The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-03-30
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81 oneof our letter nom rs oElAads men.
tionedn fuet which y aa 81 pnI hososlesy q lhe
city a de tneshat Tie gentleman above men.
Toned had been picked up into Gated u gutter
ct night and al aed ID tie Recorders oaice here
he was kept iii next morning. Below give
81 apologize article ron the Crescent, prefaced
81 our eood friend, Rev Ay AIeInnis. of the
True IA ness, with quite commentary
on the proneness Of some people 70 carp the
weaknesses o che Ministers Of God. We copy
the articles because We wish 70 do full justice 10
ell concerned, Is We had mentioned the matter
Is above stated.
We have given The Rev. gentlemen the full
benefit 81 The cgescent's miserable defence and
Mr. McInnis' endorsement 81 Is and now we
Eare scaled We believe IL our soul. more
LOUDLY than Mr.. Richards was ever ecalled" 70
preach the gospel, to say word il defence Of
the LADY 50 toully traduced 81 her unfortunately
ex-husband. In the first place, then, We belive
on evidence which it would not be proper for
Ils to tell here, nor have we the spacs, that the
charges made against that poor broken.hearted
woman he once called wife, are false---false as
perdition false IN conception az they ere
cowardIy ii utterance. We never saw Mr.
Richards---yge never 50 Hrs. r., and never ex-
pect or desire to see either Of them---but we
have heard their history from those who know
it and to whom falsehood is greater stranger
by far than habitual drunkness il to the sdistin-
lss a,,I,;x,ot - 4t,ss6 o,.fieln
We are intimate with lady who knows Mrs.
r. well She was the only child Of widow
ii the western. part Of New Yofk---was beauti-
fuI and accomplished and perhaps Of tastes and
habits not compatible with the severe duties and
self-denials Of clergyman wife. Mr.. Rich-
ards knew this, and she knew it too, but it was
a love match. Afterwhile the lady went back
to her mother with two children, stating that
Mr.. Richards habits were such she could not
i've with him. He was tried before his Pres
bytery and cleared on his plea that his
wife's conduct had run him crazy. Still after
he had tried to blast her character, he went
back to her mothers, promised amendment and
begged her to come back and live with him. IF
his charges were true, this was manly to say
the least Of II. Upto this time he had support
ed her, in view Of her return. but he now cut
of supplies ID hopes S { VA eported he nd
Of ssstorFino her into measures Bus was
ln7e osoBle. She took LIE situation in
one Of the public schools Of her native village
and is there teaching stillearning bread for her
self and her one child for the poor pittance Of
three hundred dollars year. She lost one
sweet little gil year ago and is struggling now
with her great bereavement and the hard labor
she has to perform to earn living. We ask
our female readers, who are wives and mothers,
if her lot is not hard.one, without the eloquent
voice of her recreant husband blasting her chars
acter among strangersl
we are not uncharitabIe to man or woman
we know the frailties Of human nature, and
therefore do not condemn Mr.. Richards if his
nervous temperament required stimulus and be
overtasked it--it IS great misfortune to be thus
constituted. No doubt the possessor Of such
nature must suffer more than any one else By
it. But we do blame him for his sneaking IN
manliness in trying to screen himself from public
contempt behind his wife's garments. We Woa.
der the editor of the Crescent lent bis pen and
his usually dignifed columns to such mean
Mark, they don't deny the man got
drunk, but he was led into the indiscretion BY
the foul conduct Of his wife! If his wife had
proved herself guilty Of the crimes he imputed
to her when she first left him, what reader of
human nature believes he wouldn't have been
glad that her conduct had thus INDICATED him!
We repeat these charges are as false as they
are pitifu1ly cowardly, and we earnestly hope
ior the honor and Inanliness..of human nature.
hat If Mrs. r. has d made relative living, he
win whip the sabernted' lodger Of the Record
rs Office all over New Orleans. Il IS dis
grace to the Church a the Ministry Of God to
larbor such .sunfortunate great men" within its
Odds. # man must get drunk every time be
gets in trouble, let him seek some other profess
ion than the ministry he tries to serve God
d spite of his constitutional weakness, He
nerciful and will no doubt accept the win 10.
he deed where the spirit is willing and the flesh
J weak. We do not wish TO be understood as
champion for Mrs. Richards. We only OBJ
ect to the Rev. gentleman and his editorial
riends palIiating and excusing his faults by ira
ucing her. # 81 be says IS true, i Is no ex-
use for him and should not be counted such.
But public sentiment is ii her favor wherever /
10Th parties are known. She could not keep 9
ituation ia a school at the North If her char
cter was not good. We shall make no remarks
bout the antecedents Of the great sAberateu.
or it is not our purpose to do any thing but com