The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-22


mGnt.
l thiuk that DR.. ChAnlDg will probably
agree with you in your theory, but hu
: nad tho courage 10 announce his convic-
uons before acting upon them. He IT.
Lssd 10 intercourse with an uncongen,al
VIE ior long time and then lett her and
married woman whom he still loves,
leaving q darling daughter with her
molher, and 20 day pays photographers
10 keep him supplied with her pictures "a
ONen rs they can bG procured. send
you the article he wrote when Abandoned
by all their friends, He aud his wife went
To the West, and stayed for years crushed
| by cGlumny and abuse. To-day thCy are
esteemed more highly than ever, and he
ls in positions Of great public trust In
Providence. You will perceive my situa.
tiOn, and by all that l have suffered, and
am willing TO suffer Tor your sake, beg
you 10 cOnhdO 10 mo the whole truth.
Then can help you as no one else In the
world can. The moment can know
this matter as God knows II, he will help
you and me 10 bring everlasting
good out ol this seeming evil.
II ! could say truthiully that I bC-
iGve tho story 10 be q fabrication
OF Mr., and Mira TiiIon imposed upon
Crcdulous woman, u mere medium, whose
susceptibility 10 impressions from spirits
In the flesh and out oi II Is 10 be taken
Into account always, tho whole thing
dies, but Il Il Is essentially true, there 10
but one honorable way 10 meet Il In my
Judgment, and tho precise method oc.
Cured to me in bed this morning, and |
was about writing TO you TO suggest It
when your letter came. l will write
you q sisters letter, expressing my
deep convictions that this whole
subject needs the most earnest and chaste
discussion; that my own mind has long
been occupied with II; but It Ia still In
doubt on many points that have obsery.
ed; Tor years your reading and thinking has
been profound on this and kindred sub
10 give to the world through your own
paper the conclusion you have reached
and the reasons therefor. II you choose
| will then reply to each letter giving
the womans' view, for there "a
surely mems and women's side 10 this
queStIOn, beyond everything else, and by
this means attention will be diverted from
personalities and concentrated on social
philosophy, the one subject that now
ought TO occupy Gil thinking minds.
II seems TO mo that God has been pre-
pairing for this wish, and you also for
years and years. send you reply |
wrote 10 DR.. Todd long ago, and which
could never get published without my
name, which for the sake OF my dSughterS,
| wished to withhold. Although God
kin oil the Nation, Holbrook OF the Herald,
Healthwatd OF the Independent, and every
mother TO whom have read Il, all told
me that II was the best thing ever writ.
ten on that subjsc, and the men said
that they would publish 1t II they dared,
while Mrs. --, urged mo 10 give my
name and publish it, and said that they
would rather have written 1t than any
thing else OF Its length in the world, and
II it were her she would print 1t without
any hesitation. send also q copy OF o
letter l wrote to John Stuart
Million, he sending me an early
copy Of his subsection Of woman,
and his reply. am sure that nearly all
the thinking men and women are some
where near you, and will rally TO your
support, II you arc bold, frank and RbsO-
luLely truthful in stating your convIc-
tions. Mrs. Burleigh told DR.. Charming
that che was ready TO aYow her belief in
social freedom when the time came. She
was weary and glad Of reprieve, and
should stand 10 her convictions when she
must. My own conviction is that the one
radical mistake you have made Is 10 sup.
posing thst you are SO much ahead
oI time, and in daring TO at
tempt 10 lead. When you have
anything 10 conceal, do not,
pray you, deceive yourself with the
hope that the love Of your Church or any
other love, human or divine, can Compen.
safe the loss Of absolute trulhiulness 10
your own mental convictions. have not
told you the halt ! have suffered since
February, hut you can imagine, knowing
what my husband is to me, that 1t was
no common love have for you, and for
the truth, for all mankind women as well
as men, when l decided TO nearly break
his heart, already laCerated by the course
| had been compelled 10 pursue, by send
ing him away TO die, perhaps, without
me at his side.
I wish you would come here in the
evening some time to tho Burton cottage,
or l will meet you anywhere in New
York you may appoint and at any time.
Ever yours, BELLE.
Read the letters from John and Mary In
the order have given them. will send
these now, and the other documents |
have mentioned at another day, waiting
until know whether you will meet me
on the 81 Of the same month. Mrs. Hook.
er addressed letter to her brother, Rev.
Thomas X. Beecher, which / produce
marked No. 0. Please return this letter
to me when you have done with II:
NEw YORK, August 9Th, 1874
My DEAR FRIEND II was never
more happy in all my lie than am this
morning, and made 60 by you whom
have learned TO love so much. From
you, from whom l had expected censurc,
receive tho first deep pure words Of 8p.
proval and love. ] know my couree has
often been contrary to your wishes, and It
has been my greatest griet 10 know that It
was so, since YOU have so nobly been my
defender, but all the time knew II was
not for whom you spoke but all woman.
hood, and was the more proud ot you
that your love was general and not per-
sonsl. lam often compelled 10 do things
from which my sensitive soul shrinlis and
for which endure the censure OF most Of
my friends, but l obey q power which
knows better than they or can know,
and which has never lett mo stranded and
without hope. l should be faithful ser
want indeed, were / to falter now when
required to do what cannot fully under
stand. Yet in the issue OF which l have
full faith, mono Of tho scenes in which
have enacted part were what
l would have selfshly chosen for my own
happiness. l love my home, my children
and my husband, and could live sanCu.
fed life with them and never desire con.
tact with the wide world. But such is
not TO be my mission. know what is 10
come, though cannot yet divulge 1t. My
daily prayer Is that Heaven may vouCh.
safe me strength to meet everything
which know must be encountered and
overcome. My heart Is, however, too full
10 write you all l wish.
sec the near approach OF the gran dest
revelation the world has yet known, and
for the part you shall play In 1t, Thousands
Will rise up and call you blessed.