New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-19

bss therefore arisen in an actual AID prscrca
form. Mr. John w. Grgs the father OF Mrs.
Fry. holds that il is "the most contemplate thing
"a man can do to open hi, wife's letters" and
because Dir. Fry insisted upon his privilege CT
reading ouch letter as this, although be hrst
handed il to bis wife, and allowed her to break
TIE seal, Mr Gnsg invited her to go home with
him, and has from that moment made her cause
bis own. He las carried the matter before the
Legislature Of Pennsylvania, and, admitting that
there 10 no legal impedment or objection TO tue
marriage, s.ks them, without reason, to decree
divorce.
VIII they do it
II they should, the institution OF marriage, in
all its reyered, moral and religious essentials,
would be abolished in that commonwealth. 1t
would be Just as well, after that TO insert in every
marriage form clause like the following: "The
privilege Of prostitution being reserved to the
"wife."
A Committee hsve reported in favor Of the Pc
titioner Il i. possible the Legislature will adopt
that report
We have put the case fairly. Our readers, who
have seen the statements Of al the parties, will
recolect distinctly that the reading of the letter
BIZ the husband was the occasion and cause Of the
fatal explosion; Of Mr.. Griggs inviting Mrs. Fry
home again to his house, and of her final with
drawal from beneath the rosf Of her husband. 1t
was this which drove the old man to the avowal
of his Infamous creed-to the daring assertion of
the right of wife to be thing too base to name;
and TO deny to the husband the right ~ protect
her honor and his own.
We are well aware that after-thoushts have
arisen in the minds Of Mr. Grigg and Mrs. Fry
that they now trump up some other allegations
against Mr.. Fry. 1t is enough to say Of these that
they are not sustained by one title of evidence
that can be relied on. Their only prop is the bare
assertion of woman who, by her own letter
produced in the case, is proved to be entirely
abandoned in character destitute of al principle,
insensible to every obligation, even the most
solemn and sacred willing to break her plighted
faith; ready TO forget her husband, her family, and
her God for the sake of becoming the mistress the
thing, Of q West Point cadet. For this there was
no depth Of mire through which she would not
wade, 10 blackness of dirt with which she would
not cover herself For the sake OF being near him
she proposed, in writing, to abandon her husband
and her parents, and in disguise to take the stu
alton Of servant in New-York. Such woman
is not to be believed. Common sense and common
law alike preclude it, Furthermore, all her
charges against Mr.. Fry, so far as disnterested
evidence could be brought to bear upon theu-and
that is to great eItent-have been completely dis.
proved, and shown to be entirely false.
Immaterial and irrelevant matters are dragged
in to brace up weak and rotten case. For In
stance: Mr.. Grigg commences his memorial with
a boastfu assertion Of q "long" and "wen spent"
life. 1t is difficult to see what that has to do with
the ISSUE If the point of longevity, even to sec.
ond childhood, had any bearing, the respondent
might feel himself bound, in good faith, to admit
that Mr. Grigg had already reached it. That his
life has been "we spent" is another branch of the
impertnent statement. 1t may be true; quite
likely it is as he understands it. With the creed
Of morality which he has laid down for his daughter
small pains would be required to constitute one
saint especially in his own conceit 1t is to DO de-
youtly hoped that throughout his "long" life, he
has not been in the habit of intoxicating the same
views of marital obligations upon the wives and
daughters of other men.
1t is charged upon Mr.. Fry that, provoked be-
yoad endurance by the infdelity of bis wife, he
used violent language. Indeed, Mr.. Grigg knew
that il required the skill of Rarey to tame
horse; but he evidently supposed that the awe Of
his reputed wealth would be sufficient to make
high melted young husband submit, meekly as
sheep, and uncomplainingly, while bis wife was
concentrating his di,grace and her own. Dread
full Dir. Fry-OutrageOus Mr.. Fry-Unreasonable
Mr.. Fy-to insist, in the strength and yigor of
bis youth, to have his wife-snd she Mr.. John
Grgg's daugbter-e1clusiyely to himself during the
whole of their honeymoon Crush him, Lessla.
tors Of Pennsylvania
1t is said that Dir. Grigg is very rich and on
that account the husbands and fathers in the House
and Senate will be induced to pass bill, virtually
breaking down all the legal barriers which protest
the cha,tity of their wives and daughters We
shall see.
1t lisa pity that Philip Barton Key had not been
permitted to live. He might have petitoned Con-
rreu for q decree Of divorce TO Mrs. Slckles on
account Of her husbands interfering to prevent bis
wife's attendance at house of designation. We
were going to cay, that would have equ.led in
audacity the proceeding Of John W. GHgg. Bat
it would not. Mr.. Grgs insisted that his son-in-
law should keep the house Of as,ignaton himself.