Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-13
M'FARLAND REDIvIvUs.
He is interviewed, and Reviews His
Late Wife's Confession.
He SIaps Vice President Schuyler
cOlfax, the Sly DOg---Rich
Reading.

NEW YORK, May 12.-An interview
with Mcfarland last night is publish
ed this morning. Referring to the
affidavit of Mrs. Mcfarland Richard
| son, Just published, Mcfarland said it
was one huge lie from beginning to
end. My wife never wrote a word
of it. She has perfect knowledge of
my conduct toward her from first
| to last. Why does she swear only ac-
cording TO her belief? 1t is damned
fabrication by Mrs. Calhoun, furnished
up by Junius Henry Brown. know
it is childishly written, but Brown is
childish writer, and bad as it is, bet
er than Abbie could write.
Reporter Still, Mr.. Mcfarland, its
statements are clear and very posi-
tive.
Mcfarland. A clear faIsehood:
positive lies; it is libel from first to
s.ast. viii sue the paper that pRh-
lished it, and any paper that danes to
copy Il. ! viii sue any man thai dares
TO quote il. Why did not they prove
this constant drunkenness on the
trial2 Did not ali my associates IN
the Enrolment Office, except one,
whom | discharged for being damned
rebel, swear that ! was q sober man?
And didn't he have his expenses and
extras guaranteed to him on the back
of the very subpoena that made him a
purchased witness?
Reporter. Mcfarland, am not
arguing the truth or falsehOOd of Mrs.
McFarland's 5 affidavit.
Mcfarland, ercitedLy.-I tell you, it
is not her affidavit. She may have
sworn TO it, but she never could have
written it. 1t is Browns affidavit; it
is Mrs. CalhOun's affidavit: it Is Mrs.
Sinclair's affidavit; it is the affidavits
of that damned free love crowd; it is
not my wife's affidavit. How she
could ever be led even now to
sign her name to such a parsel of
damned lies, when she knew her
letter protesting such love and aftec-
ton for me had been proven in open
court, is more than / can understand.
Why, sir, anybody could write such
thing as that after the trial to fit the
case. Why didn't sh6 prove it on the
trial. They paid counsel to white
wash the crowd and hang me. Why
didn't they prove it then. Wait till
you see the affidavit in the Aa6eas
corpus case; wait till you see the hell
ish part they got Schuyler Colfax
to play in taking my wife from.me
and giving her advice. 'Why had |
no notice of her application for di-
vorce? / wrote to everybody in In
diana to find out if she applied for
one, and the answer was always no.
R6 iOrter. But, Mr.. Mcfarland,
this affidavit states that you struck
her.
HcFdrldnd-It is a lie, sir; it is
lie; l never did. Read her letters to
me, and then see if she could ever
haVe written such q letter to man
who had so brutally used her. Why,
sir, if / had been given to such
parOXysms as she talks about they
never could have passed unnGtiOed in
aAy boarding house. / saw you in
court several times; you saw the peO-
pie from the house we boarded in j;
did their appearance or manner de-
note anything but respectability?
People who dress in silk and velvet
don't live in squalid houses.
tell you the whole thing is a fab
ricatiOn on the face of 1t. What
did Abbie know about Sydney or
Bayard? Yet look what they make
her write about Richardson. The age
of Sydney or of Bayard should claim |
him as its own. A pretty Bayard, !
surely, this Mr.. Richardson, who !
spent his nights eavesdropping at q
partition crack, to hear the private |
communings Of a man and wife. They |
make her say in that affidavit, that |
all the letters that Richardson !
wrote to her were written by a |
stenOgrapher. Was that intercepted !
letter which was read in court, stating |
how Richardson wanted to fold my |
wife in his arms, written by stenO- |
and was it posted unsealed?
She says / fought her for my children. |
! suppose it was the act of brute for
q father to want his own children, and |
to prefer to take care of them himself, |
rather than to have the seducer
of his wife near them, with his
free-lOve doctrines, spiritualism,
and all the other Tribune |
morality. If that was being a brute,
then half the fathers in this country
are brutes too. l tell you, l have
gone through enough of mental suf- |
fering and agony of spirit in the last
three years to set q Shakespeare crazy.
Richardson says in one of his letters,
if it is his, that he was afraid ! would
shoot. He had done nothing to pro-
woke me, how came he to be afraid of
me? Wait littlel all the proof in
this case has not been seen yet. L tell |
you, no other man that ever lived |
ever went through half the suffering
| have had to endure.