The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-12-08

begging him, as he left, to return earli-
er than usual. assigning as the reason
OF her request that she had not had
enough of his,society of late that she
was lonely, and wished to- more of
him. In compliance with her impas-
stoned wish, he did return earlier than
usual and found on has table a note from
his aoye, stating that she had left him !
In fact Richardson had taken her and
his two children acaytrom him and from
ms home, whittier he knew not. Sub
s~equentiy, on the I2lhof March, 1859,
Richardson publishe | a card, contain
ing the shameless acknowledgements
OF another man-that after the separa
ton between Mrs. McFaiE End and her
husband sit came to be understood be-
tueen her ard myself, that aUaenerer she
shoaM be legally free, she should become
my scie" Yet no Intelligent, reason
ing, human being can doubt, from the
evidence in the ease, that this separa
ton was promoted and brought about
and not unlikely originally suggest
GU ~ NNi itiil~Cii
At last, driven 10 frenzy by the loss
Of his more than life. and by the con
temptation of his wife, the mother of
his children, repoSing in the arms o
her seducer, he shet that seducer -
who was armed at the time to receive
hiin-through the body, iniicting up
on him a w'und from the effects ot
which the seducer has since been fur
tering between life and dtath We
use, the word seducer in its exact sense:
we mean the man who led this woman
from herself; for lie who crawls, like
the serpent in Eden, into 4 house
hold and estrages from a husband the
a iecJions OF a wife, is equally her Sc
ducer, whether he himself mariiai
relations with her before IL mock re
lIgious ceremony. As the great and
eloquent John Whipple said "Ht
who enters the dwelling of 4 friend
and under the shelter and protection
Of friendship and hospitality. C ,rrupt
the integrity of his wife or daughtet
bc the common consent of mankind.
ought to be consigned to an iminediat
gailows."' H"'--
An easily misguided woman, led on
by Richardso,, and cileered and TN
.couraged by his Free-love allies, this
wife and mother resorted to Indiana,
where, forgetting her early plighted
faith, by the loose and easy process
there in vogue, she procured a lega
divorce.
with bold. irreverent brow, re-
And loose, free step, her periious way she
trnd, Gar d.
Downward and on till she denied her God
And broke the marriage VOW"
For had she not vowed to take Nc
Farland for her husband, for better
for worse, until death-nothing else
should part them?
But it is said that her husband vas
poor, and sometimes harsh! And o
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher come
marries her to another MAN, to-wit
this man Richardson! /.
And now. consider, married men o
New York, husbands and fathers, hv
what fraiI and brittle tenure you
homes are yours. If YOU fail in you
business-and it is that ninety five on
at one hundred business men at som
time fail-then the younger and hand
somer face of your widowed neigiibo
may charm away your wife /; the law
of Indiana will grant n divorce to the
fair trnant, Henry Mard Beecher-
with the Rev. DR.. Field, of the New.
York, Evangelist, standing at his righ'
hand, and the Rev. o. b. rockingham
to implore a blessing on the sin
stands ready to marry her to the frs
libertine who will pay-not in atie,-
ton, but in gold Or greenbacks-thr
price of her trail charms! II it b..
said that power was the only { i al
of Mcfarland, then rest easy. hus
bands AID fathers, at least all of yor
who lever. in any moment of tria
and vexation, have uttered one impa
tient or p tu!ant word !!
Yes, it IS pious, the popular, the
admired, the rerered Henry Ward
Beecher, who comes boldly, and even.
proudl,, forward, holding by the han"
lea ling Lust to her triumph over R.
iigion! Who can read the narrative.
and not wish that Plymouth Churc;
were sunk into the ground until thv
peak of its gable should be beneati
the surface ut the earth
AMI Mr. Bee :her was assisted by
the Rev. Mr.. Frothinshlm, who bias
paemed these words:
':Father, ms thank THee for what these
t,co haze been TO each OTHER, and for tohaf
they my be yst."b .:s.
Mr.. rockingham may plead in his
defense that he. ,ioes not believe in the
Scriptures but Mr.. Beech-r, who has
been engaged tor several years past
upon a Life of : .hrist, should have re
minded him that our Savior SAL:
Il say unto you, that whatsoever shall
put away his wife. saving for the
cause OF fornicaiion, causeth her To
commit adultery (; and Whosorer 81
marry her that is diuoreed commiteta
adultery"
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