The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-05
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-,,n,y . SEPTEMBER j, 1879,
Farewell 20 Public Life.

n,cx aURRAY's EETaREKENT--HE.
ApiE N,sss hrs PROPERTY TO Hrs CREDITORS.
Lhs I'D from the Rey.sW 81. 81. Murray,
casrouph mutual friend from San
sent . t to the press OF Boston, appears
Frane's;;nu rnais OK that city. After deny
In in S.t he has been guilty ,of any wrong,
Ing s aua,mins that he went West on bust
ana ' end under no disguise whatever, ne
says Tiouehiny my financial status ] have this
NV current Indebtedness was small;
10 -" ;s;r,n.notes few; I had anticipated no
' 20! but failure to receive money
49,, r, n,v business that bad relied on; ana
inam further failure to effect q temporal!
~ had counted on il needed, made It
W. rvs" x,ectecly necessary to ask q favor OF
'.s.,-aI ~ my creditors. / had no doubt
nan left for the West 1t would be grant
VI pv all rules OF courtesy and Justice in
g, ,'.;nnss il should have been, for my pre-
n".'r was large and growing 10 value con-
Il.,n;,v But the parties saw 1t 10 act
sa.narwise. and attached $4,000. worth OF
oroncrtv 10 pay less than. So,oO0 OF
gg aM and hurried to forced safe: MY
nronerty is thus essentially out Of my
bamd, and beyond my controL nv creoi'
tors have assumed the responsibility. very
,relj. they may go ahead. Isey are wei
.,me to all have earned ana LAID up Dy
rrsrs of toll. The estate Is valuable enough,
!, fairly administered, to pay all CLAIMS
acaiust Il and leave large surplus. II
does not. then, when the matter Is sestlea,
7 will 20 to work, II have my beaitn, aho
M, every man what remains his due. But
will not raise my finger to help IN such
wicked doing as has been done against tne,
They may rob and murder me. but wont
of6ciate at my own funeral. won't ASSIST
them TO make injustice respectable. ID
A word about my public lie. Iretlre
from it. utterly decline to remain in Q
service in which my nobest motives are
traduced, my views grossly misinterpreted
and nv best benevolence made the cause
and ground OF slanderous attacks. A lift
in which / can have no quiet, no peace, nc
friends, in which can show no courtesiei
and do no charities unless nc the risk o.
beinc Wiley lied about and slandered, ]:
one refuse longer to live. The world,
have No doubt, can get along well enough
without me, and I am quite as certain
that can get along we'll enough .withou
the world; but this thing I say, ane
! take all who know aught OF my lii
for the past fifteen years to witness
the truth OF it, that no good cause evel
came to me for advocacy and did, not ge
it. No poor person ever came to my study
q or Office in want OF food or clothes and wa:
not, according TO my means, assisted, and nc
vile man or intriguing woman ever entered
nv presence and did not depart batting and
threatening me with such evil aS they car
work. And now, leaving my property
wholly to my creditors. and with my health
seriously threatened, l turn from manner
OF liic / have eyer disIiked to place and {
mode OF life | have ever loved. Hencefortt
d ! shall certainly escape the envy, and trus
the malice, OF men. 1t would seem that
have done enough OF good to have beer
Z treated differently, but 1t may be am mis-
taken, or what has been would not hay
come. But it doesn't matter.
VERY truly, w. FL. Fl. MURRAY"