The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-02
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! The publication a scurriiuns abolition
! journal in this city "a Fabrication concern
/ ing Col. w A Ricidson aud the late Mrs.
/ richardson, Is uage that deserves nun.
/ ishmeut, and we aw If no punishment
which would be 50 orOpriate to the offsoce
/ az personal cnastlsesnt of the wretch who
/ is responsible for ttpubhcauon. The fab
ricatiOn is contained letter from Jackson
Mississippi, 10 the ncInnatu Commercial
and consists of sllegions that Col RIcha,d
son, in 1862, was enged IN secret negOtia (
tiOns with the rebelshavIng for their OBJECT
a combination of thsOuth with the denDc Z
racy of the north tOorce a peace on otAr
terms than those Oihe federal gOvernmeL 4
and that Mrs. Richa.son was employed as
diplomat in these ,gOtlatIors, she going
both 10 Eicksburg al Richmond and holding
interviews with seval rebel generals aud
with JEFF Davis himaf a. to the matter. lt
may not nave been.u easy matter Tor the
Cincinnati paper to scertaIu the truth con
corning the story otis correspondent, and
the correspondent ms have been the dupe OF
some designing knse, but not such an ex-
cuse. nor any other can be urged ON behalf
of the scurrilous arnal here which has re-
produced the story The publication By this
journal was wants malicious and malignant
and with full knvledge of the Ero-sness OF
the wrong it was ding.
Col Richardson not only never held any
negotiations, direGly or indirectly, with reb-
els. bat ne never, liz thought or deed. tarnish-
ed the brightnessoi his integrity and loyalty.
But If he must NEEDS be asssied. why drag
in mis- late estimate wife-why. demon-like,
violate the grave ola pure and innocent woman
to crafty maligGty towards her husband
Mrs. Richardson pever, before or during the
war, visIted Vickourg or Richmond for snv
purpose: and never, ut any place or time,
held intercourse with rebel generals or agents
She was as guiltless as a child unborn, Of the
charges now LAID against her; and the assault
upon her memory by the Chicago Republican
is one of those monll crimes which all good
men and women should unite in reprobatiug
and furnishing.
From the Chicago Times Both.
A Dispatch from Colonel Richardson.
Colonel Richardson has seen fit to send as
the following teleg- phic Dispatch concerning
the ghoul like attack upon his deceased wife
to which we alluded yesterday:
QUINcY, III. Sept. 30
ssTo the Editor of the Chicago Tunes:
81 have thus moment seen the Chicago RsBHbIi-
can of the 2Sth inst. In II IS letter copied from
the Cincinnati Commercial, dated Jackson, Miss.
Sept. IL, 1865, headed ''Mrs. senator Richardson
as Dpomstist.'' The whole letter is cruel
SANDER without any foundation in truth. My wife.
now in her grave, never was IN Mississippi or Rich
mond.
sW. A. RICHARDSON"
We have perhaps already sufh aiently char
acterized the assault which Colonel Richard
son mildly terms "A cruel SANDER. Ii IL much
more than that Ii is a diabolcal aspersiun
Of the memory of one of the most estimahe
ladies Illinois has ever known. Ii is will
ful, malicious, brutal invasion Of the grave Of
An innocent aud unoffendine woman and
never did ghOul do his work with more relish
han the editor of the Chicago Republican en-
Loyed his feast IF human reii.h.
Whatever the Cincinnati Commercial may
be able to offer in excuse for the original pub