The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-17

PENDANT into society wnere she could have
intellectual enjoyment than to be tne Wlie
of Rodes, tending children and mlikng
cows, and doing farm work. And" said
Geonel ba Th9 3n fennr tbat Shs
eho,,usou Cio,e,. .iut,erw 'rih iegins
Washington, April 1l.-Colonel Phll
Thompson resumed his argument 1or Cp poy.
lard Breckenridge breach OF promise G f3n1
before very sparse attenda ace. MISS LOT
lard was not present but the oeieNo""'
Colonel Thompson conc luz Ma ha ge%
o'clock. lie was followed d ey a'4 Sn elo-
Quent talker Major Butterwortn pesn ~"
somewhat efficiently, but soon NJ wa arm as op
far-reaching pestilence that should never
have been brought to trial; Major, , ButtHp-
ridge for many years-a:s, iawyear nd tTieh hs
nelgnbor, colleague, brother. Anu, me
said, you may speed it on the lign n, hs,;
Butterworth was a friend in his prosperity
does not turn his back on him III MS "u-
The popularity OF the genial Ohioan &m i11
the belief in this sentiment was oi.owi
just here by hand-clapping from "'o 'p'
1t was a most remarkable thing, said Ma.
this little school girl had been; They ana
not raise girls like that on the Miami WIleh
he was a boy. He offered nothing N e Iudae
Wilson, could not be more severe On mn 10
than he had been on himself. But as 10
the plaintiff she had said: 81 was only
Simple country girI, Mr.. Carlisle ana what
could a simple country girl know ABOUT
men?' 'If that be your theory, cried M Ma
Tor ButterWorth, Il denounce 1t as H. VIE
SANDER on every country girl in the Worlu.
A country girl knows the difference between
right and wrong. My mother was a coun-
try girl, playing with your mother her
neighbor my good friena tturninE TO JuIge
WILSON, on the banks of the Miami MY
sister was a country girl; so was yours.
They needed no one to tell them the differ,
ence between right and wrong; they needed
5cn14 aHenna to protect men EN- , lrN
Yes, and I'll speak of it again." said
But people say, could country girls s,r re.
sist the silver-tongue? l am sick of that;
it has been worked threaobare.
Major Hmtter>.Orth severe.
Major Butterworth picked Miss Pollards
character to pieces, beglnnins win the , teo
ters she wrote to Owen Robinson, IN 1851.
Even then he said, she knew about love
and marriage and correspondent with young
never knew q person, did not have single
friend, not even moving acquaintance
this innocent little school girl!
He said he Cid not neneve her stories
about her age. how she did not know until
she was twelve years old about the year
she was born, and all that.
Taking up after recess the Wessie Brown
letter, which he read, Major Butterworth
said that that writing told of experience IN
love rather remarkable in an innocent little
sill who knew nobody. This led Major
Butterworth to inquire why it was that
cnaperoneS, Miss Pollard was never trusted
to walk alone with the boys. Why was
Uncle George or Aunt Lou or MRS thot hf this
girl was so watched? She had been en-
gagged to Rodes; she had been engaged to
Rozell and she confessed love for Aleck
Julian and Professor Obermeyer DID she
not have experience he asked.
Taking up the letter dated July 90, 1884,
inviting Colonel Breckenridge to call on
Miss Pollard at Wesleyan college. which
the plaintiff pronounced a forgery, Major
ButterwoIth criticised the counsel for the
plaintiff for trying to hold up the defendant
as a blackleg, perjurer and a forger IN
the face of all evidence that she wrote ths
letter. Shaking his fist at Colonel 3reckin-
ridge and rushing at him with a Well-siInu-
lated ferocity of countenarce and manner.
he almost shouted: It's either the letter
of Madeline Pollard OF, you're guilty OF for
gerry; you've dsgraced your family, your
traditions and your boy who sits by your
side, or else that woman lied" Contrasting
the claim of Miss Pollard that she was an
innocent girl when she met Colonel Breckin-
ridge with her own testimony and the let
tiers she had written, Major Butterworth
then there was some excuse Tor bringing
the suit. ''If what she SAID is true" he
said. with eyes turned upward and hands
high above his head, then | am in favor
of congress Offering q premium to eV ~
woman for pulling down glittering star
in the political or any other armament"
a Virtuous Girl Protects Herself.
With no attempt to disguise his irony. he
pictured Miss Pollard as she had made
herself appear at the meeting with the de-
PENDANT at Wesleyan college-a poor, flut-
tering little creature, who tried and tried to
tell this man of her trouble with Rodes and
was laughingly diverted and made to tell
of herself and to listen to batteries. Major
Butterworth maintained that if Miss Pol
lard had been all she claimed. and if Col
onel Breckinrdge had made wrongful ad-
vances, he would have been repulsed in
way that would have kept him from fur
Their conduct of that sort. There is that
about the virtuous woman" he cried
(Which chillS every germ of lasciviouS APP
proach." AS for the carriage ride that
night, if she were a virtuous woman, at the
first approach of lascviousness on his part.
she would have cried (and Major Butter
worth made a rush at the whte-haired de-
shouting his words in tones that could have
been heard block. Take me back, you
leperr' You wouldn't have gone twenty
feet with her." he shouted, addressing the
defendant; Il don't care anything about
your Establishments, she would have run
away from you--gone to her mother, to
somebody, for protection-and would
every virtuous woman repulse such lecher-
GUS advances"
In the course of his further argument,
Major Butterworth compared the plaintiff
to Delilah and Colonel breckenridge 10
led him by a single hair; and when she
had shorn him Of his locks she cried. Sam
son! the Phllistines are upon you! and
then lie pulled down the temple of his
fame and accomplished his rum. In all
the years of the liason, he said, there had
not been a memento. a ring, anything given
her as a mark of affection save and eX-
cept the willow basket. which had been
the dead WifeS. And she comes mere for
no other purpose than to make MS crime
more horrible saying he brought 1t to her
with these words Madeline. this was
lssie's; she cared for it, and / want you to
have it.! My God! Can it be that this
man can be monster enough to drag in the
name of his dead wife: to bring a message
from her grave to this WOman-nIS IllS-
tresS Whatever William G. II. Breckn-
ridge may be guilty ot-Wha tever his short
comings, he could not be guilty OF insult
ing the memory of that dead wife, win
her grave clothes still clnging to her deco
form. And this woman tells how, III tina
carriage ride. when he was trying 10 Sc
duce her, he spoke OF his dead wife (hlS
first Wife) and his little dead boy, and she
hauls them like q ghoul from the grave TO
parade them before the world, and every
decent woman cries, My God! that can't be
50! / do not COndOne the shortcomings or
this gray-haired man; L do not seek to eN-
tenUate his fault, but is he the monster
she has painted him? She tells that she
gave up her child after holding it in her
arms two hours Did ever woman live WHO
would do that? Never No woman would
let her child be taken from her breast,
but would pull back her child as If from