Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - August 14, 1874, Burlington, Iowa BURLINGTON HAWK ESTABLISHED FRIDAY AUGUST BEECHERS The Plymouth Pastor Blows a Regular Sweeping Denial of All Tiltons of He Says He has Been Blackmailed and Plotted He Tells the Causes of Tiltons Hatred of A Full and Comprehensive State ment from the Plymouth He Makes Out a Better Case for Beecher than was Thought The Statement in the Great Dead Loans of New August the absence of anything official Irom the Plymouth Church Investigating Committee and in view of the contradicting statements by individual members the public are left to their own thoughts about the gross One paper states upon the authority of one of the committee taea that without taking Beechers testimony in his will clear and that Beecher shall thereupon tender his not be while an other upon equally trustworthy says the committee will meet this morning at eight oclock and Beecher will submit a very long state He will be and the committee hope to close their labors in the was asked a fen preliminary but the nature of the questions or answers is not made The most strange element of contro yesterday was the republication from a western journal of a report of a conversation with Tilton and and many people say that further delay on the part of the committee in receiv ing Beechers which it was officially announced yesterday would be made in the became a necessity the lawyers might be able to read the statement in the light ot those con venations and include them in its de niala anil It la stated that Statement of very covering everything inthe and explaining each and air letters which have been They will fill about twenty columns of an average and will be accompanied by the statement Which Moulton presented to the A said to be in close alli ance with Beecher during the progress of the present reports that he has conversed with him upon some of the points in the conversations above al and that he entirely denied that there was any deception of Tilton or or any treachery toward as Moulton in his going to Tilton after he had been charged by with He says they told him to go to her confirm claim that bad made a voluntary confession of her Beecher said when in Moul tons adultery with he was go astonished to be when they told him she bad made a voluntary confession of adul tery with and told him to go to her and confirm the he wag bly but was made to believe that she bad made a voluntary tion against Interviews with Sherman and Moulton are reported but as contradictory as all the rest officially and perhaps have no other origin than the active brain of the ingenious reporters assigned to the task of making a sensational The committee were At Residence last and after they bad been entertained by and the with a few intimate took a seat on the steps of her The ladies particularly greatly enjoyed the movements and earnest watching of They had not taken their places long before himself came out and sac down on the top joining the rest in Assistant Pastor Halliday was received by his chief very and remained seated with Beecber for some When the committee bad com their they very cor shook Beecher by the hand and immediately took their remained for some time after Beecher and the others had As the night watchman ascended the steps of the next house a little before twelve Beecber entered into con versation with Beecher told him he had greatly enjoyed the doings and sayings of the and hoped that those who bad been attracted in front of is stated that his defense will admit wha might be characterized as an offense growing out of his intimacy with Mrs It is however emphatically de nied that Criminal Intimacy of any Kind existed between Beecher and Til The letters expressing contrition were drawn out by bis desire to mak amends for his interference in their do which rent so far as to re commend to Tilton separation from her Blackmailing It is ascertained that sooner than to have even the charge of undue interference in family go forth to the paid a large sum of money The exact sum as well as all the circumstances connected with its pay will be fully treated of in Beech ers statement before the At this hour it is made known that the Plymouth Church Investigation Commit tee met in the parlor in Beecher residence at ten oclock this and that two stenographers were present Beecher sat with the and made statement from notes which he He answered questions put by members of the com upon each point presented in the charges made by At noon the examination was interrupted by and was resumed at one At this three Beecber is still under Those who profess to know state that the revelation made by Beecher will create intense ex Completely Exonerate and account for the persecution to which he has been The following is Mentions OF THE I was last before you I stated that I at your produce such documents as I bad and make such a statement of facts as had come to my knowledge on the subject of your in I fully to do and have prepared my statement of facts a sustained by and made an exhibition of all papers that have come in any way to my bearing on the controversy between the The statement must of bear with more or less force upon one or the other of Upon mature aided by the advice of my most valued I have reconsidered that and am obliged to say to you that I feel compelled from a seuse of duty to all parties in my relation to them in this controversy and to neither to make the statement nor produce the When I first became a party to this un happy controversy between Beecher and 1 had no personal knowl edge nor any document iu my which could Everything that I know ot or have receiver of has come to me in the most sacred tobe used for the pur pose ol composing and settling all between and so far as any knowledge of their private affairs being brought to public For this purpose all their mat ters have been entrusted to me for none If I should now use It would be not for the purpose 01 peace and but to voluntarily take part in the controversy which they have seen fit to renew be tween I call attention to the fact that yours is a mere voluntary Whatever I do here is done by a voluntary a compelled wit before any tribunal having power to compel the production of testimony and a statement of 1 shall ever produce these papers or any of these confidential 1 reserve to myself to judge of the emer gency which I hope may never come Against my as I have never been in sympathy with the of this a part pf these docu ments have been given to the In so far as confidence in regard to them has it Is but just therefore and due to the parties that the whole of those have been portions of shall which only be put into your In response to a thrice renewed request of the Committee I have therefore copies of which I produce here and place in the hands of the Committee with the hope and request that alter they have been exam ined by they may be returned to How and hon estly I have labored to my duty to the parties for they both What Snail he do The question for me to settle for my self and no is ought I to do anything to aid either party in the re by the use of that which I and have used only to promote harmony On my honor and I think I ought and at the risk of whatever misconstruction and vitupera tion may come upon I must adhere to the dictates of my own and preserve at least my own If any controversy shall arise as to the authenticity ot the espies or on that point I shall hold myself open to with this except in defence of my own honor and the up rightness of my course in all this and of the and candor of which I appeal to the consciences of both parties to sus tain I do not and hope I may not be called upon to speak either as to facts or to produce any papers that I have received from either of the par ties involved FRANCIS A Great Deal of Winslow said to The Committee desire to ask you some questions notwithstanding the po you take here in your written his bouse had had assemble their fuu and would It is known that Beecher did not testify this morning before the It you are well aware as you show by the three invitations which the committee have sent that we are In eood faith pursuing our You will remember that we were ap pointed by the pastor of Plymouth with the sanction and approval of the examining committee of that Church to inquire into matters relating to the alleged grievances of We look upon you as our principal source of The committee are disap pointed at the position you We are not a court with compulsory We await your The commit tee desire to know whether you have so deliberately formed this purpose as to make it beyond recall as things now stand more of the Moulton calling attention to the language of the merely requesting him to bring all letters to by Tilton in his statement before the I complied ant produced copies of the letters referred to the authenticity of which 1 am ready to These were authentic copies and the witness would vouch for them He stood on the communication he had made and would make no other Winslow wanted to know if he would not produce the original of these and was answered that he wouK put them in the hands of the committee within a few On motion of it voted that Winslow be authorized to go with Moulton and examine and verify the After some informal conversation in regard to the publication of the ngs of the present Moulton The committee remained in consultation until seven then your 7Iule The following is a synopsis of Beech ers statement In the he alludes to his pre and his promise to substantiate the solemn denial made in In the detailed statement he says Four years ago Theodora Tilton Fell from one of tbe most in where he repre sented tbe cause of humanity ind and in a became an associate and rep of Victoria Woodhull and a riend of her strange By his fol ies be was Bankrupt In Reputation n occupation and in the in nature of which I am now to give he brief outlines is a history of his at empts to so employ me as to reinstate him in restore his reputation ind place him again upon the eminence rom which he had It is a sad to the full meaning of which I uive but but recently ed in a wilderness of 1 until lately the false theory and hope of a believing friend who me determination and bility to control the l to restore his o rebuild his and to vindicate would be equal to that Tiltons failure was made lear to and Tiltons mo as shown in his represents nly his In regard to Til beginning with their early intimacy nd showing his hopeful affection for even while be wandered from ruth and it describes his repent nee over evils that befel his of hich he was made to believe himself he My efforts to save his family nd him by and the grow ng conviction that his follies rendered t shows that he lias been rom the beginning a selfish ating me and weaving about me a Network ot and My innocent acts of kindness to this That my course ha been blind so long as to the real motives of the intrigues going on around was due to my overwhelming public and to my surrender of the affair to whose confidence ol being able to manage it successfully was Moulton reported in a general way Tiltons His comments on the seemed sufficient to me at the completely immersed as I was in incessant cares and and only too glad to be relieved from considering the details and wretched complications tbe origin and fact of remain in spite of all friendly intervention a per Burden lo 31 jr I would not read In the papers about I would not talk about it I made for a long my confi dant and my only channel of informa He Grows From time to time suspicions were aroused in me by indications that Tilton was acting the part of an but these suspicions were rapidly allayed by hia own behavior toward It is plain to me that until Tilton fell into disgrace and lost his position and he never thought it necessary to assail me with the charges that be pretends were in his mind for six The alleged domestic offense was was quickly and easily but yet in a way to koep my feelings stirred so that I through my ie 11 d te extract from Bowen Seven Thousand the amount claimed in their A heck for that sum was placed in the lands of He signed an agreement of peace and not drawn by but accepted by me as sin The Golden Aoe had been he had tbe capital to carry it his con duct towards me was and 1 could afford to laugh at assump ion of since I retained he profound impression made upon me as explained in the following narra tive At almost every step I lell into new complications and and 1ilton ever tried to Coerce Honor and Conscience for the purpose of procuring his tion at my Tilton knew me well for while I was sure he was to head a great social revolution with returning had ap no griefs which could not be by his signature to the articles of yet changes in that covenant were made by him before signing which he represented to me as necessary merely to relieve him from the imputa ilon of having originated He ated certain Old About but when be thought he was on tbe road to success to work on the sympathetic side of my nature to which he addressed himself for four using lously my attachment to friends of his and his own and to not blind to his but resolved to look on him as favorably and hopefully as and ignorant of his deeper I labored even desper ately for his For four years I have been trying to feed his insatiable to make him a man as great as he conceived himself to him to separate from his dis reputable associates while he ascribed to own agency the ruin he was con stantly bringing on himself and which I was endeavoring to At a later stage he creates difficulties apparently to drive me to fresh I his wild associates only speak ing well of good qualities and of which I still believe him to be pos I could not believe him bad as his friends and trusted to the genius of good which I still believed was in Moulton came to me first as a school mate and friend of who would serve hitu without wronging He said he saw clearly how this was to be done so a to restore peace and harmony to Tiltons home and happily snd all I never doubted his friendship for Whatever he wished me to do I did unless it seemed My confidence in him was my only se curity in this confusion of tormenting During this troublous time I felt that Secret machinations were going on around me and the vilest slanders concerning me were in When some of my relatives were set against me and tbe tattle ot a crowd ol malicious hostile to me on other was borne to my ears when I had lost my remnant of faith in Theodora and all hope for him when I heard with unspeakable remorse that everything I had done had made matters worse when all attempts to avert his public trial only brought scandal on me when bis un happy wife was under his dicta signing papers and ana the destruction from which I tried to save bis family was poured on other families when the church and community believed me buried under the heaps of rubbish from which only my professed friend could extricate I believing that he could do main the alienee he enjoined until Til on through Frank Carpen to from my by openly assailing me in a letter to Thereupon 1 called for this in For the delay in publishing 1 am not All the I have so long dreaded and striven o avoid has come to The time come when I can speak in vindication of I labor under the of A Poor for dates and During these past four years my life has been filled with a multiplicity of labors and duties which the evening of his dispossession from I norn a both he Brooklyn tbe Independent owned and by During these years of in in Tiltons family I was Treated as a Father or elder Children were children they learned to love me as if I was one of I loved and I had for Tilton a true and honest She seemed to me an affectionate mother end a devoted looking up to her husband as one far above the common race of and turning to me with Artless and with entire Childish in she was naturally childish in and I would as soon have mis conceived the confidence ol girls as the unstudied affection she showed Delicate in with a cheerful she was boundless in her sympathy for those in and labored beyond her strength for the She bad charge unce of the married womens class at Bethel Mission and they perfectly worshipped I gave Tilton copies of my books when and sometimes sent down from tne farm flowers to be dis among i dozen and she occasionally shared The only present ol value I ever gave her was on my return from Europe in when I distributed souvenirs of my journey to some titty or more and to her I gave a simple of little intrinsic So far from sup posing tnat presence and in fluence was alienating Tilton Irom her family I on the that it was giving her strength and encouraging her to hold fast upon a man sliding into Dangerous Associations and likely to be immersed by bis unusual August Herbert and George Do young persons of East were drowned at Centre Harbor yester day while TODAYS Help or we is what neg teeth would say if they could remonstrate with their owners and mark tbe teeth can not perish or become black or yellow 11 the So is used SHARP IS THE BEST Axle Grease In Small Cans and 301 Fourth Street DISQUE Manufacturers or and Dealers in Horse And every thing kept in our We make a specialty of FINE And in getting them up we nse nothing but the best employ none but Erst and all work being made under car personal we are enabled to tarn ont work lor elegance and as witH keep in stock all the different j i kinds of Mounted Harness Rubber often deplored Gold Nickel Silver Plate and l and I Tilton as in as will challenge Mm ical period ot this and used to think NO WHERE MAD Hia make and keep in stock all bim fortunate in his home influ laxity of her Husbands morals religious She iin to me that he denied tbe divin ity of Christ and the articles of ortho dox ami his views of the sanctity of marriage were constantly changing in the direction of free A Sweeping My last visit before the trouble was in when was By strict honorable we hope to In crease our already large BISQUE CO 210 North Main A Few can be accommodated by applying at 621 Korth Third One room to The twelfth year of She was much and I cheered nil upon clergymen on any other public Hut This is my I know my innocence without being able to it with detailed I im one upon whom trouble works in making me outwardly silent but reverberating in the chambers of my and when at length I do it s a pent up flood that Pours Without or I inherit a tendency to sadness remains in me the of positive hypochondria in my father father and In certain moods of the world becomes black and I see very If 1 in such a to speak as I I should give false colors and ex proportions to This manifestation is in such a contrast to the courage which I experience in ordinary that none jut those intimate with me would sus ject so full overflowing spirit and ages to hare within him are or Some of my let ers to reflect this morbid He understood it and at times earnestly reproved me or indulging in With this ary review I proceed to my I first knew Tilton as a reporter of my He WHS a youth working on the thence he passed to the In dependent and became a favorite with In 18C11 became editor ol tbe One inducement held out to me was that Tilton should assist me and relieve me from routine office In this way I became much attached to and we became the most confidential of While my family enjoyed their summer vaca tions my duties kept me in the I her the best I and It is sufficient to say that as no inj which ever took place between Tilton and myself did anything onI Jj ur which might not have occurred with perfect propriety between brother and between father and or ween a man of honor and the wife of his dearest nor did anything ever happen which she or I sought to con ceal from her When Tilton wrote editorially for the of which I supposed to be his views called down de upon I disclaimed the articles and views expressed My brother Edward in Illinois remonstrated so strongly that Bowen decided To Remove Tilton or suppress his tne Harper HARVEY BUCK A FAS ATTACHED TO GOLD The owner can find erty at this ALL parties wishing to take lessons on a Pipe Organ of or wishing practice on a Pipe will confer a leaving their at Musical no branch of household expenses could lack of or snch mis guided economy be as in he Staff Of led to starting the Advance iu Chicago to supercede ibe Bowen felt that Tiltons influence was in juring his and Tilton economy 111 pears to have credited this feeling to my may he influence on in December 1870 desirable and perhaps a young girl whom Tilton had edI that to me with a request to visit 5r Tilton at her mothers She said i Which discriminates Tilton had gone to her mothers in i against Good flour will consequence of make good bread cheap floor 111 I From Her and with a downcast how j lilton had entered her chamber and j and sought her consent to his Tilton gave accounts ol her hus bands despotism and questioned whether she should return or separate from j a guaranty that it is her I asked tny wife to see rior to all and advise and she declared that no c i i would induce her lo re turn to such a but reserved her adj vice till next being detained at she wrote that her advice was to separate and settle the matter of sup In Bowen left at my house a Letter from of which the is the substance HENRY For reasons which you explicitly To who Want the f this 1 in tniS 1 EDG E R S 115 Jefferson and which I I demand that forbear to you with took my meals in the families of my and became so familiar with their children and houses that I went in and out almost as if at Til ton often urged me to make his house my telling in extravagant jerms Bis Wifes Esteem and Affection or Finally I began to visit his which besought to make attrac He urged me to bring my books and papers there ana do my writing in his In during my absence in lie be came the responsible editor of the Inde and editor in In on account ot my Cleveland ie made Violent Assaults on Hie through the and my connec tion with the paper was and though we remained yet there was a coolness between us in matters of While sitting for with at his request met never received a portrait I first During all this time I the slightest hint from Tilton or any member of his family that there was any dissatisfaction with my familiar relations in his Tilton never complained of my visits until after he began to fear that the In dependent would be taken from nor did he break out into violence until on withdraw from rbe pulpit and quit Brook lyn as a I red the letter unable to com prehend Its meaning handed it to and a conversation ensued about the reasons for reducing Tilton to a sub ordination on the Accounts of Tiltons reckless private life came jouring and he weighed the consist ency of retaining him even as a I spoke See Fourth Excursion Tickets I until Burlington to Clear Lake and 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