Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-09-14

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Lincoln, announcing the fact. Lord Ly
ons, her ambassador at Washington;
bachelor, by the way-requested an au
dience of Mr.. Lincoln, that he might pre-
sent this important document in person.
AT the time appointed he was received a
the White House, in company with Mr.
Seward.
May it please your Excellency," sale
Lord Lyons, hold in my hand an auto.
graph letter from my royal mistress, Queen
Victoria, which / have been commanded
to present to your Excellency. In it she
informs your Excellency that her son, his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, is
about to contract matrimonial alliance
with her Royal Highness the Princess
Alexandra of Denmark"
After continuing in this strain for few
minutes, Lord Lyons rendered the letter
to the President and awaited his reply
twas short, simple and expressive, and
consisted simply of these words:
Lord Lyons, go thou and do likewise" +"
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
At one of the "levees,' in the winter
of 1864, during lull in the hand-shaking,
Mr.. Lincoln was addressed by two lady
friends, one of whom is the wife of gen.
tleman subsequently, called into the Cabi-
net. Turning to them with weary air,
he remarked that it was a relief to have
now and then those to talk to who had no
favors to ask. The lady referred to is a
radical-a New Yorker by birth, but for
many years resident of the West. She
replied playfully, 8" Mr.. President, hare
one request to make" "AhW said he, at
once looking grave. " Well, what is it?'
" That you suppress the infamous Chicago
Times was the rejoinder. After brief
pause, Mr.. Lincoln asked her if she had
ever tried to imagine how she would have
felt, in some former administration to
which she was opposed, if her favorite
newspaper had been seized by the Gov
ernment, and suppressed. The lady re-
piled that it was not parallel case; that
in circumstances like those then existing,
when the nation was struggling for its
very life, such utterances as were daily
put forth in that journal should he sup
pressed by the strong hand of authority
that the cause of loyalty and good govern
ment demanded it. 81 fear you do no,
fully comprehend" returned the Presi-
dent, the danger of abridging the liber-
ties of the people. Nothing but the very
sternest necessity can justify it. A gov
ernment had better go to the very Axtrorne
of federation, that TO do ought that can be
construed into an interference with, or to
jeopardize in any degree, the common
rights of its citizens"
STORY ABOUT JOHN TYLER.
One of the last stories l heard from Mr..
Lincoln was concerning John Tyler, for
whom it was to be expected, as an old
Henry Clay whig, he would entertain no
great respect. A year or two after Ty-
ler's accession to the Presidency" said he,
contemplating an excursion in some di-
rection, his son went to order special
train of cars. 1t SO happened that the
railroad superintendent was very strong
whig. On Bob's making known his er-
rand. that official bluntly informed him
that his road did not run any special
trains for the President. What r said
: Bob did you not furnish special train
for the funeral of General Harrison p
Yes said the superintendent, stroking
his whiskers " and if you will only bring
your father here in that shape, you shall
have the best train on the train.'"
THE MISSOURI TROUBLES.
On the way to the cemetery dedication
at Gettysburg, Mr.. Lincoln said to his
friend McVeah, of Pennsylvania, speaking
of Governor Gamble and the administra-
ton troubles in Missouri 9" / do not un-
derstand the spirit of those men who, in
such time as this, because they cannot
have whole loaf will take no bread
For my part, am willing to receive any
man, or class of men, who will help us
even lIttIe.--
HIS UNwILLINGNEss TO RETALIArE.
There are not wanting assertions that
he showed criminal Indifference to the
sufferings of our prisoners at Libby, An.
dersonville and other places and in proof
of this, it is stated that there is no record
of his ever alluding 10 the subject in any
of his public addresses or messages. The
questions involved in the suspension of
the exchange of prisoners are difficult of
decision. Whoever was the cause Of this |
certainly has fearful responsibility
That it was the Presidents fault, / do not
believe. When the reports in an authen-
tic form, first reached Washington of the
suffrrings Of the Union prisoners, / know