The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-03
MRS. Woodruff AROUSED.
sHETURNs ON HER FOES AND sPIR-
ITEDLY DEFENDS HERSELF.
Her Reply 60 Charpcs which she Denounccs al
False and Libelious-she Accuses n News
paper Correspoudent Of Malignant Lying.

Prom Me Cincinnati Enquirer.
New YoRK, July q, 1S7G.-From all over
the country papers are pouring In containing a
against me, all credited TO the Cincinnati En-
Qittrer. l have not yet seen an Enquirer, but
have ordered my attorneys to procure half a
dozen from your Office, properly identified. 1
did not intend TO make any reply TO this mallR-
nant attack until | should have them; but the
injury have already suffered urges me to walt
no longer and the hot blood OF Indignation
coursing In my veins a. each fresh repetition
me more INDIGNANT and the article ali the
more vicously malicious Is that II was brought
20 me before IL was sen, Tor pm3lic ,a az
Informed the person who brought II that
should procure indictments against everybody
who should have ANYTHING to do with its pub
licdtiOn. Thus the Enquirer was warned OF its
character, and has no excuse. IL hos ds1ed mo
by the publication. 1t deserves TO be made re-
sponsibio to the extent to which responsibility
can be carried, both by Indictment and civil suit
for damages.
certain whether ought to write at all whether
at the outset ought not, us much for the rela-
tlons that such an outrage bears to the COM
he press has fallen into too common practice
OF publishing libels one day only to retract them
the next to escape their consequences, which
has made IL reprOach to the American people
and byword to tue other nations. i was
thunder stricken to learn that the Enquirer,
which have uniformly found most honorably-
conducted paper could be inveigled by a New
York correspondent into the publication OF an
article which, TO say nothing about ITS dozen,
libe Is. has all the ear marks OF writer for the
vilest police sheet In the country. The low and
vulzir cOnception evident In every sentence
ought to debar paper that would publish IL
from admission INTO any family. And | was
puzzled to know why the Enquirer, OF all other
papers in the country, should have now given
this exhibit Of malice against me when II had
been So courteous before. When / lectured In
Robinson's Opera House last January the En-
qtircr gave tho best reports Of my lectures,
as well US the most hatterina personal comments
Of any OF the city pdpers.
Was the subject OF those words one who needs
To "crave not"riety at any cost :" "one who
belongs on the black list In journalism ana
polite circles :; "a feeble woman verging on In
sanity" zone sick In mlnd, worn out IN body"
"wno has gained an opportunity to be hersided
grammatical sentence one for whom another
neeus to speak !" one who needs some one to
EnTiifcr. to thus rcthlessly pursue "a woman
who, through every form OF opposition. aud,
seli-made, has commanded such comments In
Its columns. shame! Place these remarks side
by side with this article as an exponent Of It's
animus, aus how much OF II would stand Tor
truth! Look at itas may, eau sec nothing
but malice In H.. IL Is Il string OF sentences,
each Of which. save two. Is barDed with
lie. Never WAS there such mass oi venom in
80 small a space. IL must have been prepared
revcugefully, prob .6y Dy some one who had
sought and failed 10 blackm.il me- 10 suppress
some such article. such wantOn managing;
such persistent fplluw'og OF anybody by 1.-The
press such rehashiug on me OF long-sincc ex-
ploded faisehOod-. nist In one and taen an
other Of the outside press ny correspondents
who 1.-Two upon the piice for suppressions OF
their damaging articles failing to obtain winch.
they have them published, should receive severe
chasi sement.
Laying with one who was recognized a. her
husUau0!' " lay shouldn't have lived With my
husband ana why shouldn't lac have oeen rec
ognized MS such, when We were mar led In Day
ton, ONO. regularly and properly by Presbyte-
rian minister III 1853, the certificate Of which, II
Is well known, produced In Tho courts during
our trials Lerep Then, why these sneakinR in
situations unless 1t be- 20 carry the idea that my
life has been irreguiart
How does tie Enquirer know that through Its
statement "sne gained an opportunity 10 be
heralded as a literary woman Z" Who has told
informedf Has any one who knows tue fact,
aud can make affidavit 10 II. given this informa-
uonf have been hsrAlded - a literary won IA
through my own efforts, extending thr ,ugh
years. They are ali before the public and MAS
ALWAYS the edttor.in-chiof Of my paper, tue
Weekly aud not only determined its course. tut
moulded the character of all Its leading articles.
How dare tue Enquirer set me ON the SHOULDERS
OF any man as taougn had ben carried there,
and thus seek To destroy my public literary rep
utAtion3
acquaintance that she is scarcely able to write
a grammatical sentence" IL Is notorious fact
that that Is u notorious lie. And that sue
never ATTEMPTED TO do So which Is another
VIII the Enquirer nHme any OF my imuedi tie
| acquaintance who will testify to that1 Can 1t
maine one WAC Will Is there person In the
world whom II can Tut upon the stand To main
tain this assertionY lit cannot, II must see the
condition Ia which IL would be placed II II were
called upon to maintain In court the plea Of
| truth In Justification OF this attempt to damage
my literary reputation, and to hold me up to tn o
puolic scorn aud " rum my occupation AS a lee .
| turer
| 1.-THE writings that have gone out over her Gig
| nature have all been written by Blood or An
| dfews,' which may be auded To The above cate
| CORY. Have they given THU information To the
| Enquirer II they have not as / know they
| could not, how can, how does the Enquirer
know that "ali the articles that have appeared
| over her name were thus written - Has II mad
| some one detailed to watch the writing uf every
| article that has ever appeared over my name. so
| that 1t has u foundation on which 10 stand with
| THIS most damaging assertion7 Has the En-
1
| selUr OF confessor to me TO whom have made
| confessionf Or in what Other way Is the En-
| Qiiiror prepared to maintain this Infamous at
| tempt To damage my literary reputation and
| present me to the public as "a charlatan and q
| preiender. which. n the Engutrtrs story was he
| Heyed, would destroy me as apuohc professional
| lecturer, and which IN any event must greatly
damage me In this respectf
/ nave now pending an engagemen Mt to deliver
| a course Of three lectures In your city In Feb
rdary next, for which am TO receive tl,5oO,
| with parties who were Induced to make the
| offer upon the report In the Enquirer OF my np-
| pearanoe in Cincinnati. VIII these parties wish
| to bring such "A creature Us you pres mt them
| now IN this article to lecture 10 their friends
| How dare the Enquirer 20 thus steal away my
| business THIS loose method OF joutna ais IN |;
This ignoring Of evidence prominently before
| the public for years, and In the actual posses
| sion OF tue Enquirer, and resorting to boating
| rumors tue sur, Ell, conceived In envy and born
| In malice this gathering OF mass OF slush
| long since aud many times exploded from the
| slums OF New York to pour IL over me anew,
| with the intent TO destroy reputation, needs 10
| be most vigorously condemned. -,
| am gong To lecture a. soon as the - season ~
| opens. is IL TO be expected that | shall submit
| 10 having my literary reputation picKed up and
| torn In shreds. this article would tear " II
generally beltevedf shall / permit the mali
cious intentions Of the Enquirer To destroy my
business by branding me before the pubic as
an iguoramusf My reputation student,
thinker, orator Is my STOCK in trade, my means
| Of livelihood. lake this away, my all - go
and my children lett destitute. shall the En-
QHtrtr ruthlessiy, IN defiance OF truth AID law,
break into and destroy my occupationf 10 uu
TINS IL more than HIGHWAY robbery, since II not
only takes from me all l nave, out prevents me
| from acquiring more. To say that cannot
| write gralnmaticaliy IL 10 also say that cannot
| speak the same ds well AS logically TO assert
| that have not been student, never even Te I'd
| extensively, and therefore that l am incompe-
| tent as a public teacher. My Literary reputation
| IL too dear to me, has cost me too many burn
| ings OF midnight oil, Is too much my reliance fol
support for me 10 allow II to be thus piraticall,
asSalled.
but now can undo the damaae2 l never can
| A Ito travels where the truth can never follow
catch It, j shall have unnumbered papers sen
me that contain the lios, but shall never hea
| OF their refutation. Among the thousands be
| fore whom have appeared this article will ex
| cite contempt Tor the papers that have pub
| lished II, as / have already occasion to know
| They understand the meaning OF such ar iclss
and are drawn the nearer to me py them; but I
| Is among the millions upon whom, as public
speaker, depend u make my audiences, III thu
| places where have never been, where the dam
age will be done.
she is now, 10 use her own language, "sck II
mind, sick in body, sick In heart'-three NOR