National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-08-26

Mrs. waI,yerth Defended By an Intimate
Aeausintance-Mr. walwerth 10 Pro-
sounced Insane.
The following letter was written to the
Louisville Journal; Having always found
your journal ready 10 correct mistake and
do Justice 10 the injured party ask place
In It's columns for this article In defence Of
prosecuted innocence. Seeing that the
Northern papers are determined to pursue
the already heartbrokcn Mrs. Walworth with
false charges to her grave feel II my duty,
both as q relation 10 her and o friend to
truth and justice, TO contradict one Of the
gravcst and grossest charges against her.
She has been publicly arraigned for high
treason In plotting with Mrs. Greenhow
(whom once met with in a foreign land and
other restless spirits at Washington to ovei-
throw the Federal Government, whom wen
know shc was not at Washington during the
war, but upon her plantation near Louisville,
with her. And now for the proof Of what /
say refer the reader to the Rev. Mr.. Craik,
TO Judge Bullitt and others Of her near neigh
bors; also to the family Of Virgil Mcknight,
her relations, who can testify to her exemp-
tion from any snch intrigue and collision as
has appeared In tho Northern papers. Such
journals, in order to give relief to the staid,
stale and drivcllng trash they daily publish,
give place TO sensational falsehoods and
popular reports and guesswork to the injury
Of Individual character, and to the mortinca-
ton and distress 10 families.
Mansfield Walworth, being suspected oil
Southern sympathy, was confined during the
war to tho limits Of Washington city, and
could not DO with his wife upon the farm,
where she remained TO manage u and take
care OF her children, and where happened
TO be when no v as released and came out to
Jon his family, and more harmonious and
felicltous meeting mover witnessed, which
does not give credit to the published accounts
OF her ''upbraiding him, despising him, scorn-
Ing him and casting him of because he
would not take up arms and hght for the
South"-a willful and cruel fabrication. ]
knew this once happy but since sadly unfor-
they should ever be otherwise than admirers
Of each other. After the death Of Colonel
Hardin, In Mexico, his widow--now Mira.
Chancellor Walworth-brought her three
children, two sons and an only daughter,
from Jacksonville, ILL.,, to Harrodsburg
Springs, and lived with my wife, her cousin,
TIL her marriage TO the Chancellor, which
took place In my house. Nelly (now Mrs.
Mansfield walworthl was one o. tho most
amiable, good hearted and conndlng girls I
ever saw, aud fayorite Of all who knew
her; nor was Mansfield less admired, being
pronounced by all an unusually handsome
and elegant gentleman, sensitive to oil the
courtesiss Of social life. have hunted the
Moose with him at the heads OF the Hudson,
In the sublime Adirondack mountains, and
found him to DO as courtly In therudo camp
as In the gilded parlor.
Who, then, could think 1t possible for him
to write, say and do what he did without a
mutation-yes, 0 transmutatlon-by mental
insanity, there being a. many disorders Of
mind rs there are OF body, Of which physl-
clans are a. ignorant as the incredulous com.
munity. The finest Of authors and the most
beautiful writer's and speakers have been
known TO be dcranged on certain subjects
while sound on others. Gen. Sam Houston,
of Texas fame, and my fellow soldier In the
war Of 1919, was 80 incurably deranged on
the subject Of jealousy as to pinch his wife
known BY her ncighbors. Not only so, bu!
he quit his home, went into Nashville dressed
"a an Indian chief, paradod the streets with
owls featheu nying In his cap, and at last
went and lived with the savages for time
Capt. Dasha, Of Tennessee, another fellow
soldier Of mine (and the nnest looking officer
10 the army,) also became so liberated In
mind as to treat hls wife most cruelty, and
In one Of his crazy fits emasculated an limo
cent youth In his neighborhood. These arr
two cases only out Of many others that
have myself witnessed where the person
were otherwise sane and Of great practica
enerQy.