The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-04-06
A SANCTIMONIOUS LIAR.
The Breckinridge-Pollard breach

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of promise suit will probably
hold the boards for at least
ten days longer. The plaintiff
has rested her case and Breckinrldge
has been on the stand fol several days.
So far the defense has been fatal to
his reputation as a man of honor.
He will receive no moral benefit,
though he may prove that Miss, Pol
lard was woman of bad character be-
fore he met her, because he openly as
sociated with her and asked Mrs.
Blackburn to chaperone her as his
promised swife. Breckenridge is cen-
sidered an eminent citizen, man of
culture and eloquence and an active
member in the Christian church, yet
he has been living with this Woman
for several years as his mistress dur
ing which time she has borne him
several children. These facts are not
denisd and are therefore taken as ad-
mitted. What difference does it
make whether she enjoyed spotless
reputation before she met Breckenridge
or not, or whether she was a vain,
weak woman or an ambitious, bril-
liant and shrewd adventuress2 She
was at least as good as he was. He
took her for his mistress and as a man
of honor he was bound by the mother
of his children and the vows he had
made her. He had no scruples against
introducing her into the families of his
friends who enjoyed the highest social
standing and ii man guilty of such an
ofense must be sanctimonious, lying
old hypocritc. No matter how black
may have been her character she was
plenty good enough for Breckinridge,
who by his own admissions was liar of
many years practice, and adultery and
concubinage seems to be the most de-
cent things that he was ever guilty of.
Grant even that she was AN ambitious
adventures and all that Breckinridce
claims her to he, yet he was not i'm,
posed upon because he knew what he
Was doing and what the woman was,
and in order to retain her as his mis-
tress, he he'd himself black IN the face.
He introduced her as his future wife,
promised to marry her and made her
the mother of several children. Some
were murdered before birth and some
died by neglect after birth. He knew
it, approved Of it and instigated it
all in order to keep her AS his mistress.
Then at the last be broke his promise,
turned his back Oh his partner in sin
and married another woman.
Breckinll,lge deserves his fate. The
woman at her worst was at least his
equal morally, as he made her such
by introduction into upper social cir
cles. She was as good wife as man
of his ilk deserved, even if the stories
Of her misconduct be true. 1t would
be as the marriage of Antony and
Cleopatra. The Pollard woman was
by no means Il ''spring chicken" when
Breckinridge first met her, still he is
deserving of no sympathy. She
did not deduce the old hypo-
critic and since she did not it makes no
difference whether he seduced Miss
Pollard or not, he imposed her upon
society as his afianced and openly
promised to marry her and it ought to
be enforced. She deserves damages
and ought to be allowed every cent she
has asked for. Decent society deserves
damages against him for his
gross imposition, and decent society
and the church should close it's doors
upon him forever.