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SKETCHES CF LINCOLN.

Congressional Aspirations and Their Fulfillment.

UNIQUE A1TD AMUSiNG IHCIDSIffTo.

Brief

Partnership With Stephen T. Logan Precedes tlie More Luting One With William H. Herndon—Politick Defeat.

Elected to Congress.

fFrom "The Life of Linoola" by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1838, by Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, by D. Ap pleton & Co.

XV.

After April 14, 1841, when Lincoln retired from the partnership with Stuart, who had gone to congress, he had been associated with Stephen T. Logan, a man who had, as he deserved, the reputation of being the best nisi prius lawyer in the state. Judge Logan wa9 a very orderly but somewhat technical lawyer.

In 1843 Logan aud Lincoln both had their eyes set on the race for congress. Logan's claim to the honor lay in his age and the service he had rendered the "Whig party, while Lincoln, overflowing with ambition, lay great stress on his legislative achievements and demanded it because he had been defeated in the nominating conventions by both Hardin and Baker in the order named. That two such aspiring politicians, each striving to obtain the same prize, should not dwell harmoniously together in the Bame office is not strange. Indeed we may reasonably credit the story that tfcey considered themselves rirals, and that numerous acrimonious passages took place between them.

I was not surprised, therefore, one morning to see Mr. Lincoln come rushing up into my quarters and with more or less agitation tell me he had determined to sever the partnership with Logan. I confess 1 was surprised when he invited me to become hie partner. I was young in the praotioeand was painfully aware of my want of ability and experience, but when be remarked in Ma earnest, honest way, "Billy, I can trust you if yon oen trr»t me," I fell relieved aud accepted tbe ffeae*MM proposal. In after years, when he beoame Snore prominent and e«r practice grew to re6peotable proportion*, other ambitions practitioners undertook to supplant me in the partnorski. One of the latter, more zealous than wise, charged that I was in a certain way weakening the influence of the firia. I am flattered to know that Lincoln tamred on this last named individual with the retort: "I know my own business, I reokon. I know Billy Herndon better than anybody, and even if what you say of him is true I intend to stick by him."

A Danfferons Rival.

Lincoln's effort to obtain the congressional nnmi.uation in 1^43 brought out several unique and amusing incidents, fie and Edward D. Baker were the two aspirants from Sangamon county, but Baker's long residence, extensive acquaintance and general popularity were obstacles Lincoln could not overcome. Accordingly, at the last m-oment, Lincoln reluctantly withdrew from the field. In a letter to his friwid Speed, dated March 24, 1843, he describes the situation as follows: "We had a meeting of the Whigs of the county her© on last Monday to appoint delegates to a district convention, and Baker beat me and got the delegation instructed to go lor him. The meeting, in 6pite of my attempt to decline it, appointed me one x)f the delegates, so that in getting Baker the nomination I shall Ixs fixed a good deal like a fellow who is made groomsman to a man that has cut him out and is marrying his own dear gal. Only a -few days before this he had written a friend anent the congressional matter: "Now, if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't want to go to congress, I wish you, as a penoaal friend of mine, would toll him yo* have reason to believo ho is mistaken. The truth is I would like to go very much. Still circumstances may happen which may prevent my being a candidate. If there are any who be my friends in such an enterprise, what 1 now want is that they shall not throw me away just yet." T? another friend in the adjoining county of Menard, a few days after the meeting of the Whigs in Sangamon, he explains how Baker defeated him.

Accnsed of Being an Aristocrat.

The entire absence of any feeling of bitterness, or what the politicians call revenge, is the most striking feature of the letter. "It is truly gratifying," he says, "to me to learn that while the people of Sangamon have cast me off my old friends of Menard, who have known me longest and best, stick to me. It would astonish if not am use the older citizens to learn that I, a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flatboat at $10 per month, have been put down hero as the candidate of ?, pride, wealth and aristocratic family distinction. Yet »o, chiefly, it was.

There was, too, the strangest combination of church influence against mo. Baker is a Campbellito, and therefore, as I suppose, with few exceptions, got all that church. My wife has .some relations in the 'r^sbyterian churches and some with the Episcopalian churches, and therefore, wherever it would toll, I was set down as either the ono or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to go for mo, because 1 belonged to no church, was enspected of being a Deist and had talked about fighting a duel. With all these things Baker, of course, had nothing to do^ nor do I complain of them. As to Jris own church going for him, I think that was right enough, and to the infinances I have spoken of ia the other, though they were very strong, it would 1» grossly untrue and unjust to change that they acted upon them in a body or *pere very near so. I only mean that ttoso influences levied a tax of considerable per cent and throughout the reliIfgkms controversy.'-' To a proposition

offering to instruct the Menard delegation for him he replies: "You say you shall instruct your.e'iwogstes for me unless I object. I certainly shall not object. Tbatwor*'*

Baker's friends had used as an argament against Lincoln that he belonged to a proud and aristocratic family, referring doubtless to some of the distinguished relatives who were connected with Im by marriage. Tho story reaching Lincoln's ears, he laugiAid heartily over it one day in a Springfield store and remarked: "That sounds strange to me, for I do not remember of but ono whoever came to see me, and while he was in town he was accused of stealing a jewsharp."

In the convention which was held shortly after at the town of Pekin neither Baker nor Lincoln obtained the coveted honor, but .John J. Hardin of Morgan, destined to lose his life at the head of an Illinois regiment in the Mexican war, was nominated and in the following August elected by a good majority. Lincoln bore his defeat manfully. He was no doubt greatly disappointed, but by no means soured. He conceived tho strange notion that the publicity given his so called "aristocratic family distinction" would cost him the friendship of his humbler constituents— his Clary's grove friends. He toek his friend James Matheney out into the woods with him one day, and calling up the bitter features of the canvass protested "vehemently and with groat emphasis" that he was anything but aristocratic and proud. "Why, Jim," he said, "I am now and always shall be the same Abe Lincoln I was when yon first saw me."

A Tenptiag Prht.

No sooner had Baker been elected to congress in Angus*, 1844, than Lincoln began to

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The convention which nominated Lincoln met at Petersburg May 1, 1848. Hardin, who, in violation of what was then regarded as precedent, had been seeking the nomination, had courteously withdrawn. Logan, ambitious to secure the honor next time for himself, with apparent generosity presented Lincoln's namo to the convention, and, there being no other candidato, he was chosen unanimously. The reader need not be told who tho Democrats placed in the field against him. It was Peter Cartwright, the famous Methodist divine and circuit rider. An energetic canvass of three months followed, during which Lincoln kept his forces well in hand. Ho was active and alert, speaking everywhere and abandoning his share of business in the law office entirely. Cartwright had extensive family connections all over the district, was almost 25 years older than Lincoln and in every respect a dangerous antagonist. Another thing which operated much to Lincoln's disadvantage was the report circulated by Cartwright's friends with respect to Lincoln's religious views. He was chargcd with the grave offense of infidelity, and sentiments which ho was reported to have expressed with reference to the inspiration of the Bible were given tho campaign varnish and passed from hand to hand. His slighting allusion expressed in the address at the Presbyterian church before the Washington Temperance society Feb. 3, four years before, to the insincerity of the Christian people was not forgotten. It, too, played its part, but all these opposing circumstances were of no avaiL Our laborious efforts met with a suitable reward. Lincoln was eleoted by a majority of 1,511 in the district, a larger vote than Clay's two years before, which was only 914."

On the 5th of December, the day before the house organized, Lincoln wrote me a letter about our fee in a lawsuit and reported tho result of the Whig oaucus the night before. On the 13th he wrote again, "Dear William—Your letter, advising me of the receipt of our fee in the bank case, is just received, and I don't expect to hear another as good a piece of news from Springfield while I am away. Ho then directed me from tho proceeds of this feo to pay a debt at tho bank, and out of tho balance left to settle sundry dry goods and grocery bills. Tho modest tono of the last paragraph is its most striking featuro. "As you aro all so anxious for mo to distinguish myself,"he said, "I havo concluded to do so before long." Jan. 8 he writes: "As to speechmaking, by way of getting the hang of tho house, I made a little speech two or three days ago on a postoffice question of no general interest. I find speaking here and elsewhere about tho samo thing. I was about as badly scared, and 110 worse, as I am when I speak in court. I expect to make one within a week or two in which I liopo to succeed well enough to Wish you to see it."

He Was Well Disciplined.

Ono day a man making some improvements in Lincoln's yard suggested to Mrs. Lincoln the propriety of cutting down one of the trees, to which she willingly assented. Before doing so, however, the man Game down to our office and consulted Lincoln himself about it "What did Mrat Lincoln say?" inquired the latter. "Sho consented to have it taken away." Then, in God's name," exclaimed Lincoln, "cut it down to the footsI" .*/

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pliment for ma to tread in the dust And besides, if anything should happen (which, however* nnt probable) by whica Eriker should-co ihrown out of the fight, I would be at liberty to accept the norain«itio» ll I could get it I do, however, feel myself bound not to hinder him in any way fpom getting the nomination. I should despise myself were I to attempt it."

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1846. Hardin and Baker both having been required to content thenwelree with a single term each, the struggle among Whig aspirants narrowed down to Logan and Llnooln. The letter's claim seemed to find such favorable lodgment with the party workers, and his popularity seemed so apparent, that Logan soon realized his own want of strength and abandoned the field to his late law partner.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

The Eagle of Austerlitz Mated With a Hapsburg.

BIBTH OP THE KIM OP ROME.

Fifty Gnns Annonnce to Paris Thnt an Heir to the Throne is Bern—French Reverses In Spain—Holland Annexed to France.

Russia Throws Down the Cage of Battle.

[Copyright, 1895, by John Claris Ridpath. XIX.—DOMESTIC AND IMPERIAL CLIMAX.

When Napoleon crowned himself with the iron crown of the Lombards, Josephine was ro* with him. That was at Milan in 1805—more than four years ago. Why was the Empress not by his side on that day as she had been in Notre Dame on the day of the coronation? If he be King of Italy, shall she not, by like reason, ba Queen of Italy?

Note tho movements of this prodigious intellect: "If I crown her queen of Italy"—so was he saying to himself— "that maybe a bar against the possible. Nothing must be a bar against the possible. My heir must be king of Rome and his mother must be queen of Italy but Josephine is childless. Tho crown of Italy must be reserved for her who may be the mother of my king of Rome. Such was probably tho cogitation of the sleepwalker on his way to Milan, a la Charlemagne.

The act of the Senate which made Napoleon Emperor declared the crown to be hereditary in his family. Josephine had children but they were by her precedent lord. Eugene Beauharnais was capable, but ha was not a Bonaparte. The decree of 1807 naming Jerome as successor was not satisfactory. It began to be said that there was a state necessity that an heir be born to Napo-

NAPOLEON BY

ISABET.

leon himself. The state necessity was not effectual with her who was nearly forty-seven! The premises had one conclusion only—divorca.

All the world knows the story. The Empress had both man and nature against her. As to the Corsican, she had lived with him for nearly fourteen years. She knew too well the futility of resisting him. It would seem that all expedients were useless. At length the Emperor's mind was made up. He broke his purpose to Josephine as gently as might be, at Malmaison. The divorce was arranged on tho 15th and 16th of December, 1809. The Bonapartes had now full satisfaction. No child of Josephine should ever wear the diadem of France. Napoleon did as much as he might to alleviate her despair. He left her Malmaison, her title of Empress, and a pension of two million francs.

After the fallen, Whom? Would the Emperer of the French, son of the mul-borry-wonan of Ajaocio choose another —as ho had chosen the first—by nature and nature's law. Or would he calculate? Would he find in Vendee or Cotes dn Nerd «r Lorraine some peasant girl, seme Pucelle of Arc, and make her—as he had made himself—Imperial, and from her wait to see springing his possible lion'a whelp, so coveted—and necessary? Or would he, hoping to pacify the past, choose somo princess out of the House ef his friends—such friends as Gustavus or Alexander or Frederick William or Francis?

The politician prevailed over the man, even in Napoleon. The splendors of dynastio glory obliterated the plebeian instincts of his nature. The eagio of Austerlitz dove into the thicket of the past, and mated with a Haj)sburg! Maria Louisa, child of our well-beloved brother, the good and faith-keeping Francis, whose subjects we lately met on the field of Wagram, is our choice.

There was little delay. Maria Louisa was appalled at the prospect—at the first The woman in such cases is hard to quench. But Francis would havo an Emperor for a son-in-law and the daughter of Francis assented. With swift preliminaries the royal cavalcade, on the 13th of March, 1810, swept out of Vienna, bearing her to her fate. On the 1st of April, at the old palace of St. Cloud, shining splendidly for the occasion, tho civil marriage was performed. ThQ Popo refused to approve tho divorce of Josephine. Most of tho cardinals, declining to bless tho marriage, wero stripped of their scarlet regalia and banished from Paris.

In the Tuileries, Maria Louisa sought at first, to play the part of Imperatrieo with gaiety and good will. Tradition adds that Napoleon loved her. Certainly he said so and his future conduct in the marital relation was more exemplary than before. TJiero wore no more Madame Foures, Countess Grassinis, Madame ***'s, Stophanies, Eloenores, Hortenses, Walewskas, or other beautiful Uncertainties on the horizon. But the vivacity and charm of the court of Josephine never returned. She at least had accomplishments. _v

The new Empress fulfilled her part' With the apathetic smile of a Hapsburg. On tho night of the 20th of March, 1811, the fiftieth yun from the battery Announced to Paris a-tiptoe that the

Imperial programme bad been fulfilled to the letter the King of Rome was born! Jospehinc, at Malmaison, might almost have heard the artillery and shouting. Would she have smiled if the firing had ceased with the forty-ninth gun? That would have meant a daughter.

In May of 1810 it could be said of Napoleon that he had had his way. In a few instances his prodigious dreams had dissipated into naught but only in a few. His great scheme of planting French civilization in Northeastern Africa and of carrying thence the tricolor to Damascus, Aleppo and Bagdad, had failed. His project of making Constantinople the outpost of France in the East had vanished like a chimera. His hope of beating England on the sea ended with Trafalgar. But for all the rest, what was left unfulfilled to the Dreamer and Iconoclast? Out of the mulberry patch in Ajaccio he bad risen to the supreme seat of power in the most splendid capital of the world. And he was not yet forty-one!

As for war, that had sunk into muttering and growling on the horizon. During the year no great battle was fought in Europe. Napoleon had the land and the sea was England's. In the Spanish peninsula, the English and French armies advanced or receded by strategic movements. In that country, General Wellesley had struggled hard to uphold the fortunes of Ferdinand VII. In 1809 the allies had suffered great hardships and reverses. Wellesley had to get himself behind the line of the Torres Vedras, only a short distance from Lisbon there he lay at bay.

The reign of King Joseph was established in the greater part of Spain. At one time the British arm hardly reached out forty miles from Lisbon. On July 27th and 28th, Wellington (for he was now Lord Wellington) won the bloody battle of Talavera. Solut was not able to withstand him but Napoleon sent more than S50,000 men across the Pyrenees, and the British with their allies were obliged to find safety again behind the Torres Vedras. Mat sen a with his six hundred funs eould not dislodge or drive his enemy farther. He coald not tempt Wellington into the field. During the whefe yeasr 111# MM nearest approach to a battle was that of Basaoo, where on the 97th September the French suffered an unimportant reverse. Not until the fith of May, 1811, were the British able in the open field to capture Almeida not until the 19tt» of January, 1812, did Oiudad Rodrigo yield to Wellington. On the flflfc of April he captured Badajoz.

Twice alraady Joseph Bonaparte had been driven from the throne and twice had he been replaced by the Emperor. His third flight from his prcearious Kingdom did not occur till 1818, when he left Cadiz never to return.

In 1809 Louis was urged by Napoleon to suppress the British sympathies of his subjects, cut off intercourse with England, and build a navy for France, Just after Wagram there was a stormy interview between the brothers at Paris. The Emperor, not trusting Louis, sent French troops to occupy Amsterdam. Matters went to such a pitoh that on the 1st of July, 1810, Louis was obliged to abdicate. Tho Emperor's threat to annex Holland to France was carried out and tho ex-king retired into Austria.

Napoleon'ssystem of ruling by subordinate kings did not work well. In such a system there were more wills than one and there must be but One. Tho One more and more declared himself. Tho absorption of Holland was followed, in December of 1810, with the annexation of the Hanse towns and the whole northern coast of Germany. If, on New Year's Day, 1811, tho status in quo could have been acknowledged—as it was ready to be by all the Powers except Great Britain the dream of Charlemagne II. for a European Empire might be regarded as fulfilled.

From the Pyrenees to the Baltic and eastward to the limits of the Continent there was nominal peace but on all seas the war-fleets and merohant-ships of England terrorized and tempted the nations. The need of Europe for the products of Great Britain was an argument that tantalized all harbors from Riga to Sevastopol. Europe was hungry for goods, and the Continental blockade forbade it In 1810-11 the anti-French party in St. Petersburg was reinforced by the commercial classes demanding intercourse with England. The Czar, though he had ratified the treaty of Schonbrunn, looked with ever-inoreas-ing jealousy on the unappeased ambition of his friend Bonaparte. He saw the Duchy of Warsaw growing on his borders. He saw Oldenburg, a fief of the Romanoffs, annexed to the Fronch Empire. He saw the wellnigh successful attempt to construct a Northern Confederation out of Warsaw, Denmark and Sweden. He saw sixteen nations contributing their quotas to the Grand Army of 1 nice. Ho saw in his own harbors tho secret violation of existing agreements, and blinked tho offense. From that day t.-.o prodigious final struggle of Franco nl Russia was inevitable. Alexander cisucludod a treaty with the Sultan, and pitted an army of 90,000 men on his wossern borders. .v

The crisis caiiio by the act of Sweden. The childless Charles XIII. had taken for his hoir that Charles John Bernadotto whom we saw at Austerlitz. Marshal of Franco and Prince of Pontecorvo, he became, in 1810, crown prince of Sweden and Norway. Like Louis Bona parto in Holland, he was lukewarm in supporting tho Continental blockade for the Swedes wero in need of British goods. The pennon of St. Georgo began to be seen in the harbors of Pomerania. Bornadotte weuld not expel the ships of England, and in reprisal the Swedish vessels were seized in the ports of Ge»» many. Marshal Davout, sent into Pomerania to enforce the blockade, enforced it and Bernadotto appealed to the Czar for aid. Alexander heard the call, and answered aye! The gage of tremendous battle was thrown down by the Muscovite, and accepted by the Corsican.

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