The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-07
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Mr. Augusts LauxeI,s "Reminiscences
OF LiacOln.
In the last lumber of the Revus des
Delz MoHdss appears an interesting srti-
Gle on President Lincoln. The writer is
n Auguste Lsngel, whose pen has Often,
and never without profit to his readers,
contributed to the srme periodical M.
Lsngel paid q visit to Washington come
months ago, and had several opportunities
of seeing the late President in private as
well IS in public. He gives much informa-
ton on the condition Of the United States
when the war broke out and on the career
Of Mr.. Lincoln before and after his eleva-
ton to the Presidency; but the most at
t~rActive passages are those which are of 9
personal character. The following scene,
for instance, is LrsPhically sketehed: I
@Come and see st. Louis under The
oaks of Vincennes,' said my friend Charles
Sumner one day to me. he told me that
the President opened once q week. no INST
ter how pressing his occupation, his cabi-
net to ali who desired TO address a petition
or claim to him. We set out for tie
White House, and entered Mr.. Lincclns
cabinet where, without being announced.
we took our places with q dozsn people |
who were waiting for their turn, The
walls were covered with large maps rep.
resenting the divers places where the war
was going on. Over De chimney hung g
portrait Of President Jackson, the fes-
tures dry and harsh, and bearing the i'm.
press of extreme energy. Over the marble |
there was q Photographic likeness, besuti-
fully dene-it WIS that of John Bright the
eloquent defender of the American Union
in the British Parliament. Through two
spacious windows l could see the white
lines of the Potomac, the winding uplsnds
Of Maryland, and the half hidden ODE isk of
Washington standing in sharp relief to the
sky. Between the two windows stood
8 huge writing-tsble, before which the Pres
ident was seated. He did not perceive Mr..
Sumner, being at the moment engaged in
talking with some petitioner, whom be dis
missed soon after we entered. The ushor-
who, by the way, was dressed like eyerv-
body else-brOught forward a wonsu. S6e
appeared to be 10 deep Fiction, and it was
with difficulty that she could explain that
her husband was q soldier in the regular
army, that he had served for q long Term.
snd now asked for leave to quit his repi. 4
nent and return TO support his fami-
y. She got more and more embarrassed
IS she spoke. Let me help you" said
Mr. Lincoln, kindly, and thereupon he @
put questions to her with the method and j
'learness OF a lawyer. Ga the luminous
ectangle OF the window, through which
'oureo 8 cd OF sunshine, his profile ap.
'esred dark with the right hand he often
'ukhed up his hair, which made it stand
trslght, or changed It into disordered tufts.
While he sposeI all the muscles of the face
tut IN movement gave an angular and 6
TRANCE contour TO his head, Which had Z
resemblance TO that Of Mephistophe-
but his voice had all the softness of
be father. After putting some questions 9
0 the poor woman, he said 81 eAn't, nv 7
elf grant you what you ask. Ihsve the l
lght Of disbAnding all the armies of the
Mon he ADDED, with q strange laugh,
but l csHnot give 3 single soldier his dis
Only the colonel of your husbands
can do what you want" The
iomsn deplored her poverty.
She had never, she said, suffered so much.
Madam said Mr.. Lincoln, deepening TO
tone Of slow and Impressive solemnitv, I
share your sorrow; but remember that /
e, all OF us, as We are, havenever suffered
hat We now suffer. We have all of US
II burdens to bear He then lesnt to-
ards her and for me time we only heard r,
le murmur OF the W voices. I saw him
rite 3 few words on q piece of psper and
ave it to the woman; he then dismissed
er with the forms OF the most s~crupulous
nTNanauu Hka -Z-G
man, who held out MS hand TO the :
resident and said with 3 loud voice. sAs !
r me, / have come 10 shake hands with -
brshsm Lincoln Much Obii5ed, sir
Id the President, off ring his big hand !
lis is our day for business" dn
Mr.. Lincoln, says M LangeI, possessed o.;
most tender and compositions ate heart, "a
d one would say be were in his soul d
burning for sl who persisted during the D,
years of his Presidency: d
"a sadness which was almost superhu- Tn
IN passed now and then over his brow,
which the wrinkles hsd deepened into -,
those strange features where '
hearty laugh Of other days had become VOL
sort of painful g1imsce. 1 remember Va,
,eting the President one evening toward ..
,htfslL He vas just leaving the White >.
'use, and, according to his habit was go vaT-
to the Wsr Office to get new There as
8 nobody with him, though he had often \
an recommended not to go out alone; IT, H.
t he despised danger, and he had hor-
Of constrsint. With his plaid folded AZ
,und him agsinst the cold, he moved n
WY on, lost in reverie, like s tail phsn-
n Twas struck with the pensIve and
fsring expression of his face. Agitation n
anxiety had gradually bent, and at
t broken, that stout and rustic nature,
1 worn the nerves of steel of the giant.
T four long years he never knew what
hour of repose was. Even hIs reeep.
rs we're horrible sutfsrings. When the
Oons of the White House we're open the
q of visitors rolled on without stopping v,t
ore him, and his big, honest haadgrasped m
those that were held out TO him. The =
of the American people, he was con-
nned to stay ct Washington when LOO
srJ boy else had fad from It's heat and l@
It. He only escaped in search of q little IN
'dure to the smiling slopes where the leo
country house Is situated, by %
side Of the Soldiers Home-tbe asylum 1SS1
the State keeps q few invalids since IS
Mexican war. In his walks he saw B,
beautiful woods cut down to make ".
m for the psrspets ard glacis of the and
ts and at q short distance was the large "
rial ground, where ten thousand graves,