The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1874, Page 6

4 s0 noble as few are able to live! and, ta another world, the emancipated soul may utter thanks! If it would be of comfort to you, nu me 4 letter of true inwardnes [sic|—the outcome of inner hie—it woud be sate, tor T now at home her with wy sister; peruiitted to vou (aie) and will b an exceeding retreshment to me, for your heart expert our HOULTONS NILISTONE, He Hangs It Round Mr, Beecher’s Neck. } e © God bas enriched your auoral nature. May not others partake? "s handwriting. this letter, yet it was in Beecher’ na slip of The note enclosed in tt m pencil is o paper, but which, he says, he reserv tation betore another tribunal. ‘This note concln- | sively proves, he adas, that Beeeher speaks talsely when he says he never visited Mrs, ‘Tifton atte! “settlement” except at her busband’s request. To add strength to this assercion he gives & letter from Mrs. Tilton to Beecher, 871, whieh he taste eberbeps Tilton extorted this letter, Irom his wile.” The following is the letter :— THAT NEST HIDING. Mr. Buxcusn—My futare, either for life or death, would | Fresh Charges Advanced—Old | be happier could I but leel that you /orgare ine wiille you | Ones Revamped Poa Cetull the sad complications of the past year WILL IT SINK HIM? $00, | el rel; eed [rom uw ali suffer. | orit, My w ons were love, a large untiring generosity | and nasdhiding/ That ( failed utterly we both know. | | Bat now Lask forgiveness. | | qnen foliows the following letter from Mr. | BLACKMAILER OR BOSOM FRIEND? | Beecher fo Mz. Tilton, which he saya is addiuonal | ANU | proof of the “renewed intimacy :— | | 20 Jawvany, 1872. Now may the God of Peace that brought again trom | ‘vad our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the through the blood of the everlasting covenant, th sheep, inake you perteet in every good work to do His w | working in you that whieh is well pleasing in His sigh through Jesus Christ. This is my prayer day and night. This world ceases to bold me ‘asitdid. I live in the thought and hope ot the coming immortality, and seem to wnyself most of the time to be standing on the edge of the other life, wonder- | | ing whether I may not at any hour hear the cail, “Come up hither.”” } L shall be im New Haven next week to begin my FEARFUL RIM! AL ALLEG MENT | course of lectures to the theological classes, or preach- C N E 8. fours ot wie takes boat 1oF Mavens snd’ Fiofida on | | Thursday. | “Tealled'on Monday, but you were ont. | } enh habe 122, Sea Sviout abide iin you, e 01 Savio | "Wer truly yours, H.W. BEECHER, These letters, Moulton thinks, speak for them- | | selves, and he therefore draws no inferences irom | | them, leaving them to be drawn by those who | read them “in the hight which dates and facts now throw upon them.” Moulton next goes on to speak of Beecher’s confession to him of aduitery | with Mrs, Tilton. In speaking abous the matter Beecher, he says, used the following language: A CANDID CONFESSION. “My acts of intercourse with that woman were as natural and sincere an expression of my love for her as the words of endearment which I ad- dressed to her. ‘here seemed to be notuing in Extraordinary Letters, from Mrs. what we did together that | couiad’ pot justily to | | myself on the ground of our love ior each other, | Tilton and Mrs. Morse. | and I think God will not blame me for my acts with | | her. Iknow that at present it would be utterly impossible for me to justly myself before man.” Mouiton here adas:— “Not ouly on the occasion of handing back Mra. | Tilton’s ‘retraction,’ and when giving me the let- | Yer of contrition of January 1, 1871, aid ne particu. larize with regard to the feclings that influenced bim to do as he did bas meres 4 in many 2 of the conversations { held with him he strongly A “Paroxysmal Kiss” and What | aaveriea to the absorbing love which he feit ior | | the woman and to the joys of his intercourse with Came of It. her, which he always justifed because of that | love. Indeed, on one occasion when speaking of | it, he said so pure did the intercourse seem to him that the little red lounge on whicn they had been | | together seemed to him ‘almost a sacred thing.’ | ee. ; If my testimony is to avail anything in tuis | A Statement “in Anguish of | fatter, There commit 1t now fully’ to the state: | Spivit.” The Blood-Money Charge Ef- fectually Disposed Of. Additional Confessions Purporting to Come from Mr. Beecher. THE “SACRED” LITTLE RED LOUNGE | ANOTHER LADY IN THE CASE | ment heretofore made by me, which [ then soft- ened by omitting details, the |: age ol which | I thought it best for public morality should be | suppressed, And I cali attention to the fact made romfsed | in my previous statement that, in the presence of icin tel Bs third statement of Frank | jyseirand another witness, whom I still icel re- | Moulton concerning the Beecher scandal has at | juctant to bring forward—of course not Mr. Til- | last been made public. It is addressed “To the | ton—both Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher admitted in | Public.” In this rejoinder Mr. Moulton offers to language bed nak Eos that a ee 1 intima existed petween them, an show that he possessed tne confidence of the Ply- prada ony ne Lashed os - Mouth pastor up to within a very recent period; asked advice ag to the course to be taken because that be acted with the consent of both the princt- | of 1)? pals in the capacity of intercessor, and that ap to He then says:— “Irrust Lsnall be pardoned for giving an instance | the very moment the accusation of blackmail was put out against him he enjoyed the unreserved or two out of the Many that I mignt cite of the in- approval of Mr. Beecher in all that he had done consistency of eecher with himseif. ‘ihe theory of his statement is that Mrs. Tilton had con- and tried to do for the sake of him and his accuser. He claims that he is justified in bringing into the jJessed to ner posband io the drat place only bis | controversy, as bearing against Mr Beecher, fresh (Beecher’s) ‘excessive love for her,’ and he marn- | tains stoutly that in that confession there was nothing more confessed than that he had made ‘improper advances’ to her, But agatn, he says | the document was one ‘incriminating’ him. | facts and letters hitherto mot published, in lg riddle yard lg le bla . Tilto1 e' ot 4 \. @efence of himsejf, and for the purpose | “ ‘ine poiut between Us is this:— averred in'my of clearing his character, so violently statement that the document which Beecher saw a8 well as myself was ler coniession that he had | committed adultery with the wife, Which was it? A confession only of excessive love and improper | advances on his part, or, as he deacribesit, an ‘in- criminating’ confession? Without stopping to ad- vert to the fact that Mrs, Tilton in her coniession and unjustifiably aspersed by Beecher and ois friends, while disclaiming any intention, which he doubts not will be imputed to him, of further infileting mjury On the minister for the sake of prejudicing whatever case be may feel disposed | which went to Dr. Storrs says that he to attempt to make before the public. He also | asked her to be @ wife to him, with claims tha: the attitude assumed toward him per- | 3/1 that that implies, and the singular tact appears that she does not therein say she said mo to him, need Ladvert upon the likelihood | of her making’a negative with her great love ‘or | him if ook the initiative? Let us now judge Mr. Beecoer by his Own statement. He weni to Mrs. Tilton and asked her if she had contessed all that ber husband nad charged, which he said were | ‘“mproper advances.’ She bowed her head in ac- | quiescence. He said, ‘How could you do that?’ sonally by the Commitie of Investigation legitl- | mizes this effort on his part to wipe out the stain which bas been wantonly put upon his name and | reputation. He wishes it explicitly understood | that this, his latter statement, is particniarly a | reply to Beecher and the committee, the short | wtatement he supjected to the scrutiny of the com- | Sne now gtves the reason, and says Tilton had con- mittee, and the more lengthy document which | fessed his own alien loves, and said that he could found publication 1m the various journals some 20°t bear to think that sne was better than he, and | that ‘she might win him if she confessed she time since, having been written and prepared | joved me more than him, and that they would re- before the publication of the statement of | pent and go on in Juture concord.’ Beecher. Therejore alleged proofs of Beecher’s “Assuming this report of the conversstion to be wullt and guilty consessions which were not true, and the reason given by Mrs. Tilton for her Bvailable of by him formerly are imtroduced now | confession, Lam led to ask how would it tend to yA that Re seavees ear lp oll ag ng his im this, bis rejoinder. He alleges, in sddition to | Bdultery [0 1 Baap EBs ge Ry I garde end cause she confesses to him that sie had been other sofmewhat extraneous matters, that he is | tempted by her pastor and friend, and had reiused pole to show a renewal of criminal conduct on ied seeene DeMItaOUT. Coen OBLy be Teer Sarre i ronciies she part of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, even | ynon the theory that Tilton’s confession of “alien after the “confession” of Mrs. Tilton and the sup- | loves” also tnciuded @ declaration that he had not Posed seitiement of the ‘rst trouole. He depre- | Overton ecener and elizabeth elect Witt scOru. sates the painful necessity which drives him to | porn geclare the same equivocal worde a8 hers as | ‘ake any further part in the terrible affair, and | to Tilton anne aa esy only. Bey. not, then, rid saya he trusted that he would nev . | Jove’ with Beecher, ‘so ‘excessive,’ mean the tf pit cing eggs pak bag pach sgiiiocl him- | game thing? If that theory as to themselves is po e farther statements, | tre, would not such @ confession to Tilton by his which, if made, must be in the nature of accusa- | wife, a ese of by ype ep 3 bd Meas bo was | te: | 28 bad as he was as an adaiterer, ten OW tO made veiore the committee, and repeating im | Dmctae,tag he tee" Ot pomen, 08g TL Bto vemptation er a er grav: other | rebuttal most that he advanced in his first state- fap babe Fre a eats oe Sat capers | ®ent, though going more into detail, he says:— ee eee arepaeet iicme tick. tad TRRIaGae A Ihad no intimation that he received any corre- plaints chow aueriae’ Sntenston ws poteiey i ag parameter sep tpete ly ee | What T have declared it was in the written confes- | \ ertalnly thai je none | fact#? or visited ber, But since the preparation of that ay eee arisen Baacner charged him with statement there have come into my hands certain resorting to in the management of the ‘#ettle- , 5 even suggested them. He, further on, in speak- — - loo es his pence clandestinely with | ing of ‘Beecher’s averment that he (Beecher) never | Menace Git tac rouge inhabit ome | Me ean N WoD ly ese eR Le | peas and deadly peril, without the knowledge Raske tamnet sinoee 12 my hands his pte of bis (Beecher’s) wife—for doing all which things | tion in his own fandwriting as to what Tilton there could have been bub one incentive. It be- | ghould say in reply to bis statement before the comes Levenger theretore, vag oe Cg | committee, written more than Seresiean after | racity of his statement asto the renewai of his the pubtication of the Bacon letter? es he not | intimacy with Mrs, Tilton, that some of these let | Kuow he visited my house in reference to my own | ‘era should be compared. | statement, to be made before his committee, when A LOVE BABE. - came Foe aat | he eevee Cs sa eth ats of Moulton here quotes Mra, Tilton’s letter to a July 18? Does he not know Sa toed eniaia | my view of the words by which he could shield | jemale friend [dated Jan. 13, 1871, already pub- himself irom the consequences of that Bacon let- shed] in which she states that “dear Frank | ter, to be used in his pulpit, which he copted out to Moulton 13 a friend, indeed,” and that the “slan- | SB0W to bis friends? Does he not remember when fers” against Tilton coming to Mr. Bowen as from ter “caused his (Tilton’s) dismissioa’”’ from Bowen’s papers, and which she closes by Saying he put bis arms around my neck, during that con- suitation of the 6th of July, fourteen days after | the Bacon letter. and in the presence of my busi- | ness partner spoke of me as the “best iriend that God ever raise: to aman?’ In view of these that she has “nad sorrow beyond human capa- | * thus vouched, how can he tty—it fs my mother.” Moulton criticises Mrg, | Cofomunity otherwise t “ Tilton’s expression the “love babe” her chila pro- Shen peer asiog an ie conan aere famiay mised to be, and calls attention to the fact that | by day? AS tO CENT DI BL. N for months previous she and ber husband were | yoo) wer ioe ee 42000 which Docober iy quarreling even to biows, aecording to Bessle | ny paidin addition to the $6,000 to help the Golden Turner’s evidence. He comments on thisietter | age was to extricate Tilton from his difficulties as follow: ‘I do not quote the whole letter, as it was paid for the education of Bessie oheda mn | has been aiready pubushed and may be referred then gives the following, addressed to Mrs. Til- to. The peculiarity of the language of this ex- bani Janvany 12. tract should be noted, We find Mrs, Tilton on the | , Tde,story thas Mr. Thiton once lifted me, trom my hed Both of December sick in bed with what she | ences are otten like bread trom heaven to the hungry. | ‘There was, he says, no direction or signature to | for presen- | under date of May 3, | if he had ‘ad. follows up witb the intense sar- | told | my statement that I was to give it to | lime Lo time as i sound he needed it, and that 1 | } Tilton had not received, and why say that Tilion | suffering in cold and hunger at home, mourning | November? fam still alone, with no prospect of any | one, with a rent of $1,500 and an income ot $1,000. The | consequence 1s, with other expenses, I shall be by the first of the month terribly belindhand, as I agreed to | the | cloth! | Lunink it strange you should ask me to call you “son.” | | to be im 1871, because it was at that time that Mrs. | | Morse had the house for which she was paying | | $1,500 rent, and is the time when Tilton was uliow- | Mrs. Morse, Elizaveth’s mother, | for money, which may explain the necessity for \ will be app | it is_ cruel the $5,000 to Tilton? Instead he puts forward the pbrases:—'Money has been obtained from me in and then, to send | the course of these afairs in considerable sums; | but 1 did not at first look upon the euggesuions | that I snould contribute to Mr, Tilton’s pecuniary | wants as savoring of biackmail’—tbus patting the AMOUR OL The $2,000 and Lhe $5,000 tn his state: ment as if they went together to Tilton for te | Same purpose. le will also be observed upon a careful examina- — tion of Beecher’s own statement, a.though at- | tempted to be concealed by ambiguous piirases, | that the suggested payment of first came | to me from him, and was not made by me to him; and that part of his statement h reiutes tO | rthe | what! told bim in regard to the friend who | had made an advance to Theodore Tilton, in cash | and notes, correct | uid have been quite near! led the rest of the truth which Ithen him—that Tilton had refused to receive that advance trom the party offering to make it; and tnat Talso told him ‘at the same time that Tilton, | I was sure, would not take any money from him, and therefore it was arran; between us that tt snoald be given to Tilton in small s8nmMS a8 coming irom me, asl had already made | bim like advances, Nor dia the amount of $5,000, | which Beecher subscribed, seem to me at all ex- travagant jor him to give. Having been for many | ears in the possession of @ reputed income from 18 Salary and literary labor of from $40,000 to $50,000 a year, and having apparently reasonably economical habits of living, | supposed him to be | aman of very considerable, if not large fortune, | | from bis almos t | leave him to explain why it was, with such ample | income, from whica he ought to have accumuiated | @ large fortupe with habits of prudence and no hecessary accumulations, and Rnown extraordinary expenses, to explain how he | | bad impoverished tinsel! and impaired his credit | to so great an extent as not to be able to raise the altry sum oO! $5,000 Irom among his rich parish- joners Without mortyaging his honse, uniess, in- | | Geed, he ieit called upon to support others as he did Bessie, it will also be observed that Beecher tn his state- ment says that I was to “feed out” this money to | | Tittop, which exactly comports with what | said In him from had not yet paid all of that sum to him, as the ac- | count im my published statement shows. Why, then, with that knowledge and that statement by Beecher that this money was to be ‘fed out,’ | does Beecher speak of the “mollifying effect” of | £5,000 to Tilton, which he now conlésses he knew had had “his gold jingling tn his pockets” for | years? Or are these insinuations and flings on so | solemn an occasion only the “jokes” which Mrs, | Morse, Mrs, Tilton’s mother, says “the cracked | from Sunday to Sunday, while he leaves his victim | for ber sin ?”” Mrs. Morse is now one of his witnesses before Beecher’s committee and his adopted mother from @ spiritual marriage with her daughter, as | will be shown by the jollowing letter, which | here insert:— eae Oc! My Dear “Sox’"—You must pardon me for the request Tnow make, Can you help me in any way by the fst of pay in monthly tustalments. Tknow full well I have no claim upon youin any | Way ic), excenting your sympathy. for my lonel and isolated condition. if I could be released from | house I should gladly do so, for I'm convinced | it’s too tar out. Ail who have been to see my rooms say so, My darling spent most of yesterday with me. She said alt she had in the way of money was $10 | er, Week, which was for food and all ouer | house. hold expenses aside from rent, and this was iven her by hand of Annie ‘iiltoh every Saturday, | It you know anything of the amount it takes to find tood for sight people you must know there's little leit for ing. She tod me he (T.)dia not take avy meals home trom the fectshe could not get such food as he liked to nourteh his brain, and so he took his mesis at Moulton's. Just think of thas! 1 am almost crazy with thonght, Do come and see me. I will promise that the “secret of her lite,” #5 she calls it, shail vot be mentioned. I know it's hard to | bring it up, as you must have suffered intensely, and we all will, I fear, till released by death. Do you pray for met [fuot, pray do. [never telt more rebelitous than now, more need of Cod’s and human help. De you know When I have told darling, I felt if you could in safely | yourself and all concerned, you would be to ine all this endearing name. Am! mistaken? MOTHER, ‘This lesver bears date October %. I fix the date ing his wife $40 a week for household expenses, This letter was given me by Beecher as written by | nd isa call on him = OTigaging his house otherwise than by paying | $5,000 to me. It is the outside family that ts always the most onerous to a man. It will be remembered that Elizabeth confessea that Beecher asked her to be his wie, with ail that | the name imphes. Mrs. Morse tells him—and she would not dare tell nim sof! it was ndt so—“Do you know I think it strange you should ask me to call you ‘son,’ When I nave told darting, 1 ‘eit if you could in safety to yourself and all concerned, bad would be to me all this endearing name. Am mistaken 1” ‘The delicacy of this adopted mother, who says:— “Do come and see me. I will promise the ‘secret | of her life,’ a8 she calis tt, shail not be mentioned,” reciated, especially because she know to bring it up, ‘as you must lave su: fered mntensely, and we ail will, I fear, till released by deatn.”” Who believes that tnis note to Mr. Beecher—a Married man—accompanied by demand for money, with the reminder o/ the “secret” of a daughter’s liie, means only that Beecher once gave some bad advice about a separation between | bed ae wile, which, 80 far as I know, never took ace F The tronble 18, Beecher mistakes the persons who blackmailed him. 1t was Mrs. Morse and | Bessie, and nobody else, and they are now repay- ing him by testifying in bis behali If such con- | duct as this goes unpunished and unrebuked, | unchristian men wili be prone to agree with vne Psalmist and Mrs. Morse that “there 1s no God.” A KNOTTY QUESTION, Upon tne wnole, there were very curious relation. ships among these parties by adoption, of which I think tt would troable a heraldry ofice to make @ family tree, and which seem to have been @ mys- tery even to Mrs. Morse, for she says in her first letter which 1 have quoted above, “The remark you made to me CAA was an enigma to me, and every day adds to the mystery :—‘hirs, Beecher has adopted the child.’ ‘What child?’ I asked. You said ‘Elizaveth.’ Now [ask what | earthly sense was there in that remark!” Mra. | Beecher has adopted Elizabeth; Beecher had adopted her mother, and wanted Elizabeth to be | 1 that a wife could be to him; and Mrs. Motse gays she believes she would be ail the endearing name of son can be to her. and wants to kuow if | she is mistaken. Query:—Under this arrange- | ment, what relation is Mrs. Beecher to Beecher if she had adopted the child of his mother, aud her | husband had married the daughter of her mother? Who pons that Mrs, Morse thought it a mys- tery Further on Moulton says :— 1 now produce certain letters of Mr. Beecher, | which seem to contain an answer to his charge | that when he paid the $5,000 he thought it wus blackmailing, ‘and was very much ‘dissatisfied with himseli”? for doing it. Jf he was so dissatis- fied he certainly did not make it known to ine, | who had, as he says, extorted the money from him. It will be remembered that the $6,000 was paid on the 2nd of May, 1873, Tne 7tn of the lol- ) jowing Juiy brought me a very cordial invitation to visit him at his house in the country, contained in the Jollowing letter of that date, marked “3” :— BECHER 70 MOULTON. pa KS July 7, 1873—Monday, 7 P. M. yy Dear Pranx—I have just arrived... t called Saur- | day evening, to learn that you would vot return ull Mol day, Can you come up Tuesday or Weanesday or Thur iy? Let me know by letter or telegram. The eA. B. 89:10, 10:45, Pe Moy BA 4:18 8.90, 6 The four P. M. is expr 4 good train. If yo the afternoon you should allow forty-five minutes from | City Hall to reach Forty second street station, and about | one hour from your store. | “IT have not seen you since the card. I will take good | care of you, and even it others don’t think so much of | you as {dot will (ry and make up. My vacation is be- gun, and am I not giad? Next week we expect com- any. ‘Ettie drought ts severe—no real soaking since the last | of May, and things are suffering: but yet the country is beautiful. The birds are ay goud to me as David's harp. Tonly need some one to talk to, and that one is you. “Gome when you can, and, coming or going, believe me faithfully and affectionately yours, 3" HL It will be seen that to complete his happiness he | only wanted ‘some one 10 talk to, and that one Is ow—the Man who had just extorted money trom im a8 blackmail so that he felt “dissatisfied with himself,” and to whom he says, “Coming or going, believe me faitnfally and affecyonately yours, H. | BY and carried (sic) me soreaming to bis own and attempted to violate my person is a wicked lie, Yours traly. sates to have been & miscarriage a few days | peas before of what promised to be @ ‘love babe, you know’ ’—a very curious expression from @ woman nearly forty years old and the mother of six chil- fren, to describe a child begotten in lawful wed- lock; especially when, a8 Mrs. Tilton now asserts, she and her husband nad deen fiercely quarreling (or many months, and, Bessie Turner testifies, even to blows, He then goes on to state that within six weexs | SUgsesis that be wae Mrcniired Mim. ore tne com: of her getting of her sick bed she wrote the fol- | mittee, which are Mot pubiisned, will be seen, I lowing invitation to Beecher which he (Moulton) | bave no doubt, to h received from Beecher:— He then adds:-~ She now says that she was carried not “screaming.” she slept reasonably soundly, a8 sue did not wake up till after she was in his ped! Her character for truth and virtue has been by | Beecher’s advisers thus forever ruined to save | him, becanse, as the story was first told, no young | girl was ever ‘lifted | screamin, | remain specially as the witness nowhere 8 “steeping” | For & young Woman of twenty | ‘om her ped and carried | to bia own” by @ ruthless ravisher and | ve been payments on her ac- | ing Bowen) count, a8 their dates show them to be six months | “ce of trial After: discussing this point at aysi— ee I also produce another ietter of Jury 14, 1873, | which, if itis not @ full refutation of the charge that, up to that time, I had blackmailea Beecher or | | aided in blackmailing him, or that he believed I fome length, he | | he now | lor Henry C. Bowen and Theodore Tilton restored, ; Bowen’s, and the real point to avoid was | were reicrred to that arbitration, | Beecher”—let had done anything except in his interest, a charge of blackmail can never be contradicted, Itis here inserted :— Myr Dan FPranx—I looked for you Saturday, and re- | ceived your nol this morning—Monday, | Howard writes U T. T. has vent to Mr Halliday a note annotineing that he did not consider himself for | two years a mernber of te church, ere is also a movement to let the other party (mean: 0 to trial, and algo to give him an avoid- vy some'form of letier, I do uot know what, T do not mean to T have hot been consulted. apart, as her haif-yeariy bilis became due, with | meddle, It is vacation. Governor Claflin avd SHARING JOYS, Perhaps a single exception. Let me say to Mr. ) Musachneatts, will be here this week. I am getting at My D: Wrprespay. jeecher that i! be will apply to the principal of the | my writing ' again—at work on my book. I de. wheune sae yee a fowardy al Steubenville ele school he can find out just | spaired. of Safahing at am mote encouraged | t So ¢ om wy now. For @ tho enconra tu v0 ot dare to tell you til | wae sure, bat the bird how mucu ne Pas Paid there, and Mrs. Tilton can | that'no one can appreciate who lias not been us rore- ‘umed | tell him What became 0! the rest of the supposed $2,000. All this matter ofthe support of this girl was arranged by Mrs, Tilton and Beecher, Tiiton doing nothing about ft, and a portion of the money was aid to Mrs, Tilton herself, as appears by the foliow- ing letter, extracted {rom my published state- meni:— {a my heart ihese jour weeks, and he has co with ‘me never again to leave. “Sprig has come,” Because 1 thought it would gladden you to know this, ER) frouble or, qmnarrees you in any , Tnow | . urke T should like to share with you m: Joy, but can waitfor the beyond! q 4 tay nce again go ‘ould Plymouth 1 will Wen the dear Father, pepstipiaga curls iccs This letter Moulton comments upon severely, Teespay, Jan. 18, 1873. nar. Pra Be kind enough to send me $5 tor The reply to this Moulton says came in two ant to oi . 1 wi enclose ft in t-morrow's mall. Yours Motes, the shorter enclosed within the other:— Fetitany’ baa hy ELIZABETH, “The blessing of God rest upon you! Ever: Would not ingenuous truth have required Mr. light and warmth in your own house wil bed Cher eid, & star gun in my awelling. Your note broke like spring | 5 id this youn, Iife., Wo one can ever Know—none bit oan teeare | irom lis difleulty and prevent the re of the ‘what a dreary wildernces I have lered| There was | recital of his own acts, which she Mount Sinai, cme oa ee wearer as, there wasthe | the family, in the neignborhood where they were alterna hat te Se hdacetiidl Pst thcreegtosed | facta Wi anpnody tere hope and courage are like medicine, “Should Gea a, | Mates in bis examination that he did not know? ou to restore and persia, gt home, and white | 18 It possible that he never asked his dear friend ota | nd sustain outside of it another who | Moulton where this money fini AT capectally wo help tm heart apa spirit it will vrove a lim | aa he i care(al ta inatruct Moulton to “eed out” Beecher to state that this large sum was paid for | heard in | ton had been a coconspirator with me. likely to be taken up’ Did be not know the | to the assistant pastor of the church that he had him when he inti- | not considered himself a member for two years, | Cor s rore- hearted as Ihave Leen, for your honorable delicacy, for confidence and affeetion—I owe you so much that f ‘can neither express nor repay it. Not the least has been the | freat hearted kindness and trust which your noble wite | own, and whieh have iiffed me out of desponden- | cles often, though sometumes her clear wuthiulness has | laid me protty fat. Lmean to run cown some day, Will tet yon know be- | forehand, that I nay not mise you, for to tell the trath, I | am w lite heart hungry to see you—not now because I am prewed, but because I love, you, and will ever be HENR' faithfully yours, WARD BEECHER, ‘this shows how utterly and confidingly Mr | Pawxeases,, July 14, 1873. irl’s Support im order to relieve him | Beecher trusted me, and yet he now states that I nad been blackmailing bin for years and that Til- Aud yet this letter recites that Tilton had written a pote Again, the letter shows that as to “the other ps ,'" Bowen, nis church was colloguing togetter | ive him a0 avoidance of a triai by some form tier for the slanders of Bowen leat Ke should be injured, I say the church was col- Joguing, because Beecher says be had not been consulted and did not mean to meddle, Mark, | call attention again, to emphasize it, to this letter in order that there may be no mistake as to what Beecher’s opinion was of the man who ‘s he felt was blackmailing bim at the time, to the phrases, ‘For a thousand encourage- | ments, for services that no one can appreciate | Who has hot a3 sore-hearted as ibave been, for your honorable delicacy”—what, delicate biack- maiitn; ‘lor confidence aud affection, I owe Ee 380 much thatlcan nelther express nor pay Again, mark his promised visit to the biack- mailer in these words :—‘ To tell the truth, I am a little heart-hungry to see you, not becauseI am pressed, but because 1 love you, and will ever be faithiuily yours.” 4 think [ may be pardoned for lingering over this letter, for in it 18 My vindication, irom @ black charge to which Henry Ward Beecher is driven, to save himself, to make against me, Not only was I serving him at this time, but my wife—who kuew all and knows all that | kuow—was saving him from despondencies and threatened suicide, and this letter gives the thanks he Jelt for her efforts, “although,” he says, “sometimes her clear trath- fulness has laid me pretty flat.” I have already given ove of those exhibitions of her truthiuiness when she advised him to confess his sin, and ask | forgiveness of man as he expected Jergtveness of Again I produce a letter of October 3, 1873, five Mouths alter the time when he says in his statement he believed that I was biackmailiug | him, and ‘felt dissatisfied with uimseli” thas ne | permitted it, It is marked “Y,!’ Fripay Noon, Oct. 3, 1873. My Dxaw Fraxx—t! have this morning got back, sound and fresh, and want to send my love to you and yours. T should see you to-morrow, bit shall be out of town tll evening. God bless you, my dear old fellow. H. W. BEECHER, Let all the lawyers search all the annals of the crime of blackmailing, overhaul every police re- port, and produce another instance where, five | months alter if was known to the victim, ne ad- dresses his blackmailer with a “God bless you, my dear old fellow!" It will be observed that these letters which I have thus far produced upon this question were subsequent to the time he learned that he was blackmailed, 1 now produce a letter of previous date, February 16, 1873, enclosing a check of that date :— My Dear Frawx—I don’t know as {t is necessary to trouble you. Lonly wanted to read you the heads and outline of the statement, When I do speak I Intend to be believed. Of course, I shall not pole it ull I bave seen you. But time is'short. The crisis is at band. ‘will not go forward long, as heretofore. i say will not, I mean cannot Events are masters just how. There ts no earthly reason for confidence with Mr. T. It makes nothing better; always, everything wort The matter is ina nutshell, No light is needed, enly choice. Yours gratefully, Hu. W. BEECHER, Or will you Mr Dear Movtror :-—Wifl you answer thi: see that she 1s to understand that I can do nothmg? [ and ail hazards, take a single certainly shall not, at am ttep in thatdirection. and it it brings trouble—it must come, lease drop me a Une to say that allis right— it, in your judgment, all @ right. Truly your your judgment, to rig! YY Yours WB. BOWEN’S TERRIBLE CHARGES. Mr. Bowen had made certain eharges against Beecher and thereby caused Tilton to write @ let- ter on tie 26un of December, 1870, requiring Beecher to leave his church and city, which Bowe: carried to Beecher. Why suould Tilton have se. lected Bowen to be the bearer of sach’a letter if | Bowen had not made the statements which Tilton | recites in his letter to him were made—when Oiiver Johnson was present—of five different acts and specitications of adulterous intercourse with five ditferent women. That jJetter was read by Beecher, and the dread- ful accusations made by Bowen Were lully known to him, and as this matter was contemporaneous with the accusations made oy Tilton as to his own wue, Beecher desired that [ should endeavor to protect him from these also, and insisted that I should agree toa reference to an arbitration, of ‘Wiilch bis iriend and present committeeman, Mr. H. B, Clafin, was chairman, and submit Tilton’s claim tor damages for breach of contract by Bowen to that arbitration. Aud alter a full near- | ing, in which all these 80 graye charges by bowen to Tilton against Beecher—one of which was no less than rape—were stated in Bowen's and their resence, the arbitration ananimously agreed, rst, that Bowen should pay Tilton $7,000 for a breach of his contract, and it was also madea condition that Bowen and Tilton should sigu a covenant that they would not thereaiterwards repeat accusations which were annexed to the papers @ majority of Bowen's iriends on that ar- itration—who had been agreed to by me because they were Beecher's friends— insisting upon Bowen and Tilton signing such @ covenant {n behalf ef Beecher betore Bowen and Tilton could have their money ac- counts settied; ali of which was done at the same day and da So that Beecher, in fact, used ‘Tillon’s position with Bowen to extort tom Bowen & certificate of good character, and that, too, alter he had also given him a certificate of good character and conduct in the church, in Feb- | Tuary, 1870, Which he renewed at Lhis time in these words :— “| deeply regret the canses of suspicion, jealousy and estrangement which have come be- | tween us. It is a joy ‘or me to have my old regard | and a happiness to me to resume the old relations tf Jove. respect and reliance to eacit aud both of em. How could Beecher, 1f innocent, have signed snch a certificate as that te Bowen upon a simpice Withdrawat of the charges, one of which descrived @ brutal rape, without apy averment that they | were untrue, bowen merely saying that he did not- “know anything of themy'? And yet, without even the withdrawal of those charges privately @ year bevore, after these statements nad been made by Bowen, and aiter the accu- sations were well known to Beecher, .‘aiter hours O conference, everything Was adjusted aud we shook hands; and Beecher stated the iact of the reconciliation ta Plymouth church, and spoke highly of his Christian brother,,Bowen, ang a new adjustment was obtained again in the manner L have stated at the time of the tnpartite covenant. 1 do not republish the documents which show all this under Beecher’s own hand, ag they are al- ready published in my tormer statement aud lithographed. I agree that these facts are so unusual, so Btrange, 80 wore starting tan anytmng im fic- tion, that if I should state them apon my bare word I should challenge discredit everywhere ex- cept among those wio Know me well. But that they probably were well known to Mr. H, B, Claflin, one of Beecher’s committee, will appear from a letter neretoiore published irom Beecher to me, which I reproduce, as follows :- (Here is given Beecher’s letter confiding every- thing about the scandal to Moulton’s jugginent. It will be seen trom this note that tt was not ton’s accusations that 1 then had in char l= bus ‘an ap- peal to the church and then to 4 council,” and with such an appeal it would be a “‘contiagration.”” In obedience to that letter I had @ confidential talk with Clafan, and told him of the ‘treacherous whisperings” of Bowen, and also gave him the name of the party to whom Bowen hud said that it was true that Beecher Lad made confession to . him; and, as pearly a8 1 can. remember, that Bowen had not and did not intend to retract the charges which he had made against Beecher. Mr. Clafin deemed this so serious that he thought it best to cail on Bowen with me, and we went, ac- | companied by the gentlemam who had reported Bowen's conversation to mé, and he repeated to Mr. Bowen in whe presence of us all exactly what Bowen had said to nim, “and,” said he to Bowen, “4f you say to the contrary you utter a falsehood,” Now to conceal these ‘bottom facts,” known to me, if not to Clafin, Beecher bad influenced Clafin to require, as arbitrator, the tripartite covenant—to which all Bowen’s charges, as set forth in Tilton’s letter of January 1, 1871, were an- nexed—as a condition of the seitlement of money matters between Tilton and n, Which alone What were those ‘bottom tactsr’? So far as Mr, Beecher is concerned, I bave his full [oer to disclose all that [ may know, as put in bis public statement, nd the public will now be in position to judge whether he really meant that [ should. In reiation to the charge against Beecher made | once by Bowen, that he had py violence mal-used a certain woman of his acquaintance, Moulon says i— WORSE AND WORSE. the more indefinite charges of Many aduiteries committed ‘by us take tue crime, the exact lan- guage of which in my lormer statement I ielt cailed upon to omit in the interest of pabdliic de- cency. Butin order that the charge of Bowen, which was twice reconciled and condoned by Beecuer—ustug this word both in tis jegal and lit- eral sense, because, if not trug, there can be po more gutragegpy libel, which 1s a crime—I feel shied Cause of public justice, to give the Sely Words as they originally appeared in Tu- ton’s private letter to bowen, of January }, 1871, An ab they are aunexed to the covenant of recon. ciliation := y “You (Bowen) reiated to tie the case of awoman whom you said (as uearly as I can recall your words) Mr. Beecher took in his arms by force, threw down upon 4 sola, accomplished his deviltry upon her, and left oer fowing with biood.”” Couid af innocent clergyman Lave aliowed sach @ charge to be made aud more than once reiter- ated, however guardedly, vy & leading member of his church, and reat content anil bis innocence was (ully and Clearly established. if in no other way, in a court of justice? Bowen, I was in- formod, claimed to have tue details of this transyc- tion [rom tue woman’s own lips. And it was to avoid {the investigation of this charge, among | others, that Beecher says 1D his letter that “the real point to avoid is an appeal to the church and then to a council,” and upun that be advised with | me. 1 feel it due to myself, however, before procecd- ing farther u) this parrative to make tis expiaga- tion, In my jormer statewent to the puollg, prepared for the committee. | endeavored in all Tnatiers to state che (acts with as much dericacy a4 their Wickedness would allow, the conseque of which was that my very revicence and suppre! sion of the exact language in which Beecher’s confessions Were conveyed to me were 7 his | friends made a ground Of accusation that | bad either mistaken tue purport of what he said, or that if { were telling the tratn! would give his words. Thereiore 1am now compelled, in narra- ting this most shameful afair, to violate the | bounds lich I set myseli in my jormer statement | in order that no such like accusation may be retter- | ated against me. And if that is published, which | ought not to be pubiished, it ia not my fault, but the necessity made Py Beecher and nis frienas for | my own Vindication. Exactly bow the matter came about Is as follows :— Labawed to Mr. Beecher tha latter of Tilton to Passing b; Bowen—-the | and ‘knowing | Was the same with | Girectly to unsettling. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. Bowen, bearing date January 1, 1871, contatning charges alleged to have peen made by Bowen in the presence of Tilton and Oliver John-on, and he (Beecher) deemed it necessary to tell me the truth concerning the aduljery with the woman to Whom he supposed Bowen referred in that inter- view, although the charge gave nonames. Ac cording to Tilton’s letter bowen charged Beecher with the rape of a virgin. Beecher said he was ——~s house, told me for what pur. pose he was there, and mentioned the namo of the woman, who, he said, when he was leaving, gave him what he strangely termed a “paroxysmal kiss"’—(l never heard tat word before, which causes me to remember It viv- idly)—and tuat, being tempted by the woman, he had sexual intercourse with ber. [He said :—‘t knew she Wag Dot 2 virgin.” and described to me his means of knowing that iact, the precise language of the description of which I trust his friends will excuse me irom repeating. He éaid that she immediately retired from the room, went up stairs and came down very much futtered, saying :—‘‘Ob, I am covered with blood!” He said he knew she lied, and was surprised at her, teel- ing convinced that she had had other and previous experiences of the same sort. Having myself had knowledge of the facility with which he could obtain from his women a re- traction of such charges and denial of the fact—as in the case of Mrs, ‘Tilton of the confessed adul- teries by her on the 30th of December, twelve days beiore—I said to him, “It wiil be necessary for you, if you are on friendly terms with that woman, 1o get from her a retraction. Otherwise you may find yoursell some vay at Bowen's mercy.” He Went to get a retraction from trer, and on the 10th of January, 1871, brought back the paper | here insert, which he so obtained “Some ten yeare S80 when under great grief and excitement, I said things injurious to Mr. Beecher to Mr. Bowen. I always speak strongly, and then | was nearly beside myse!f and osed un- measured terms, which represented rather my leeling than my Judgment. “afterwards became convinced that m many things | was mistaken, I becaie satisfied that Mr. Beecher's course toward me was meant to be kind and honorable, “From that day to this our relations have been cordial and iriendly. “JANUARY 10, 1871)? A casual glance at this document shows that Mr. Beecher Was not a8 successiul tn this retraction, which he evidently did not dictate, as in the case of Mrs. Tilton; and the retraction itself, in its cautious Wording, was so much more danagin; evidence than a direct charge of the woman that might be contradicted would be, that it was thought best that it should not see the light of day, and it bas not until now. The question was, Did he ravish this person? He admitted to me the connection, but insisted that he used no force, only dalliance.* That ac- cusation had been repeated by Bowen, and the best Mr. Beecher could get from her was that she had “told Bowen things injurious” to Beecher; that she “always speaks strongly” and ‘was near! beside herself and used unmeasured terms, whic! roprensn ted rather my teeing than my juag- ment. But what was desired to get dented, was the fact itseif, and that lact the criminal connection, which was neither matter of ‘feeling” nor *judg~ ment” in the sense in which the words are used in the retraction. But whether done by force or dalliance i @ uestion of both feeling and judgment, an so much is retracted; the relations between this woman and Beecher to have been not only “cordial and friendly,” but thereatterwards very intimate, 1 gave credit to this version of his intercourse, and particularly because Mr. Beecher, to coniirm his statement that be had not ravished her, brought to me several letters from her to him, which I still hold, showing the continuance of srieudly relations with her. Ido not give the lady's name and withhold the photo-lithograph of her letter, because 1 do not wish neediessly to Involve a reputation which has thus far escaped public mention by any of the parties to this con- troversy. If the facts stated here should identify the person concerned with him, and if those who are interested jn her feel aggrieved, let them avenge that grief, if upon any one, upon the pastor ot Plymouth cnurch and not upon me, as i have been i , it woald be if I ventured to state the tacts of Beecher’s guilt in this case. Alter stating tuat the reason he sustained Beecher alter he Knew all these things to be true that were whispered about him by others was that he looked to the disgrace imnocent children wouid be brought to, to the families that would be separated, and to the slight taat would be put upon Christianity by the revelations, he speaks of BEECHER’S WISH TO DIE. Having made an allusion to Beecher’s suicide tt may be well tor me to state here the full circum- stances of bis contession concerning his proposed design. He told me—and repeated to another in my presence—that he had within reach in his own study a poison, which he would take if the story of bis crime with Elizabeth should ever come to the public. He told me of a visit which he bad made to a photo-~ grapher’s gallery, where he learned that one of the employés had mistaken a giass of poison ior a glass ol water, and, having taken and drunken it had falien dead, with scarcely time to drop the giass. Beecher suid that was what he wanted for himself; and, under plea of making some photo- | graphic experiments, he procured some of this | Same poison irom the photographer, which he told me he intended to use ifthe revelation of his crime | should be made. “And then,’’ he said, “it would be simpiy reported that Beecher died of apoplexy; but God and you ard J will know what caused my death.” If those who blame me could have looked inte his Pacterrioken, face and listened to the tones of his voice in the great emergencies in which he said there was no reinge for him but in death, they would have telt impelied, as I was, to as generous, as open-hearted a service as I prac- tised toward him. Jt wouid have taken @ harder heart than mine, being witness to his sorrows, not to forget nis sins. “I have,” he writes, “a strong feelin: and it brings great peace with it, that Ing my last iy 8nd, preaching my last ser mon.” I did indeed write to him, “You can stand if the whole case were published to-morrow.” I did beileve that, if he had made, as he was advised to make, @ full and rank coniession of the whole truth, a3 he haa done to me, accompanied by such expressions of contrition and repentance as he had made to me, his church and the world would have forgiven him, and he would have stood. How Much more, then, must I believe it now, when he can stand before the public preaching the Gospel of Jess Christ with all the tacts made known, and lam dniven by blows ana assaults of nis peopie from that which should be the house of God, upon me, am spend- wherein his adulteries and hypocrisies have been | condoned by an admiring church! For all this, I would not biame the deceived and ‘worshipping Christians of that church, knowing how grovsly they have been misled by those who have undertaken to exculpate Beecher at all haz- ards, They will at some time know. And when they do, they will pardon the strength of my lan- guage when I denounced tn their presence treir | orator Who Was addressing them, by the name of “iar.” He stood before them vouching for the innocence of Beecher, and toid them that he was the only one, besides the lawyers, who knew all the facts. Poor deluded young man! When be reads the foliowing letter from Beecher, dated De- cember 2, 1873, he wil find that Beecher putposeiy | kept him from koowing all the tacts, and only tn- troduced tim to me that he might tell to me what was going on tn tye caurch. It is as follows, | marked “X3"— NIGHT AND MORNING. Lirrix FALLS, N. .y Dec. 2, 1873, My Dear Fraxx—1 send you two letters tor Bande! to choose troni—the one extended, the other short an crisp. I hope that light is not tar ahead; the night passes—the morning comes! I shall near nothing trom home of the progress of my | affairs till T return. 1 introduced you to young acute and ot z T have ‘never exchanged ‘a word with him have with you—and he represents ine only in church wi 0. n. 1 hope yon thought to see Woodruff about the mater Tspoke.off—iending money, &e, Would not Robinson, whi mond because he is a you need. Of ‘0 stands strong in the Society of Pilgrims be able to ‘strike down in some degree the | folly, and hold back that toliy of running headlong Alter such imulignants a8 Buck, Johnson, &c.? 1 only suggest. Give my love to the mother, and my earnest bi that she is rapidly recovering. Ever truly ours, Kae H.W. BEECHED And when he reads Beecher's letter of February 6, 1872:—“If you peoniconl and love me 1am algne, Ihave not another per- son in the world to’whom I can go; and again, | in his testimony, where he says:—‘‘For he was tue | Only man on the globe I could talk with on this subject; Iwas shut upto every buman being; [ could not go to my wile; 1 could not go to my children, and J contd not go tomy brothers and sisters; I could not go to my church; he was the only one person to Whom I could telk; and when [ got that rebuff irom him it seemed as though t would kill me, and the setter was the product o: that mood into which I was thrown’—wili “young Raymond” really think that he was ever the con- fidant of Beecher? He certainly pever was a con- fe Bbvet haFna titerefow wlih'kim anor ieesher ia troduced him tome. Which will Plymouth church Hélieve, their pastor’s statement that Raymond id and could Know nothing of the ‘acts in this | case, or believe young Raymond when he says he knows all? Nay, even more, Beecher’s committee rests nis exculpation upon my interview with tbe Kev. Mr. Halliday, in which, in language guarded, but in- tended to misiead that simple, confiding agent of Beecher, his assistant, I spoke to him what Beecher desired and instructed me to say when even that | simple-minded old man’s suspicions had been | arowsed by comerences with 3 and jor that spee by which I admit Halliday was misled, I received irom Beecher the following letter, heretoiore published, sent me on the Lord’s day by a Christian minister, giving pis thanks for my prevarication in his behalf to bis assistan Sunpay, A. M, My Deak Friexp~Halliday called last night. interview with him did not satisty, but disturbed. Bell, who was present. Your interview last night wi d gave contidence. This must looked after. Tt is vain to build if the foundation sin under every effort. I shall see you at half-past ten morrow, if you return by way of No, iton and other: It Tt tended very Veneticial, a} It bas been heid honorable for men who had had | amours with a reputabie woman to deny even an- | der oath those aimours, to protect trom exposure the Jair fame and name which had been confided to their keeping. Not by any means intending to set up auy such standard of morality, but which in sustained in Beecher by rtion of the press which says he ought to atat dy the woman, un- der how much more temptation was [acting when in my charge had been placed, wit on my part, the honor of women o! {air name and high Station, the welfare of a church, the uphoid- ing of the famo and reputation of the foremost preacher of the world. the well-being of Uhrisian- » too, cease to trust me | wentih Ww with him after Beecher tn. | hout any gulit | ity ttself and the morals of the communtty. and more, involved in my fatiure to noid the s; concealed from every mortal eve! The sil “volcano” on which he says he was walking mi Rave been at any time caused to burat forth by my imprudent answers to scandal-loving, curious) prying men and women, or ministers of the Gow pel who were engaged in endeavoring to find out | @nd my silence when their questions were pus t me, staung supposed facts, would have been once deemed assent, ’ But ir tei BOTH FRIEND AND FoR, ere was aby wrong in my conceab ment of these facts from the world, lee Plymouts church labor with Mr. Bowen, one of its lead! members, who concealed them from the church {i consideration of the publication of his pastor’¢ letters and sermons in the Independent. “Let Mn Clafim, Beecher's chosen committeeman, wh presumably, had been told the ‘very ir facts,” be dealt with; and, indeed, let htm who without sin among th cata annee ng them all im that regard f Ido not review or animadvert upon the report of the committee, because every one hae expenstes iy | knew the facts except the parties implicated, ant have clearly shown that Iwas 2 partisan tribun organized to acquit—as Beecher confessed to m¢ on the 5th of July last it was, By thinking men n¢ weight will be given to its unsupported opinions, however specioualy argued in @ report which w butaretash of the statements of the accused criminals, both written in whole or tn part by bud my it hati Was quite aware that 1 was to be struck d in case q did not side with Beecher, if “1 fia not choose between Tilton’s statement and mine,” as he states he asked me & do. My friends put be» fore me vhe consequences of my standing orm what I knew to be the truth and the rigat; that must iicur the enmity, as I have felt the aasaui: of Plymouth chureb; that great financial iptoruead were involved in the standing o! that church, whereby much gain comes, in money if trom nothing else, to some savored members thereof, and | feel that I have a right to say t nat if I coula have swerved from my sense 0! duty to myself and to justice every outside inducement urged me ta stand by ‘Beecher’s statement.” Of course I dis. cerned that any statement | should make must oe ruinous to Mr. Beecher, and if | made it | must be taken as cs oe the fall cause of my nearly ruined nd, Theodore Tilton. And I ap- peal to the Jair judgment of all men—what motf could] bave in making myself his ally and the enemy of Mr. Beecher, except impelled by tn- tegrity of purpose and all that makes up the word eG Ned to stand by the right as I knew the right to be I have, however, the consolation of knowing that Lonly suder as everybody else suffers who has dared to say @ word for the truth against Beecher. Each and all in turn have been assailed by every form of obloquy and detraction as the new phases ofthe ease required for the exe culpation of the accused, First, it was heard through the press thatthe letters which Tit put in his sworn statement were torgeries, wh it Was supposed that the originals would not be forthcoming. ‘Then, Tilton was insane, and @ labored analysis of all the maladies of his iamily was paraded before the public to show that he wat insane; but the “method tno bis madness” ex. ploded thattheory. And then, the last refuge wi that all that he had done wastor the purpose ol blackinailing Beecher, and as all that was done was through my band, of course / must be de- stroyed, or the new theory of a conspiracy of foul years’ duration would come to nought. Everybody who should come forward to say a single word upon the subiect unfavorable to the accused laa received the same treatment. Mr. Curpen- ter is placarded to the world through Beecher's statement as “a kind of genial, good- natured fool,” and Mr. Beecher’s aister, the am. able, intelligent, enthusiastic and clear-neaded Mrs. Hooker, now, happily for her peace, abroad, ‘who had become the recipient of the knowledge of the facts of Beecher’s guut, was placarded as in- sane; and when she had advised him to make @ clear and fu!l confession, in the interests of trath and justice, to rescue a woman from jail who Mrs. Hooker believed was incarcerated jor having toid simply the truth, and threatened to disclose the truth from his pulpit if Beeeher would not, oy Beecher’s authority, and under his advice, con- veyed through me with bis approbation, ‘iilton went to poor Mra, Hooker and broached the slander that she, too, was charged with being guilty of adultery trom the same sourec as his wif@ was, and when Mr. Beecher was told that his sister sunk down in tears and gave up uader such @ gross accusation, he chuckied at the success of nis “device. Whatever “devices” were used to protect Henry Ward Beecher to save him. self, it was not one of mine to defile the far lame of his sister. And, until tt was ascertained what part she would take in tne controversy, his wife, Mrs. Beecher herself, was struck at in hig | benalf by his elder brother, Rev. William Beecher, | in an interview published in a Western paper, | from which | extract the following, the correct- ness of which bas not been, so jaras I kuow, denied:— MRE. BEECHER’S “HAPPY HOMF.’? | “Tbeleve he (Mr. Beecher) looks upon the mar: riage relation as sacredly a8 any one. In fact, L know he has Suffered great troubie on account of his wife, and has endeavored to be faithiul to her, notwithstanding the sore trials sve has cost hin. it has separated him from bis Kindred, from bis brothers and sisters, who were prevented irom coming to the house on her account. Yet be bore with her, and in every way endeavored to arranga Matters 80 that they might visit him. Svili 1 think she joved him and was faithful to him,”” Notwithstanding this Mr. Beecher appeals in his | Statement to “his happy home” as one of the reasons why he could not have been unfaithiul to his marriage vow. Again, itis paraded in the newspapers that Ars. Beecher produced beiore the committee all Mra. Tilton’s letters, baving Opened them belore Beecher had had an opportunity to read them, ag she did all of his other letters, and this report ains credence irom the fact that he wrote to Buzabeth after be deciares that he had stopped all Intimacy, as he had promised to do, “that ane was now permitted to write to him because he was | living alone with nots sister,” and in another letter takes care to inform her of the fact that hts wife had satled for Havana and Florida, And Mrs. Til- ton, too, alter having said and unsaid everythin, in order to save Beecher—after having fulsifie and stultified herself in every possible way for hig salvation, and so become useless hereaiter a3 a witness or “refreshment,” only remains in hig mind “under @ divided consciousness” that ‘sha was asaint and chief of sinners.” And she id thrown aside tike @ worttless weed tn this cruel paragraph of the report of his committee ;— “It 13 not for the committee to defend the course of Mrs, Tilton. Her conduct tpon haman respon. sibility 18 indefensibie.”’ All these attacks were before me, andI knew I | should not escape, and I have fot, altnoagh all the blessings of heaven were called down upon me by Beecher inevery note he ever wrote me, all of which breathed the fullest confluence in me up ta the 4th of August, nine days before he made his statement, wherein he charges mé with @ most contemptible crime becaase I refused to give up the papers to him which I knew were my only pro- tection against him; sor | had learned to know the seifisiness and cruelty of the man who sacrifices all tor himsets, AN APPEAL TO PUBLIC OPINION. And yet, in view of our relations for the past four years, I cam scarcely realize the fact toat he turned upon me, even when at bis request | w: keeping silent for bis sake; and now, with all that he has put upon me, it is with difMiculty that £ suminon sufficient of resolation, in anguish of spirit, to enable me to put forth the starement that 1 am now compelled todo, For 1 here aver that I never have made public what was the na- ture of Beecher’s offence, or what was the evi- dence in my possession to prove it, until 1 didse in my former statement prepared for the commtt- tee, although statements were made in the news. Papers to that effect which may have inflamed the mind of Beecher against me. 1 had pledged my honor to silence except | was attacked, and I have redeemed taat pledge at whatever violence to my feelings and sense 0! justice, Nor have I ever made public the facta in this Sequent statement until they now appear, and yet there has been a newspaper report publishin what purports to be @ portion of them, but woiol was gathered from others and not fromme. Om the contrary, I have taken every and all meaug that I could to conceal and Keep them out of sight, driven eveo to answer many men who asked mq in regard to them im sach ®& way as to mislead them without stating to them any absolute faise. hood, although I have no doubt some of them, re Mmembering the impression they got from mé thongut that | have stated to them What bassin been contradicted by my published statement What has actually been known te me and tne rea sons of whica I have heretofore explained. All the present necessary facts to form @ correct judgment of Henry Ward BeecheT and my ows course and character are now before the Ler | and { submit to the candor and ju ent of good men and women whether, under all the emergencies in which I haye been placed, I have hot endeavored to do that which seemed to me to be right and proper, jait™ fully and loyally, to those whose inter: esta I had in charge, ana especially to Beeches | himself, pleading guilty toeverything of want of judgment and unwisdom in trying to master the almost insurmountable difficulties which sure rounded me, which can rightly be tmpuied to me. | _ Jf the true inieresis of the Ohristian Church are chew under the light of existing and known facts, by sustaining Beecher, a6 the joremost man in it, it ig @matterof concern to Christian peo Be, in which my judgment will not be consulted, | But let them remember as they do ao the teact+ | ings of the Master from the Mount:— Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery. Dut say unw you, Whosever, looketh on # woman Just after ber, hath committed adultery with her alread; in his heart. Mand it thy right eye offend thee plack it out and 4 it from thee, for it 13 profitable for thee that one of th: Members shouid perish, and not that thy whole bod: sbould be cast into bell’ FRANCIS D, MOULTON, | THE ATTEMPTED COMPROMISE, meen The Alleged Visit to Boston Denied News of the Pablication of Moulton’, Statement Received — Satisfaction of Mr. Beecher’s Friends. ‘TWIN MOUNTAIN Hovsg, Sept. 11, 1874, A Newspaper received here contained & parm graph stating that Mr. Beecher had been to Bom ton to see Moulton. This caused great amusemon§ as. of conras. Mr. Beecher hag never bean anaam