THE REECHER SCANDAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 208, 2 September 1874, Page 3

THE REECHER SCANDAL.

1 I »\i I .-I* est C' i 1 1 : run ia n piper-. >a -e s ■ r jt\ . !irv. Henry \Vrd tii'i’i'iu'r lias i>, en ac.-med <>('. ‘1 conic-- ii, the crime of ndu.(err n U M> s Ti:;-.'., The /' •' ■ -.rw-’s :>a outline of 1 Tc.Ter's * f r 1 1 1 11 <; a_r ■ lenee, dern ed !:om pi r! ;,-s u hit profess to tlunvn’.gh : y u Mcr-iond the ed notion. Tilt- ti.V'OO <• >.)VS Ihe lii'l'llUU'-U Wail bi' H ViTV I'OWiii ui and sinking oiu', and will make smno eontes-mns winch will create gt e:t I summse. Heeehor wdi a.-know ledge tint siiui 1 the beginning o’ h;s iraiiidrv he inns been beset. \» v h, ;ii aderesseu to him from woman', ox jircwin;; p ’ i - 'no.l ad miration- — a. !.'ration indeed —of him as a mo.!! ami a mini-tor. 110 will show that oonimusd ions of this nature are on nst an!! v ro-noivo-l by e\ory noted man in the ivmmuuilv, and that u is a > pecial annoyance of elerg\ men. poets*, and. adors, to be tho recipients of there a .nenriiil demons! rations. After the general si ato-ment;. Mr Te-eher wo! allude to the ease of .Mrs Tilton, who, it seems, eoneeived for him the most extravagant passion. Knowing the lady from childhood, having married her to her husband, and haiving been on terms of close relationship with them both, he was led by a strange infatuation to submit to her biandishn cuts, and an int imiii'.v was formed widen, while it. was not criminal, was reprehenslbie, or, at leas! put him in a- posit toil winch made asm seem to do a great, wrung to Tneodore futon, lie will confess that bath he and Mrs Tiiton were veiy emol ional and given to exaggerat ion in sent iment, ami that, their correspondence was not what should have existed between pastor and lady, and that, duly the wife of his friend. out the peculiarity of the ease was that, Mrs Ti’tou eoni plained hdlorly of her husband’s -elf sudieieney, want of kindmvs to her, and possible ndi Iclity, and that sh.c looked yip to Mr Beecher to give her that aiieetion and s vminstiiv which she tai.ed to find at. home. Beecher will acknowledge that, he was tried with the temptation, that ho allowed (he kindness and expressions of sympathy and tenderness by Mrs Tilton, ami that he re* iproeaied them to a great degree —so much so that, while not actually guilty of liiiy wrong to Theodore 1 iiton, he so far compromised himself ami the lady us to render necessary, as it appeared to his inuul, 11 to letter winch he subsequently wrote to Air Moulton and Air Tilton, humbling himself before the latter as before God for ids ext ravagant demonstra? ions of affection for the wife of ins friend. Victoria Woodhull and Tennio C. Clallin have arrived in Now York from their western lecturing tour. In conversation with a reporter the former said Tilton had begun tlio battle nobly, and when Ids strength failed she would take it up. She said, both sides bad told horrible lies about, i ho matter. She eared for Beecher’s relations with Mrs Tilton, but could and would show that he vims as much a freo-lovcr as The,!-loro Tiiton. When iiio 1 line conn's for her to speak out t.h« world would stand aghast at the hypocrisy of Beecher.

THE BOS TOM’ PRESS OH THE BEECiIERTTLTON' CASE. Boston' The evening papers hero all comment on tho Beecher scandal. The Herald giivs Tilton’s statement is a social bombshell—one of tl-iC most, destructive kind, and tea dies us that all men are tainted with sin. It is a terrible lesson to the community. The Traveller, which publishes Beecher’s sermons every Saturday, says the matter has now assumed an aspect, when it, can bo no longer ignored. A reputation that has been achieved by the public work of years is tarnished by this accusation, but it all may bo made clear by the accused. The Tranrrrlpt say's it matters little as to the fate of Iho accuser in this case, but tho eminent rind beloved person whom Tilton Iras dragged before the trbunal of popular opinion, must now answer for his life, or, what should be dearer than his life, his good name. Tho Jov. ril'd says the document is cither an extraordinary tissue of mistakes woven by a disordered mind, or it is a most saddening chapter of guilt, as it is a one-sided story.