New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-02
Kafe virginia Poole.

In the New Hampshire state Frlson IS
confined young female, whose appearance and
address at once enlist sympathy. Her cOunte.
nance has the aTtless expression OF one unstalned
even BY the consciousness OF CRIME. The und-
fecttd manner in which she reveals story o.
wrong and outrage sufficient to make every heart
bleed for her, are enough to make any one who
listens to her history cry out against such blot
upon justice and humanity as her strange ana
cruel Incarceration.
She has been indicted for the CRIME OF lnianu-
eide and judicial sentence has placed her within
the walls of the prison for The term Of her nathTGt
he there to have every sentiment OF principle ana
al the delicacy Of her sex obliterated IN the de-
iasing contact with felOns and indicators.
Through the kindness of the excellent and COM
PASSIONATE Warden OF the Prison, the writer OF
this Article has been permitted TO have an inter
new with her, and has no hesitation in saying,
that among all the wrongs committed under the
name of Justice. this case i without parallel.
In is enough TO make us pause with the serious
inquiry whether the great cause OF Humanity IS
not rapidly going back, and we are not again iiv-
Ing in an age of barbansm. Her appearance at
once rspels the idea of guilt-her manner pleads
for her most resistibly. Modest, sensitive TO the
degradation of her position, and conscious of true
innocence although victim to the perhdy OF her
DESTROYER and living under the stigma OF criminal
conviction no one can approach her and hear her
sad history from her own lips, without rising with
indignation.
She is naive of Glasgow, in Scotland-haying
no relatives m this country save an aunt, who was
unable to assist her in her wretched extremity
Her downfall was effected under circumstances of
atrOcty that CRY most loudly for vengeance on rs
guilty author Her arms, neck and person are
scared with wounds received IN defending herself
hon her disbohcal aggrsssor and her rum was
only accomplished when she was drugged INTO m
sensibiity With the innocent evidence OF her
ipk nw sAaah
81 the only relative she had in America and, b. ar
ing It away with her, she sought n a mAnniactur-
ing CITY, shelter for her-eI srf 52be. while she
could, with the labor OF her hand., ind honorable
support.
This was anything but the course which would
nave been pursued by one cOnsciOus Of guilt. La
a city OF strangers mother but not wife,
what could be expected All doors were closed
against her. She could gre array her child, but
mothers heart reyolted against it. Product OF
shame though was, and born TO iniamy though
might be- she clung 10 II ali that was dear 10
her IN her extremity. Finding every avenue 10
employment closed to her IN one city, she fed to
announcer IL was night when she left.
hesrt-bioken,-only bound TO life by the claims
Nhioh found her as mother,-she would, under
o'net circumstances, have sought the welc ome
rouge o. suicide. With these feelings called into
noSt narrowing exercise by the loneliness and
iseiy oil her stuation-looking at the babe that
numbered on her breast with the brand OF niamy
.otn on ITS brow, is il wonder that mind thus
soi'ufed Was swept beyond the bounds Of con-
scossness The Hndoo mother who bursts the
."nas OF nature by aingng her infant to the gaping
.iOnS'ei OF the Ganges has no such plea as lay in
he oFoken heart and frcazied brain OF Virginia
Aooe. leave her own lips 10 tell her story:
90 not reeOllect anything distinctly she
sAsS alter entered the cars. The lights. the
e'o"o, and the motion o. the ears, seemed 70 con-
US ne do not think should have remembered
n!tning, u the weight Of the child, which SUM
:.Ito on my lap had not reminded me of its ex-
,sonSe add nv own situation. At last, cloud
see'ned 10 thicken about me, and everything
st4efo 10 look white that met nv ewes. The
e mug Itself seemed like feather and appeared 20
s ~e away from me uncOnsciously. Ii d1 not
70 'Ali, but TO rise, and thought could see
At some moments afteTwardl"
vow who, IN the name Of common Justice, sees
Iyhihg 10 tins Transaction which should not have
.n instantly absolyes by that ennobling feature
vac administration Of justice which permits GER
AN mental conditions TO annul responsibility for
80 where were those. when this poor girl
f,sss s.Iagned for her life, whose study and o.
IN y - to understand aud max. ntelgible TO
co., these subtle conditionsl Why was not
ON - 'o'ce raised that Justice slumber not both
m,,s. Jsiy.box and the bench, while this thrice
fsn5sSs sufferer was permitted o 20 down. uode-
NUN scene Of wrong despair aud frenzy,