The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-07-02

I wish to bid you farewell in this world,
but hope to meet you in another, never
to part again. / hope the Lord will Tor
rive me, and take me to q home OF resi-:
Harry, I have one comfort, and that IS,
know NV child will be happy. SO now'
dear Harry, YOU must pass me ont OF your
mind and look for something brighter.
dear Harry. wish to tell sou it ID noth-
inc ON your part. My love is never van
isbed. I love Won now as loved you at
first: YOU have been in my thoughts from
morninp till night. So now ! must bid
ven farewell forever. nope you may en-
ioy happiness in this world and the next,
too. Nv heart is too full to speak all; so
GOOD Inv forever. EMMA
Respect Mrs. Weatherington. She has
been kind friend to me. have sent
YOU piece of baby's hair. You won't
forget her name-Coustance May Scar
cliff.
. I do not believe that in romance or
history or the most private annals OF
private life can be found more pa
thetic aud noble letter than this
Only mark! not one word of anger,
complaint or reproach for the selfish
and dastardly villain who'd brought
such intolerable suffering upon her
this weary weight of shame, this
cruel goad of taunting and scorn.-
Not only is there no reproacb, but IN
its place we see the tenderest consid-
Grafton, undying, unchanging, self
abnegatiDg love, and forgiveness,
sweet and entire. Not Desdemona's
last words: Commend me to my
kind lord-ob, farewell? are more
exquisitely touching. How meekiy
does she recognize the fact that the
man whose selfish love is costing her
her life-and more-and whom she
loves for eternity, will probably quite
forget her in the course OF time.
She would even have it so, and says:
"You must pass me out Of your life
and look for something brighter"
OF this letter, the Examiner, in the
only editorial / have seen in an Eng
lish journal on this matter, says:
"It seems to us, taking all the cir
camstances into consideration, that
a more beautiful letter was never
! written. In it's infinite simplicity
and pathos, In its gentle dignity and
sorrow, it is q wonderful production
for the pen of domestic servant"
Note all that it expresses and sug-
gests; that wonderful production"
the patient, unselfsh and so pure
love; the passionate maternal aftec-
ltion; the sensitiveness of a proud
but tender heart, that could bear no
| more stabs from the hand that
should have bound up all it's wounds;
gratitude toward the good friend
who had been "kind" to her in her
great trouble; trust in God, though
she should hurl herself and her baby
uncalled at His feet. Are these
things stuff for the haltcr2 There
was, at least, one man, beside the
writer in the Examiner, who thought
not-whose sense of justice, right
and reason, whose manly feeling,
whose human instincts, whose very
soul cried out "Nop' This was not
an Englishman, but an American, I
am proud to say, a physician still
young, but winning distinction as a
scholar and thinker, and a man Of
the broadcast, profoundest humanity.
While in Europe he has been max
ing insanity special study, medical
and psychological. This good man
and friend happened, while in o
) reading room in Paris, on the I'd Of
May, to see in a copy Of the London
Times Of the day previous an &C.
count of the trial and conviction OF
Emma Wade, and the statement that
she had been condemned to death
: The account was very brief, but it
contained the letter / have quoted,
: which, to my friends mind, threw a
great deal of light on the state Of
! mind of the poor girl at the time Of
the act of murder-so called. In re.
9 ply to an inquiry I lately addressed
to him in regard to his happy inter.
3 position he writes: "That letter made
upon my mind a singularly deep i'm.
u preston. could not believe the
o girl to have acted with any criminal
intention, or with any such compre
u hension of her act as to make hel
J. morally responsible for it. Ste wa'
l. sentenced to death. In England ex
" ecution usually follows sentence b.
l. an interval of not more than two o
i three weeks. No time was to be lost
l. AS an American, it was probabl,
r none of my business to interfer
} with the administration of justice il
e England. Nevertheless, / wrote t
n the home secretary, the Rt. Hon.