The Beecher-Tilton scandal...
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August 08, 1874
DAYS' DOINGS, New York, Aug. 8, 1874 Printed as a banner across the title is: "The Brooklyn Scandal" which is the focus of this issue: the "Beecher-Tilton Scandal".
To provide the backdrop (credit: Wilipedia), Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.
In the highly publicized scandal known as the Beecher-Tilton Affair, he was tried on charges that he had committed adultery with a friend's wife, Elizabeth Tilton. In 1870, Elizabeth had confessed to her husband, Theodore Tilton, that she had had a relationship with Henry Ward Beecher.
The charges became public when Theodore Tilton told Elizabeth Cady Stanton of his wife's confession. Stanton repeated the story to fellow women's rights leaders Victoria Woodhull and Isabella Beecher Hooker.
Beecher had publicly denounced Woodhull's advocacy of free love. She published a story in her paper (Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly) in 1872 claiming that America's most renowned clergyman was secretly practicing the free-love doctrines which he denounced from the pulpit. The story created a national sensation. As a result, Woodhull was arrested in New York City and imprisoned for sending obscene material through the mail. The Plymouth Church held a board of inquiry and exonerated Beecher, but excommunicated Mr. Tilton in 1873.
Tilton then sued Beecher: the trial began in January 1875, and ended in July when the jurors deliberated for six days but were unable to reach a verdict. His wife loyally supported him throughout the ordeal.
The front page features a print of: "Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton" with text headed: "Beecher-"Tilton Scandal" taking the balance of the front page & carrying over to page 2. There is also another fullpg. of text with four illustrations headed: "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal" (see).
The balance of the issue is taken up with sensational "tabloid" reports & illustrations as was the theme with this newspaper, making this an ideal publication for this scandal.
Sixteen pages, never bound nor trimmed, wear at the margins with some archival mends to inside pages. String-bound at the spine.
To provide the backdrop (credit: Wilipedia), Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.
In the highly publicized scandal known as the Beecher-Tilton Affair, he was tried on charges that he had committed adultery with a friend's wife, Elizabeth Tilton. In 1870, Elizabeth had confessed to her husband, Theodore Tilton, that she had had a relationship with Henry Ward Beecher.
The charges became public when Theodore Tilton told Elizabeth Cady Stanton of his wife's confession. Stanton repeated the story to fellow women's rights leaders Victoria Woodhull and Isabella Beecher Hooker.
Beecher had publicly denounced Woodhull's advocacy of free love. She published a story in her paper (Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly) in 1872 claiming that America's most renowned clergyman was secretly practicing the free-love doctrines which he denounced from the pulpit. The story created a national sensation. As a result, Woodhull was arrested in New York City and imprisoned for sending obscene material through the mail. The Plymouth Church held a board of inquiry and exonerated Beecher, but excommunicated Mr. Tilton in 1873.
Tilton then sued Beecher: the trial began in January 1875, and ended in July when the jurors deliberated for six days but were unable to reach a verdict. His wife loyally supported him throughout the ordeal.
The front page features a print of: "Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton" with text headed: "Beecher-"Tilton Scandal" taking the balance of the front page & carrying over to page 2. There is also another fullpg. of text with four illustrations headed: "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal" (see).
The balance of the issue is taken up with sensational "tabloid" reports & illustrations as was the theme with this newspaper, making this an ideal publication for this scandal.
Sixteen pages, never bound nor trimmed, wear at the margins with some archival mends to inside pages. String-bound at the spine.
Category: Post-Civil War
