OCR Text |
Show JBEECHER-TILTON SCANDAI. "GATll" AS I) MOCLTOX AND TII.TON. Chicago, 21. The Tribune tbla morning publishes a report of a long interview held yesterday bettvceii Frank Moulton and George Alfred Townscnd, in which Jloulton is made to admit tho Rcnerftl correctness of the tirst intcrv;ew publication, which created so much controversy, but avows that he did not say thatBecch-er thatBecch-er confessed his adultery with Mrs. Til ton lo him. Moullon I did not say that it w.is said by two people, before you, and you mLxcd my conversation with that of others. The correspondent reports Moulton as saying that it hud often appeared to him that Beecher hud no moral -senso whatever; that he had hoard him make remarks on tho outrages committed within the family circle which showed that he had no conception con-ception of the common principles of life. The correspondent reports Tilton as saying, in reply to a question, that if UouUon's statement does not decidedly decided-ly affect public opinion, there is no such tiling as. public opinion. Moulton s statement will, i; is said, be published in tho Graphic to-day, vrith lithographs of alllctters produced by Moulton. THE COMMITTEE RETORT. Another special to the Tribune says the report ot the Beechcr investigation investiga-tion committee is completed, and will be presented to the examining committee com-mittee of Plymouth Church to-morrow, and to the Church itself by the examining committee to-morrow night. It will probably be 10 or 12 o'clock before the document can be obtained, and if it reaches you at all to-morrow night it will bo late. The report is a Biimmary of the evidence, none of which, however, will be given to the public for soveral weeks. It is an entire acquittal of Beechcr. TILTOS'S SECOND STATEMENT. Tilton's second statement is preparing, pre-paring, but it will not bo published lor several days. It will follow Moul-ton's Moul-ton's statement, after a short interval, and will probably be made public at the same time. The papers are served on Beeoher in the suit brought against him by Tilton. LETTEItS THAT Wlli Ai'FEAR IX MOL'L-TOS'S MOL'L-TOS'S STATEMENT. !New York, 21. The following are uupius ui ,.. uiipuuiiaui-u iA.tiiut,uu wliich will appear in the statement of: Frank D. Moulton, written some two weeks ago, and to be published in the daily -Graphic this afternoon: Xcw York, -April 2, 1872. My dear Moulton: How for the closing act of justice and duty.- Let Theodore pass into your hands the written apology which he holds for the- improper advances, ad-vances, and do -you pass it into the names of the friendly lire, - in your room, of reconciliation. Then let Theodore talk to Oliver Johnson. I hear that he and- Carpenter, the artist, have made this whole nllair die subject of conversation in the clubs. Sincerely yours, Sam'L WlLKESOX. Mrs. Tilton to -aiuulujrj, bo'vrCen April 7th and Xov.,er 2od, 1S72. tyZr Francis: I did tell you two falsehoods at your last visit. At first I entirely misunderstood your question, thinking you had reference to the interview at your house the day before; but when I intelligently replied to you I replied falsely. I will now put myself on record faithfully. faith-fully. I told Mr. B. that at tho time of my confession T. had made similar simi-lar confessions to mc of himself,' but no developments as to the persons. When you then asked, for your own satisfaction, "Was it so?" I told my second Ho. After you had left I said to T. : "You know I was obliged to lie to Francis'and I now say, rather than make others suffer, as I now do, I must lie, for it is a physical impos-ibility impos-ibility for mo to tell the truth yet. I ,1 .u:i- 17 , tl,t I,,,,! nnf T'a angry, troubled face been beforo me, : I -would have told you the truth. I ; am a perfect coward in his presence; not from any fault of his, But from long years of timidity. I implore you, as this is a side issue, to be careful not to lead me further into tempta- : tion. You may show this to T., or Mr. B., or any one an effort made for truth. Wretchedly. 'Elizabeth. Beecher to Bowcn: 1 Brooklyn, January 2d, 1S71. -X' Dear Jiowen: Since I saw you last Tuesday, I have had reason to think that the only rases of which I spoke to you in regard to Mr. Tilton, were exaggerated in being reported to me, and I Bhould be unwilling tO'have anything appear to the contrary. con-trary. I said that though it was but a little woight on your mind in a matter so important to his welfare, 1 am informed by one, on whose judgment judg-ment and integrity I greatly rely, and who has tho means of forming an opinion better than any of us, that he knows the whole matter about Mrs. Ballard; that the stories are not true, and that tho same is tho case with other stories. I do not wish any reply to this. I thought it only but justice that I should say bo much. Truly yours, H. W. Beeches. Then cornea Tilton's letter of Jan-uary2d, Jan-uary2d, 1871, notifying Bowen that ho authorizes Moulton to sottle the the Independent through the Brooklyn Union. Then follows the letter from Moulton to Clallin, stating that he (Moulton) had advised Tilton to arbitrate arbi-trate the matter, and hoping this would meet tho approval ol all parties concerned. Beccher's memorandum of the interview in-terview at Freeland's is as follows: February, 1S70. At a long interview inter-view at Mr. Freeland's house, for the purpose of having a full and final r-couciliation, r-couciliation, Mr. Bowen stated his grievances, which were all either of a business nature or my treatment of mm personally, as per memorandum memoran-dum in his writing, after the hours of the conference, everything was adjusted ad-justed and wo Bhook hands, and pledged each other to work without iar or break. I said to him; "Mr. Bowen, i you hear anything not in accordance with this agreement of hnr-roony, hnr-roony, do not let it jest, but conic straight to me at once, and I will do the same by you." lie agreed. In the lecture room I stated that all our differences were over and that wc were friends again. This was a public pub-lic recognition. He was present and heard it and expressed himself a. pleased with it. Alter all this, I1 asked Mr. Howanl to help me to cany out the reconciliation and to call on Mr. Bowen and remove 'he little differences between them. Mr. Howard called and expressed hi: gratification. Then it whs that.with-out that.with-out any provocation, he (Bowen) toid Howanl this reconciliation did nnt include one matter that he (Bowen) knew about Mr. Beecher, which, if he should speak, would drive Mr. Beecher out of Brooklyn. Mr. Howard How-ard protted, with horror, against such a statement, saying: ''Mr. B., this is terrible. 'o man should make such a statement unless he has the most absolute evidence. ' ' Bowen said, pointedly, that he (Howard) might go to Beecher but Beecher would never give his consent that he (Bowen Bhould tell Howard the secret. se-cret. Mr. Bowen, at no time, had ever made known to Mr. H. what this secret was, and the hints which Mr. Beecher had heard led Iiim to think it was another matter and not the slander which he uow found it to be. In the first part of the original of this memorandum the words "between "be-tween Bowen and Beecher," which follow the words "full and final reconciliation," re-conciliation," aro crossed. Beccher's proposed card for Tilton is as follows: "In my enthusiasm I hoped well and much of one who has proved utterly unprincipled. I shall never again notice her stories, and now utterly repudiate her statements made concerning me and mine." Continued on -page 2.) . . . - I 1 i-a-tiriniJi'ON SCANDAL. - .,.:;tu,dj.-u, w 1.) : MOI l.l"N'S I'Kl.l'AlOf.IAf- f'AUl). I 'j ho I'ti'y Evening 0 rapine fur-il.-Ih-s in ntlvanee of publication the I ,r. ol aii'.'eU of the compl-.-Lu state-, uii-iu hi MotillMii. Muulton pre-j ur.t, hi- ct.-'a iii'-nt v. itii the following i nud: i v., , fu'.r-, I beoiime & part;' u'..u--t aci'lent illy to liiu ua-; iuj py eoiiliuvtri-y between lleechc-r , i i ' t ' 1 1 . i h.tvfc U'en tlie friend of Mr. TiiUm 9in p my iNiyLiuod, -und , lor Mr. if-r-ctnT h.ive nlw.iys enfr-t enfr-t kiiied tho wariinl li lnoralioti. in 170, I Irarn-d r'n' tiie hr-t time that Mr. Iiee( ii.-r h.vl given Mr. T.hvn j i;r.ive a eicie ol ollei.-'', tii.it. if tlie Itiuth M.otial be loaile public, a ureal iinlionm coamily would en.sue. 1 vt; tlie trandal would tt-nd ti 'inih riiiii,..' the v.-ry foundation founda-tion of tneuil o;-h-j; to h-y low a be-nehcen! be-nehcen! i'iser i-.r-.Nnl in our country, coun-try, iti.d tiie popL'cts and iiiiglil the t.omlv of one ul tho moat bridiaiit and promi?mi; ot tlio rising nit-n ot tins g"ti. r.iiion. inns uis- u ant rous 1 uYemul it. ind ,-tiil regard , it, I dfterininid to try and avoid it ior j nturly tour year.-i. i buvc l.dhimt ; ) most, a.-t-iihiou-iy to ave lilh these ( men from the consequences of their , m is. iietiier of unwhdom or pis- . ttion, these a. -is have already seriously involved them in a needless and disastrous dis-astrous quarre1, which is made the ; pretext ol (touring out on the community com-munity a tlo4ol impurity and sean-dal.ileeply sean-dal.ileeply allecting llieirown lamihe; and threatening, like a whirlpool, i not stille.l, to draw into iu vor.ex tiie peace of mind und good reputo of a host of others. More, than all, I saw that, because of the transgression of another, innocent children would be burdened with a load ot obliquity winch would weigh most heavily and cruelly on their young lives. All these considerations determined me to take an active part in these transactions, trans-actions, which have ultimately become be-come so notorious. This decUion in-volvid in-volvid me in great anxiety and labor, for whieli the liope of saving these interests could be my only compensa-! : tion. Even that reward had now . laihd me, and instead, an attempt is made to throw on me a part ot tho idiamo and disgrace which belongs to tho actors alone, ono of whom I havo zealously endeavored to serve ini8 seen lit, with all the nower of his vast inlhieuee and matchless art as a writer, to visit on me the penalties of his own wrong doing. At the same time, the public - are appealing to me to make known the truth, as if it would justify hid at- niy exertions has not been owing to any fault of mine. I worked faithfully faith-fully and sincerely under the almost daily advieo anil direction of Mr. Ueecher, with his fullest approbation and confidence and gratitude, until, If think, in an evil hour lor himself, he took other advice. J h;-ve failed, ami now, strangely enough, lu suaus to desire to punish me lor the sad consequences con-sequences of tho folly, iiHincerity and wickf dnrss of his present counselors. Mr. Uuccber in his staumint testifies th At he brought tins investigation without my kimwlcJ or ad vice, even while mourning what seemed to me the utter ur.'AUdom of this pro. ceding. I have done all 1 eoui.l horv.-rably to .avert the raUftivphe.iuid 1 have kept that this silence was d-icply injuring the friend ol uiyboyhoo.1. Prompted by a sense of duly, not to one only, but to all tho parties involved, 1 denied tiie united appeals made to me by Mr. Becchcr aud JVIr. Tilton, us well as those of the public, to produce pro-duce tiie evidence in my possession; partly because I felt that the injury thereby dene to Mr. Til ton was far less calamitous than the distraction which must come on all the interests I had for year's tried to conserve, and especially on Mr. Becchcr himself, if I should comply with this request; but I stated clearly that in an emergency should speak, namely, name-ly, in defense ol my own integrity of action, if it should ba wantonly assailed. 1 left Mr. Beccher untrammelled untram-melled by the fact in my hands, to defend himself, without tho necessity of attacking mo by published accusations accusa-tions of Mr. Beechcr allocting my character. My own self-respect, the advice of friends and public justice make it imperative that the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth be now declared.'' Moid tun goes on to say that ho gives the statement as worded before I Becchcr made his statement, no jsyHahie being changed. He had i wituiieid it only as a iat, despairing jtilurt to save his frieuds, and now ho gave it to defend his own character. He has only one alleviation to his grief and mat is that tho facts now published will be no more destructive than when they came out in January, 1-S , when he took the part of mediator medi-ator and attempted to restrain them. "It leaves him and Mrs. Tilton," he bocs on to say, "m almost the same position in which I found them, excepting in so far as their culemn statements may lower them iu tho estimation of tlu'1 world. I reserve to myself the right hereafter to review thestatement of Mr. Becchcr, in contrast with the Jacts as shown by the documents herewith .submitted, and others which have at my hand, tiie production of which elid not jjivni tn 1 1. tmi-wj-m- until some portion of the published evidence of Mr. Bcecher demanded a contradiction. i,igned), i"l;.N'!;D. MOII.ION. i SYS0t'.-;S OK MOL-I. TON'S STATEMENT. The statement of Moukon begins with t.-.e cxpres-ieu of very great rro'.yat feeliiig obliged to answer their invitation, and, with the per-uiijjion per-uiijjion of tiie parties, to put before taeni the cxa. ; : ic'.s which have been committed to i.r c-me, to his knowledge ah-.;: i L.e ill.! ..'-''V aC.-.ir under investigation. It: :-o eloin-j. he avs: "I shali use i.o wcrdiuf charac- ticn e :" the por'.ies: nor z'.-.a'A ,-avc wix :i :e-;, '.;- to exactly tt-ate the having ti.e uecurrcnets of c::e:r a ts o. o:...;;: jii and commission to be inierpnled by themselves." He t hen give's t.:e e!.:to of his acquaint- ain.-e with 'iilteui an.! Bcecher, that with the J-Uter having i-je-n, up to the' time of the eKeurrenccs which form1 ti'.c lLais of his statement. only casual. Ue has been, since IS-30, intimate: witii ThiOD, and a frequent visitor to1 ms house, and up to the -ud of, y-'r, i-70. tho day of Tilton'' .r-,-1 h' ardor k::ow:, of' SV.V:--1---:'-;:-d:h.u a;.d his v... . c yti:e,vcd tjeir marii.d rehi- i .k'::s .;cK..!:t esc.-pij.jniihy picas-1 Tyl 0 - c.:-aWr, Til-, ;: : -"haTO, ::-':y;J -hcr.nd o! tir-.:;;::.t fro: a i'.ymouih C.urch and i :re-.i b.-.- -. rc.:o s which yo : c.vp..c::.y :::;..e:t.i!..I, winch ' w- 'in's were. so i'i.tjnstntc.i,tiiHiei:incd in ti.e te e.L t;:e revit of Bj. .n. 1 Tilton t the same time told Moulton thai ox- e.ud t Buwe-n tiiat he wa prep.irt-el to believe his charges, because be-cause Beechcr ha-1 nuule improper advucen tu Mrs. Tilton. "urprisee: at this," he says, "I asked htm wnat, when he nqi-Vl, 'Dsjii't .isk; I can't tell von.' " Moult- a thereupon remonstrated re-monstrated with Tilt -n UK.'ii nis fool-whuess fool-whuess in signing such a letter on the strength of Bow cum amnions, and not have Bo wen a't'zn it also, and further expressed his doubt as to whether Bowen would deliver the h-tter. lie aft.-rwaids leareed from Beecher that Bowen did deliver tiie letter and t'tiat Beecher gave Moulton a copy ot it on the 1st f January. .SubsequenlK Moulton iceivcd from Tilton a c "y ft lue r-ame letter. Mouilon tlien repeats tiie eircuru-'sUnivs eircuru-'sUnivs of Boweu'o cli.-mis.-al of Tilton from lite Lfleindfid and Cniun, a relaUdto him by the latter, from Iwiiien it a' pears that the dismissal i wad cau.-t d by Tiiton's announce-I announce-I in. -ut Kin', lie w.is g'ling to see i IJeeeu- r. j TIIE ToT BoIl.lNU. i 1 Lie statement then say: "On Fr'i-.duv Fr'i-.duv evening, December limb, Tilton Jeanu.-to met ar.d sa'd, in substance, ! that bv his wife's request he had de-1 de-1 tenuineil to see Becener, in oreler to ishow to Beecher the confession of his wife of iut -rviews between them, which ho (.Tilton) had never, up to .hat tunc, mentioned to mm Beecher), and the fact of the con-iesiuii, con-iesiuii, of which ins wife had told dm Una she had never told Beechcr, that though her confession had been made in -July previous in writing, which writing he Tilton) had afterwards after-wards destroyed; but that his wife, fearing that if Bowen's accusations against Beecher were made public, the whole matter would lie known and her own conduct with Beecher become exposed, had revived her confession in her own handwriting, hand-writing, which he handed to me to read, which was the first knowledge I had of its existence. Tilton did not tell mo how his wife came to make the confession in July, nor did I, at that time or ever after, ask. Indeed I may shite here, before all, that I retrained from asking for the confessions confes-sions of the acts of all parties, farther than they chose to make them voluntarily, vol-untarily, for the purpose for which I was acting. Tilton wanted me to go down and ask Beecher to come up and see him at my house, which I did. I said to Beecher: "Mr. Tilton wants you to come and see him at my house immediately.' He asked what for. 1 replied: 'He wants to make some statement to vou in reference to your relations with his family.' He then called to some one - m the back room to go down" and say. that he should not bo at prayer meeting, and we went out together. It was storming at the time, when he remarked, 'There is an appropriateness in this storm,' and asked me, 'What can I do ?' I said: but, if you wish, I will show you how well a heathen can serve you.' We "then went to my house, and 1 showed Jhim into the chamber over the parlor, where Tilton was, and left them to-1 to-1 gether. In about an hour Beecher jcame down and asked me if I had !scen the confession, of Elizabeth. ( I isaidlhad. Said he: 'This will kill Imp,' and asked me to walk out with !him. - I did bo, and we waJkei to Til ton's house together, and he went hn. On the way he said:-'This is a terrible catastrophe; it comes upm 'mo as if I had been struck by lightning.' light-ning.' He went into Titum's house and I returned hoaie.'--Wlthiu. au hour he returned- to - my. house, and I walked 'with -him . fu . Ins while Beecher. was absent at Til ton's house, and whon he returncel there was no conversation- between them. WANTED A KEOOXCLLLATIOX. When we arrival at Beecher's house he wanted me to stand by him in this emergency aud procure a reconcdia-tion reconcdia-tion if possible. 1 told him I would, because the interests of the women, children and families were involved, if for no other reason. That ended the interview that night. During this evening nothing was eiii bv Tilton, Til-ton, either as to the truth or falsity of of Mrs. Tilton's confer ton, nor did he inform me that he had obtained from her any recantation ot the confession, which I afterwards learned he had. 1 returned to my house tud had soma conversation with Tilton, in which he told me that he had recited to Beecher the details of his wife's adulteries, and the remark which Beechcr made was this: ''All a dream, Theodore,' aud that was all the answer Beecher made to him. I then advised Tilton that, for the sake of his wife and fatuity, and for the sake of Beeeher'a family, the matter should he kept quiet and hushed up." Next morning, Moulton learned from Tilton of Beeeher's securing from Mrs. Tilton, during bis interview inter-view with her, the night before, the retraction of her confession. Tilton was furious at this act ot treachery, and declared there couli be no peace between bini and Beecher. Moulton etill counseled moderation and undertook to get the rctrac-traction rctrac-traction away troru Beecher. . He went that evening to Beecher, aud. after telling him he hail done a mean, treacherous act, first toward him (Moulton) from whom he hud wanted help, and second toward Tilton, with j whose wife he had had criminal intercourse, inter-course, and then being permitted by him to again visit his htjuse and get from the woman he had ruined a re-. carnation of truth for his own mere personal safety, he added: "Thati won't save you." At that interview, XTm.ltnn cu-. Wliormlll,:,! with I ' grief and sorrow, the fact of his sexual ; relations with Mrs. Tilton, and ex-i ex-i pressed some indignation that she had j not told him that she had told her husband, and in consequence of that fact he had been walking upon a vol- c.mo. Referring to WHAT HE UAH 1JOXE i In connection with Bowen against j Tilton, heexplained to Moulton that I ho had taken sides against Tilton i in consequence of stories about him, ' especially of one specific case in which Tilton was accused of improper! relations with Mrs. Ballard. He then j said he would write ti letter to Bowen retracting what ' ho had said against Tilton. J jXote. Sec letter of Beecher to ! ( Bowen dated Jan. i, 71, on our first i page. j Moulton then demandeei the I recantation received by him from j I Mrs. Tilton, promising to keep it1 sacredly if Beecher acted honorably. .Beecher then gave him the retraction retrac-tion anel Moulton ic'u rued home where he found Tilton who expressed i surprise anl gratiiicaiiou at the site-! cess of his mission. Muuiluu again appealed to Tilton to try to ' settle ti;e M.vrm; ; peacefully, and latterly expressed a1 desire to do so. dtibsequcntly, by a' previous arrangement. Moulton : i,;' to Beeeher's house, aud says: '"He1 took me into his study and then told I me again of his great surprise that j Elizabeth should have made a eonfes-, siou of his criminal commerce with with htir to her husband, without letting h'm know aboui it, I :i:-il;::,g his ilestrueLiou at any iiiuDicr.t possible, aud without warning Uj him. He expu.-seet his j great grief at this v.rng winch lie had done ad a minister and iriend lo I-iCodorc, a-d at his rcqut I took a ' p-;n and paper ai.d he dictated to me1 tite p.q-;r commonly known as tne .inoi't'jv. ai.d ad of which is, in my L.anduVaii.g. except the Wurds, ' I have trualui this to Muuitou in confidence,' con-fidence,' and the tit.natui, which latter are in Mr. Bcecuer'-i. This was: entrunied to me in conlidence to be shown only to Tilton, which I did. It had reference to no other fact or' act than the I i.'ONI EcSI'-X C'F sL'Nt'A L iNiao'eLt-E Rctwi.cn Bucl.er and Mrs. Tilton. whieh he, at thai interview, couie-s-eU and deiiie-d n.t. He also, at otiier interviewr held subsequently between us in relation to tins unfortunate affair, unqufthti'iily oiufessi'd that he hail been guilty of adultery with Mrs. Tiiton, and alwajsin a spirit of deep .riet and sorrow ut tiie enoruuty ot die crime he !uul committed against Tilton's family- At such times lie would cpe.ik with much feeling of the relaiioii he has unstained towards tticin as pastor, spiritual adviser unel trusud friend. His sell-condemnation at the ruin ho had wrong lit under such cireumtanet-s, was hill and complete, and at times he was -o lKw..el eloan with grief in consequence conse-quence of the wrong ne had dom, that he mrratened to put an end to his Hie. At this interview Beecher referred to Tilton's letter brought htm by Bowen, demanding his retsigna-tin,. retsigna-tin,. ..t,. He said he told Bowen lie did not understand it, that Tilton ' must be crazy to write such a letter. Beecher said Bowen hud been very treacherous towards Tilton, as well as 1 towards himself, because he ( Beecher j had had a reconciliation with Bowen, of whieh he told me thc terms, and that Bowen had never in his (Beeeher's) (Bee-eher's) presence spoken of or referred to any allegation of crimo or wrong-doing on his part with any woman whatever. Ho gave me in general terms memoranda mem-oranda which show the terms of the reconciliation. The first is in the hand writing of Bowen, containing live items, which Beecher assured me were the terms which Bowen claimed should be the BASIS OF KECOXCrUATION. It is as follows: "First, to report and publish his sermons and lecture room talks; second, sec-ond, a new edition of the Plymouth collection and Ereeland's interest; third, an explanation to the church; fourth, and write me a letter; fifth, to retract in every quarter what has been said to my injury." The second sec-ond paper was a pencil memorandum by Beecher of the meeting at Free-land's Free-land's in reference to the matter. Beecher expressed the greatest regret at what had been done against Tilton in relation to his business connection with Bowen, and besought me to do everything I could to save him from destruction, which wouli come upon him if the story of his (Beeeher's) intercourse with Mrs. Tilton should be divulged. In com pliance with the directions ol Beecher j on Jau. 1st, 1S71, I took the paper i which lie had dictated tn mc to Tiiton Tii-ton and detailed to him Beeeher's ex- press inns of regret and sorrow, aud spoke to him of his agony of mind, j aud again appealed to him to have ' the whole matter kept quiet, it not : I for other reasons for Die sake of the j children. To this Tilton assented. I 'At this interview with Tilton, the! ' latter gave Moulton authority to settle . -tiie matter o! contracts between him a:al Bowen, Moulton acting in the : interest ed beecher, counseling a '. peaceable stttlement of the Beiwen l controversy, lest it might reopen the 'other mailer relating to ,.-t 1 EKEonca's ooxnecr - In Tilton's family, etc. The correspondence corres-pondence between Moulton anel I Beechcr in relation to the Tilton con- tracts are here given. Moulton then 'says that he went to see Bowen in regard re-gard to the settlement of Tilton's claims, and says thi.t in the course of the interview ho vainly told Bowen that he had acted treacherously to-1 to-1 ward both Tilton and Beecher, teliing him the grounds for tho belief, and (notifying him of his knowledge of : the points of the settlement made by Ihitn with Becchcr, and of his knowi-'CLJ-; that after this he (Bowen) had ' told' Joe How;::4 thftt ho could, if he j chose, drive Beecher out Of , town. Bowen attempted no rcply j to these charges, but seemed I abashed ant! dej feted. Moulton gives a long statement of the settlement of the contract between Bowen and Tilton, which agrees eu-' eu-' tircly with the previously published I accounts, that is, that the matter was finally arbitrated by H. B. Claf-'lin, Claf-'lin, Charles Siorrs and James Free-- Free-- land. Moulton then gives a memorandum memor-andum of an iuterview between Oliver Johnson, H. C. Bowen, Tilton and himself, the points having been taken down by Tilton in shorthand, and copied out at the time in Johnson's presence. i j OLIVER JOHNSON'S STATEMENT j At the interview of December 2Gth, 1 at Willow street, No. 'JO, Mr. Bowen voluntarily pledged his word to Mr. Johnson that he (H.C Bowen) would take no further measures in regard ; to Mr. Tilton without consultation j i with Mr. Johnson. Mr. Bowen had likewise said substantially the same i thing, that Mr. Johnson did previous-: previous-: ly during a private conversation be-1 tween those two persons. There was ' no obligatory confidence imposed on any of the parties concerning any-( : thing said at this interview, save an especial pledge mutually given, that. ! nothing should be said concerning I Mr. Beeeher's demonstrations toward Mrs. Tilton. O. Johnson says I Heiny Ward Beecher were not intimations oi Henry W. Beeeher's adulteries, but plain and straightforward straight-forward chargea of thusatne. H. C. Bowen stated that he knew lour or live of Mr. Beeeher's adulterous INTERCOURSES WITH WOMEN. O. Johnson suted that H. C. Bowen, j at this interview, plainly declared j that H. W. B. had confessed his guilt to H, C. Bowen. H. C. B. eaitt: J cannot stand it any longer. You and I owe a duty to society in this matter. That man ought not to stay another week in his pulpit. It is not safe Jor our tamilics to have him in this city. The allusion to a widow was made bv T. T., aud 11. C. B. said he had no dotiht thai her husband's death was caused by a knowledge of her improper im-proper intimacy with id. W. B. ' I ha eno doubt alout it." The parties signed the -tripartite ;reement subsequently: sub-sequently: it was drawn up by Wilke-sou Wilke-sou und signed by Bowen. In the original form it bound the parlies to cay nothing of any wrong done or offense committed by beecher, and fully exonerated him therefrom. Tilton then refused lo sign it, but agreed to sign an agreement never to repeat .u-ftin the charges of Bowen. Xo cupv o- this tripartite covenant was cou-tided cou-tided to Moid tun. Appended to it was a ..-opy ol an article for the U-Adtn J;.e, sothat it might bo known to w:iat scandal it referred. How it became puMic he c.".id not sav. Tilton Til-ton wrtc a ictter u Bjv.en "to ic pubdsiie-d in tiie J.id j-.mLu', with r-diturial comment- by Bowen. Becchcr subsequently complaine-d that Boweu was slhl STiitAl'iXei s.ti.MjALS Abe'Ut him, and proposed to write to Bowcu a remonstrance, stating the points of the compromise, and why his . Bowen's month should be clostd. Tne memorandum found among tiie de .oilmen u penciled by Beecher.reads thus: " Be-echer's statement of Bowen's Bow-en's settlement first, he allowed him-selt him-selt to listen to unfounded -rumors; second, thai he never brought them either to me or in any proper man tier to tiie church; that he only whis-, whis-, pered them, and even that only when ' he had a business end in view; third, . tiiat he did not himself U-lieve thai : an v ming had occurred which uutit-I uutit-I ted' me lor tiie utmost trust, shown by , eontiuuing tor from twelve to fifteen 'wars a conspicuous attendant at Vivmouth Cnureli, Jand by the contracts with me as alitor of the j 1,,,1'irudmt. He continued the pub-lication pub-lication of my sermons, etc., making , the privilege of doing so even as late j us the Interview at Freeland's, one of these points of settlement and reconciliation, recon-ciliation, which was to lead to our workm? together, in which there was not a single hint of any personal immorality, but every item was business. busi-ness. As- a re-suit of such agreement, first, I was to resume my old familiarity famil-iarity at his house; second, to write j him a letter to give to his family Jo show that I had restored confidence; third, to endeavor to remove horn him tiie coldness and frowns of the parish par-ish as one who had injured me: fourth, a card to be published, giving him the right to put in tho Independent my -ermons and lecture-room tains, etc.; liith, I was invited at Wooelstock to be his guest, and was present at I irant's receptiou. Of the settlement by the committee, whose record m w"ith Ciallin, I have nothing to say. I did not see Mr. Bowen during the whole process, nor do I remember to have spoken with him since the (ith. The statement that he did not himself him-self believe that I had done anything immoral, or which should at feet my standing as a man and a Christian minister, is illustrated by the foregoing forego-ing facts and is demonstrated by his conduct when he did believe Theodore Theo-dore Tilton had committed immoralities, immorali-ties, his dispossession of the pendent, his ignominious expulsion from the Brooklyn Union, his refusal to pay him his salary and his forfeiture forfeit-ure of his contract." Beecher sent Moulton the following note soon after. My dear Friend: I called last even-1 ing as agreed, but you had iiist stepped out. On my way to church last evening, even-ing, I met Claflin. He says that B. 'denies any such T ItEAC H EROUS WHlSfEKIXGS. I mentioned my proposed letter. He liked the idea. I read him a draft of it in the lecture room. He drew back and said I had better not send it. 1 asked him if B. had ever had a statement state-ment of iho very bottom of the facta, aud if there were any charges I did not know. He evaded and intimated (that it would hardly be right to tell 'me. I think he would be right in telling you. He ought to. I have not sent any noia, ituu imsButauujeu that prepared. The real point to avoid is au appeal to the church and then to the council. It would be a conflagrat on, and would give every possible chance to the parties for hiding hid-ing and evasions, and increase an Imndred-feld this Bcandal, without helping anything. I shall see you as soonas I return. Meantime, I confide i everything to your wisdom, as I always al-ways have with such sucoess hithere-to. hithere-to. I have full trust for the future. Don't fail to see C. and have a full and confidential talk. Yours, as ever, Nothing occurred to disturb the fiiendly relations of Beecher, Tilton and Bowen thenceforth, until the 'yhlication of the Woodhull and damn , and "Brectw again hea rd that Bowen was . I .MAKING INSINUATIONS , Against Ids character. The triparite covenant was then published. A fu-. tile attempt was made to obLihi from Mrs. Woodhull whatever documents' ; she possessed, showing Beeeher's guilt, whereupon Beecher addressed Moulton the following: "I need to see you this evening," at any time up to half-past 16. Can i you make the appointment? AYill you call or sliall I? At what hour? -1 sent ClaQin's letter, keep it. Answer An-swer by telegraph. H. V. B." i The postscript to the above said: , Beecher desires to show Moulton the ' proposed card, also the letter of Claflin Claf-lin to Beecher which was enclosed. It t-aid the call on Woodhull was en-. en-. tirely private and not intended to be ! known. Woodhull had no important j letters. When Moulton and Beecher met in pursuance of this note, he submitted a card he proposed to publish pub-lish in the Brooklyn Kaqle ajid gave Moulton leave to alter it. It stated ' that, having seen him call on Mrs. Woodhull for papers suppled" to con-i con-i tain information about certain noto-: noto-: rious stories about himself, Beecher nutd state that she had two letters of his; one declining an invitation to a suflrage meeting, and the other declining to give solicited assistance. These aud all letters in the hands oi anybody else he gave permission to them to publish, and added that all the stories lately circulated about him were grossly untrue. Moulton saw the editor of the Brooklyn Ewjle, and published a card as follows: To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Sir: In a long, active life in Brooklyn Brook-lyn it has rarely happened that the E.iglc and myself have been in accord on questions of common concern to our fellow citizens. I am, for this reason, compelled tc acknowledge. the unsolicited confidence and regard of which the columns of the Eagle of , ..u "Y"1 "-onuiuiij . j. juol lei-turned lei-turned to the city to learn that appU-, appU-, cation has been made to Mrs. Victo-. Victo-. ' ria Woodhull tor letters of mine, sup-1 sup-1 posed, it is said, to contain information informa-tion respecting the infamous stories against me. I have no objection to have the Eaglt state, in any way it (leenis lit, that Mrs. Woodhull, or any other person or pei-sons who may have letters of mine in tiicir possession, possess-ion, have my curdial CONSENT TO Tl'DLIi-II Tit EM Iii this connection and at this time. . I will only add, that the stories and minors which have for some time . past been circulated about mo are J untrue, and I stamp them in general and iu particular as utterly untrue, j Hcspcclfully, j IlENK V W. BiXeltEE. Moulton next oflers the publication of Mrs. Woodhull iu her paper, of the story about Beecher and Mrs. 'Tilton, and to the friendly relations . btween Mrs, Isabella Hooker and Mrs. Woodhull, and gives the text of the letter from Mrs. Hooker to. her brother Henry, under date of Nov. 1st, 1872, in which, referring to the letter from him in which he entreata her not to believe a word of what "that 'woman" Woodhull says, she states ' that she never heard a word personally from Woodhull, and was surprised tu find that siie knew him (Becchcr), whieh fact she ascertained by being invited by Wivdhull to a sudrage conference iu New York, at which she was assured he i Beecher) would be present, she then says that Mrs. 'Stanton told her personally what 3Ir. Tiilou had said to her when in a race, of the discovery and how he j I "LED TO THE HOVE Of Mrs. , and before them ' n.irrated the story of his own iuiidci- ities, as confessed to his wife, and of her's as confessed to him. She added tiiat, not long after, Bhe went to Mr. Moutton's, and met vou coming down the front steps, and on entering met Tilton and Moulton, who said we have just had Plymouth Church at our feet, aud here is his onn tension, showing a manuscript. He added that Mrs. Tilton hael made similar statements to Miss Anthony, and "1 have since received from Miss Anthony a corroboration oi this, although al-though "she refuses to givo me the particulars, being bound in confidence. confid-ence. She thinks," Mrs. Hooker continues, "that sinco that day she hail borne a heavy load aloue, having hav-ing K El T IT FROM HER HISliANU, Who was just going abroad for his heidth, anel whom she felt obliged to allow to go without her, as she could not leave her brother in his trouble.! Alter ho had reached Europe, how- 1 ever, Mr. Hooker, it appears from a letter to his wife, which Bhe enclosed to her brother, confides to her his belief be-lief iu the story' from outside evidence alone." Mrs. Hooker says she made no reply to Mrs. Stanton when Bhe told her story, except that, "If true, vou had a philosophy at the relation of sexes too far ahead of the times; that you dare not announce it, though you conseuted to live by it: that this was my judgment for a wrong, and CiOU WOUtu uriHK Hti Beeiei hi'B" r to light in his own time and fashion, and I could only wait," she added, 1 "feir that." She had come to see that r human laws were an importance, but 1 could get no furlhei, though she could s Bee glimpses of a possible new science ,t of life that at present was revolting to i her feelings and judgment. She adds I to her brother: "I think brother Chan-p ning probably agrees with you in!i your theory, but he had, the courage . I to announce his convictions before I acting upon them. He refused to1) have intercourse with an uncongenial ' ' wife for a long time, then left her and 1 married a woman whom he loves, ; leaving his darling daughter with her mother, aud to-day pays photographers photograph-ers to keep him supplied with her pictures as often as they can be procured." pro-cured." SHE BEGS HER BROTHER To confide to her the entire truth; then she could help him, as no one else in the world could. She appears to think that her brother had been only following out a doctrine on a philosophy that he believed in, but lacked courage to publicly avow it. She brings every argument to bear upon him to induce him to come out t boldly and champion these views if he really believed in them, assuring him of her belief that nearly all thinking think-ing men and women are somewhere near him and will rally to his support if he is bold, frank and absolutely truthful. Moulton next presents a copy of a letter from Mrs. Hooker to her brother, i nomas j.. lieecner, as 101-lows: 101-lows: "Hart foal, Sunday, Nov. 3d, 1S72. Dear Brother Tom: The blow has fallen and 1 hope you arc better prepared pre-pared for it than you might have been but for our interview. I wrote H. a single sentence l..st week, thus: 'can i help you?' and here is his reply. ' If you still believe in that woman you cannot help me. If you think of her as I do you can, perhaps, though I do uot need much help. I tread falsehoods into the ground from whence they sprung, and go on my way rejoicing. My people are thus u- heroic, and would give their lives for me. Their love and confidence would make me willing to bear tar more than I have. Meantime, the Lord has a pavillion in which ho hides me until the storm is over and past. I bide in that place, committing myself to him who gave himself for me. I trust you will give neither countenance ner credit to the abomirfable coinage that h:'s been put afloat. The specks of truth are mere spangles upon the garment of falsehood. The truth itself it-self is made to lie. Thank you for love and truth and silence, but think of the barbarity of dragging a poor dead child of a woman into this slough. Yours truly." Mrs. Hooker continues: "Now, Tom, bo far as I can see, it is he who has dragged the dear woman into the slough, and left her there, and who is now sending ANOTHER WOMAN TO TRISON Who is innocent of all crime but fanaticisms for truth as revealed to her." She then quotes a letter from Woodhull to her apparently with the view of proving Woodhull 's sincerity in the cause of social freedom. She then expresses her fears thus: "Oh, n;j daar brother! I fear the awful struggle to live ae to k..Jf8 wrought an absolute demoranzj" as to truthfulness, and so he can talk about spangles on the carment of falsehood, when the garment is Truth and the specks are the falsehood." She gives a copy of a former letter from Henry in quite a different vein, being very afiectionate, saying: "Probably you and I are nearer together than any of our family. I thank you for.your letter. Of pome thincs I neither talk nor will I be talked with. For love and sympathy I am deeply thankful. The only help that can be grateful to me or useful is silence, aud a silencing influence on all others. A day may come for converse. It is not now. Living or dead, my dear sister Belle, love me and do not talk about me or suffer others to in your presence." She cAprcsss a rear mat tlenry will kill himself. She concludes with an earnest expression of sympathy for Woodhull. Thomas, in reply, says: -. Dear Belle To allow the devi himself to be crushed for speaking tho truth is unspeakably cowardlv and contemptible, and I respect as at present advised, Mrs. Woodhull while I abhor her philosophy. She only carries out Henry's phUosonhy against which I recoaled my protest twenty years ago, and parted lovingly and aclnngly from him, saying "We cannot work together." He has drifted and I have hardened like a crystal, until I am sharp cornered and exacting. I cannot be held except ex-cept by prayer. I cannot help him through, Edward. Hi my judgment Henry is tollowidg his slippery doc-trines doc-trines of expediency, and in his cry ot progress and the nobleness of human hu-man nature, has sacrificed a clear i and exact ideal of integrity. HANDS Oli" UNTIL HK IS DOWN. ' And thou lay pulpit, mv home, unchurch un-church and my purse and heart are at his service. Of the two. Woodhull is my hero and Houry niv coward, as VSZTit adiVIS,ed,- But 1 Pat agamst the wholo batch, and all its belongmgS. I was not anli-slavery; I am nut anti-family, but as I wrote years ago whenever I assaulted assault-ed slavery, except because of its abominations. 1 shall assail tb?. wuircn, the fctato, the family and all outer institutions of selfish usage I H n'rS lbe PaPcra. You cannot help 5- Wl lmist bc true to Wbu lj. I am out of the circle as et, and am gM of it. When the aaJahnC,InCiudea me 1 8haU ""ffer m m ' I) Saymg' "coeye from truth and when you need me cry out i i ours lovingly, Tom.." 'I Ho opens bis letter to add the' followum: ''P. S. Your testimony would be a'.V'wed in no cvurt. Tilton, ! his wife, Moulton & Co., are witnesses, j Even Mrs. Stanton can only declare! tier say so. It vu move remember1 that vou are standing on uncertain! information, and we sb.dl not probably j ever get the fact, and 1 am glad ol it. If Mr. and Mrs. Tilton are brought into court nothing will be revealed. Perjury, for good reason, ia. with advanced thinkers, no cm. Moulton next apnends a copy of portions of i a letter from Mr. Hooker lo his wife, iu which, after alluding to the. scandal, he advies her to endeavor to create the impression that her FRIEN1SHIF l-'OK WOODHUtX Had been assailed to provent her publication pub-lication of the matters, anil that her remaining at home while he went ! abroad W;ts in order to be ue ir Henry Hen-ry to comfort him in his t roil hit, lest people think she holds Wood hull's views, and they t the Hookers) be regarded re-garded as living in the same dir-cord, probably by many pt-ople as practicing practi-cing the" Woodhull principles. Ho naively adds in reference to this plan, " there is not half the untruth in it that there has bseu all along in my pretended approval of Mrs. Wood-hull's Wood-hull's course, and yet people think me an honest man. I havo lieel enough about that to ruin the char-iaeter char-iaeter of an average man, aud have i.rnhoMv .Iam-1-i. .-.I mv-wdf btf it." s'ext ap tea --s a letter from Mrs. looker to Beecher, in which she ather incoherently begs and implores urn to nit et her in New Y'ork; that ihe must see him and pcrsuaio him o wiite a paper which she will read n his pulpit. She incloses a slip rorn a Hart foal paper, in which a writer in the New Y'ork Commercial nter views with Nast, the ar-.ist, ar-.ist, represents him as saying that people wero fooled with Greeley, as they are fooled with Beecher; and tie (Beecher) will tumble farther than Ureeley yet. Moulton and Beecher ciimc to-him after the receipt of this letter and oxDressed apprehension that his sister in her anxiety that ho would do Iub duty in presenting this letter as she understood it, aud inpro-tecting inpro-tecting Woodhull from the consequences consequen-ces ol having published the truth from which she was then snflering, would go into his pulpit and insist upon declaring thai the Woodhull publication WAS SUBSTANTIALLY TRUE. Beecher wanted Moulton to do what he could to prevent this, and the latter suggested that Beecher should try to advise her not tn take such a course, and that Tilton and himsell (Moulton) should see her and so shake her belief in the story that tdie would not dare to take the course in-dicateel; in-dicateel; and tins plan, Moulton says, was successfully carried out in this connection. He declares that no suggestion sug-gestion was ever made on the part of Beecher that his sister was tlieu or had been at any other time insane. "AJ1 these letters I received from Beecher, and they arc those to which he alludes in communications of the -Uh inst. as letters of his sister aud brother, delivered to me, anel which I elid not believe that 1 could honorably give him up, because I thought, and I submit to the committee that I was right in my thinking, that they form a part ot this contiovcrsy, and were uot as he therein alleged, simply given to my keeping as a part of his other papers, which he could not keep salely on account of his own carelessness in preserving documents. docu-ments. We are compelled to close at this point in order to catch tho mails- Eus. Herald. |