Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-29
A Gard aronl IIr. ChnrIcs HlioI1cas.

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Three and twenty years have passed
since entered upon my present relations
; with the public. They began when wils
50 young gthat find them to have existed
Tor nearly quarter of II century.
Through all that time have tried to be
as faithful to the public as they have been
to me- 1t was my duty never to trinc
with them or to deceive them, or to pre-
sumo upon their favor, or do anything with
1t but work hard and justify it, | have
ALWAYS cndeavored To discharge that duty.
My conspicuous position has often made
me the subject of fabulous stories and un-
accountable statements. Occasionally.
such things have chafed me, or even
wounded me, but L have always accepted
them as the shadows inseparable from the
light of my notoriety and SUCCESS. |
have never obtruded any such personal
uneasiness Of mine upon the GENEROUS
aggregate ofmy audience.
For the first time in my life, and | |
believe for the last, now deviae from the |
principle L have 80 long observed, by pre-
sentlnS myselfinmy own journal in my own !
private character, aud interesting all my |
brethren (as they deem that they have |
reason to think well of me, and to know
that am man who has ever been un-
aifectedIy true TO our common calIiny) to
lend their aid to the dissemination OF nv
present words.
Some domestic trouble of mine of lonrJ
Standing. on which Twill make no further
remark than that it claims to be respected
as being of sacredly private nature, has
lately been brought to an arrangement
which involves no anger or ill-wil of anv
KIND, and the whole origin, progress and
circumstances of which have
been throughout within the knowledge of
my children. 1t is amicably composed,
and its details have but now to b1 for )
gotten by those concerned in it.
By some means arising out of wicked
ness, or out of folly, or out of nconceiy- {
able wild chance or out of all three, this
trouble has been made the occasion of :
misrepresentation most grossly false, most
monstrous and most cruel-involvng not
only me, but innocent persons dear to my
heart, and innocent persons of whom l 2
have no knowledge, if indeed they have !
my existence, and so widely spread that
doubt if one reader in thousand will
Deruse these lines by whom some touch 1
If the breath Of these slauders will not
nave passed like an unwhoesome air.
Those who know me and my nature j
leed no assurance under my hand tha
;aiumnes are as irreconcilable with me
Is they are, in this frantic incoherence,
With one another. But there is great $
multitude who know me through my il
writings, and who do not know me other
wise; aud | cannot bear that one of them III
hould be left in doubt, or hazard of c
oubt, through my poorly shrinking from
ak'ng the unusual means to which l e
ow resort ofcirculatin:, tn truth.
L most solcmnly declare, lh' n in his
do both in my own name, and my wile's
that all the lately whispered rumors {
ouching the trouble at which L have
lanced are abominably false, and that
'hoever repeats one of them after this
enial will lie rs willuly and us foully rs
is possible for any false witness to lie /
elorc Heaven and earth. a
CHARLES DICKENS. fC