Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-07-16
DANIEL AND TERESA
The Pres. upon the sickle. Reconciliation.
IFrom the Philadel phia Bulletin.l


The Press upon the SickIes Reconciliation.
IFrom the Philadel phia Bulletinl
1t will crafty the lovers of pure morals and
the admirers Of yindicated laws, to learn that
that most excellent man, the Hon. Daniel Z.
Slckies. and that very pure-minded lady, Mrs.
Teresa BagiOli Sickles haye settled the little
domestic difficulty that for time interrupted
the course of their eOnnubal felicity. 1t was
HttIe unfortunate that this difficulty should
have led to the killing of man, and the des-
truction Of wOmans reputation. But the
great wrong complained of, when their separa-
uOn took place, was that Mr.. Siekles's honor
was destroyed and that henceforth there was
Eo peace or happiness for him in this world.
The intelligence that he il reconciled to his
Teresa shows thst the honor is all right again,
and, as for peace and happiness, they 1wil be
the most devoted and happy couple known in
history.
There never was an honor that had such re-
operative powers as that of the Honorable
Daniel T.. Sickles. few months ago the
honor aforesaid was destroyed; he was totally
dIshOnOred, and in his humility would have
liked to have been called-the DishOnorable
Daniel T.. Slckles- But now, having made his
wife narrate for the public the whole story of
her shame; having killed Philip Barton Key;
having been a lion and a hero in Washington
for some months; having stood trial for mur-
der and been acquitted amid the rejOicings of
ali " esntuStonJ ne taxes 10 0lS arms once more
the gentle Teresa, and his honor is lust as good
as ever 1T was, As for Mrs. Sickles his re-
sumption OF cOnjugal relations with her proves
that he Is at last convinced that she is lust rs
pure and yirtuOus as he is. Of this, many per-
sons had already no doubt but his public ac-
acknowledgement of the fact is quite touching
and 1t is gratifying to have the truth set 80
clearly before the public eye.
Considering the happy results, in the total
restoration of the damaged honor of the Hon.
orable Daniel L. Sickles, the killing of Kew.
and the excitement and expense to government
CT his trial, were perfectly proper. good
many men ought to be killed and a great many
trials and aequittals ought to take place, rather
than have any damage done to such a precious
article as Mr.. Sickles honor That triaI-witb
Its hosts of lawyers; its " clerical supes ~ its
chambermalds, coachmen, and footmen: its
fashionable young lady witnesses; its Mysteries
and fslnting scenes; Its demonstrations of the
virtue, nobleness, and extreme sensibility of
the Honorable Daniel 4. Sickes; its publica-
ton Of Mrs. Sickles' narrative of the process
by which her husbands honor was damaged:
it, triumphal celebration at its close-o2bat
trial, We say, was highly proper thing, and
1T is seen in a peculiarly edifying light, now
that Daniel and Teresa are reconciIed. and
consequently must be recognized as quite
equal in honor. The world cannot COMPLAIN of
any effect that trial may have had, so long as
II has had the effect Of recOsciling the separa-
ted man and wife, and enabling them to be-
come once more ornaments of our best society
[From the New York Tribunel
The GREAT LEssON.-It has been the re-
prOach of our age that it is material-thst its
triumph are over the blind forces of nature
not over mind and spirit-that it is objective
not subJective-thst it is great in its suprema-
cy oi man over his accidents, and not over man
himself We trust we are lucid.
But the reDrOach is WiDed ont II IA ind;
vituals who make ages. Generations die. but
the memory of the man Of the generation lives
and makes the age. Thus the past has it Mo-
ses,- Plato, Cromwell, Washington. Napoleon,
and other representative men. Ve have Sic
kles- We trust we do not put too fine point
upon it.
The virtue of standardization is physical
coursge-rtTtHS. The crown of Christian civ
lizstiOn is forgiveness and mercy. The high
eat Christian idea is reached when the strength
and Vaior OF man Is united with the love and
tenderness OF woman. This is the true marri-
age of the human and divine which makes the
perfect humanity. 1t was reserved for us to
attain it. Our age has its future its represen-
tatiye man.
Only little while ago, frail and fallen
woman confessed to her " bOsOm's lord" that
for many months she had been faithless TO her
marriage vows and had diShonored the bed of
the wife and mother. In broad daylight she
had gone many times, through an admiriny
crowd, to the place Of assignation was re-
eeIved In the arms of paramour not once
but many times. constrained, not by another's
will. not by love, but by uncomfortable Inst
What said the husband The same planet
could not hold the partner of her sin and him
self 80, on a sweet Sabbath he sought
and killed the man whose deed every negro
in town was talking abOut'-killed him off
from the face of the earth, and went joyfully
To the prison to answer if need be- to the Of
Tended laws Of his country, but bowed down in
an unutterabls agony over the shame and the
sin Of cOnjusal intidelity-the continent ami
faithful husband mourning over the incOnti-
nent and fsithless wife and mother A Jury
Of his cOuntrymen approved the deed 1t was
done In the very spirit Of the herOism of the
chiyslrie ages, which, conscious of the loftiest
and sternest virtue, could not brook even the
breath OF dishOnOr and scOrn. 1t was the az
sertion of that divine justice which the Judge,
irreproachable and pure, measures out to the
guilty and the weak by higher law than that
em bodied in human statutes. He who had
never sinned, he whose soul turned pale at the
thought Of wrong so horrible, was fit min
lster of this divine Justice.
But his duty was not completed Next To
divine justice comes divine forgiveness and
mercy There is now but one bosom on which
the fallen woman can lay her head and into
which she may weep tears of penitence and
shame and find the unutterable blessing Of for
giycness. He calls her thither almost before
the worms have begun their feast on the form
which she had fondled, and on which he had
wreaked his great revenge. The dishonored
sheets have been washed in blood; a new love,
horn of tenderness and forgiveness waits on
the second nuP'ials The :. negroes knew
before, and death wiped out dishonOr Now
InlniStering angels watch around the couch
where pardon is sealed, and the world learns
the great lesson that - tn the pure all things
are pure, and that mercy as we'll as punish
ment is sublime.
From the New York Post
The SICkLEs RECONCILIATION.-Seyer of
the morning papers have simultaneously an
nouncel fact which has been known for some
i'm" IN this city, namely, that the hero and