The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-03-20

tlCai JuuSNHcnt'
The tenderness of his nature was not
always manifest, yet he had his romance
in early manhood, and OF this Mr.. Hern-
Az last he came to his Office for the
last time.
Billy he said, we must say good.
bve.'
Both of them cried speechessly.
You shall keep up the firm name,
Billy, if 1t will be of any use to YOU
They shook hands upon it with tears
in their eyes.
i love the people here, Billy, and owe
don had spoken in public, | asked par-
ticularly about it.
AT Sangamon, Illinois, pretty and
high spirited girl, without fortune, made
havoc in many hearts, and Mr. Lincoln
constituted one of three earnest suitoys,
who wanted her in marriage. She
preferred the address of a young mer-
chant OF the town, and gave the other
two their congo. Her afiianced soon
afterwards went East to buy goods, but
as he returned was taken with brain
fever IN some wayside town, aud lay
ravlng tor three months, unknown by
name or residence TO bis entertainers.-
a rumor started that he had run away
to avoid marrying his lady, and. wait.
ing some time in vain to hear from him.
she received anew the attentions of
Mr., Lincola. About the time when
they passed from courtesy to tenderness.
and marriage between them was more
than hlnted at, the sick man returned
like a ghost, guaged the condition of
affairs, and npbralded the lady with
tickleness. She had delicate sense Of
honor, and felt keenly the shame of
having seemed a trifel with two gen.
tlemen at once; this preyed upon her
mind TIL her body, not very strong. sui.
tered by sympathy, and MIR Herndon
has oral and written testimony that the
girl died out f regret at the ccuivocal
position she had unwillingly assumed -
The names Of al! the parties he has Civ,
en- me, but Go not care to print them.
On the dead woman's grave MIR.
Lincoln promised himself never 10 mar
ry. This vow he kept very long. His
marriage was in every respect alvan-
tageous to him. 1t whetted his ambi,
ton, did not nurse too much a pen,
chant for home Incidence that he had,
and taught him particularly that there
was something called society, which
observed ones boots as well as his prin
cipes. He was always loyal and rev
erent husband, a gentle but not positive
father, and his wife saw the Presidency
for him before the thought of troub-
led him.
He built the frame house in Spring.
field which is now so celebrated, at
comparatively recent peri d. l went
oyer it yesterday with amusement at
its utter pracucahty 1t stands upon
prosalc corner, in an inferior quarter OF
the town, aud was the design of car
penler, not an architect. A narrow
yard and palings shut it from the street;
the door is IN the middle, and is ap-
preached by four or five wooden steps
on the abutr ent beside these he stood
after his nomination, in the blaze of pine
torches, the thunder of huzzas breaking
around his head, the only solemn man
in Springfield. He might have felt
that all these gratualions were such
as the Aztces spent upon the beautiful
captive who was to be eacrafced in the
teoaai,S.
As lawyer, he was a close student
OF those cases that interested him, Slow
to take them into his mind, passing in
their consideration from stage to stage,
end if he found beneath an embodied
principle, his heart grew into the work
of developing 1t. He frequently sat up
all night preparing some favorite argu-
ment, and never failed to present it so
perspicuously that dull intellects grew
appreciatlve and shrewd ones absorb
ed. Some of his legal arguments are
described as having been classical. Yet,
beneath all the drudgery Of his craft he
was at soul politician rather than an
attorney. Every legal study carried
HIM beyond itself to the mysteries
Of public infrmlty, lie sat-, says,
IIerndon, 'looking through a brief to the
Of society and the moral
Of Cod New and then
he shut himself up all night, and lay on
his Office floor in his careless garments,
revolving some problem set by vil-
lage client, that had expanded to
great human principle At these times
he seemed to be dreamer reasoning -
Again, he drove miles over the praires
with his lips close shut, wrinkling, soft.
ly humming, and returned again at
night strangely white and exhausted.
Before his great public call came he
had passed the world through his silent
thought, as if it had been q legal case
to be stated and argued.
Did he ever quarrel, Mr.. Herndon T.
Seldom, friend but sometimes,
Once ! saw him incensed at a Judge
for giving an unfair decision. 1t was
terrible spectacle. As he was grand in
his good nature, so he was grand in
his rage. AT another tune saw two
men come to blows in his presence he
picked them up separately and tossed
them apart like couple of kittens. lie
VAS the strongest man I ever knew,
and has been known to lift a man of his
own weight and throw hlm over
worm fence. Once, IN Springfield, the
IRISH voters meditatcd taking possession
Of the polls. News came down the