St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-13
Late Events,

"All the worlds q stage" says Shakes
pear, and away up here in this out of the
way corner Of it VIC have been acting in a
manner which has drawn upon us goodly
portion Of attention from other portions of
the great theatre of life. As the principal
actors express very different opinions as
to the nature of the play, we, as histori-
an, present the account Of each one. On
our outside pages will be found the account
given by Mr.. Shepley and ourseR: In
our inside columns, under the head Of
".The Press" is DR.. Palmer's letter written
*v-the Pittsburgh Post. Gen. Lowry gave
his in The Fronttersnsom of April goth,
and as it is rather poor specimen of his
powers of composition, occupies COL
umn and half; we give only that part
which appears important. 1t is written in
answer to an editorial in the st. Paul week
iy Times of the Oath and says:
In answer to the first of the queries of the
Timcs-"What was the offence of Mrs.
Swisshelm? had she sought the injury of
st Cloud or any Of its citizens 7" She
had!
1t will not surely be denied that Mr..
Sheplcy had right, in public Lecture
on Woman, in a suitable way to express his
views Of Woman's rights women, neither
will it be urged that in the discussion of
this subject, he went ont Of his way to ex-
press those views. If woman's rights wom-
en- choose to take this as personal insult,
no one will deny their right to abuse Mr..
Sheplcy to the full extent of their powers.
But in the words Of the Times, ''the Of
fence called out an act which no circum-
stances can justify" By what right does
a female Editor, any more than male
Editor, dare, for the offence of a husband,
to outrage his family in public newspa-
per, and hold them up to the world as cor
rupt, vicious or degraded, especially when
all their private lives have been pure, mod
est and beyond reproach? It will not do
to say in this case that it was a mere pic
turc, not intended to ts.any body IN par
ticular; for by the introduction of certain
facts. which of themselves should have
shielded the innocent victims from SO base
an outrage, the picture was placed where
all in this vicinity knew it was intended to
be placed, and with scarce a dissenting
voice it was characterized as an attack so
wanton and unprovoked as to have no pre-
cedent in respectable newspaper history !;
and it was this attack of the Tisiter on his
family, which Mr.. Shepley, in letter to
the Pioneer and Democrat, ayows was the
sole cause Of his attack on the Nsiter Of
fee: and I submit to the St. Paul Times
in all candor, if it is quite fair and honor
able to turn this matter into a political
question: The only salvation of the Nsi-
ter Editress was to do this, for while all,
or nearly all, condemned Mr.. Shepley's de-
struction Of the Office, they viewed with
loathing and indispensable scorn, the deg
radiation of a heart from which could ema-
nate in the public prints so foul libel on
the character of private Ladies.
Now, as every body knows here this was
the sole cause of the destruction of the
Tsiter Office, and had that paper been
content to let private life reman private,
the office might now have been in as good
order as ever, and the .tair Editress
preached any and all political doctrines
2tnn,olestcd, until the end Of her natural
life. .'.. ~
But this attack of the "Tis;ter' on the
privacy of our citizens, although the sole
cause of the recent q Outrage at St. Cloud"
has not been the only instance in which
that paper, during its few weeks of publ
cation, has violated good taste and the edi-
torial privilege. It has dragged into its
columns in no delicate manner the name
Of one Minister Of the Gospel, for simply
preaching his religious views on matter
Of practice, and has invaded the. sick room
Of another gentleman who, only ambitious
to be let alone, exercised his undoubted
right not to patronize the Fsiter, and who
for two years past has mingled as little with
politics or business as any gentleman in
this community. @a '~'@# j1a"9 Z>s.s
From these different accounts it will ap.
pear that we, as one Of the actors, have re.
garded the play as a continuation of that
old tragic war between Conservatism and
Radicalism which has ragged with more o,
less fury in the world ever since Moses
went to Pharaoh, with the command "Let
my people go'. TWAS generally regard:
ed III that light by the spectators but
there. came time when Pharaoh's sold.
iers were likely to be Kissed of the stage,
when they concluded to change the piece
into farce Of lajured Ladyand Indignant
Husband asss& IS .ss5ss s4Es1 &s-
IN the famous Shepley lecture, WHICH has
played 50 important a part in the perfor,
nance, the learned lecturer gave, as a rea-
son for his intense admiration of hoops, and
extensive criaoiines, the fact that man had
lately taken refuge under ]ady's aoun-