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motives best known to themselves and their God, have been exerting themselves from the beginning to excite public feeling against Mr. Avery, and are still exerting themselves to excite public indignation, not only against him, but also against the Conference and the Church of which he is a member, I felt it a duty that I owed to the Church and to an afflicted man, to say what I have.

W. FISK.

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

THE reader has now gone through this long and laborious case, and is required to render his verdict. It is hoped that no one will excuse himself on account of its length, or the difficulties in which it is involved. A fellow creature, a brother, a ministering brother, appeals from the prejudiced decision of Aristides and his coadjutors, to the decision of an enlightened, candid, and Christian community; and by all that is just, humane, and sacred, you are bound to decide one way or the other-either that the Rev. E. K. Avery is GUILTY, or that he is NOT GUILTY of the crime of murdering S. M. Cornell. He asks not for mercy, but justice. If he be a murderer, let him die the death; but if he be innocent, you are the persons appointed by God in this case to deliver him out of the hands of his enemies, who have pursued him with the malice and ferociousness of harpies. Had he thrown himself on your charity in a cold night, when hungry and frost-bitten, you would not have turned a deaf ear to his cries; and will you refuse to pay sufficient attention to his case, now that he has "fallen among thieves and robbers," to have a judgment of your own? Would this be doing as you would that others should do unto you under similar circumstances?

Mr. Avery asks you on what part of his case you can pronounce him guilty? Have you weighed the circumstances and facts connected with the death of S. M. Cornell? Are you prepared to say that she did not hang herself?-that she was murdered?-that E. K. Avery was her murderer?

Have you carefully gone over the evidence for and against the charge of seducing S. M. Cornell at the camp-meeting? What proof has been exhibited that he was the father of her child, except her own word, and that under very suspicious circumstances? Was he not found to be in the camp at the very time when she said he was in the woods with her, near a mile distant? Was he not accounted for every moment from that time till the next morning after breakfast? And was there not much other evidence to prove him innocent of that crime, particularly the age of the fœtus, as determined from its length by all the physicians?

Have you sure proof of his being the author of the letters said to have been written by him to the girl? In particular, did he deliver the pink letter to the engineer of the Fall River steamboat on the 27th of November? What time had he for this? Five minutes is the longest time he can, with any appearance of truth, have had for that purpose; could he have walked two thirds of a mile out and the same back, and have had time for the conversation with the engineer which is said to have taken place, in five minutes? Is it not found that Mr. Spencer delivered just such a letter on that very day, and at the same hour that the engineer swears he received this? Is not Mr. Avery's account of his journey on the Island, corroborated as it is by the evidences and circumstances in the case, much more probable than the hypothesis that he was at Fall River on the afternoon and evening of the 20th December? Are not the mysteries in this case accounted for very satisfactorily on the ground of a conspiracy? And is there not internal evidence in the whole machinery of this plot of such a conspiracy? And if we discard this idea and adopt any other theory, shall we not find the difficulties increasing a hundred fold? If, under such circumstances, a man is still to be persecuted to an extent that a thousand times exceeds the tortures of the rack, who can assure himself of safety? Does it not become every respectable citizen to put down such a persecution with his most decided disapprobation?

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MAGDALEN FACTS.

No. 1. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1832.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the fowler. SOLOMON.

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Between 100 and 300 women in this prison sleep in about half a dozen night rooms, giving from twenty to sixty women to each room. For further particulars in relation to this tremendous college of vice at Bellevue, see the IMPRISONED LADY, article 13. Communications, post paid, addressed to the author, at 144 Nassau street.

NEW YORK:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

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