 the outrages she has suffered, the wrong to her nature *he has endured, she deported herself during the trial as one who is not only not insane, but as one possessing intellectual endowments of a high order, and an equipoise and control of mind far above the majority of human kind. Let the sapient Dr. Brown, who gave a certificate of insanity after a short conversation with her, and which certificate was to be used in aid of her incarceration for life suffer as she has Buffered, endure what she has endured, and the world would be deprived of future clinical revealings from his gigantic m'nd upon the subject of the spleen, and he would, to a still greater extent than in the past, TRIAL OF MRS. PACKARD. 41 "fail to illuminate" the public as to the virtues and glories of the martyr who is "watching and waiting" in Canada. The heroic motto: "suffer and be strong," is fairly illustrated in her case. While many would have opposed force to his force, displayed frantic emotions of displeasure at such treatment, or sat convulsed and " maddened with the passion of her part,'sne meekly submitted to the tortures of her bigoted tormentor, trusting and believing in God's Providence the hour of her vindication and her release from thraldom would come. And now the fruit of her suffering and persecution ha.- all the autumn glory of perfection 11 One who walked From the throne's splendor to the bloody blocs, Said:'This completes my glory' with a srniie "Which still illuminates men's thoughts of her.' Feeling the accusations of his guilty conscience, seeing the meshea of the net with which he had kept her surrounded were broken, and a storm-cloud of indignation about to break over his head in pitiless fury, the intolerant Packard, after encumbering their property with trust-deeds, and despoiling her of her furniture and clothing, left the country. Let him wander! with the mark of infamy upon his brow, through far-off States, where distance and obscurity may diminish till the grave shall cover the wrongs it cannot heal. It is to be hoped Mrs. Packard will make immediate application for a divorce, and thereby relieve herself of a repetition of the wrongs and outrages she has suffered by him who for the past four years has only used the marriage relation to persecute and torment her in a mereesi vnd unfeeling manner. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS CONTINUED. WHEN this Trial terminated, I returned to my home in Manteno, where five days previous I had bestowed the parting kiss upon my three youngest children, little thinking it would be the last embrace I should be allowed to bestow upon these dear objects of my warmest affections. But alas! so it proved to be. Mr. Packard had fled with them to Massachusetts, leaving me in the court room a childless widow. He could not but see that the tide of popular indignation was concentrating against him, as the revelations of the court venti- lated the dreadful facts of this conspiracy, and he " fled his country," a fugitive from justice. He, however, left a letter for me which was handed me before I left the Court-house, wherein he stated that he had moved to Massachusetts, and extended to me an invitation to fol- low him, with the promise that he would provide me a suitable home. But I did not feel much like trusting either to his humanity or judgment in providingme another home. Indeed, I did not think it safe to follow him, knowing that Massachusetts' laws gave him the absolute custody of my person as well as Illinois' laws. He went to South Deerfield, Massachusetts, and sought shelter for himself and his children in the family of his sister, Mrs. Severance, one of his co-conspirators. Here he found willing ears to credit his tale of abuses he had suffered in this interference of his rights to do as he pleased with his lawful wife and in representing the trial as a " mock trial," an illegal in- terference with his rights as head of his own- household, and a " mob triumph," and in short, he was an innocent victim of a persecution against his legally constituted rights as a husband, to protect his wife ii\ the way his own feelings of bigotry and intolerance should dictate! This was the region of his nativity and former pastorate, Avhich he had left about eleven years previously, with an unblemished external character, and sharing, to an uncommon degree, the entire confidence of the public as a Cliristian man and a minister. Nothing had oc- NARRATIVE OF EVENTS. 43 cnrml. to their knowledge, to disturb this confidence in his present in- tegrity as an honest reporter, and the entire community credited his testimony as perfectly reliable, in his entire misrepresentations of the facts in the case, and the character of the trial. His view was, the only view the community were allowed to hear, so far as it was in his power to prevent it. The press also lent him its aid, as his organ of communication. He met also his old associates in the min- istry, and by his artfully arranged web of lies, and his cunning soph- istries, he deluded them also into a belief of his views, sp that they, unanimously, gave him their certificate of confidence and fraternal sympathy. Yea, even my own father and brothers became victims t also of his sophisms and misrepresentations, so that they honestly be- lieved me to be insane, and that the Westerners had really interfered with Mr. Packard's rights and kind intents towards his wife, in inter- cepting as they had, his plans to keep her incarcerated for life. Thus this one-sided view of the facts in the case so moulded public sentiment in this conservative part of New England, that he even ob- tained a certificate from my own dear father, a retired orthodox cler- j gyman in Sunderland, Massachusetts, that, so far as he knew, he had I treated his daughter generally with propriety!! This certificate served as a passport to the confidence of Sunderland people in Mr. Packard as a man and a minister, and procured for him a call to be- come their minister in holy things. He was accordingly hired, a* stated supply, and paid fifteen dollars a Sabbath for one year and a half, and was boarded by my father in his family, part of the time, free of charge. The condition in which Mr. Packard left me I will now give in the language of another, by inserting here a quotation from | one of the many Chicago papers which published an account of this trial with editorial remarks accompanying it. The following is a part of one of these Editorial Articles, which appeared under the caption : "A HEARTLESS CLERGYMAN." Chicago, March 6, 1864. " We recently gave an extended account of the melancholy case of Mrs. Packard, of Manteno, 111., and showed how she was persecuted by her husband, Rev. Theophilus Packard, a bigoted Presbyterian minister of Manteno. Mrs. Packard became liberal in her views, in fact, avowed Universalist sentiments ; and as her husband was unable to answer her arguments, he thought he could silence her tongue, by calling her insane, 44 MAIUTAL POWER EXEMPLIFIED. and having her incarcerated in the Insane Asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois. He finally succeeded in finding one or two orthodox physi- cians, as bigoted as himself, ready to aid him in his nefarious work, and she was confined in the asylum, under the charge (?) of Dr. Me Farland, who kept her there three years. She at last succeeded in having a jury trial, and was pronounced sane. Previous, however, to the termination of the trial, this persecutor of his wife, mortgaged his property, took away his children from the mother, and left her penniless and homeless, without a cent to buy food, or a place where to lay her head! And yet he pretended to be,lieve that she was insane-! Is this the way to treat an insane wife! Abandon her, turn her out upon the world without a morsel of bread, and no home? Her husband calls her insane. Before the case is decided by the jury, he starts for parts unknown. Was there ever such a case of heartlessness? If Mr. Packard believed his wife to be hopelessly insane, why did he abandon her? Is this the way to treat a compan- ion afflicted with insanity? If he believed his own story, he should, like a devoted husband, have watched over her with tenderness, his heart full of love should have gone out towards the poor, afflicted wo- man, and he should have bent over her and soothed her, and spent the last penny he had, for her recovery! But instead of this, he gathers in his funds, " packs up his duds," and leaves his poor, insane wife, as he calls her, in the court room, without food or shelter. He abandons tier, leaving her penniless, homeless and childless! " Mrs. Packard is now residing with Mr. Z. Handford, of Manteno, who writes to the Kankakee Gazette as follows : " In the first place, Mrs. Packard is now penniless. After having aided her husband for twenty-one years, by her most indefatigable exertions, to secure for themselves a home, with all its clustering comforts, he, with no cause, except a