The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-08-28


female enyy. repeat il then, that the
knowledge Avery is supposed 70 have had
that this young woman had parted with that
gem, the yirtuous Prize more ihan'lfc itself,
80 far from giving favorable aspect 10 Ave-
'ry'scase. makes il thousand times more
probable, that he successfully paid his court
10 her and fotAwhch purpose, the relation in
which he stood toher as Pastor ofthe church
favored him with innumerable opportunities.
Da,, did Miss Cornell declare TINT she
Had held intercourse with three men
So she declares she had with the fourth
--and that fourth, she declares 10 be
Ephraim X. Avery. Ii is on her own
Testimony, according TO the statement of
the witnesses, that she is convicted of
lewdness. She said il to them, and they
|knew u il by no other means. They re-
lyed to the Court and Jury, what they
shy she related TO them, and the court
MD Jdry believe, and the Methodist
Church believe, what Sarah Maria Cor
NIL said. They have therefore virtually
adkpowlsdge her to be, thus far, wor-
|thilof credit. If she spoke the truth in
llas case, she was just As likely to do so,
shen she charged Avery with the same
ft. If we believe her in one instance ;
W. have as good right to believe her in
tle other; therefore Avery is gully Of
I'll, charge. If on the other hand, we
bcieve her guilty of falsehood in the lat
tel instance, we have just as good a right
to Gscredit her in the former, and hence,
The testimony against her character un-
Ill a few mouths previous to her death,
fallsto he ground.
But, why should she not bo believed {!
Does the fact of her having had inter
course with man, prove her "A liar +! II
so, we have yet to learn how manyofihe
female Witnesses, called together from
the "four winds Of heavens" are entitled
to belief Who has said she was siar
1vcry, with his sanctimonious Alas
Alas Alas And who believes him
Who believes the man, once convicted by
a jury of his country, of the most gross,
foul, and wilIul .lander, to destroy the
character of a brother Clergyman? Who
believes such man, when he brands a
defcncelcss female with the crime of false.
hood, whose character for truth, 1t was
lns interest TO destroy, to cover up his
own iniqnity, as su sequent facts have
proved 7! Who believes the man Who,
Bat q foo! can helisXe The man. ho could
u0t tnhkcsas ample cxcursioli stus Tue CuT
minds ON Rliode-Island, on the 20,h Of
December last, ON n tour ofobscryation,
in the night, without sl.islding h.mself oy
the utterancc of falschood, y ilful aud de-
liberatc falsehood in sulemnly Stain,
thar he met, and c0nversed with persons
who nevcr exisfed! And what other evi
dcnce exists that Sarah Maria Cornell
was liar : IL is pretended that she forg
ed certificate from the Methods
Church. But who knows il Her fe
male friends, at least a few of them, pre-
tend that they know it. Bun hOw di'
they know It. They had seen the paper
But how did they know it to be spurious
They guessed at il, as they did at man.
other things and, for aught that il
known 10 the contrary it was probabl,
genuine. There is no difficulty in com
ing tn the conclusion, that Avery himself
even ifhe knew the girl to he us bad IA
is pretended, gave her this certificate
himself, 10 lull suspicion to rest, and sc
curchimself from detection. His con
duct her at Fall River, where
he preserved studied silence respecting
her, Ind bdrgained with hor for continu-
ancein the church, on certain conditions
all g4es to the conclusion that he feareo
hcr-thnt he dared not speak out, lest he
shouli turn the enemy's battery OH him
self. His permission for her to remain
in tip church, was just as bad as il would
havi ibeen to have given her a certificate ;
an (which, he did, as is very well known.
Isay then, no good and sufficient cyi-
de- be has been produced, to prove her
csjliicaie forgery NO satisfactory
tejimony has been offered, to prove her
Infatuated to lying ; No,hing appears on
thj trial TO shew that her statements are
Ind as much to be credited, as those Of
I'll witnesses that branded her character
|.wIh lewdness. Indeed facss, if they
wte facts. developed by them, go 10
sljw. that of whatever else she may have
bdn guilty, lying was not among her
hbitual errors. Admitting her to have
m|de the confession she is said to have
mhe to her companions and associates,
alb afterwards to the church, aud to
hdo acted as she did, and felt rs she APP
p4rs to have done on the occasion, how
cih we account for the fact, but from
cdbyiction that she valued truth too