Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-11-03
The Habeas Corpus Case.


EDITOR My attention has been called TO the
letters OIL. Ii Eastman andJ Z. McCollom pub.
lshed in your issue Of the 10th inst, which sup
pose are Intended as reply 10 my statement in
doionse OF MIR, j, W, Barry OF this county, also
published in your issue OF the 18th inst, have
read with great care those Two illusions and have
yainly tried TO see how those gentlemen in any way,
IN view OF the facts now made public AT all convict
me of misrepresenting them in any particular. In
making the statement / did, 1 was actuaIed by a
sincere desire to assure the people OF your section
that Mr.. Barry was man OF the very best char
acter, and one too who is universally respected in
this section, / felt II was my duty TO do so not
only ON account OF his good name here but flom
the deep sympathy had for him in his hour of dis
uess, ana believing it was iull enough that his
wife should he thus so unfortunately aiiictsd, with
out having added thereto the attacks Of outside
parties, accusing him Of falsely causing his wife 10
be put iii an insane asylum. / then believed from
! all tn information could gather, that Mr. Barry
was being badly treated in this matter and / stll
think so, the two remarkable eplslles of Eastman
| and MCCodonl to the contrary Notwithstanding
/ MIR. Editor, sinai now IN my feeble way attempt
4 TO reply to some OF the statements made in those
1 TWO powerful weak letters, and IN 50 doing do
not propose to descend 10 the level that these two
men have IN their attack upon me Tor defending
the man that even they dare not say is not even
in MS native country considered respectable,
4 Now tor the man who "TeJoices THAT he Is cit
q
10 gave me zone more opportunity TO defend MIR, j..
! w, Barrys character and standing in Virginia"
will state that the gentleman very kind indeed,
but MIR, Barrys character needs no defense mere,
II is tom the attacks OF such men as Mir last
man ana McL ollom, that / would wish to defend
MR. j, w, Barry, aud Tor the purpose OF showing to
the people from whence he came thar The good
name he bore there is unsutied Aere, and thar the
people here without regard to sect, color or pre-
| vious condition., entertained Tor him a feeling OF
! genuine respect, but as this IS conceded by this
! gentleman, who seems to be one Of those KIND OF
men who know more about other peoples business
than they do OF their own, / viii let that branch
of the sublect be considered as closed ia my favor
do not know whether MIR, II. is married or not,
but If he Is, venture the assertion that there Is
not another married man in your county who would
thus sneak about and pry INTO the private affairs
| OF another, There is one more mslnuatiou in the
beginning OF MIR. E.s letter that / must not pass
unnouced. speaking OF the record OF MIR. Bar
ry he says, Ne do not sctSh 10 dcag HatJ ". bar
~ as not gentleman IN eGery respect" the isinua
uon referred TO, then comes IN the following lam
guage from the pen OF tins gifted knight OF the
'qulll' "And thai his record as good as any man
in the county OF Cuipeper, We think perhaps IL
may be the best we hope so at least from what We
saw there during our tasty visit. Now l am not
about to defend the people OF this county partlcu
larry, but will say thal do not know a man in
it mean enough to follow up his fellow man with
that degree OF persecution that has characterized
the acts OF MI l.. ana his confederate (wLom /
shall refer TO before / closel toward Mr., j. " !,
Barry. / Will pass over the other contemplate
fling that this ohoul makes the citizens Cui-
pepper, they may have been insane when they al.
tempted to break up the Union but the drubbing
they got at the hands OF the armies OF our noble
U. >, Grant, someW hat rendered them sans certain.
ly sane enough 10 know gentleman from knaye,
Mir h, Is honest enough TO plead guilty IN one
thing, and that was that he leit my othee in a
hurry" will only say IN passing along with this
reply, that should that gentleman come into my
office again other than upon official business he
would III my opinion, leave 1t quicker than he did
before. Mr.. h. need not be alarmed about my be-
ing offended" because did not him, / GER
talnly have no desire to know such man as he
has shown himself to be, MIR. h. says that be
docs not wish TO deny that MIR, Barry is not a
gentleman II SO, what does lac mean when he
says, I'VE had seen quite enough OF the latter gen.
tleman MIR, b. here. 1 reIJerate what / have
said, viz that made an effort 10 see these gen
tleman before they left but was unable, to do so.
/ went 10 their hotel twice before z O'clock and
was told that the gentlemen. whose names point
ed out upon the hotel register, were not In
know that both OF these gentlemen must have
known that was Il northern man and very nat
urally supposed that they would make an effort TO
see me- as It Is customary Tor ali northern persons
coming 10 town 10 give passing cali but
am satisfied now that both OF these gentlemen stu
diously avoided me simply because they knew /
was friend Of Mir. BarTys. Mir. L. is very pro
fuse with his "P Ms / lind that he has found
it necessary to employ those two letters no less
than seven times in his Brilliant and classical Ell
fort, l do not know what MIR. Els business or
profession is-whelher it is a =" Pedtdr or
Priests" orderly whatever it may be he appears
10 have time TO pry into the domestic affairs of
gentleman who is much hissuperlor lneyery respect
| h, ha a TJFu m mari
ality and the result OF his peeplng Is that he
styles me an Irishman or to use his own language
Irish descent" While it is of no particular aus
grace to be Of Irish descent" if honest and re-
spectacle, yet it happens that this profound peep
er has not traced my family tree correctly my
blood is Scotch. 10 not brag about blood
here because hear enough Of that every day, but
| will say that tits generally conceded that Scotch
blood is tolerably good, and viii stand lire, My
empty sleeve will attest that and if MIR. l.. doubts
this, he can have an opportunity Of practical il
lustradon OF it the next time he comes to Virginia
straight from the shoulder with the eft---the only
one left me now to defend my own honor, the
honor OF friend or the honor OF my country.
There is good deal OF such stuff as / have
quoted, that might reply 10 in the letter of Mr.
h., but really fear that shall trespass upon your
valuable space. There is one point to winch /
would wish to direct the attention OF your readers
and that is, does it seem at all probable that Mr.
Barry if be was actualed by any but honest mo-
tves, would have taken his wife back to Vermont
for the purpose OF putting her in the insane asy.
lum, when he could have much easier and with
less expense have taken her TO the insane asylum
at Saunton, in this State This fact alone ought
to satisfy any reasonable man that MIR. b. was act
ing with the purest OF motives in this matter
| But it appears that these two busy bodies consd-
cred the matter Of such vital importance that thev
must post off to Virginia, on what everybody
| here considers trip that no sane man OF set OF
men would make, especially if they had any sense
to spare, and after what why simply to harass a
poor mortal whose domestic affairs on account OF
the insanity Of his wife, had rendered his lone
unhappy and desoate. / was cOnyersing with an
| eminent physician not long since, living in MIR
Barys neighborhood, on the subject OF Mrs bar
rvs Insanity, and he said that on one occasion Mr.
| b. came TO him with tears in his eyes and begged
him to 60 and see his wife and stay by her ana
see If there no way to relieve her, and he also
related many other instances showing the deyo
| ton OF Mr.. b. to his wife and the sorrow he ex
pressed on account Of her unfortunate condition
| would be the last man on earth TO defend man
who would try to restrain lis wife or deny her the
privilege of breathing the pure air. OF her own
native State, but at the time l would defend
the husband, ii | saw plainly as l see in Mr BIS
case, that he had not acted Improperly Mrs. b.
may not be insane now, but she was as is conced-
| ed by all in the neighborhood OF Mr. b S when h-
! took her away and tor some time before
do not comprehend what this hastyr felIo,r
means when he says" we hope MIR Barry bv chano
ing politically between the North and South, 81
MIR. Barry Is true republican and mas ALWAYS b,