Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-02-05
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QT The following communication was In
tended for the Lincoln Democrat, in reply to
an advertisement published in that paper, over
the signature of Louisa H. Brown, but the pub
Usher, probably from some rise reason, refused
TO admitit into its columns. Some grave charg-
es were made against Mr.. Brown in the commu-
nication, and whatever may be the issue of the
controversy, he certainly has a right to be
heard in his own defence. He was introduced
to us by one of our best citizens, who testifes
to his character as gentleman and teacher
of Penmanship. We have also seen testimoni-
ais from gentlemen of the highest respectable
ty, to the same effect.
Portland, Jan. 10, 1852.
]. ]. RAMSEY, Esq-In your paper of the
14th inst, you have done me great injustice
l regret that you felt at libery to depart from
your rule; mot to NEEDLE with private af-
fairs" for then you would not have endorsed
a communication which is false in every i'm
portant particular, and which was evidently
intended "to affect the character and happiness
of an innocent and unoffending person.
Wherever have been, from my youth upward
l
challenge the world to show the contrary
AS an act of justice therefore, ask you TO
publish my reply to Mrs. Browns appeal, to-
gether with the accompanying certificates of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Warwick, Mrs
Kingsbury, and Mrs. Miller. This antidote,
following so close upon the poison, will trust
60 far to neutralize its deleterious effects.
r. N. Brown.
Portland, December ed. 1851.
Louisa III. Brown, my wife, having left my
house without my knowledge or consent, to
protect myself from imposition and loss, eau
toned the public against harboring or trusting
her on my account. This was done in language
as gentle as could be used in such a case, and
which did not suppose could give offence in
any quarter. 1t seems however, that some in
judicious friend has taken umbrage at this,
and induced Mrs. Brown to publish over her
own name in the Lincoln Democrat of the l4lh
inst, statement which is so much at war
with truth and fact, that l feel compelled to
notice it. This statement she never could
have originated or dictated. But as she has
sanctioned it by her signature, l shall endeavor
to answer it more in sorrow than in anger.
From the day of my union with Mrs. Brown,
some nine years since, to the time she left my
house, have never given her cause to COM
plain of my lack of kindness or devotion to her
nHDplneSS. L nave ucNeT ldlleu 10 I'LL
her wants to the utmost of my ability. or to
provide her with comfortable home, whenev-
er she would occupy it with me; and have at
all times endeavored to adapt my family
engagements to her tastes and wishes. This
she repeatedly states in her letters to me when
absent and to her friends at home. In letter
addressed to me at cleveland, Ohio, Mrs
Brown, after she arrived home to her fathers,
says: Il know and realize you have done
great deal for me, and are still doing, and you
have provided everything comfortable for me.
ought to be thankful l have such good and
kind husband, one who tries to encourage me
TO improve myself for my own benefit"
In January last, she wrote to her father, say
ing II have everything here that heart can
wish, and Nelson tries to do everything he
can to make me happy and contented." And
in substance the same acknowledgements of
my kind treatment of her are made in several
other letters to her friends in Damariscotta as
well as to myself. And she has also frequently
said to MIR. and Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Kingsbury,
Mrs. Warwick, and Mrs. Miller of this city,
that have always conducted towards her as a
kind and affectionate husband. And in all
cases these acknowedg ements were the spon-
taneous illusions of her own heart, and not
prompted by me or any extraneous influences.
have ever been charitable towards Mrs
DTOWn ldullS. anu IL net COHuuCI WdS OCCd-
sionally subjected to criticism, it was designed
for improvement. Of her father, sister and
brothers. l have always spoken with that
spect and affection to which they are entitled.
And until she deserted me last month, have
ever taught my child to love and respect her
mother. l never visit bar-rooms nor have l
ever made her character or conduct subject
of public comment. l have never supervised
her correspondence, nor examined her letters
to her friends, excepting for the purpose of I'M
proving the composition, correcting tile or
biography. 1 certainly could not have pre-
vented her from writing whatever she pleased
to her friends during the spring and summer
which she spent in Cleaveland, Ohio, while l
remained in the city of New York
AS to the charge, that l attempted the ruin
of another woman, that can only be met by an
unequivocal denial. But l challenge the
world to produce the least shadow of evidence
upon which to base such a charge.
1t will doubtless be asked, if 1 have ever
treated my wife thus kindly. why she has left
me. To this question l reply by quoting from
her letter which she addressed to me at Charles
ton, South Carolina, under date of December
II, 1850. "To tell you the TRUTH she writes,
II am entirely weaned from you, and love an
other, and God knows it too well; and can
not help it-(which caused me to come home
immediately Here is the whole secret of her
desertion of her husband and her child--if in
deed that may be called secret which she has
openly and repeatedly related to her friends in
this city, as their certificates will show, and to
her own father, when he was here in Decem-
Der last, giving him and them the name of the
object of her unlawful attachment. For the
truth of this l appeal to Capt Mellus. her
father. He cannot have forgotten her astound-
ing replies to his searching questions upon this
point. To his direct question, "Do you want
to leave Mr.. Brown, because you love another
1nan better 2: She replied, II do /! it is no
to deny it." And in reply to another question
she promptly gave the name of the favored low
or-which attachment she states, had been of
"a long standing. know Capt Mellus cannot
so soon have forgotten the painful emotions
under which he expressed his regret that he
was obliged to call her daughter, and to forbid
her return to his home, while she continued to
nourish this wicked passion; and the two half
days he spent in talk and prayer to eradicate
the nourishment of that unholy love. And he
cannot have forgotten what he said to me about
it afterwards.
And in conclusion, have only to say to my
friends in Lincoln County-and l know have
many there still-because have done nothing
to forfeit their friendship-I do not ask you to
condemn my erring wife. If she is capable of
distinguishing between right and wrong, her
own conscience will sufficiently condemn and
punish her. If on the contrary, the indul-
gence of an unholy attachment has so unsettled
her reason, as to totally destroy the correcting
influence of conscience she is beyond the