Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-23
A WONDERFUL Personal EX
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TbatsQaeer yeddfng where a Di.
vOrced Invalid Wife Acted as BEidet-
maid-0egensfyee Letter from the
Husband-Ee Tells EaOw He Made
s.ra His First wife His Adopted DauEh-
.Saa tor,s Then Presented Her with an
Acceptable stePmOther.
To ne Bditor0f the chicago Tribune:
Yotr paper Of the 18th Instant contains
an attack on me, copied from an Indiana
reply.
aside the curtain from ones private and
domestic life. Friends who haye known
I me long and well, gent tlemen and gentle
W6meS-who have a4et nae often ifsoeiety,
those who have travelled with me the mys-
tic journey in the East, the charitable and
tthOsghtful.to whose minds. B. .gfOHndlesS
ri attack lcarries insits spirits and contradic;
tions its own refutation, will require OF me
E8 yippicstApn q ny ;Ss. character; q < but to
PLANTATION. y
Near the. end OF, May, In the year 1854, I
was married.. / returned from Europe
after a lengthy absence, but a few days be-
fore my marriage. The edeath of the young
lady's mother call the restkof her family
were dead before my acqua uaintance with her
began) FASTENED my return. had been
engaged to her several years. The marrt-
age had been put of from time to time on
account Oh 11eE HC8lLHs Onc was Gu6Il
twenty three years of age. knew that
she was afflicted with some nervous disease,
N which was represented Ito me by her
eo m0tller. as hystefia. Almost imme ediately
after our marriage weembarked for Europe.
The steamer duly landed at Liverpool, and
went directly TO the famous Lake Dis
strictss of England. About month after
our marriage, she was. one day, at Kes-
wiek,rstrieken down at my, feet with tit OF
epilepsy. Attack followed attack, until she
had seventeen in the course of the night.
4 stood alone by her bed side, amazed, be-
Wildered, becrushed, turning gray ere the
sun rose. Her fearful disease $50 fearful,
: as DR.. Watson says, that 'the beasts of the
: field flee in terror at the characteristic cry
of one seized with it'') had been concealed
from me. Yet, am publicly accused of
having put away one who was in "good
e7iheaitfl at the time of her marriage . simply
because she had become an Invalid on my
-sehailds. If her parents hati been living,
should have taken her home to them, and
70 never should have seen her again IN this
world. But she was an orphan and alone
i She had not been to blame. That terrible
night. song bended knees before God Al
Cd mighty, I adopted her as my chill. Never
= has word of reproach' to her, on account
.aaof the econcealment. ESCAPED my lips. From
e that hour to this / have been an attectionate
roparent to her (.fasller aand mother in one,'
= as she has Thousand atimts, with gushing
a tears, expressed it), and during many OF
) the lonely intervening years have been
the sole nurse to- her. patiently, uncom-
plainingly, tenderly performing for her
offices that no money could procure.
, !. 1 wandered over Europe nearly four
years, taking my patient and ward to many
= eminent physicians, hoping against hope
. that perehance her disease might be cured
1t had existed from infancy. Every
physician-and TO you, my brethren of the
regular profession, / appeal as witnesses 0i
2 the truth of my assertion in regard to the
r disease-knows how incurable long
standing case of epilepsy is, how'll unfit:
qfor the pursuits and active duties of life.-
Besides as every educated physiologisi
H1nderstands, it is very likely to be trans
Emitted to offspring. With knowledge Of
this fact, none but q brute and goddess
wretch would incur the responsibility Of
h.being the author of those who might in
herit this fearful nalady. 81 hsgssias5a or
fHoI returned from Europe and undertook
eato establish me a home, foolishly endeayor-
ing to conceal the real nature of her dis
:. ease from my friends, as mIiltitudeS will
now bear me witness. 1t was an unmanly
pride and weak yielding to her entreaties,
which, like all nntrllth, has brought its yap-
.propriate reward to both. +, More than
twenty women, old and young, were tried
as hired nurses, companiofis or house.
Keepers. Not one OF them would do
Some of them would flee from the room in
terror when my patient had an attack
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of will, another day fearful dependency, still
another sdaysa state 5vergjng into insanity
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