North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-12-22
Mr.. BEECHER's REPLY.

Mr.. BONNER: took every statement of
every kind respecting the affair of which
you write me, "without time to investi
gate." The man was dying. Was that
time for sitting evidence? What was to
be done must be done quickly. l asked
only such things as should determine
whether l had right to go forward. 1t
was for my own sake, therefore, that l
hastily inquired, and not to inculpate or
to exculpate anyone.
But as you now call my attention to the
fact that what did for my own justifca-
ton is hanging over Mcfarland to his
injury, and tends to forestall verdict
against him, agree with you that
ought not to let it remain uncorrected. /
should be as unwilling to do an act Of in
justice toward him as toward anyone else.
Concurring therefore with you, that it is
now due to Mcfarland for me to state
that know of no legal proof against him
on that point, I do SO unhesitatingly. At
the time that / stated what did, l
thought Of its relation only to other par.
ties. did not dream of its bearing upon
Mcfarland.
Truly yours, HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
AcARD FROM HORACE GREELEY.
To the Editor of the New York Sun
SIR: l thought l might be allowed to
keep silence with regard to the circum-
stances preceding and attending the mur
der of my late associate and friend,
Albert D. Richardson; but one of your
reporters, who called on me on Friday,
and concealed from me the fact of his
connection with the Sun, has given an
account Of our Interview SO full of errors
that connot leave them wholly unnotic-
ed.
Passing over many, l desire to assure
your readers that no name of the Supreme
Being was used by me in that conversa>
ton, whether profanely or otherwise
that said nothing about the morality or
immortality of the World, unless An allu-
sion to it's animus in this matter con be
tortured into that; that did not say ~
will have to testify" on the trial of Nc
Farland THAT being matter over which
have no control); did not say ~ don't
want to hurt Mac. )" did not-but l must
stop correcting somewhere, and will stop
here.
What did say with regard to the main
controversy was substantially this. That
this marriage on a deathbed, besides Civ
ing the women legs; right to be o
mother to Richardson's young and doubly
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 foully
murdered, rather than that ofhis stealthy.
cowardly assassin and this small mitiga-
ton of her immeasurable woes regarded
as humane and just. That is my opinion,
ami l propose to stand by it.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
New York, Dec. llth, 1869.
LETTER FROM WOMAN IN PRISON FOR
BIGANY.
To the Editor of the New York Sun
Sir: Why should ! be sentenced to be
shut up in prison here for three yesrs for
doing the same thing that the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher says is holy thing for
another woman to do? went out of the
state, sent my husband notice Of the fact
thatI was getting divorce, and know
that he received it. But, when married
to another man, return to the state,
am arrested, and, after brief but partial
trial, am brought to this korrid prison
to expiate the sin Of bigamy, as it is said,
and am looked upon as debased woman
whom my fellow.convicts hardly respect.
If Mr.. Beechcr will pray for me as he did
for Mrs. Mcfarland, it would do me
world Of good-for am as good as she
is. MRs.-, THAT WAS.
Female Department, Sing Sing, Dec. 2.