The sun., 1870-04-19
Mr.. Greeley and the Tribune Froo-
Lovers.


= Mr., GREEI Ely is making serious mistake
In putting himself before the worili IA tho
champion of the gang Of FreeLovers who
have for the last few years made the Tribune
office their headquarters We know that,
personally he is entirely sound on the mar
ragc question; but his bencvolcnce and
kindly sympathy for plausible rascality which
have so often involved him in scrapcs before,
,,-a row leading him into an apparent advo.
,ocv or in' morality, which cannot fail to do
,,rcot do,,o m % hiB reputation. Just as he
suffered himself to be coax "o into lending his
ranctlon 20 the infamous moch uarriaGe al
The Astor House, between Mr.. RIcuA."psoS
md the wife of DASIEL MCFARLAND, he
now HAS undertaken TO defend the women who
,,ovta proninent ~! ~. in bringing about the
whole Of the awful catastrophe Of which that
outrageous ceremony was the elimination
We have already published in TIE Sun
The letters from these women, Mrs. SAMUEL
SINCLAIR and Mrs. LrcIA G. CALHOUN, TO
Mrs MCFARLAND, which have Leen put in
evidence by tho counsel for Mr.. MCFARLAND
In his trial for the murder Mr.. RICHARDSON.
The purpose Of laying those letters before
lhe Jury was to show that Mrs. SINCLAIR
and Mrs. CALHOUN were conspirators with
Mr.. RICHARDSON in his effort TO seduce
Mrs, MCFARLAND. Mr.. MCFARLAND's sus-
picions as TO what was going on having
been aroused, he opened his wife's travelling
trunk in search of evidence, and there found
The letters. This act Mr.. GREELEY stigma
ties as burglary and larceny" and the
letters themselves he excuses ns follows:
Judge them simply by what they conrin, and
not By false CLOSES Gnd perversions, and there II
not al line in them that the writer should wish e
blot woman Just above want, struggling braVel!
and working nrduously for her bread, reaches out
hand TO help a friend whose needs are more urgen
Of ulc.than Herself That is the whole truth What
ever evil may be made out Of those letters will hay,
Its origin In the heart Of the commentator, not II
Tie letter nor tue spirit Of the text"
Docs Mr. GREELEY seriously mean to con
tend that a husband, who has good reasol
10 believe his wife unfaithful to him, CON
mits a crime in opening receptacle in whicl
Bhe keeps her lettcrs2 Such may be til
code in these corrupt circles where ndulter
is sanctioned by fashion, and faithfulncss I
the marriage covenant is exceptional but
has never yet been established in this coui
Try. Ordinarily, q polite husband will trei
his wifcs correspondence, like her dressing
room, as sacred but to insist that he ma
not inspect either the one or the other whC
his honor demands it, is carrying the il
munites Of libertinism to limit whiC
has heretofore been unknown in Americt
society.
Then, as TO the letters themselves, is
true that whatever evil Is in them will
made out Of the heart of the commentator
Is 1t no evil for one woman TO urge anotll
woman to leave her husband and take h
children with her. or to commend to i
esteem man whom she must know TO be
lover with criminal intentonsf Hear NJ
SAMUEL SINCLAIR:
do not for moment longer entertain I
morbid idea that you are responsible for the life
one who ID sure To break you down completely 1
ruin perhaps your Children n you continue TO
with him. Il will Kill you to live this way, and
must not dol
"I must suggest thing, and that Is TO
PARcr away lron his father IS SOON poss