Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-31
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The Woman With Two Husbands
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F. and newspaper.
Victoria C. Woodhull-who lives
with two husbands, and edits Wood
hull & Clafin's Weekly, don't want
any "intrusivs inspection of family af-
fairs" She takes great credit for self
denial that she has not sslifted the roof
from houses she could name, to throw
them open for inspection. She inti-
mates that one of these residences is
that of III. g., who has wounded her
spirit by his reference to her as rival
candidate fo- the Presidency, in his
letter to Tilton, which we have pub
lished. She says 'sGreeley's home has
been for years a domestic hell.o It
would be little strange if Greeley,
who processes to not believe in any hell, /,
! las been all these years deceiving the
public by keeping a little he'll of his
own, in private way.
Mrs. Woodruff is endorsed by no less
an authority than Theodore Tilton
himself, in language of gentle reproof
to Greeley, as "a certain lady whom he
describes dut does not name is an un-
gentle and gross reflection on life
which has been ma-led by greatsufer-
ing, which has been guided by pure
motives, and which has .howered into
rare worth. Knowing her well, we re-
spect her rot less highly than we do
Mr.. Greeley himself. We know not
how to say more !,
We don't see how more coEld be exs
pected. With his limited knowledge
of farming, Mr.. Tiiton advised his
readers a week or two ago to "plow
their weeds under, sc as to manure the
ground and make it raise clover.o p We
prepared ourselves then to hear him
advocate the raising of two crops at
once from the same ground, and are
not surprised at what he says about
Mrs. Wood hull and her two husbands.
What Mrs. w. says about them is as
follows:
Let us now turn to the consideration
of my offenses, as enumerated by Mr..
Greeley; the offenses of Zone who has
two husbands after a sort, "Who lives
in the same house with them both,
sharing the couch of one, but bearing
the name of the other" and ofone who
NAV be persuaded to overbear her
shrinking modesty and nominate her
self"
In respect to my domestic relations,
which We're dragged upon the public by
those who desired and intended to in
lure as me, but to whom am only too
grateful, for that favor, j knew not,
when / decided and acted, at the sew
eral epochs of my life, that / should
ever meet with a single outside friend
who would justify me. But / was JUS
tilted to myself / decided and acted as
/ did; and I am only embarrassed by
the idea that any one should think that
by speaking on the subject at all / am
condescending to apologize to anybody.
/ was divorced from DR.. WoodhuH for
reasons which to me were sufficient, but
/ was never his enemy. He continued
to need my friendship, and he has had
it. Nv children continued to prize and
to need his affection and presence, and
thew have had them. circumstance
over which assumed the right to de-
eide for myself, to the satisfaction OF all
who were Immediately concerned,
made it best that ] should retain IN
public the name by which l was al
ready known, as in the case OF actreSS-
es, singers and other public women is
often done. In both respect my con-
duct is undoubtedly irregular. l knew
not how it would be accounted OF by
the world should trouble Itself with
with the matter; but the complete ac-
ceptance and justification not mere
ly, but the appreciative laudation
also, which has been conferred Jon
my course in respect to my s'two hus-
bands,n even in the most conservative
quarters, have been among the most
gratifying experiences of my life. That
/ should have dared to be the protector
and a friend of discarded but unfor-
tunate husband has not condemned me
in the Judgment of the Christian wo-
men and Others of this enlightened
community; and, with the exception OF
some thoughtless badinage and mere
slang, Mr.. Greeley's is almost the only
voice that has been raised adversely.