The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-30
LETTER FROM DANIEL E. sICKLEs.

New YORK, July 20.-- The Herald O.
to day contains letter to the editor from
Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, in which he corrects
statement made in that paper yesterday
regarding the recent event in his domestic
relations,
"The reconciliation he says, "was my own
act, without consultation with any relative
connection, friend or adviser. Whatever
blame, if any belongs to the step, should fall
upon me. am prepared to defend what
have done before the only tribunal I recog,
nize as having the slightest claim to juris-
diction over the subject-my own conscience
and the bar of Heaven | am not aware Of
any statute or code of morals which make it
infamous to forgive woman, nor is it usual
to mako our domestic life subject of con
sultation with frienda, no matter how near
or dear to as, and cannot allow even all
the world combined to dictate to me the
reputation of my wife when / think it
right to forgive her and restore her to my
confidence and protection. If | ever failed
to comprehend the utterly desoatc position
of an offending though penitent woman, the
hopeless future, with all its dark possibilities
of danger, to which she is doomed when
prescribed as an outcast, | can now see
plainly enough IN the almost universal howl
of denunciation with which she is followed
to my threshold, the misery and perils from
which | have rescued the mother of my
child, and although it is very sad for me to
incur the blame Of friends and the reproach.
es of many wise and good people, | shall
strive to prove to all who feel any interest
in Inc, if am the first man who has ven,
turod to say to tire world, an erring wife
and mother may be forgiven and redeemed,
that in spite of all the obstacles in my path,
the good results of this example shall entitle
it to the imitation of the generous and the
commentator of the just. There are many
who think that an act of duty proceeding
solely from the affections which can only be
comprehended in the heart of husband and
father, is to be fatal to my professional,
political and social standing IF this be so,
then so belt. Political station, professional
success and social recognition, are not the
only prizes Of ambition, and so long as do
nothing worse than to place my family under
the roof where they may find shelter from
contunely and persecution, | do not fear
the noisy but feeting voice Of popular
camor
'|Plre multitude accept their first impress.
sions from few, but in the end men think
for themselves, and if I know the human
heart, and sometimes | think that in a ca
recr of mingled sunshine and storm ! have
sounded nearly all its depths, then | may
reassurc those who look with reluctant fore.
hodings upon my future, be of good cheer,
for | will not cease to vindicate Just claim
to the respect of my fellows; while to those
motley groups, here and there, who look up,
on my misfortune only as weapons to be
employed for my destruction; to those |
say, once for all, if man make a good use
of bis enemies, they will be as serviceable to
him as his friends.
"In conclusion, let me ask only one favor
from those who, from whatever motive, may
deem it necessary or agreeable to comment
in public or in private upon this sad history.
and that is-aim all your arrows at my
breast, and for the sake of my innocent
child, to spare her yet youthful mother,
while she seeks in sorrow and contrition the
mercy aud pardon of Him to whom, sooner
or later, we must all appeal"