The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-24
Mrs. Morse to Mr.. Beecber.
JANUARY 2S, 1871.

JANUARY %, 1871.
Mr.. BEEcHER:-As You have not seen
fit to pay any attention to the request
left at your house, now over two weeks
ago. | will take this method to inform
you of the state of things in Livingstone
street. The remark YOU made to me at
your own door was All enigma at the
time, and every day adds to the mystery.
Mrs. Becchcr has adopted the child
What child?' | asked. You replied,
Elizabcth's.' Now | ask what earthly
sense wa, there in that remark? Neither
Mrs b., yourself nor | can have done
anything to amclioratc her condition.
She has been for the last three weeks
with one very Indifferent girl. 7. has
sent the others away, leaving my sick
and distracted child to care for all four
children, night and day, without fire in
the furnace or anything like comfort or
noarishmcnt in the house She has not
any one. He says she is mourning for
her sin. If this be So one twcnty-four
hours under this sheet | think is enough
to atone for lifelong sin, however
hcnious. know that any change in his
affairs would bring more trouble upon
her and more suffering. | did not think
for n moment when asked Mrs. b. as to
your call there, surprising she knew it.
OF course, H. she said YOU would not 90
there without her | was innocent of
making any misunderstanding, if there
was any. You say, Keep quiet l
have ali through her married life done
30. and we now seen our error. II has
brought him to destruction, made me
utterly miserable, turned me from a COM
Portable home, and brought his own fam
ilv 10 bcggarv. | don't believe, if his
honest debt, were paid, he would have
enough to buy their breakfast. This she
could endure and thrive under, but the
publicity he has given 20 this recent and
most crushing of all troubles, is what has
broken the life out of her. / know Of
twelve persons whom he has told, and
they in turn have told others. had
thought We had as much rs we could live
under from his neglect and ungOvernsble
temper. but this i the death blow to US
both, and doubt not Florence has hers.
Do you know. when / hear you cracking
your Jokes from Sunday to Sunday, and
think ofall the misery YOU have brought
upon Us. ! think with the Psrlmist,
There is no God. Admitting all he
says to be the invention of his half
drunken brain, still the effect upon Us l.
the same, for all he has told believe il.
Now he has nothing to do, he makes q
target of her night and day. | am
driven to this extremity To pray for her
release from all suffering BY God taking
her to himself; for if there's n heaven |
know she'll 90 there. The last time she
WAS in his house she said. Here | feel |
have no home. but on the other side |
shall be more welcome Oh! my
prcciou, child. how my heart blccds over
YOU in thinking Of your suhcrings! Can
YOU do anything in the matter? Must
She live in this suffering condition of
mind and body with no alienation.
You. or any one else who advises
her to live with him when he Is doing all
he can to kill her by slow torture, l. any
thing but a friend | don know if YOU
can understand q sentence have writ
ten; but I'm relieved somewhat by writ
ing. The children are kept from me,
and ] have not seen my dying child
but once since her return from hts home.
| thought the least you could do WAS to
put Your name toa paper TO reinstate my
brother in the custom house. Elizabeth
Wa a disappointed as myself. He Is
still without employment, with a sick
wife and five children to feed, behind
with rent, and everything else behind
hand. If your wife has adopted Lib.
or you sympathizc with her, | pray
You do something for her relief before it
Is too late. He swears 80 soon a. her
breath leaves her body he will make thi.
whole thing public and this prospect, |
think. Is one thing which keeps her liy-
ing. | know of no other. She's without
nouri,hmcnt for one in her state. and in
want-actual want They would both
deny it, no doubt, but it : the truth.
Mas. JUDGE MORSE.
Mr.. II. TO Mrs Morse.
DEAR MADAM-I should be very sOr-