The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-05-16

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4bis wife; andlher error in regard toihat facl
being not criminal, but merely. the result Of
linnocent Ignorance, wrought upon and b.
trayed by the most tinheardl6f and artful kna.
yery4Ashe could not be, considered guilty oi
libat offence which the laws of Chrislendon,
lcoBstituie a, complete ground of Divorce -
lZulime Catriere had now been, three, times
married; each IF the three men TO whom
1she had been married was living; she had
been divorced from neither Of them; she was
Ilhe lawful wife ofone Of ,hem;, her. lawful
husband, even though believing her morally
guItless, could never again bonorably Re-
ceive her as his wife from the home of anott-
er .man, who had regarded her us bis own
he with whom she last found herself as a
wife,o could not lawfully retain her When
4 knowing the facts; neither could he Justly
lcensure her, or honorbly discard her, or
thrust her, out from him and leave her with
out ahome or protector, as completely ruin
edy and as unworthy of again bee prniBg a
wife, as though llergiunocenco had been The
most licentous gull: neither the first nor
the last could lawfully claim her: the other
could not in honor or deeency do so: : 10 all
practical intents and purposes, therefore, she
was the wife ofno man. 10 her it might
have been truly said-"Thou hast three
husbands; and he whom thou now hast is
not thy husband" History never furnished
parallel TO this. remarkably case. Fiction,
ever ,teebler in invention than truth is in lis
natural development, never in its widest
fight, in poetry, III tha drama, or in romance,
rose to The conception Of catastrophe so
inextricably complicated in its results, so
appalling, SO revolving to moral sense, where
the chief victims were 50 free from heinous
guilt. i5Ga' "i' 'e' a','"'F d''' '.a.
To this point, Daniel Clak and Zdlime
remoned. ignorant df their relative position.
He had cast hei off as aH Utterly unworthy
woman, who had vilely dishonorcd his true
affection for her; and he had determined to
spare himself the modification of exposing
her shame and his, by any public proceeding
against herApreferring tliat the Thy him
deemed fortunately secresy of his unfortun-
ate marriage should remain and be perpetu-
al. Though scorning 10 care for the fate Of
sue a being, he heard thai she had made a
supposed marriage with another person, but
could not regard that as matter Of slightest
moment TO him. IN, ,.-.
I But there was tie that bound him, in
spite Of himself, to a certain remembrance
of her, She was the mother of his lawful
child, and natural heir, born Of her when he
knew that she was his trde and lawful wife, =
Bllghted as were his hopes ofa happy home,
where their faces might together shine on
him, tha, innocent daughter had sill hold
ouh him n hich co uld not be removed by the
supposed offences qofy her mother. While
that mothet lived, he could never have an
hother ,lawfulswife; md TO this little child he,
therefore, soon, learned TO look as bis only
hope, and joys in life, and his only lawful
heiro,,To provide for her; and TO secure to
her fortune tha, should enable her to take
station worthy Of him; becamela great OBJ
lect to him, even when be considered her
mother dshonored; and this purpose he
maintained 10 the last hour of his life, with
a fidelity well exhibited in the evidence now
Recognized in the highest court in he Union.
Sill, While believing that her mother had
betrayed him, be, did not regard her with
that unuingled satisfaction and pride with
which he would have viewed her as the Or
nameni aud hope of a happy home, in which
she might have grown up honoring, and a.
like ,honored, by both her father and mother.
She had found a mother in one, who never
gave her occasion to wish for ianother,o or to
feel the want of one. Mrs. Davis, loving
little Myra as her own child, seemed almost
to forget that she cherished the offspring Of
another, and gave her alplaceJ in her aztec
tons secure from changes or, dispute. las
| While still deceived as to his relations to
his wife, he had made viii bequeathing the
bulk of his property to his,aged mother, then
residing in Philadelphia, under the care OF
his friends, and 10, olher persons, legacies OF
various. amounts, OF this. will, he named
Richard Relfer and Beverly Glen the exec
utols; and 7con6ding in their .disinterested
attachment to him, he left them the duty
and power of eflecling his kind purposes to-
wards his mother, his friends, and depend
ents.ag 'sIt " Ssh --g,,5q gtd Y 9i' 70 nh
Butin process Of time |! ca me to pass that
he FIRST suspected, and tlen) learned some
thing of the monstrous frauds that had been
4 practised on him by these ;oo-much trusted
proteges, partners, ftieads, and their fellow
lcons6ifa,ors. lie satisfied himself that he
had wofully ~ronged his wife. Upon nves-
Etieatiop, he found that he had been deceived
Iby neutrality-suspicious. against her--that she
had been honest and pure, when ne rash-
ly discarded her in al paroxysm of jealousy
, that had been .s.u dousy excited by these
f sshonest Iagos''-@iliat she too had been as
shamefulIy, deceived concerning him, and
had been the innocent victim of that decep-
ltion in yielding 10 the temptations OF new