New Ulm weekly review., 1891-09-30
FROM THE INSANE ASYLUM.
A Strange Letter from St. Peter Hospital
inmate.

q 0siauSe LeGLer from g. st. feter hospital
inmate.
z Ihe following is the substance of a
letter written to the Review by Richard
IWente, who is now patient in the
hospital at St. Peter. The letter bears
date Wednesday,, 12:45 D. m., Septem-
Der 23rd, A. D. 1891:
s'We were treated very erroneously
in the years of our Lord 1886 and 1887
and ever since that time. and our per.
secutors don't seem to have come to
themselves yet. But haye few good
words to write. They are according to
my Republican principles, and about
the entertainments of these lewd plots.
| am put into this place under plot No.
666. I say this because they have
sought our lives. Who is a lib, but he
who loves liberty and at the same time
tries to to force an honest man into
thraldom? We can see in the Bible that
it is not Christianity to do such wrongs
to man who tries to do all the good
that he can without wronging anyone
else. We never tried to deranse those
parties, but they did us; we did not per.
sonallY disorder those parties, but they
did us; we did not depredate them, but
they tried to dispel reason from US. This
is excruciating. We like Christianity
and humanity, but we do not like free
booters. We do not practice to inveigle
anybod y, we do not do such weird deeds,
nor do we know such deceit. Also know
this, that when good person, that
works for good and honest living, is
wronged by weird men and by freeboot-
ers, thus is he driven to despair. He
loses sleep and rest, becomes in a state
OF disorder and appears deranged. And
in this state of excruciatiou:. the man of
humanity appears and speaks the minds
OF his conjurors, and thus do the dis
semblers seek words enchantingly of
the innocent and helpless, of which they
are not guilty. In other words, the
presence of these life-seiking wretches
will lead man of, especially when
drugs are used. And 1 will also say,
that the atmosphere that surrounds
this kind OF men is dangerous to weak
and oppressed men, women and child
ren. If these impostors were half what
they pretend to be, they would not try
to deprive US of our lives when we do
all the good that is in our power. Meth.
er would they traduce and dismay a
man and put him into bondage and try
to compel him to yield to the plunder-
ers.
1 believe in society or brotherhood
that will do as good to the poor,ss. help
less and prosperous as the helpless will
do to them. l don't believe in a clan
that will compel wrongs on man
and put him in custody, thus disgracing
a prosperous man, his wife and children.
Such clans are too weak to resist evil.
AMI believe in a hospital that will try
to revive the patients with good healthy
food and honest medicine, and give
those who love honesty a chance against
these life-seeklng wretches. Those
who are not fit to be sent home should
be kept and treated humanely where
such patients can do no harm. But in
my case, what little life was left in me
in our neighborhood in 1887 by those
defamers and by drugs, the set at this
place tried to finish up in 1888. 1 am
neither murder nor an adulterer, and
l can safely state to this. The fact is
that that was all sham work done by the
weird plotters and freebooters.
But I must close. Acts, chapter 16,
verse %: ..But Paul cried in loud
voice. saying: Do thyself no harm, for
we are all here.'' 2:25 p. N.