Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-05-26
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go further.
Nou have succeeded in making the world be-
leVe That am bad, and that all you say true,
but VIII you be happyl Win your conscience
never reprach you for the wrong you have
done mel OH Milton, il wAl--beheve me, |
there will come time when you will mourn
over the fate of one whose name you have de-
famed; yes, you have endeavoured to sink me
on a level with the vilest cUurtezan. My name
has been before the public-a stigma is upon ii:
wretched, miserable giri, why do not die!
When think that the breast on which my
head has been so often pillowed in trusting con-
tdence, should be filed with such black viz
lany. Oh! am mad, mad, no wonder that
my poor brains il turned. ] know that some-
times in the solitude Of your chamber, IN the
presence of none but your Maker, know that
you must reproach Yourself But will not
do $500 Milton, for one sigh of repentance
breathed by you, would forgive you all my
wrongs. And when we stand together at
the bar Of God, viii intercede for you there.
HELEN.
Ihavc since been informed that Col. Milton
| has made known to her hs threat, that IF she
did not write him a note denying the charges l
had made against him, that he would publish
a communication which would render my sis
the still more infamous. But the cause |
am engaged in, is one of Truth and JUS
tice. The villain is now unmasked, and ev-
cry effort TO retrieve himself viii recol with
ten fold force upon his own head. lie has
appeared to the public and he must ABIDE their
decision.
1t would seem that not satisfied with the in
Jury he has done me in the ruin of my sisters
LII. L lion Ofb III
and the overthrow of her reason, that this
man, if man he is, pursues her still, and is
endeavOurlng to make her the instrument OF my
obstruction.
Yes, that he has had the barbarity to follow
the poor unhappy GIRL into the hospital, where
placed her with a hope that she would be
spared from his Vaccinations, and permitted Il
enjoy that repose which common humanity
would claim for her.
But it appears, that without my knowledge
my sister, having somewhat recovered from the
shock which unhinged her mnd, wrote the note
which is herewith published, to Col. Milton
showed it to DIR. Stone, and obtained his con-
sent to send it to him.
The cold and brutal reply was a threat that
he would produce evidence which would still
further nangle her ruined reputation, unless
she would send him a''written statement deny
inc all the charges which her brother had made
against him.
Comment upon conduct such as this is un-
necessary--an attempt to extort from a sis
ter-an unfortunate sister, statement to be
used against her brother, her only friend and
protector is crime so dark almost to challenge
belief
know not-care not what instrument he
may have at hand to aid him in this last
black and infamous scheme, but be he whom
he may, it is more likely that he will sink TO
the grade of villain, than that he will elevate
Col. Milton to the level sof an honorable
man.
may do injustice in the thought, but the
image ofthat wretched woman, Mrs. Jackson
will ever haunt my Imagination. | shall ever
associate her with my poor Heen's fate, and
see in her the serpent throwing It's deadly coil
around the charmed and gulltless victim. Look
at the relations which subsisted between Colo
mel Milton and this woman at the time of my
| sisters arrival in New Orleans--see her in
his Office packing up her clothes on the mol
ming of her departure--the letters which he
gave introducing her at Galveston-Why this
| sudden mission 10 Tcxas--canit be that the
innocent laughing, happy girl was seen and
| marked as his prey! See her meeting Mrs.
Jackson on the arrival of the boat, assuming
her expenses, and introducing HIM to my, sis
ter--his knowledge OF her affection for Mr..
Jennings, his acquaintance with the contents
Of the letter writtenby Mrs. Jackson to her at
Little Rock, and her reply to the same, which
was delivered to him. Awakening from my
fatal credulity and confidence, and calling up
all these circumstances, / cannot silence the
voice that vhisPores IN my car, your doomed
and iated sister was marked, the first time she
stepped from the school upon the stage of soci-
ETY. at tie tender age of 10, and this woman
was the great instrument ofevil in her fall"
EDWARD C.. MORTON