Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-05-04

former marriage was complete. Any apprehen
sions of possible risk to her reputation and her
future security and happiness, which she might
have entertained were overcome by the passion
a;e representations of her belrothed; and won
or flattered by the honorable love with which he
had so signally befriended her in the day of her
agony at The discovery of her betrayal i'm the
midst Of the greatest misfortune which could
ever beiall truly virtuous woman-she yielded
She was accordingly married to him idlctAiy but
priUaieiy by priest of the church of Rome, in
the city Of New-York, in the presence of several
witnesses: and soon after she accompanied him
to New Orleans, where she was received in the
families of his friends and in all the respectable
society with which his position and character
had previously made him familiar Still, on &C
count Of the difficulty of obtaining complete e-
gal proof of the previous marriage of De Grain
ges, her marriage with Daniel Clark was not o.
penly so!emnized nor made public in the requi-
site legal form.
In this stage Of the narrative, if any doubt
arise as TO the fact of the marriage having taken
place as here described, or if there should appear
anything mysterious or unacc0untable in it with
this very imperfect view of the numerous partc-
ulars of the casc--it is enough to notice The fact
that all the evidence of that marriage has been
submitted to the courts of the United States il
has been PROVED before those tribunals, by liv-
ing Witnesses undergoing the most rigid cross
examination by counsel employed by opposing
parties, who had uucounted millions of dollars
depending on the result; and it now stands, af
ter all this ordeal, PROVED unquestioned. The
highest tribunal in the Union-one which has no
superior in the world for the authority of lis de-
clsions -on full review of that testimony, has
declared that the marriage of Daniel Clark to
Zulime Carriere, in the city of New York, IN the
year lSU5, was true and legal marriage, by the
laws Of God and man.
While the proceedings necessary to establish
the illegally of the pretended marriage of De
Oranges with Zuime Carriere were pending,
Daniel Clark was called away from New Or
leans, t. attend 10 his public and political duties
at Washington; he left his wife at New Orleans
under the care OF friends residing there, and
remained in Washington and the north for some
months, constantly corresponding with her, and
nIanliestng undated affection. In the mean.
time, the evidence convctng De Oranges of
olgany, after many searches tor the records of
the former colonial courts, which had been lost
or misplaced in the confusion incident to the OK.
change Of Jurisdictions, was recovered, and the
TACT OF the nulllty of his pretended marriage to
Aullme Carriere was fully established on legal
and documentary testimony. Nothing was now
lacking to the security of the honor and rights
OF the wife of Daniel Clark, but public and
formal acknowledgment by him of his actual
marriage with her. Confident in his affection
and honor, she felt no disposition to hasten his
action on the subject while he was absent from
her, out contentedy awaiting his return to New
Orleans, as furnishing the most suitable occasion
for duly recognizing and formally registering
the marriage. At this point of the narrative
come in the evil agencies which wrought all
the wrong and misery afierward suffered by his
wife and himself, and by Isis child, to remedy
which has required more than forty years.
Daniel Clark. uDou commencing business in
New Orleans, took into his employment two
poor young men, named Reife and Chfp, and
retained them In that capacity for some years
| until their conduct had so far demonstrated to
him their ability and apparent honesty, that he
! made them his partners in business, though they
had no capital except what they had acquired
f from him. To say that he had confidence in
their fidelity and honesty is not necessary, after
giving suc!l evidences of his regard for them.
He was not only their generous patron, but their
) devoted friend, relying implicitly upon their fl
deity, and entrusting them not only with all his
business but also with the knowledge of his Sc
) cret feelings, purposes and affections They
thove by his favor, and did their best for long
time to retain it, which could have been done
t easily by simple common honesty, and due at
, tentlon 10 his commercial interests, as combined
? and Unidentified with their own But this course,
f so simple and easy to men of only ordinary dc
covetousness of these men, who seem 10 have
n grasped at nothing less than the whole of the
Y property of Daniel Clark In case of his decease
: before them.
: Regarding these his protegcs and benefciaries
J as the most grateful and devoted of his friends
t Daniel Clark, on bringing his beloved Zulime
y 10 New Orleans, entrusted them with the whole
: OF the secret Of his private marriage to her, and
C of the peculiar circumstances which prevented
Ion, nd e, Ill
J., cognition Of her as his wife at that time. She
y was treated by them as his wife, and was recei
}, we'd by the wife Of Relic into his house as vir
d tuous and honorable lady; while her connexiol
y with Daniel Clark was known, she was also thus
e received by other ladies' on the strength of he
l. reception by the wife of Relfe. No testimonial
o of respect and kindness to her was lacking or
e their parts and she therefore left under the
>; protection by her husband, Oh his departure, with
n out a misg irving as to their fidelity to him, OF
= their respect and friendship for her.
r 1t was underthese circumstances that the only
child of Daniel Clark and his wife Zulime, was
o born 1t was daughter, and was by him nance
II Myra. The circumstances made it necessary
'r TO separate the nlant from its mother, amos
Al Immediately utter its birth and it was SO foru
i nate as to find in lady of high charater ant
l. eminent virtues, one OF the best of foster moth
n ers. Captain Davis, an officer Of the United
III olulto army, llen stationed ut new orleans
d was an intimate and favored friend of DAME
r Clark, and was so largely benefited by his lib
- crafty in pecunary matters as to feel unde
!. great personal obligations to him. Capt. Dav
J. was married and 10 him and his wife was en-
e trusted the secret of the marriage of their veal
,r thy and generous friend in consequence o
u which Madame Zulime Clark was received by
h them, ALSO as lady worthy of the society 0
10 ladies'. To the kind care OF Mrs. Davis the lit
3 tie Myra was gladly entrusted, soon after he
f. birth, and was received by her with an affection
At us devoted, fond and unchanging, as if she hat
a been her own offspring so that with all thu
" misiortunes of her birth, under circumstance
lie which prevented the public acknowledgment o
ne her parents marriage, Myra never knew wha
)e It was to want mother. Until she became
O. woman, she never found the least occasion Il
er suppose that Mrs. Davis was not her actua
e, mother, or that the children of Mrs. Davis wer
as not her brothers and sisters. To the day of he
o. death, Mrs. Davis was all to her adopted chill
IN that mother could be and when she died, wa
to amented by her with an agony of grief tina
ne was not mlugated by the recently acquires
r. knowledge OF the absence Of all natural kndre
On relationship between them.
IL Relic and Chew were, by the frequent with
nt dra wal of thair from int 4