Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-11-30
The Ravd Casa-

To The Editor of the Belmont Chronicle:
And still they come. Another Richmond
has taken the Geld and gallantly puts him.
self inthe line and the Gazette gives no.
tice of another. X, in the last Gazette,
begins by an attempt to justify this war. =
His main reliance for this is the fact that
the Administration at Washington"
prosecuted, tried, convicted, and hung a
rebel female for the assassination and muir
der of President Lincoln. If it is right to
hang female traitor, and murderess, X
seems to think it must be right to open a
newspaper war upon ian unprotected wo-
man, and arraign her before the public up
on charges for which she has been tried be-
fore civil tribunal, and acquitted. Of
this let the public judge.
A Miss Winning, visitor in the family
of Mr.. Boyd, who was witness for him on
the trial of this case, is brought before the
public by X He claims that she is of un-
surpassed intelligence and candor.
1T X wants me to take issue with him in
regard to any thing he may say in favor Of
Miss Winning, cannot accommodate him.
As to her object in coming from Ireland
here, and entering into the family of Mr..
Boyd, understood her to say, as wit
ness, that she came as visitor, and got
acquainted with the children Of her deceas.
ed sister, the first wife of Mr.. Boyd, who
died some thirteen or fifteen years ago.
She stated as one reason for doing this, the
request Of her deceased sister on her dying
bed. have heard Of no complaint of this.
X, Y and the Gazette say she came to take
charge OF these children. IF | believed
this which do not that she came to TAXI
charge Of them, | should think, to borrow
an expression Of Mr.. Boyd to his wife, that
it was "a grevous mistake on her part"
Mrs. Boyd had had the care of these
children from the day of her intermarriage
with Mr.. Boyd. She in fact raised them,
and X, Y, and the Gazette, are my wit
nesses that they were well raised that few,
| if any children, were ever better raised. =
They were, when Miss Winning became
member Of the family of Mr.. Boyd, the
youngest son being absent on a tempory
visit to Canada. Mrs. Boyd had for seven
years stood in the place of mother to those
children. For ten months she had exclu.
sive charge Of them and the farm and bust
ness Of Mr.. Boyd. Is it creditable that Miss
Winning at that time came all the way
from Ireland to u5urn the position of Mrs
Boyd? 1t IS possible that Mr.. Boyd de
sired it. He may have designed this, apG
then by prohibiting her from dealing, there
would be nothing to take her from the
Kitchen.
X declares it fraudulent to cite the find
iugs of the Presbytery ard Synod in regart
to the material issues Of fact in this case
And why? For cause he states that thes,
ecclesiastical courts are governed by differ
ent laws from the civil courts, in cases o
divorce. Why should that make any df
ference? Our question is question OF fact
The Presbytery and the Synod found ant
decided the facts precisely as did the Cour
of Common Pleas. They did not rende
like jude tments, but the three Courts, sit
ting in different places, composed of differ
ent men, governed by different rnns nf evi
dcnce, and, beyond all doubt-X, Y ant
the Gazetto to the contrary notwithstandin,
earnestly and sincerely inauirng for tn,
truth, decided the facts alike. They al
fouRd that Mr.. Boydis living in separation
from his wife without due cause. and tha
he is extremely culpable in all this bust
ncss."
Cannot Y, Y, or the Gazette, find som,
word Of Mrs. Boyd, spoken, or written b
her, that Is unbecoming in wife, mothe
or Christian
have not time now to pursue this sui
lect further. As to the report noticed j
the Gazette, that Mr.. Boyd is disloya,
would not wonder if it prove to be true.
As to who was in fault for the separation
from the bed and the desire Of Mr. Boy
that Mrs. Boyd should come hsme, an
several other matters, | intend to nam
them hereafter. b. s. G..