Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 91, 7 February 1909 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND' SUX-TELEGR AM, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1909.

I AGE SEVEIt. The Loves, Courtship and Marriage of Abraham Lincoln

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Centenary of Lincoln

Birth Is Appropriate

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' Worthily have the Amerlcaa people ! joined io an appropriate celebration f the Lincoln, centenary, and extend ed it to the r m o t - est corners of the land. The 12th of this month Is the one hun dredth , a n n 1 , -versary of the birth of Abra ham L i n- : coin. That date is obI 5 lolemn -V, n y and yet rt eful ceremony by the, whole American people, who owe more to Lincoln than to any other citizen of the republic, MTe only Washington. - Lincoln is, after Washington, the greatest figure in our national history No other man performed services so great as his. or was so high a character. . His conduct during the trying days of the civil war, when the onion that ' had been founded with high hopes for human liberty seemed destined to be destroyed, was such as to appear inspired by a power greater than human, and many an American has , thanked God in his nightly prayers that so wise, gentle, forbearing a leader had been raised up by divine direction to guide the country to safety. His death was a great calamity, not less to tne south than to the north; for, if Lincoln had been spared, his qualities of heart and mind would have, made the task of reconstruction much easier than it proved: and would hhve healed the wounds of war much sooner. . - The south will join with the north In observing Lincoln's one hundredth birthday, for now, in these latter days his memory Is as deeply beloved south, of Mason and Dixon's line as north of it. The celebration Is worthy to te remembered as an expression of the gratitude and affection of a great people. ' - Whenwe once resolve to lay aside desire to , make of Lincoln's life and : words an arsenal from which to draw weapons with which to fight for specialcauses, and consider with quiet thought Abraham Lincoln as all Americans know he was, we find the materials ample. ; . We see Abraham Lincoln as a homely, kindly, patient man, who loved Ms country as men love their mothers. We see him seeking the welfare of all that mother's sons because ' he was one : of them. We see him working humbly and patiently under burdens auch H American before, save

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Washington, and none since, has been called upon to bear. ' We see him always charitable, realizing that in this human world men are moved by all sorts of motives, and appealing to all motives that in honesty and honor he could, asking only, that the results of the appeals be acts helping to save and restore to. peace the nation mother. And so Abraham Lincoln wrought with the. tools at hand, never complaining of their human imperfections, using to his great end ,not only the noblest aspirations of the best but every force of human desire, and thus delivering a race from b o n d -age and saving a nation because he v r wrought "with malice toward none . and with charity jpki iur an. ALWAYS HAD SUPERB FAITH. An Incident, Hitherto Unrecorded, of . Lincoln's Trust. As illustrative of Mr. Lincoln's superb faith, I will give an instance that I have never seen in print, says a writer in the Century Magazine. In tn largest room in the White House, on the second floor, were gathered a number of officers of the army, then of prominence by reason of the commands that they held in the field; many civilians who held no offices, hot who had come from the north to see Washington and pay their respects to Mr. Lincoln, and perhaps get contracts essential to running the government; and a few. members of congress. At first it appeared more like a large reception, where after shaking hands, people stayed to chat with one another. Not far from Mr. Lincoln a prominent senator, whom we may call Senator D , in a strong, deep voice remarked: "I believe that, if we could only do right as a people, the Lord would help us and we should have a decided success in this terrible strugple." Mr. Lincoln, hearing the remark of the senator, with his clear, -shrill enunciation, cried out : "My faith is greater than yours." Everybody turned and looked at the president, who was head and shoulders above all those assembled. The senator who had spoken then said: "How so, Mr. Lincoln?" if. "I am confident," said he, "that God will make as do suffici mtly right to give ms the victory."?. ..-;

HERE was a vein of strong and true romance in the makeup of the man Lincoln, as there has been no matter how deep-hid in the natures of most men who have made history, writes Fullerton L. Waldo in the Philadelphia Ledger. Listen to his own story of the first awakenings of the tender sentiment it is very like the dream of Kipling's Brushwood Boy, except in the non-fulfillment: "When I was a little opdger (in the log-cabin Indiana days), one day a wagon with a lady and two girls and a man broke down near us, and while they were fixing up they cooked in our kitchen. The woman had books and read us stories, and they were the first I had ever heard. I took a great fancy to one of the girls, and when they were gone I thought of her a great deal, and one day, when I was sitting out In the sun by the house. I wrote out a story in my mind. I thought I took my father's horse and followed the wagon, and finally I found it, and they were surprised to see me. I talked with the girl and persuaded her to elope with me, and that night I put her on my horse, and we started off across the prairie. After several hours we came to a camp and we found it was the one we had left a few hours before, and we went in. The next night we tried again, and the same thing happened the horse came back to the same place, and then we concluded we ought not to elope. I stayed until I had persuaded her fa-a ther to give her to me. -.1 -always meant to write that story out and publish it, and I began once, but I conEarliest portrait of Lincoln Daguerreotype taken about tbe time of his marriage. eluded that it was not much of a story. But I think that was the beginning of love with me." When "Abe" was 22 years old he became clerk in the store of Denton Offutt, at, New Salem, Ind. It was a general store, and his employment was various. Presently he was made postmaster, and carried letters (for the sparse population of a couple of hundred), in his hat, and hungrily read every one of their newspapers before he let them go. He also found employment as deputy county surveyor. He boarded at the tavern of one James Rutledge, grandson of a signer of the declaration, and there he met and fell head over heels in love with the beautiful, blue-eyed Ann Rutledge, the 19-year-old daughter of mine host the tavern keeper. Ann Rutledge had been engaged to a prosperous young farmer, John McNeill by name, but John McNeill had "heard the east a-callin'," and had gone thither upon business bent, promising to come back and reclaim her as his bride. His letters, at first frequent and ardent, became non-committal and occasional, and finally there were no more of Mr. McNeill's missives for Postmaster Lincoln to hand to Ann' from the crown of his hat. She still was faithful to McNeill's memory- For a long time she would not listen to a word of love from the newcomer. But it was the old story of "first endure, then pity, then embrace. "Abe" likewise felt sorry for the jilted Ann, and longed to be able to comfort her with his sympathy. They were thrown together three times a day at meals, and presently she let him sit with her on the steps, and that led to long rambles through the country roundabout. When at last she was convinced that McNeill was never coming back to her, Ann Rutledge yielded to Lincoln's impassioned pleading and agreed to become his wife. She must have realized the promise in him which- others disbelieved or descried bat dimly, for she felt her need of a better education, that she might be a more suitable helpmeet for him. So it was arranged that while Abraham went to Springfield for the legislative session and to study law she should go to Jacksonville, IIL, and spend the winter in an academy there. In the following spring they; were to be : married. K gXrtyi came, but t aspic bloc-

soms and the rosea were laid upon hei grave.".'- ""'; -v..- ' The doctors said Ann Rutledge died of brain fever, and doubtless they were right. It may have been due to her pathetic, eager desire to learn enough to be the wife of the future statesman that she saw in the overgrown and awkward clerk of the country store. - Lincoln was beside himself with grief, and his friends feared suicide. He never was again quite the man ol irrepressible buoyant spirits that he was Incessantly before Ann Rutledge was taken from him. "I really loved that girl," he once said after he was president, "and 1 often . think of her now, and I have loved the name of Rutledge to this day." A year or so later Lincoln became involved in a singular embarrassment A? girl named Mary Owens came tc New Salem to visit her sister, Mrs Able, and spent four weeks. Lincoln met her, and liked her for her steady and well-balanced character, her evident domesticity, and, neither last nor least, her prepossessing appearance. After she went he jestingly told Mrs. Able that if she would bring her sister 'back he would marry her. Mrs. Able reported the conversation, and Mary , Owens accepted Lincoln's offer as being seriously intended. Lincoln was in a dreadful predica

ment. Go back upon his word he would not, even if It meant lifelong misery for him. Mary Owens was a year older than he, and when he met her again she seemed to have lost most of her good looks. He wrote to her. "I am afraid you would not be satisfied," be said, "you would have to be poor without the means of hid- , . ? Todd Lmcoln, from i Pograph made about 1861. ing your poverty. What I have said I will most positively abide by, provided you wish it My opinion is that you had better not do it. You have not been accustomed to hardship, and It may be more severe than you now imagine. I know you are capable of thinking correctly on any subject, and if you deliberate maturely upon this before you decide, then I am willing to abide by your decision." This did not sound in Miss Owens" ears like the ardent , protestation of true love. She wrote back and gave him a piece of her mind, saying that he was "deficient in those little links which go to make up a woman's happiness." Lincoln, not a little relieved, accepted this rejoinder as the conclusion of the matter and wrote to Mrs. Browning: "I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying. About, a year, later a high-spirited and fascinating . Kentucky girl, 21 years old, Mary Todd the sister of a Mrs. Edwards, at whose house Lincoln was a frequent visitor was the cause of a broken resolution. Stephen A. Douglas was among Lincoln's rivals for the hand of the beautiful southron, but Lincoln won out In this his first debate against the "little giant," and In a twelvemonth from the time that he first met her Lincoln was engaged to be married to Mary Todd and on November 4, 1842, they were married by the Rev. Charles Dresser, at the house of Mary's brother-in-law Ninian W. Edwards, who had been bitterly opposed from the start to the alliance on the ground of Lincoln's church-mouse poverty. . Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln went to board at the Globe tavern, where the charge was 14 a week for the twain. The four children of the union were: Edward Baker, born March 10, 1846, who died in infancy; William Wallace, born December 21, 1850, who died in the White House February 20, 1862; Thomas, born April 4, 1853, who died at the age of 18, and the eldestbom and sole survivor, Robert Todd, born August 1, 1143. The latter, a lawyer by profession and a Harvard graduate, became secretary of war under Garfield and Arthar. minister to England under. Harrison, and is now president of the Pullman Company, reaiding in Chicago. Mr. Lincoln outlived her husband's martyrdom until Jnly 1. ISSft, '

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HEN Abraham Lincoln worked on his father's farm Robert William Patten worked by his side. Patten lives to-day, and at the age of 98 years is as spry as a youngster. Grizzled, bronzed and ruddy from tbe winds and sunshine of an outdoor life. Patten sailed into the editorial rooms of the Call the other day and his smile illuminated the whole place. Old man Patten has come down from Seattle on his way to New Orleans. He is never happy unless he is migrating like the wild goose. He' was born at Summer Hill, Cayuga county, N. Y.. on February 24, 1811. He is proud of the fact that he was Lincoln's workmate in the old days on the farm.. "I first met Abe," he said, "when he was living with his father, mother and sisters on the farm, raising cattle and general farm products. I took up 160 acres adjoining and helped Abe with the work in return for the loan of his horses for work on my place. We were overrun with wild deer, geese and brant, and it was almost impossible to raise anything, for these pests would come in the night and clean up everything except the weeds. I lived with old man Lincoln and slept with Abe for a long time. Well, I take that back I mean I tried to sleep in Abe's room, but I had a hard time of It, for Abe used to sit up nearly all night reading books. He had a little round tin pan with the aide about three inches high. This he filled with wild goose oiL Then he stuck a rag in the oil and let one end hang over the edge. When this rag was lighted it made a pretty good electric chandelier, and how he would read! "What did he read? Why, everything in print that he could get hold of. The Bible, histories, story books, any old thing that he could reach that had print on it. Whew, how that old rag used to stink! It used to keep me awake half the time, and I often wondered how Abe was able to lose so much sleep at night and do so much work In the daytime. : . "I stayed four years with them oa the ranch, and then the old man rented out the farm and ; Abe went to school in a university at Chicago. "After that I drifted about the conntry actinx as a. scout, colds and Indian

fighter until the civil war, when I enlisted in the union army. I was badly wounded and was taken to the hospital on Fourteenth street In Washington. Mr. Lincoln was president at that time. One day he saw me lying in my cot and squeezed my hand so hard that be

hurt me. On the next day Mrs. Lincoln, his wife, came to the hospital with delicacies for the wounded boys, and I remember that was the first time that I ever tasted cornstarch. Mrs. Lincoln took me from the hospital in her carriage to the Whit House, where I was treated as tenderly .as a sick baby. I remained there 12 weeks and Mrs. Lincoln nursed me. Tbe most stirring adventure that old man Patten relates is that of his hand-to-hand combat with the noted Indian chief, Black Hawk, in which Patten killed the savage. He exhibits with pride a scar extending half way around his left wrist. "That was from Black" Hawk's knife," he said. "We were on foot, each armed only mith a knife. I had s regulation bowie knife that I could use expertly and Black Hawk had a knife somewhat longer that was as sharp as a razor. When we came together he made a quick lunge at me with his knife and I threw out my left hand to catch his wrist. That was how I got the cut, but in a Jiffy I grabbed his right wrist and drove ray bowie knife into his heart. He sank dead at my feet. The blood spurted all over me. It was a horrible sight, but he was a cruel, bloodthirsty murderer of defenseless women and children, and I consider, that I did a good job when I killed him. Patten for a time was a scout with Kit Carson and came to California as guide for Gen. Fremont. He served with honor in the Mexican war and has not yet settled down to a civilized mode of life, says the Saa Francisco Can. There's a good deal of tbe wild goose in me, he added. I want to be est In the wilds all the time. I was the first white man that ever west to Dawson. At that time I was a trapper for the Alaska company. I'm tougher than a b'iled owl and, with an my years; if I should ever get Into a scrap I think I could hold my end up pretty welL" Patten roosts la Seattle. He intends a nr orvni fftr a 4v(m h Vast Aeleaas iv duu rwu ws was w w i

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