New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-28
This was very sweet, and gave even an elevated ex-

could not; could not Dc looked at IL seemed 70 INC
should MAKE other r0H1eH a'hamed.
she then laid aside her all and showed me her hair
beginning to fall of and he's head much too large for
the vital region except the lungs. She smiled like
child when put my hand upon her temples and e1-
messed NV sympathy for the grief she must have en-
dur.d. and The trials which would disturb and madden
such sn Organization. Here she wep:.
"Wil you tell me truly whether you are guilty OF
the crime for which you are condemned What yol
NAV say shall not ham You in the least
Her yes assumed wild expression.
"No. am not guilty. These people were good to
me; someimes when oilers were unkind, they were
good 70 NE. They came - me when was SICK, and
cent their children to stay with me. never treated
human being ungratefully. Ny heart Is a kind one
have with my own hancs tai en- care Of rich people
ard cooked up things for the poor, aud have Helped
them as much as | could. Now those enemies who
sccuse me know that am not guty-that never
dreamed Of poisoning my friends. don't know
about it. She began to talk wildly had been
sick: was mad for q while because -- gave me
something that took away ny senses. Try TO think
over great many things that happened and can't
understand them. | can tell exactly how got here.
know In wicked woman, out did not do that.
| am the victim Of conspiracy. political party
wished to crub John c. Mather and Myron II. Clark,
and 70 they took me up. They could do it, you
Anow-I, poor woman
you have confessed everything to your priest
"Oh. yes. and he knows I'm innocent; but he tells
me it Is better for me to die, and SO | will die
"Were you happily married Are you willing to
let me know all about your early life p
ooh. YES. was married very young and to man
could not love. He was good man, but did not
love bin. and my first Gin was in deserving my fam
v" Much that she here told me OF her psreItsge and
family anc her sOrro~iu Of en ragical experiences,
i not essential to this communication. am con-
WINGED she has ~ col.ecutive memory OF the past.
She ihDks she talks coberently when much OF Sn It
she says is mere jaigon. This mood Of mind Is en-
trols distinct from her religious one toe latter being
anew one and a very harmonious one IN her present
exipency, enabling her 10 ignore the past and look
calmly into the brief space OF he before her, revealing
uever-endng, bissfu future. l. seems a. II -he had
arisen nom teri bic chaos, and she dreads lie lest
she should again relapse into H.
Turbulent as has been her career with her stormy
MISSIONS she could not recall it without shuide';
aud yet she laughed wildly and gestculated in an al
most frantic manner more then once. As it regards
the past her whole mini is in fragments She emem-
bcrs incoed "a Rass OF things, but naught dis
uLCuNtIgs
She holds no definite relation to the external world,
and much doubt if she ever could have done So |
doubt if she ever could have been able fully to
realize the relations Of iie and yet told me If suf
ferines. mental and phy sica frghtful to have been
endured by any human creature. One case of deceit
and peiiury pracrced upon young girl, worthy only
Of fend and for which day of retribu'ion must
cone if there is a God experimenting the affairs Of
sha mn The cruel oePeIVpr To
whom she stood in relation. Her memory seemed
preternaturally vivid in this She told me the
pity she felt :or the inno ent victim-her womauly
pleading-te melancholy journey of the child 10
New-Yor and her death IN lees than twenty-iom
hours after her srIivaL
As she recalled all this Il became more and more
evident that these persons had mGddened her. A
vivio imagination never rising to the ideal, had
toasted and Mortified itself amid its terrible expert
ences till she as rrerievably mad and that too in
way that required the ws;st discrimination TO be sure
Of the fact
Many might suspect her assertion tia. she was the
victim of politics conspiracy to be sham mere
piece OF sectation-and they might think her violent
paroxysms a giddy mirth or freaks Of eccentri-
CITY; but she is insane, and probably so long be-
fore she committed this crime if indeed she did CON-
NIT IT, These people might not have DIED of poison.
Our scientific men are far too ready TO give this kind
oftes,imopv Chemical tests are BY no means reliable
testimony Tie human system is grand chemical
laboratory. We cannot, indeed We dare not, affirm
that several causes may OF call into action deadly
chemical agents Who shall say that the stomach
NAV not generate fatal products the liver secrees
sugar. and the BRAN starch. With these known sci.
eptifc data know Of no limit to be given To the Sc
eretons either in q heathful or morbid point OF view
Before left the prisoner she gave me message Tor
the Governor, begging me to deliver it to him faith
fully. which Of course did not fail TO do:
"Ten him there is political party wishing to put
him out of Office. They wish 10 crush Myron II.
CLARK and John c. Maiher; and if he commutes my
sentence they will make political capital out ofi and
would rather die than be used an instrument to
ruin good man. Tell him to let me die, as wish
The Prison, as passed through, looked clean and
orderly and the physician in attendance modest and
attentive TO his duty One thing further | must say
and the remark will hold good in other cases. l have
visited many women incarcerated for crimes when
they ought to have been sent to hospitals and have
felt the urgent need Of dgnied matrons in prisons
who a one should have TO this Department NJ
man should hold the keys to the prison-room of the
eutiest woman in the world No man should be al
lowed to come and 60 at bis pleasure. IL is indie
cency which must be rectifed. Women-poor, mis-
erabie and guilty they may be-aways complain of
his to me, might, perhaps more ought to be,
ssid in this article in this relation but forbear, in
the hope that the humane mind may be brought to G.
consideration OF the evil without definite inter-
ance On my part.
very respectfully, Z DANES SMITH
Troy. y. L., .uly. lSo.
LETTER FROM MR.. GERRIT SMITH.