Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1859 — One of Dan Sickles' Victims. [ARTICLE]

One of Dan Sickles' Victims.

The Albany correspondent of the Utica .'■(raid, has the following: “I’eopie sHii c ontinue to talk about the •i.order at Washington. To the honor of A bany be it sai I, ijh it. public sentiment here Uounces the shooting down of Mr. Key as a cowardly and u. i.tjal act. “Let him that is w ithout s-»s i cr it the tirst s one. 1 fc>aid a friend to rile, ■ C; terday—one who has known Daniel E. fsickles; almost from boyhood—* “ Something less than five years ago I knew a woman, young, beautiful and confiding. E!ie was a iovld wi e, and a happy, loviirg mother. Though occupying no exalted so--cial position, she had a manly, upright husband, and a pleasant home. The Woman became a reluctant victim to the seducer's devilish arts. Her child to-day is an almshouse 1 hoarder, her husband a sot, and she & degraded outcast. “ ‘< Mi. it is pitiful! 11l a whole city full, friends she has none.’ “Her seducer now conies before the world as the avenger ol outraged chastity! In the cell where justice lias placed him for a dastardly murder, he is ‘visited by the President * am! -receives expressions .of sympathy*. from men. high in station, who have wives anti da lighters, and homes. Out upon such a state of society 1”