lnoweall attontion to tho differenco of | uhall now tako. opportunity, boforo coming to tono Liotwaon M, ilton's loters fomo wiltton | wy denlings faco to.faco with Mr..Bucoher, o, before hier contession of July 8, 1870, and. thoso | refor.to . - wiitten after it,—nns will bo scon by comparing .tho oxtraots quoted in See. IT—fcom the corro- spondenco publiehed In Tite_OnicAdo TWBUNE, | yijo key-note of Mr, Bacchor's aftavi: on mo le, fo's lotter from Mariottn, O.. to liet that myy accusatlon agalnat him originatod-in my |- with'my wi iyod | unwilling that ha should aven noem to bo r ponsiblo 1a"| "for- injuriona - atatemente*whose™forcy e erived| whiolly from others, L W, Bezoyen, This nnhappy woman (Mra. Tilton) hias been the [ My Dearly Deloveds * " wvho, having firss nsed hor for r: Doechor's'de- | lier agonized oxprossions toremind tho roader of 28 hitlfation of ‘A, Ddoctiér's ‘mind, oub of | durlhigr bis oxamiuation ; but the equally, gront |- distxean of Mow. 'Lilton.nt.tho sawe tino hasinot lic, and-will appohr in tha fol- | lowing Iotlor written by har to n friond.who i |- of ‘that covenant, alihongh the bnd, business of |* 3UNE, TILTON TO MNY, = A WEDNEADAT, Juno 4, 1672, #'The terriblo dnys of Saturday. anid Sunday Inst; résulling in tho ovil condition of noul'wherein yoi thing i ¢ Al 6l'tho Lidnor of ‘i liowid, =™ ‘LLis aunopucoment fauned Mr, Bowon to a flamo of ‘apger ‘aiainst ‘M, ' Baochor, Al hia own past griovances agpinst bla pastor seemed to bo rokindlod Into suddon’ heat.”. Ho wallked up and down his library, dououncing Mt. Doochor ad: n man: guilty- of-mauy adultoyies, daung from his Western pastorato, aud. runhing down throngh ‘all: the nticceeding Dotreiyr deolarod 'that Mri Bodohe: precoding mouth of Tobruary; 1870, T vt CONFEARED TOHIM A cortaln of thoso ndultorios, sud Mr. Bowen polutad ont to mo tho oxnct tpot in_ i library whercon Mr, Bocchor, with tonrs and -hmblo- uesy; hnd (ns Alr, Bowon' paldl)- nlulmuivlmlgu.l'to. Difm his guilt. { Alr, Bowon, in this lntcrvluw, doolarod that ho ntd I bwed'n Aty 'to sol that-I ought to oin biny. fn. o Jiist’ doniaud on ir. Beocher . ¢ ‘1 .L: TO RETIRE YTOM THE MINIATRY,! | * . Thint-you eatuo,” 1- blens Clod 3 for I vomited forth 'tn quit tho city, and ' to’ bataks ‘himsolf beyong ho ronch’ of tho! familios ywhiuso: Liomes “ho was tieved, . thowgh . profoundly ashamely that "I should | inyading like a destroyor: . Mend there are voused i uis, dentons, which fill nia (efth hovror that they extd, Strely with 40 bad @ heart a2 miine 1 eannot juilan hini - . 4 awerdy hoys' s s i his tast o from iz, wonld'corapol its onforcomont. T wrota” o . Bowon ohallongod ma to write anch & dos mand, and’bogged for an vpportunity to bonr it to Mr. Docelior in potnon, paying ‘that-'he {yould auppott. it by & groat'volume of: ovidoticd, and nithe T hnyo givon Iha precading lottors and oxtracts | #POE thio vuto montioned i M, Monltoh's stato- to show Lowheavily Dirs, Tilton’s guilty secrot prossod ou her Lieart, partioularly’ in oxigoncios when she feared oxposuro : -and thero is much in Mr. Boochor's similar. straiiig: of wos over tho | . VI, laving thus consldacad Mra. Tilton's gon- slor more closely about this Lhan ‘NI NENRY . TOWES. . I must do thia with somo oxplivitness, becatso mont, and which ‘seonied ' to: pleaso Mr., Dolven: roatly, Just aa' T was loaving his houso, his ngt word to mo wa ** Houry Ward Boochor-is awolf in tho fold, and I'know {3~ e ought: never Lo preach. anotlier sormon, nor write lan- othor word in nro\lnmun‘nu\vurn or ; ho ondané Enm famillea and tisgracos- rollglon’; ho should 0 Ulottad'oug,"* = e SR 2y Thig ntorview with Mr. Dowen occurred’ on tho 0thiol Deconibor; 1870, and was partly iit' thid présonco of, Oliver Juhnuln_n.'fi'n ‘solirod be foro it wnu onded, "*» - g i On that " sning day I Informod Mr, 3loulton of. l{xiu interviow, nn lio ling notlcod”in bis nntra~ T aloo uformed Mrs, ‘Lilton, who, a8 ahb waa {hon just recovering ftonra rocont miscarriage, mother in Brooklyn. 'lia samo difforenco i [ \yuinens troublos with Mr. Mowen. In Mo | feocived tho intolligonco with ‘groat ‘dintross. seonin‘all Mrs. Tiiton's corrospoudenco sibsa- Toacher's elaborale statontont, the firnt B Prposie quont to hor confasslon. Al her lotlors wrllton | 4ion wruich Jio- Iays down, nud’ which- Toriag tha from Behobarlg in tho sum:mor of 1871;—of which | )2ire"sr s enining. argumont, 1o fu (hoso tho Oatliorine Gaunt letter wnd other ponitantial worda: ? specimens have beon horetoYors published,— ex- hibit a differont woman from that swhoso portrait one of the proudest cditorial chairs in America," is unconsciously belrayed by lher own hand in the correspondence published . Tux; Culcrdo mado golden every touch of hor pen in those dnto of ler confessfon in- July, 1870, has slnco been nover freo from a cloud, It i im- 1870—n poriod of f\ftoon yeora—I wag in Mr. Towon's omploy in: the Intependent m various cnnm(imrs, fm;in uub%nlllr‘nto ']‘;“mfi" l"u‘l' we‘lll‘ Mot o served my omplayor-ho himsolf publicly-attosted ~dntate; esdion duly 8 s 2 3t tho ondof fonrioon Yonralof wy. earvioe: AINS, TILTON TO MER nmg::l;."! i when, fu” publishing an imimlnnu}d,odm:n of | Liom my soul's dentbe, Yon—, [befors I lefi—ho published: over his own'signte e turo o special culogy of my labiors: In this artl- clo, which atates that i was writton “*to do justioo 3y silnd no fouger fusats upon ' Tonely, dtiy wean- | {ogieRresautaitor, Thoofora Fitton, Sk oWl |0 by goutlo with M. Taceher, - dering through my PART, : vice, and records himgell- as *“npproving his Nor would sho thou havo said, as sho doos in | (Jir. Diiton's) every movementand suggostion,” S A ete, I conld not have wisbod higher praise from Tlio romantié Jovo of (ko sexes doth not satisfy, my emuloyor, - particularly oy covering go Jong o, Nor would gtio have criod out as follows, dated | period of rorvice. $ 9 posulblo, for instance, to imagine such o lettar 8 tho following to bave beon written toma by ~Mrn. Tilton as one of tho series in Tnx . Citicaco 80 you do not hula Nor, ini nll that earller [:Erloa. would she have writton thue, dated Schohario, Juno 20,1871 : tho lnat quoted lotzor s July 4; 1870 s Oh, my dear husbaud, may you nover need the dis- | ¢ apline of being misled by n good woman, as I haks; bacn by » good ma I thant: you for tho sufferings of the pact year, You « 1ave boon my deliverer v B (AN TAOIDINT, would fie it 'among thee hills, anu ect {liem roverbes- Asa further illustration of Drs. Tilton’s pre- | of vailing slato of miad, inducod by -bor criminal intimacy with Mr. Beecher, by hor confession | gy in which. Ar. Bowon, during. fifteon yoars, thereo!t to. her: husband, aud- by the shadn\rfl Wad Prompt to APProve Iy courso,—n degreo of momorics that followed theso. sad facts, L wi aelf with tho composition-of n littlo'poem, which T ot in lond-poncil to ths Golden Age, and | L oo - which appeerod in that paper under the title of 4 Bir Marmaduke's Muslugs,” containing the fol-, lowing stanzas:- - . ot X i 4 T claeped o womaw's breast, As i€ her hoart, T knew, Orfuncled, would bo trie,— ox 5 or with the whalo argumont . that Mr; Teecher Toiposg. The oarly sunshioo of Ler lifo, which | yyeoqynan it, is g0 wholly witrua that. 1 lenln. “happior years, took & pormancnt mnum; the H‘:‘;‘e’:'\&;’: that langnago conld not bo' put'to & —1I becamo temporarily tho editor alao of {he Brooldsn Dty Taion. -1 liavo o lelor froin 3 A to a8 Aug. 1870, con= Nor could sho liave 1a happler days penned [ porriiorom dated na 1o R o ahie; of tho sawo dato with tho procoding : ot b the. o aftor lio wrote the abovo lottor, - o had moean- while'como'to’ Drooklyn and taken.a strong in- terest in'thio olection'of cortain local candidates “WFour years ago, Theodors Tillon fuil from From the beginning of 1856 to Mo closo_of Bowen tho henit- . coming colligion botwoen Mr.Bowon'and Mr.: Docclior, hor secret should ‘be divuigod. ¢ I well: remomber tha pitiful acconts inwhiokr. .« lim from myown.”’ Sho apolo alurmingly of Mr, Bowen's tong lintred af Mr. Doochar, wliich naw’ seomud Lo Live to abbut to Lirenk tortly'afreal, st anld that if Me: Bowon aud I' shonld thus combina- agdinkt Ar. | Baccher #hio would rw's vluk of R D AN EXPOSURE OF 1IN OWN BRORET. | y Sho wopt, and tomlndod mo of ‘the plodgo which I shall uliow that the abovo statoment; togaths« | Fhe wven hor, slx months bofore, to'dd hor- ;n\nlur 1o wrong. © Sha paid, moreovor, that dlr. Boochor mightinet altogothor undorntund my lotter to hlin dompuding His retivoment ;** for roasonn which ho o, J)“c!z ly know,” becauso sho Liad not yot (nforms confosilon to me, I'was surprised d¢ this intel- | ligones, fur n the proviois Angust sho ~told |mip that sho liad commuuumtod: to Mr. Boochor jihe. Lilm thint sho had mado lior faok that- sho bt tdld o tho story ‘of thel * FOR TIIE CHILDREN'S'BAKE AXD NER OWN, sho plendod her auso with e, vand *boggad . me. nd ‘touiprotecet | _Mr."Bowon's anger';, alko,.to quenoh | Tylig on her hod. sick, sha sald that unlees. I could itop-thio_battle *which "seemed: sbont to 'and meke peaco betwoon Mr. Bowon and en, M. Boochot—if not'for fheik eakes s loast for. Dirtug tho followlng years 1570 mriilel w8, | Jiers—and couldmysel( bevome roconciled to tho Lio tast of my conneotion With tho Independent, it tho followiig oxtravagautatyle: ting in honor of your last leader on politics, man who had wronged mo, ehte would' t~* * © “PRAY 00D THAT BUK MIGUT DIE, - Blie theh begged mo to-send‘for Mr, Boecher, ¢ desiring‘mo o seo’bim ju her proseuco; to epeak. which tho | & withoutmalico whon ho'csmo, and %o as- ;. - suro him that I would not'procood ju tho matter ., Woonstoor, Conn. | of piy oxpulsion- from the. puipit. <L :declined My Desn Me, Tikzo: I I hiad-a F-pounder, T | g0, an rinterviow : as. not comoly for o siok i woman's chambor, nor ‘was I willing to subject: “hér to tho morsitication of:conforring .with hor. Tho ‘sbove “isa falr specimen”of tho cordinl |'\lun our i (hia prosonca of dior husband. | : NY ¥IRST DIFFERCNCE au—a trifling one—ocenrred shortly srhom I liad opposed, - Moroover, ke was n pup- portor of Prosident Grant,"whom ha'entertained Who proved—alus, sho too I— +-| &t Woodstook, znd- whom I ‘criticiaed .In' the Fulie liko tho rest, Independent.. After iho . Drooklyn olection | On myrolurn Lome after publishing thaaboye, was- over, M. Eowon iand ‘I; -in. -a-friendly | £ I was. pitcously assnilod by .Dlrs. 'fiulnn who, | conversation, -roviowed theno ditferences, and with tonrs. inher oyes, ropronchod me, eaying? | O *0, Theodore, you might as well have called’ | i otlicr’ differencos *growing out of - my - inorcas- |+ ingliotorodoxy of Toligions ' Lolief.- After o xio by hame:" * Dleanwhile, T'had not beon con-.| of threo friondly interchangos, ho exprossed a aclous of an offeurioagainst niy wife in thosboyo | dosire o liccoma himselt-tho sole editor of tho publication, becanse no public allusion fiad yet | Independent, just os Lo was -its ‘ol owner, conncoled Mrs.. T'llon’s nume with M. Beccher's, To'this ond he wanted-mo.to transfer my pen T'ho Woodhull story, which firstdid this, .did not { {0 the first pago-of liat papor, as ils speoial con- appoar-till-moro than 8 yoaraftorwerd, namoly, | Nov. 2,18721 s Ve tributor ; whilo, at tho-same -time,’hs wanted o to''sign a coutract to edit ‘the “Brooklyn Tn" still farther filustration of tho oxcltablg | Uuion for the aneuing-five voura, Tho pecuniuty * stato of A% ] Ariondly or.athersiso, to the seandal whicl Al lton's mind at biic allusion, | inducments: which' he beld “out'to commend e oy Do ainm| this proposed clinngo 46 my mind wers tattor- |, Woodhull pub)ishuv];I may meatiou that, shorts | Ing=—consisting of an incomo of abont $14,000 & | “lyafterthat publicat] thie card ‘knuwn ag the lottor to ** My: Complain~ | and'binding for ing Friend.” I wioto it in ‘my wifé's:pronence, | botweon Mr, Bowen and- 0 il and submitted it to her judgmeut. Shoapproved | of Decembor, 1870. Two days afterwards, in an, L propnred for.tlio pross | year and upwards, ‘This arrsngemont ool degsl by tho signing of two contracts | . yaclt abont tho 20:h Aho card, end goomed plensed and mptisiied. It | pureuance of thosa mnnfimqomm tho Independ. was doeignad to throw a shicld of protection | ent, w.publishing my. valedictory, accompanied ovor. ber against Mis. Woodhull’s attnok.. Al--|. - though that card has boep extonsively published, I beg thoe favor of reproducing it heve, in ordor Liat its Lindly phrangology towards my wifo may o carefully welghod. and’ in order also that the * THE'™ COMITLAINING ¥RIEXDY oAnD, & .No, 174 LaVINGSTON BTREET, misunderstanding ,hqéwenn Mr, Tiltem' and bimsclf, ] ot ox ookl s el e B Hy Complaining Friend : partivs, nnd pundoring an official tie which han_nlwaye i 'l Y Deen morked with fhe ‘largest wigtnal .confidénce, Is Tlsnis {or your good otter of bad advice, You say | baen marked with fh lsrrest mutnal confilénee, 1y Lnookwy, Dev, 27, 1674 #1iow cary to ive tho lis Lo ko wickod- story, aud |- 1hus cud it forever 1" Dut slop and .consider, Tho'| M story i5-a whols library of atalements,— hundred oc . . morte,—and it would bo stra; ot correct, though T doub Poltce Gazette, with-ita twenty-four pages of fllustra~ tious, aud say, * This ia 3l o liv,” Ko oxtenulvoa libel | If its utterances Lave atfected the policy.of. the. nation requires, i auswered at.all, o ‘special denial of its | ‘during’the bitter years.of our War, procens of. civil roronatruction ; or it | er Chrlstian chorily haa grown nyon our {hls hien bien duo g1 ausall degzeo Lo tho. genfus of A, Tilton, et several: parts: andy; furthormoro, {6 requires, in thjs . partioulst cass, not only s donial. of thin misetated, but.s. truthfal oxpliation of. tiny that romain - unstated and i | mystery, In oiber words, tho falio mtory, if ‘et at all, alioftld Lo confronted and. confound times commauds it sheathed, ,Jf you .thiuk I d onot burn to defend my wifo aud ,}tte out thio flery upirit with me. ful my teife Jountam of charity, and guenches ull’ resentniens E;u auys, Letllure be no Sufering, sare otrselv 5 Lig, aayng = Hush ™ Sty whep 3100 pro1pt 1ms fp apeas Jor her; you countorvail her anora. Cliriatian angndate of | name. * Ifa has consonted to perform this servica in e e e e e ugnlafe o7 | R adition to hia tabon n cditor of tho Brooklyn Daily.|: displensure 14 mynelt aloua, and, ko longs as this is hap- piiy {ho cuse, L eholl iry with patience {o keep my s sywer within_ iy own bresst, lest it shoot forth liko n | #0d gratificd in being ablo to ssy.that hiy editorial + thunderbolt through otlier Liearts. . Youre, tzuly, ‘connection with the /ndependent tarmiunfes only: with ; o auopune TiLTon, Tho ahove card—which was* an ttorapt on my patt, with my wife's knowledgo.nud. approval, to avold tollng o lio; and yot ut tho, Eauio time to avoid telling tho- truch—I published eololy for the suke of the comfort which:I thought its pub- Yeatfon would-bring ta Mrs, Tilton - by,showing | to the public that he and I:were of one mind, and thut inforentinlly, thorefore, tho scandalons. story-wus: folse. U0 way that thig card. wos hostile to_ Mus, Tilton {8 to meko a* misugo of +words, " It was full of friendliness to hor, Bho liad approved it in mavugoript, Lut no sooner Lad'the catduppeared in the Brooklyn Eagle, ne- comparited with some disparaging editoriul comn- awente, than Mrs, Dilton, although she herself hud'feen a party to tho publieation, wrote and laft Lu my desk tho- following bitter aud ro- preschful note—tho italies being ber own: * MY, TILION TO HER SUBHAND, Don, 25, 1672, Theodor 2 2 w0 ‘iad one of my aclfish daye, They are rars indeed, But your noto " in the Kagle of Ligt gt srus o haartlees, T did not Jiwar it when you resd jt—only + vealized It on kool it 1 print, : You ehiould huve sheltered mo (s nobl men would) all the more centieg tho trath, Innocance deutsnded wothira from you, D0 you I ows ililagreat injuetics of ¢ evee befaro belulc sl aa has never before befuticn a womnn, "5ikow aftor: biow, ceareless sud unvelentiog, these thyes yeura ! 4 Q clglwl spirit born of the dovil of anger and revengol Yat koto whut 1 an. . Yel, 10w tlist exposuro lias como, my wholo nature fovolls to Joln with you or standing with you,” | As's fuithor illgatration of Mry, Lilton's EXTREME PEVERISITNESS OF JIND st any public atlusion'to tho seandal, 1 will men- tion' the fullow!ng\ .I'ho - tripattito covonung, whicli wan #igued” Aptl 2,-1673, was -published Hay, 0L, 18707 and 'its publication draw fortln | ; O8 B PNOVS WElog mate elve thle sosaon, ‘dnys altorwnrd the-appended card from Ar. )I‘fix‘-‘:chui, In thie Brooltlyn Zagle; Juno 3, 1873 pTith BILI_:E}IMX'H:OABD LXONLLATING MR. TILTON. | o 41q taimilion of bis cpnqmgnunu, Tuaid that |- g Juno 8, 1870, v he Fitlar of. the Mrooklun Eugla ¢ T e aalitaiud ellence respecting the alsmiorswhich hinva for oo tno post foliowe e, 2 Ehtauid mot apesk How by far tho sako of relioving Thee of waiuss. hoputation, . Tho docuinent. fha e resenipibillohod Learinis Ty manie, ith othior, o5 Inblirlici without consltation efther wili nio_of e ilton, nor with eyy suthorization from s, T i tocnent. should 1ead e publio (o regard Haetdot Cillon as tio utlior of the calumales to hich 1t aliudea, it wlll dodibw great dnjustice, I sm tor: i v f the' discontinuanco of understood. The card was ag.followa: cated in the aboye valediptory, Is bappy to announce , Ar, Tiltgp ir 4 uccgestully filied tha edit&vlal char of the fndepeni- i oy’ ":’;:.0'1‘.;"‘::%": . dolR s great, and gaoe work fo the countey antl geueval denal o such an- ouoyclopiedin of aseertions | the world, and uniformly wvriting tholoader in tho edi- would Lo a8 Yaguo mnd frravalentus to take up the {-forlal columa, . . : ca | of man, ho #aa utrely doss grtia mored | B ofossion o hai ohosen. alune,” and forbids u vindreation bo-the injury.of others, | of bis rlv:flnml gifted ‘pon will be glad to kuow: tust’ «F'roni the beavnning, sha hus stovd 1with Jer:hand onmy' | thoy will it with tho following oulogy on.its retiring cdi- am, ABO\\'L‘N‘B TRIDUTE TO MR, TILTON. Fvanm the Iudepentdent, Dec, 23, J870. The proprigtor and_publisticr, siid Kereafter editor o the,pitbiio that this change fs ot tlis frait of suy Involvhiy many regrota to both which Loth are plike agrood.., i lasfor the lant' soven yenrs ably and: 1f ha paper has been o noter among the: people ; irit of broad. Perhaps 10’ other man in the conntry combines ab ed by | many qualitios that wore needed.to_give. us.:tho, post. thie true one. *Now, my friend, you urge mo to speak 3| Hon.wolive gatned, Bold, uncompromisiog, s mastor th d, % Ore) among mey § crinp, dizect, earnest’s brillient, {maginm. but, when tho truthidaa sword, Gods merey some N T L T you lniaw not | the needlo to ils pole in his n‘?l!);u\.\!lrs with the. needs | . gf Providence for the onz "enjored the benefit Our roaders who have ave an opportunity ofmeoting him weekly in our columns an a apecial contributor undor Lis own Unfong . v ool i o Nx D Cordinlly welcoming Lim In. bLis new character, honor, and with. most perfect satiafnction to himeolf, ‘wo ahiall in our next {estio 2unounce our plans for the fulure, &ic, &e. . . .. , Farii 1o s _ HeNex O, Bowzn, Mr. Bowbn, in addition to Lis publisned on- comium of mo.above quoted, gave ma a gold watch -of a reputed valuo of 500; and Oliver Johnson, thon tho managing - editor of.the Inds- pendent, to whom I bud made s similar gitt, sont mo the following note Dec. 29, 18703 . Dean Turovonk: Don't buy’a cham for your now e, f0r I, have ordered one whichi Twont you to age |f copt 283 Now Year's prosent from mo,’ ; ‘I'ho aboye particulars of . ¥ METIMEMENT from tho Indepensdent's editorial chale—n yotire- mont which_Mr.-Bowon ‘said wos to my honor, and-which I beiiove was to my profit—I Lave thua beon compelled to giva at” tedions longth, i ordor that the exnob facts may confrant Mr. Beochor's false. desaciption of the ssme: ovent, whan lio said; aa ahove quoted: . ‘e “'Tour yoara ago 'U'heodore 'Lilton fell from one of the proudest edilorial chairs.in America.” -+ Ihe praceding rocord, from the Jndependent's own columns aud by its own editors, touching thot circumstances of .my retirement -from.that edi- torial chinir, attow how I * foll; "—and T may add ;\xlult I wouldbo Linppy Lo oxperionos anothor such | ol G WiE -4 g Asmoon as T had comploted tho above-mon: tioned arrangemeuta with Mr. Bowen, and tho; had been punouncod aa abovae quoted, ho . urge mo to mako a more prominont figure of Plymoiith - Ohureh in tho -Datly- Union, and remarked on my unou-nttendanco ot iho churchamootiugs, 1. g ‘I'hia Jed mo to.reply” that I had a good reason or R . g NOT GOING TO PLYMOUTR CHUTON, i and that I should never again mit under Mr, Bocchor's mlaistry, . L ! On dr, Bowen's urglng me to give this roason, ahargon aguinnt Mr, Doscher as a clorgyman give ou ta loosp bohayiar with women, ‘aud dabgorous T hiadl in pat tmoa given little credonco to thene aconeations, boing slow to boliova il .of vy pas- torand friond; botLaat T had boen informed by | Mra,Lilton, o few, montbs. proviously; of im- hat 1 should wuover again nttgud-l’lyho,x&h Chnreh, . . i‘l’;?nmvnn Instantly pressed me to koow the oxaot naturo of what Mra. ‘Lilton had told me, tiflad Mr. Bowen th glving me any oxplavation, but i suchas I hind nover witnewsed -in him beforo, and spozking ika ono who was -in foar-and dos reudern: o | L il unito to prevent Mz, Dowar from ot After this convoraation with Alva. Tilton, I no~ room abthe Union oflice; and, . without askiug or | w <o ! BXMIDITING A PASSION 4 porition, he excleimed in & high koy thateif T di- vulgod to r: Beecher tho story of his'numerous adalterion ns be'(Mr. Dowen) had nerrated thom, lio {Mr.'lmwm} Ywonld interdict 1ino- fromy aver again ontering his'oflico or Lis houso. - Ho'then sulldenly retived; e ch 2 b B v port T could’ not- comprehend; for -1+ did nop dream that* Mr. Bowen, who was #o determindd anenemy of *Mr. Beocher, hnd .meauwhilo en: tered into sudden loagno with-tho- objeot of his" ‘hate,'in order+to overthrow, not Alrs® Beecher, but myscifi AGAPES, R gl 5 I.informed Elizabelh at onco of Mr. Bow- on's- excited intorview. She belioved ilint iy oxcilomont was only o furiher. evidenco of 'kLig ancient malice against Mr.BDecohor. - Bho said thnt M. Beecher bnd ofton told her how groatly: ‘e feared Mr, Dowen. Sho'was now appalled at the prospect of “Mr. Bowen's-violont-ussault on her pastor.'*-Sho-renewed': her outroaty to mo bt 1 would prevent-the conilug conflict between tho ‘two- mon.: Elizaboth's distress, in-viow of tliis unexpeeted conlict, it would Lo impossible to oxnggerato; as: it wna:heightened-by hor still onfcabled: condition: :»-She- bogged .mo-'to soo Mr. Bégebor without -delay,and, for fier sako, to put-him on bis guard against:dr, Bowon,-and to- oxplain’ to- him* that, though Ihad-written tha Tottor demanding his rotirement from the pulpit; ot that T Lind-oftorward listencd - to my-wifo's entreaty, and bad promisod ber that I préss tho domend to exécntion,: -+ - 1.t - At her own suggoution she wroto a nots to Mr, Beccher, and-gavo It to mo, sisting thorein that she wns - distronscd -at+ tho prospect ol troublo, and ‘begged,~-he- tho: best modo’ of avoiding it, that a veconcjliation - might bo had botween Mr, Boccher and mysolf.- Bl informed - him i this Tottor that- ;» S el et SUE IIAD MADE TO ME A CONEFESAION, six months _before, of her soxual intimacy with him, and that sho h7d bithorto decoived hor hus- band into boloving fhat hor pastor knew of this canfension Laving.boon mada. _Bho said ghe was nd during the"| giutragted nt hnving causcd so uchmisery, and. praged that Mr, Boccher and her husband might the dnmpgo which ho had threatened in mstigat- ing Mr.' Beoehor's rotiroment frown the Qhuroh, ‘Tg lebter of: Mrs, Tilton's was*writton on tho 20th of ,Decembor, 1870... I' eatried it in my pockiot during tho romsinder of that day and all the poxt until eyening, and'then resolvoed that-L Waould nccade,to my wife' requost, 'snd for hor #nko wonld proveut tho threatened ‘exposuro of Mr. Daoglior by Alr. Boyen, - .1 accordingly Wont tg Mr. Monlton, as he has stated snd put - into “his- hands my wifo's lotter, which convoyed to bim: i & “1IS FINST KNOWLEDQE ‘of tior adultery. o then, a4 ho lins donribed, brought Mr, Beecher 1o mo, on Triday ovening, Deo, 30, through o yiolont wintry storm, which Ar. Becchor reéferred to on tho way as sppro-. frinta to tho diaturbod hour,- VIT, Tho intorviow which. followed botwean. Mr. Beecher and ma I shall rolato somewhat in detail, becanse his recont distorted. description of it 1s_mainly a protunse, and not the tinth, Mr. Boechior fiils his falso acoonnt with inventod particulars of what he calla my coinplalnt to him of my “ business troublen;""* losa of placo and snlary," and tho Jike; with cognato complaints ufininn Lim for his supposed agonoy. tn’ bringinj al nut,tucir.,muulzui wherons ho forgots that had notyet 1ost my *' placo and shlary,” ‘and had nol yet come mto my * buainess {roubios,” nor did I then droam that ho lind conapired with dr, Tigwen to displaco mo from'the Independent ar tho "Upion, or thet any euch disastor wan thon pending, ovor.my head—partioularly as I had ouly a fow days boforo signed two nor contracts acouring to mo a lucrative connection with thoso two journnls for sonrs focome! - - It wad not becauso I bind flrst Jost my plage” that I hold this iuterview with Mr, Boacher, for 1d nof ** laso iy placa " until atior this futer- viow wus liold, M, Iluechur:oln(taunu toan ¥lme his porfoet memory qf, datos,” , ' % .+ TMPERVECTION OF BEMORY has botrayed him Lore,, My iuterviow with him,. 68 lo.ackuowledges, waa on F'rlday evening, Dea. 3 1870, .. 'Chisis oorrect, But it was not until Balurday.oveping, Deo, $1, at 9 o’clock at night, ‘durlng ‘the élosing houra of, tlio yoar, thnt ny notifi¢ation of disniissal camé from dir. Bowor, Hep the Graphio's fao simile of my letter to Mr, Dowen, Juu, 1, 1871, in which I said : ' 11 yocaived, “last eventng (that I, not Doo, 30, but 81) your sudden notica breaking. my twa contmots, ona With thy Zudependenty the othor with tho Brooklyn . Unionk, - 1t iu thus, plainly proven, as Ly mathomatics, that my interviow with ar. Besoher—whioch ho says oceurred on ncoount of .ny having: lost 1wy place und splary#~=oocurred bafore I * lost m 1)!?1}9 and selory,” and -boforo I imagined uu{ my two' contracts—einoo both -wero -zow an frosh, und hardly o woel old{—woro to bo:sum- maelty brokoti. Tudeed, evon when I received, on tha nignt atter my Intoryiow with Me, Boochor, L, Baw- en's notlco of their fracture, 1 -bad no suspicion then that Mr, Beeoher had meanwhilo beon.using propor bohavlor by Mr, Boocher toward her, snd. | what hio now admits to -heve-boen **Afs ddoisivs { influence {o overthrow me," and: to "eutail --upon 3 On thecontrary, mo **lous of placo and nalary.’ T atilt suppased that My, Bowen wad-more (he enemy of ‘Mr, Boecher than of me, for ko had Dut I declincd to put him in posession. of any- | given me abundant reason- o believe a0 + 16 waa | Nre loty in thilb ‘mattor, land: This .unuxpuctcd axhll;fllex; on Mr Bowen's! uld ot n T -d ouly of yuining my'lio from my publio trusts, . List mo rofor o little mo: torviow with Mr. Deaoher,, Doo. 80, 1870, to khow how thorouhly i has misroprasentod it. “Mr. Bdachor dbadribier ox{; apouing to him b thht oceasion's Budgab of partionlara toudhing. throo poltss, firap, that I’ accusod him of* pro- untll a 0 16 (HAE T lontnod, from - hin own wifo to doparate from mo, —n story of ; wlich I !riover Hoardt fitil T heard it In'tho. Invontigatin *Odmmitteo 'y t I ‘chargod him with Impropor pro - aditlbory, 1t o e poluts 8o thnp ngithor of thom rondor'a nfnd.” Tt ¥ \ . Tivst, uuu{.‘ touching , m; +*businers di ' downtall,l o ored an ~dinintbraworo in storo PO = - separato froinme,” I solemnly avor that 3(718.; TILTOK IAS NEVER -TO TIIB DAY informod-ma that Mr. Beecher-over gave hor any .} andh'adyito,.nor did sheso inform’ the Commit- lea'{- that: Mr, Moultoh, like myself, riever, lieard. of sucl ddvico haviuk Bon'glyeh’ bl wh both - hionrd of 1t;" to our mirbrino,” dbiritik the* nauuut, tad, a8, & supponed, - ndvisod. Mra, Milion to_leava "mo. inquiry; and'that the only porkona: who avoro Mra.'Moteo ahd Mra:- Beochér; but not Mr, Teocher!: R R * Wit ovideneo slow that hé-dver sdvised’ Mk, Tilton 't sopa- tato from nor Lusbangd 2 3 ¢ | - "I asked pormlnion," ho anys, 3 10 noo thom " (that fs. to aoe Mrs. Morka and dighant-“towntd | 3¢, Tilton. ‘hweg extrgmuly i o o« Ef0lt'a8 strongly’ s I ahoays do, al” givi separalion. At waa ‘the childrer( , woro * lrrom:t. ‘and 80" I'widto on n neltno " to” think that your. viow I right, and that a soparation and & scttlo. ‘erap of papot £+ ¢ ¥ ~mont of-support-will--bo wisost," 3 + ‘Admitting for the:argument's sake hllntj!’l:. Boecher may have written such a norap of ‘papar..| (though I domot boliave o dxd),rlgw testimony. of, haot Mra. Tillormakes no'mention: ‘much advite from her gantor. ;i <given,' Afrs.\Morse would-have: known of jt, Mrs, Til'ow' dhould Not separate: from>her hus. bandat I rofor to' Mis” Morso's” letter to'Mr, Boocher; indorsed in'lils own"bandwriting as “lmving "beon ‘recoived ifrom’ hor by him Jan, 27,1871—=oily & faw weoks after- his"apology. -Mrs, Morse spoaks in thre' lottor complainingly | " to Mr, Boechor; as followmzii' - ! 4 i -3’y oriiany one- olse toho advises her (Mrw. TiltonY 1o tive with him(Mr, Tilton), srhon ha is dolriz-all-he can to kill hor by-slow torture, is anything but @ friend.", - - * »»."Tt-mil'be goon from tho abovo that,at the vory timo when. Mr. Beachdr piratondsa “to” have beon : suddonly thrown into. romarag -and despair. for having glv,un- *Elizabeth bad sdvleo;—namply, Lo from me,—Elizabeth’d mother- was writ~ ing to Mr, Beccher:. to ohide bim'bocsuse he hnd | separat iTon,not that adoite bl just hao Morsc's lottor acondos me°0f * kil suoha brutol it Tl ‘ons to procuro Ellzaboth's soparation; -spoetfully:anbmit that :Mri Baochor's rocont-and ears of subssquont remorso and lottcy 1Y SBLOWN "TO!THE WINDS—: R TR SN R ) with it, :tory. 116 was thisdast toplo; namely,« !+ ! &, i 7B ORIMTNAL MECATIONS ¢ with Mra.:Tilton, and- uot'at ' all my financial :troubles, sinco thieso had dobyet come upon mo; 'nor bis ndvico to iy wifo to Soparatd 'from .m ' of. shich T had not thou eard ; it:was “his crim- iual . assoclation with'DIra. Tiltonthis, and this then au{:ponud to be an imminent assnalt upon Mr.‘Beec! --Mrs. Tilton,had mada to me six montha before, ‘peaco—perhaps:.oven fors hor - lifo—that Mr, Deechorishould reeoivofrom: my i - on that o danger would-arise théreftom of Ars. . Tilton's oxposurn to'tho' world:~'Thia' was my . Now, 1u the light of theso ‘facts, thns proved, note Mr, Boochor's falde “at. “follows : s LS whicl lio pmtgndnd “faonthe. . . « Against tho uo thio counter téatiis .+ '« INCONTROVERTIDLE FAOTS, which-X will recapitulate; nantely : . + WhonI resolved,to moct Mr, Bacchor on Fri~ ony.of - . traoty with Mr. Bowan, sighiiig” thom ouly a fow - daye provious, from.-which I-laoked: forward to i loss-. of - plago,? - fore oI, yot camo. to theso disnsters, nor did I then fore- and becauss this demand had-well nighibro Bowen should haveno ally in mo in his proposed \vn‘{; aiust hig pastor, . 3 Interviow did hot descend’ to points of finance, but, on, the contrary, touchad. only two pointa’ firat, Mrs, Tilton!s tuin, which had como through M, Bopokor; and, ‘eecond, Mrs. “Tilton's safoty, which muat come, through ‘M, Deeoher aud my: soll. e In that intorview, from a tittlo memorandum in my hand, giving dates and placey, . 1 RECITED TO-MRJ BELCIZR me in the, previous July, and. which.sho had, on. . tho provions day, roauthenticated. in her note of ‘Do, 29, whivh I had put., Into Mr. Moulton's liande- to -bo tho bosia of his sbmmionn.to Mr. Tocoher to meot-mo for tha conference. Noex- tranoous subject did I introduco into that singlo- minded rocltal § xor.onl{ ona_thomo.was fu m thoughte.; and in ordor th i Interrupt me, orthat Afr. Boochof should : rotira shofore Kuurlug mo, I locked tao door and.put the key into_my pocki e i R v After I delivored my message, I unlookod the undoratand ouaoh other,* you aro froo to go, 1t any barm or dlsgrace aomos ‘to Elizaboth or tho children,-I shall hold {ml rosponstbie, * For her - aske I spavo you, but if you-turn upon her, I will his ‘ohair;- but snt-with- bowed -head, and with -ayos rivotod: to'the floor.: At length, looking up into my faco, ho -mald: *.Thoodore, I&m ina ‘droam-—1 am {n Danta's Iuterno, I pointed 'to: tho door and eaid again, * You Yo free to rotive i .t o & S . In- golug out' he stopped on tho threshold, l.urnmi0 looked mo in' the face,’ snd: usked with quiveriug 1ip whethoriornog. ¢+ . ru T s+ ¢ TWOULD'PERMIL TN TO SEE ELIZADETIU once moro: for tho last Hime, "1 wa¥ abont to answar," -**No,! uovor,” - but. remombering my .wife's grief, and hor oxprossed ‘wisl thab this in= ‘$arview oonld- ave takon place in her prosence, . 1.folt that sho would bo bottor satistied if-T gave | blm the- pormission-ho askod, aud s0:1 eald,’| year 7 What shiall bs thonghi of the roport of & no-oalierl Investigating Comnilitos of Tlymoutli’ b whicli, in ordor Lo maingsin and uphold {lio paatisen “falko - donial” of ‘my thuo ‘oliargo lod, in his'defénso, to fal- ownchurch ? " The Ci What is the proof.that tho instanco-‘was adullery ? " ology.to. | .t Yes, yon mny go.at.on - mbla and | cilds SHz4hot ToF confonding: tig LEtis o ot ‘Romombor what I.say praach that slok woman.for her confonston,: or: uttor to hor & word to’ weigh hoavil: broken hoart for.botraying you, I wil with vongonugo, . I havo the past eix montha an ust-covored lips, that. bo had boon guilty, nob 6, but,6F displaclng mo in dotall to this fo- againat bim, 1y eify tho records mittoo's quostion 1 - chiargo in tho firat maola in tha above ofic arod.your lite during am able to sparo it bnt'me ablo, ?vlao,» to. destroy {t." "o word of .blamo-or , Thoodoro,” ko sald, T am in » wild . A “tho-epitiinth thoy 1 auring my- * downtall,"—whoroas my downfall | iy oy ter had uot yot-come'y: noxt; that ho bad ndvisctl my record “completely nullifice: half—of. tno (.’zgmmiuu'a IX. Toordor that I moy not need to.ro .apain to Mr. West's charg: if tofc . iny pa,well appond Inf this place my propor com- ogohor's ‘oxtradrdini Towe hifn gratltude for’ havihg: says, from & * publia trial by tho church.” 1:\Why did Mr: ‘Baeches kesp me' from o public by the ichurch ?* 1t wan'to savo, not me, Limaclf. ¥iwas nob I, -but ho, who fosred d, and who put forth the labora of o o' provent_a trisl. 'And with gaod ‘doseriled whor'li styltd Lior a yatble status ar |'Teason ;- for,' tnloks Mr. Boochier's’ &ado In that carved monument ; but, on the contrary, sho was i)l of* tonra:and ' migory; saying that Lo had | Committeo of Bix, on their novel plan of nc. ‘callod npon Lior, lad roprogolied hor' in’ Violont [ quilting ab all hazards, the trial torms, hiad declarad *that shié had ** struck his “dond,”“nnt- that' vnloan * alia’swoutld give him “writing-for his'protention, _bedteil of mifistors," * - ) *+ Bho'described to mo his manner as full of _mingled angor’ add griof, In' consequonce of ‘which shio’ wan dt oo mumont A0 -terrified by lg faca’thnt sho umug\;(,‘l‘m; would After thoso words ho rotired from tho room, and almost immedintoly (as -Mr.Moulton lias narrated) accompnnied that gontleman to my touso; whoro (as Mr. Boochor ndmita) o foll np- ‘onililizapoth will ‘' sjrong languags,"” thnt 18, And, progured frm hor' & ro- . IJE DICTATED TO NIER, .and which elio Wrote ot.his comm tromor and- foar belog plainly visihlo in a8: shown in ‘tho” Graphic's face "t':rlc“l d third, thi possls to Ellzabpth,—which was fn-. -dead true, but only half tho truth, fok I informed | ‘him i defalt of Elizaboths confossivn - of- tholr: o, and spocifioations, I ull of roproach, trdotfon witich ary claim that, Imust bo ropetitiously oxpliciton oach of thaso: ol ;88 1o’ | tiiom {110 oxat- dxplanation; 3 ¢ogapo tho, fenltios,” or %m- of Slun and; | nalary;" I répoat that T liad notiyet~shi ¢ of thoso 10s8ds, nor did'I'thon un;lpogn‘thnt such y roturn homo that ovening, In tho conditioy N = Oy u Noxt, as o hin alloged * advlos f0 my Wifa to. |.quroasATom bty porilona hour.hasd boert conducted by the prosont v+ WOULD HAVE PROVEN RIM GUIL - With, wjso angacity, - thorefore, 3Ir. Beocher nought to keep.me from Lhat trial in order to BAve fimdelf from that fuln, haw, at that time, ba spoke of his' anxious and foar and: approhenaion at.tho possiblo. fallure of his'cunning attempt to proyent the cpming on of & trisl which, at tho game timo, ba had to pretend to invite] *“Furthermore Mr. Lo wonld'bo;** tri , o § bo, ** tried by I woll romombor sleoploss nights, full o dogs Hr. Toechior now give to.| 1is 100k bu 1 **"Bho grew.nearly distracted at the thought that talilo offart to maks peaco occher, ‘ovidently eharin the conviction of the Committeo that I possosso M¢, Boochar Aer| 0o oflicinl copy of 3r. Weat's chargel and spoci= d-en-.| flcations, vontured -to speals of M. Wost'a foar- terod aiccond time irito lior prosonco ' that night. |- ful-indictment ax follows, namoly, .that 1t— slio’ wonld bavéshudderod’ and ' fainted ‘at his ‘appronch. - Her'marrative to mo of “the agony * which lo ‘exproasod ' tohor, of tho réproachos ' witioh'lie' hdnpiod upon bor, atid of tha bittornoss ! with whichhio denottnced her for botra #tor to hor-husbaad,~all this talo still w10 bring m\'r hor womanly and of rh Mrw, ‘Tilton)i- 1 v, 72 > 31y avlfo:" hooontiuos,, | Chemy 3nd mina: T ballove 4 At ‘ton ] Ct * Presonted no gquara issucs upon which his 't dld itk hesitated,. Toochor's) gullt or inmoconco could bo adyice in’ fabior ofi a e - T A agreod:that my, wifo should, - givo Lior. (Mres. -Tilton) final advico at another, winit, YThotnext day, 'when ‘roady" to go; sha | wished'a flnal word ; but thors was company; and- Aud yot what issues could ho mora pointed ing nori| sod divect ? If a olorgyman isoponty accusad.of lingera | adultory, and the indicimont givos apacifications, < | names, datos, aud witnosaes, doen not the case "~ HIE AT GEARE YWER FAbbRloop ' at sfomg tinio,aud, it thut wan' m propor Hme, It waa! fo! oot tiln dem‘uivl of Ler conscienca that Ifrauiod:for hor tho shutence nbova quotud —a fontence nob inconalsbant with tho oxack truth, bocnunu tho words, - together with all that this implics,” might bo as rondily takien to imply il dooumant by Plymoutli |-thab ate Und yickled to' My, &1 el doousnonth y ithak yi o Mr. Moechérnsollgitation, d'to reburn to” thans alx”go: pat-upon Mt ‘Moulion and to sny that for .tholr>gwn vordic d Ly thoir own churoh.rocords, they stan: ** convicted of a vilo fraud,” T'he abote church one-kalf—more than “da that sho had rejecled it. DF, Btorrs,’ ih ‘rond’ ing tha aboro Jal{or, seomod b takn for gr:n?é]x\ from ilo ternis'that Birn, Tiltun bad not ylolded Lo thia solicltation, and I did ot undecoivo Ly, Iropent thiat the openiug sonteucs of tho lottor wad framed by ma_expressly to uatiaf: Mrs, Til- ton'n desiro'ta confasn Yo" wholy trutj-ts dbsiro ' ot hor prrt which T otitomblatod with pat and approlionaton, and from which I souglit to shiold hor by the thoyé form of tvords, Tao Committoe aro guilty of little lous thon sharp practico in commenting au‘um’[xhrnhublogy b Aoy have dono in thoir vordlct, for I was oxplicit to ive hich | biaya gfyan horo. 1 But nothing 18 s, astounding t6 me Committco's réport as tho ffollgwlng ét.\\lcl:mgxlfl bc:&r,ilig o? “t‘l‘:‘ ,nnv{np‘p‘t‘wi th{: ‘The furthor: fact,” tlidy eay, * thaf troatad tio matkor duting four oars. s an on Jense which could properly be apologized for and . fqr‘qluen,,iu wholly inconsiotont with the charga | in'fta.proont form.” : ; Tho Committoo oxpress the samio fdea In natil mora apoclous phrasaol 'iy, 28 follows : e It HMoullon," “sny ' thioy, “ *' understood tho clinre to bo adultory, thon_ ho s entitled to the orodlt of tlie “fuvention or discoyery that this g‘d'mn_cl_n ba tho subject of ap apology." The abovo seatiniont: tide puLgo tli by tho cgdmmlmm may, poslbly presont the club-houso code of morajs snd of. hionor; but it sooms to mo thst s Ohurch Committeo is bound to hold Lhn?o crimo or wrong-doing should bo beyond Yo Ghristian forgivoness of thosa againat whom 12618 *eotmitted, - and, ‘In pagticuldry that the rimo’ i the hroshnt one eligald havd rominey ;I?ll’x‘u‘r'chk_xly t‘:’bgu:d ntuuxq-h::mprul mazim of m who #aid of the wdmian take * elther do T coudomn theo.® s iy, X. Binco;" lowavér, tho PI, Committoo “abandons the Chrlafly:fgégo EP m «rality on' this wubjoot, and ‘substitutes s, Tore l'::pulnt and cruel opinion—whioh I think shiond "y mind like £’ remembated hortot, -*The abovd plain‘statomant of .facts, fortifiod by doonmentary avidence proving that my {utor- me - view with Mr. Bodchor ocourred “before: and not aftermy *'lods of placo and malary, * puts au ond ta'the follotving pasuog vertliot,<~a pdsdnge "whicl pal findings “of The'Committae say: It fd clear thiat; of thio 20th of s0-cAlléd meémorandum of “éonfeaston was procured *from M, Tilton, tha chief inciling cauro of that step -on Tiltow's part was his bellef that_Mr. Heecher had f place, busiuons, and repute, * ion, deawy by the Committos rom tlia false fapta which. I liave exploded, must Vo dolivéred ovor to tho limba of those ro-, oliclos, touching which 3tr, _ ng In profound and porfoct ‘henith, ‘wiiile *at tho #ame time -hig'was' on the daily efigo of doath frbm a hypochandein inhor- ia, giandfather, and from “consquent up - 'VIIL About one-} presdnt ** & square isauo 2" whon I kay that ! 3. DECCHER FEARED AND DRNEADED tho prospact of that trial, not bacauss the * {g-. 8108 wore not square,” but, on the contrary, bo- cauno tho issuca wore so sharp and cloar-out that ho dared not fssrfilmuolt on thelr * rough and know whorcof I e {n:thd Coms=. that Atrango ing'received| { i gy kil nich & ¥ T mly ‘advice.| ribinsls | to this' effoct’whicly she' nientions, blis” accorda | to.her.mpthor.and to her pastor'a ¥ifo, btk not to Mr, Dacohior, Tarihiermoro, if Mr, Beecher, " hind given the-advice which ho protonda-to have Lot mo in.this connection notico another point, The Committeo have a singular way of.arguing Ahss tho original charge could ‘not have boon: “ adultery,” becauso (as thoy say) Mrs, Tilton's writton rotraction indicated only * Impropor pro- posals.”. :With an extraordinarv ingonsistonpy of ronsoning, -tho verdict. haa: the .following re- Dacember, when the' The ab | wonld have eagorly- mado' use ‘of it, and | 1, j0vs conclie | would havo urged (orhapa fofeod) her daughter to nct upon it. -Now, Ars. Morse ylves explicit “testimony, over ler own ‘hand, that” Mr. Beccher- | Beochor swors to bel never:gave:any such'advicas: on the contrary, sle shotos that the only advteewhich Afr, Becohor gave! roncerning the ' proposed aeparation was, that ‘Tuarkable fusaranco further, that Mr, Becchor confessed tha ory, Hiich alleged confeaston {8 not con— sistent with tho rotraction ho reoeived . that oveniny ‘from Mrs. Tilton. Tn it likely if the main offonse had beon charged, Mr, Beecher would_havo been satisfled , with anything short of n rotraction. of that 7 The loglc of tho aboyve is most pitiable. A | olergyman is charged with adultory. Lo goes'td the guilty wvoman and domands that she shall give him'a written rotraction. nper, pen, and ik, and compels hor to haying sutraptitiously practiced fros-lovo in my is rotraction to suit him exactly. What Qoo e maNo hor say? Meroly that thoro was.| 8nd- mother; aftor having confossed to Mr, no adultery ?. No, be makes her say still moro than this,—that there bas not oven 'boon an attempt at auch, Haviog appealed to hor foars, haviog (a8 ho admits) *“usod strong language to her, in other words, haviug . inttmidato only that thire was no *‘adultery,” but that thero was not oven an * impuro proposal.” *Is not this.the most com- prehensive. relraction possiblo of “the .original Bupposo J—>Mr.. Beocher's agcuacr— hind given to Lim n cortificate that ho hnd nover mado.to my wifa an ““imparo proposal?? Woild hio not pload such o certificato as abundantly— aye, supcrabuundantly—ac harge of . adultecy ?” half of tho Committen’s verdict isbayed on snothor equally remarkablo falsohood, which I shsil fo completely oxpose that I belicve tho authiors,of it wil * THE NIDICULE OF A CONMUNITY whom they have attempted to doeceive. Tho chiof argument by ‘tho Committeo is, that my renl charge ngaiust Mr. Deccher was mimply roposals,” not *‘adultory;” that eard of my charging him with ‘adultery,” until, I trumped up this lattor accusation as part of 2 which, Mr. Boultos Ho carries to hor n aud 1 wero prosecuting. againat Mr, Beocher with slow, pationce and for greod of gainl Withont this, argument, " which comprines ohe-half the Commiltoo's ro~ port, thoy nevor would hayo baen able to make & roport'at all. But I sball rip thia argament so -ootaplotely cut of the report that that dooument will gt ono stroko boe torn in: twnin, and the Ualf which in dovoted to this fabrication will bo cast -asido an waste papar, Firat, to do noinjustice to the Committes, lot. mo give them the chanco of stating their argu- ment in thoir own words, a8 follows : § y they, *“aud proposo. to sho, that tho original chargo was nd that, ag timo paysed and ued, it was enlarged into’ adultery. The importancoof this is apparont, Leoanso if tho cliarge has been so, changed, then * both Tilton and Moulton are couspirators, and convicted of's vilo fraud, which necepsarily ohds thoir influence in this controversy, What is the* tho chargo in. tho firat o gl a1 5 terl_;y.u}m:;l‘n;rlmrn.l'l‘v'nnrl‘np‘cnua him at tho samo | % { - jutonded 10 800 . | :time of ‘advising bor ‘agdin. montion &0 incidout Ono day inOctobor, 1871, ‘|, \FPLCEtion B bie part for. which npite o1 | geclior faco to faec +u'rosponeosto this'u-, during a wearisomo railrond ride, I bogulled my- | 1ok bacle upon gratofully; - - ¢ o ? | telligonco 'AMfr. Bowen came: into: my editorial. separation from rig »would be most Hioly to know on~whicly- sido of tho qnostion < 3r: Becoher had advised,—I re- * Wo beliove, " sa: from the'ovidone improper advance: tho conepiracy dee| n such ddvige, and hat thin: advies* was it key-noto to - his four riting, is o and the Committao's yoport iu whisked: away . Tho samo may be- eaid of another paragraph in this_saplont vordict—a . statoment “of -tlicirs, which I am loth to ahargo upon those six gentlo- reacntation, -and -yet:it |:my ers .misropresontod me v and not by accident. " (fho Committoo -quote.from their own 3 ' -+ - GAIDLED -REPORT - of my cxamination & moution made by mo of the fact that Jir.:Beachor; on' tho day after sonding me his apology through Mr. doutton, visited ma at Mr. Moulton's ‘houses . Tho Comnittoa quote -from thoir report of. my remarks .tho followring men a8 a wiliful misro) 3 . Bocms a8 if thoy had Third. Mr, Becober's statomont. that at this interviow of Deo. 90, 1870, I charged bim with - making {mpuro proposals to ‘Ars, Tilton* is (as T . havarraid) truo eo far s it :goés, but:is only a_ -part'of tho truth, for X eharged ‘him with : adal- .proof,” they add, **that mstance was adultory " *. I cannot undorstand (excopt on one ground) Low Mr. Boocher's lawyors (sinca:thov are t-' tondants at_his churol aud acquainted with'its proceodinge) shonld have had nssume sucli s position ag the above, mince they -{.1oust bave kuown that - “fallacious statoment b Plymouth. Churéh. ifself. Tho _ono ground on which I presuma thoy, basod thoir daring assor- tion waa thoir suppasition that I posscased no official copy of the papers in a cortain famous praceoding in Plyimouth Church, which 3Mr. Beeclier, with a'rare hypocricy, dorcribes as his attompt o keop mo from publio trial by tho church.” Perhaps. Mr. Bocchor and, his mitteo, thought that, in ihis, case, too, * the papers liad boon burned.” him to euczpo: ** 8o a8 by fire," Lot mo oxplain : E A fow weeka aftor Mra,. Tilton's confession in July, 1870, ond soveral months beforo Mr. _Bocebiér's apology, I communicaled tho fact of tbeir erimiual: Intimacy to.n gravo and’ dscroot “friend of our family, RS, SARTIA T DRADSITAW, ¥ of Brooklyn, ono of tho best known and mo: honored ‘mombors of Plymouth Church. mo! informution ' wis subsoquently given to :Min, Btadshaw by Mrs.’ Tilton horsolf. basis of this - information in the *Mra.. Bradshinw, Mr. the boldnosi to Ho (Beosher) burst out in anexprenston of great 83ld hie hoped (ko communication “Which e liad sent to. e by r..Moulton was factory to me, Ho thon aud there told Alr;, Mc Dehad done Wrong; uok 80 much as somo others Liad (r8ferring. o his wite, who Mrt. Bowen, that aught to bo wnmade), snd he there volunteered to write a lettor: ta r. Bowen coucerning the facts whizh ho hnd misstated. Now notiéo the captious use which the Com- mitteo make of the aboyo quotation. .Thoy usy : It, the wrong to which Mr, eccher rofers was aditle tery, Liow could tlreas words be used in rofereuco to 4t " lo had done wreng; not 8o much a8 somo othiots, Tho absurdity of such a claim is clear, ‘Tho &bove comment which the Committeo mako y will seo by looking could disprove their the ofiicial records bf | S9TOW, to ine, and only—that constitutedtho basis’ of my. intor-, -viow withhim-onithat.mnomorablo night. This ‘intorviow, I repenty-washeld at Mrs. Tilton's re- quest, and my object iur holdiug it was ‘to iquiot lier apprehension eonocrning- tho - possible” ex- d Yosuro of ther secrot through what bath alio and bad mado statoments to or by Mc.' Bowen.’ To tlils>-ond I in- -formed Mr, Bocchor of tho confossion which and whick it \bad becomo - necoseary. for her in iorder on miy words, vbe that ho should so mansgzo'his eatie with Mr. Bow- iy a8 _anvbod: carofully at tho words thomsclvos, has no appli= cation whatovor to my words. “Whon r. Icegh- or 8aid that ho find dono mo wrong; but not 8o much as somo others had- done,” ho was rofr- ring, a8 tho roport iteelf shows, not to -his orimo .of adultery, but “to_his wifo, who had mado | dwellingofa friend, ond undor the proteation of friend. utatomonts to Alr. Bowemwhich ouglit to be un-~ made.” Tho , Committco dovote &, Inbor- icue .paragraph - Beochor, had 'donoc. loss wrong than others, wrong’! conld, not Lgve been: * adul- gflrp,oso. my onlirpurpoee, in that intorview, au ra. Tilton and Mr. Beacher kuew rizhit woll. toniont of them, zs, ‘1t waa not until MIr. Tilton,” he says, *“had fallon: into disgracs ‘and lost hia salfry tliat ho. umnfihp it necosenry to “assall' me with charges h mind for six osseRsion of William . oF, * Weat, "’ Plymonth Church, carefpzl_y'rnd thoir o a roport .of my oxsminatiou, would have &con thet Mr, Beegher, in.: the ahove-numed in- torviow - with .ms, spoko. first of.. tho-erime for which he. had -wristen mo. tho apology of tho i , and-that ha thon mado a-totally, distinct and ' separate, reference to an additional *wrong whicl Lio biad come that mornin usmely, tho wrong,of, haviog given slandorous Bowen concerning: mysoll;“ n wrong which, Mr, Beecher said to mo, hio bad not. great an‘extont -as - his wifo and - Promptiy on tho pub eo's roport of my exan ard_ saving that this re- . wag iicorrogt at many s which..I designated- o press who ealled upon -indloted me "hoforo the church foi circuiating | nquotation from ainst the Rov. Hoory Ward |- Ar: Woat's abargos and éyiecifications, *althaugh a mattor of. notorioty at tho time, have -nover yot been publishad. T herowith - commit thém to print for'tho purpose of showing that Beecher's Commilleo stands disproted i its chief and .central adeqation by the ‘official records of Plymouth Chwych itselfst Alr,- Hoechior's: six * Committes men, like M Boechor. himeelt, had * bad momories.”, Lot mo not attompt to portray the mortiticption . of this. I Committco and thdir‘attorneys, st resding the - Hollowing.correct copy of official papers: adopted by -Plymouwth Ohurch, of “which . the original: are in my possession : UV TALLMADGE o fallacionssssortion, Thave | caudalous raports day, Dec, 80, 1870, I had just made two now con-.| thotiverdict-o, an income. a8 large 'as the salary of. the pastor roports to MMr. of Plymouth -Churoh, -.3When: I- sat waiting for Ar. Boccher on that night, I wasin fudependent “ circumstances,’and expected to -bo* in¢roasingly - #0 ‘for yoars to. como. ' Whon "Mr, Moulton brought Lim fo ma that night, I hixd .no thoneht —nob, ,the . « remotest—of:. . * filanoial.» * difli- ties,” or ** business troubles,”. .ar’ had * not committed to so “Morse” bad dori, fon of tho Commit , L.published o ct d héen'garblod an pointa. .. Among the poini to soveral memUora of mo at tho time, was HIE DUNOLING MANNER bove intorview botweon Mr, Boech- .mysolf was -deseribod. even this buogling roport, Leo's lawyers compreseed into o shape to plensn ‘thom bost, shows, oven as it etands, that tho .matter concorning which Mr. Beechor eaid he than his wifo, was not adil- d havo bean an imputation ty on the part of iy renco, na, the roport itsolt -to communications. which® Blr. Boccher snd iy wifo had jointly made to Mr, Bawen against mo, but in which Mr; Bocchor had taken & Jops sharo than his wife, flimay basin of, the above mis my words, tho Committeo Liave bolied their func- tion as judicial inquirors by founding an argi- mont to accuso me of conspiracy against & man . who was himsolf a co; whoso conspiring L tho ruin of my wifoand the broaking up of my Liome, ."Lie Qommittoo say furthors Iu the written slatement of the offanse shown to Dr, Btorrs by Tillon and Qurpenter, whicl was mado in ra. Tillow's handwritjug, under thio demand of her lunband, ‘who -says ho dfotated the precise words chunuln’flzmu the pflousc, tho 2r, Theodore Tilton : DEAr Sttt s Ata mecting of the Examinin of Plymouth Oliurch, held this eveniug, tho Clork of tho Committeo was fnstructed to forward you'n copy. plaint and’ pecifications mdds, agalist 8o ¢hem, . When.I, as ho #aid, *talked calmly " toblm on that . night, it was. because I had pre- . viously demanded his rotirement from the pnl ult,‘ on’. .y wife's hoart ;.- for wnose -8ako alone; and for 1o other reason, I agreed with hor to meet him faco to face in.order to.inform him that I knew of his intimacy with bor, "and to say to him that, . for the sake .of . this. suffering woman and hor children, I would withdraw the domand upon him to quit the pulpit aud fles tha city, and that MF," in which tho al 2 & . Novortholoss, Wwhicki tho Gommit: a1 '\ WEST, and was roquestod to nolify ‘you that any answer to the chiarges that you might desire to offer to tho Com- ittoo may bo sent o the clerk ou or before Thursday, | d'T hond you & copy of the charges and spocificationn Tolorrcd 10, Yansn veey respactinlly, D, . TaLLuADGY, Olork, hiad dono loss wron ‘tery, sineo thiat won! Alr. Becoher of criminalil but bad sole referenco, 293 Drldgs stract, Ofthe charaes and apectficatie * Weat aauinat The I chargo’ Thoodore Tilton, s member of this | ohuroh, 'with having circulated and promoted acandals pily of our pastor, and “od is. my judgo, I solomnly nver that that mads, by, William. F, | And yot, oh tho to the Chrlatinn fnte injurious to-tha reputation of t “Fipst=Tn an intorviey napirator -agaiust 1 ans ¢ etween Theodore Tilton alrordy” accompl Taylor, D. D., at, thooftice of tho pring of 1871, the said Theo- Tirooklyn Unfon, i the s nry Ward Boochor dore ‘Tilton atated tligt the Rev. Ifo; ppreached to averal (dovon or'elslt) of his mistresucs Upon_einys ‘rebutked by Dr, o reitorated tho chiarge, and said that ho would Mr, Beecher's prosence If desired, lio Tte:v, , T L. Taxon, D, D, * verzation with hMr, Andrew Drade 1879, Theodare Mra, Tilton's long story. as she hud given it to* By shar, in‘the lutter patt of Novem! chorgo was an. lwnmm{ ‘Tliton rénuchbed Mr, Bradshaw mot atatoments whichi Lifd previously been'mado to hinn by Mr. 14llon, adding,fhat he retracted nono of the acaue e ho (had - formorly mado piafust Alr, Teachor, it that lio wished to hush tho scaudal on Br, Boother's account ; that > b "ML, BEEGHED WAR A IAD MAX, and not's shfo hierson to bo allowed to vislt the fomt. low of hia church that'if - thia‘scandnl ‘over wera cteared up he (Tlifon) would be tho oul thres Involved wha would bs nuhurt by It. bio was silently sufforiug fop Mr, Beechor's suko, * Wik NDUEY. DRAPSIAW, Third—At on_intorview with’ Mrs; ‘Androw lirade w i Thompoon's dining-rooms on Clinton streot, abaut tho 1id day of Aurus! ated ot ho had diucavered thiat a erfminal futie maoyexisted botweon his wifo and Mr, By terward, lo Novombaor couveruation, Nr, Tilto Lo rotractod 'mono of the ‘acrusations’ which Lo bad formely mado‘agalast Me. Doscher, * Tt'will Lo seon from the third specitication in tho sbove'document that T was fidicted by Ply. mouth Church, and that an attempt was mado to bring me ta trial becanse'7 had August, 1870, tha ANTINAOY between I.will once more givo the Committas A DIIEOT NEGATIVE nt, as 1-did durlug my examinne Hon, ' Tho lottor above reforred to; in Mo, ‘Lilton's haudywriting, 1s a8 follows: . Drorupes 16, 181, Ty dity, I juforined my Byechor, wy friend aud pstor, had aolicited mo (o bo 3 wifo Lo with al} thaf tife {mplies, ‘fho antirelettor, of which the abovo. is tho! first_aoutonce, was composed by Mra, Tilton, exo0pt only tho above soutence, which was ming, I suggented tho ahove form of expression to her, bocauso aho was at that timoin » dolical 91 congolenco, aud, dosired ta_confess tho whole ruth to Dr, Storrs, in, hopo - troubles. . Bhasaid uhe Lad grown tired of tolling faluchoods, sud if Dr, Storrs was to-give wito. bt to know the whale ease, thiug for her to ba in the stato af mind which sho cxhibitod on that. eccasion, ot of conscience. to, sud sho frp- it 1o Jutrudor should | to this statorgo - door'and‘aald:-to* Afr; Boooher; ¢! Now that wa' smito your namo-doad boforo-the whole' world,” * | af When I coasod apeakinggy- ho Lissitutod to loave '|! 1870, Theodore Til- eforring to the nbova to Mra, Draduinw that thereby to end Lo couneel, ho ouy ‘Was ' no unusial ‘Lhere yas always an bpderouss, Tuubing thraug] uently Inmentod to mo ‘hor eal fata to bo cu lomuad to * livo s llo." ‘Accordingly, she'soug in thoabove lottor to Lr. Hioyrs to toll the wholo T had discovered A OMIMINAL Mr.‘Ticecher'and Mrs, Tilton, tempered with. groators lonlty: - - obempered i ;greators loulty: towhd: womon CONYICT-¥B: BEECTIER by the world's codo of honor In such cases, Tt is ‘s primo law ot condhot amoiy! what srb ealtod "mnu’of tho world,” that it a Jnan has rocolved 8 lady's:extremo mftho is boaad to protect hor roputation and to shiold her against any and overy hazard of cxposuro. What, then, in viow of this Iaw, In tho fnst moasuro of obloguy whiel, tmon of the world,” acdording to, their owa. ol quetto of biehdvior, shiould vln& upon M. Beoch. or, who, after. h;mx:f; fAabduod 2 lady to bis sox- ual unch £or 8 haridd of more than a yoar, at Inat, in & wpirit of_bravado.and. dosporation, publlely appoinls a comniliee 1‘7{ siz. men, tith two al. larneys, to-inquire into the facts of her guilt ine voloing her{ncvitable éxpogiire and ruin} Evon Mr. Beochor's worldly-mindad champion, Mr. Kinsolla, though gullty of the same crimo of 80+ ii‘xxmcuou, hag proved mora forbearing to hia vie. ~ FBEE LOVE, XN Mr. Boochor, -nfter*having given his lifo- time (according: to“his istor, Mra, Hooker) to the study -of ths ‘frac-loyo philosophy ; aftar own hous, in the corruption of a Christian wife Moulton and ma'moro adnlterons allinnces that ono,—attor all this, Mr:Boachor goos B in his'tictidions defeuso’ to the olosing yoars of my conuection with the Independent snd spoaks d | Of mo in the following torma': " His (Mr. Tilton's) looss notions of marriag s voteo b o boindowed aitoraly, i I made.4vo ropltas,— nlf{ar npeclfllc. t¥o roplies,—ouo gonoral, the n general, I gay that I havo looso notiom-of n{nrrhga. Dt . MY NOTIONS OF JIANNIAGE are thoso which ‘ars comimon throtghont Chris. tendom. -Bat Irojoicato say that my notions of uitting' him of tho | divorco re at variance with ths Inws of my own ho Committeo know well enough that the retraction -of a chargs of ‘‘impuro propoyals’ covers—and more than cov- ors—thio chibrgo of “adultery.” tho verdict 8 unworthy of the na; State, aud aro expresscd in-tho statutes of Wis- congin, Ihave strenuously uraed the .ubroga- tibn of -tho:Now.York'eods™ of divo 0° (which is - Tho loglo of | for ono causo slono), and have. asked for thn mo of reason- subatitution-of' the ‘moro liberal *Iogislati Now England and tha Wost, " EAARI ot oxt, L¥oply, in particuiar, that tho frst ar. ticle which-I-wrote in-tho-Independent that slic- ited any criticiam for what 3, Beacher now calls I 0080, notioria- of \marriago’ and' aivorce," as & dofondo of Mrs, Richardson'tn tho dle- Farland trial. ' But if ¥ was wrong in my esti- mate of that caso, Mr. Beccher was far mora x'rgng‘thln I; for hio weik to tho Astor House, -and, af £ "RICITARDSON'S DYiNG DED, norformad A morriage coremony- betwoon that bleoding sulforer nad aJady who wai then the divorcod (or- undivoredd) “wifo of the assassin, Mr, Beechior .canuot condemn mo for anything that Ismd growing out of that caso, withont still moro- saverely ‘condomning himsolf, In proof.ofthis-atatoment, I cito 'tho testimony of AMr. William O: Bartlett, now one af Mr. Dooch. -er's lawyors, dofending Mr. Boecher for a far mora unpardonable scduction than that whoreof ‘MY, Richarddon was coused. S, MR pAnTLETT published in thd Now, Yori Sun, on tho day after Alr. Bocchor's porformnnce’ of the Astor Houso marzipgo; the following biting characterization . of Mr. Boochor's condict on thiat-occasion : WIAT MR, BEECHER'S CNIET ATIOBNDY TUISES 0% e, From the New Tark Sum, Der, 2, 1869, Tho Astor Ionao in tis clty was tite sceno on Tacse day ufternoon of a coremony which scoms to us taseb at doflaico alf thoso seotinicnts respiccting the relation of marriage, which regard it sa'milything ftrinsleally suporior Lo prostitution, - Phehigh priestof this ocea= sion e Henry Ward Beceher, . . As tho geeet and eloquent John Whipplo atid, ITs who entern tha -6bip and haspitality corrupts tho_integrity of hia wifo o daughler, by thd cominon consént of mankind onght 100 conaigned toaa immodiato fallawa,” . -, Coas siler,” married - man of New York! husbsuds aa fathers | by what frail and brittlo tsnurs your homes ar0 yonrs. "I you fail in buniness,—and {t 1a siid that nincty-fve- out-‘of ' a hundred mon fall,—~thon your nelghbor may charm away - your wifo, and {ho Rev. Tonry Ward Dsochor stands ready to marry hef fo tha et libortino wiio will’ pay—nuot ‘in’ affeotfon; but i *gold ‘or groenbacks—~thie Triso of: hier. {rall- charms, + 4. Yoo, it fs tho plous, {ha popit'ar, the ad. nired, tho rdvored Henry Watd Deselicr, wrho comes boldly ana even proudly fosward, holding by the hand aud lesding Lust to ber trigmply ovor Rallgion | Who an read thi nareative and ngt wish' {haf Plymouth * Ohnreh woro nobainli-latothe ground unill the prakc ot lta gabiofabiould be -beseath tho- surfaco ot Lh eart Tho nboyo waa tho jndgment of. Mr, Bocckor's present chiof-counsclor' touchlug "Mr. Beccher's netion in tho' celebrated ciiso ‘concerning which, for some: commaonts of ming in-the" Independent, Mr. Baecher-has now tho effrortery :to accuso mo of liaving, tu 1469, !'shadowed" in my odi~ torinls * looso notions of marriage and divoree." XIT, *Mr. Boocher, with equal inconsistenoy, seokato bocloud me with_the odinmiwhich st- “taches to S MRS, WOODNTLL'A namo. I am justly entitled to a sovorc—perhans to an unsparing—eritioism, by tlis public, for having linked ‘niy -name with {hat ‘woman, and partionlarly for having lont my pon to the por- «trayal of hor life in tho oxargoratod' colors in “witloli T onco-paintod it fn & biographical skotob, But among all my critics who, have stamped ‘this brochure with their just anprob rfum, T have -nover yot' found’ any one who hag denounced mo mo for'it half #o sovoro 1y as Ihave condomned my Belt, + Nobody shall have my.consonl-to' dofond mo for. havitg writton that skotch. ‘I rofuso to bo dofended. But, having mada this oxpheit statsment against mysclf,—which f{uafiuo ru?nimu.—l am «ontitled to toll tho yircofso storv'of my relations with Mrs,:Woodhull, and to comparo-these with Mr, Bogehor’s relations with tha same woman, at the same time, and to the same end, About’ & yoar aftor; Blrs. Tilton’s confen- sion_to ‘mo, and sbout a half-yoar after Mr. -Mr.Beechor's apology, and aftor Mr. Moulton hiad pnt forth tho many strennous efforta to which Br. Bocohor's lottorn, written during this perlod, bear witnoes,—a now and suddon onemy -of onreafety apposred hofore ‘thio publio 'n tho ‘| 'porson‘ot Vistoria 0. Woodhull, who ‘published dutlio World andithe Times tho eard quobed in my Bworn Biatomont, snying that “a distine fuluhnd alergyman in a nalghboriug clty was liv- ng In conoubinaga with the wifo of another pub- lia teathor in tho same citv." . ‘Om the'publication’ of ‘this card, Mra. Wood- bull—to whom I was thon & strauger—sent for mo and [nfarmed ;o that {his_cavd raforred to Mr., Beechor and Mra. Tilton, I wns stunuad by tha' intolligonce, for I {ustantly felt ‘thot tha guilty secrot which'Mr Moulton ‘was trying to wupprosy wag in dangor of comiug to the snrface. «Loking advantnze of my surpriso on thet ocon- slon, Mra, Woodhull 1. POUNED FORTIL-IN YENRMENT BREECH the hundred or nioro partionlars (mmt of whict wore' untruo) ¢hat uflorward’ conslituted the seandalous talo of Nov. 2, 1873, ° . .. Mennwhilo tho fact that slo possossoil sich knowlodgo, and liad the audacity ta fling it Into my vory; fago, led me o wsook Mr, JMoniton at ouca for coundel. Wo ' folt that komo influonce st bs - bronght o béar *npon' this strango - woman to indud lior to #uppross the dhngerons inlo; +.Wa thought that -kindneas was tha Lost fn- fluonco , that. wo could use, Mr. Besohor cos “The datomentioned in thia- apeoification, 1iame- 1y, the 80 of ‘Auguat, 1870, toas only TIHIRTY DAYS truth—; art of it /1 jrau Wil h o A, Tillon's Sorgbsson of Ty B 6f et | ShaniT s e 1w Bl that eha ild xi;lukq such 4 domagiug'.confosslon,. Bho cutrod with 18 in this vigw, apd wa all “Jpined in tha policy of rnpdoxlng hn‘x3 suth .91312'“ a (Soo Niath-Pagen i