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incoln's Love Affairs By Ward Kill Lamen, Lincoln's Fiiend &nd Eodyfiuajd CHAPTER XIII. Marriage to Mary Todd and His Ad vice to Speed. V MS R. HERNDON devoutly be W lieves that Mr. Lincoln's in 111 sanity grew out of a most ex- traordinary complication cf feelings-aversion to the marriage pro posed, a counter attachment to Miss Edwards and a new access of unspeak able tenderness for the memory of Ann Kutledge the old love struggling with a uew one. and each sending to his heart a sacrificial pang as he thought of his solemn engagement to marry a third person. In this opinion Mr. Speed appears to concur, as shown by his let- , ter below. At nil events, Mr. Lincoln's derangement was nearly if not quite complete. "We had to remove razors from his room." says Speed, "take away all knives and other dangerous things. It was terrible." And now Bpeed determined to do for him what Eowlin Greene had done on a similar occasion at New Salem. Having sold out his store on the 1st of January, . 1S41. he took Mr. Lincoln with him to Ids home in Kentucky and kept him there during most of the summer and fall, or until he seemed sufficiently restored to be given his liberty .again at Springfield, when he was brought back to his old quarters. During this period "he was at times very melan choly" and, by his own admission, "al most contemplated self destruction." It was about this time that he wrote dome gloomy lines under tbehead of "Suicide." which were published In the Bungamon Journal. Mr. Herndon re membered something about them, but when he went to look for them in the office file of the Journal he found them neatly cut out, "supposed to have been Cone." says he, "by Lincoln." Speed's mother was much pained by the "deep depression" of her guest and gave him a Bible, advising him to read it, to ndopt its precepts and pray for its promises. lie acknowledged this at tempted service after he became presi dent by sending her a photograph of himself, with this inscription: "To my very good friend, Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, from whose pious hands I received an Oxford Bible twenty years ago." But Mrs. Speed's medicine, the best ever offered for a mind diseased, was of no avail In this case. Among other things, he told Speed, referring probably to his Inclination to commit suicide, "that he had done nothing to make any human being remember that he had lived and that to connect his name with the events transpiring In his day and gen eration and so Impress himself upon them as to link his name with some thing that would redound to the inter est of his fellow man was what he de sired to live for." Of this conversation he pointedly reminded Speed at the time or just before the time he Issued the emancipation proclamation. What took place after his return to Springfield cannot be better told than In the words of the friends of both parties. "Mr. Edwards and myself," says Mrs. Edwards, "after the first crash of things, tol l Mary and Lincoln that they had better not ever marry; that their natures, minds, education, raising, etc.. were so different that thoy could not live happy as man and wife: had better never think of the subject again. AH at once we heard that Mr. Lincoln and Mary had secret meetings at Mr. S. Francis', editor of the Springfield Journal. Mary said the reason this was so the cause why It was was that the world, woman and man, were uncertain and slippery and that it was hest to keep the secret . courtship from all eyes and ears. Mrs. Lincoln told Mr. Lincoln that, though eh9 had released him in the letter spo ken of, yet she would hold the question an open one that is, that she had not changed her mind, but felt as al ways. The marriage of Mr. Lin coln and Mary was quick and sudden one or two hours' notice." How poor Mr. Lincoln felt about it may be gath ered from the reminiscences of his friend J. H. Matheuy, who says "that Lincoln and himself, in 1S12. were very friendly; that Lincoln came to him one evening and said, 'Jim. I shall have to marry that girl.' " He was married that evening, but, Matheny says, "he looked as If he was going to the slaughter" and that Lincoln "had often told him directly and individu ally that he was driven Into the mar riage: that it was concocted and plan ned by the Edwards family; that Miss ToJd afterward Mrs. Lincoln was crazy fur a week or so, not knowing what t do. and that he loved Miss Ed wards ar.d went to see her, and not Mrs. Lincoln." "'he license to marry was issued ou t!.e -I til of Novptuber. and on the same il.;r the marriage was celebrated by fliarlVs 'ror.scr. "M. G." With t'ais :ato carefully borne l:i mind, the fo! lowi!?g letters are of surpassing inter est. Tlrey are re'ici not on'y of a rjvoat vaau. bv.t cf a rrr.-at n:'j!!.r. T!:e first i.i frvr:i Mr. Speed to Mr. Horn .Ion a:;:! cxplr.tns the circura tiav.co.! uruVv v.;.';t!i t!io correspond ence tok place I.rr:tsv!i!o. Nov. S3, 1S0G. TV. 3". Ilorrulon. Iloq.: IVnr r:r I ir.cV.?o you cerr-s cf nil I::t':a of any interest from Mr. Linco'.:i to r:c. And His Early Experiences a.s el Lawmaker j9 JAMES., n, .MATHEST- you may 'flgSCy u'ricferstana iireil'"'Tm port. In the winter of 1840 and 1841 he was unhappy about his engagement to his wife, not beinvr entirely satisfied that hio heart was going with hfs hand. How much he suffered then on that account none knows so well as myself he disclos ed his whole heart to me. In the summer of 1841 I became engaged to my wife. He was here on a visit when I courted her, and, strange to say, some thing of the same feeling which I regard ed as so foolish in him took possession of me and kept mo very unhappy from the time of my engagement until I was mar ried. This will explain the deep interest he manifested in his letters on my account. If you use the letters (and some of them are perfect gems) do it carefully, so as not to wound the feelings of Mrs. ' Lincoln. One thing Is plainly discernible if I had not been married and happy far mom happy than I ever expected to be he would not have married. I have erased .a name which I do not wish published. If I have failed to do H anywhere, strike it out when you come to It. That is the word . I thank ycu for your last lecture. It is all new to me, but so true to my ap preciation of Lincoln's character that. In dependent of my knowledge of you, 1 1 would almost swear to It. ' Lincoln wrote a letter (a long one, which he read to me) to Dr. Drake of Cincinnati descriptive of his case. Ita date would be in December, 1840, or early In January. 1S41. I think he must have informed Dr. D. of his early love for Miss Rutledge, as there was a part of the letter which he would not read. It would be worth much to you If you could procure the original. Charles D. Drake of St. Louis may have his father's papers. The date which 1 give you will aid in the search. I remember Dr. Drake's reply, which was that he would not undertake to pre scribe for him without a personal Inter view. I Would advise you to make soma effort to get the letter. Tour friend, etc.. J. F. SPEED. The first of the papers from Mr. Lin coln's pen Is a letter of advice and con solation to his friend, for whom he ap prehends the terrible things through which, by the help of that friend, he has himself just passed: My Dear Speed Feeling, as you know I do, the deepest solicitude for the suc cess of the enterprise you are engaged In. I adopt this as the last method I can In vent to aid you in case (which God for .bld) 3ou shall need my aid. I do net place what I am going to say on paper because I can say It better in that way than I could by word cf mouth, but were I to say it orally before we part most likely you would forget It at the very time when it might do you some good. As I think it reasonable that you will feel very badly some time between this and the final consummation of your pur pose. It Is Intended that you shall read this just at such a time. Why I say It Is reasonable that you will feel very badly yet Is because of three special causes added to the general one which I shall mention. The general cause is that you are nat urally of a nervous temperament, and this I say from what I have seen of you personally and what you have told mo concerning your mother at various times and concerning your brother William at the time his wife died. The first special cause Is your exposure to bad weather on your Journey, which my experience clearly proves to be very severe on de fective nerves. The second is the ab senco of all business and conversation of friends, which might divert your mind, give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest Idea threadbare and turn tt to the bitterness of death. The third is the rapid and near ap proach of that crisis on which all your thoughts and feelings concentrate. If from all these causes you shall es cape and go through triumphantly with out another "twinge of the soul." I shall be most happily, but most egregiously, de ceived. If, on the contrary, you shall, as I expect you will at some time, be agoniz ed and distressed, let me, who have soma reason to speak with Judgment on such a subject, beseech you to ascribe it to ths causes I have mcnt.oned and not to some false and ruinous suggestion of the devil. "But," you will say, "do. not your causes apply to every" one engaged In a like undertaking?" By no means. The particular causes, to a greater or less extent, perhaps do apply In all cases, but the general one nervous debility, which Is the key and conductor of all the par ticular ones, and without which they would be utterly harmless, though It dees pertain to you docs not pertain to cue in a thousand. It is out of this that the painful difference between you and the mass of the world springs. I know what the painful point with you Is at all times when you are unhappy it Is an apprrhension that you do not love her as you should. What nonsense! How came you to court her? Was it because ycu thought she deserved it and that you had (riven her rearon to expect it? If it was for that why did not the same reason make you court Ann Todd and at least twenty ethers of whom you can think end to whom it would apply with greater force than to her? Did you court her for her wealth? Why, you know she had roae! Bat you say ycu reasoned yourself into it. What do. vou . mean. bvAthmqt? Was It not" that you too fcO " l-OOTStHr-tin-abie to reason yourself out of. KT Did you not think and partly form the pari pose of courting her the first time you ever saw or heard of her? What had reason to do with tt at that early stage? There was nothing at that time for rea son to. worjt upon. Whether she was moral, amiable, sensible or even of good character you did not nor could then know, except perhaps you might Infer the last from the company you found her In. All you then did or could know of her was her personal appearance and deport ment, ar.d these. If they Impress at all. lmoress the heart an(J not the head. Bay candidly, were not those heavenly black eyes the whole basis of all your early reasoning on the subject? After you and I had once been at the residence did you not go and take me all the way to Lexington and back for no other pur pose but to get to see her again on our retrr-i on that evening to take a trip for trt cxp-ess object? What ctirthlv consideration wouid you tatlre to find her scouting and despising rcrj and riving herself up to another? V.vt of this you have no apprehension, and therefore you cannot bring it home to your feelings. I shall be so anxious about you that I sri!l W2t you to write by every mail. Tour friend. , LINCOLN. S-vlng-ieM. 111.. Feb. 3. 1P12. D;ar Speed Your letter of the Sth cf Januarv came to hand today. You well know that I do not feel my own sorrows much more keenly than I do yours, when I know of them, and yet I assure you I was rot much hurt by what you wrote me of your excessively bad feeling at the time you wrote. Not that I am less capa ble of sympathizing with you now than ever, not that I am less your friend than ever, but because I hope and believe that your present anxiety and distress about her health and her life must and will forever banish those horrid doubts which I know you sometimes felt as to the truth of your affection for her. If they can once and forever be removed (ar.d I almost feel a presentiment that the Almighty has sent your present affliction expressly for that object), surely nothing can come In their stead to fill their Im measurable measure of misery. The death scenes of those we love are surely painful enough, but these we are pre pared for and expect to see; they happen to all, and all know they must happen. Painful as they are. they are not an unlocked for sorrow. Should she. as you fear, be destined to an early grave. It Is Indeed a great consolation to know that she is so well prepared to meet it. Her religion, which you once disliked so much, I will venture you now prize most highly. But I hope your melancholy bodings as to her early death are not well founded. I even hope that ere this reaches you she will have returned with improved and still Improving health and that you will have met her and forgotten the sorrows of the past In the enjoyment of the pres ent. I would say more if I could, but It seems that I have said enough. It really appears to me that you yourself ought to rejoice, and not sorrow, at this indubita ble evidence of your undying affection for her. Why, Speed. If you did not love her, although you might not wish her death, you would most certainly be resigned to It. Perhaps this point is no longer a ques tion with you and my pertinacious dwell ing upon it Is a rude intrusion upon your feelings. If so. you must pardon me. You know the hell I have suffered upon that point and how tender I am upon it. You know I do not mean wrong. I have been quite clear of hypo since you left, even better than I was along In the fall. I have seen but once. She seemed very cheerful, and so I said nothing to her about what we spoke of. Old Uncle Billy Herndon Is dead, and It Is said this evening that Uncle Ben Ferguson will not live. This, I believe, is all the news and enough, at that, unless It were better. Write me immediately on the receipt of this. Your friend as ever, LINCOLN. Springfield, HI., Feb. 13, 1842. Dear Speed Yours of the 1st Inst, came to hand three or four days ago. When this shall reach you you will have been Fanny's husband several days. You know my desire to befriend you is ever lasting, that I will never cease while I know how to do anything. But you will always hereafter be on ground that I have never occupied, and consequently If advice were needed I might advise wrong. I do fondly hope, however, that you will never again need any comfort from abroad. But, should I be mistaken In this, should excessive pleasure still be accompanied with a pain ful counterpart at times, still let me urge you. as I have ever done, to remember In the depth and even agony of despond ency that very shortly you are to feel well again. I am now fully convinced that you love her as ardently as you are capable of loving. Your ever being happy In her presence and your intense anxiety about her health. If there were nothing else, would place this beyond all dispute in my mind. I Incline to think It probable that your nerves will fail you occasion ally for awhile, but once you get them firmly graded now that trouble Is over forever. I think if I were you. In case my mind were not exactly right. I would avoid being idle. I would Immediately engage in some business or go to making prep arations for It. which would be the same thing. If you went through the ceremony calmly or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm In any present, you are safe beyond question and In two or three months, to say the most, will be the happiest of men. I would desire you to give my particular respects to Fanny, but perhaps you will not wish her to know you have received this lest she should desire to see it. Make her write roe an answer to my last letter to her; at any rate. I would set Knot value upon a note or letter from her. Write me whenever you have leisure. Tours forever. A. LINCOLN. P. 8. I have been quite a man ataoa you left. Springfield, Feb. 25. 1843. Dear Speed Yours of the 16th lnst., an nouncing that Miss Fanny and you are "no more twain, but one flesh," reached me this morning. I have no way of tell ing how much happiness I wish you both, though I believe you both can conceive It. I feel somewhat Jealous of both of you now you will be so exclusively concerned for one another that I shall be forgotten entirely. My acquaintance with Miss Fanny (I call her this lest you should think I am speaking of your mother) was too short for me to reasonably hope to long be remembered by her, and still I am sure I shall not forget her soon. Try If you cannot remind her of that debt she owes me. and be sure you do not in terfere to prevent her paying it. I regret to learn that you have resoivsd to not return to Illinois. I shall b3 very lonesome without you. How miserable things seem to be arranged in this world! If we have no friends, we have no pleas ure, and. if we have them, we are sure to lose them and be doubly pained by the 'oss. I did hope she and you would make your home here, but I own I have no right to insist. You owe obligations to her ten thousand times more sacred than you can ewe to others, and in that light let them be respected and observed. It is natural that she should desire to remain with her relatives and friends. As to friends, however, she could not need them anywhere; she would have thcsi in abun-fi-Tn hecsu HOliE OF NINIAN W. EDWARDS, WHERE LINCOLN. WAS MARRIE. ' "Crive"uty "..r;id remembrance to Mrl Wil liamson and his family, particularly Miss Elisabeth: also to your mother; brother and sister3. Ask little Eli-a Davis if she will ride .to town with me if I come there arain. . . And finally give Fanny a double recip rocation of all the love she s?nt' me. Write me often and believe me yours forever, LINCOLN. P. S. Poof Easthouse is gone at last He died awhile before day this morning. They say he was very loath to die. L. (To be Continued) Additional Locai. Mrs. Charles Blakesles went to Port land a few days ago for a visit with her daughters, Mrs. Jim Brou and Mrs. Frank Porter. We notice that an ad. id the Oregoniun says that a half-iutereat in a newspaper in Corvallis is for sale. The ad. says : 'Address M., Box 2,8, Corvallis, Oregon.' Let as state right here that this is not our notice, and lhat we understand the party has excellent reasons for wishing to sell. Rev. aad Mrs. T. S. Handsaker were visitors in Albany, yesterday. Sunday night will be boys' night at the Cnristian church. The "Boys' Bri gade" of the Sunday School will be guests of honor, and (he pastor's subject will be "Manly Man." Monday evening the ladies of the congregation will give a basket social in th church basement, the public being invited. In a sense of fairaes, ths following explanation of Deputy District Attorney Bryson, which was address d to the court during the tria' ofOllie Ffclt;er for sell ing liquor in violation of the law, is here given. Mr. Bryson said: "It is not claimed by the state that Mr. Felger is guilty of anything more than a technical violation of the law. The facts are that a C. O. D. package of intoxicating liquor was expressed him and he gave another an order for the package. Mr. Felger received no mooey and did not, I am satisfied, know that his act was a viola tion of the law. Having satisfied him self on this point he offers his plea of guilty, making no attempt to deny the facts, and I feel that this statement is due him, that he may not appear to your honor, or in the eyes of the public, as a bootlegger or an intentional violator of the law. I therefore ask that the mini mum flue be imposed and will say that I regret the minimum is not lower." Mrs. Isaac Lsmon and Miss Jessie Hawley who have been visiting relatives in Southern Benton for several weeks left yesterday for Salem for a visit, en route to th' ir home at Grass Valley, Eastern Oregon. Farmers in Corvallis, Wednesday, from Northern Benton stated that the worst hail storm of recent years fell in the neighborhood of Mt. View, Wednesday. Manager R. H. Warfield ot the Pacific States Telechone Company was a busi ness visitor in Corvallis, Wednesday. A number of hopgrowers throughout the valley have reported that in their old vards hundreds of hi'.ls will make no showing this year on account of the crown heads rotting. This does not indicate that til ere will be nothing next year, but it does point to the fact that every old yard will show a shortage this year. It was at first thought the rumor of badly frostbitten yards was merely set afloat to bull the existing market price, but later reports from reliable sources, by those who have made careful and full investi gation, more than corroborate those that first came in. The few choice lota that re in producers' hands in this section will be held by them uitil the price ad vances. Yesterday's Herald. Robert Wilson of Saver, formerly of Northern Benton, was a Corvallis visitor Wednesday. He stated that Mrs. Wil son, who was operated on for the removal of a very large tumor, in Portland, re cently, is getting along nicely and expects to be able to come home in about two weeks. Mr. Roberts, Secretary of the college Y. M. C. A.., was given a pleasant sur prise party by the Cauthorn Hall boys Wednesday evening. The young lady guests were mostly Alpha Hall girls, chaperoned by Mrs. F. Berchtold. Bliss Emma Purdy left Wednesday for a visit at the home of her parenls. representative and Mrs. Purdy, in Washicgion County. Miss Alma Watson of OAC ha. gone to Centralis. (Va?h. Or. arcc.r.nt of illness in the family ebe will n; t ba able tJ return to ol!?gs until next fall. Mr. and Mrs. S- L. Sbedd arc both very ill, each having suffer ed something like a strolre of paralysis, Wednesday evening.. Mrs. Judge Galloway of Mc Minnville, yice-president - of the Retekah Assembly of Oregon, iett vesterdav after conducting he district convention of Rebek hs in this city Wednesday after noon and evening. '. This district comprises Albany, Philomath, Corval'is and Bun Vista, but he letter place was not reprc f""d S!-sioi j. er- Wld here Wrdi.i it p '-ion and -vt- ' . ' If Co (.1 i - - ,ri S iflv - C ' in ' V q ; . O 1 Feilows ball. Preaching at the Presbyterian church, Sunday morning and evening bv the pastor. Rev. J R.N Bell. Morning top ic, "Hope, The Second Link in the Chin." Even'ng topic, "The Mistake of Elijth." Sunday Sih ol at 10 a. m. S-nior Endeavor at 6:80 p. m. Praver meeting and Bible Study on Thursday evening at 7:30. All made welcome to n'1 of these servii es. Bad Move for Farmers. In vetoing the Johnson rotd hill. Governor Chamberlain no doubt had a purpose, but what it ts we have no ide. It was qir e generally supposed that the Tut- tle law would be repealed at tiie last session of the legislature, and when the Johnson bill passed both houses, practically repealing the Tuttle law, no further effoit was made to repeal it. Now that the governor has taken ad vantage of his power to negative the bill, the Tuttle law is still in effect and just as unconstitution al as ever. If Mr. Chamberlain were dourtins: favor from the farming element ior future benefit he made a yreat mistake. The Tuttle law is disapproved by 99 per cent ot the farmers and when the goverhor sanctioned this law by vetoing one of greater im portance, he has retarded the good roads movement in Oregon and met with disapproval. Farmers do not want gcod roads established under the provisiens of the Tuttle law and citie-i will not have them. This was dem onstrated last year in Sivertjn when a movement was on foot to build a road east of the city, but was abandoned on account of lack of support on the part of Silverten tax-payers. Silverton Appeal. The Modesty 6f Women .Naturally makes them shrink from the indelicate questions, the obnoxious ex aminations, and unpleasant local treat ments, which some physicians consider essential in the treatment of diseases of women. Yet, if help can be had, it is bettor to submit to this ordeal than let the disease grow and spread. The trouble is that so often tho woman undergoes all the annoyance and shame for nothing. ThonsandsNjf women who have bjon cured 6v Dr;Fierce's Favorite Prescn--tion wriML in -areciation of the cac which dispstofcsNlj the examinatr. and local treatment There is no ol'.-r modiciPfi so sur" nnd sffr; fnf dc.lic-atq women as "r'avorito Prescription." JU cures debiliuiung drains, irregularity cr.d female weakness. It always helps. It almost always cures. 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Tl is medicine i3 becoming the permanent fixture o well regulated households a mother, with children, c?n't get along without a bottle of White's Cream Ver mifuge in the hone. It is the purest and best medicine that money can buy. Sold by Graham & sWortham . CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CLASSIFIXIJ ADVERT 1 8KMKNT8 : Fifteen words or less, 25 eta for three successive insertions, or 50 via per month; for all' np to and including ten additional words. cent a word for each insertion. For all advertisements over 25 words, 1 ct per word for the first insertion, and K ct per word for each additional inser tion Nothing inserted for less than 25 cents. Lode, society and church notices, other than strictly news matter, will be charged tor. HOMES FOR SALE. AS i AM tiOINti OUT OF THE Busi ness will sell my drain wnrehoust- at a ba'train, or would exchange for a good residence in Corva'lU, or a small fa ni of equal value. Handled 47,0(10 bushel- of grain this season. R. N. Williamson, Wells, Ore. . 21tf WILL 8bXL LOTS IN CORVALLIS, Oregon, on instalment plan and as e'st pnrchasers to build lion.es nn them li uesired. Address First National Bank, Corvallis, Or. WILL SELL MY LOTS IN NEWPORT, Or., for tpot cash, ba ance instal ments, and help parties to build homes thereon, it dee-ired. Address M. S. VV cd o k. C -vailis, ( Veterinary Surgeon DR. E. E J ACKK)N, VETERINARY surgeon and dentist R sidente 1220 Fourth street. Phone 389. Office loll Main Btreet, Phone 204. Give him a call. PHYSICIANS " B. A. CATHEY, M. D., PHYSICIAN n r neon. Rooms 14, Bank Build i ?.g. Office Hours : 10 to 12 a. m , 2 to 4p.m. Residence : cor. 6th and Ad auiB bis. Telephone at othce and res toence. Corvallis. Oregon. House Decorating. FOR PAINTING AND PAPERING SEE W. E. Paul, Ind. 466 Ittf MARBLE SHOP. MARBLE AND GRANITE MONU iiieuts ; curbing made to order ; clean ing and reparing done neatly: save ageDt's commission. Shop North Alain St., Frank Vaniioosen, Prop, Qlitt ATTORNEYS J. F. YATES, ATTORNE Y-AT-LA W. Office up stafrs in Zierolf Building. Only set of abstracts in Benton County E. t. UK1SON ATTORNEY AT LAW. 'Jflice in Post Office Building, Corval tis, Oregon. WANTED WASTED A CHOICE PIECE OF TIM ber land. Must be cheap. Address P. O. 223, Corvallis, Ore. 20tf WANTED A MAN, WITHOUT STOCK to rent a dwelling adjoining Corvallis who is a kind good workman with a team of horses. 81-tf. WANTED 600 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE Gazette and Weekly Oregonian at $2.55 per year. BANKING. THE FIET NATIONAL BANK OF Corvallis, Oregon, transacts a general conservative banking business. Loans money on approved security. Drafts bought and told and money transferred to the principal cities of the United Ststep, Europe and foreign countries. MARKET SEED STORE A LARGE SUPPLY OF fresh garden seeds in bulb, just receiv ed. 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