The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-25
Dickens Gard,

IL will be relief and pleasure TO tie
admirers Of Dickens to read the follow.
ing card, after having listened to the re
cent London gossip about his domestic
difficulties:
:. hr' e and twenty year.. have pas. e I
away since | entered upon my present
relations will, he public. They brgau
aheG was sn young tina; | find them
~ have X sted for nearly a quarter Of n
cei tury.
through all that time I have tried to-
be usiaithful to the pubic as they have
been TO me 1t was my duty never t.,
'rfie with them or In deceive them, or Ia
presume upon their favor or do any
thing with it hut work hard and Justify
it. | have always enjeavored 10 Dis
charge that duty.
My conspicuous position has often
made me the subject of fabulous stories
and unhccountabie statements. o.
casionally, such thirgs have chafed me.
or even wounded me, but have always
accepted them as the shadows INSOFAR
able from the light ofmy notorieiy and
success. | have never Obtruded anv
such personal uneaSiness of mine upon
the generous aggregate Of my audience
For the first iim' in my life, and be-
lievc for the last, now deviste from the
principle have so long observed, by
presenting myself in my own journal in
my own private character, and eui reat.
ing q j my brethren Gas they deem that
they have reason to think well of me,
ani TO know that am q man who has
ever been unaff c'cdly true to our com
mon callino) TO lend their aid to the
dissemination Of my present words.
Some domestic trouble Of mine OF
long standing. on which I will make no
further remark than that it claims to be
respected as being of sacredIy private
nature, has litely been brought to an ar
rangemcnt which involves no anger o.
i'll Will 1T any kind, and the whole ORR
| gin and surrounding circumstance Of
which have been ih,oughou, within the
knowledge of my children. 1t is smic
abe composed. an.i its details have bII
nov 10 be forgotten by those concerned
| in it.
BY some means arising OUT Of wicked
n SIS, or on, Of folly, or ont Of inconcriv
able wild chance Or out of all three, ihi;
trouble hasbeer made the occ son Of mis-
presentation m st grossly false, mos
monStorus and most cruel, involving no
Only me, but innocent persons dea- Il
my heart, AMI innocent persons of whom
| have no knowledge, if indeed they
nave sny pxstancr, and 8, widely sprea'
that doubt If one reader in n THOUSAND
will peruse these lines bv whom som'
touch Of the breath Of thcse slande-
will not have passed like an unWhole
some air.
Those who know me and my nature
need no assurance under my hand tina
such calumnies are "a irrrconcilabe will
me as they are, IN this frantic incohe
renee, with one another. But there is
great multitude who know me through
my writings, and who do not know m
otherwise; AMI | cannot bear that on,
of them should b.. left in doubt, or haz
ard Of doubt, through my ioorly shlirk'
ing from taking the unusual means 4
which now res r, Of circulating tn
truth.
| must solrmnly declare then-an'
This do both in my own namo and m,
wifc's-thrt all the lately whispered ru
mors touching the trouble at which
have glanced are ab ominably false. an,
that whoever rereats one OF them ate
this denial. will lilo as wilfully aud a
fouEy rs IL j. possible for any false wi,
ness to lie before Hcavea and eatrh
CHARLES Dickens