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Show A CHAPTER OF IT. WOODHULL ON THE BEKCHKR SCANDAL SPICY POINTS ABOUT THE TA8T1XS THERETO. If not asking too much, will you give me a history of the Beecher scandal? I cannot pleasantly make reference lo the details of the affair. When this present trial is over, let it go as it will, though I think the jury wiil disagree, I propose lo sum up tho case, and then the whole truth will be given to the world. But you can tell some of it now? O, yes, a volume. My first acquaintance acquaint-ance with Theodore Tilton came about in this way. He came to me with a copy of the World of May 22, 1871, in which a card of mine waa published, which included this sentence: sen-tence: "For example, I know of a man, a public teacher of eminence, who lives in concubinage with Ihe wife of another public teacher of almost al-most equal eminence. All three coo-cur coo-cur in denouncing offences against morality." He asked me "who I meant." I replied: "You, Theodore Tilton, and Henry Ward Beecher." He acknowledged that it was true, and was ready to have the matter exposed. ex-posed. He wanted it to come out, and he urged me to reter to Mr. Bowen, who had said to Tilton, a year before the publication of the expose, that he could drive Beecher out of Brooklyn at any lime. Flow was the article prepared? From information received from the parties. I first heard of it in the agricultural committee room at the capitol when a committee of ladies were met by a congressional committee. com-mittee. Soon after this I had conversations con-versations with Mr. Bpprhfir uKmit it , He was very apprehensive and more than onco made the remark that he waa a natural -born coward, and could not publicly avow his real sen-1 sen-1 timents, though he had been a pupil , ot Stephen Pearl Andrews fer nineteen nine-teen years. He claimed that there ! waa nothing criminal in hia love for Miv. Tiiton, and that it was spon-, spon-, taneous. Was the matter known of in pri-' pri-' vate circles? Why certainly. Months previous to tfae publication of November, 1872, iu UooJhull : Ctujluis Weekly, the whole story h;d been set up in the 0 Dices of the Springfield Uepuilic-in New York Sun, and Brooklyn Eaqte, and Air. Beecher knew it. " Through powerful influence it had been held in abeyance. Once in Judge West-brook's West-brook's othce Beecher begged Mr. Kinseila, with tears in his eyes, to withold the thing for the sake of his twenty-five years of ministry in Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. What induced you to publish it? One power.'ul motive was to ple&ie Mr. Beecher, and TO COMPLY WITH HIS REQUEST that I should do it. He said to me it could not be held back much longer and he would have no pwerto fignt the story if it should come out in The secular press, but if it was published he might ue able to rai.y from the blow. He said he had lived long enough with tho sword of Damocles hansing over hia bead. . Wnat Joliiiwcd the publication? The arrest ofmyBOJand sister and the confiscation of ali our property. It is safe to ssy that we should have received oniers for a million and a half copies of that issue of the Wtek'y We had printed some two hundred thousand when one evening, after office hours, a Mr. Comstock want to the dice, and from the porter there bought fourteen copies.and ihen got ihe porter to Like tnem to the postotfice. He fuiiowed on, and as soon as be saw them depart he had the porter arrested and a warrant issued for our arrest for sending obscene matter through the mails. I first heard of the order through the Lotos club the same evening. What followed is a matter of public and legal history. I I wa arreited for a job |