Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — Tom Corwin’s Welcome to His Son-in-Law. [ARTICLE]

Tom Corwin’s Welcome to His Son-in-Law.

At the marriage of his oldest daughter, Eva, to Mr. George R. Sage, a young lawyer of Cincinnati, Corwin manifested so much feeling that the occasion took more of the aspect of a funeral than of a wedding. During the ceremony he shed tears, and at the supper, after a •prolonged and solemn silence, he suddenly broke out: “Now I want it distinctly understood that this thing is never going to happen again in this house. There will never be another wedding here. I will get a nigger six feet tall, and give him a pole ten feet long, and post him at the front door, and instruct him to knock any young man in the head who comes to see my daughters. ” Gen. Garfield relates that, shortly before Corwin’s death, when he returned to Washington from a flying visit to Lebanon to attend the marriage of his youngest daughter, he referred to this marriage of Eva, and said that he shut himself up in his room for three or four days before it occurred, and could not be persuaded to take any part in the preparations, and only on the most earnest solicitations did he come down to witness the ceremony. He said: “I could not endure the thought of my daughter loving another man betterthan myself; and yet she married a noble fellow. And now the old feeling has returned. I tell you I had a horrible time of it until the ceremony was over.”