The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-20

too in keeping with the demands Of the
law, and l could not doubt the veracity
Of Il gentleman and lady, much less such
an apparently innocent girl. How could /
you get your moral consent to grant a re-
lation SEEMING so unequal and outrageous |
My consent to such relation was never
sought by him or her, or granted by me.
And that such W as the point to be grain
ed by them or granted by me only found |
lodgment IN the hearts and minds of the |
most gross and uncultivated, or if cult |
waited and refined they were total strang- |
ers to the parties whom they involved in
the most degrading insinu ations that man
can be subjugated to. Later and before
his arrest, Mr.. BaIly in keeping with my
opinion of the case--that it was his pres
ent intention only to consummate the
legal relationship between them-did say
to me the same, and that it was his pur-
pose to return the bride to her mother
hat very afternoon, and that she and the
family expected to remove 10 Memphis
and that he would continue at Waterford
Again and to the point, and do not care
to argue his case only as it involves my
own; but, had he the outrageous design
he is charged with, he would not have
| appealed to the law of a great state for
| protection in it, nor a minister of our
Lords gospel to help him with it. Nor
have l ever found such a case on record.
| With such design as he is charged with,
| the helpless, innocent girl, more than once
under his sole protection, and that with 2
| good christian mothers consent as given
| in by the mother, would have been out
ragged and disgraced long before he would
have implicated church and state, and
willingly as he did, commit himself to
the state simply upon their opinion and
without force by them. After such a
course there is but two rational conclu-
siOns-his intentions were pure, or his conduct is
that Of a FOOL but the Is tier was not intimated
| in the Investigation. Again, kind reader, such a
design would have stamped itself upon the
very face of its father that any ordinary observer
would have detected it at once. But the state
looked him in the face and decided that he was
witnesses looked upon him and decided that he
was all right; and so the relationship as author
lied by the state was confirmed. But when some
citizens looked upon the girl and saw that she
was under size, the mans character is at once
arrested and then the man is arrested. The
mother of the girl is sent for A legal inyestiga-
; ton is had. The mother says that the girIs IA
Their did tell the girl that she was twelve years
old. But the mother insisted that the sister was
) twelve, and that SaIle would not be ten until
the 10th of January, $780, and that she SO correct
ed statement Offather in the mind of Salie at the
time he MAIDS it, but sallic insisted that she did
not so understa nd her mother. Then Mr.. B alley
stated that the father had given Sallie's age a;
D twelve in his presence. FAe girPs mother con
6 frmed our opinion of the young man in her state
mcnt of him. Said she 81 have known MIR. Bailey
for some time. He is a consistent member of tht
D church, also member Ofmy Sunday school class
| When my husband is off, he instead is with M
] family for protection and company. have new
er seen anything in his christian department o
that of gentleman to criticise. He has gon
: with my children before, and let Sallic go thi
= time expecting them TO go to Holly Springs ans
n return" His elder brother came. He state,
that he was no lawyer, and left this impress upol
: all who met him doubtless-that he both
gentleman and one who honored facts and hu
p that he believed his brother to be innocent, an
after strict examination of the man, mother AM
girl, with thoughtful compilation of evidenc
= 81 in hand, and logically, eloquently and pa
e theticalIy presented in the prosecution the YER
best that the court could do for the state tn
finding probable cause for the charge in the war
e rant. Now predict that after more light is ha
n there will not be so much as even a probabilt
q found in the case happy that my lot
cast with the good people of Bolivar; for 1 con
" clude that if they win fight q probable sin S
d hotly, how ready and willing they win be to pu
4 down actual sin when it is pointed out to them
7 I wish it impressed upon the kind readers min
that am one of them who is ever ready an
= willing to break down the powers of darkness an
e to make it so very hot and uncomfoIt table to tn
W perpe traitors of evil deeds and to those who VI
/, hold them, lift were possible that hell would b
q refuge. Then peTehance we could hope for vic
q tory over sin and save men IN heaven. One NOR
ID thought and am done for this time. That MAJ
he rage service performed in frst-class hott
and among frst-class witnesses, and by ma
g who has the law his side and rst-class christ
he ians with frst-elas judgment Of the differen
,e churches including his own, who are with hi1
in what he did. A set who are not Ephraimite
= to pronounce the word sibolith and fall at til
&c ford, but rather shibolith.
as And you who read to understand,
n win give that brother (and this a helpin
"a hand.
;s The girl also and her dear mother,
Both treated a fallen brother.
hl am yours fraterna1IY in the christians fait
10 and hope, w. II. EVANS, Bolivar, Tenn.