The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-30
MORE LETTERS To
GENERAL SICkLES
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ing strictly his attitude of personal ST.
lence today, said through a member
of his household that Stanton Sickles
was IAN ungratefuI son. whose words
count for nothing in the minds of
thinking people. Neither he nor his
mother will ever be permitted to cross
my threshold again"
Stantons answer to this was to give
out for publication four more letters
written by his father in 1896 and 1897
to the woman leader of the Four Hun
bred. with whom according to the son,
the aged warrior carried on a liason
for eighteen years. In one, written
while the woman was contemplating
marriage with her present husband "a
/ well-known New York cluhmanl.
death was threatened to the woman,
/ her prospective husband and the
writer.
Threatens Three Deaths.
! although you have put the ocean
between us, you are mine, my wife, ="
read the letter. You have told me
so q thousand times. | have sworn
I you will not marry another until |
! die. You will not have long to wait.
! II you do not wait, three graves Will
be filled the same day. | have sworn
it, and will make my oath good here
! or elsewhere
/ The last two sentences were under
lined.
4 In another letter. the writer COM
/ pares his magnetic qualities to those
! of his successor, and concludes:
You are ever in my thoughts
/ early and late~-last night, first in the
morning"
One and Inseparable.
Again the aged lover writes: You
I have given me so many years of your
/ life-you and | are inseparable.
! You and / are one. You must not
/ leave me now. l attended St Bar
/ tholomew's church last Sunday. If
you had remained true this year we
! might have stood at that altar united
! forever. Now only my coffin will be
! there"
on the back of blank check of
the Bank of the Metropolis, is writ
/ ten:
You are my life-you take it from
me---you leave me to die without a
/ thought of my suffering. If you We're
! beside yourself with 5eA1ousy--if /
had made myself unworthy of you-=-
| il we had not lived for each other so
many years~--if had not been more
! devoted to you than to.any other wo-
man / have ever known--if we had
not enjoyed honeymoon of undis-
/ turbed delight lasting for years. and
years. could understand your cool
ness, as mere caprice. But | can't
! comprehend this divorce without a
reason this swift and sudden change
| from love TO hate, like lightning from
! a cloudless sky--almost warm from
my very arms yet renouncing ME for
/ ever"
| Writes Mrs. Longstreet.
From Albany, Attorney General
| Carmody wrote letter yesterday ex-
| planning the States position to Mrs
! Helen ID. Longstreet, General Long
streets second wife. and widow
| Writes the attorney general:
| General Sickles appropriated this
money fs2S,476, belonging to the
State monument committee) to his
own use. This he has not attempted
/ TO Justify or defend, admitting that
/ he took the States money for private
use, without authority of law. an act
which, under our laws. and under the
laws of all civilized governments,
means stealing.
New York State appreciates her
heroes and feels humiliation at the
spectacle which this case presents
| New York State also respects her laws
and seeks to enforce them in a spirit
of equality to all. / trust this brief
! statement of fact will show you how
| erroneous have been your views, how
misplaced your sympathy. and how
miSdlrecteG yOur criticism -