Year: 1859

The Herald of today, contains letter to
the Editor, from the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles,
in which he eorrects statement made in that
paper, yesterday, regarding the recent event
in his domestic relations. lie says:


"The reconciliation was my own act. with
out consultation with any relative, connec-
tion, friend or adviser; whatever blame, if
any belongs to the step, should fall on me- -
am prepared to defend what have done
before the only tribunal 1 recognize as hav-
ing the slightest claim to jurisdiction over
the subject-my own concienee, and the bar
of heaven. am not aware of anv statute
or code Of morals, which makes it Infamous
to forgive woman, nor is it fit to make our
domestic life n subject of consultation with
friends, no matter how near and dear to us.
and / cannot allow, even all the world com
bined, to dictate TO me the reputation of nv
wife when think it right to forgive her and
restore her to my confidence and protection
If ever failed to comprehend the utter des-
olate position of an offending, though peni-
tent woman, the hopeless future, with all its
dark possibilities of danger to which she is
doomed, when prescribed as an outcast, | can
now see plainly enough in the almost univer.
sal hOwl OF denunclauUua WIN I,,Isrvr. -
followed to my threshold, the misery and
perils from which / rescued the mother of
my child, and, although it is very sad for
| lima 70, fha e T,s. Al
reprCaches of many wise and good people, |
shall strive to prove to all who feel any in
terest in me, if | am the first man who has
ycntured to say to the world, an erring wife
and mother may be forgiven and redeemed
that in spite of all the obsticles In my path
the good results of this example shall entitle
it to the imitation of the generous, and the
commentator of the just


There are many who think that an act of
duty proceeding solely from affections which
can only be comprehended in the heart of a
husband and father is to be fatal to my
professional political and social standing
| If this be so, then, so be it, Political station
professional success and social recognition
are not the only prizes of ambition and so
long as / do nothing worse than to place my
family under the roof where they may find
shelter from contumely and persecution do
not fear the noisy but feeting voice of popu-
lar clamor. The multitude accept their first
impressions from few, but in the end men
think for themselves, and if know the hu-
man heart, and sometimes | think that in a
career of mingled sunshine and storm have
sounded nearly all its depths, then l may re
assure those who look with reluctant fore
bodngs upon my future,to be of good cheer,
for l will not cease TO vindicate a Just claim
to the respect Of my fellows, while TO those
motley groups here and there who look upon
my misfortunes only as weapons to be EN-.
ployed for my destruction, to those l say,
once for all, if man make n good use of his
enemies. they will be as seryiceable to him
as his friends. In conclusion, let me ask only
one favor of those who from whatever mo
tive may deem it necessary or agreeable to
comment in public or private upon this sad
history, and that is, to aim all their arrows at
my breast, and for the sake of my innocent
child to spare her yet youthful mother While
she seeks in sorrow and contrition the mercy
and pardon Of him to whom sooner or later
we must all appeal