FRESH ACCUSATIONS AGAINST MR BEECHER.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 23, 17 December 1874, Page 3

FRESH ACCUSATIONS AGAINST MR BEECHER.

: A Router's telegram from Washing- ! ton says that Mr Tilton has published a j new and final state ment, containing ; additional evidence against the Rev. ; Henry Ward Beecher. The New York papers of the 12th con-! tain Mr Moulton's second . letter. The bulk of the document, which is of g-reat length, consists of an examination of the correspondence and evidence already published, with the view of ' showing its incompatibility ,with the [-Supposition that Mr Beecher is innocent. Some fresh matter is brought forward, and additional charges are made of an extremely disgaeeful and disgusting | character. In referance to one accusation, Mr Mouiton says.— " I do not give the lady's name, and withold the photo-lithograph of her j letter, because I do not needlessly wish to involve a reputation thus far escaped public mention by any of the parties to this controversy. If the facts stated here should identify the person concerned with him, and if those who are interested in her feel ; aggrieved, let them avenge that grief, ;if upon any one, upon the pastor of Plymouth Church, and not upon mc, :as I have been threatened it would be if I ventured to state the facts of ! Beecher's guilt in this case." After , stating that the reason he sustained Mr ' Beecher after he knew all. these things to be true that were whispered about him by others was, that he looked to the disgrace innocent children would be brought to, the families that would be separated, and to the slight that would be put upon Christianity by the revelations—he speaks of having made an allusion to Mr Beecher's suicide. "It may be well," he adds, "for mc to state here the full circumstances of his confession concerning his proposed design. He told mc, and repeated to another in my presence, that he had within reach in his study a poison which he would use if the story of his crime with Elizabeth should ever come to the public. He told mc of a visit which he had made to a photagrapher's gallery,where he had learned that one of the employees had mistaken a glass of poison for a glass of water, and after drinking it had fallen dead with scarcely time to drop the glass. Beecher said that was what he wanted for himself; and under plea of making, some photographic experiments, he procured some of this poison from the photographer, which he said he intended to use if the revelation of his crime should be made. 'And then/ he said, 'it would be simply reported that Beecher died of apoplexy, but God and you and I will know what caused my death.' If those who blame mc," continues Mr Mouiton, "could have looked into this grief-striken face, and listened to the tones of his voice in the great emergencies in which he said there was'no refuge for him but in death, they would have felt impelled, as I was, to as generous, as openhearted a service as I practised towards him. It would have taken harder hearts than mine, being witness to his sorrows, jiot to forget his sins. ' I have/ he writes, ' a strong feeling upon mc, and it brings great peace with it, that I am spending my last Sunday, and preaching my last sermon.'. I did, indeed, write to him, i You can stand if the whole case were published to-morrow.' I did believe that if he had made, as he was advised to make, a full and frank confession of the whole truth, as he had done to mc, accompanied by such expressions of contrition and repentance as he had made to mc, his Church and the world would have forgiven him, and he would have stood. How much more, then, must I believe it now, when he can stand before the public preaching the Gospel ? lem driven by the blows and assaults of his people from that which should be the house of God, wherein his adulteries and hypocrisies have been condoned by an admiring Church."