I have no intention of attempting to enforce the evidence presented in
the testimonials just given. I shall leave every reader to form his own
conclusions independently and dispassionately. I could easily say
things likely to excite the feelings of every one who peruses these
pages--but I prefer to persist in the course I have thus far pursued,
and abstain from all exciting expressions. The things I declare are
sober realities, and nothing is necessary to have them so received, but
that the evidence be calmly laid before the public.
I will make one or two suggestions here, for the purpose of directing
attention to points of importance, though one or two of them have been
already touched upon.
1st. One of the six affidavits was given by Dr. Robertson, and the
remaining five were sworn to before him.
2d. The witnesses speak of interviews with me, on two of the most
distressing days of my life. Now let the reader refer to those
affidavits and then say, whether any expressions which they may have
misunderstood, or any which may have been fabricated for me, (as I
strongly suspect must have been the fact with some,) ought to destroy
my character for credibility; especially when I appeal to evidence so
incontestible as an inspection of the nunnery, and my opponents shrink
from it. Let the reader observe also, that in the interviews spoken of
in the affidavits, no third person is commonly spoken of as present;
while those who are named are most of them inimical to me.
3d. All the testimony in the affidavits is aimed to destroy my
character, and to prevent me from receiving any credit as a witness.
Not a bit of it meets the charges I make against the priests and nuns.
If they had proved that I never was in the nunnery, that, indeed would
set aside my testimony: but failing to do [illegible], the attempt goes
far to set their own aside.
Having now fairly shown my readers what reception my first edition met
with, both from enemies and friends, I proceed to the "Sequel" of my
narrative.
THE END.
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