Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-07-06
tormentor gradually goaded him from love in
to Suspicion, andf suspicion into madness,

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to Suspicion, andfrom suspicion into madness,
Alas
| .wbat damned minutes tells he's DER
who doais yet doubts-suspects yet strongly loves"
| Fancy, it YOU can, the accused process BY
which his affection was shaken-his Tears "a
roused-his jealousy excited, until at last mis-
taking accident for design. aud shadows for
continuation, he sunk under the pressure of
the human vampire that crawied from his
| fathers grave 10 clasp him into ruin ....Just
imagine the catalogue of petty frauds by which
| IN his own phrase he made himself impene-
| trabie"-how he invented-how he exaggerat-
| ed-how he pledged his dupe TO secrecy, while
lac blackened the character of Major Brown,
with whom he daily associated on terms of IN
| timacy--how he hbeled the wife 10 the hus-
band, and the husband To the wife-how he
wound himself round the very heart OF his
Nictin,, with every embrace coil,ng a deadlier
| torture, tiil at last he drove him tor refuge in
| Tie woods, aud almost to suicide, for a remedy.
Now, gentlemen, let ms concede for moment
| The 'eracity OF ms inventions. Suppose this
woman TO be even worse than he represented
why should lie reveal il 10 the UNCONSCIOUS
| husband AL WAS happiness before his inter
terence--all would he liza pine still bat for his
| marderons amity-why should he awake him
from his dream OF happiness-why should he
swindle himself into reluctant confidence for
| the atrocions purpose of creating discord p
| w nat family would be safe ii every little eX-
piOded caimmny was to be revived, and every
| forgotten ember 10 be famed into cOnflagra-
ton Is such a character to be tolerated i'm
the community But even this insolent de
fence IS wanting-yoH will find that self was
his first and last and sole consideration
| VIII hud that II was he who soured this woman
tiii she actually refused to live any longer un-
uer Tie root with her husband and her children
lyon Will mud that I'm the midst of his counsel,
his cant and his sensibility, he hinse was the
protiigate aduiterer-you will find That he rul-
Ell her with a rod of iron--you will find that
having once sednced her into crime, he COM
PEELED her to submit TO degradation too Ioatt-
some for credulity, IL il was not too mon, irons
tor nvention-yOu will find that his preteuce
Tor enforcing this disgusting ordeal was doubt
oi her previous innocence, which II alone, he
| asserted, could eradicate-you will fad her on
her Knees, weeping, almost tainiing, offering
oaths upon oaths to save herself from the pollu-
| uon-and you will find at last, when Exhausted
nature could no longer struggle, the foul adult
! terer actually ipctratiHg-but no-the ge-
| mus OF our country rises to rebuke me-I hear
her say to me" have suf.
tered IN the feld--l have suffer cd i'm the Sc
mattel have seen my hills bedewed with the
blood OF my children--my diadem i'm dust---
| my throne In ruins--but nature sill reipus I'M.
on my plaIiis--ihe morals of my people are AS
Sef unconquered--forbea Observation-Disclosures
not crnnes OF winch they are uncoIscious--re-
veal rot tie knowledge, whose consequence
is death. l. will obey the Acknowledgement
from my lips shall issue The odious crimes of
TINS mendcant adulterer--not by my hand shall
the drapery be withdraw that screens this III.
berian sensuality from the public execration !
God OF NATURE had thus lJeen love forgetting
forms III the pure inipetuosity of its passions
hau u been youth, transgressinr rigid law AID
figid morais--had IL been desire, mad in lis
quit, aud guilty even in its madness, 1 could
nave dropped tear over humanity in .ilence !;
but when L see dge---poweriess passoness
remofSe'eSS, avariciOus age, druggingits impo
fence INTO the capability of crime and testing
It's enjoyment by the contemplation of misery,
| my voice is not soothed but stitied im its utter
ahre, and can only pray tor you, fathers, hus
Ddhas' btotheiS- that The Almighty may avert
TINS omen from your families
Gentlemen of the Jary, if YOU feel as de-
you VIII rejoice with me thai this odious case
is near 10 its conclusion. You will have the
tacts before you---proof of the fiiendship---
proof OF lie CenfldrDce--proOt of the treache-
ny, ana eye witnesses of The actualadultery. 1t
remains TO enquire What rs the paliiation
ioi TINS abominabie turpitude. Is il love
| Love between the tropic and the pole! Why
| he mas daughter older than his victim he has
| wife whose grave alone should he the altar
OF ms pnptlais-he is of AN aye when "A shroua
Should he has wedding garment. Will not in.
sun yon by so prepOsterous suppositiou. VIII
ne plead eonnlv2nce IDthe husband-that fond
anectionate, devoted husband 4 dare him 10
he-eAperiment-and IT he makes lit is not
| 10 MS lniiniateS, his friends, or even 10 the nm
deUatIng testimony of all his enemies that
Shaii feier you tor his vIHdicaiiOn-but will
caii INN INTO court, aud Ia the altered mien and
| inouiueiing form. and furrowed cheek of his
decaying youth, L will bid you read the proofs
| of his csnnIyance. But gentlemen he has MOI
| ofiVen me 10 conjecture his palliation. his
heartiess industry has blown IL tlro' the land ::
anu what do you think IL is Oh, woudio God
! couiu can the whole female world To its dis
| closure Oh, IT there he within orr islands
boundaries one hapiess maid who lends her
ear 10 me seducer's pOIson-One hesitating ma.
| tron whose husband aud whose children the
vile adulteTer devotes To desoIaton, lot them
| now near TO what the tldttery of vice will turu
let them see when they have evelied the fair
| FABRIC OF their Innocence and their virtue with
] what remorseless haste their fonI DESTROYER
| Will rush over their ruins Will ,ou believe
| itt That he who knelt to this foriorn creature
| sootbed her vanity, adored her tailinss and
! defined her faults, now Justifes the pOiiution
! OF her person by the defamation of her ciiarac.
| ter! NOT single act OF indlscretion--nOt an.
| instance, perhaps, OF culpabie ieyity in her
| whole lite, which lie has not raked together
| tor the purpose of publication. Unhappy wo
| man, may heaven have pity OH her Alas how
| conid she expect that he who sacrifice a friend
| TO his Inst, would protect a mistress trom his
| aVarIcef Butwill yon permit HIM To take shell
| ter under this act OtdshOAorable desperation
| Gan lie expect not even sympathy but counte-
| nance from a tribunal OF hgli-mInded honora-
| Die gentlemen! VIII not you say, that his tins
| tradncing the poor fallen victim of his arti-
| noes, rather aggrayates than dIminishes the
| original depravity Will you not .purn the
| monster whose unnatural vice, combining sei-
s"ahty, hypocrisy aud crime, could stoUp TO
| save his miserable dross, by the defamation of
| his victim VIII yon not ask him by what title
| he holds tbs lnqulsiion Is il not by that of
| AN adultereT, traitor. a recreunt 10 evCIy
| compact between man and man, and betwepI,
| earth aud heavens!
lfths heartess paIliation was open TO all the
| world. Is not he excluded from il! lie her
| frend--her husbands friend--her husbands
| fathers friend her family adviser who o,,afT-
ed the cup of hospitality, aud pledged his host
in poison--he who, if you can believe him,
found this young and inex perienced creature
toiteIing On the brink, and, under preteuce of
assisting, dragged her down the precipict
| will lie, in The whole host of strangers, with
whose familiarity lie defames her. produce
| one this day vile enough 10 have followed his
| example one out of even The skinn,uy dane