The New York herald., 1869-01-28
Tue SPICE or wAsHINcroN LIFE.

Fight Among the Women for Congressional
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Letter from Mrs. SwissheIn.
PrTTsBURG, Jan. 10, 1862
EDITORS MISSOURI DEMoCRAT:-
SIRs-Your Washington correspondent has made
so unpr0voked and malicious an attack upon me
that [ ask you to correct his msstatements. He
charges me with having written ..many malignant,
vulgar and unpr0v0ked thingsn against Winnie
Ream, with s.personally canvassing against her,n
s.going TO Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens and among Con.
gressmen asking them not to give her studio back.
that 7, searching for victims, got afoul OF Mrs.
that even her my undaunted metal was abashed, y
and altogether dey0tes third Of column to repre-
senting me as professional slanderer Of women In
Now the facts OF the case are, that never wrote
anything about Miss Ream but one paragraph in
the senate gallery, putting her $4,000 bill through
that body. When she placed herself In the position
OF public pensioner she may not plead privacy to
shield her designs aud character from the scrutiny
OF the public whose money she pockets and for her
sake regret that the facts then stated have never
fully verified. II they had not been before, would
be now. IN her openly placing herself beyond the
pale OF woman's sympathy. II have been young
woman forsaken by her own sex or her laudable
efforts asking. In vain for woman's sympathy.
As for Thaddeus Stevens I never spoke to
him, never saw him bnt once, when he was
on the 1oor Of the House, and In the gallery.
have not been In Washington since October I.
1866, and the question OF returning Miss Ream's
studio came up In the summer OF 1858; so Miss VIM
ME must be reduced TO straits for a crown OF mar
tyrdom, with which To purchase enough Of the public
money 70 carry her TO Rome, when she placed me mt
the head or her list OF prosecutors. The statement
or your correspondent Is sheer fabrication, so far
rs II details my personal interference IN Miss Ream5
anaIrs.
Ny statements about Mrs. Sprague were made
when her name was In every newspaper, as the head
and front OF the opposition to Impeachment, and
when the etiquette OF the press made her legiti-
mate subject OF public comment Up to this time (
have not been made OF any attempt to CONTRA
diet what then wrote. when any one seriously
attempts to deny anything I have published, 1t Is
time enough Tor me TO prove II, and have always
held myself ready 20 do SO.
There IL no question In which the public are more
interested than the character OF the women who
control legislation in washington, and however un-
pleasant the task may be there is ruer service 10
the government than exposing the corrupt influences
which depete our public treasury and vote the
money wrung from the sweat OF the laborer as test
monlas OF the admiration OF our representatives for
the personal charms OF any woman.
Your correspondent may or may not be In the In
terest OF some lonesome Congressman who wishes to
win smile from Miss Winnie by voting her another
subsidy; but should like here to record prophecy
that project Is on foot for giving Miss Ream an
JANE O. swIssHELM