The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-03-30

being 6 6t Eha Illallng
eleans in connection Lhe eEtunate1
fentai thls gentleman a pe llara of
hich Published b tie OH seen lhe3d 6
9th 81 this MONTH he affair of course created.
surprise Ia all classes aud profound et through
out our religious e0mmaniig ind can ID any
way Be explained ot justified j 0ae to Ill.
Richards high reputation tie feelings 81 hls
friends that 4 should be W have been W
tied by numerous friends oI le reverend gentle
man including not only members of his own, but
who while expires ing their just and natural NOR
tilication haye yet displayed spirit IF sympathy
and 8orgiYeness foE him which we have beheld
with pleasure. We have It from authority inl
which we place every reliance that Mr..
Richards has been subject to mental depression,
amounting a times to alteration and that grew
ances q domestic nature have had much to do with
these abherat ons. About two years since he was
discharged cured from 81 insane asylum Ia d nor
them state upon which he came To this city. No
documents ere necessary q prove that during bis
residence here bis conduct has been moral and ex-
emplary as befttea minister Of the GOSPEL and
that being man of more than ordinary education
and intellect be had commanded the love ard Is
teen Of hisOWn denomination and tie respect ef
all others. ID regard to the occurrence Uf Friday
last we have the best authority for saying that
ii was the result of q renewal Of the domestic
grievances which unsettled bis mind at first and
that Id this last instance the grievances were of
the worst possible nature that could bea any man
Ia the domestic relation il must be reeollected
that ministers are tie same as other men
with this difference they araapt to view the
cUHngal tie Id more exalted light than men
ii general and that when this tie is violated the
crush Of feeling sense Of outraged honor and
humbIed pride--is far greater with them than II
would Be to noet other men, II IS therefore not to
bewondered that Mr.. Richards q gentleman Of
refined feeling and doctor Of divinity standing
high III the religious world should prove unequal
to the discovery Of the wife of bis bosom the be-
inc upon whom he had staked all bis earthly hap
piness- was playing him false acting recreant TO |
the hottest Of earthly VOWS.
This was the cause of his first alteration. Up /
on his recovery, there left to him the hope thatI
bis wife would reform, and thus keep the world /
ID ignorance Of her shame and his humiliation;
anditwas the final dissipation OF this hopewhich |
unsettled his reason the last time---hs unfaith-
full wife having recently descended to the lowest
depths Of degradation squirting his love, tramp
ling his honor, and subjecting the name Of which |
he was SO justly proud, to shame and degrade |
ton. The unhappy divine has recovered from
this last blow, and is now sensible Of his posi-
ton before the community. He states that on
kne evening OF THIS dneFaLf0n, ana 10T some Day
previous, bis mind brooded over his dishonor
with 8 morbity which he had no power to aver.
The last of bis recollection that evening IS that
BE ne one II lis study reVol1iae n
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more and "a pressed. He has 10 recollec-
ton of leaving his house, or Of anything that
happened to him until he found himself partially /
restored to consciousness the next morning ii /
Recorder Seuzeneau,s Office. His religious
friends place the fullest reliance Ia his state
ment, and we can therefore have no reason to /
doubt it; nor Do We suppose that any Of our
readers can doubt it; when they imagine what
their own feelings would be under similar cir
cumstances.
The foregoing IS a sad and improper explana-
ton to 60 forth to the world: but it Is true one.
Nothing could warrant it perhaps but the justiceI
that is due to gentleman whose honor is the hon
or Of a whole religious denomination. Without
this explanation We and onr uniformed readers
would have been left in q state Of doubt and cn-l
rioaity rather disparaging to The reverend gentle
man end bis friends for II IS no easy matter to
believe that Doctor oI divinity could suddenly
become crazy without cause oF become intoxica-
tated and lie down without being previously era
~. We publish this statement of.the Case with
pleasure and mar add that ifanY of eur readers
are skeptical theg may learn our authority upon
application at our Office We hope that Mr. Rich-
srls may find Ia The sympathy Of bis friends some
s0ace for the bitter humiliation he has sufered;I
'boald he not We are assured It viii not be thel
ault Of these friends