Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-23
THE sICKLEs RECONCILIATION.

Several OF the morning papers have simultape-
ously announced a fact, which has been knosn for
some time in this city, namely, that the hero and
heroine OF "the domestic tragedy" at Washington
had concluded to forget tho little affairs of the
house in Fifteenth street, the extorted confession,
the murder, the various incidents of the notorious
trial, and live together again as though nothing
had occurred. But there is one small discrepancy
in the accounts Of the matter, and that relates to
the manner in which the happy event is received
by Mr.. Sickles's friends. The Tribune said.
"We are assured that in taking this remarkable
step, Mr.. Sickles has alienated himself from
most if not oil ofthOse personal and political friends
who devotedly adhered to him during his recent
imprisonment and trial"
But the Tribune is not very good authority in
such cases, and the public generally gave credit
to the counter statement of the Herald, more fami-
liar with topics of this sort, which said:
"Both parties have agreed to this step, and it is
said their love is greater than ever. There is i'm
mense rejoicing among their friends, who have
written letters of warm congratulation."
Not having the pleasure or the honor, If It may
be called either, of the acquaintance of the per-
sons referred TO in this difference of statement, we
awaited the appearance of the Times, a kind Of
official organ and defender Of Sickles, to see the
difficulty cleared up. Accordingly, this morning,
we are furnished with what may be termed an au-
thoritative determination Of the question. We
copy the paragraph in full:
"PERsoNAL.-one of our contemporaries has
been at the trouble OF sending to Washington for
intelligence of the reconciliation Of Mr.. Sickles
with his wife. and has ascertained what we believe
to be the truth, that the most r~esolute Of avengers
has approved himself also the most r~elenting of
husbands, and is now living once more with the
victim of the late Philip Barton Key. This, Of
course. is a purely personal and private matter,
with which the public have nothing to do. Blu:
it is due to the leading personal aud political
friends of Mr.. Sickles, who honestly believed him
to be a man maddened by ntolcrable wrong, and
in that belief interposed their influence between
himself and the hasty rage of public feeling at the
time of his trial at Washington, that they should
not be made responsible, as by the journal in
question they are, for a step taken entirely on the
impulse of Mr.. Sickles himself, without their
knowledge. and in the face of their positive rem
onstrance and disapprOval."
This is conclusive the friends of Sickles who
stood between him and the gallows, which the
Times euphoniously describes as "the basty rage
of public feeling" were highly delighted with the
vengeance, but are not with the forgivnoss; they
shouted bravo and flung up their caps when 1.-THE
most resolute of avengers" shot Key in cold blood,
but they turn their faces from "the most relent-
ing of husbands" These personal and politi-
cal friends" we presume, are the chivalric But
~terworth, who said, "there was but one course for
a man of honor" bachelor Brady, who was so sol
%ieitous about the sanc,ity of the domestic altar,
the Scriptural Graham, who so grandiloquently
demonstrated that the pistol was the only protec
ton to female virtue, the pathetic Meagher, who's,
picture Of the desolatsd and heart-broken husban,
brought tears to a thousand eyes, tho editor of tn
Times, responsible or irresponsible, who poure,
forth such q vomit Of vituperation upon every
body that CHANGED to think that Sickles was no
the model husband of the Nineteenth Century
and some others. including the Judge and Jury 0
the Court at Washington. They shielded Sickle
when he acted upon his savage and brutal in
s%tincts, and they abandon him when, with an equa
want of principle, and in utter disregard of a.
true and delicate feeling, he yields to his NOR
t tender instincts.
; IL is easy to see, however, why these gent.eme
are dissatisfied with the course of their crony an
g client. A good many Of them, doubtless, wer
D long since disguised with the part they had PLAY
ed, and with the unenviable fame it had procure
i them but they were enabled to keep on a tolers
. BILE face by asserting that Sickles had been ina:
dened by an int2lerabie wrong; driven to desper
alton by his sense of wounded honor and the COZ
u seriousness of a home made desolate forever. No,
that he shows that his wrongs were not irrepar,
n BILE, their only excuse is removed, and they see til
late events in the light in which they were seel
o at the time, by the more discerning part of mai
n kind. The inquiry everywhere now is, why Ike
was killed at all, or having been killed, why sue
extraordinary efforts were made 70 screen the sla,
err II is for those who were instrumental in th
result to answer the question.-M. Y. Ecening Pos
l.