The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-11-24

negotiating to avoid one, or whether nsgOciaton of
any sort was my errand to DIR. Parker.
was sent to read him card that was to be
published whether he liked it or not, and which
was to be changed only as TO phraseology. was
not sent to ask him whether he would take such
and such apology, in lieu of $4,000 damages.
Insead,I was to say, "Ths is to be Substantially
published, at any rate; but wish to place you as
far as we can, without compromising our own
sense of what is right for us to do. At my sug-
gestion and his urgent request, substitute was
written in epistolary form. Now, DR. Parker does
not say that he asked time to consider which of the
two papers he had rather have published (nay he
has withheld in any letter that there card at
all, and he has never once mentioned, in either of
the four letters, that the letters were written in
his own study, during n friendly conference be-
tween us,) but he says that he promised to take
these letters under adpisen1eRt. This statements
stamps his story with inveracty. For I did not
come to ask for settlement. I came to make a
card which was TO be published at any rate, as
agreeable to him as could be, consistently with its
substantial averments. Had he therefore made
the remark which he says, or any remark OF the
same kind, my answer must have been, Or:
Parker, did NOT ask you whether you would con-
sent to have these published, but simply whether
you had retller should publish Mrs. Stoves apoi-
ogy in the snaps of this card, ,,or in the shape Of
this correspcn len. g,
2. Aside from the Intrinsic evidence there hal-
pens to be an extrinsic circumstance bearing upon
it. I was on the eve of q visit TO Indiana. To me
had been committed by Mrs. Stowe the final dis
f,l,i. hate IL he
done at once. Is it to be supposed chat should
have been put off TO an anarpeirited and indefinite
settlement, in n t notice the fact OF reply to DIR:
Parker that such thing imr ossibles that had
no time for further conference?
The public will require word of explanation as
to my reason for going thence to Mr.. Butler
When Mr.: Butler was applied to to take this casef
and had seen the documentary evidence, such was
his confidence in Mrs. Stawe's integrity and Chris
tan honor, and such was his conviction that there
was evidence that she-h had miarepresented DIR. +.
that he was confident that private settlement
might be had, if Mrs. Stowe could be but rightly
approached. I had understood. at my interview
with Mr.. Barney, that when DIR. Parker applied
for COUNSEL Mr.. Butler made it the condition Of his
undertaking the case, that Parker should take no
l may have been slightly inaccurate as to the
point; but, whether was not, that iods my un-
derstanding. When Dr. Parker said that he was
satisfied with the correspondence provided his
counsel assented, saw the reason, and instantly
said. then will go Immediately TO Mr.. Butler
1t was not to obtain any authority from him for
publishing the letters nor to obtain his agreement
that he would not ing suit, but to make Dir. Par
ke's approval of the letters efectual, by obtaining
his counses consent for ham to act in this, in the
settlehh of the matter, if he wished.
3. But there is another suggestion which will
satisfy business man that DR.. Parker's story is
intrinsically absurd:
His statement is, that he had obtained counsel
to Ing suit for $4,000 damages; that "FoRaED"
letters as a settlement of that suit, and published
them in the daily papers without his knowledge or
consent! And al this was done also without OBJ
tanning written relnquishment of claim for dam
ages. should he yet choose to bring suit: Did NOR
tai man ever before dream of published forgery
as pacifcaton of an angry litigation; or of fLr-
ger publishing his act, that the aggrieyed party
would infalEbly find it out the next morning; and
doing it in way that Il the door open to ths-very
suit which he is suppos TO have dreaded; and not
only left it open to him, but heaped by such proVo
cation, fresh fuel upon his zeal prosecutor?-
Had done such crazy deed, ought not Iass
been blamed, but sent to lunatc atylnm. And
any person that will believe that minister of the
Gospel, in circumstances the most prosperous
would imper his reputation and every interesin
life, upon such bure-faced folly as that, ought to
doubt his own sanity. But am ashamed to rea-
son on such matter!
| The n. Y. Observer has chosen Haman for its
model, and built gallows to hang upon. The
Lord has been pleased to deal with me as he did
with Mordscai, and am panied to see the Obser-
DER swing in the gibbet reserved for me.
4. But have not yet done. There is now an
account which The public have TO settle with the
guilty parties who have dragged from honorable
privacy Il is affair, al brought shame and re-
proach to Christianity by pubishingit it. Iwashmy
hanls of blame.
| What the state of things when DIR. Parker
brought this matter to the public ear? Was he
suffering in reputation! His name had been eras-
ed from the book; Mrs. Stowe had conferred ami
cably with him as to public repatation; all the
grievances of which the Observer makes SO much,
viz: Mrs. Stoves obstinate silence, had been ex-
planned and dropped; an apology had appeared ID
the public prints. which had struck the public mind
as most christian and satisfactory; and, by his
showing there was but this objection, that he had
not sig ed the letters of prefix sufix,wheh were
: at any rate but the machinery of introducing the
main thing, Mrs. Sto,oe's retrdctisn. DIR. Parker
knew too, that in so far as Mrs. Stowe was con-
cerned, she had acted most innocently and in good
, faith, and that if any was TO blame, was the
man; and that she had acted houornby, not only,
| but had yielded her judgment, and consented for
, what she supposed was his wish, and taken these
etters instead of her own card. Now, admitting
! the gross construction put upon my conduct did
that justify Dr. Parker, man of honor, in rip
ping up and publishing to the world an er parte