The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-18
The Lincoln Family and Fund.

New York Times, with the TEibpRessp os
tiee OF mon, which wefhink states well the
ground of the public duty to respond
promptly to the appeal for the fund to pre-
vide for the family of our lamented Presi-
dent. The Leader long since called attain
ton to the matter, and 3 subscription has
been opened at our office, another is open
at the Post Masters room, and wsurge
sgain the prompt response of the people of
Cleveland.
HEOTHING LIKE TYLE-The following
sppears in the New York Tribune: =
atThe estste Of our late Presidents is
officially returned by Judge Davis his
friend and executor, d as of the value of
S75, 600. We trust that putsIan end to the
covert, understand opposition to the dollsr
subscription for his widow and orphans on
the assumption that he had left them q
large fortunei saisl7 ss~'i'nss
"Seventy-fve thousand dollars we'll in
vested, will bring d permanent lineomesof
So 600 per annum. This may not be CON-
sidered much Of q fortune for persons who
live in style. But the editor Of the Tribune
is hardly warranted in concluding that any
large portion of the people can 8 ford to
look as he does upon SIS 900 as such a trf
Rs, or to consider its possessors objects of
ehsrity.-H Z. Times.
GREMARKs The prOposalofs national
subscription for the widow and orphans Of
our late President did not originate with
the Tribune. It first gained currency ip,
Boston, but was promptly and heartily
adopted here Rnd Mr.! B. B. Shermsns s,
most respected and responsible merchant
at No. 95 Wall street. selected asTreasurer
of the fund. s,i, az
From the hrst, We utterly and explicitly
repealed the suggestion that Mrs. Lincoln
and her children were "objscts of charity"
thing of the kind. What we seek in their
behalf is naked justice. Abraham Linz
coin died in his country's service-died
FOR his country-would doubtless have
been living al this hour had he remained
in private life. The asssssin's pistol was
aimed, not st the man, but at the President.
BE had just entered upon that seco1 q
term which the people had accorded him
by s .msjority all but unparalleled. They
decided that he should have 100000 for
serving them as President till 1863. BOotAi
determined that he should not and his will
has for the present, prevailed. The salary
of President takes another direction. 1t
seems to US that the American people are
bound in common justice, in justice TO their
own vote, to see this loss made up to the
beresved family, 30 that the fearful, ire
parable loss of their head shsll not be ag-
gravsted, sven SO slightly as by the loss of
the bulk of their fortune. And we greatly
prefer that this justice shall be done them
in such manner that no one shall pay one
fsrthing toward it who does not freely
choose to do so. We know very we'll that
Congress will pay the money, if the people
do not but the precedent of voting it out
Justify more exceptionable payments,
while q voluntary subscription of the
amount, in sums of 81 each, will tax no
one, while it will be a far more emphatic.
tribute to the worth and services of our
departed chief We should hate TO be-
that q penny Of the amount C1meU out
those must do by whom this subscription
has been discouraged and resisted. fr--f
But the $4,000 left by Mr.. Lincoln is
no "trifs us "a fortune urges the
Times. Now, we have chosen to stand
aloof from this discussion, resting the pro.
priety OF the subscription on the grounds
OF justice alone, until forced to speak by a
most unwsrrsntab1e statement in the
(Mass) Republican. But
since The issue is insisted on, we viii say
while $4,000 would be great for
tune under some circumstances, it is no
fortune at all under otners. rno vi1v-
Of our late President will necessarily be re-
with worldwide interest to the end
Of her days. She will be called upon by
strangers from all parts of the |
world; and it behooYes- US mot
ner) that she be enabled TO receive and
them IS BELTS the relict of such a
President Thomas Jefferson retired from
he Presidency with q larger fortune than
8 to be divided between her and her chill
iren; yet he was utterly beggsred before bis
1eath by hospitslities required ofhim by his
IS a public man, and was constrsin-
ed to petition the Legislature of Virginia
relief. His pstrimony is in consequence
now the home, not of descendants, but of
strangers; though wen $40, 900 in his day
a larger estate than $4,000 now is.
We hope not 10 be compelled to recur to
this subject, The people must decide
whether TO psy or not to pay the salary
which Mr.. Lincoln would have received
had he not been asssssiDRted. We know
right well that, if each had the opportunity
fairly set before him to subscribe and pay
his dollar, the sum would be made up at
1nce and the matter set at rest; yet in the
absence of organized effort, it is quite posi-
hIo 4bat tho 1areistaD4 ornoeifioD 4hioh fba
plan has strangely encountered may pre-
vail. Having said what we thought proper
and handed in our mite, we leave the mat
.er to the judgment of the public.
Davis n isEuIse and Davis Irons.
The last number of the Arhny and Napy
thus states the case in respect to
.wo c~ontroverted incidents in the life and
adventures of Jefferson Davis:
The question as to the attempt of jeff
Davis to escape in a womsn's cloak and
hswl would seem to be set finally at rest
even for those who refuse to believe the
worn testimony before the War Depart
nent-by the publication of several de-
criptions of the affair from rebel sources.
confirm Colonel Pritchard's account,
nd amply Tefute the SANDER that the
tory is an official invention. A collateral
it of evidence comes to us, in the descrip.
ion given by the officer sent to take pos
ession of the water proof and shawl, ofhis
Interview with the Davis party. The la
les refusing TO point out which was the /
shswl the wrong n was taken,
ut the mistake was corrected by a little
On Of Davis, who called out, "Thst isn't
be shawl my pa was taken in,D which
be accepted as, at least circumstan-
al evidence to the fact that there was 3
lswl in the case.
As to the ironing of MI. Davis since his
Imprisonment at Fortress Monroe, the facts
re briefly these: 1t as lett discretionary
y the Secretary of War with General
lies, who commanded st Old Point, to
his prisoner or not, as he saw fit he %
held to a strict accountability for his
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