The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-12-30
THE GREAT SENSATION.

Further and Stranger Develop
ments.
New York, dee. 12) Special to Cincinnati
Commercial.
NIr. Greeley sends the following to the
Sun:
thou hit ! might be allowed to keep 81
lence with regard 10 the circumstances pres
ceding AMI attending the murder of my
late associate aud friend, Albert d. hich>
ardsou but one Of your reporters who
called GA ne on Friday, and concealed from
me ,A9 tact Of his connection with the Sun,
has given an account OF our interview Sc
full of errors that | cannot leave them
unnoticed Passing over many, desire
to assure your readers that no name Of the
Supreme Beng was used il that conTersa~
ton, whether prolanely or otherwise that
| said nothing about the morality or inl-
morality of the World, unless an allpsion
in this matter can be tortured into that :;
that did not say Il will have to testify
on the trial Of Mcfarland, that being a
matter over which | have no control ; did
not say Il don't want to hurt Mac; did
nos-but must stop correcting somewhere,
and | will stop here
What did | say with regard to the main
point IN controversy, was substantially this:
That his marriage on a death bed, besl de
giving the woman legal right 10 be a
mother to Richardson's young and d0ubly
orphaned children, was operative mainly IN
giving her right, throughout her black
and bitter future, to be called by the name
of him who, for her sake, was so teuly
murdered, rather than that OF his stealthy,
cowardly assassin; and this small mItIga~
ton of her Unreasonable woes regard
as human and just. That is my opinion, and
L propose to stand by it.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
The following rrespondcnce is publish
ed in the Ledger:
My DEAR Mr.. BEECHER = According
to the corrected report in the Tribune, of
your remarks at the Astor House, you
seemed 10 charge Mcfarland with the only
offense which is Scriptura ground for di-
vorce. Ills friends most emDhatically deny
the truth of such IA charge. From my
many Years intimate acquaintance with
you know you to be incapable Of an act
of intentional injustice toward any one,
more especially against a man about to be
tried for his life, If, in the haste and ex,
element Of the occasion, you took this
statement, without time to investigate ii,
on mere hearsay evidence, and within any
legal proof to sustain it, is it not plain
matter Of duty toward the accused to come
out and say so pubiicaly? / never saw
Mcfarland 10 my hf5-never expect to see
him. but know that you would be as IN
willing as | to be the cause OF any unjust
prejudice against him at the time of his
trial. | kno in common with your 9TH
er friends, that II yoJ have been misled in
regard to any one circumstance, it Is owing
to the warmth and readiness of your sym
patty for suffering, however caused, even
by a man own sins. Your friend, ..
ROBERT Bonner. "
"MY DEAR Mr. BONNER i took every
statement of every kind respecting the af
fair of which you write me without time
to investigate. The man was dying. Was
that time for sitting evidence? What
was to be done must be done quickly.
asked only of such things as. should deter
mine whether I had right to go forward
1t vas for my own sake, therefore, that |
hastily inquired, and not TO incuEpate any
one but as you now call my attention to
the TACT that what did TOR my Justification
Is hanging over Mcfarland to his injury,
ana JcbAS 10 iOitStdli a NtlGlCt against Hliii,
| agree with you that | ought not to let
it remain uncorrecleG. | should be as uu-
willing to any act of injustice toward him
as toward any one else. Concurring,
therefore, with you, that it is now due to
Nc ar,and for me to state that know OF
no legal proof against him on that point,
| do so unhesitatingly. At the time that
| stated what did, | thought only of its
relation to other parties. | did not dream
of It's bearing on Mcfarland.
am truly yours,
HENRY WARD REECHER.