The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-26

4 N EXIT AoRDIN ARY MARIA TIVE WILL DE PUB
IA hsoed on the 27th OF August, in The New York
The Los: Wife or, Tho Story Of Estels Grant" The
publication Of this work will assonsh soesof Quiet
ei'Rsns Of New York, whilo Il to the guilty
the punishment que for misdeeds they had supp ,sed
deeply ou1ied from the reach Of public investigation In
poto addressed to the editors OF the Dispatch the
author saxs To the editor of tho New York Dispatch
have constant reader Of your paper for the past
eight y.&4s during which time you have published
many highly interesting stories both frcm real life
FRI The imaginative pens Of able wrlers in he world Of
6sion. None of those however urpass interest the
narrative Of poor Eselle Grant and, crcums
have placed in my Possession al h9 facts have taken
tho pains to prepare them for publication Rad simply
consulted my feelings the and incidents thus
throsn in my way would have given to the
world But there other esnsdarr which ndu g
TO pursue different course wiekedness and wrong
should be exposed that the unwaiy may be warned OF
is snares and arts The world should BIO made know
that il ia not all purity which assumes tue sanity CARO-
Of Christianity, and thst among tho If
society there Ia many noble heart crushed beuoa the
Creator OF The Universe eyor permitted TO exist his
footstoo TO the beauty and harmony of his cTeatons
What society Furnishes IS CRIME il often th,n
The natural vengeance of injured and wropged hu nanty
Before condemn What appears 10 be the of
brother or sister we ought TO know the history Of the
offence and the which led it, The poor suicides
who end tie by poison the knife the pistol plunge
into the dark waters Of the ocean, have each fearful
history of his or her own, which, TO the void, is
would cause tears of sympathy 70 mosten thor prcma
ture graves from the eyes of ali TO tho revelation
was unlerstand me rs oelns an apoIogl7b
for crime for am not But 40 not wish 20 rush 20 the
other extreme OF condemning my fellow oein.s TO eternal
dierace simply because appearances against them
The narrative of Estee Grant Is o in point you
will seq by perusipg the accompanying manuscript In
preparing 1t have In no parculir devated from the
truth. Every scene and inciient youch for as
myself happened to be, to extent, ,nneced with
the fate ard fortunes Of this singular Beside
my own testimony there at least a hundred other
LIVING witnesses ID this great city who WILL sfer reading
what have written recognize the parties alluded
from facts in their own knowledge. The only thing
fear is that in some two tnreo places, may have,
perhaps too plainly indicated TO the general tho
names and locality of persons whom could not but in
dgnantly condemn ~ this you must Judge II could
get newspaper to publish their psnes in fun would
not hesitate TO assume tne responsibility of writing them
down. Because, rs looz at the matter, such human
hends deerye TO be driven ond the confines of civil
zation, and cut off from istianity which they dis
grace by claiming ASSOCIATION with it. Il II.
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