The New York Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1874, Page 2

Zz “THE IDEAL HOME” “_— Love Messages of the Tiltons for Many Years. THEODORE'S ANSWER TO ELIZABETH. Touching and E'oquent Correspondence Between Husband and Wife. DOMESTIC PICTURES. A Startling Array of Facts and Fancies. | MB. BEECHER’S EXAMINATION CONCLUDED. | Interviews with Mr. Tilton, Judge | Morris and Others. | BEECHER’S CROSS EXAMINATION. | In consequence of the inability of the official Stenographer of the committee to transcribe all ms shorthand notes in time for yesterday’s edition of the morning papers the following testimony, Which concludes the cross-examination of Mr. | Beecher, was necessarily left over for publication Q. An anonymous letter to the committee. from | @ mee lover, says that you pave a reservation in | your philosophy which would enable you to say I | bad no wrong conduct or relations with Mrs. Til- ton, having in your own mind a belief that what you are charged with doing was right. What are your ideas on this subject? A. I am not versed in the phtlosophy and casuistry of free love; 1stand on the New Englana doctrine, in which 1 Was brought up, that it is best for a man to have one wite, and that he stay by her. and that he do mot meddle with his neighbors’ wives; | abhor every Manifestation of the free love doctrine that Ibave seen in theory. and I abhor every advocate of the iree love doctrine that I have known. Q. Did you ever know anypody who took hold of it seriously who was not ruined by it? A. No, sir; provided they were susceptible of ruin. } have had women write to me that if I did not send | them $10 they were ruined, and 1 wrote in reply that they were ruined beiore. ¥ You speak of havin mat Mrs. Tilton copies | of ks. ‘a8 that an act of courtes: open | to her? A. No; gave them out to frienas: when oue book would come out I would give a copy toa iriend, and soon; I have not been a great dis- trivutor of my own books, only in cases where it | would be @ real pleasure, and irom an intimation | ‘Wat it would be so. | Q. Are you clear in your recollection that you | Bever met the Woodbulls more than three times ? | 4. Lam perfectly clear—that is to speak to them. Q. State the times and places. A. On one occ: mon I was walking with Mr. Moulton in the gen- fral direction ot Tilton’s house, when he saia that null was geing to be there; I at first tated, and he said, “Come in and just see ler;” 1 saia, ‘Very well; I went in, and after some conversation down in the parlors I went up stairs into this 1amous boudoir room, where she bat waiting, and, like a spider to a fy, she rushed to me on my entrance and reached out both her bands, with the urmost earnestness, and said how Fejoiced she was to see me;! talked with her | about five minutes and then went down stairs; second interview with her was on one oc- when jad been with some twenty or | thirty gentlemen to look at the warehouse estab- Msbment of Woodruff & Robinsen; we were on the Steamer that had been chariered for the occa- sion; avd when I came up Moniton sald, “Come With me to town; be never toid me there was to be any company; when 1 came there I tearned was tobe something i: New York, in the evening, and that there were to be a number of a elutes among whom was kra. Wooduil; 1 at the ead of the table, near Mre. Moulyoa, 1 think, on her left; Mra. Woodun!! was ext to me, ur eise she was first and } wes next; | @o net remember wh: BE i t that table she scarcely a to speak to me: I addressed & few words to for politeness sake during the dinner, but Serre was no sort of enthusiasin between us; :ny thfrd anu last interview was at Moulton’s house; twa had addressed to me & threatening letter, say iw g that whe would open aN the scandal if ! did not resice he Steinway Hall meeting, and tn reply othat Mr. Moulton advised that instead of answer. | ‘mg het letter, 1 should see her and say, without Witnesses, what! had to say; she brought with ber ber great subject; 1t was ta and policy was to let her talk and say jistle, wnien | 3 and she went on ing “You know Bp Dde- lieve so S00. S07 Aa said bothing, ap int t© point, uni said, at last, “Mrs. oda, Ido not understand your views; ! have ever read them thoroughly; so far as | do under- stand them I do not believe in them, and though I ‘am in favor of free discussion, Zot presiding at ot do. it for yot, because 1 am Rot Haye for you, am B with your movement. BEECHER’S LETTER TO WOODHULL. Q. Has Mrs. Woodhull any letters of yours in her | session? A. Two, I 5 pos: mee suppose, unless she has 1. Q. Upon what subdject? A. She inclosed a letter to me, with one irom my sister, Mrs. Isabella Hooker, cee | me to be present at the Suffrage Convention at Washington ; to that letter I replied ge w the negative, but made a few statements 47 respect to my ideas of women’s voting; ¢) other letter was just before her scandaious pi ¢ation; she wrote to me a whining letter, saying that her reiormatory movements had brougnt Spon her such oftum that she could not procure fags in New York, and that she had been barbed out of the Giisey House, I think, and asking me if a very significant way to interpose my in- jae ace or sume other reife for her; to that letter Weplied very briefly, saying | regretted wnen any- ‘dy suite! Btocere views, but that I & rence. By Mr. Claflin—There are two letters, the signa- Yures of whicn she showed to Mr. Bowen and my- sell; it was reported that by these letters you Were to be sunk forty thousand fathoms deep. A. 1 told Bowen before I went there that I knew of the brining O! the letters, and that was all they con- Wed ; Connecticut on purpose to go up there. By Mr. Wiuslow—Did you ever meet her at Tilton’s? A. The first time I ever saw her was at Thiton's. ©, Did you ever meet her there any other time? 4. Not that I recail; if 1 saw her [am periectly Bure | would know it; I remember her weil on wccount of the transcendent description I| had heard of her, and because oi Mrs, Hooker's feelings toward her; Mrs. Hooker regarded her as Joan of | © Would @ Vision of the Virgin Mary, and when ‘Went to see her | went witn great expectations, pa to be neta vain is this woman, who is every where, and must be a rise mee are power to to | By Mr. Winslow—Can you teil us what becam 1 firs. Woodnall’s threatening letter? ” ay ton opened it. Q. Now, as to what occurred in your library and im his bedchamber—I refer to the occasions in ‘which be said you touched his wife's okie, and ‘Were found with a fushed face in the bedchamber @ bis house? A. 1 do emphatically deny that Gither of these scenes ever occurred. ‘TILTON’S IMMOKALITIES. By Mr. White—In one part of your statement Say Vhat in Decemper, 1870, you heard o! many joraY.ties of Mr. Tiiton, and that you believed in their existence. In alater part of your state- Went you say that you had been subsequently de- eet into @ betief that Mr. Tilton was not tn fault Wp resyect to his moral conduct. How do you re- Soncive these two statements? A. Because when the watter came to me from Mr. Bowen, and ‘ch fh the Visit of ‘Iilton’s samily, | was under tal of the truth of these things; oue of the vi first thiags to which Mr. Moulton Bul Mr. Tilton fiad addressed themseives was to Gv-abuse my mind of this belief concerning Mr. Tii- ten's moral conduct; Tilton alluded to the subject Oi bis own purity with circumstantial and his- Yorical statements, and Mouiton’s conauct specially tends to convince me that all the allegations gate t Mr. Tilton respecting such matters wi Q. Did you admit at any time to Mr. Moulton or Betis or to any other person that you bad ever any relations with Mrs. Elizabeth R. ‘filton, or commit any act to or with her, or said any ord & her aD @ Dold, do, or say with the wile of bis friend, 9F for a tather to hoid, do, or with bis daugh- ter, or @ brother wit’ his sister-did ‘ou ever a. ‘Mit Tois in auy form or in any words? A. Never. } Mr. Tracy—Did you ever, in fact, hold any arg rg any such act or utter any such p ‘a? MOULTON RECEIVED THE MONEY. By Mr. Cleveland—in your statement Ve alluded to o: ayment of $5,000. Have Toa ties? A. I im various sums? A. In various sums, partiy ry gad partiy in checks. Q, Have you any of those checks? A. I bave Bey Ido member iow many. @ Where A. 1 nave some of them 71, drawn on the Mechanics’ bk Moulton, aod indorsed 80 on, | red persecution jor the advocacy of their | must decline inter. | Bowen made the journey clear down from | which would be unfit for @ Onristian | NEW YORK HERALD, in its handwriting, andohe of November 10, be | Y vavable re the ordor Of Brain Moulton aiid indors in lus handwriting aud one O May order 0. B.D, Moulton, au aisQyudorsed in hie handwriting; each of these that are marked “lor depostt” across the iace nave been quid, Q AS Beariy as you can rerorecs, how much istz, to the money went into the jands of Mr. Mouson? A. 1 suould say L have paid $7,000, a | Q. To what use id you suppose that money was to be appropriated? “A. I supposed that it Was to be appropriated to extricate Air. Tiiton trom his dimeuittes in some way. Q. You did uot stop to inquire how or why? 4. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1874——WITH SUPPLEMENT. likely 1 should go into journalis™; it would be more natural to me than anyti else; that Was the amount of that conver opOne other conversation | have some recolleetou in April, and that was when Mr. Moulton had a plan on {foot to buy the Golden age of Tilton and send bim to Europe, and Carpenter cume im end talked 10 me about it; I receliect very distinctly that Conversation; my eves were beginning to be enlightened; my educa- | fea was beginning to telieu me a littie, and I Moulton sometimes sent me a note saying, “I wish | You Would send me your cheek,” tor so much, | Mr. Mouitou for money during those months? | 4. Lalways dia, Q. Under what circumstances did you come to | | Pay the $5,000 in one sum? A. Because it was represented to me that the whole dificuity could be new settied by that amount of money, which Would put the affairs o1 the Golden Age on a secure | footy; that they would be able to go right on, | and that with the goimg on of them tue salety of Tiitom would be assured, and that would be the | settlement of the whoie thing; it was to save | Titon pecaniarily, | Q Were there any | Mouiton? What did he show you beiore you made | the payments? A, It was the result of 1utimations and general statements, and | finally said to him, “i am willing to pay $6,000; Leame to do itin this way:—there was a discussion avout that | paper; Moulton was constantly advancing money, as he sald to me, to help Tilton; the paper was needy; one evening | Was athis house; we were @lone together in the back parior, and Moulton took Out oO! his pocket a letter from ——; it was read to me, in which the writer mentioned con- tributions which the writer had made to ‘rheo- dore; tunderstood from nim tnat the writer of this letter had given him some thousands of aoliars down in cash, and then taking out two time checks or drafts, which, a3 1 recollected, were on obiuisi paper, al- twougn I am not sure of that; there were two checks, each o/ them amounting to $1,000 or $2,000 more, and J should think it amounted m all to about $5,000, although my memory about quann- ties and figures is to be taken with great allow- ance; but it produced the impression in me that the writer had given him $1,000 or $2,000 1p casb down, and, as the writer expiamed in the letter, it Was not convenient to give the balance in money at that time, but that the writer had drawn time draits, which would be ust as uselul to a8 = money, and ma joulton slapped the table and said, “That is what 1 call friendship,” and | was stupid, and fms | | “Yes, it was: afterward, when {got home, an thinking about tt in the morning—*Why,” said “what a lool! I never dreamed what he meant ;” then I went to him and said to him, ‘1 am willing to make @ contribution and put the thing beyond &@ controversy;” weil, he said something like this—“That he thought it would be the vest tn- vestment that ever I made in my iife;” I then went to the savings pank and put @ mortgage of $5,000 on house; I took a check which was given me by the bank’s lawyer and put itinto the bank, and on Moulton’s sug- gestion that it would be better than to have @ check drawn to his order,1 drew the money in $500 or $1,000 bills, Ihave forgotten watch, but f know that they were large, for | carried the rollin my band, and these | gave into his hands; trom time to time, he spoke in the most glowing terms, and said that he was jeeding it out to iheodore, and he said that at the time of the first instalment he gave Theodore $500 at once, and that ie sent with it @ promissory note lor ‘Theodore to sign, but that Theodore did not sign it and sent tt pack to him, saying that he saw no prospect in the end of paying loans, and that he covld not honorabty, therefore, expect them, and reiused to sign any note, and Moulton iaughea Signilicantly aud said that Tilton subsequently took the money without giving any note. Q. Did you receive any note of security what- ever, or evidence of debt irom Mr. Mouton, or nas there been avy offer to return the money to you? A. Nothing of'the kind; it was never expecteu to be returned by either party. MOULTON WANT> BEECHER’S FORTUNE. Q. Has Moulton said anything to you avout money in @ Comparatively recent period ? A. About the time of the publication of the Bacon ietter I think I had been given to understand that he had offered $5,000 in gold to Tilton if he would not publish that letter, and that at the then stage of affairs Moulton felt profoundly that Tilton could not come vut with a disclosure of all this matter without leaving Moulton in an awk- ward position, and that he offered $5,000 in gold if Tilton would not publish that letter; it led to some little conversation about a supply of money, and he said that | better GIVE RIM MY WHOLE FORTUNE than have Tilton go on in nis course. 35 That you had better give your whole fortune to Mr. Tilton? A. Yes, rather than have Tilton go into this fight. Q. Was that before or after the publication of the Bacon letter? A. 1 can’t be certain about that; it was about that time. ¥. Did Mr. Moulton ever question you in regard 2 to this matter, whetmer you had ever spoken on | tha; to any one, or expressed any anxiety in your mind about it? A. He did, not many weeks ago, | among the last interviews I had with him. t ee ace the publication of that Bacon letter? | a. Yes, I think it was on the Sabbath dav aiter the \ appointment of this committee; I preached but ce ou that day, and on the aiternoon of that day saw me, and said tome in a& conversation:— | “You have never mentioned about that five thous- | and dollars;” I said “Yes, I had to, to one or two ersons ;"? I mentioned to Oliver Jonnson for one, ecause he Was Sayi0Z something to me oue day about what some of ‘Tilton’s friends were saying, | gnd I incidentally mentioned that to hi w be never repeatea, I suppose, t nybody Moulton aid, “I will never admit that; I shall’ deny it always. Q. Have you any objections to state what Til- | ton’s iriends were saying to Oliver Johnson and Otnerst What did Oliver Johnson say to you? A. Op one occasion he reported to me tat among the friends of Tiiton he had heard reproacnes made | against me; that I neither was endeuvoring to nelp | Theocore in reputation nor in any other way, and | that the expression was this, that I nad been the instrument of hia being thrown off the track in life, and that 1 would not reinstate him; I re- plied in substance that, so far as reputation was concerned, | not only longed and tried to do what | Icould sor Tilton, but that his association with the Woodhulls was fatal to him, and I couid not make any head against it; and with regard to the other, I saia to him that I had been willing to help ey materially, and that recently I pai | TILTON’S BEATIPIC, Q. Did you see and have @ conversation with | Tilton soon after the payment of tne $6,000? A. | On the Sunday morning foliowing the payment of $5,000, a3 1 was gotng to church in the morning, I Met Mr. Tilton standing right opposite the houseg | he put his arm through mine and was in his most beatific mood: while walking along down to the cbarch he talking all the way oi grace, merey and peace to me, and at that time I recol- lect thinking that $5,000 1s very moillifying. By Mr. Clafin—Did you at any time receive the — which the committee have in evidence as fol- ows :— H.W. Bu Grace, mercy and peace. | Scxpar Monxixc, | A. Yes; he it iton Sunday morning by his Wiie, who bad it laid on my pnipit stand. By Mr. Cleveland—It your mortgage was dated about May 1, 1873, the money, o1 course, paid to Mr. Moulton alter your mortgage was made? A. Yes, sir. I did not keep the money an hour; I | Went with it directly from the Mechanics’ Bank, | where I drew it, and put it into Moulton’s hands | On the same day, and within a few hours. | Q. At his nouse? A. I do not know. Q. Did you nave trouble with Mr. Tilton during the latter part of that month; before June 1, 1573? 7. T. | A. Ido not know the months in which | have not | | had trouble with him: but he made a special out- burst at the end of the month of May, 1873, on ac- count of the publication of the tripartite agree- a which led to my letter to Moulton, June 1, 187: FRANK CARPENTER. Q Here is a letier dated May 1, 1874, in grhich Tilton reiers to some story of Carpenter about your offering money. Did you receive that letter? A. Idid, sir; it was @ magnificent hambug; [ knew that Mr. Tilton knew that he had tinkling my gold in his kets for months and years, and le wrote that letter to be pablished ior ‘sham and mask. Q, What did you understand by Carpenter's re- lations to the money matter? My first knowl. edge of Mr. Carpenter was that he was patting his nose into this business which did pot concern him; that was also Mr. Moulton’s impression; | asked Moulton one day, “What under the sun is Carpen- ter doing around here abu meddling with this mat- ter?” he summarily damned him, and represented him a8 @ good-natured and well-meaning busy- body; | suggested why didn’t he tell him distinctly that his presence was not wanted; he said, ‘Weil, he serves us some useful pur- poses; when we hear of things going on in the clubs or any piace in New York we put Carpenter on the track and ne fetches ali the rumors, and so | We use him co find out what we could nor get other- Wise; and | did find thay he mot only did that, but that Mr. Carpenter was one of those good-na- | tured men whose ate exhibited itseif in | trying to settie quarrels and difficulties by picking | Up everything be could hear said by, lor or against | @ Man, and carrying it to the parties where it would do the most harm possible; be was @ Kind of genial, good-natured fool; and in all this matter he has been @ tool more than @ heiper; he has never once done rg Wats 9 except in the kindest way, and never once done anything im the whole of this marter (rom veginning to end that was 00? a stupid blunder; | made up my mind Jrom vbe beginning that as | was silent to evers- body in this matter { would be especially silent to him (Carpenter); I recollect but one interview with bim that had any ed Siguificance; ne came to seé me once when the council was in ses- sion aod our document was puviisned; there was & phrase introduced (nto it that futon thought inted to him, and Tilton that oignt was in a don- flame and walked up and uown tue streer with Moulton; 1 was in at Freeiand’s aud in comes Car- penter, With his dark aud mysterious eyes; ue sat | down On the soia and in a kind of sepuicirai whtsper | | told me of some mat Says 1, “That is aii non- sense; that it meant —— and ——;" and Varpearer Was rejoiced to hear it, and then went our; on another occasion he cume to me in a great giow of | benevolence, said vere Was (0 be @ newspaper cs- tavlished in New York, and that L was to take tne @ditorship Of it, aud half a milliom was to be Taised almost by the tap of a dram; I was atly | mused, but suid co nim. gravely, “Well, Carpen- | tar. 1 sould ever gave the milnit Tei it vere $5,000 to j | | t | | | i | the Jetters you have documents shown to you by | said to Mr, Carpenter, distinetly, “Mr. Carpenter, that is a matter which | can have nothiug to do with; don’t know but that if Tilton wishes to 20 to hurope with bis family and live there ior | some time that his iriends would be willing to Q Did you usually respond ‘to the demands of } vise that amount of money: but that isa matter you must taik about with somebody else and not with me.” CARPENTER A WEAK MAN, Q Did you say that if Tilton printed his docu- mens you Would never ascend that puipit again ? A. I never said that, and I should never talk about the thing with such @ weak man as he. Q. Who introduced the suoject of going to Barope when Carpenter came to see you? A. He Q. ID the statement which you nave made and ubiished you express great agitation, sorrow and suffermg, even to anguish. | iow do = reconcile that with the tone of your public miuistrations and witn the declarations of peace and trust which have fallen from you {rom time to time tm the lecture room? A. 1] explain it precisely in the same way a3 I do the words of Paul, woo said that he dted deaths daily, that he was the oftscouriag of the earth—having the care of ail the churehes—and yet, with all this bur- den on his mind, he described himself as living in the most transcendent religious peace and joy that stands on record in human lmMerature; ‘Godly sorrow worketh joy;” tne first effect of these troubles to me was most anguis! and depress. ing, and otrentimes I lay in them even as a ship heaves on the sea tn times of a as she can make LO progress and yet cannot lie still; bat after a little came the reaction, by the power of the Holy Ghost my mind was lilted above these things, and | said to myself, “It ts my ousi- ness as & man and a minister to live the doctrines I have been preaching; I have always been telling people how to mani sorrow, and telling men how to bear up under their troubles; 1 determined that J would not fincn, whine or sit down; f{ would stand up, and Idid not care how much the Lord ptied on me; I believed He would hot put on me more than I could dear if Lrose to it, and I took work whenever ft offered, and I went through the work and grew strong under it, and at intervals iad experiences of peace and of resignation and of divine comfort which I haa never known bejore in all my life; and, in the retrospect of ali this irgpble I can say truly thet I am better capabie of intérpreting the comfort of the Word of God to the sorrowmg heart than ever I should have been if I had not passed through this discipline; I have lost children; I have lost brothers; I have had many friends who hive died and some who would not die, and yet under all ean have never been more sustained than I have in this, Q. Notwithstanding your great suffering during the jast four years do you feel that your health or owers for labor and Useiuluess are impaired? A, work because I like to work; I worked because my whole soul was saying to me, “Go forward and preacn;’’ I never measured how long the shadow Was of my life; I never put a question to myself once whether I was higher or lower than other Christian ministers; to be called the first preacher in America or the world is only throwing # shadow at me; I have but one feeling about this, and that 1s, just as long as I live every particie of strength and imagination and teeling and rea- son and budy and soul I give to my country and to my kind, and that is ali the ambition I have; I never iad berter health tnan I have to- day; I do not think the machinery ts worn out yet, and | do not propose to ve idle, and I shall do again what I did in the beginning of mylie; I never asked anybody Jor permission to work; I Bhall not ask anybody now; the channels Iam working in may flow here or there, but I propose to work fifteen years yet. THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. Several of the members of the Investigating Committee were seen yesterday in reference to the effect upon the pablic mind of Mr. Beecher’s state- ment. Mr. White said that there was yet au im- mense amount of work for the committee to do, @nd that the testimony when published would make a book of 500 paves. Mr. Storrs was certain” that if Mr. Moulton desired to give any more testi- mony the committee would hear him. sar. Clafin ‘was of an opinion that the committee had not ex- amined all the witnesses yet. He thoaght Mr. r's testimony would have the effect of call- H3 out more evidence. If Mr. Moulton knew any- thing more about the case the committee woulda like to hear it, THE CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL. Areporter of the HERALD, who met Mr. Tilton on the Fulton ferry boas iset evening, asked him what he thought of Mr. Beeoner’s charge of black- mail. “I think,” rephed Mr. Tilton, ‘that probably no- Where else in the civilized world was there a mote dastardly act committed than yesterday— no, not by any member of the human race—than Henry Ward Beecher’s attack on Frank Moulton asublackmailer. Mr. Moulton is rich enough to pay Mr. Beecher’s salary as a bagatelle. He is, Moreover, the Most faithful friend that Mr. Beecher ever bad, or ever will have again, thougn he should live tobe a hundred years old. Frank Moulton’s services to that man—the way he has puta shield over him and guarded bim, year by year, for the last four years, from the exposure 01 his guilty secret—the zeal and care with which he has striven to keep public ruin irom over- taking fim in the pulpit and disgrace from shadowing his children and granacuildren— services like these are rarely rendered by one man to another, and | kuow of no Instance of such baseness of tn, bape petite minister of Plymout hibited in thus striking a man, whose shoe latch he is unworthy to anloose. I care nothing for th! Ppitiiul pretext of biackmall, exceptso iar as itaffects Mr, Mouiton—if 16 can affect him at all, which it will not, for he ts too proua @ man to be wounded by such a stab—he will simply be filled with scorn. So far as I ayer am concerned, the ©) money which know of Mr. Beecher’s paying is in a case which is one of the many proofs of his guilt. A young girl, a servant in my house, over- heard four years ago @ conversation between Mrs. Tilton and me concerning her intimacy with Mr. Beecher. This conversation was Tepeated by the listener to the family relatives and to some iriends. Her disposition to repeat ‘the story was dangerous for the actors in it, and accordingly it was deemed best to send her to the West to boarding school. She remained there three Pi’ nd the bills were paid by Mr. Beecher. Perhaps he regards this as olackima!l Asto his contributing money to the Goiden Age, it is the firsc time that any person connected with the Golden age bas ever heard of it. if the capital of that paper, waich @ number of trends made up, contained a secret and silent contribution irom Henry Ward Beecher knowledge of that 1act Was carefully withtela from me. and we associates in that journal. ff Mr. leecher did contribute this money unbeknown to me, and i he procured it by a mortgage on his honse, or in any other difficult way, then tnis fact alone, without any other added, is enough to convict him of every charge that IL have made. Mr. Beecher’s crime against me and mine was enough 0: a sin to @nswer ior, but in adding to this baseness hig au- dacious and desperate attacks on Mr. Moulton and Mr. Carpenter as blackmailers, to say nothing of myself, whom be inciudes in tne accusation, he bids fair to sink as low as be once stood nigh,’? TILTON ON BEECHER'S STATEMENT {From the Brooklyn Argus of last evening.) Areporter of tne Argus calied upon Mr. Tilton this morning and asked him if he had read Mr. Beecher’s statement, “Yes,” replied Mr. Tilton. “Will you answer it?’ asked our reporter, “It ig answered already,” said Mr. Tilton; ‘dt neéds no other answer than the one which was written by Mr. Moulton a week ago, ana which, for the sake of peace, Mr. Moulton withneld from the comniittee. The suppressed statement of Mr. Moulton must now come forth. Ali fair-minded men shouid demana tts publieation. Mr, Moulton can no longer, with self-respect, withhoid nis full @tatement of all the facts and documents. If ever one man tried faithfully to serve anotner Mr, Mo’ ton has tried to serve Mr. Beecuer, For jour yea Frank Moliton, holding toe documents ih wi hands, has compelled me to compromise my Case in Mr. Reecher’s detauit. And now for Mr. Beecher to turn at jast on Mr. Moulton and publiely to bear imise witness against the most taitnful of friends—to speak evil, as he does, aguinst one oF the truest-hearted men that «ver breathed—to de- nounce a rich, generous and princely man itke Prank Moulton as @ wackinalier—ail this (leaving my own Self entirely out of the case) shows Mr. Beecuer to have been guiity, not ouly of the origi- nai criminality with which I charged mim, but of @ subseqnent logratitude to a frien} who resened him irom suicide tour years ago, and who, {rom that time to this, has been his chiei shield from public reproacn,”? Kevorrer— Will you say anything as to the points Mr. Beecner's letter’ Mr. TILTON=-No, not to-day. Ihave read it very hastily. My chief interest in it is ite attack om Mr. Moulton, Which is base beyond parailel. Mr. Moul- too Is out Of town and | KuOw oot what course he will take, Buti know this, that Mr, Moujton has oniy to teli the plain acts, or what he called in his preliminary ecu to tue commitree:—'*ihe truth, the Whole truth, and nothing out tne trath ;” he has only to teli this just as | sappose has written it in his sail and comp! eme tne ult Will be t¢ anuiuieue Mr, Bei Gers Of aduitory, Gnd to leave Dim iB the att of evidence | tude of a desperate man who, to save himseif from the truth, has resorted to an array of falsehoods which ! cannot characterize by y other word than infanous, JUDGE MORRIS ON THE TILTON LETTERS. Ex-Juage Morris, the counsel of Mr. Theodore Tilton, {8 temporarily sojourning in the country, but being visited by a HERALD reporter yesterday, accorded au interview, during which several in- teresting statements were made that bear strongly and throw additional light upon the pub- lished domestic correspondence between his chent and Mrs, Tilton. REPORTER—Sipce tbe publication of Mr. Beecher’s statement, 1 assume that you ‘eel your- | self more at liberty to Speak on this subject with greater freedom than heretofore. 1, therefore, desire to ask you what are your views in reference | to the testimony of Mrs, Tilton as presented in her stasement and letters? Judge Morgis—My reiations to my client forbid @ free discussion of this subject with you at the present tite, but I bave no hesitation in saying that the testimony of Mrs. Tilton, consisting of her published statement and cross-exemination, fol- lowed by Mr. Beecher’s statement and cross-eXamination, have conveyed the impres- sion that Mr. Tilton, during the period covered by tuese statements and cross-examinations, has lil-treated mis wife, and proved himsel! ty be vo corrupt as to warrant r. Beecuer 1D giving the advice tor separation. Now I am prepared to su that my client never heard that Mr. Beecher hai given Mrs, Tilton any such advice until he heard it within the last six weeks, | Reporter—Then it was news? Judge Morris.—News! Certainly! News to Mr, Tiiton until then, just as it was news to all the world. 1t was Jor this reason, and for the purpose oi disproving the charges against Mr. Tilton, that Tinsisted on the publication of the private cor- responuence o! Mr. and Mrs, Tilton from the year | 1868, When she alleges her troubles n, down to | the year 1870, when Mr. T.lton alleges that her conlession was made. REPORTER—Then these letters are to be soon published? Judge MORRIS—Yes; they may be published at any time, but I look tor their frst appearance in a Western paper. REPORTER—Uan you indicate their general tenor Without violating @ confidence? Judge Morris—With pleasure, sir. From be- ginping to end, without exception, they breathe a Spirit of aifection, confidence and admiration on the part of the wife toward the husband, which is jully reciprocated by the husuand toward the | wile, It must be borne in mind, also, that | this correspondence is not between two young lovers jn the rose bloom of | courtship, nor betWeen a young married couple | during their honeymoon, but it begins eleven | years after marriage, and continues thence(or- ward tothe date at which Mr. Tilton fixes the dis- ruption o/ lis home, KEPORTER—But don’t you think, Judge, that It Was somewhat indelicate to thus expose the sacred secrets of two hearts that were intended only for the eyes of a husband ana wile? Judge Morris—Cndoubtedly there would be, unger ordinary circumstances, a display of ill taste In the publication of such private corre- spondence, but the present case ts one which neves- sarily deals tn the inmost privacies of the human heart, and I cannot see that there is any greater impropriety in making known these mutual expres- sious of good will between busband and wife than in publisning tneir criminations and recrimina- tions. Indeed, if any publication whatever has been proper during this controversy, these pure- minded letters, containing, as they do, nothing but good wiil, trast, religious jaith and devotion, and ll that is lovely in the affections and charities of life, seem to be a refreshing change from the ordi- nary tone of literature oy which scandal nas been marked. RePoRTER—What in your judgment will be the effect of these lette.s when publisned? Judge MorRis—Uniess 1 greatly misapprebend and misunderstand human nature, they will triumphantly vindicate Mr. Tilton Irom the charge of unKindness to his wife or of any unfaithiuiness in his home. Moreover, the friends of Mr. ‘Tilton believe that these letters, together with Mr. Moul- ton’s complete statement—when he may be in- duced to make 1t—wili terminate the controversy. Nothing mote need be added, as I have al Said, to insure Mr. Tilton’s complete vindication. PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. Great Enthusiasm and Rejoicing Over Mr. Beecher’s Vindication—Mrs. Beech- er’s Letter. Piymouth lecture room was crowded at an early hour last evening. Assistant Pastor Halliday presided. Mra. Harriet Beecher Stowe was pres- ent. The desk was adorned with two large | bouquets—one of roses and one of Iilies, Dr. | Edward Beecher opened the meeting with prayer. | Said he:—Before I pray I wish to say a single work to you. We all believe in the doctrine of | the Holy Spirit, in an accession of holy spirit, and | ‘we ought to pray for the Omnipresent Spirit of God. In this matter before us the pastor has | spoken to the whole Christian world as a congre- gation, ana we ought to have faith in God, believe | in God’s omnipresence. We ought to pray that the whole Christian world might come under the influence of the Divine Spirit, so should we feel in the great question before the world to God, we believe and are assured that Thy ser- vant has spoken the truth. in all simplicity, and | in fear of God, and in the light of the coming judg- ment; we pray that Thou may so reveal Thy self that the spirit of malicious scandal may be re- | buked, and may so reveal this omnipresent power | as that all men may stand in awe of Toee and re- alize that Goa ts judge, repare us for greater usefalness, and bless the Church ana vindicate 1! for the Church has been assalied. May they Jee! that this 1s the dwelling place of God. Guide Thy servant, the pastor, aod bring bim back with new energy and zeal foi ti work. Brother Halliday said: | confess, my feelings are quite in sympathy with the teeling Dr. Beecher | has expressed. I should be quite willing, if the | brethren were 80 disposed, to spend the time in prayer. There hi ome things occurred in the past few weeks that have shown the Spirit of God 18 worktog for us, d why may We not pray for an outpouring of the Spirit, We need it certainly. Brother Day praved that the pastur might be enabied so to fulfil his duties as to make it incam- bent on those who shouldshear not only to listen but to believe. Brother Cleveland said in prayel We pray for Thy richest biessings on Thy servant, | the pastor of this 1 eople, i We rejoice jor all he hag been to us. We thank Thee {or all nis love | and patience and charity: and we thank Thee for | | bis showing, under | that there ts a {| him and his family; and we ask,as achurch and congregation that we may, with our pastor, have @ gioriows futere Another brother said in prayer, We bless Thee for the discipline this chutcn has passed through; we rejoice now that we bad faith to trust Thee, and now Thou hast made all things clear, and we rejoice that all trouble has e away. Look in mercy on us now and fit us for our | duties. We have every reason to believe we | are united. We thank Tuee for our pastor | and for the Xperience he has passed through. We have had an opportunity to help him; we could show our ve; we rejoiced to be trampled in d ‘Thy dear servant whom we love, and We shall love more in the 1utare. We pray with all sincerity for his enemies. We pray for those persons in their course of wickedness. We ask that the: ay re. pent. We pray for all those who have injured us. This ts easy ; pray for those we love dearer than our own souls, this is hard. We have nad an example of @ heart overflowing with love willing to save those it loved even at its own risk.” An old gentleman rose and said:—‘I have come | over irom New York on purpose to condole with | you for the ag perpetrated On your mostex- | cellent pastor. [am in datly communication with | Many people, and | can teil you that the WICKED IN NEW YORK are alone the enemies of your pastor. We ey all fee| assured that what ha: ippeared to-day is a ment.” (Applause.) Brother Halliday eenups it Will be pleasant for you to hear trom some of the outside members,” and | he read severai letters from different quarters of | the globe, and then he said, “I have @ le: here | which perhaps was designed for my eye alone, | and yet I think it belongs to you as well:—‘Mid- | night. I bad laid aside (he cares of the day, hoping tosieep; but my eyclids reiused tociose, It seems as ii L cannot sieep Without expressing the grati- tude I ice) that God has raised up such friends tor my busband. All the time | was South the bymn | beginning ‘Fear not and be not dismayed” ‘was coutinually beiore me, and during the few | weeks It has veen my constant companion.’ Abotoer brother said Vnen I came in [| brought the rosea on the desk trom the writer of that letter, and i should like to read an extract | from a letter I received the other day. I havelong | | deen familiar with Mr. Beecher's writings ; toey are guarantees for his goodness. There is NOT ROOM ENOUGH IM ON# MAN for such hostile sentiments. He 14 4 good man, | and ido not iook mereiy for his vindication, but tor his exaltation. (Applause,) Another brother rose and said:—I did not mean to say anyihing to-nigiit, but | mast yivrity Goi lor the events of to-day. I tuink this is @ yUDiee day for PI church, When | think o; the pastor uy ove through that now free, he ts done with faise friendships, the worst has come aud gone, for { | am oot id tO speak of this thing finished, Whatever ar of triais and courts and ver- dicts they may pring it does not o! Ply. arch. Th Wd Verdict rendered, | We leel grateful that he has @ chance to Speak and bis Voice has goue ond we | and so should we pray. Mr. Beecher | then began his prayer, im which he | said:—We commit this church and the dear pastor, and the interests involved | my busdand. I have learned better, sweet. With- | for immortality, and ask whether such | Leamnot make myselt beueve L | this mument, know its power, Notwithstanding the editors, in & jew days the Voice of the people, inspired by mighty God, will be heard. — (Applause.) those people, who have been throwing missiles at us and bave kept asking why we did notinvesti- gate, did they suppose we were going to turn and rend the man in whom we bad put such periect trust? It was not that we loved him. lunocent or guilty. We ali knew from the veginuing that he was an Innocent mun. (Appiause.) But we did not know whether we shouid be able to bring him out as ure, a8 belore to the world; but we look forward to wnat he is going to do in ine jutnre. ‘There is coming @ day of viessing \or us, and when we get our pasior back we will know how to ap- preciate bim. | recognise in him tne PROPHET OF GOD'S LOVE in the nineteenth ceptury, Mr. Halliday said. 1 don’t think Mr. Beecher will scold me if 1 say be Is at home and weil, aua he will be glad to fee any of you at his house after the meeting. These roses are (rom Mrs. Beecher with her love, but [ don't know bow to dispose of them. some one sus- mesred that they be given to the sick who were revented irom coming, which was carricd out. ‘Then some one suggested a vote of thanks to Mrs. Beecher lor her beautiful token, to which was go the love and remembrauce of the caurch to ir. Beecher. After the prayer meeting the annual business meeting was held. THE TILTON CORRESPONDENCE. In the statement of Mrs. Tilton, published at the time of the publication of Mr. Beecher's general | denial, that lady describes herself as suifering ten years of domestic misery, and particularizes vari- ons acts of crueity to which she was compelled to | submit at the hands of her husband. Mr. Tilton alleges that in this respect his wile does not speak the truth, In support of this assertion he quotes her correspondence irom 1864 to 1870, which, he States, confirms bis oft repeated assertion that his home was the happiest of homes until these now notorious troubles commenced. For some in- scratable reason, best known to Mr. Tilton, this correspondence nas been given for publication to the Western press. The following selection of letters most pertinent to the question at issue has been taken roma Chicago paper and will be Tead with deep attention by those who are in- terested in the fortunes and misfortanes of the Tilton household ‘From the Chicago Tribune.) SHR PRAYS TO BE WORTHY OF HER HUSBAND. APRIL 1, 1866, My Bstovep: . . . This evening I have heard Mr. Beecher in company with A. and ————-. There was no recognition between Mr. B, and myself, he leaving directly alter service, nor has he called on me. . . . Whenever I | hear any inspiring sentiment of poetry or music | my first feeling seeks God, and then you, ‘This my soul knowetn right well. ‘Make my nume famuiar | a3 heaven by your prayers,” youask. Ah, I do, my sweet, and shail 1 make confession to you? When I am naughty I cannot abide long without @ purging of myself, lest you receive the blessing which I, by my wiliuiness, am unworthy o!, aud f cry out, “Bless me too, O Lora!” and thus are you evermore my helper. My darling, 1.ay God make me worthy to be your wile, in ali the largest and broadest meaning of that word, that His name may be magnified through us, Come to me ere another Sabbath night. The benediction of our Saviour rest upon you. SHE FEEDS ON HER HUSBAND'S LETTERS. BuOOKLYN, April 6, 1866. You have been patient and uncympiaining, my sweet, In the matter of my writing you. | know not howl should tive without your precious daily letter. They do, indeed, teed me, I have even thought { feel your heart in expression toward me as much in your absenceaswhenat home... . 1 am sure you will be unlike most pnolic men—no thing can by any possibility wean you from the dear ones at home, while your wife is faithiul and pure. I have an ambition to help you, but ‘this Kind cometh not py prayer and fasting.” STRANGE WORDS CONCBRNING MR, BEECHER. FRIDAY NicHt, Dec. 28, 1866. My Own TRUE MaTE: .. . 1 have been thinking of my love f Mr. B. considerabiy Of late, and those thoughts you shall nave, Ire- member Kannan More says, “My heart in this new apmpatny Jor one abounds toward ali.” Now I think [have lived a richer, happier lue since I have known him. i have you not loved me more ardently since you saw that another nigh nature Qppreciated me? Certain it is, 1 never in all my lie had such rapture of enthusiasm in my love tor you—something akin to the birth of another pabe, &@ new fountain opened enriching all—especially toward you, the one being supreme in my soul. T love thee with the breath, Smil all may life! and, if God cl Diet tue love thea butter stereo It is not possible for any huwan creature to supersede in my heart, Above all, you rise grand—b! beat. 1 praise God that He is teaci me ig great mercy and love shown by His of #0 greal a heart as your o to be ‘mane, For many years 4 not realize the bless- oe wi remorse it brings to me! Memories r, awiai! But to return to Mr. B. He has been the guide of our youth, and, until the three last dreadial years when our confideucd wes shaken in bin, we trusted om as no otuer human being. During these early years, the mention of nis name, to meet him, or, better still, a visit from him—my cheek wonld flash with pleasure—an experience common to all his parishioncrs of both sexes. It ie not strange then, dariiog, that on a more inti- Mate acquaintance my aelight and pieasure should merease, Of course, I realize what attracts you both to me ts a sup, ourity of soul you find in me. ‘Thereiore, it is, that, never before have | had such wre-tiings with God that he would reveal Himeell to me, and ever in my ears { hear, “The pure in heart shai see God.” On, fulfll tums promise unto me, my Lord and my od. Darling husband, | have endeavored to express | to you, without cant or any such thing, my true ELIZABETH. OU I CAN DO NOTHING,’? BDNESDAY NIGHT, Jan. 2, 1867. What can I say to you, my darling, to cheer Fon to-night? I think 1 never chated #0 constantiy as during this separation. [ @m go unwilling to ve patient until you return I do nothing well. I used to believe my daily duties would be more promptly and thorong! r= formed if 1 was not interrupted and Abeared ty (oelings as they appeartoime. . . ‘ours, “WITHOUT. My OWN: . . . out youl can do nothing. . . . Bye bye. Your own dar! HER HUSBAND'S GENTLENESS OF REBUKE. AT Your Desk, MonDay, Jan. 7, 1807. My Preciovs HuspaND—I find our la poor in superlatives when I attempt to de: my soul’s love. Whata delicious way repuking and teaching me. . . always that you think lam the toveilest O1 little wives, My bump o! appro thoroughly satisfied when you praise me, though it be true or nut, lam conteut. | go singing and light-hearted about my work. Every ciety is at a very icribe ou have of etending and best e8e 18 80 straightenea jd iife 18 sweet. . Wi | blessing you are to me inevery way. . . . Yours eaurely, ELIZABETH. MER HUSBAND'S LETTERS TO BE A LEGACY TO HER CHILDREN, “fag SuIP’s CaBIN,” | AT My Desk, Jan. 9, 1867. | My BEgLOvgD—It is quite time you suould navea | little insight into the manner in Which | am using jour hard-wrought earnings. . . . My heart | is sick at the figures, while { make confession | ‘with shame and sorrow that I can do no better in | my situation. . . . Once more lI would bless you for your delicious letters, They will be a mgacy to my chikdren when J no longer live to pre- | seive them. I will try to take care better of my wretched self, because the best man in ali the world loves me. | UNION OF SOUL, Friday EVENING, January 11, 1967. | My Sweer— . . . You write to-day of fhe | love 0: two interlocked souls remaining wedded love 19 not more tenueriy beautiiul than those same souls Can possibiy feel towurd God. Darling, L live im projound wonder and hushed solemnity at thia great mystery oi soul-ivving to whic | have | Wakeneud the past year. Ami your soul’s mate? | How jew find this peari of great price in this lue! | n ve fagasiy to | Meet your soul's want, though you entirely Ail | mine, When I look at you I say, “Yes, my soul is | galisfied—our uniou is periect.” But when! turn and lok at myseil as Supplying your need I bow my head and pray Gud to add the needed grace. +. . As to my love toward God I understand it oniy asi know my love to you—it is one aud in- separable. | learued of Gou, tne Father, a8 | know my a accw che aie bed verte lover pO a KO" my lover, husban . On, God, lead usr “‘tnou art ine Way, the ruta aud Forgive as if too close we cur'baman hearts on Thee” Good night. BEB HOSBAND INDULGENT 1OWARD HER IN MONEY MATTERS, SUNDAY EVENING, Jan. 20, 1867. My PRECIOUS tUsBAND—Oh! cruel fate, that ya us when We yearn jor each otner! My spirit not at rest, nor has it been during our separa- tion, aithough God has ministered constantiy aad conscio to me a8 never beiore in my lite; yet I long \o show you my love renewed and conse- crated as I humbly believe it nath been. Tneo- adore, you know | love you. My heart is so full at nd trequentiy, that | suffer to ex- press it, . . . Above all, my husband, when you are lonely, can I be tudiferent? 1 think not | ever again, Ah, my sweet, take the love I offer You, believe in it, to the cheering of your ile, | Is not my supreme Wish to be with you? Never | dopbt it. Nocning but the threatened sickness of myself and cutldyen deterred me, os Your letter expressing great patience toward me in reierence to my dnances came yesterday aiso. | thank you with ali my heart. You are Magnanimous and generous veyond all men, | tong to be More entirely what you need, [t is the wouder of my lile that you aré satisfied with me. It is your great goodoess, and notin my merit. SHE COMPARES HER HUSBAND WITH MR. BRECHRR. Faivay Eve., Jan, 25, 1907. My OWN Dear Hvspannd: . . { think, In ref erence to Uliver's opinion of Mr. B,, as bis remarks Were made to Mr. Bowen, and they are embittered toward one another, that What Mr. B. said Of you May appear very ditterent pre the coloring | Viet ate Bowen may give it Ga, how my soul | yearns over you two dear men! You, my belove are higher up than he; this | beiteve, wit you La joim me in prayer that God would keep him as he is Keeping ws? Oh, Jec us pray ior him! You are not willing to ‘eave him to the evil influencea Which surround him, is mm @ delusion with regard to himself and yas mistaken in his opinion of you, can never ress satisfied wotil you both see eye to eye and love one anothér as you once did. Tms will not come to pass as quickly by estranzement, Bur, With all the earnestness of my being, I commit you both to God's love, He has signally blessed you both and He wil keep His own veloved. While so mysteriously Was brought to as an actor in this iJriendship I Know nut yet, No experience of all my lie has made iny sou! ache so sora ae the ap. Parent lack uf Christian maniiness in this beloyed man. Mattie feels as Ido. 1 saw her to-day. She said she received two letters irom you to-day. do love him very dearly and I do love you su- premely, utterty—velieve it, Perhaps if 1, by God's grace, keep myself white, [ may bless you both I am striving. God bless this trinity!” 1 can por bs no denial take, . . .. Hereaiter I guard my iu per, You shail have a true, pure wife, by and by. 1am ashamed that 1am so olten unattractive to the Great Lover of my soul. J am striving to make myself beautiuul that He may admire me. You know {ull well how far short 1 come, but this is my aim, Ji He can only sav my ite is blameless, y and'I will then be satisied. Cheer up, my darling; the work tg mmi.bty to which you are called, and you are doing it nobly. I love you as Mrs, Brown. ing loved, Don’t you know it? Pray tor me always. J pray lor you—tho’ I have such assur. | ances of God’s love and ¢are for you that you séem high Up and sale, I: I coula sit in your lap and look tnto your dear eyes now—I'm airaid it would be more tham I ni could bear, At any rate, 1 should nave a good cry—that, 1 am going to have without you. It a ways “baptizes mé,’’ to use your work. An guard us Good night. YOUR OWN WL SHE CALMS MR. BEECHER, Monpay, Jan. 83 (probably 1967). My BgLovep— . . . Mr, Haskell cal over Sunday aiternoon. We went to hear Mr, Beecher, who preached an uncommonly tine sermou on the divinity of mau from the text, “Ye are Gods.” . . . Mr. B. called Saturday, came tured and gloomy, most calming and peaceful infivence over him, more so than any one heever hnew. I believe he loves you. We talked o! you. He brought me two pretty flowers in pots, and said as he went out:— “What @ pretty house this is—I wished I lived here.” YOUR DARLING, NO PICTURE OF HIM 13 GOOD ENOUGH TO HER—SHE WANTS HIM TO GIVE UP THE ‘“‘DNDE- PENDENT.” (BROOKLYN, Feb. 11, 1867. Ar Your Dzs«. My Daruing—Here, in your sunny, beasuti Ubrary, [sit down act the! unusual hour of noon, to reply to the letter just received enclosing your woe-begone puotograph. Did you have revenge in your heart when you sat for that pictare, and did you want to irighten me and make my dreams hideous’ It is a false representation of my bee loved, nor can 1 take the responsibility o1 that haggard old face, . . . On, how. can 1 con+ vince you how entirely I love you? God bless you for the conession of your perfect love tor me. To be worthy is the aim and endeavor of ovely moment ol my litle, Believe this. huis te . i more and more dissatisticd to have sor your iife’s work aneditor’s. ‘Tue Inde] mvs power is alone, it seems to me, im your editorial and the advertisements, It mukes me sorry that wnat you write is read only once, and nothing saved, You feel it to be your pulpit. ‘ihe circutae tion is large. but itis galued by money and pre- mums, and I cannot bexur to see your beautilul genius in the best part of your lie idle. Can you not work for your country by lecturing aud an oc- casional editorial somewhere, and ria yourselt of the responslobility of the details of @ great paper? Tuen tus summer and spring you mignt devote to reading, writing stories, poetry—in short, a Jiter- ary i116, 1 Detieve you could make money enough lec nd I would manage my affuirs to joiu you } the time 1! such might be the pian of tae most coming years. Did you think to be like Horace Greeley * Your giits are too diversided, Thave never iad much pride in you as an edl- tor, bat 1 belleve as a poet and essayist { might Jail to worshipping. 1 will trouble you no further, bat it RA gratuy me ayo woult give a passing thought to these si G) eee By-bye, YOUR OWN DARLING, HEART HUNGRY TO SBE HER HUSBAND'S FACS. THE LisRaky. 3 P. M, } Tagsday, Feb. 12 (probably 1862). My Prectovs HuesaNp—My heart at this mo- ment swells and leels out so hongiy for you thatit makes my head ache. 1 hope 1 shail be calm when I first see you, and not have one of my entbu- siasms. 1’m so sale and strong and giad in your jat I am conscious the past year of an entire change toward every oue—an independence like matdens jeel when they decide upon one of their choice, which often carries a satcy indifference with 1t; Dat my state in this is unlike—for “my heart, io its new sympathy lor one, abounds to- ward all.” .. . Now, im the light of yoor home coming, lam waking to anew life. . fs e ee! bias DARLING W: bs HOW GEE FELT TOWARDS BEECHER, SaTUBDAY EVENING, Feb. 1, 1868, +My BeLoveD:— . . . I know that now mother, chiidren or friend have no longer pos session of my heart. ‘the supreme place is yours forever. Ave you really glad to hear this, my | sweet? When you speak your love tor me it is licious harmony to my sou. . . . About eieven o’ciock to-day M®. B. called. Now, be- loved, let not even the shadow of a shadow fall on your dear heart because of this—now, hente- forth or forever. He cannot by any possi be much to me since I have known you. [im- lore you s0 believe it, and look at me as in the Bay of Judgment I shall be revealed to you. Do not toink it audacious in me to say lam to him a deal—a rest, Le tenet rad beh it) 1 appear even cheerful and helpial to Rowspirs Patter seeing the children 1 asked him if he would go with me to Mattie’s and ace the bust. Without @ny hesitation he said he would. J immediasely goi ready, and 1 took my first walk, to the Court | street cars, Without much difficulty, so taat I feel free again and will walk outevery day. . . . Seeing your dear head, darling, which on second seeing is more thanever to me, Mr. B. expressed at Satisiaction With it, feeling it was lar better han he tapi bose to find it, and he believed as correct a likeness as you could have. He is very desirous for mac to try bim. Nothing notewortny Occurred save that he left me at the voor with the Temark that “he nad had a very pleasant morn. ing.” You once told me you did not velieve that] gave you a correct account of his visits, and you always felt repressed much. Sweet, do you still teel this? 1 strive in my poor wordpainting to ere you the spirit and impression which I give him, and he to It would be my supreme wish end delight ee “5 you <r wate me. This trinity of friendship for a sau aT ™ * “your owN. SUNSHINE. SUNDAY, Feb, 4, 1868, My Darina: . . . You say that the four miles’ walk at Newcastle “was a whole gospel to my soul.” I read that over and over and thanked God with all my soul ior giving you that expe- rence, lsee you now walking in the sunshine, heart- ful, joyiul, praising God. You did not need me then. But I iollow on, and would iain cutch she hem of your garment as you pass wong, tnat I, woo, may have a biessing. I yeurn and pray up- | Weariedly to grow worthy of your love. By-by. Yours undividedly, pits WIFE ELIZABETH. “STARVING FOR YOU.’ WEDNESDAY Eva., FED. 5, IN THE PaRLop. My BELovep: I am starving tor you to-uignt; from some detention in the mails, probably, I have had no ietter since Newcasile; that 1s shree days Witnout food. Could I see you how my pent-up | t Would burst and overfow in your bosom. heart wou x F OUES Good night. HUMAN LOVE NOT SATISFYING. WEDNESDAY, FEB, 5 \oreemeent! 1868) , ‘NINE O'CLOCK A. M., aT YOUR DESK. My DaRLING: My brain has run wild since foar o’ciock—sleep forsook me. The love of ian or to mun 1s not restiul, while the love given to God ia eacetul beyond expression, on! Tuas we might essed experience as & Sra yo porenYyOUR DEAR WiFi. ‘ON HER KNEES IN HER HUSDAND’s STUDY. SUNDAY, Feb. 9, 1868 AFTEX DINNER. My Dear HesBanp: 1 have been up in the study, where it ts cold, clean and desolate, With my siawl wrauped around ime, kueeling at the green lounge where, face to face with God, 1 fought His biessing tor us both. Ob, what strengio and power there is in prayer. I feel as t I bad my armor on and ready to meet apy adversary. Having known this rest and power 80 bidasedly in our experience, bE do We toll so frequently with our burdenr, when we may lay them down at any moment before One woo is mighty and willing to bear them? . . . Perhaps | do not know myseif—yet, I never in all my tlie bave carried your memory so perpetually Gud with « tenderness equalied orly to that | bear toward my baves. . . . Our home, especially On sunday, suggests your dear love tomy mind continually. | caught an inspiration bag ube Garite thankigiving” Mave you nora reward for ont its thanksgiving. Have you no all your herd moor Gay € 4 YOUR OWN. *ihis allusion {sto the glass dome over the stairway, on Which are painted the words, “Mine Eyes a Tats Tnee, O Goa.” ER RUSBAND’S CHEERY SPIRIT. MONDAY NIGHT, Feb, 17, 1868. My Own .... Yes, darling, 1 have fallen (Why not 3a) peony) desperately in love with my Busvand, | have salien quite jong enough. 1 cau- not tell why such lines as these iu your letter de- press me:—‘'l au a cheery, gvod-hearted, hopeiu) and bright man.” In my sou L rejoice that you are, but icanust help thinking that is because 1 @m’ not with you! . .. You inyite me to “come and abide with you forever,”’ how wil. ing ana proud am to accept—1! I may biess, but) sbrink in terror from the Maid uu Leursei . Good nigat. Yours iaithfully. eH ELIZABETH, AL OF A FAITHFUL MARRIAGE. gi etoReD AT AFTERNOON, Feb. 18, 1868. My DaRLInc HUspaND—. .. I have ielt so neart- sick that there are sv few great men or women. The idea of a iaitniul, true ogltte r4 will be lost Out o1 the Witid—certainly out of the hearary, and reined world—unless we revive it, » . . Tsnal much to teil you of our dear friend, Mi. B, bee opened nib aud ea as you would jeve