Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-11-29


will be on the avenue again to-day. (2sth,)
rain OF shine, from IL O'clock until 3, after
which, If unsuccessful, rely Implicitly on me,
and l viii take ths only meats ieft to carry
out your wish.7
And after waiting for Mrs. W from the time
appointed Until 3 o'clock-no other means
being left, / requested Mr.. Edmund Hearne 70
serve the writ OF habeas corpus on Der behalf.
Before going 10 Flushing such arrangements
were made by me as would have enabled Mrs
W-odmsu 70 proceed on her way home to her
parents on that very day, with a female at
tendant. and under circumstances preeluding
the possibility Of my being alone with her for
an instant.
Ihsvs given as briefly az possibly a truthful
narrative Of the origin, progress and termina-
iion Of my intercourse with the Woodlands.
That it was ehsrae1erized by much that was
Imprudent IL only TO confess what is obvious 70
every one; but il must be equally apparent that
I Was allowed BY Mr.. W. 20 believe that my
attitude was not Misunderstood by him. He
was a man of business-thought Of nothing
else-eared for nothing else. His wife was
gay, young and fond OF society. All the day
and half the night he spent in bis store; with
out children, she was lonesome in her drawing
room, and be encouraged ns to suppose, as !
always believed, that It was entirely agreeable
TO him that should pass a great deal Of my
tine IN the society Of bis wife, thus enabling
hin to devote himself entifely to his sliirs2
and vet snare his wifsthe ennui Of . cherries
home. This ss 40 soubt. 81 very wrong, and
so far as il is so, | I'm willing to bear without
nurndr the censare Of the world. And this is
the extent OF my ofense down 10 the dea0as
meat at the New York Hotel. But Mr.. Wood
mans lawyer and friends have since endesvored
to prejldice me in the estimation Of society By
a series OF false accusations, aa destitute Of
trath as they are offensive. II MIR. Woodman
had taken my life on the eventfnl day IN Au-
gust, ever body would h<1& said it was justly
forfeited to hiz; but be chosen rather to
act the part Of a pOitr0on, aiming epitheis at
me instead OF bullets, disgraeing himself as
we'll as his wife, and wUunding the feelings Of
her kindred as well as my own, By the shame
less invention of a fabricated "afhdsviL" This
50 called Nafidavit," as was proved in Court,
was never read 10 Mrs. Woodman; Il appeared
by the testimony that she did not know its in
famous contents, and that lot a word of Il
was ever written or dictated by her. The gar
bled passages raised off as extracts from my
letters 70 her, are substantially forgeries, be-
cause they consist Of detached lines and phrases,
so distorted as to have an sppsTent signifea-
tion wholly different from the real meaning, as
would have been palpable to every one II the
whole context bad been given. WoOdman con-
fesses in his "csrdv that at the very time Mrs.
WoOdman's signature was obtained to the afh-
daVit, "she INDUCED in such free use Of iauda-
mum as 10 be quite incapable Of realizing her
condition" This I cannot doubt, as be ought
to be familiar with the use Of drugs, and con-
sideTing the end he had IN view, be surely did
not allow her then to suffer for the want OF
them.
His statement in the Courier des Eiais Unis,
predicsted upon this same affidavit, declares
she was then bereft of her own reason her
letter, written at the sam time, and now In
my possession, inplores me to seek for her
some honorable protection from c~ruelties which
she endures, but shrinks from the effort to de-
scribe. Piled by promises Of pardon, which
were afterward broken-terrihed BY threats OF
vengeance, which were more than fu'flled-
dogged night and Jay BY an attorney whom a
fee converted into an accomplish (see Pntch-
ARDS testimony signature 70 this paper
was at length extracted from a sObbing, heart
broken woman, and then she was abandoned
BY her inquisitoTs and sent to a ~mad-house.
And yet Mr.. Woodman, in his tenderness,
plaintively asks " What else could | have
done?" This paper, thus obtained, even Judge
Roosevelt would not receive in evidence, al
though he did not hesitate to pursue a line Of
Judicial conduct with regard to a writ Of ha
beas corpus, which only the pen Of a Juuius
can characterize, and for which no example
can be found except in the derelictions imputed
By Junius to Mansfield. Yet upon such testi-
nony, pronounced worthless by a hostile court,
| am arranged by the press and without a hear
ing pronounced guilty Of conduct only to be
looked for among the basest and meanest Of
mankind. Next l am blamed for my we'll
meant efforts to effect the release Of Mrs.
Woodman from her Imprisonment at Sanford
Hall. She appealed to me to rescue her from a
loathsome custody. She described her wretch
edness in language to which no one could re-
main insensible. She implored me to aid her
to return to her parents / did 30. I took no
steps in the matter except in compliance with
her request. The application to the Court for
her release was not made until persuasion and
stratsgen had proved equally unavai ing to re-
store her 10 liberty. 0ace more, to use the
language Of Mr.. Woodman in his card, " what
else could | have done p"
It has been said by many that the writ of
babeas corpus should have been applied for In
the name Of some other person. / would have
preferred it myself; bot could it have been
shown that the proceeding was underta ken at
Mrs. WOodman's request? This objection was
strenuoasiy urged, and had to be met BY proof
aud yet ali communication with Mrs. W. was
impossible, except through the advertising
columns Of the Herald.
Again, / an blamed for allowing the letters
20 be read which Mrs. W. addressed to me
from Sanford Hall in regard to her captivity
there. | confess that it wac with the deepest
reluctance / did 80; but the necessity was
forced upon ne BY Mr.. WIS lawyers, who de-
nanded proof that the proceedings for her re-
lease were undertaken at her request, and in
this they were upheld by the court. / was
then forced to choose between abandoning the
lady to her fate Of resorting to her letters for
such eVideBce-nOwhere else to be ha6-aEl
would secure her a hearing from a most re-
luctant court. / authorized extracts from
them to be used for this purpose and no other.
But the lawyers Of Mr.. w. denied that the let
ters came from Mrs. Woodman, and demanded
that they should be read in full, every word.
To this also | was forced BY the court to Weld, 1
and 30 he letters were made public. And If
any more proof were wanting Of the absurd
Of the oft-mentiORed affidavit, il is
to be founi in those letters, written subse-
quentiy by Mrs. Woodman. Is it possible
can il be conceived-that any woman, even a
Borgia, could, with a knowledge Of its infa-
nous accusations sign the addiiavit Of Sep
/, ard Ia the very next month address
the same person in terms Of confidence, esteem
and supplicaiiOn? The supposition is, indeed,
monsTous, when II is remembered that the
affidavit was preceded BY similar letters on the
2Ist and 22d Of August.
If the space accorded to me would permit, I
could multiply reasons aud accumulate facts
almost without number, to show the injustice
which has been done ne By tie recent publica-
Nlou5 u IfEAl0 70 Nll1 unfortunate dMaIs AullE u
complete silence has been imposed upon me I'M
til the appearance of Mr.. Woodmsn's card.
for reasons which all will appreciate. 1t will
not be long, however, before the whole truth
will be given to the public, under the sanction
Of a ldicial investigation. For the complete
Of Mrs. Woodman and FOR ny own
exoneration, l AN content to wait until then
For the present it will suffice For me to show, as
I have shoWn-Frsf: That Mr.. Woodman
- N -kaaN - n-EH - I
ring the three years they continued, and never
fl to object TO them until it suited him to
preeipitste a scene at the hotel, 10 order to get
rid CT a wife whom be had long taken pains to
Second: That nv Efforts 70 obtain
her release IRON Sanford Hall, where be had
sent her "for revenge" as be declared, were
made at her urgent and repeated requests, and
mat her sole wish and fixed purpose was to 20
10 her fathers house. (Mr. Woodnan would
make people believe that his wife ssrefused,D
Ia the early part Of September, to 90 home
With her brother, and yet that she freely con
lented to be immured in a private m~ad-AOuse
THOUSAND miles away from her kindred }
That the use Of her letters was forced
Ipon me for her OWE sake, and was unayoida-
lie. Fourth: That the statements pat forth by
dr. Woodman as emanating from his wife, IN
Ter the solemn form Of an affidavit, is a base
Taud upon the public, a calumny upon me, de-
IluLAAE NhfI Nh01E-ALG muAAEAnlk EllEuL and I
he convenient attorney-WhO procured it 10 be
published.
Mr. Woodman's "card'' terminates like
iece Of hrew0Tks-in a sentence full Of gun
He ntimates that il bis "aim had
zen more successful In New York - something
readful might have happened. II, as I sup
osed, this Bob Acres intended to make the
Jod people of New Orleans believe that be
red a pistol at me, | can only assure my
that it must have been an air-gun, for
ObOdy heard the report here; and IL will pro-
oke a smile in New York, where it is well
nown Mr. Woodman had so many epportuni-
es to DO something desperate, to read his bel
gereut bulletin, written in the safe obscurity
{ a shop at the other end Of the continent.
GARDINER FURNISS.
New York, Nov. 10, 1851.
the Psnoia star.l ,
Pamela COUNTY MISSISSIPPI I
. Bon. PIT SerHggs JHtgs Of the Seventh Judicial /
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