Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-10-24
That Woman.

1t is the testimony of his ole
Springfield neighbors that Abraham
Lincoln evinced greater fortitude
patience, and charity in living with
the wife he had than in carrying the
nation through the war of rebellion
She is honestly believed to have
been equivalent to at least fifteen
rebellions, She was born in Ken.
lucky. Very few Kentuckians feel
any need of being born again. She
is of loud, vulgar, fashy aristocra-
cy All her relatives were rebels ;
and, during the war, frequently
great military plans formed at Wash
ington were anticipated at Rich
mond in surprising and lnac-
countable' way.
But the nations love and rever-
ence for Lincoln mantled his wife
from public criticism. She was
treated with forbearance for his
sake. And, even after his death,
when she boxed up and carried off
from the White House, articles that
it cost the government a hundred
thousand dollars to replace, the
scandalous transaction was quickly
hushed up, as if for fear of paining
the great heart that was now past
all pain.
At last, however, this irrepressi-
BILE and unquenchable woman has
deiied the indignation of the Ameri-
can people, and put herself beyond
the pale Of their charity. She must
expect to be spoken of now as she
deserves. Within q month she has
put into the hands of New York
commission broker an assortment
of female tinery that she AYERS she
must sell because, Through the in
gratitude of the republicans toward .
the memory of the lamented presl-
dent, the family of their chief have
been left to suffer want and destitu-
ton" And, in the series of shame
less letters to this broker, which !
have been made public, she charr-
es the republican party with lin;
gratitude and "ignomy" in with
holding from her "the common dai-
Iy necessities of life"
The articles she offers for sale
are presents, she says, and amount
to some $4,000. Among them
are fifteen shawls, the cheapest of
which cost $50, the dearest $4,000
and all, over $4,000. There is one
white point-lace dress, unmade, 81
900. What other presidents wife
ever received such "presents"
Now, it is a public fact, a fact of
'tcord, that Mr.. Lincoln's estate
letted from $4,000 to 100000
,ash. And a telegram day before
yesterday from Chicago, Mrs. Lin
,om's residence, announces that the
story about her destitution must be
IN advertising dodge, for it is all
lie. But it is her own story.
In her denunciations of the re-
publican party, she refers to Thur
ow Weed, Henry J. Raymond, and
William H. Seward by name. Mr..
Weed replies through his paper, de
ailing some of Mrs. Lincoln's out
agcous conduct during her hus-
,and's life, and says that, if he was
Iot greatly misinformed, she sold
leven fine linen shirts of the dead
resident before his corpse, invest
d in the twelfth, had peen shut up
n the grave.
But the subject is too revolving
o pursue. Mrs. Lincoln has for
cited every vestige of title that her )
husbands name gave her
o the decent respect of the nation. !
Let her make her little specula-
ion out of this brokers' sale of her
ostly "presents"; for it is her
lst opportunity to get up even an
dvertising notoricty on the honor
d name she so disgraces. Xenta
Torch Light.