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Updated: June 5, 2025
A neighboring minister presented a complaint before the Presbytery of Brooklyn, alleging that my proceeding had been both un-Presbyterian and un-Scriptural. The complainant was not able to produce a syllable of law from our form of government forbidding what I had done.
His spectacles would be elevated, an anxious expression would steal over his face, as he half raised himself from his seat, to obtain a glance at the intruder "Ah, I thought so, I expected as much," he would gently say. Then, a parley would ensue at the hall-door complainant telling her tale in a doleful voice: "My good woman, I really cannot," etc.; and at last the hall-door would be shut.
She was guilty, and she felt and acknowledged it. She had lived in a neighboring city for the last six years, and for the last three years on the same floor with the complainant, and the consequence was they were very friendly and intimate. Her husband sustained a severe injury from a fall, and has since been in declining health, earning nothing for the last eighteen months.
A case of crim. con. was brought forward against an Arab's slave, and an attempt was made to arrange the matter privately by offering three cloths, beads, and another slave, but the complainant refused everything.
When the case came up the attorney explained the whole circumstances to his Honor the Judge, and added that the complainant had also accused the colored waiter on board the boat of the theft. Of course under such a state of things there was but one course left, and Justice Howling, not wishing to prosecute an innocent though erring woman, allowed Maria Wilson to go her way rejoicing.
"My client like all of us has had his misfortunes, but they are happily a thing of the past; he has the same rights as if he were an archbishop, the president of a university or a judge of this honorable court." "We are sitting in equity," remarked His Honor. "The question of bona fides is a vital one. Is the complainant an ex-convict?" "This is the complainant, sir," cried Mr.
Barron, as you know, is the chief complainant, and there are of course some others with him." "I expect to see Mr. Barron this afternoon," remarked the Bishop, frowning. Meynell said nothing. The Bishop rose. "I understand from your letter this morning that you have no intention of repeating the service of last Sunday?" "Not at present.
'If, as the complainant in this melancholy case avers, or 'If, as the depositions already filed would appear to indicate, the defendant was an unlimited rascal; and if that were so, he was an unlimited rascal, and there an end.
In these palavers, however, which are conducted chiefly by married men, I was informed that the complaint of the wife is not always considered in a very serious light, and the complainant herself is sometimes convicted of strife and contention and left without remedy. If she murmurs at the decision of the court the magic rod of Mumbo Jumbo soon puts an end to the business.
"Baron, you have crossed this threshold as complainant to the burgomaster, not as guest or friend." "Quite true, but I came with kind intentions, as monitor to the guiding head of this beautiful, hapless city. You have escaped the storm once, but new and far heavier ones are gathering above your heads." "We do not fear them." "Not even now?" "Now, with good reason, far less than ever."
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