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Show BELCHER TILTON SCANDAL. SCAN-DAL. New York. 2-h A c-py ol lhu.ii s extraordinary letter in rrgard ihe Plymouth Church scandal, wa .-cut bv a special mt f.'-ni;er. vested iv Rev. H. W. Beecher. now 'his farm at IVekskill. Early intli.- day-Rev. day-Rev. Dr. E, Bee- her, broth, r of Henry Ward, and a -barer with Th. G, Shearman, a lawyer, in !. m-tn-agement of Plymouth Ciimvli, wih. reference to the cainlal. came (n (hi-, city and was asked what he linnieiii of the new phase of the scandal, lie replied that he could ghe noo..ni,.n. but suppeei.l Tihoij's It Iter cjliM he answered satisfactorily if it sh..;iM be necessary. He went lo the .'K.j- of Shearman, with whom lie had in-' in-' tcrview several liuuivs' Imig. .shearman .shear-man subsequcntiv said he J;d u.,t I,... lievc Tilt-'ti's allegation ...f Burner's guilt. Tiie usual I'iymoulh (,'u;,rc;i prayer meeting will lc he'd tin;, veiling, veil-ing, and in accordance with the manual of business a mecthi' mav be heitl alter it. A dispatch ffo-n .P' .kskil! sta!. i that Henn Wanl Beecher. in au-wcr to a query as to what course he will pursue in view of the recent -,ta lenient le-nient ol Tilton, says he will riot i-i the silence he luis nithci to obf. rv,d. Shea-man. clerk of Beecher'.--chur'b calls attention to tiie faet that in 'j;; -ton's renewctl scandal pubiicn ai there is no definite charge of ;n,.-kind, ;n,.-kind, but only in-iLni.uiu a-.-l iu:, ,. enecs. Tilton had t'Ccn told rt iie.u-edly iie.u-edly tint if he would make a u'.re. t charge it would be Invcsn-u. .1 whether made again-1 the pa-tm- ,.r any member of the Plymouth Church. Shearnuui says in nearly ail the ah--gaiions of Tilujii are more or , f untruth. This is the cas :u the p..-sage p..-sage referring to him aud in (Jll,. , two instances of which he was --j. nizanl of thc referring to BecciH -. The falsehood b- so ir.g'jiho-:--woven with the tuith to rJu l-.r ;t diniciUt to sep.irate '.hem j.t ;,v. an explanation of al! tiie eiri. .iin.-;.,'i"- . ces conneete-il with the incident; the effect was, however, in e.-h to .:::o:t..nd wa: p the truth to sut Til-! leu p :rp- sc. lie and otiier olli- ers of -.'j'- .lUicu ha-.i rtcciveel an cxplau-il: cxplau-il: ii hi part of l -e matters at U-ue, ,. , , v u. -v "v .-at:-ii:d t:-.at Mr. j i;V -V.'.-r" iv.wj inn.A-ent. Tneir faith I hi i. a wa, not in the least shakciu : p,.!.'".. r '-.!.''"!d 'siiiip!v deny the j i t; u , ,j; T.ltj's sfcmwhat vague al-1 ' ;. .tti a:: 1 explain ihe document 1 . a i ir ui'nie is alLichtd he '' won 'al find the eommuuity, among 1 whom he has labor e.l with such dis-i ili.:--::-!.' 1 ,-u-ees, dirpOstd to side ' a .-':- :si:i a'M;u: all his a-sai!ants. T.h-.n h.o. n.uch to tay oi the re-ii..eit- c h" h l, hitiicrUi obervevl. ' - --all Ih ;reatlv surpristil il he dui.- i"'- Mion" regret that he did not ; L,he;-ve it :oi,-..r." I T. e ti'..7-( sas the members or ; -he e ;u:ii -eem t.. nave reaciie.l the c. ncl'i-i'Mi that the changes m the leU'-i- are old, supported by lacts n.iicb ictve long been known to those au.uahiltd wit ii the whole subiect, and fully capableof explanation, wh:c'.i w .li exonerate Beech t r. .-icarman denied that the ca tract which appeal's m the letter w;is in liecclier'-i iiandwritim:. Associate p;istor lialiiday says iliei-e is nothing in Tilt.m's k iter to shake bis confidence in Beecher, nor did he think tho church would consider con-sider it necessary to take action iu the matter. Tilton has had an oppor-tutiitv oppor-tutiitv to prefer charges and had not. It would lake a good many letters like this to shako his confidence confi-dence in Beecher. Pastor Halliday expressed himself as being glad the letter had been published. The worst had been said and now all suspense sus-pense was at an end. The H-rld editorially says of Til-ton's Til-ton's letter, wc are sure no high-spirited high-spirited and honorable man can have risen from the perusal of it without : teelni'gs of unlimited contempt for its author; tint that is a matter of small con-cqiiencc. We fear that not a few may have risen from tho perusal with loeliii'-ts also of scorn for the pre-teici' pre-teici' os ot tne religion which its au-i au-i tl;or represents, timply as. a disci fie. Again, iilioti now revn-es a scandal without proving all tfic imputations upon the character, in the firs!, place ol" his own wiie, and in the second jiln'Cof B.cchcr, which were originally origi-nally made public on his authority bv the. infamous, woman whose biography biog-raphy he mole, aud which, with ai inconsistency simply amazing, Iu even now redcuounces as a wicket aud horrible slander. To give thest imi.iitation-i. dcnrivcil bv himself o color of reason, some shadow of probability, pro-bability, he prints, not a letter, but an a'leped extract from a letter written writ-ten by Beecher to himself more than three years ago. From such an extract ex-tract nothing whatever can be fairly inferred lor or against the writer, but honorable men are at liberty to infer anything against the man who publishes pub-lishes such an extract in such a condition, con-dition, from a letter evidently written with the deepest of feeling. |