Theodore Tilton
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Theodore Tilton was present at The Southern Loyalist Convention held in Philadelphia in September 1866. Frederick Douglass writes of him in his autobiography:
There was one man present who was broad enough to take in the whole situation, and brave enough to meet the duty of the hour; one who was neither afraid nor ashamed to own me as a man and a brother; ''one man'' of the purest Caucasian type, a poet and a scholar, brilliant as a writer, eloquent as a speaker, and holding a high and influential position—the editor of a weekly journal having the largest circulation of any weekly paper in the city or State of New York—and that man was ''Mr. Theodore Tilton''. He came to me in my isolation, seized me by the hand in a most brotherly way, and proposed to walk with me in the procession.
From 1860 to 1871, Tilton was the assistant of Henry Ward Beecher. He gave the 1869 commencement speech for the Irving Literary Society.
In 1874 Tilton filed a complaint against Beecher for "criminal conversation" (adultery) with Elizabeth Richards Tilton and sued for a $100,000 (~$}} in ) judgment.
The Beecher-Tilton trial ended in a deadlocked jury. Afterwards, Tilton moved to Paris, where he lived for the rest of his life. In the 1880s, Tilton frequently played chess with a fellow American exile, ex-Confederate Secretary of State Judah Benjamin, until the latter died in 1884.
As a poet, Tilton is famous for his 1858 poem "The King's Ring", with its famous line, "Even this shall pass away", which is the last line of each of its seven stanzas. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907, Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907, Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907
Published 1867
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2by Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907, Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907, Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907
Published 1867
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Published 1871
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