Nashville Union And American

THE meagre telegraphic report of the seven column article published in the Golden Age yesterday, will not clear the Tilton-Beecher mystery with such as prefer to believe the great preacher innocent of certain foul charges, foully set forth some years since in Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly. If Mr. Tilton means to say that those charges were true in substance, we see no need of further mincing words about it. Friends who read the Woodhull article tells us the charge was one of adultery, implicating Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton.

The Tilton-Beecher Troubles.
Theodore Publishes Seven Columns About It.
Patience and Duty do not Permit Further Silence—Beecher's Name.
less Offense—His Confession.

NEW YORK, June 24.—Theodore Tilton published in the Golden Age this morning a seven column article touching the Beecher scandal. It is a defence of Tilton against the charges of Rev. Leonard Bacon, Moderator of the late Brooklyn Council that Tilton has been a cowardly slanderer of Beecher whose magnanimity alone saved him from a disgraceful exposure. Having suffered in silence for years from these and similar misrepresentations as directly put before the public by the Plymouth Church, Tilton says that neither patience or duty will permit him longer to conceal the actual facts from the public. He then goes on to say that he has never slandered Henry Ward Beecher, but on the contrary has sacrificed his own reputation to suppress the truth about him, and that he never has refused to appear before the Church and answer all questions regarding the scandal that might be put to him, and Tilton gives his reason for
Severing Connection with the church as follows: "After I had been for fifteen years a member of Plymouth Church, and had become meanwhile an intimate friend of the pastor, knowledge came to me in 1870 that he had committed against me an offense which I forbear to name or characterize. Prompted by my self respect I immediately and forever closed my attendance on his ministry."

Beecher's Confession.
He publishes the following as an extract from a document signed by Mr. Beecher:
Brooklyn, Jan. 1, 1871.—I ask Theodore Tilton's forgiveness, and humble myself before him as I do before my God. He would have been a better man in my circumstances than I have been. I can ask nothing except that he will remember all the other of the breasts that would ache. I will not plead for myself. I even wish that I were dead.
H. W. BEECHER