Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-08
IN. 01on,ez GIvlne lhe Canuolss q piece
LOID UIDWEEN5
Of Her Mind


m the EItoT of the Nontreai Witness:
Sir. a gentleman of this city has just put
into nv hands copy Of your paper, IN wnlcn
ytt, make an unprovolled attack on me, and re-
commend respectable people not to hear my
Now. sir. in the notice which I am about to
take of you, do not suppose that am moved
bR any idea that what you say will influence lso-
pie Of real responsibility and Intelligence lne
public press must have already informed YOU
that it is precisely from that class that my Zee
lures receive the largest patronage But 2 feel.
ing Of Justice to myself impels me to ask sou
what motive any fair minded man can have Tor
assanlting me in the pursuit OF an honorable
and blamelcss calling
Is il not, sir, from the deprayitv of your own
bad nature that this attack has sprunS-aIh
not earning my bread as respectfully as you are
yours ?-and rejoice in knowing that IN the
midst of all the malice and falsehood which have
been l.eaped upon me, have never yet, to my
Knowledge. been thus asSailed byany man Who
was himself of faultleSS life. My assailantS have
been from the ranks of men like yourself, VII"
have no visible means of getting aclnractcr, nut
byshouting attic top of their voices against vice;
f-rncn who have worn themselves out IN the
service of sin, set npto he especial enemies OF
sinners. Nv manner Of life is squarelv and
prominently before the public, and scandal itself
does not dare to say that it is not morally blame
less.
or course, / cannot here enter into any de-
fence of my past career; but there ar hundreds
of honorable menson this side of the Atlantic
who know that until circumstances threw me
into the stormy arena of politics, there was Tar
less of evil report attached to my name, than t"
that of almost any other lady of my profession
in Europc. The causes which afterwards led
TO the utilization of my name throughout the
world are already beginning to be partially up
ltlerstOod, and with devOut reliance Oh the lslce
Of God, am patiently waiting for there %
come. That my li(. has been without errors, I
do not DENY; but that l ever deserved theabuse.
which such as you would heap upon me, ! d"
t'eny. and history will one day vindicale my
right to say this of myself
Sir, il you have wife, n sister, or mother,
trust that they arc of blameleSs life, but can
not be more so than the one which ! am living
and may the day be far off when some wick
ed and bad hearted man shall do by them as
you would do by me. Sir, you profess to be n
Christian, but how will you appear before that
being who Said-'.iuigc not that yc he not
Judged" Hoy will you meet Him who has
said-"Let him who is without sin cast the first,
stone" Practice upon the precept of the 'Alas-
ter, and you will never moro throw stones at
me or at any other human being.
If you can find any fault with my present
life, you are welcome to do so; If you can show
that my lectures are undesersing of the patron
age which they have almost without exception
received from the most respectable and the most
i.ItriiIgenu portion OF inc community, you arc
welcome to do that also; hut you are not well
come to do, what no gentlemen ever will do, as
sail lady, who is honestly cndeavoringt to make
the best use she can of such opportunities and
abilities as God has given you.
Sir Ipity you, and forgive you, and it is
with the hope that | may be the means Of ma
king better hammered and better principled
Of hot II nIlflrocc Won fbiS. mr. .
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