The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-23
VICE VERSA VIEWS.
Letler from Gov. CIerelnnd.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher in the course of "a
political speech tonight in
he rink of Brooklyn, said:
THE air is murky with stories Of
Mr.. Cloyeland's private life. Lies 80
cruel, so base, so atrocious have never
before been get in action, As
DO produced and ha,rbed bv rate
and creduiGus clergyman they c4uldn,t
so to Mr. Cleveland with honest inqui
RES, but opened their earg
to tho harlot, and to Il @
drum kurd (scnsationl and PROMULGATED
Islander to lessen TIE faith Of nolv mon
ana Innocent wUmen. DO tiuid minis
tors ever reflect that the guilt OF the vice
or crime measures the guilt of him
who charges IL falsely? Cheers. Mr..
Beecher then stepped To the desk
ana read in trembling voice the
loliowlng:Myh onorcd and beloved wife,
! qulte unknown 10 me, made cuttings
rom newspapers, all Of which are
IN respect TO the life of
Gov. Cleveland in Albany. She
sent them TO him with letter that will
not be published, but which would be n
gem in English literature if it were
! published. AZ quick as the mail could
return she received letter from the
| governor, which | have had between
Two ana three weeks, and which he
meant to be and marked pri-
Vate; bat such complexion
has this ca vass taken, that | tele-
| Sraphed him two nights ago to
ask If could use my
discretion with regard to it, His
reply was, "Ccrtainly, if il is your iudg-
ihent" Now, | VIII read Gov. Gleye-
lands lettors:
| My DEAR Mrs. BEECuER:- Your let
TER, as You may well suppose, has alice
TED me deeply. What shall say to one
VINO writes no like my mother? | say
80 like my mother, but i don't alto
| gether mean that, for she died
In the bed that her son was
born in. She always said that he was
true, and that sho knew no was dutiful
ana KIND. | am shocked ana dumb
founded by the clipping that you
&c ma me, because 1t purpOrts
10 glVo what man actually knows, and
not mere report, ~ the other four or five
lies in which ! have heard about my life
in Albany. have never seen
any living woman whom |
nave any reason TO suspect was in any
way bad. | do not know where any
such woman lives. In Albany have
not been in any house except the execu-
! i've mansion, the executive chamber
the first Orange club house, twice at re-
captions given, aud ! think on two
olher occasions, residences perhaps of
IiiJeen or twenty of the best citizens to
alhe' or course Pve been
TO church, There never wag
u man who has worked harder or moro
hours in the day. Almost all my time
has been spent in the executive cham
Dor and | hardly think there
has been twenty nights in the twenty
one months have lived in Albany. I'M
less was out Of town, that | have left
my work earlier than midnight to find
my bod at the mansion. / am nj n
loss To know how IL is such terribly
Wicked and utterly bascless lies can be
invented. The contemplate creatures
VINO coin aud pass these things
appear to think that tho affair
winch have not denied, makes mo de-
IenSeless against any and all Sian
uercrS. AZ to my outward life
IN Buffalo, the manifestation of con
lldenco and attachment which was
there rendered me must he proof that |
nave not led a disgraceul life i'm that
Guy, and us to my life
IN Albany, all statements that tend
To show that II has been other than
labprous and correct are ut
Lorly and in every snadow untrue.
! do not wonder that Your good
husband Is perpleNed. | honestly think
that l deserve hiS good opinion
ana any aid he is disposed to
render me- don't want him To think
any better Of mo than | deserve, or
ne deceived. Cannot | arrange to
SEQ him, aud tell him what | can.
not write2 | shall he i'm Now York ON
Wed 'esday or Thursday afternoon and
the evening ! spend in BROOKLYN. Hay-
lug written this much, IL seems To me
lhat such a long lrtlor tn Won IN
unnecessary aud unexpected. IL il
longer than | have Cvor writtpn ON the
subject referred To, and | beg yru TO
forgive, If your kind and touching
letter has led me into any impropriety.
Yours, very sincerely,
"GkovtR CLEVELAND"
l nave marked this private. You
must not inicr that | at all doubted
Your proper usa of IL. q. &.
Tho governor then refers to his cs-
teom for Mr., BoCche.'s good will
and asks that he may see him
while IN Brooklyn at tine lato
/ demonstration then in Prospect park.
/ Then Mr. Becchcr added: "When,
/ In the gloomy night oi
| my own suffering i'm wears
gono by, | sounded every depth 0f scr.
| row, vowed 1t Gud would bring the
day star of hopn to mo, / would
nevcr suffer q brother, friend or neigh.
hur To 20 uutriondcd, should u like ser.
| pent seek To cHsh him. That oath
/ III regard now, though | Know
| the bitterness of vonomous lies. I will
stand against the infamous lies that
seek to sting 10 death a man and
magistrate worthy hpttor r,to ii
/ Tho speaker then said his hold spcprl
on his subject was in spite of friends
who advised silence lost he stir his owr
sorrow, Tie concluded thus:
u l refuse to expose tn shame In,
swarm of liars that minglr In the mud
or sling arrows at MIR. Cleveland
hom ambush, "MHy my tongue cleav,
. to the root of my mouth and my righi
hand forgot its cunning"