The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-08-04
The Sickle. Deponement:


In April last Daniel e. S;ckIes DELHI
erately shot down p. Barton Key in
the streets of Washington for b avine dis
honored his bed and sesered the near
the dear relation of husband and wife
between Daniel and Teresa. Though
all men seemed to realize that the kill
ing OF Key was a terribly mlrderous
act, almost universal was tho opinion
that the rudely severing of such holy
chord as bonnd the twain as one flesh
was sufficient excuse, if not abundant
provocation, for SO awful deed: The
suffering Daniel became hero becsuse
of his desolated home. The imarina-
ton of hundreds of editors was en-
ployed in vain to tfuthfully picture the
utter desolation with which he would
walk the earth alone henceforth and
forever. e7g'r s re leflt Ho<
But these gentlemen have made
great ninnies of themselves. They did
not realize the versatility and genius
of the said Daniel. 1t turns out that
the dear place, which Daniel and Te-t
resa call home, has not been desoIated
that the plea upon which Daniel OBJ
tanned a verdict Of acqittal for an OPEN
ly committed and avowed murder.
were sham and pretext. OF beeisi
Of course the people who have been
duped, and especially the press, are in
dignant, and there is no end to the rid
icule and denurciation, which the fact,
that Dir. and Mrs Sickles are again
living together, has caused. Everybodv
has had their say. Sickles now ap-
pears before the public in his own defense
His letter of vindication is of a piece
with the whole transaction. Having
sounded all the ssdepths of the human
heart" he is satisfied that the place for
his head is on the bosom of the once
faithless, but now repentant, Teresa.
1t evinces throughout forced and
measured sentimentality that must con-
vince the public that the keen sensis
bility and nice honor, which were said
to be so outraged by Key, were all
-eigned. Sickles was evidently mad
dened by the notoriety of his disgrace
but bis letter shows that aside from
the public shame of brazen prostitution
on the part of his wife, be has suffered
nothing. 1t is significant, too, that
while Mr.. Sickles has been silent upon
Ill the comments made by the press
save in this one instance that this let
ter is drawn out by an ihtimation in
the Herald that thislast step would kill
Sickles, politically. All the rest he
could stand, but this he deems too
cutting, and in a cool, calculating man.
ner, he proceeds to deploy the tragic
seems in which he has been the principal
actor, so as to excite sympathy in his
behalf. Amid half column of dis
susiing sophistry, maudlin sentiment,
and blasphemous appears to an offend
ed Cop, he contrives to put an anchor
| to the windward as follows: ;suF
While to those molly groups here
md there, who look upon my misfor-
tunes only as weapons to be employed
for my destruction, to those say onco
for all, if a man make good, use of
his enemies they will be as servicable
to him as his friends" rra
We doubt whether the history of the
world will show an instance where q
man occupying public trusts, evincing
public confidence and honor, ever gave
such unblushing evidence of his total
lack of all the elements which relieve
the darkest shades of human character
as has Daniel E. Sickles in this tran
saction.