Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1859-10-06

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.s'1sai For tho Sank Rapids Frontisrman.
isss 4 OUTRAGE AT sT. CLOUDS
Y Mn. ERROR Imagination is fine
thing, q very fine thing. It raises us
above the sober realities Of every day.
life i paints avery dull pathway with
very lively colors, and tinis over with
gorgeous hues 81 of crimson and pc arr
very muddy, dirty facts.
1 nm more impressed with the truth Of
the above BY nearly 4 whole column
under the above head, in the ST. Paul
Weekly Times of tie Oath inst. Logi-
cal. truthful. eloquent, grand-what
shame il ia. that il rests upon no sfac!s to
sustain It. One whole column, almost,
Of rolling, double adjectiyes. ;talicised
nouns and pronouns, and wonder-striking
exclamation .pnints. How Il gr.iiyes
those offus who know,all the facts about
the "Outrage al st Cloud" that so
much"s good material" should have been
wasted. sl,. IS.
One olive things IL true. The Editor
of the St. Paul Times has been most
'shamefully deceived in this matter or
he scaniOnly peryerts truth 70 help on the
cause Of Freedom, BY making political
capital out Of an outrage which had its
origin in no poliiical m tips y hi ever 80
| prefer to beliye the former. That The
editor agrees with me in the belief that
cause SO holy as the emancipation of a
portion of the human race from the
chains Of Slavery needs no sfalsehood or
perverted facts to roll il forward-that
!" truth is mighty ind will pre- vail until
one universal anthem Of Freedom shall
roll its jubilant sound over our American
land. s.se II
Viewing It thus, know the editor Of
the Times will not receive it unkindly to
be undeceived and send this to you,
MIR Editor, knowing that you are ac-
quainted with the facts that YOU con-
denim the outrage on the office Of the
Visiter, as do !; that you freely offered
the use Of your press to the Etitress to.
get out the Tisiier after the Tisiter Office
had been destroyed, and that at the same
time you condemn the wanton attack Of
the Vis;te,' on the holy sanctity Of pri-
vate life, which provoked this outrage.
/ say then, in answer to the first Of
the queries of the, Times" What was
the offence Of Mrs. Swisshelm had she
sought the injury Of ST. Cloud or any
nf its citizens J" She had
Il will not surely be denied that Mr..
Shepley had a right, in public Lecture
on Woman, il, suitable wayto express
his views Of Woman's rights women,
neither will it be urged that in the dis
cussion ofthis subject, he went out OF has
way to express those views Ifwoman' $
rights women choose to take this as
personal insult, no one will deny their
right to abuse Mr. Shepley to the full
extent oftheir powers. But in the words
ofthe Times. Z the offence called out an
act which no circumstances can justify"
By what right does female Editor, any
more than a male Editor, dare, for the
offence Of husband, to outrage his FAM.
lily in public newspaper, and hold them
up to the world as corrupt, vicious or de-.
graded, especially when they have never
injured her, and when all their private
lives have been pure, modest and beyond
reproach !? II will not do to say in this.
case that it was mere picture, not in
tended to itany body in particular for
by the introduction of certain, facts,
which of themselves should have shielded
the innocent victims from so base an OUT
rage, the picture was placed where all 10
this vicinity knew i was intended 10 be
plot Cd, and with scarce dissenting
voice it was characterized as an attack
so wanton and provoked as 10 have no
precedent. in respectable newspaper his
tory and ii was this attack Of the Psi
Ter on his family, which Mr. Shepley, in
a letter to the. Pioneer and Democrat,
avows was the sole cause ofihis attack
on the Tssifer Office and submit to-
the ST. Paul TIMES ia all candor, il il IS
quite fair and honorable 70 turn this mat
ter into. political question ! The only
salvation Of Tsifer Edilress was 10
dnthis, forswhile al, or nearley all, con-
demned Mr.. Skepley $ destruction ofthe
Office, they viewed with lothing and in-
expressible scorn, the degradation of
heart from which could enanate in the
public prints so foul libel Oh the char
acter of private Ladies'. sJ