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(DH H - g Uz§‘E.§g-,§‘°‘§‘ H ='*5‘a’*35'*3'f-*- t o..9;:0q’»--b Ed E awasesfi g “s=g"§.E'b“gV:1 ssesssssr sspffiés figmalagsgsg’ gsasggs s=*8i-I 9°-Etch o%’°"' ‘is’ l:9""° 9°°'7o 3?: :1 EVE" £§%§§§e§oH adfimase Uo‘<‘o”'°:§§§E c'E's9E§'d3 '1 it 0 mpgg; Hgp ass a 9-H soo»=e~ 913%.. an ggsegs-8 ages a easfiséé .>1r9L ° $8.9‘ Mud’: ‘"9353’ me e- 9» as 'V§$‘ §E§rs§5'E3 on -°3.S.""’c~: “” I-rtfio 2.-V-in-‘ ,O E,°‘.°8’:Eg‘. esced in the appointment of a committee of investigation, at - counsel to advise me in this matter. As you know, he was I Tracy and Tilton to meet at my house that - evening on this Sept. ism .....:5L..:..- - - «v» --- -- crime against my family to plead that I have.” I said to Tracy that I thought he was acting more foolishly than Til- ton in assuming, from such a remark as that, 'I‘ilton’s in- sanity. I said: “ You will get yourself and the people you represent into trouble, by just such statements, which only tend to incense; they do not tend to peace.” Tracy said that he did not believe that Tilton ever intended peace. I replied: “There you make a mistake again, for I_ never yet have failed in any emergency, so far as I know, to get Tilton to acquiesce in what was fair to save all parties, except in the matter of the Bacon letter, and if you now go upon the as- sumption that he is a r.easonable being, and as magnanimous as any of the other parties involved, you can have peace, and if you do not the responsibiltty must be upon yourselves.” He spoke in this conversaiion of Tilton’s great ability, and remarked that Tilton impressed him more and more strongly as a man actuated by high purposes. “ But,” aid he, “he lacks balance.” We parted, agreeing to confer further upon this topic. On Sunday afternoon, July 5, after church services, I met Mr. Beecher walking with his wife in the street. He left her at Mr. Howard’s and went with me to my house. I expected. if he said anything, that he would have taken the opportunity of Sunday to make the statement to his people of his course, which I had prepared with reference to the Bacon letter, but had learned that hé had not so done. After we reached my house I said to him : “ Well, Mr. Beecher, you did not speak from your pulpit the words we talked over. I wish you had, because the great sympathy manifested for you in this com- said he, “ you know we agreed upon silence, and you are re- sponsible if I have made any mistake in not speaking.” “ Very well,” said I. " I adhere still to the policy of silence- as best; but if you say anything through the pressure that is brought to bear upon you, in my judgment what I wrote out is best, as Tilton has committed himself to a settlement if that is said; and if it is said, and he demands anything further, so far as I am concerned I shall destroy every paper and everything I have bearing upon the subject; and if he wants to open the fight he will have to open it without any aid or confirmation from me.” Mrs. Moulton was present, and Mr. Beecher asked her opinion of what I had written for him to say, and she told him that it was the only hope she had ever seen for a settlement, aside from a frank and manly confession on his part of his sin, and asking man’s forgiveness for it as he expected God’s. He said to her that he would consider it, but that I was responsible for his having kept silence. We "then went together toward Mr. Howard’s house, and while going there we met Mr. Robinson, when the conversa- tion took place that I have before related. Perhaps I should have added that the reason why he made the remark he did to Mr. Robinson was because I had almost at the beginning of the affair told Mr. Robinson of all the facts concerning Beecher as I knew them and have now made them public, and had received from him valuable advice as to my conduct in regard to them, all of which I had communicated before that time to Mr. Beecher. As we walked on together, in the course of further conver- sation, Beecher for the first time told me that he had acqui- which I expressed considerable surprise, and told him I thought it was a mistake, but we would try to get along even with that. He said he had had the naming of the committee himself, and gave me the names of most of them. I said: “1 hope Shearman will not have anything to do with this committee.” He replied : “ We have purposely left him out because we do not want any element in it that will cause trouble.” I said: “If this matter is to go before a committee of investigation I think I shall employ General Butler as my my counsel in another case, and I think well of his efforts in my behalf.” Beecher‘ appeared pleased at my suggestion. I may as well re-mark here, once for all, that I did not send for General Butler as counsel until after Tilton’s sworn state- ment was prepared, and he arrived on the day it was delivered to the committee by Tilton,_ as will appear hereafter. As General Butler*s name has been connected more or less with the progress of this case, I may as well state that from the time he came into the case he has labored unceasingly to pre- vent any disclosure or publication of the fact. He has done everything he possibly could. both in advising me and acting with the other parties to the controversy, to avert the conse- quences of the exposure which ha been made. In every phase that the affair has taken his counsel to me has always been that I should try and have the difficulty reconciled, and that I should hold myself entirely impartial between the parties, acting as a friend to each, which advice I have en- deavored to follow, and have only been driven from that position by circumstances which are too well known. I will further say that I never sent for him or counselled with him, except at the solicitation of the counsel for Mr. Beecher, un- til after Mr. Beecher’s letter of August 4. when he demanded of me his papers and letters. It seemed to me necessary to have able counsel, as many of the documents and papers were of a nature to implicate Others. and it became important to know how far I might be liable for the use of their contents. . Mrs. Tilton made her first statement before the committee on the evening of July 8, without the knowledge of her hus- band, as both he and she say, and because of which she says: “He asked who the gentlemen were; aid no more, rose, dressed himself,_and bade her good-bye forever.” The next day, July 9, I saw General Tracy, and we consulted-as to how Tilton should act, and as to what he ought to say with refer- ence to the denial of his wife, before the committee, of adultery on Beecher’s part. 1 made an appointment with subject. Mr. Tracy told me that Mrs. Tilton had made a very fine impression upon the committee. I told him that he must convey, with great impressiveness, to Tilton, this fact, and of the kindness with which she had spoken of her in his characterization of his conduct, because he had allowed Mrs. Ti1ton’s statement to be taken by the committee with- out his (Ti1ton’s) knowledge, and called to his mind some- thing that had happened in November, 1872, in res ard to revelations that Tilton had made to him in confidence as to the Woodhull story, when Mr. Woodruff and myself were present. Tilton prefacing them with the statement: “You are to receive certain confidences; but if you do, will you feel yourself at liberty to act as the counsel of Beecher if we" ever come into collision?” to which you replied, "' Certainly not.” I said: “ Mr. Tracy, Tilton thinks now your being counsel for Beecher is a violation of that promise, and will undoubtedly use severe language in regard to it. But since the interests you have at heart and we are now in charge of are so grave, you had better endeavor to conciliate him and not return his denunciations if he indulges in them. Appeal as strongly as you can to the great love I know he still re- tains for his wife, and try to rouse the pride which he has in her and his family.” Mr. Tracy came to the interview, as I had arranged," and met as I had expected the denunciations of Mr. Tilton, but received them with great forbearance,_ and then, with strength and pathos of language, with tears flowing down his cheeks, he made so eloquent and manly an appeal to Tilton, picturing with great force his wife’s tenderness and gentle- ness and apparent truthfulness before the committee, and her high eulogy of her husband, that Tilton was greatly moved and pacified therewith, and seemed desirous for recon- ciliation and renewed peace for his wife’s sake.’ Tracy said to him also that as the committee, to his knowledge, felt that there was an offense committed by Beecher against him, they would undoubtedly make any report-that he (Tilton) could suggest upon the basis of almost any offense this side of adultery—indeed, that he could quite guarantee they would. ’ In consequence of the assurances in this conversation, Tilton, who, as he informed us, had left his home never in- tending to go back to it, did go back, as he afterward told me, and there had a reconciliation with his wife, which is thus described in the statement of Mrs. Tilton to the com- mittee: I The midnight following I was awakened by my husband standing by my bed. In a very tender, kind voice he said hewished to see me. I arose instantly, followed’ him into his room, and sitting on the bedside he drew me into his lap, said he was proud of me, loved me; that nothing ever gave him such real peace and satisfaction as to hear me well spoken of; that, meeting a member of the committee, he had learned that he had been mistaken as to my motive in seeing the com- mittee, and had hastened to assure me that he had been thoroughly wretched since his rash treatment of me the night before, etc. When Tilton left my house that night he said that he would go home, and, with Elizabeth, agree upon a report to be made to the committee that would be satisfactory to them. This fact is confirmed by Mrs. Tilton in her state- ment, as follows: Theodore wrote a statement to present to the committee when they should call upon him, to all of which I heartily acceded. Mrs. Tilton evidently did not understand that the report was one to be made by the committee. but to the committee by Tilton. He returned the next day with such a report, which he had copied out as follows, and which is marked B: The undersigned, constituting the committee of Plymouth Church, to whom were referred certain recent publications of Dr. Leonard Bacon and Theodore Tilton, hereby present their unanimous report: The committee sought and obtained a personal interview with each of the three following-named persons, to wit: Mr. Tilton. Mrs. Tilton, and the pastor, all of whom responded to the searching questions of the committee with freedom and candor. Documents, letters, and papers pertaining to the case were carefully considered. A multiplicity of de- tails, needing to be duly weighed, occasioned a somewhat protracted investigation. The committee hope that the apparent tardiness of their report will be compensated to the parties by rectifying an erroneous public sentiment, under which they have all suffered misrepresentation. I. The committee’s flrst interview was with Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, whose testimony was given with a modesty and touching sincerity that deeply moved those who listened to it. Her straightforward narrative was an unconscious vindication of her innocence and purity of charac- ter, and confirmed by evidences in the documents. She repelled with warm feeling the idea that her husband was the author of culumnious statements against her, or had ever treated her with other than chival- rous consideration and protection. She paid a high tribute to his char- acter and also to the fortitude with which he had borne prolonged injustice. II. The committee further find that Mr. Tilton, in his relations with the pastor, had a just cause of offense, ‘and had received avoluntary apology. Mr. Tilton declined to characterize the offense for the follow- ing reasons: First, because the necessary evidence which should accom- pany any statement would include the names of persons who had hap- pily escaped thus far the tongue of public gossip; next, that the apology was designed to cover a complicated transaction, its details diflicult of exact or just statement; and last, that no possible good could arise from satisfying the public curiosity on this point. Mr. Tilton, after conclud- ing his testimony, respectfully called the attention of the committee to the fact that the clerk of the church had spoken calumniously of Mrs. Tilton during the late council, and had since unqualifiedly contradicted and retracted his statements as untrue and unjust, and he (Mr. 'I‘,.) re- quested the committee to ratify and confirm that apology, making hon- orable record of the same in their report, which is hereby cheerfully done. ~ ' -- III. The committee further find that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s evidence corroborated the statements of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton. He also said the church action, of which Mr. Tilton had complained, had not been inspired by the pastor, but had been taken independently by the church; that the popular impression that Mr. Tiltonlhad been in the habit of speaking against him was unjust to Mr. T., and was owing mainly to the unwelcome introduction into the church of charges against Mr. T. by a mere handful of persons, who, in so doing, had re- ceived no countenance from the great mass of the congregation or from the pastor. He said that the apology had been invested by the public press with an undue mystery; that after-‘having been led by his own precipitancy and folly into wrong he saw no singularity of behavior in a Christian man (particularly a clergyman) acknowledging his offense He had always preached this doctrine to others, and would not shrink from applying it to himself. ' The committee, after hearing the three witnesses already referred to felt unanimously that any regrets previously entertained concerningthe ‘publication of Mr. Tilton’: letter to Dr. Bacon should give way to grate ful acknowledgments of the providential opportunity which this publi- husband. I warned. Tracy that Tilton. might be quite severe, cation has unexpectedly afforded to drawforth the testimony which the Omuiittee have thus reported in brief, but in sufiigciept fullness, as they ;s%eesssi.i. s e%2:.lsiis%s~s;sss:.sg s believe, to explain and" put at rest forever if vexatious scandal. The committee are likewise of opinion, based on the testimony submitted to them, that no unprejudiced court of inquiry could have reviewed this case as thus presented in person by its principal figures without being strikingly impressed with the moral integrity and elevation of character of the parties; and accordingly the committee cannot forbear to state that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Mr. Theodore Tilton and Mrs. Til- ton (and in an especial manner the latter) must and should receive the increased sympathy and respect of Plymouth Church and congregation. (Signed) ' Meantime, Beecher had been engaged in preparing his own statement for the committee, and had the night before come down from Peekskill for that purpose, and also to attend the Friday evening prayer-meeting the next day, and I suppose had not learned what’ had been done. Very early Friday morning I received the following note, marked “ C ”.: ' BEECHER TO MOULTON. FRIDAY MORNING, July 10, 1874. My Dear F7"cm7c—-Can you be seen this morning? and, if so, when and where? Any time after ten would suit me best, but any other hourl will make do. I came into town last night. Yours ever, ' H. W. BEECHER. I replied to him in substance——for I have not a copy, hav- ing been up very late the night before; indeed, Ibelievel was still in bed when I received it-—that I was quite tired, and would have to be busy, expecting to meet Tracy and Til- ton again that day before Tilton should go before the com- mittee in the evening. In response to my reply Ireceived from Beecher the following reply, marked “D,” : ‘ BEECHER TO MOULTON. My Dear Frcm7c—l\Iy papers are all here, and it would be far more con- venient to have you here if you are not too tired. Yours, H.-W. Bnnonnn. In reply to this I informed Mr. Beecher that I was to meet Tilton at my house, that I would be in consultation with him, and advised him to come there and meet him also, as I hoped matters were in process of adjustment, and received from’ him on the same day the following note, marked “ E " : BEECHER T0 MOULTON. My Dear .F7'd-?’Lk—-I do not know as it is necessary to trouble you I only wanted to read you the heads and outline of a statement. When I do speak I intend to be believed. Of course, I shall not publish until I have seen you. But lime is short. The crisis is at hand. I will not go forward long as heretofore. ‘When I say, will not, I mean can not. Events are masters, just now. There is no earthly reason for conference with Mr. T. It makes noth- ing better; everything worse. The matter is 111 a nut shell. No light is needed, only choice. Yours gratefully. H. W. Bnncnnn. July 10, ”74. . I frankly confess that I felt hurt at this note, because I be-, lieved that I had been-acting for the best in his behalf, and that matters were in process of adjustment. It seemed to me to be another cry of despair on his part, whereas I believed instead that he should have conferred with Tilton as his counsel had done. During the day of the 10th Tilton’s report drafted for the committee above quoted was submitted to Mr. Tracy, who said that with a few alterations that were not material, he thought he could have it adopted by the committee. ponse to the invitation of the committee, and in pursuance of the policy that had been marked out in our conferences with General Tracy, Tilton appeared before the committee and made a brief statement. Neither Tilton nor myself knew at that time what were the terms of the commission of the committee, or what were to be the extent and purpose of their inquiry, but both supposed that its purpose was to ten- deavor to settle the trouble between Beecher and Tilton, and not for the purpose of a full investigation of all the facts. This idea had got from Mr. Beecher in the conversa- tion which I have before related; and I had therefore sup- posed, as I stated to him, that I thought we could get along with the commiti ee. The first statement of Tilton before the committee not having been made public, I cannot know its terms, but he re- ported to me the substance of it as I find it made by him in his preface to his sworn statement of July 20 to the game committee; and as he was addressing the same individuals as to the facts which had taken place before them, I assume it; to be a true statement. It is as follows; committeelbegged and implored you not to inquire into the facts of this case, but rather to seek to bury them beyond all possible revela- tion. On the morning of the next day, the 11th, a new and double complication arose. It consisted first of the sudden and unexpected announcement by Mrs. Tilton to her bus- and family, and in , a. few moments afterward she carried this intention into effect by going to make her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Ovington; next, by the simultaneous publica- tion, in that morning’s newspapers, of the letter of appoint- ment of the committee by Beecher, dated the 27th of J une previous, but which letter had been kept back and not sent to the church until Tuesday,‘ July 7. That letter called to have “ some proper investigation made of the rumors, insinu- ations, or charges made ‘respecting my conduct as compro_ mised by the late publication made by Mr. !.l‘ilton. * * %'= «k On the same day Tilton came to see me, and, announcing to me his wife’s desertion and calling my attention to the above publication, was excited by these simultaneous events, which seemed to him to be part of a pre-arranged plan of ac- tion, and also excited him to great indignation. He said that-, Beecher was again playing him a trick, as he had done before when he attempted to settle the matter, by now appointing a committee to make examination of the facts, then getting his wife surreptitiously to go before the committee and ex- Ollerate him fully from the charges of adultery, then tempt- ing her openly to desert her husband, so as to show that he (Tilton) had always been in the wrong, and was simply the creature of his magnanimity; and that now Beecher should have a full statement of all the facts and documents if it de- stroyed him, his wife, or his,_family; that justice should be done at length and the truth be known; that if Plymouth On the evening of the same day, the 10th of July, in res- ‘ I call you to witness that on my flrst brief examination before your 7 band at six o’clock A. M. that = she meant to desert her home - Church chose to accept an adulterer for its pastor they should marked “ Hz” 3 B I . fwccsscis s etxstisvsi wssxts. ‘Sept. 26, 1874. have the opportunity to do it; and that he was going home to prepare his full_ statement, and wanted me to give him the documents and evidence with which to do it. Upon my re- fusing to do so, he said that I was a traitor to him, becausel had gone into this controversy in the beginning as his friend. I tried to pacify him; said everything I could to quiet him, assuring him that although we had been mistaken as to the purpose of the committee, yet, as Beecher had named them all, he had done so in his own interest, and would be surely able to control them. He said that Beecher, by the terms of his letter of appointment, had challenged him before the world, and he accepted the challenge. I told him that I saw nothing in the letter which prevented him from standing upon the terms of the Bacon letter that an offense only had been committed. But he said that this was simply folly on my part——indeed, called me a fool for so believing, and said: “ If you choose to desert me in this emergency of my life, I will stand by myself and ‘fight it alone.” I appealed again to him for his children’s sake, saying; “ I cannot be in sympathy with any course of yours that will simply blast them and ruin your household and yourself.” But he was obdurate and left me, reiterating his determination to make a full statement of the facts. Indeed, I had never seen a man so much’ changed as he had been in a few hours. In reference to this change in Tilton, I quote the following from Mrs. Tilton’s statement: ‘ I rose quietly, and, having dressed, roused him only to say, “ Theo- dore, I will never take another step by your side. The end has, indeed, comel” He followed me to Mr. Ovington’s to breakfast, saying I was unduly excited, and that he had been misrepresented, perhaps, but leav- ing me determined as before. How to account for the change which twenty-four hours had been capable of working in his mind than many years past, I leave'for the eternities with their mysteries to reveal. The causes of the change had, indeed, been revealed to me in a much shorter time. I did not call upon Mr. Beecher upon this matter because I believed he was in sufficient trouble already, and I was de- voting all my energies to keeping Tilton within the bounds of ' reason as to his own ‘course. On the same day——the 11th——I received. an invitation. from the committee to appear before them on the 13th, which is as follows, marked “ F” : SAGE TO MOULTON. ' BROOKLYN, July 11, 1874. FRANCIS D. MOULTON, Esq; Dear Sir: The Examining Committee of Plymouth Church, at the re_ quest of Mr. Beecher, have appointed the following gentlemen, viz. : From the church—Henry W. Sage, Augustus Storrs, Henry M. Cleve- land. From the Society—Horace B. Claflin, John Winslow, S. V. White —a committee to investigate, in the interest of truth and justice, certain charges made by Theodore Tilton in his recent ‘letter to Rev. Leonard Bacon, which compromise the character of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The committee are informed that you have some knowledge of matters involved in the case, and instruct me respectfully to invite you to appear before them on Monday evening next, July 13, at 8 o’clock, at the resi- dence of Augustus Storrs, Esq., 34 Monroe place, and furnish them with such facts as are wlthin your own knowledge in the matters under inves- tigation. Very truly yours, H. W. SAGE, Chairman. It will be observed that the committee only desired that 1 should “furnish them such facts.-as were within my own knowledge in the matter under investigation.” The curious phraseology of this requirement would be quite patent to any one as the committee could hardly suppose that I had been called in to be a personal witness of any intimacies, guilty or innocent, between Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, and my statement, if so confined, would have been necessarily very short; and I might well suppose that the invitation was so worded in order that I might niakecno disclosure. Onmy return to my house on Monday afternoon, at ten minutes to six o’clock, I received the following note from Mr. Beecher, marked “ G :” ‘ BEECHER TO MOULTON. -. MONDAY, 5 P. M. My Dear Moulton—~Will it be convenient for you to call around here any time this evening after half—pa=t six? I shall be in and can be secure from interruption. I need to see you. Truly yours and ever, 11- W. BEECHEIL . To which I immediately replied. in a note as follows, MOULTON TO BEECHER. IVIONDAY, 5:50 P. M. My Dem" Si7'——I shall be at home until 7:15 P. 191.; I am almost tired or would go to you. There will be no interruption here. Tmjy you;-g, FRANCIS D. MOULTON. Your last note grieved me. I have an invitation to appear before your committee this evening. In reply to which I received the note heretofore published in my former statement, marked “ JJJ,” which is as follows: _ JULY 13, 1874. My Dear Frcmk—I will be with you at seven or a little before. I am ashamed to put a straw more upon you, and have but a single consola- tion—that the matter cannot distress you long, as it must soon end: that is, there will be no more anxiety about the future, whatever regrets there may be for the past. Truly yours, and ever, _ H- W-_ BEECHEE In pursuance of this note Mr. Beecher called on me and I read him the statement which I was to make to the com- 'mittee that same evening, and he approved of its tone and character, and declared it, as I therein stated, honorable to both parties so far as I was concerned. _ I had also read the same to Tilton, and he agreed in the same opinion as to the propriety of its tone. What I did say has a1I‘€adV been pub‘ lished, and contains, in the closing part, the advice to the committee which I had before given to Beecher. The interview was somewhat hurried, as I left him to go to the committee. Seeing in some newspaper a supposed interviewof a com- mitteeman, who claimed to speak for Beech er, in which was reported Bcechcr’s opinion of what I had said before the committee, I called upon him (Beecher) in reference to’ that and other business, and, after the usual kindly salutations, I told him that I thought his committeemen were acting very foolishly in attempting to throw slurs or im-putations upon me, and recited the facts, as I felt certain‘ that he did not authorize or countenance the report. He told’ me that he had not seen the paper at all and knew nothing about it. , we_ then commenced a discussion of the situation, and I spoke of the fact that Tilton was preparing a statement, at which he expressed regret and sorrow. I told him Tilton had deemed the publication of the correspondence as to the appointment of the committee a challenge to him to come forward and make a full statement of all the facts; and that he regarded the_act of his wife leaving his house a hostile one, prompted by the committee under the inspiration of Beecher. He said——-as had already been published by an in- tervieWer—that he had not authorized the publication of the letter of appointment at all; that he had intended to keep things quiet in accordance with my suggestion; but that now he thought he was compelled to make a statement, which statement he read to me, and which, while it took very much blame upon himself as-to his course toward Tilton and his ‘family, of course denied all guilt, but which thoroughly ex- onerated Tilton from any dishonorable act toward him. I expressed myself to Beecher, as I was, very much pleased with this statement, and said that if it was made to« the com- mittee before Tilton should make his, as Beecher informed me heintended to do, I had no doubt that I could prevail upon Tilton to agree to the statement proposed and to allow the whole matter to drop; and as evidence of his disposition to do so, I showed Beecher a report which Tilton had once consented might be made by the committee, provided Beecher’s statement exonerated‘ him (Tilton) from any dis- . honorable act. This report was in Tilton’s handwriting, a copy of which I showed Beecher, and is marked “ I :” PROPOSED REPORT OF COMMITTEE BY TILTON. The committee appointed to inquire into the offense and apology by a Mr. Beecher alluded to in Mr. Tilton’s letter to Dr. Bacon, respectfully report that upon examination they find that an Offense of grave character was committed by Mr. Beecher against Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Tilton, for which he made a suitable apology to both parties, receiving in return their forgiveness and good-will. The committee further report that this seems to them a most eminently Christian way for the settlement of differences and reflects honor on all the parties concerned. Said Beecher: “Will Tilton agree to that?” I answered: “He would have agreed to that, and I hope he will continue in that mind; for although he is writing his statement, yet I am dealing with him as I have dealt herefore, allowing him to exhaust himself in writing out the statement, and then using my influence to suppress the publication, and I have no doubt I can do it again.” The conversation then turned as to what reply Tilton ought to make to Beecher’s statement, which he had first read to me, if it were accepted by the committee. Thereupon Beecher stepped to his desk and wrote out the following for me to take to Tilton as the substance of what he should say in reply to Beecher’s statement, and I was to use my very best exertions and all the influence I could over Tilton to have him agree to it. That paper, every word of which was written by Mr. Beecher, so that there is no opportunity for mistaking its language, I have in my possession. It is marked “J”: BEEoHER’S PROPOSED STATEMENT FOR TILTON TO MAKE. Thelstatcment of Mr. Beecher being read, and if striking favorably, thena Word sent, substantially thus, to committee: I have been three years acting under conviction that I had been wronged, but was under the imputation of being the injurer. Ilearn from a friend that Mr. B. in his statement to you has reversed this and has done me justice. I am willing, should he consent, to appear before you with him, and dropping the further statements, which I felt it to be my duty to make for my own clearance, to settle this painful domestic difi‘lculty——which never ought to have been made public——fu1ally and amicably. I left Mr. Beecher with this proposed statement for Tilton in my hand, went to Tilton, tried to persuade him not to publish—not to make his statement to the committee on the evening of the 20th, at which time they had summoned him—— but found him exceedingly obdurate. He again asked me for documents and papers, which I refused, and I then left him. Several publications were made about this time as to what was to be the nature of Tilton’s statement, which caused great anxiety to Mr. Tracy and myself, who had consultations on this matter. Accordingly, on Sunday, the 19th, I received the following note from Mr. Tracy to meet me, evidently written in consultation with Beecher, because the note-paper bears precisely the same water-mark and is of the same texture as that of the notes which I had just previously received from Mr. Beecher from his house. It is here inserted, marked “I ”: TRACY To MOULTON. . BROOKLYN, July 19, 1874. F. D. MOULTON: - My Dem‘ Sir--Will you name a time and place today where I can see you‘? I think it important. ' Yours truly, B. F. TRACY. We met, and it was there determined between us, upon my suggestion, that I should make one more attempt to prevent Tilton making his statement to the committee. Previous to the reception of this note, at Tracy’s suggestion, I had sum- moned my counsel by telegraph to meet me in New York on Monday, the 20th. At the meeting on Sunday I found Tracy impressed with the idea that the documents relating to this affair had been destroyed, and that Tilton could not verify by the originals any statements from them. I answered him that that was not the case; that all the documents were in my hands with the single exception of Mrs. Tilton’s con- fession, which had been returned to Tilton and destroyed, as Beecher knew; and that I should feel myself obliged to produce them before any tribunal which would compel testimony. A On the morning of the 20th, by arrangement with Tracy, I went with my counsel to Tilton’s house, and there we both strenuously and urgently argued with him against the making of his statement to the committee that evening. We repre- sented to him that such a statement would‘ be ruin to him- self, his family, and to Beecher, and that it was not for the interest of either or of the community that so great a calamizy should happen as the exposure of all these facts. Tilton reiterated that he had been challenged by Beecher: that he had given his word to the committee that he would appear, and that if they were there he would do so, and that if he should refuse to appear_'Beecher’s advisers would insist that he had no facts and was afraid to appear. It was then suggested to him that if the committee did not meet that evening and he held himself in readiness to appear before them, that would be a suflicient answer to any such charge, and he was again persistently urged to take that course if a meeting of the committee could be prevented. Tilton ex- hibited great reluctance even to that, whereupon I felt ob- liged to tell him that I should consider this course in thus presenting the matter against Beecher a personal aifront to myself, and that in such case I should take all the means in my power to prevent his statement being effectual. To this appeal, put to him in the strongest language I could com- mand, Tilton finally consented, first, that if the committee were not present, so that he might be excused from appear- ing before them that evening, he would not publish his state- ment or let its contents be known until a future meeting of the committee, when I suggested to him the course that had been agreed upon by Beecher and the statement which had been prepared by Beecher might be submitted to the com- mittee and an amicable report made. After getting Tilton’s consent I drove around to Mr. Tracy’s house, took him into the carriage, and we drove to my house together, with my counsel. When we arrived there we narrated to Mr. Tracy what had taken place at Tilton’s, and he (Tracy), agreeing that this course was best, undertook to get an adjournment of the committee till \Ved- nesday evening, and suggested that it might be difficult to find them before the meeting, in which case it was under- ’ stood that he himself would not be present on that evening. ‘ I undertook to see Tilton and have him agree that if Tracy should not be present he would refuse to go on until a sub- sequent meeting, on the ground that he desired Tracy to be there to cross-examine him after he had made his statement. Mr. Tracy left my house for that purpose, and soon after returned and reported that he had called upon the chairman and left him a formal note, saying that he could not be present at the meeting of the committee and requesting the adjourn- ment; that he had been to see another member of the com- mittee, Mr. Cleveland, but failed to find him._ He then left, saying that even if the committee held a meeting he would not be present. . I then saw Tilton, stated the difficulties about getting an adjournment of the committee, and asked his acquiescence in the arrangement not to deliver his statement to the com- mittee if Tracy was not there. I made efforts to detain him at dinner until after eight o’clock, in order that the commit- tee might adjourn before he came. He left my house after eight o’clock, and, not soon returning, in about an hour after I sent a messenger to the committee to learn what was being done, who returned with the word, to the unspeakable grief and surprise of myself and my counsel—who had co-operated with me in the interest of Mr. Beecher, as I had requested ‘ him-——that Tilton was reading his statement to the commit- tee! Almost in despair, but with a last lingering hope of preventing the public exposure of this unspeakably perni- cicus scandal, and to make one last effort, I went down to the house of the committee, and waited the coming out of Tilton, and‘ conjured him not to give any copy of his state- ment for publication, hoping that the committee would see, as I did, that the necessities of the welfare of the whole com- munity required that it should not be made public; and I got him to consent so to do; and on the next day I was pres- ent when he refused the request of a personal friend to allow it to be published in the Herald. The manner of its publica- tion has been explained in the card of Mr. Maverick, a pub- lication made without Mr. Tilton’s consentor knowledge, and to the indescribable grief of both of us. After the publication I saw nothing but strife and wretch- edness, and nothing was left for me to do but to hold myself sternly aloof and allow the parties to fight it out without the aid of any documents or knowledge in my possession. On the 24th of July I received a note from Beecher by the hand of Tracy. written on the same cross-lined water-marked paper as the note of Mr. Beecher of the 19th of July, request- ing that I would send him the papers and documents in my possession, which note is inserted, marked “' L ” : BEEOHER To MOULTON. ‘ J ULY 24, 1874. 1l[_2/ Dear M7". M0uZt0n—I am making out a statement, and need the let- ters and papers in your hands. Will you send by Tracy all the originals of my papers. Let them be numbered and an inventory taken, and I will return them to you as soon as I can see and compare, get dates, make extracts or copies, as the case may be. Will you also send me Bowen’s heads of difficulty and all letters of my sister, if any are with y'ou. Iheard you were sick. Are you about again? God grant you to see peaceful times. Yours faithfully, F. D. MOULTON. » I said to Mr. Tracy that he had better take back that ‘note, as I could not, in honor and conscience, give up the docu- ments to either party to aid them in the preparation of state- ments against each other. Mr. Tracy suggested that per- haps I might send copies, to which I answered that that II. W. BEECHER. would seem to me the same breach of honorable obligation ’ as to send the originals, and that. it was impossible for me to have them copied, as I was about to leave town. On the day of my arrival home, August 4, I received an in- vitationfrem the committee to come before it the next day, asking me only to bring the documents referred to in Tilton’s statement.’ Having seen in the public prints that it was said that Beecher had received no answer from me to his request of July 24, I sent him the letter which has been published, of ' the date of August 4, explaining in form what I had said in substance through Mr. Tracy. ’ At ten minutes to eleven of that evening a letter was brought to me purporting to be signed by H. W. Beecher, but not in his hand-writing, asking for the production of all the documents before the committee, but which afterward, Mr. Sage, chairman of the committee, certified to be a correct- copy of the original, which is here inserted, marked “M ”: BEECHER T0 MOULTON. BROOKLYN, July 28, 1874. My; Dear F7'éend——Thc Committee of Investigation are Waiting mainly for you before closing their labors. I, too,_ earnestly wish that you would come and clear your mind and memory of everything that can Sept. 26, 1874. bear on my case. I pray you also to bring all letters and papers relating to it which will throw any light upon it, and bring to a result this pro- tracted case. - _ I trust that Mrs. M. has been reinvigorated, and that her need of your care will not be so great as to detain you. ' Truly yours, F. D. MOULTON. Correct copy of original. H. W. Brzncnnn. ll, W. SAGE, Chairman. The letter of Beecher’s of August 4, heretofore published, was the first indication that I had ever had from Henry Ward Beecher of unfriendliness, and I have the very best reason for knowing that the harsh portions of it were the suggestions of others and not of his own mind. After receiving these notes of Beecher’s, I came to the con- clusion that if Tilton also consented I would make the full statement before the committee, which I have since pub- lished. VVhen I began the preparation of my statement I did not design to include the letters of Mrs. Hooker and her brother, or Mr. Hooker, because, as they had only a collat- eral bearing upon the controversy, I was very unwilling to drag the name of Mrs. Hooker, for whom I entertain the highest respect,‘ into this matter. But having seen in the newspapers an attack in advance upon Mrs. Hooker’s sanity, inspired by the friends of Mr. Be acher, and Beecher, through the advice of his counsel, as I believe, having asserted that I retained letters of his brother and sister that were not given into my keeping as part of the documents in this controversy, I felt it at once due to the lady’s position and myself that "they should appear, and hence they were inserted. After Tracy had learned by my published letter that I would go before the committee and make afull statement, he desired most earnestly that I should do no such thing, bring- ing to bear every argument that occurred to him to dissuade me therefrom, and among others, that if I made the state- ment it would have to come out in the cross-examination -that I had received money from Beecher for the use of Til- ton, and that Beecher’s friends would thereupon make a charge of blackmail against me. I told him in the presence of my counsel——for whom I had again sent at his (Tracy’s) re- quest—that that would not come’ out on cross-examination, for the facts in regard to the money were already fully dis- closed in my statement, and that in that transaction there was nothing dishonorable on Beecher’s part, or my own that I should fear seeing the light of day. Tracy strongly assured me that I ought not, under any circumstances, to disclose the letters and documents in my possession; that I was bound, by every principle of honor and sacred obligation, to keep them private; and that it Vt ould be better, both for Tilton and Beecher, that I should do so. At his suggestion I called a meeting on Monday morning of some of Mr. Beecher’s friends, and some of my most valued friends who could be got together, to lay before them this proposition. At that meeting my counsel advised that there were two honorable courses before me. One was to seal my lips as to the personal statements, and produce no documents ‘but those of which extracts had been made and already been put before the committee, as it would be but just to both par- ties that, a part of a paper being seen, the whole should be known; or to make a full and complete statement of all the facts and documents, both parties having consented. These alternatives were discussed in the meeting of my friends, and by a majority of them it was determined that less harm would come to the community, to the families of the parties, and to the parties themselves if I took the former course. Yielding to the advice of those I so much respected, I con- cluded to go before the committee and make the simple state- ment of an intention not to take part in the controversy, and producing only the letters which had in part been before them in Tilton’s statement, reserving the right to protect my own honor and purity of action in this matter if attacked, as I have since done. * In order that the exact credit due to Mr. Beecher’s state ment may be seen and its value as testimony may be fully appreciated as compared with the facts and documents that I shall hereafter bring forward in my own vindication, I am compelled to notice some other patent misstatements in this special plea of counsel made in behalf of Mr. Beecher, if not by himself; and one of the first in order which claims atten- tion is the averment in his statement that “ the only copy of Mrs. Tllton’s confession was torn in pieces in his own pres- ence ” on the night of the 30th of December, 1870, an act about which he could hardly be mistaken. On the contrary, I have stated that that paper of “confession” was delivered into my hands the night of the meeting of Beecher and Til- ton at my house, when Beecher was first charged with his adulteries with Mrs. Tilton; and afterward, when I de- manded the retraction of him, he asked me: “ What will you do with it if I give it up?” I answered: “ I will keep it as I keep the confession. If you act honorably I will protect it with my life, as I would protect the other with my life.” I may bcallowed to say here that at this remark I made refer- ence to the pistol in my overcoat pocket, which I always car- ried in the night, as emphasizing the extremity of my defense of the papers. Yet Mr. Beecher says “he made no verbal threats, but opened his overcoat, and with some emphatic remark he showed a pistol.” Why misrepresent? Is it pos- sible that he gave his confidence at once to a man who ex- torted a paper from him with a pistol? Yet Beecher’-s com- mittee make a point of this prevarlcation in their argument» for the accused. ‘ After the tripartite covenant I handed back that same paper to Tilton at the request of his wife, in order that she might be satisfied, and herself destroy it. ' Now, which of these statements is true? Let contempo- raneous facts and acts answer. It will be remembered that that meeting was on Friday night, the 30th of December, 1870. Mrs. Tilton sent me a * note, heretofore published, dated the next Saturday morn- ing, in the following words: . , SATURDAY Llonnins. My .D€a7”F"7“5e7Zd Fram7c—I want you to do me the greatest possible favor. My letter which you have, and the one which I gave Mr. Beecher’ 4 his dictation last evening, ought both to be destroyed. Please bring W§OO7Diiijfifi a oi.ai+*ii.inis_ wanker: both to me and I will burn them. "how this note to Theodore and Mr. Beecher. They will see the propriety of this request. Yours truly. E. R. TILTON. The “letter ” referred to, of course, it will be seen, is the “ confession,” the only letter I then had of hers referring to this matter. ‘ _ And again, to show that I cannot be either mistaken or untrue, I- refer to Mrs. Ti1ton’snote to Beecher’ of April 21, following, heretofore published: , FRIDAY, April 21, 1871. M7’. Beau/’Le7"——As Mr. Moultcn has returned, will you use your influ- ence to have the papers in. his ‘possession destroyed? My heart bleeds night and day at the injustice of their existence. Would not Tilton have caused such a paper to be preserved after he had founded an accusation upon it? This falsehood was put in by Beecher’s lawyers, lest Tilton might produce a copy, as my statement had not then been published with its documentary evidence. _ Still another variation from the truth occurs in Beecher’s statement in regard to the destruction of the “ letter of con- trition.” In pis explanation of it he speaks as follows: I did not trouble myself about it till more [sic] than a year afterward when Tilton began to write up his case [of which hereafter] and was looking up documents. I wondered what was in this old memorandum, and desired to see it for greaier certainty, so one day I suddenly asked Moulton for that memorandum, and said, “You promised to return it to me.” He seemed confused for a moment and said, “Did I?” “ Certainly,” I answered. He replied that the paper had been destroyed. On my putting the question again, he said, “That paper was burned up long ago;” and during the next two years, in various conversations; of his own accord, he spoke of it as destroyed. I had never asked for nor authorized the destruction of this paper. , Upon this point I have said in my statement that I retained that “letter of contrition ” as one of the papers necessary to keep peace between the parties, and I now add that this was well known to Beecher, and I shall prove it at last from his own mouth. It will be remembered, so far from Beecher believing, within more than a year afterward, that it had been destroyed and burned up, that in April, 1872, Mr. Samuel Wilkeson, Beecher’s friend, who acted in the capacity of counsel in his behalf in drawing up the tripartite covenant, wrote me the following letter, heretofore published in my statement, dated the same day with that remarkable cove- nant: SncRE'rARY’s OFFICE, 120 BROADVVAY, ‘ New York, April 2, 1872. My Dear ILfouZz’072——Ncw for the closing act of justice and duty. Let Theodore pass into your hand the written apology which he holds for the improper advances, and do you pass it into the flames of the friendly fire in your room of reconciliat.ion.'- Then let Theodore talk to Oliver Johnson. I hear that he and Carpenter, the artist, have made this whole affair the subject of conversation in the clubs. Sincerely yours, ‘NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD OOMPANY, } SAMUEL WILKESON. Did Beecher or his friend want me to burn a “letter of con- trition ” in April, 1872, which Beecher avers I had told him and he believed had been burned long previous? But again, in Beecher’s letter of June 1, 1873, he says: “The agreement [tri- partite covenant] was made after my letter through you was written. He [Tilton] had had it a year.” Yes, from January 1, 1871, to April 2, 1872. Does Beecher really believe himself when he says that I told him that letter was long before burned up? He had not seen his letter of June 1 when this falsehood was told for him. In view of such false statements is the anxiety of his counsel to get his letters and papers out of my hands, so they could square their statements by them, at all wonderful ? As bearing upon the want of veracity in the matter that we have just considered -as to the destruction of the “letter of contrition,” I take leave to call attention to a like misstate- ment as to the original preparaton of this same " letter.” I have stated that it was written out according to the dicta- tion of Mr. Beecher. As an honorable man, looking only to a settlement between the parties, and at that moment cer- tainly without any other possible motive which could be im- puted to me, I could have only desired to reproduce exactly the words of Beecher, which I did do with exactness: and the most cursory examination of the phrases will show them to have been his words and not mine. I am not in the habit of using such language. Indeed, I hardly believe myself capable of composing it. I should not myself have used the phrase: “ Humble myself before him as I do before my God.” I was not used tothat kind of expression, nor the phrase: “ Toward the poor child lying there praying with folded hands.” I never called a woman of nearly forty years old a “poor child ” in my life. I did not know that she “ was lying” anywhere with folded hands. Beecher did, because he says in his statement to the committee that she “lay there white as marble,” like a statue of the old world, palm to palm, like one praying, thus reproducing four years after- ward, almost the identical phrase and picture which he con- veyed to me, and which I put in the “ letter of contrition.” I could not have used the phrase: “Ihave her forgiveness,” because I did not know whether he had it or not, except as he told me, and if I had acted upon my belief in the matter I should suppose that he had not. This letter, after being pre- pared by me, was read by him before he put his signature to it. The explanation put by Beecher in his statement—tl1at “this paper was a mere memorandum of points to be used by him [me] in setting forth mylhis] feelings. * * * But they were put into sentences by him [me] expressed as he [I] understood them, not as my [his] words, but as hints of my [his] figures and letters to be used by him in conversing with Tilton. * * * It is a mere string of hints, hastily made by an unpracticed writer, as helps to his memory in represent- ing to Mr. Tilton how I felt toward his family ”—all this ex- planation is a mere afterthought made up for the purpose_ of explanation merely. Beecher always treated this letter as his own in all the after conversations we had upon the subject. ' - ’ Mr. Samuel VVilkeson, Mr. Beecher’s friend and acting counsel, could have known nothing of that paper except from Beecher, as I had never told him or anybody else, save Til- ton, anything of its contents‘, and both Beecher and Wilke- son supposed it was delivered by me to Tiltop, as itwas in- tended to be. And in his letter heretofore published, speak- . \¥,_J L believing, outside the intrinsic evidence ..yr ~~ I ‘die written ing in the interest of Beecher, Wilkeson calls it “ t... ' Iii, apology which he holds for the improper advances.” _ Beecher’s letter of June 1, 1873, just before quoted, he speaks of it as “ my letter that he [Tilton] had over ayear,” not “ a memorandum for the purposes of conversation,” written by an unpracticed writer, which did not represent his thought. I have said this was an afterthought. The reason for so - from the documents, t being renewed be- is that when this controversy was abou cause of the publication and speeches of Dr. Leonard Bacon, which brought it on again, I was in consultation with Beecher upon what might be the effect of them, and predicting that if Bacon went on he would surely reopen the whole matter. In that conversation Beecher said to me—and I remember his words exactly, because it was quite a startling proposition —-" Can’t We hit upon some plan to break the force of my lot- ter to Tilton ? 0an’t we hit upon some form of note from you to me in which you shall sate that that letter was not, in fact, a letter at all, but simply a memorandum of points of my conversation made by you for the purpose of expressing more accurately my thought and feeling toward Tilton and his family.” I said, “I will think of that, but we must Wait, 1 think, until the necessity arises before determining what I ought to do in that regard.” He said, “ I will prepare such a. note, and you read it over carefully and see whether or not it is possible for you to sign it." I said, “ Very well, prepare the note and I will consider it; but as you put the proposition now, of course it wouldn’t be true.” He never showed me such a note if he prepared it. ‘ Another instance, to show how this lawyerfs statement of Beecher cannot be trusted, I find stated in these words: “I never resumed my intimacy with the family; but once or twice I went there soon after my reconciliation with Mr. Til- ton, and atyhis request.” Is this averment true? I confess that I believed it substan- tially true at the time I prepared my published statement. supposing that Beecher was acting according to his distinct instruction to Mrs. Tilton in his letter of February 7, 1871, and in accordance with his promise to me to have no further communication with Mrs. Tilton, except through myself. I extract as follows, the whole letter having been published: In him (Moulton) we have a common ground. You and I may meet in him. The past is ended. But is there no future—no wiser, higher, holler future? May not this friend stand as a priest in the new sanctuary of reconciliation and mediate and bless you, Theodore, and my most un- happy self ? Do not let my ‘earnestness fail of its end. You believe in my judgment. I have put myself wholly and gladly in Moulton’s hands, and there I must meet you. This is sent with Theod0re’s consent, but he has not read it. Will you return it to me by his hands. I am very earnest in this wish for all our sakes, as such a letter ought not to be subjected, to even a chance of miscarriage. Your unhappy friend, H. W. Bnncnnn. Could Beecher have written that sentence of me if, as his committee reports, forty days before I had extorted a paper from him with threats by a pistol, for which they say I ought to have been handed over to the police? And therefore I put forth in my statement what, when I prepared it, I believed to be true. I said: On the same day there was conyeycd to me from Beecher arequest to Tilton that Beecher might write to Mrs. Tilton, because all parties had then come to the conclusion that there should be no communication be- tween Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, or Beecher and Tilton, except with my knowledge and consent, and I had ex-acted a promise from Beecher that he would not communicate with Mrs. Tilton or allow her to communi- cate with him unless I saw the communication, which promise, I believe, was, on his part, faithfully kept, but, as I soon found, was not on the part of Mrs. Tilton. Permission was given Q Beecher to write to Mrs. Tilton, and the following is his letter—- ——which is the letter of February 7, 18".” 1, from which the above extract is made. I had no intimation that he received any correspondence from Mrs. Tilton that did not go through my hands, and certainly that he made none to her, or visited her. But since the preparation of that statement there have come into my hands certain letters from him to Mrs. Tilton that now show me he was unfaithful to his promise to me, and that he kept up his intercourse clandestinely with her,in violation of his solemn promises, his plighted faith to the wronged husband, to his own imminent and deadly peril, without the knowledge of_ his (Beecher’s) wife——for doing all which things there could have been but one incentive. It becomes necessary, therefore, on the question of veracity of his statement as to the renewal of his intimacy with Mrs. Tilton, that some of these letters should be compared. In her letter, dated January 13, 1871, written to a female friend:-which certainly will not be claimed to have been dic- tated by Tilton—Mrs. Tiltonsaysz ~ , ' My faith and hope are very bright, now that I am ofi the sick bed, ‘and dear Frank Moulton is a friend indeed. (He is managing the case he ith Mr. Bowen). We have weathered the storm, and I believe without harm to our best * * * * These slnnders have been sown broadcast. I am quoted everywhere as the author of them. Coming in this way and form to Mr. Bowen, they caused his [Tilton’s] immediate dismission from both the Independent and the Z/Mon. Suffering thus both of us, so Im- justly—(I knew nothing of these plans)-anxiety night and day brought on my miscarriage; a dissappoinunent I have never before konwn——0t love-babe it promised, you know. I have had sorrow almost beyond hu- man capacity, dear——-. It is my 922011267"! I do not quote the whole letter, as it has been already pub- ’ lished and may be referred to. -The peculiarity of the lan- guage of this extract should be noted. We find Mrs. Tilton- on the 30th of I ecember sick in bed with what she states to have been a. miscarriage a few days before of what promised to be a “ love-babe, ' you know”—a very curious expression from a woman nearly forty years old and the mother of six children, to describe a child begotten in lawful wedlock; es- pecially when, as Mrs. Tilton now asserts, she and her hus- band had been fiercely quarclling for many months,‘and,_Bes- sie Turner testifies, even to blows. Within six weeks of her getting off hersick bed; arising from that confinment, where Beecher says she lay white as marble, with eyes closed as in a trance, with her hands on her bosom, Palm to palm, lik-‘e one in_prayer_, she writes the following invitation to Beecher, which I received from his hand: * _ ,WEnursnA’r.’ I Jlfg/»Dear Friend: Does your--heart bound towards alias it used? So (Oontiuuedon page 10.) V s Q srccnnntaa t“.3i.AFi.ii%1i§ waasntsié TERlYl.S or SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 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Woodhull cfi Clafliws Weekly, Box 37391, New York City. 0flice,ll1 Nassau Street, Room 9. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1874. THE ULTIMATUM. FROM THE SPEECH “TRIED AS BY FIRE.” Sexual freedom, then, means the abolition of prostitution both in and out of marriage; means the emancipation of woman from sexual slavery and her coming into ownership and control of her own body; means the end of her pecuni- ary dependence upon man, so that she may never even segm- ingly have to procure whatever she may desire or need by sexual favors; means the abrogation of forced pregnancy, of ante-natal murder, of undesired children: means the birth of love children only; endowed by every inherited virtue that the highest exaltation can confer at conception, by every influence for good to be obtained during gestation and by the wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, In dustrially, intellectually and sexually. p-.——..__.__.p—+Q,_4__:_..._ NATIONAL SPIRITUAL CONVENTION. In accordance with Article II., chapter 5, and Article I., chapter 7, of the Constitution of the Universal Association of Spiritualists, the Provisional National Council issue this call for a National Convention, to be convened in Parker Memorial Hall, Boston, on Tuesday, September 15, and to extend during three days. ' This Convention is expresslyfor the purposes of discus- sion and propaganda; and all Spiritualists, Socialists, In- fidels, Materialists, Free Religionists and Free Thinkers are cordially invited to attend and join in the effort to advance the cause of truth and human welfare. All subjects in which the good of the race is involved will be legitimate themes for discussion and for set speeches. Those who propose to speakupon specific subjects are requested to prepare their speeches, so that they may be published in the regular pro- ceedings of the Convention. By order of the Provisional National Council. A VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, President. ———-———>--4-Q»—<——:.—... AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. Mr. James Redpath says, in the Boston Herald, tha “ a Spiritualist told me that the ‘ World of Spirits ’ was bound that the whole story (the Tilton-Beecher case) and all the stories should come out.” It is believed that there are few Spiritualists in the country, either radicals or conservatives, who do not indorse that statement. Now comes the im- portant question, to which we desire a candid answer from all friends of the cause-—Was the President of the Associa- tion of American Spiritualists to blame for her share in the exposition of the falsehood, hypocrisy and crime that dis- graces our age? We ask this, more especially, because all her charges have been sustained, with additions, by_emincnt parties but not of the ranks of Spiritualists. Our conserva- tive friends may not know the fact, but it is easier to be a _ Spiritualist outside than inside the walls of a prison; it is easier to be a Spiritualist backed by the world’s good-will, than one in which it recognizes an enemy to its evil doings; and also that it is far easier for a Spiritualist to be discreetly silent, than to be legally robbed, maltreated, scorned and hated for speaking the truth. As to whether what Vic- toria C. Woodhull stated in the Beecher-Tilton affair in the famous November number of the WEEKLY was the truth, that question is now prominently before the people of the country, and we are cheerfully willing to abide by their de-J cisiong THE NEW RELIGION-—UNIVERSAL JUSTICE. No. I. The progress of social evolution is going forward so rapidly that it will soon arrive where certain questions, which it involves, will have to be answered. The freedom of woman, which will be the first grand result gained, will bring with it-the necessity of methods for her support when performing her divine mission of maternity; and also of that a of her progeny. As the mother of humanity, woman looks to humanity for the recognition and respect to which this re- lation entitles herjand,when mankind awakens really to know what immense responsibilities devolve upon, and how much it owes to her, it will not be slow to concede her rights ; it will hasten to provide as its divinest offering, such con- ditions as will guarantee to her the possibility of perfecting her mission, by the production of a perfect physical race, upon which, only, can high moral and intellectual culture be reared. The mission of maternity, of the motherhood bf humanity, has never been duly appreciated or honored. True, its fruits have never been such as to entitle it to any consider- able degreeof excellence ; but this is more to be attributed to the low order of enlightenment that has surrounded and really conducted the mission, than to woman as its subject. All the energies of the male portion of the race are bent in the direction of securing the means of individual happiness; and so intently do men strive after these, that they seem to forget, or at least to ignore, the fact, that if woman did not perform her part of the human economy, there would soon be no people for whom to strive for anything. The labor of woman, then, is antecedent and superior to that of man, and instead of being left to itself as a mere incident of life, as it now is, so universally, it should be considered of, and treated in, the manner which its precedence and importance demand. Especially in a property sense have the natural rights of woman been ignored. While the intimate companion of man, the mother of his children, the minister to his physical com- . forts and demands, she has never been deemed worthy to be the equal partner in the results of their mutual toil. These results coming, as they have, and do, directly from man’s physical or mental exertion, woman’s part in the matter is neglected, and she left dependent upon man’s bounty where she should, of right, have been his equal in ownership. ' This feeling of dependence, which seems to be, in a sense, innate in Woman, and which in another sense, is accepted as a natural duty by man, has, perhaps, a very natural origin. Like all other customs that have prevailed so gener- ally as this dependence has, it has its source in a great and fundamental truth ; the errors that :have arisen in applying this truth being rather of the head than of the heart. The chief error, and the one from which woman suffers most, is, that her dependence has been placed upon the individual man with whom, for the time, she consorts. It is useless to attempt to ignore the fact that the mission of maternity brings with it the dependence of woman for sup- port. While she is performing this mission, she is inca- pacitated 'to maintain her equality with man in the produc- tion of physical necessities and comforts ; therefore, there must be a certain dependence, a certain natural and rightful dependence, to make good this inequality. This means that it is a part of man’s life to labor for woman, physically, to support life, while she is laboring, maternally, for the pro- duction of life itself. It is really then no dependence, and it ought not to be called by that name ; but it is a mutual arrangement, contracted by nature herself, fifirst to insure the perpetuityof man ; and, second, to insure his happiness and comfort. ’ The question will now naturally arise: How shall this mutual business of life and its maintenance be carried out, if women are to be set free from dependence upon the indi- vidual man, and still not be compelled to provide for herself as an individual? This is the question of all questions to which the present progress of social evolution is leading up. It not only lies at the foundation of human justice, as he- tween men and women as different sexes; but also points the way to the solution of the same question between men as individuals. The great problem to be solved is: What is human justice ? And humanity will never begin its final progressive development until it shall have solved it, and based its institutions upon the solution. It is an easy matter to give the direct answer to all the phases of this question, and to indicate a realization of its application; but this will not satisfy the mind that has not wrought out the problem for itself ; or, at least, so far pro- gressed in its solution as to have caught glimpses of the final point to be reached, realized -and seized upon, as the law for the organization of society. Hence we must take up phase after phase of social life, as it "now is, and show wherein each is unjust either to itself or in its relation to other’ phases, and carry it forward into the new order, and still show how it must be situated there, so_that it shall both give and receive justice. , _ . We do not hesitate to affirm that humanity is rapidly ap- proaching that period of its development in which it is to enter upon its true organization ; where the songs of poets and the hopes of prophets are to be realized ; where there shall be really a human family, at least begun, upon the earth. Heretofore the world has been peopled by various human families with interests all at war with each other, but never yet byeven, one real human family Whose tnterestd, Sept. 25, 15%. were the world’s and whose love was as broad as the earth and as deep as humanity. There never ltas been a time when men and women, universally, could be called brothers and‘ sisters. The orders of society that have prevailed, have made every man to war in _some way with every other man. There has been no such thing possible as mutual interests in anything. It has been individual competition in everything. The gain of wealth has been raised to the chief end and aim of life, and each individual has been com- pelled in carrying out this theory, to use every possible en- deavor of which he was possessed, either by virtue of physi- cal strength or mental capacity and culture, to gain an ad- vantage over every other individual with whom he has_ had contact of any kind. So, instead of there having been peace, there has been nothing but warfare between nations, ‘communities and individuals. But all this has nearly culminated, and it will culminate when woman shall have risen in the divine right of her ma- ternity and demanded sexual freedom and human justice for herself. This will be the point which will compel the consideration of the ' question as to what human justice really is, and necessitate speedy action regarding its de- mands. When woman shall step forth in the majesty of her power as the mother of humanity, and shall declare that she will bear no more children until her just and proper position shall have been assigned to her, then will the key-note of human redemption be struck, indeed. When she shall rise ' in the dignity of her unsullied womanhood and declare that until justice shall be done her in regard to her rightful share and enjoyment of the physical comforts of life she will not minister to the demands of the procreative instinct, she will compel man to consider his own past injustice and hasten him in the doing of his natural duty, and bring him nally to recognize that what he has heretofore demanded and re- ceived as a rightful recompense for the maintenance which has been so niggardly bestowed, can hereafter be received only as he shall merit it, and woman confer it. H To what more exalted "position could woman attain than this‘? The old and proverbial, because old, answer to the demands for woman, has been, that she will forfeit her claims upon the gallantry of men if she attempt to become inde- pendent. Let those who have been accustomed to use this argument consider for once with how much more reverence they will have to regard woman when she shall be elevated to her rightful position as queen in the domain of sex. Let them ask themselves what they may expect from woman then, if they do not render her the homage, the allegiance, the love and respect to which it is so easy now to refer as the natural results of her dependent and enslaved condition. Man respect woman and at the same time hold her in sexual bondage! Impossible. He only despises her because she is weak enough to remain there. Man respects the inde- pendent woman; his peer, his equal; respects her who will not bow to gain his favors; who will not barter her favors for his gold; who will not be bought or sold; and it is high time that women awaken to a realization of this fact. Society has never been organized; it has merely existed- Its condition is properly analagous to that of an unorganized army. It is amob and nothing else. The efficiency of a mass of men to be operated in warfare, depends wholly upon the perfection of its organization; but not more so than does that of society, to gain its ends and chiefest aims, upon the perfectness of its organization. Nor is the family as now constituted, or as it can ever be constituted, the unit of society. Society is not a mass of families, but a mass of individuals. It requires only the simplest analysis to show this. If the family is the unit of society the in- dividual is not and cannot be a unit in society, and con- sequently those individuals who have no families are not units of society and do not constitute any part of it. This is an absurdity so apparent that none can entertain it who do not hold to the family organization so strongly as to abjure reason. The organization of society must then begin with the in- dividual, and every individual—man, woman and child- must be a unit of and occupy his or her proper position in the organization. In considering how human justice is to be secured to each individual in an organized society, it should first be determined what relations the individuals sustain to each other, since without this as a guide nothing could be constructed that would secure it. We have hinted merely as to what are the rights of women as a seX,’and have said that to the collective man belongs the right no less than the duty of provision for her periods of maternal labor. But we would not _have it inferred from this that woman is to be assigned no productive industrial position in the new order of society. H The needs of society as a whole demand certain"amounts of certain orders of labor; and when these needs are really understood and the labor of society adjusted to provide for them, it will be found that so much as woman’s nature fits her for, and no more, willfall to her to perform; and those labors that man is fitted by his nature to accomplish will fall to him to perform. Exercise is a necessity of health; and when the duties of industry are properly distributed; when each and every individual shall perform his or her appropriate portion, that portion will be performed , as a pleasure instead of as a task. In a properly organized society all labor will be for pleasure and recrea- tion, and will be performed by attraction and not by com- pulsion as it is mostly at present. frnis result may be easilyjnfexred when it is remembered a .. 1!‘ Sept. as, 15%. woonnutta c:r.Asi.in‘§s wagers. at _ that, if every living individual should labor two hours per day, there would be the same aggregate production that there is now, when those who perform the work labor from eight to eighteen hours per day. And still more pointedly, when it is realized how difierently the labors of a society will be conducted when a.ll are engaged to attain the same end, which each individual now desires for himself. Vast combinations will be formed and labor—saviiig machinery will be used to its utmost capacity, and in various directions, which have not yet entered into human conception. At the same time, there will be vast economies of consumption instituted. The cxtravagances and waste of isolated house- holds will be replaced by immense associations, where all the comforts and luxuries of life which are now known to the few will be - provided for all; and where the amuse- ments and intellectual enjoyments which are now only to be obtained by a small minority of the people will be at the command of everybody. By such an order wealth will be held to mean something more vital and necessary than mere material production. In- deed, wealth per 86 will be only a means to a much greater and more Worthy end. Never as yet has society permitted the development of its intellectual, social and moral genius. In their evolution and training will the future society find its greatest happiness, and the strife for pecuniary gain which now separates society into warring individuals, will be converted into a happy emulation for moral and in- tellectual position; not for the sake of the position but for the good which the position will permit of being done. In such a social order it will be possible for men and women to be brothers and sisters, and to love each other as such, where now the very picture is a lie and its practice an im- possibility. That humanity may enter upon such a glorious career it is only necessary to answer for itself the oft re- peated question : What is human justice ? And when answered to have the courage, nay, the manhood, to reduce its teachings to a practical movement in which selfinterest ‘ will be best conserved, where the interests of the whole are promoted by the efforts of each individual. -:::——>4 STIRPICULTURE. There is no grander subject that can come before the Convention of American Spiritiialists now in session at Boston, than that which treats of the physical improvement of mankind. It is the basal requirement that must be at- tended to before human beings can be expected to assume higher intellectual or moral positions than those they now occupy. It is also a subject over which we are in power, and on which we can readily legislate if we ordain so to do, and that it is our highest duty, as well wishers of our race, so to ordain and legislate, no true Spiritualist can either deny or doubt. It is impossible to overestimate the value of the changes that may be effected for the good of our race by our operat- ing to such end in concert with the known laws of nature. This assertion is really not stronger than is warranted. Look at the improvements man has made and is making in the vegetable world; in that of flowers; of fruits; and also in that of the lower orders of the animal creation. Note the changes——the advances that are constantly being made by careful breeding——in dogs, sheep, cattle and horses. There is only one step further that can be made in that direction, but it is the most important of all. It is the improvement of the human stock, the physical advancement of mankind. Can it be effected by ourselves? That is the grand ques- tion, and we answer it fearlessly in the afi‘irmative. How? By carefully examining the laws _of nature and working with them as we have done in regard to the instances above given. The only difierence being that, while in the latter case we can act arbitrarily, in the former we _cannot. We are in power over brutes, but we are not in power over human beings. Individual or personal sovereignty in man . or woman ought never to be infringed upon, it should never be surrendered, and we oppose marriage, as now con- stituted, because it overrides this grand cardinal right. But, if we cannot control the will, how can our purposes be effected? We answer, by education. We can perform, by means of the individual, and by operating through the ~ instructed will of the individual, male or female, that which could not and ought not to be otherwiseperformed. For these reasons we demand that the subject of “unemasculated physiology ” shall have its proper attention in our schools. Although we are but on the primary form ourselves, we have learned enough of what may be termed “ sexology,” to assert that over alfectional matters woman is naturally in power, and in spite of a false theology which says, “ wives submit yourselves to your husbands,” We claim that, as a fundamental necessity, before we can hope for an improved race of human beings, her rightful power must be ad- mitted. Were our people really monogamic it would be readily recognized. But they are not. All must admit that the feminine half of the human unit is certainly more monogamic than the masculine, But the male is in power, and he is naturally promiscuous. The best hope of revers- ing the present sexual disorders that afllict mankind, con- sists in the annihilation of all man-made laws upon the subject of sexual unions, whether ecclesiastical or civil. I Then, if the monogamic system is thebest for our race, it will naturally be established by woman. Judaism and Christianity have touched upon the subject of prenatal conditions, in the third commandment, in order to “curse,” but Spiritualism has examined the same sub- ject in order to “bless” mankind. To that end it demands the collective care of the State or nation, cheerfully ren- dered, for all child-bearing and nursing women who may need its services. Under present circumstances in our cities, we can hardly hope for a progeny either morally or physically healthy. The surroundings of women in in- numerable instances forbid it. Every surgeon knows that the biblical doctrine we have already quoted is a bad in- struction in such cases. We must, as a’ civilized people, recognize the fact that a childbearing woman is doing a higher duty to the State than any man can perform, and well merits all the collective care that can be bestowed on her. Man attends to inferior ‘animals in such conditions; their young are valuable; it is monstrous to suppose that woman alone and her progeny may be neglected, and that an addition to the human stock of the nation is not worthy of the highest attention and care of the public. 'What we have demanded for women in the foregoing paragraph we demand also for children. Were we even a Christian nation we should have no need to do so. The great Nazarene did not say “sufler” my own “little chil- dren to come unto me; ” he had none; he therefore gave an unlimited command. The smug Pharisees of our churches can look upon the misery of children in our cities, and mentally contrasting their condition with those in their own homes, comfort themselves with the idea of their own pa- ternalexcellencics; but, to the true Spiritualist, all these little forlorn waifs arehis family, their joys are his joys, and their misery his disgrace. This ought to be the case with the Christian also, but it is not. He does not say “ sufier little children to come unto me,” or he would at least keep one basket open for the reception of forlorn infants in the great city of New York. The proper method of rearing children is also a subject that will bear examination. Those who have seen the pouponnat or nursery, at M. Godin’s palace at Guise, are loud in its praises. There is no more forlorn object than an isolated child, and it is questionable whether children (privately instructed) in an isolated family are much better off. We hold that the Nazarene was the iconoclast of the “family arrangement,” so much lauded by his self-inte- rested followers. But we claim also, that hisffollowers, who are pecuniarily able, usually break it up where they can by sending their children I to boarding school ten months in the year, and that they are right in so doing. Here we come upon another evil. The old moiikish system of the division of the sexes in private schools, which is con- trary both to Christianity and nature. If “it is not good for man to be alone” it is not good for boys to be alone either. Sexual isolation is always reprehensible, whether in a school or in a club-house; it is the prolific parent of crime. In childhood and early youth the commingling of the sexes does not stimulate but represses precocity; it does not en- courage but prevents sexual aberrations. Up to a certain age there is a natural repulsion between boys and girls that is highly beneficial for both.; they act as natural checks upon each other’s evils and stimulants of each other’s eX~ cellencies. If at present many of our private boys’ schools, like our legislative halls, are hot-beds of vice and lewdness, it is because, in both cases, but one-half of the unit is in them represented . But, after all, the foundation of all improvemen't'Iin our race must be looked for in the establishment of social and sexual freedom. That alone can purge the world of the evils that are now decimating it. Man has tried his hand at enforcing sexual purity by law long ‘enough, and the consequences of his efiorts are fraud, hypocrisy, lying, fetus, child and mother murders. When all edicts are ab- rogated which interfere with the personal rights of woman, and when she is acknowledged as the rightful queen in the domain of the affections, things will be different. Whether, under her ruling, monogamy, polygamy, polyandry or promiscuity will prevail, it is not for us to say, but we have faith that woman will favor the first of these systems. Anyway, we are bold to believe that, whichever she ordains will be natural and not artificial, and will be best for man- kind. ——«-—.-—-»-+9»-<—-—-——— OUTWORN SYSTEMS. All the labor movements now convulsing the civilized world have but one object; it is to secure to all producers their just share in (or rightful exchange for) the proceeds of their toils. It is manifest that they do not now obtain it, if they did the workers would ride and the ‘speculators and money—manipu_lators would go on foot. But this simple and honest reform cannot be effected without a great revolution. No amelioration of the condition of the laborers (that is of the masses) of mankind can be looked for under our present law, land and money systems. Our very complicated law system to which justice is a stranger, has grown (chiefly during the past three centuries),'out of our money system. That this is correct may be seen in the definition of the word “ Interest” in the Encyclopedia Britannica. We are told there that it was first permitted by Christians in Italy, about the year 1500. When the Jews, of Lombardy, publicly loaned money, such was the moral condition of society that “ they loaned it on the written word of the borrower,” but, the article further states—-“as there is in the loaning and borrowing of money a tendency to demoralize and derange society--mortgages were soon demanded, and litigation and extortion followed in their train.” Hence the law became complicated, and with every complication less beneficial‘ and much more burdensome to the people. Our money system is based on the impious wrong, which has been pro- tested against by the workers both of Europe and the United States, which permitsa money value to be placed on the tillable land, and thus locks up the treasures of the earth from honest competition. If to these we add the system of dis- tribution, which authorizes men to prey on their neighbors, and of which John Ruskin says, “ All rates of interest or modes of profit on capital which render possible the rapid accumulation of fortunes, are simply forms of taxation, by individuals, on labor, purchase, or transport; and are highly detrimental to the ‘national interests, being, indeed, no means of national gain, but only the abstraction of small gains from many to prove the large gain of one,” ‘ I ——we shall behold the true causes of the sad condition of the working classes here and elsewhere. John Bright and the late lamented Richard Cobden, find- ing all hope of further reform stopped by the land systemof Great Britain, were forced to face the proudest aristocracy on the globe, and, in spite of laws of entail, to declare to it that-——“the land must be divided and sold in small quanti- ties.” As to the money system, do not the gambling dens of the money changers, and their howling orgies, stink to the nostrils of the people ? V In law have we not arrived at that pass when the wit of an advocate is more potent than right ? And is not the motto of the distributor—“ buy in the cheap- est market and sell in the dearest ”—a plain proof that our method for the exchange of commodities is based on fraud and oppression ? 1f these systems are great evils in despotisms, they are far greater evils in a republic. Our democratic form of gov- ernment cannot endure long the classifications they gene- rate. The height of an aristocracy of wealth or birth bears an exact proportion to the depth of human misery out of which it grows, and on which it exists. Riches are not now gained by superior labor, but extracted by superior craft. The community never obtains an equivalent for large accumulations. Probably the richest draper in New ‘ York has not added the value of a quarter of a yard of cloth to the wealth of the nation. He is merely a distribu- tor of that article. But to distribute wealth is to do some- thing comparatively useful. Many obtain vast fortunes whose lives are positively pernicious. Speculators in flesh and grain who amass money by creating artificial famines, and money and stock gamblers, who live by robbing their neighbors—legally. These latter are the Dick Turpins of modern society. Yet we do not attack individuals. Men of great wealth are not the enemies of the workers, it is the artificial systems, by which such are created, that are the deadly foes of the toilers. No laborer, however ill-rewarded be his toil, has a right to denounce a man as an Oppressor or a moneyed aristocrat, unless he himself would refuse ti) accept a fortune. He has, however, a right to condemn the systems that rob him to generate wastefulness -and crime. It is well for us to carefully attend to the above dis- tinctions, in fighting the great labor battle, and to remem- ber that we are working for the general good of all human beings, whether they be rich, or whether they be poor. ——-3:; FRIGHTENING CHILDREN. This may seem to be a very simple subject to deseant upon. It is so; but while nine out of ten parents resort at times to establish their authority on the principleof fear; while our children themselves retail such evil instructions among one another; while a similar error is propagated in the government of many of our schools; and while terror is the base of many of our laws themselves, it is one surely needing discussion in the columns of the WEEKLY, and we therefore do not think it necessary to apologize to our readers for introducing the following article to their notice from the Home Wsilor of Burlington, Vermont; A Nothing can be worse for a. child than to frighten it. The effect of the scare it is slow _to recover from; it remains sometimes until maturity, as is shown by many instances of morbid sensitiveness and excessive nervousness. . ‘ Not unfreqnently fear is employed as a means of discipline. Children are controlled by being made to believe that some- thing terrible will happen to them; are punished by being shut up in dark rooms, or by being put in places they stand in dread of. No one,without vivid memory of his own child- hood, can comprehend how entirely cruel such things are. We have often heard grown persons _tel1of_ the suifering they have endured, as children, under like circumstances, and recount the irreparable injury which they are sure they then received. No parent, no nurse, capable of alarming the young, is fitted for her position. Children, as near as pos- sible, should be trained not to know the sense of fear, which, above everything else, is to be feared, in their education both early and late. V The above is one phase of thesubject, but there is an- other which is and ought to be even more important to all who call themselves Spiritualists; Bad as bodilyfear is, and deplorable as are its effects, they are hardly compar- able either in the one case or the other to that mental slavery which is being instilled into the minds of the young by the various priestho_ods of the day. True, the latter is part and parcel of the same system as the former, but it is far more pernicious. We all know that the “fear of the ferule and the gallows” are the legitimate progeny of the “fear of death and of hell,” and until such damnable stimuli are abrogated from among us, we can hardlyhope for a race of human beings fit for true liberty, " 10 . wocgnnuizi. as o:;Asi.rnvs wssxtr. . 1 MOUL'I‘O_N’S VINDICATION. (Continued from page 7.) does mine. I am myself again [sic] I did not dare to tell you till I was sure, but the bird has sung in my heart these four weeks, and he has covenanted with me- never again to leave. “Spring has come.” Be- cause I thought it would gladden you to know this, and not to trouble or embarrass you in any way, I now write. Of course I should like to share with you my joy, butgcan wait for the beyond! When dear Flank says I may once again go to old Plymouth I will thank the dear Father. There can be but one meaning in these phrases under such circumstances. “I am myself agam. I did not dare to tell you till I was sure, but the bird has sung in my heart these four weeks, and he has covenanted with me never again to leave. ‘ Spring has come,’ ” etc. “ Of course, I should like to share with you my joy.” _ I assume it will not be claimed that Tilton ex/torted from his wife this letter. Was this so significant hint to come “ when she was all right” answered? The reply to that ques- tion‘ will be found in two notes to Elizabeth from Beecher, the shorter one inclosed within -the other. The first is as follows, marked “N” : BEECHER T0 MRS. TILTON. The blessing of God rest upon you. Every spark of light and warmth in your own house will be a star and a sun in my dwelling. Your note broke like spring [sic.] upon winter, and gave me an inward rebound, toward life. ' No one can ever know——ncne but God--through what a dreary wilderness I have wandered! There was Mt. Sinai, there was the barren sand, there was the alternation of hope and despair that mark- ed the pilgrimage of old. If .only it might lead to the Promised Land! ’ —-or, like Moses, shall I die on the border! Your hope and courage are like medicine. Should God inspire you to restore and rebuild at home, and while doing it to cheer and sustain outside of it another who sorely needs help in heart and spirit, it will prove a life so noble as few are able to live! and, in another world, the emancipated soul may utter thanks. If it would be of comfort to you, now and then, to send me a letter of true imoardness [sic]-the outcome of your inner life—it would be safe, forI am now at home here with my sister; and it is pewnitted to you [sic] and will be an exceeding refreshment to me, for your "heart experiences ' are often like bread from heaven to the hungry. God has enriched your moral nature. May not others partake? This is in Beecher’s handwriting, but without direction or signature, but the note inclosed in pencil tells us the direc- tion of it, as the words, “ Your note broke like spring upon -winter,” tells also to what note it was in reply to, because that quotes the words of Mrs. Tilton, “Spring has come,” asking him to “ share her joy,” she being “all right” now. The inclosure is on a slip of paper, marked, 0 (but which I do not produce here, reserving it for presentation before an- other tribunal). , Was there ever a plainer case of renewal of intimacy, to say the least, than this? Mark, also, amid the prayers to God contained in the longer note Beecher’s suggestion that Elizabeth can write him now “with safety,” because he is limmg alone with his s'iste'r—-t’. e., his wife-is away I If this stood alone it would be all-sufiicient to prove that he speaks falsely who says that Beecher never visited Mrs. Tilton except at her husband’s request after the settlement, and fill my purpose, but I do not choose to leave it in its soli- tude as a single act, and therefore I reproduce from my state- ment the letter from Mrs. Tilton to Beecher, which bears date May 3, 1&7’1: . Mr. Beecher-—My future, either for life of death, would be happier cou1d.I but feel that you forgave me while you forget me. In all the sad complications of the past year my endeavor was to entirely keep from you all sufiering; to bear myself alone, leaving you forever ignorant of it. My weapons were love, a large, untiring generosity, and ne.st-/Lé(l2'n{// That I failed utterly we both know. But now I ask forgiveness. Perhaps Tilton extorted this letter, too, from his wife. The italics are those of the writer. Will Beecher, in his first sermon after his vacation, please explain what sort of a spiritua “weapon ” “_nest-hiding ” is, with which “ a, poor dear child of awoman” “keeps all sufiering from her pas- tor,” so as to leave him “forever ignorant of it,” unless, in- deed, “ nest-hiding” is a carnal weapon, for in that case no explanation is needed. There are indicationsin this note that perhaps Beecher did not keep his appointment, and may have been the reason for its writing. Whether this note was answered I do not now produce documentary evidence to show, nor is it necessary upon the questionwhether Beecher renewed his intimacy with her after the settlement, because I produce another note of J an- uary 20, 1872, undirected, but inclosed in an envelope ad- dressed “Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, Livingston street, Brook- lyn,” bearing the postmark of the same date. It_is marked H P J? : _ BEECHER TO Mhs. TILTON. , ' 20 January, 1872. Now may the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our ' Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ.‘ . This is my prayer day and night. This world ceases to hold me as it did. I live in the thought and hope of the coming immortality, and seem to myself most of the time to be standing-on the edge of the other life, wondering whether I may not at any hour hear the call, “ Come up hither.” ‘ , I shall be in New Haven next week to begin my course of lectures to the theological classes, or preaching. My wife takes boat for Havana and Florida on Thursday. v » I called on Monday, but you were out. I hope you are growing stronger and happier. May the dear Lord and. Saviour abide with you. Very truly yours, ‘V H. W. Bananas. A I again call attention to the mixture of prayer and business in this note by the following words: “My wife takes boat for Hacana and Florida on Thursday. I calledon Monday, but found you were out.” ~ V But this is not the only note which establishes renewed‘ intimacy. I produce another note, undirected and unsigned, but inclosed in an envelope postmarked the same day, di- 1 .-rected “Elizabeth Tilton, care of Theodore Tilton, Esq., Brooklyn.” This is the, only one addressed to his care, and _ its contents are such thatahusband might read as coming from a pastor to his parishioner, except that the husband was using the intimacy of the pastor with his wife for the pur- pose of blackmailing him. But why leave it unsigned? It is here inserted, marked “ Q " : BEECHER TO MRS. TILTON. 1 _ MAY 6, "72. My DearFrzemZ—I was glad to see you at church yesterday. It is always a great comfort to me when you are, and a token of God’s favor. I go to-night to Norwich, N. Y., where my grand-daughter, six years old, is dying, and her mother, my Hattie, awaiting her own confinement. I seem to live amidst funerals. The air is heavy much of the time with the odor of the grave. I am again at work on the “ Life,” making haste while the day lasts— “the night cometh when no man can work.” I pray for you, that God would dwell in you by that spirit of divine love by which we are cleansed from anger, impatience and all self- asseriion, and kept in the sweetness of that peace which passes all un- derstanding. That it may please God to lift you up out of all trouble, and to keep you under the shadow ‘of His wings, is my prayer for you. By His spirit animosity may be utterly slain and your better self may be clothed with the invincible spirit of a love which, springing from God and abiding in Him, will carry with it Ifés victory. And these letters, written, too, by a Christian minister to a woman whom he now characterizes in his statement thus: “I am in that kind of divided consciousness that I was in respect to Elizabeth, that she was a saint and ‘chief of sin- ners.” He knew all of her then that he does now, unless indeed he does know more now, and yet he.wants “ refresh- ment ” from her “true inwarclness.” I need not prolong this statement by the production of documents to show that the intimacy between Beecher and Mrs. Tilton did not cease after January 1, 1871, when he -had solemnly settled the past injury with the husband and prom- ised me that it should cease, and when he now states it did cease, ior all these letters are subsequent to his settlement with Tilton, and some of them more than a year after. I call attention to the fact that I have drawn no inferences as to the effect of these letters. I have only compared them, shown the relations of their several parts to their surround- ings, except that I do insist that they show a renewal of in- timacy with his family not under the supervision of either Tilton or myself, which is the point at issue between Beecher and me in this regard. I have avoided stating in terms the effect upon my mind, because in my former statement, hav- ing given only the results of conversations, I have been criticised; and disbelief of -the facts I stated has been at- tempted because I did not state the precise words and man- ner of the_ admissions of the fact of sexual intercourse with Mrs. Tilton by Beecher. It has been said that, being a “ man of the world,” I drew inferences from his pure and un- guarded expressions which they did not authorize, and there- fore as to these letters I have left the inferences to be drawn by those who read them in the light which dates and facts now throw upon them. But to answer this criticism in another direction, and to show the impossibility that I could be mistaken, not seeking to shelter myself under any supposed misunderstanding; but taking all the burden of veracity between Beecher, Tilton and myself, I now proceed to give such portions as are neces- sary of some few of the conversations in which Beecher made confession of adultery: I ' I have before stated that the first confession was made on the night I went for the “retraction ” of Mrs. Tilton; that I there told him: “ Mr. Beecher, you have had criminal inter- course with Mrs. Tilton, and you have done great injury to Tilton otherwise ;” and I say further in my published state- ment: “that he confessed and denied not, but confessed.” As he did not deny this charge, so explicitly madeiby me, whatever inferences I may have made from his words at other times, he certainly could not have mistaken mine at this time. When speaking of the relations of a man and a woman,’. “criminal intercourse” has but one “legal or liter- ary meaning,”'even to a clergyman. It, however, seems necessary that I should go still further, which I do, and I say that on that evening he confessed to me his relations with Mrs. Tilton in language so vivid that I could not possibly forget or mistake it. He said, “ 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 addressed to her. There seemed to be nothing in what we did together that I could not justify to myself on the ground of our love for each other, and I think God will not blame me for my acts with her. I know that at present it would be utterly impossible for me to justify myself before man.” This is impressed upon my mind because it was the first enunciation of a justification of the doctrines of free love that I had ever heard. Not only on the occasion of handing back Mrs. Tilton’s “ retraction,” and when giving me the letter of contrition of January 1, 1871, did heparticularize with regard to the feel- ings that influenced him to do as he did with Mrs. Tilton, but in many of the conversations I held with him he strongly ad- verted to the absorbing love which he felt for the Woman, and to the joys of his intercourse with her, which he always jus- tified 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 which they had been to- gether seemed to him “ almost a sacred thing.” If my testimony is to avail anything in this matter, I here commit it now fully to the statement heretofore made by me, which I then softened by omitting details, the language of which I thought it best for public morality should be sup- pressed. And I call attention to the fact madein my previous statement that, in the presence of myself and another wit- ness, whom I still feel reluctant to bring forward—of course not Mr. Tilton-both Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher’ admitted in language not to be mistaken that a continued sexual in- timacy had existed between them, and asked advice as to the course to be taken because of it. I trust I shall be pardoned for giving an instance or two out of the many that I might cite of the inconsistency of Mr. Beecher with himself. -The theory of his statement is that ,Mrs. Tilton had confessed to her husband in the flrst place only his (Beecher’s) “ excessive love for her,” and he main- tains stoutly thatin that confession there was nothing more confessed than that he had made “improper advances” to her. But again, he says the document was one “iI.1criminat’ ‘Sept. 26, 1874. ing ” him. Lastly, he gives an account of his interview with- Mrs. Tilton when he got the retraction. This he describes in the following words: I added that he (Tilton) said that I had made improper suggestions to her, and that she admitted this fact to him last July. I said: “ Eliza- beth, have you made such statements to him? ” She made no answer. I repeated the question. Tears ran down her cheeks, and she very slightly bowed her head in acquiescence. I said: “ You cannot mean that you have stated all that he has charged? ” She opened her eyes and began in a slow and feeble way to explain how sick she had been, how wearied out with importunity; that he had confessed his own alien loves, and said that he could not bear to think that she was better than he; that she might win him to reformation if she would confess that she had loved me more than him, and that they would repent and go on with future concord. The point between us is this: I averred in my statement that the document which Beecher saw as well as myself, was her confession that he had committed adultery with the wife- Which was it? A confession only of excessive love and im- proper advances on his part, or, as he describes it, an “in- criminating ” confession? Without stopping to advert to the fact that Mrs. Tilton in her confession, which went to Dr. Storrs, says that he asked her to be a wife to him, with all that that implies, and the singular fact appears that she does not therein say she said no to him, need I advert upon the likelihood of her making a negative with her great love for him if he took the initiative ?. Let us now judge Mr. Beecher by his own statement. He went to Mrs. Tilton and asked her if she had confessed all that her husband had charged, which he said were “improper advances.” She bowed her head in aquiescence. He said: “ How could you do that?” She now gives the reason and says Tilton had confessed his own alien loves, and said that he could not bear to think that she was better than he, and that “ she might win him if she confessed she loved me more than him, and. they would repent andtgo on in future concord.” Assuming this report of the conversation to be true, and the reason given by Mrs. Tilton for her confession, I am led to ask how would it tend to show that the husband, who had confessed his adultery to his wife, had a. wife as bad as he was because she confessed to him that she had been tempted by her pastor and friend, and refused his solicitations, under circumstances of the greatest possible temptation? It can only be reconciled upon the theory that Tilton’s confession of “ alien loves ” also included a declaration that he had not sinned in act with them. This supposition, however, both Bcecher and Elizabeth reject with scorn. Both declare the same equivocal words as hers as to Tilton mean adultery only. May not, then, her “love” with Beecher, so “ exces- sive,” mean the" same thing? If that theory as to themselves is true, would not such a confession to Tilton by his wife, in- stead of convincing him that she was as bad as he was as an adulterer, tend to show to him that she was the best of all women, and withstood temptation better than her grand- mother Eve? Why confess her own entire worthiness i11 order to convince her husband of her unworthiness? On the contrary, does not this language plainly show that her con- fession was precisely what I have declared it was in the writ- ten confession, and what it was in fact? Let me give a single other instance. When called upon in his cross—examination to explain his phrases in the letter of June 3, 1872: “I have determined to make no more resist- ance. Theodore’s temperament is such that the future, even if temporarily earned, would be absolutely worthless, filled with abrupt changes and rendering me liable at any hour or day to be obliged to stultify all the devices by which we saved ourselves ”.—he says: Devices did not refer to me, but to him (Moulton)—his whole style of acting. . Q. Theodore said he was born for war, and M0111t0n probably born for diplomacy? A. Yes. By Mr. Cleveland——Were the plan and method by which from time to time these things were managed by your suggestions or by Mr. Moulton? A. I made suggestions from time to time, generally without any effect , and the essential course of affairs, so far as it has not been forced upon us from outside influences, has been of his (Moultonfs) procuring. Again he answers to another question as follows: Q. The “ devices ”—did that refer to all the places and arrangements and steps that had been taken? A. It referred to this: If I had been left to manage this matter simply myself, I should have said “ yes ” or “ no." That would have been the whole of it, but instead of that the matter wcnt'into Moulton’s hands, and Moulton is a man that loves in- trigue in such a way that, as Lady Montague said of somebody, “he would not carve a cabbage unless he could steal on it from behind and do it by a device.” I Let us see if this is true. I certainly did not manage the “ device” of getting the retraction from Mrs. Tilton of De- cember 30, 1870. I did not manage the “ device ” of the “device” of the tripartite covenant. 1 did not suggest his proposed letter to Claflin, and of his sending me to him to ascertain whether he had learned the “very bottom facts.” I did not suggest the “device” of putting the card in the Brooklyn Eagle denying the facts———I only made it more in- telligible. I did not suggest the “ device” of attempting to stop the mouth of Mrs. Hooker, for I could know nothing about it until Beecher came to me with it. I did not suggest the “device” of his proposed card to Tilton by which he should repudiate the Woodhull statement. I did not manage or suggest the “ devices ” of the two letters of February 7,1871, that I should be made a priest at the altar of reconciliation, because it appears from the letters themselves I was then on a sick-bed. ' I did not suggest the “device” as to his letters to Mrs. Woodhull, for he wrote them and then sent them to me for my approval. I did not suggest the “devices ” of silence, or of writing -to Shearman to send letters of explanation to Mr. Tilton, nor the letter to Mr. Cleveland, of which he sent me a copy; nor of sending -Cleveland with his horse and buggy to hunt Carpenter, in “ to have come from headquarters,” as Beecher wrote me he had done it. Neither did I manage the “ device,” since the publication of the Bacon letter, of the proposed statement for Tilton to make to the committee in reply to the“ one which he (Beecher) was to make. reconciliation with Bowen in 1870. 1 did not manage the. order to shut up his mouth, lest his statement should appear‘ Sept.20,1874{ woonnutt a (iLAi‘i.iN*s wsnntr. _ ii These all, as appear from the letters and documents them- selves, are the emanations of Mr. Beecher’s own diplomacy to cover up the fact that he had given bad advice to the wife of his friend upon a misstatement of the truth as to a do- mestic difference. Is Mr. Beecher to be believed when he states all these were my “ devices;” or rather, was not his state of mind better described by himself inhis cross-exami- nation where he is asked to explain—what indeed is unex- plainable on any other theory than the truth of his guilt—his letter of February '7, 1871. I quote: Q. In your letter of the same date to Mr. Moulton this occurs: “ Would to God, who orders all hearts, and by his kind mediation, Theodore, Elizabeth and I could be made friends again. Theodore will havethe hardest task in such a case.” Preciselywhat did you mean? Whythat last sentence? A. It is all a muddle to me, as I don’t recall the precise working of my mind. . ‘ It is, indeed, true that his mind is all “a muddle” in un- dertaking to carry through the explanation made by his lawyers. Yet even this poor excuse, that “ he cannot recall the workings of his mind,” he does not leave to himself, be- cause in his written statement he says: “ I laborunder great disadvantages in making a statement. My memory of states of mind is clear and tenacious, better than memory of dates and details ;” and yet, in his cross—examination he utterly breaks down upon “the state of his mind” and declares it “all a muddle.” But it is not my purpose, nor will it be profitable, to push the analysis of this statement of Mr. Beecher’s lawyers fur- ther. From these specimens of its inconsistencies, and from these contradictions of the facts, I shall leave the truth of our respective statements to be judged of by all good men who take an interest in them. I have here at first given what I am sorry to say is a prolix but faithful narrative of every event and act in which I took part, with the documents and papers, occurring since the in- ception of the Bacon letter. And I ask the judgment of every candid mind upon the question of veracity first herein stated, whether the statement of Henry Ward Beecher before the cornmittee—that “ when that Bacon letter was published, and Mr. Moulton, on my visiting him in reference to it, pro- posed no counter-operation—no documents, no help-—I was staggered, and when Tilton subsequently published his state- ment, after he came to this committee, when that came out I never heard a Word from Moulton; he never sent for me, nor visited me, nor did a thing,‘ I waited for him to say or do something”-—can be true in general or in either particular. His averment covers the whole period from before the 21st of June to the hour he made his statement. Does he not know that he himself placed in my hands his proposition in his own handwriting as to what Tilton should say in reply to his statement before the committee, written more than three weeks after the publication of the Bacon letter? Does he not know he visited my house in reference to my own state- ment, to be made before his committee, when he came ac- cording to his letter of appointment of July 13. Does he not know that I wrote out for him my view of the words by which he could shield himself from the consequences of that Bacon letter, to be used in his pulpit, which he copied out to show to his friends? Does he not remember when he put his arms around my neck, during that consultation of the 5th of July, fourteen days after the Bacon letter, and in the pres- ence of my business partner spoke of me as the “best friend that God ever raised up to a man?” In view of these facts thus vouched, how can he stand before the community other- wise than as a convicted falsifier and slanderer of “ his only and best friend.” who was loyally doing all he could to save him day by day? From this bitter issue there is in my own mind for Beecher but one escape, to which I gladly turn—that these statements are put into his month by his lawyers and advisers, and are not his own ; and while that may well protect him from the charge of ungrateful, wicked lying, at the same’ moment it disposes of his statement to the committee as evidence in this controversy not being the truth told by himself or an- other, but the special plea of his counsel. ‘ Whatever may have been my own mistakes inacting for _him; whatever may have been the faults and foolishness of my advice in his behalf, to save him in theyears of his deadly peril, thank God they brought him into no such terrible dilemma as this, by which his character as aman of truth and Christian piety is forever gone or his pretended state-' ment ceases to be evidencein his own behalf! I have gone through all these facts with another purpose also, and that is that I may in some degree reinstate myself ‘with the public from the charge of treachery and broken faith to Mr. Beecher, which, if true, ought to render any . word I might say in my own behalf as to any other charge useless. If I have not thereby succeeded in substantiating my truthfulness as a witness, my purity of motive and the loyalty of my conduct toward Beecher—always acknowledging every- thing of unwisdom or want of judgment in my actions that may justly be alleged against me——all that I may say further in regard to the charges of blackmail so liberally visited upon me by Mr. Beecher may as well remain unsaid. As to the charge of blackmailing upon Rev. Mr. Beecher, I premise by saying that whatever money transactions were had with him in this regard were bad through myself alone; and therefore if blackmail was levied upon Mr. Beecher,,as he avers, it was done by my procurement and consent, and for which I am alone blamable, as I confirm his own state- ment that Tilton never spoke to him on the subject of money. Beecher’s account of the blackmailing is substantially as follows, being abbreviated from various parts of his state- ment and cross-examination: Money has been obtained from me in the course of these affairs in considerablesums, but I did not at first look upon the suggestions that I should contribute. to Mr. Tilton’s pecuniary wants as savoring of blackmail. This did not occur to me until I had paid perhaps $2,000. Afterward I contributed at one time $5,000. After the money had been paid over in five $1,000 bills—-to raise which I mortgaged the house I live in—I felt very much dissatisfied with myself about it. Again he gives this account of the $7,000 in his cross-exam- ination-—al1 the money that he says he ever paid: Q. By Mr. Cle veland-Inyour statement you have alluded to one pay- ment of $5,000. Have you furnished any other money to those parties 1’ A. I have furnished at least $2,000 besides the $5,000. Q. To whom did you pay that money? A. To Mr. Moulton. Q. In Various sums? A. In various sums, partly in cash and partly in checks. ' Q. Have you any of those checks? A. I have several; I don’t remem- ber how many. . I Q. Where are they? A. I have some of them here: one of June 23, 1871, drawn on the Mechanics’ Bank to the order of Frank Moulton, and indorscd in his handwriting; and one of November 10, 1871, payable to the order of Frank Moulton.» a11d indorsed in his handwriting; and of May 29, 1872, to the order of Frank D. Moulton, and also indorsed in his -handwritin g. Each of these that are marked for deposit across the face have been paid. Q. As nearly as you can recollect, how much money went into the hands of Mr. Moulton? A. I should say I have paid $7,000. Q. To what use did you suppose that money was to be appropriated ? A. I supposed that it was to be appropriated to extricate Mr. Tilton from his difficulties in some way. Q. You did not stop to inquire how or why? A.vMoulton sometimes sent me anote saying, “I wish you would send me your check for so much.” . Q. Did you usually respond to the demands of Mr. Moulton for money . during thosemonths? A. I always did. 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 difliculty could be now settled by that amount of money, which would put the affairs of the Golden Age on a secure footing; that they would be able .to go right on, and that with the going on of them the safety of Tilton would be assured, and that would be the settlement of the whole thing. It was to save Tilton pecuniarily. It will be observed that in this account of the $7.000—all that he claims he ever paid--Mr. Beecher does not allege that the thought of blackmailing was in his mind until after he had paid the $2,000, or that Tilton had ever asked him for any money. It will also be observed that he produces cer- tain ohecks to the committee in his cross-examination, but does not give the several amounts of those checks but does the dates. But. being in the position of being required to tell the whole truth, he entirely conceals the fact that a large portion of the $2,000 was paid for the education and support of the girl Bessie Turner, now_his swift witness before the committee, contradicting two written statements which have been published, made by her relative to the same facts, wherein she designates what she tells before the committee as a “wicked lie.” See her letter: BESSIE TURNER TO ELIZABETH TILTON. - JANUARY 12.? The story that Mr. Tilton once lifted me from my bed and carried [sic] me screaming to his own and attempted to violate my person is a wicked lie. Yours truly, Bnssm. She now says that she was carried “ sleeping,” not “ scream- ing.” ‘For a young woman of twenty she slept reasonably soundly, as she did not wake up till after she was in his bed !_ Her character for truth and virtue has been by,Beecher’s advisers thus forever ruined to save him, because, as the story was first told, no young girl was ever “lifted from her bed and carriei screaming to his own” by a ruthless rav- isher and remained pure, especially as’ the witness nowhere suggests that he was interfered with. The checks which he produced before the committee.which are not published, will be seen, I have no doubt, to have been payments on her account, as their dates show them to be six months apart, as her half-yearly bills became due, with per- haps a single exception. Let me say to Mr. Beecher that if he will apply to the principal of the Steubenville (0.) schools he can find out just _how much he has paid there, and Mrs. Tilton can tell him what became of the rest of the supposed two thousand dollars. All this matter of the support of this girl was arranged by Mrs. Tilton and Beecher, Tilton doing nothing about it, and a portion "of. the money was paid to Mrs. Tilton herself, as appears by the following letter, extracted from my published statement: , TUESDAY, January 18, 1873. Dear Franc~is—Be kind enough to send me $50 for Bessie. I want to inclose it in to-morrow’s mail. Yours gratefully, ELIZABETH. Would not ingenuous truth have required Mr. Beecher to state that this large sum was paid for this young girl’s sup- port in order to relieve him from his difficulty and prevent the exposure of the recital of his own acts, which she had heard in the family, in the neighborhood where’ they were most likely to be taken up? Did he not know the facts? Will anybody believe him when he intimates in his examina- tion that he did not know? Is it possible that he never asked his dear ,friend Moulton where this money was going to, especially as he is careful to instruct Moulton to “ feed out” the $5,000 to Tilton. Instead, he puts forward the phrases: “Money has been obtained from me in the course of these afiairs in considerable sums; but I did not at first look upon’ the suggestions that I should contribute to Mr. ’I‘ilton’s pecuniary wants as savoring of blackmail ”——thus putting the amount of the $2,000 and the $5,000 in his statement as if they went together to Tilton for the same purpose. In order to give color to this allegation of blackmail-, trumped up after the charges against Tilton of forging letters and insanity had failed them, Beecher’s lawyer’s make the following report of the conversation of July 5, in answer to a. question prepared for that purpose: Q. Did Moulton ever question you in regard to this matter whether you had ever spoken on that 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. Q. Since the publication of that Bacon letter? A. Yes; I think it was on the Sabbath day after the appointment of this committee. I preached but once on that day, and, on the afternoon of that day, he saw me and said to me in a conversation: “You have never mentioned about that $5,000.” Isaid: “Yes, I had, to one or two persons. I mentioned to Oliver Johnson for one, because he was saying’ something to me one day about what some of Tilton’s friends were saying, and I incidentally mentioned that to him, which he never repeated, I suppose, to any- body!’ always.” Q , V V In regard to this statement Beecher is wholly mistaken, if he does not intend to falsify. I remember that part of the conversation very well and what I said on that occasion to Moulton said: “I will never admit that; I shall deny it him, ‘Which was: “General Tracy, your counsehsays that you must never say anything about the payment of any money on account of Tilton, because that will go very much against you. Have you ever said anything?” Beecher re- plied: “ Only to Oliver Johnson, who will keep it to himself, and I never will say anything about it to anybody else.” That was all that was said upon the matter of keeping silence about that money. Now, when the fact is seen that I especially and exactly set forth, as well the money paid Mrs. Tilton and for Bessie’s support as the $5,000 in my statement prepared for the com- mittee, without being called upon to do so by anybody, and while I supposed it.rested wholly between Beecher and my- self, and Beecher himself says it did wholly rest between him and Johnson, why should I have, at the very hour that I was looking forward to the probability of making my statement before the committee. that I have made, stated to Beecher that I never would admit it to anybody? I frankly confess that I never had told it to anybody, and never meant to tell it to anybody, not on Beecher’s account, because I thought the advance of $5,000 to the Golden Age was an act of noble- ness and generosity on his part, and so said in my statement, and my only desire to keep it secret was lest it should -get to Tilton that he was under obligations to Beecher. It never occurred to my thought, under any circumstances whatever or in any form, that it could enter into the imagination of man that this was an extortion of money from Beecher. On. the contrar , he knew that I myself had advanced sums in aid of Tilton's enterprise, who had never accused me of any improper intimacy with or advances toward his wife. My \,,.,..\_, _ , . u partners had subscribed and advanced money for the purpose . of supporting the Golden Age. Many other prominent citi- zens of Brooklyn had done the same thing, and I had no thought that Beecher was doing anything other and different from what the rest. of us were doing——except that he had, perhaps, an additional personal motive—to sustain an enter- prise which we all favored, and the results of which were looked upon as an honor to journalism. It will also be observed upon a careful examination. of Beecher’s ownstatement, although attempted to be concealed by ambiguous phrases, that the suggested; payment of $5,000 first came to me from him, and was not made by me to him; and that part of his statement which relates to what I told him in regard to the kind friend who had made an advance to Theodore Tilton in cash and notes would have been quite nearly correct if he had added the rest of the truth which I then told him—that Tilton had refused to receive that ad- vance from the party offering to make it; andthat I also told him at the same time that Tilton, I was sure, would not take any money from him, and therefore it was arranged between us that it should be given to Tilton in small sums as coming from me, as 1 had already made him like advances. Nor did the amount of $5,000, which Beecher subscribed seem to me at all extravagant for him to give. Having been for many years in the possession of a reputed income, from his salary and literary labor, of from forty to fifty thousand a year, and having apparently reasonably economical habits of living, I supposed him to be aman of very considerable if not large » fortune, from his almost necessary accumulations, and I leave him to explain why it was, with such ample income from which he ought to have accumulated a large fortune with habits of prudence and no known extraordinary expenses, to explain how he had impoverished himself and impaired his credit to so great an extent as not to be able to raise the paltry sumof $5,000 from among his iich parishioners with- out mortgaging his house, unless, indeed, he felt called upon to support others as he did Bessie. - - I will venture to mention the name of another gentleman ‘ who has shown himself in this controversy tobe a staunch and fast friend of Beecher,’ and who, before ever h’e proposed it to me, had advised Beecher that he ought to subscribe in - aid of Tilton, and to whom Beecher, as he reported, made the reply that he had offered to give money in order to aid Tilton, but he would not receive it. I now refer to Mr. Thomas Kinsella, of the Brooklyn Eagle, who has so loyally supported Beecher in this his final struggle for his pulpit and good name. - ' ’ ' It will be observed that Beecher, in his statement, says that I was to ‘-‘feed out” this money to Tilton, whichexactly comports with what I said in my statement, that I was to give it to him from time to time as I found he needed it, and that I had not yet paid all that sum to him, as the account in my published statement shows. Why, then, with that know]- edge 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 confesses he knew Tilton had not received, and why say that Tilton had had “ his gold jingling in his pockets.” for years? Or are these insinuations and flings on so solemn an occasion only the“j okes”which Mrs. Morse, Mrs. Ti1ton’s mother, says “ he cracked from Sunday to Sunday, while he leaves his victim suffering in cold and hunger at home, mourning for her sin?” I quote from Mrs. Morse’s letter of January 27, 1871, publish ed in my former statement 2' But this ‘is a death blow to us both, and I doubt not Florence (Tilton’s 7 daughter) has hers. Do you know when I hear of your cracking your jokes from Sunday to Sunday, and think of the misery you have brought upon us, I think with the psalmist: “There is no God.” Mrs. Morse is now one of his witnesses before Beecher’s committee, and his adopted mother from a spiritual marriage with her daughter, as will be shown by the following letter, which I here insert, marked “R” ; MRS. MORSE TO BEEGHER. . _ V ' Ocronnn 21. My Dear “ Son ”-You must pardon me for the request I now make. Can you help me in any way by the first of November? I am still alone, with no prospect of any one, with a rent of $1,500 and an income of $1,000. The consequence is, with other expenses, I shall be by the first of the month terribly behindhand, as I agreed to pay in monthly install- ments. I know full well I have no claim upon you in any way (sic), excepting your sympathy for my lonely and isolated condition. If I could be released from the house I, should gladly do so, for I’m convinced it’s too far out. All who have been to see my rooms say so. My darling spent most of yes- terday with me. She said all she had in the way of money was forty dollars per week, which was for foodgand all other household expenses . ._,.__;_.V.,~.,.,._-,-I”.-.»s=m.-.».._. ,_, _ is V M T a yseonhistr. s simstrsés wsshtr. Qt, real. aside from rent, and this was given her by hand of Annie Tilton every Saturday. If you know anything of the amount it takes to_Efind food for eight people, you must know there’s little left for clothing. She told me he ('.I‘.) did not take any meals home from the fact she could not get such food as he liked to nourish his brain, and so he took his meals at Moul- ton’s. Just think of that! Iain almost crazy with the thought. Do come and see me. Iwill promise that the “secret of her life,” as she calls it, shall not be men- tioned. I know We hard to bring it up, as you must have suffered in- tensely, and we all will, I fear, till released by death. Do you pray for me? If not, pray do. I never felt more rebellious than now, more need of God’s and human help. Do you know I think it strange you should ask me to call you “ son.” When I have told darling, I felt if you could in safety to yourself and all concerned, you would be to me all this en- dearing name. Am I mistaken? MOTHER. This letter bears date October 24. I fix the date to be in 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 when7Tilton was allowing hiswife $40 per week for house—, hold expenses. This letter was given me by Beecher as writ- ten by Mrs. Morse. Elizabeth’s mother, and is a callon him for money, which may explain the necessity for mortgaging his house otherwise than by paying $5,000 to me. It is the outside family that is always the most onerous to a man. It will be remembered that Elizabeth confessed that Beecher asked her to be his wife, with all that the name im- plies. Mrs. Morse tells him-—and she would not dare tell him so if it.was not so—-“ Do you know, Ithink it strange you should ask me to call you ‘ son.’ When I have told darling, I felt if you could in safety to yourself and all concerned. you would be to me all this endearing name. Am I mis- taken?” The delicacy of this adopted mother, who says: “ Do come and see me. I will promise the ‘secret of her life,’ as she calls it, shall not be mentioned,” will be appreciated, espe- cially because she knows it is cruel to bring it up, “ as you must have suffered intensely, and we all will, I fear, till re- leased by death.” Who believes that this note to Mr. Beecher-——a married man—2.ccompanied by a demand for money, with the re- minder of the “ secret” of a daughter’s life, means only that Beecher once gave some bad advice about a separation be- tween man and wife, which, so far as I know, never took place? ‘ I The troubleis, Beecher mistakes the persons who black- mailed him. It was Mrs. Morse and Bessie, and nobody else, andthey are now repaying him by testifying in his behalf. If such conduct as this goes unpunished. and unrebuked, un- christian men will be prone to agree with the Psalmist and Mrs. Morse, that “ there is no God.” Upon the whole, there were very curious relationships among these parties by adoption, of which I think it would trouble a. heraldry ofiice to make a family tree, and which seem to have been a mystery even to Mrs. Morse, for she says in her first letter which I have quoted above, “ The re- mark you made to me at your door was an enigma to me, and every day adds to the mystery: ‘ Mrs. Beecher’ has ‘adopted the child.’ ‘ What child?’ I asked. You said, ‘ Eliza- bethg Now, I ask, what earthly sense was there in that re- mark?” Mrs. Beecher had adopted Elizabeth; Beecher had adopted her mother, and wanted Elizabeth to be all that a wife could be to him; and Mrs. Morse says she believes he would be all the endearing name of son can be to her, and wants to know if she is mistaken. Query: Under this ar- rangement, what relation is Mrs. Beecher to Beecher if she had adopted the child of his mother, and her husband had married the daughter. of her mother? VVho wonders that Mrs. Morse thought it a mystery? I am not specially acquainted with the habits of men or women who iobtain money by blackmail, but I had supposed if they so obtained money they did what they pleased with it, and not have it doled out by a third person in little sums as he deemed there was need, without the knowledge of the blackmailer where it came from, who obtained the money by threats and extortion. Again, Beecher says that “my confidential friend” told him that Tilton would publish his statement unless another $5,000 was paid, which he refused to do. Does Beecher mean that I was that friend? If he meant so, why did he not say go? He knows that I never suggested that he should pay a dollar, or ever believed that the matter could be composed by the payment of money, as it might have been by other proper action if _he had acted like a noble and courageous man, as Iat one time hoped he might do and might be. This statement is insinuated to prejudice me in advance after he learned, on the 4th of August last, he could not use the best friend that “God ever raised up to a man” to act dis- honestly and falsely to servehis selfish purposes. The charge is as false as another answer made on cross-examination to injure me by showing that I opened his letters, as follows: Q, By Mr. Winslow—Can you tell us what became of Mrs. Woodhull’s thmatening letter? A. Mr. Moulton opened it. The falsehood of this answer can be shown in a moment. That threatening letter—as indeed both letters from _Wood- hull to Beecher-—wo:-re sent to me—was dated J mac 3, 1872, and was sent inclosed in a note from Beecher to me of the same date, with a request to answer it, as follows : My Dear M0uZton——Will you answer this? Or will you sac that she is to understand that I can do nothing? I certainly shall not, at anyand all hazards, take a single step in that direction, and if it brings trouble- lt must come. Please drop me a line to say that all is right—if, in your judgment, all is right. Truly yours, ‘' W. B. Why does, this minister of the Gospel make such reckless statements? Again, let us ask, does any man wonder, when they fall into such coutradictions with his own letters, that Beecher and his lawyers should have desired so much to get possession of my documents in order that they might square theirstatements and escape these cantradictions? : And in the whole course of all the negotiations had with his friends or his counsel as to the settlement of this contro- versy after the publication of the Bacon letter, I challenge any one to say that the word money was ever used byme, or by Tilton in my presence, as a. method of settling this matter. True, before that publication I said. to Tilton.-—wha.t I say here openly and freely—that from my own fortune I would give $5,000 in gold to save its publication. And I also stated the fact that I so said to Beecher; and I also said to him that he had better give his whole fortune if that would stop it (and I believed it much larger then than I do now), in order to con- vince him how necessary it was, in my judgment, that this controversy should not be reopened. N 0 letter will be produced, I venture to say, from Tilton, and, I know, none from me or from mine, asking Beecher to take any course except to keep silence and cover his own sins as well as he might in this unhappy affair; and the only thing that seems to me like blackmailing him because of his con- nection with Mrs. Tilton is the plain demand of her mother (and, as now appears, his adopted mother), Mrs. Morse, that he should use his influence as a Christian minister to re- appoint her brother in the Custom House at New York. “And Elizabeth was disappointed that he did not, too.” I now produce certain letters of Mr. Beecher, which seems to contain an answer to his charge that when he paid the $5,000 he thought it was blackmailing, and was very much “ dis- satisfied with himself,” for doing it. If he was so dissatisfied he certainly did not make it known to me, who had, as he says, extorted the money from him. It will be remembered that the $5,000 was paid on the 2d of May, 1873. The 7th of the following July brought me a. very cordial invitation to visit him at his house in the country, contained in the follow- ing letter of that date, marked “ S” : nnncnnn TO MOULTON. . PEEKSKILL, July '2', 1873-Monday, 7 r. M. My Dear Frank: I have just arrived. I called Saturday evening to learn that you would not return till Monday. Can you come up Tues- day or Wednesday or Thursday? Let me know by letter or telegram‘ The trains are A. M. 8, 9:10, 10:45; P. M. 2, 4, 4:15, 5:30, 6:20, and 7. The fourr. M.is express and good train; if you come in the afternoon you should allow forty-five minutes from City Hall to reach Forty second street station, and about one hour from your store. I have not seen you since the card. I will take good care of you, and if others don’t think‘ so much of you as I do, I will try and make up. My vacation is begun, and am I not glad? Next week we expect company The drought is severe——no real soaking since the last of May, and things ars suffering: but yet the country is beautiful. The birds are as good to me as David’s harp. I only need some one to talk to, and that one is you. . Come when you can, and, coming" or going, believe me faithfully and affectionately yours, - H. W. B. It will be seen that to complete his happiness he only want- ed “ some one to talk to, and that one is you”—the man who had just extorted money from him as blackmail so that he felt “ dissatisfied with himself,” and to whom he says, “ Com- ing or going, believe me faithfully and afiectionately yours, H. W. B.” On the 9th came another invitation in a letter of that date, which I insert, marked “ T :” ‘BEECHER TO MOULTON. Tnunsnny EVENING, July 9, 1873. My Dear Fr(mk—-Why not come on Saturday and spend Sunday? You must get your comfort out of Nature and me, and not notice any with- holding of countenance elsewhere. ‘ I preach in the village in the morning, but you can lie on the hill side -in peace. The afternoon and evening will be open for all gracious influences which forests hide or heavens distill The birds are not yet silent, though their pipes are somewhat feebler. Flowers are burnt, grass withered, grain reapt, grapes not ripe, strawberries gone, blackberries not come, raspberries in good condition and abundant, also water- melons, and, besides, a demijohn of——water1 Iwant to see you and show you a letter, etc. Do you know what Bowen is doing? Will he publish? Find out if anything is on hand. Truly yours, H. W. B. Send me a line on Friday if you shall come, so thatl may meet the train. Otherwise, pay your own hack hire. This, it will be seen, promises me every inducement and entertainment if I would come. Besides, he wants to see his blackmailer and to “ show him a. letter, etc.” For what pur- pose ‘I—to be blackmailed again? 4 He also wants to know what Bowen is doing, and whether he will publish any state- ment. Was ever blackmailer treated by his victim so before? The only punishment he threatens to put upon his black- mailer is that if he will not so arrange his business that his victim can have the chance of meeting him and driving him home in his carriage, he shall have to pay his own hack hire. I also produce another letter of July 14, 1873, which, if it is not a full refutation of the charge that, up to that time, I had blackmailed Beecher or aided in blackmailing him, or that he believed I had done anything except in his interest, a charge of blackmail can never be contradicted. It is here inserted, marked “Uz” BEECHER T0 MoUI;'roN. My Dear Fr0m7c—-I, looked for you S-aturday,_and received your note this morning-Monday. Howard writes that T. T. has sent to Mr. Halliday a note announcing that he did not consider himself for two years a member of the church. There is also a movement to let the other party [meaning Bowen] go to trial, and also to give him an avoidance of trial by some form of letter, I don’t know what. I have not been consulted. I do not mean to med- dle. It is vacation. Governor Claflin and wife, of Mass, will be here this week. I am getting at my writing again——at work on my book. I despair-ed of finishing it. I am more encouraged now. For a thousand encouragements—-—for service that no one can appreciate who has not been as sore-hearted as I have been, for your honorable delicacy, for confidence and afiection—I owe you so much that I can neither express nor pay it. Not the least has been the great-hearted kindness and trust which your noble wife has shown, and which have lifted me out of de- spondencies often, though sometimes her clear truthfulness has laid me pretty flat. - I mean to‘ run down some day; will let you know beforehand, that I- may not miss you, for to tell the truth I am a litlle heart-hungry to see you; not now because I am pressed, but because I love you, and will ever be faithfully yours, HENRY WARD Bnnonnn. Peekskill, July 14, 1873. This shows how utterly and confidingly Mr. Beecher trust- ed me, and yet he new states that I had been blackmailing him for years, and that Tilton had been a co-conspirator with me. And yet this letter recites that Tilton had written a note to the assistant pastor of the church that he had not considered himself a member for two years. Again, the letter shows ' that as to “ the other party,” Bowen, his church was colloguing together to give him an avoidance of a trial by some form of letter for the slanders of Bowen, lest Beecher should be injured. I say the church was colloguing, because Beecher says he had not been con- sulted and did not mean to meddle. ~ Mark, I call attention again, toremphasize it, to this letter, in order that there may be no mistake as to what Bsecher’s opinion was of the man who he now says he felt was black- mailing him at the time, to the phrases: “ For a thousand encouragements, for service that no one can appreciate who has not been as sorehearted as I have been, for your honora- ble delicacy ”—what, delicate blackmailing ?—“for confidence and affection, I owe you.so much that I can neither expres nor pay it.” — Again, mark his promised visit to the blackmailer in these words: “ To tell the truth, I am a little heart—hungry to see you, not because I am pressed, but because I love you and will ever be faithfully yours.” I think I may be pardoned for lingering over this letter, for in it is my vindication from a 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 knew all and knows all that I know-—was saving him from despondencies and threatened suicide, and this letter gives the thanks he felt for her efforts, “ although,” he says, "sometimes her clear truthfulness has laid me pretty flat.” I have already given one of those exhibitions of her truth- fulness when she advised him to confess his sin, and ask for- giveness of man as he expected forgiveness of God. Again, I produce a letter of October 3, 1873, five months after the time when, he says in his statement, he believed that I was blackmailing him and “ felt dissatisfied with him- ‘ self” that he permitted it. It is marked “ V :” BEECHER T0 MOULTON. , FRIDAY Noon, October 3, 1873. jlly Dear Fr0mJt'—~I have this morning got back, sound and fresh, and want to send my love to you and yours. I should see you to-morrow, but shall be out of town till evening. God bless you, my dear old fellow! 1 V H. W. BEECHER. Let all the lawyers search all the annals of the crime of blackmailing, overhaul every police report, and produce another instance where, five months after it was known to the victim, he addresses lis 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. I now produce a letter of previous date, February 16, 1873, inclosing a check of that date, which is marked “ V :” SUNDAY MORNING, February 16, 1873. III] Dear Frcmk—I have tried three times to see you this week, but the fates were against me. I wanted to store up a little courage and hope- fulncss before my three weeks’ absence. I revisit my old home and haunts, and shall meet great cordiality. I inclose check subject to your discretion. Should any accident befall me, remember how deeply I feel your fidelity and friendship, your long—continucd kindness and your affection With kindest remembrances to Mrs. M., I remain, always yours, H. W. BEECHER. This discloses a still more singular transaction, because it shows that without being called upon the victim has tried three times to see me in one week, but failed. He was to be absent for three weeks, going to his old home, and wanted “to store up a little courage and hopefulness ” for the occa- sion, although his old friends were to meet him with great cordiality. He says: “ I inclose a check subject to your dis- cretion ;” that is-: “ Feed my lambs while I am away.” Why don’t Beecher produce the check of that date among those that he paraded before the committee, and let us see how much of the $2.000 that made? I wait for his reply before I speak further, lest “ other hearts ache.” Not content with expressions of gratitude while leaving, the note shows that he makes a will. He leaves it as a legacy to me in case of accidental death, that he died with the memory in his heart of my fidelity, friendship and long-continued afiection. Is it necessary to my vindication that I should pursue this miserable afterthought of ‘a charge of blackmail further? If to obtain advantage to one’s-self by using the unfortunate situation of another is blackmail, then Beecher himself will come fully within that description. Beecher protected him- self from Bowen by using the power that Tilton had over Bowen to get the tripartite covenant out of him, and yet he puts the fact in exactly the contrary light: ’ _ The domestic offense which he [Tilton] alleged was very quietly and easily put aside, but yet in such a way as to keep my feelings stirred up, in order that I might, through my friends, be used to extract from Mr. Bowen $7,000, the amount of a claim in dispute among them. The chetk for that sum in hand, Mr. Tilton signed an agreement of peace and con- cord, not made by me, but accepted by me as sincere. The precise contrary of this is true. Mr. Bowen had made certain charges against Beecher, and thereby caused Tilton to write a letter on the 26th of December, 1870, requiring Beecher to leave his church and city, which Bowen carried to Beecher. Why should Tilton have selected Bowen to be the bearer of such a letter if Bowen had not made the state- ments-which Tilton recites in his letter to him were made when Oliver Johnson was present, of five different acts and specifications of adulterous intercourse with five different women? . , , That letter was read by Beecher, and the dreadful accusa- tions made by Bowen were fully known to him; and as this matter was contemporaneous with the accusations made by Tilton as to his own wife, Beecher desired that I should en- deavor to protect him from these also, and insisted that I should agree to a reference to an arbitration, of which his friend and present cemmitteeman, Mr. H. B. Claflin, was chairman, and submit Ti1ton’s claim for damages for breach of contract by Bowen to that arbitration. 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