, 1867-11-01

In aoditon to the letters already published b,
tne New York papers, written by Mrs. Lincolr
IN connection with this affair, we have another
one which we append below. 1t is fttipv
companion to the others:
CHICAGO, September IA.
W. III. Brady, ESQ.,
My DEAR SIR:-Pitase call and see Hon. Abrsr,
Waksman. BE aslargely indebted to me for
obtaining the lHcrali ire office which be has held
for several years, anil from which be has amassed a
& very large fortune He will assist me in nv
painful and hamiliAing situation, scarcely re.
moved from want. He would scarcely hest,
tate 10 return, in small manner. tae mapv
fnvors my husbapf tAd my aAlf al---r-- AhauAraa
nRan. si-. Ne. Kakeman many times excited
my sympathes in hh urgent appeals for Office.
as well for himself as others. Therefore he will
only be too happy to relieve me by purchasing
one or more of the articles you will please place
before him. Very truly Mrs. A. LINCOLN.
1t is inexpressibly painful to reflect that the
widow of mau whom the whole nation revered
should place herself in so degrading a position
as to appeal to public officer to purchase her
second hand clothing, in such language, and for
| such reasons. When we are assured from relia,
sources that Mrs. Lincoln has had proffers of all
needful pecuuiSry assistance from friends of her
late husband which offers were ungraciously
repulsed, we have good reasons for believing
that she is being used as cats paw BY some
party out of sight. What is thought of her
course may be gathered from the following ex,
tracts which we have selected at random from
some of the prominent republican journals, The
Rochester E1press, in singing article, says:
"The abusive filings in Mrs. Lincoln's alias
Mrs. Ciarke's letter, will be generally regarded
as merely an exhibition Of Toman's spite As
for the complaint of poverty which Mrs. Clarke
Lincoln makes, it is sufficiently refuted by the
statement of the property she bas to sell. A lady
with cash capital Of twenty FIVE thousand dol
lars and good home in Springfield, with
yearly income OF 81 100 and a wardrobe worth
forty five thousand dollars, ought not to suffer
for food, lodging and raiment. 1t certainly can.
not be said OF her that she has nothing to wear
No one can note the letter which
Mrs. Lincoln has written and heS attempt to pass
under an assumed name, without feeling that
she is wholly unworthy the honor, which as the
wife OF her late husband, she has received"
Thurow Weed, i0 his paper, the Commercial
AdrerttSer, says:
'The fact for which Mrs. Lincoln seeks large
publicity, namely that she received presents
valued at $4,000, is pregnant and suggestive
one-suggestive at least, of Offices and contracts
unless the more charitable construction is reach>
ed through the assumption that they were ex.
pressions Of regard and friendship. But it is |
not known that the wife of any other President |
laces, furs, diamonds, rings, &c. Mrs Lincoln's |
propensity 20 sell things was manifested early, |
and before any necessity was forseen. If our
Information is reliable, eleven of Mr. Lincoln's |
new linen shirts were sold almost before the
remains, which were sbrouded in the twelfth.
had started for that bourne from whence no
traveller returns.
The Rochester Democrat ha. no patience with
Mrs Lincoln, and declares that:
"Her letters are coarse and vulgar snd from
their publication refined woman would have
shrunk with horror. The whole proceeding is
obviously a mercenary advertising dodge to ad-
vance the sale OF the articles sent to New York
The prices affixed to these articles are sufficient
10 refute Mrs. Lincolns plea of poverty. If she
s poor she has wasted her resources in the pur-
chase Of articles of luxury to which she had no
claim. Whist business has she with lace dresses
worth four thousand dollars each; or with four
;amel's hair shawls worth two thousand, or with
furs worth thousands In the frst of the letters,
where she falsely assumes the name of Mrs.
Clarke, she states that these articles were pres
ents from her friends. We do not believe it.
She has been extravagant and must take the
She has lavished the money
given to her by the nation on diamonds, furs
md laces, and if she has seventeen hundred
lollars year left, she has enough for a woman
,f her education, and social position. Her cons
q |
@ commend her strongly to public favor, and
his extremely undignifed correspondence and
is very indelcate publication, have deprived
Ter of all further claims to consideration or res.
,ect."
The Albany EveRiRg JoandI makes the fol-
owing remarks
at cannot be disguised that in the course
he has seen fit to adopt, Mrs. Lincoln has dis,
lonored her country, herself and the memory of
cd bus I ie; |
Without chagrin and modification of the criti-
sms which will be pronounced upon our char
cter abroad in view of this spectace-the wild
wv of President hawking her surplus apparel,
md with view to creating a market for her
wares, charging her countIymen with meanness
md ingrattude, and threatening to make reve> {
ations of personal secrets, unfavorable to those
Sho have been prominent in public affairs. By
his conduct, Mrs Lincoln invites and iustihes
upon herself. She suggests in>
Iuiry respecting her career as mistress of the
White House, and as to the method in which
he became possessed of the magnificent arti, {
les which are now offered for SALE" '
And the Sprir gfeld Republican
'That dreadful woman, Mrs. Lincoln, who is
n the open market with her useless fuery, will ,
lot let the people either forget her or remember !
Ter only with respect as the wife of beloved !
'atriOt and revered President, as they would be
lad to do, but persists in forcing her repugnant
Individuality before the world, TO the great NOR
ifcation of the nation, and the scandal of all
cal friends of her husband. In order to drive ,
better bargain with her jewels and clothes,
he has written various vulgar and uuwomanly
etters and caused them to be published in the !
lew York papers. The gentleman to whom the
,oods were sent tried to persuade her to with. I
lraw them, but without avail, and then to get |
'rominent republicans to take them privately at !
uch prices as would satisfy her demands. This
lso failing, she instructed him to put them be- !
ore the public as hers"
These extracts will sufficiently exhibit the pop ,
liar feeling in regard to this scandalous affair,
nd at the same time show how little necessity
xisted for it. If we believed Mrs. Lincoln gift
d with sense of the proprieties of life might
indulge in the hope that the plainly expressed
Comments of the press would prevent her hold ]
ng herself longer up to public ridieule. As it |
5, we look for worse to come.-Erie Dispdtek.
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PRESIDENTIAL TIcKEr.-The Cosmopolitan, ,
n American paper, published in London, pro- t
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