Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-11


who wouid ono hav. stepped forth to protect me-
md sympath,Ze with me, Is now no more. his
mead lies low under the clods OF the valley.
unconscious of the sufferings oil his family: VI
nous enviable is his lot to mine! while my bleed
,na heart il torn with a thousand pangs BY the
ssth If the kind. st and best Of husbands. as IT
mi, was not enough to complete my miseres, IN
order to put finishing stroke to them and dart
the last pangs to my already too much asonized
bosom, I am charged, am arrested on the false,
the cruel suspicion Of being thought accessory
| to the death Of my husband.
Was it not for conscious innocence and the
happiness of my dear babes. (thOse living remains
Of my much beloved husband. they were very
dear to him, and for his sake as well as their
own very dear to me likewise,) life would be in
tolerable. o! that Heaven would plead my cause!
although have acted very foolishly. very impru-
IDENTIFY, vet may God in his infinite mercy, re-
store me again to my be.eaved. my distressed 1T
tie family. When | reflect thar there IL a pro-
liability that my poor husband was posoned,and
that am suspected of having assisted in the hor-
rid the attrociOus crime. / am paralized! am
distracted But am innocent, however dark
! g. unfavorable circumstances may appear against
me. have been infatuated with mysterious
stranger; a base Impostor! Ihave been deceived
and duped BY him, 40 that without due consider
alton of consequences, which might result from
such step, Tbelieving him, alas! to he crate
| full friend to my deCayed husband. sell anu chill
drer [ precipilare!y married the cruel monster;
YOU will saw ought 10 have been memorable, so
| soon after nv husbands death; this grant, but
when refused him, urging the recent death OF
NV husband a. an objection, he declared thatmy
husband. on his death bed, took his hand, and
desired him to be father to his children, &c
this he told 20 nv eldest daughter, as well as to
OTHERS " hen urged him To desist hi, i'OpOr
tunies. Oh account Of disparity OF years. telling
him that such a union wnuid ue thought rldlcu-
lous in this country, he said that the customs
were different in Mexico, and to that CITY, to his
| father aud mother. he would Immediately return
with the aud my children. It would marry him.
His talking of going 10 Mexico Mas rs new 10
me, as was his proposal OF matrlmonr, tor new
or heard him speak OF leaving america, previous
tn Mr.. Chanman's death lie likewise told me
tina, hi. eldest sister, when but twenty years of
age married gentleman whose aye was sixty
| That il vas honor. IL wa> gratitude he owed my
deceased husband as we'll aS myself, that indnc-
! ed hun to offer the his hand t,is! the intrigueS.
the wiles nf demon, wh', he practlsed to decny
me, to gain my consent to marcy hun, and for
| wharf all! it was that he nigh better accomplish
his d,abulical desgns, 10 rob me and my children
o. our perscna' t'"pI "o"s" ~, -, go.
'ore '"a'''e" WV" '"a' NC w." NV w ',,
any of my property, desiring me 10 DO ~ha'
pleased with my possessions.
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