The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-08-04

than all thes World that II MI the
wrath Ind all the honofst this world,
could yhostow, wero placed on one
side yit40ny mo, on tho Other was
povsrty WI. barely ~ comforts Of
tifs, yo0 would nnhS 1otinnfY Hfro
up ~ hrsk 10 shsse tho latter
with - "a ct the first ntxuko,
You ~ ypa 10 determined to bow
your - SlilS the UtllotD 70 tho
blast, Ard lit ! heartless world bsrato
your iA4lssd darling for sedaclng
you. L. tsllyou that the willow
b . Week &otectaon, no bird. not
even 10 n0st diminntive, builds
its nest II No willow, while the
mighty eagle takes it's perch
upon the oak. have proven
how therwiilow will bend and bend,
and finally strip down the side, taking
the hsart ont a. it COOS. I'll had
not been blinded by my love for you,
l should have known how you void
have acted when the struggle comes.
You know how many nights you
have left me alone to find my way
homo, rs best I could, and perhaps
you remember once / told you that
some way I did not feel sense of
protection, when with you, and you
reliantly said that no harm should
come to me without it was over your
dead body. And you will remember,
how often you have said, "Ohl dar-
ling, you do not know what it is to
love. Is love, you are not capable Of
it." Now all is changed, the trnst /
reposed in you, has been betrayed
l have been thrust out into tho world
with nothing. No home nor friends,
nor loved ones. You have shrank
from the task you imposed on your
self--In fact you have absolutely
failed me, in every promise: -
Tell me, II you can, what right
you have to stay in your home, while
I was driven from mine. Ny homo
was as dear to me, and as good as
yours Was it any harder for you to
forsake yours, than for me to give
up mine2 Yon was. o man. Tell
me, if you dare to make q profession
Of religion, after oil that has passed
between ~ and after going to your
wife and telling her that you have
always loved her, that your heart has
never wandered from hers even for a
moment that you was led astray, but
you did not wrong her in your heart.
Say now, tell me are You . christian,
or can you ever be one? Don't tell
mo you did not tell her SO. Iknow
you aid, and her poor deluded soul
thinks she possesses your whole
heart. Now ifyou did toll her SO, W hat
will you do with your professions to
me2 You arc living lie with her, and
you know It. tfyou did not tell her 90,
you are living with q woman You do
not love, and who knows it, and letting
the one you love with your whole
soul, drift away into o friondless
world, without lifting a finger to
keep her by your side.
Henry Henderson, you have de-
stroyed the idol you created, you
have cursed the woman you promised
to make happy, you have trampled
on the heart that loved You better
than life, and bettcr than her hopes
for heaven. You have done all you
can, and caused that l now fear
neither man nor God, for am proof
against pleasure or pain.
Now listen while / warn You to
have no more affairs of the heart, for
Just so sure as a God created you,
will never lose sight Of you, and 1 now
! swear, BY the wrongs l have suffered
by the hopes ola woman's life that
are blaeted, by desecrated home, by
all the VOWS you have made, that Il
you are false to those vows, / will
kill you with less femorse than
would kill serpent that had stuna
me. Yours,
st'1 s. T., r.