The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-10
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The following Is the commentary
OF the Cincinnati Com mercial on
the recent unpleasant exposure de-
tailed ID letters oftIlis' lady print.
cd in another place - - nsg
The widow Of President Lincoln
has insisted upon largely adver.
Using her true character TO the
American people aud TO the world
An intensely vulgar woman. her
conduct throughout the admins.
tration OF her husband was morti.
Tying 10 all who respected him, and
source of satisfaction to the enc.
mics OF tho country. The gaudy
bad taste With which sheA dfessed,
and the constant effort. to make a
show Of herself disgustcd all obser-
vcrs. She was, always trying to
meddlein public affairs, and now
she will havc it known to the
whole world that she accepted cost.
ly presents from corrupt contrac-
tors, Her relatives were nearly
all secessionists, and it was sus.
pected that her sympathios were
rather with the rebellion than the
nation, an her highest dream of
ambition to DO recognized as one
of the Southern aristocracy. AT.
ter the death of her husband her
conduct was disgraceful. She
fingered in the White House, and
lwhenshe had TO leave it sought to
appropriate as her personal prop,
erty articles that belonged to the
house. Mr.. Weed shows that she
deliberately sehta bill for a din
ner TO the Prince Napoleon to the
Secretary of + the TInterioE and
charged three times the cost Of the
dinner,s and at length got her mon
cy under q false pretense that was
acquiesced in rather than make a
"a scandal. Having been charita.
bly, permitted TO sink into obscuii.
4 ty she demands notorie'y at the
expense Of public shame, and we
have no doubt she enjoys the large
advertising she is receiving from
the press vf the country. She had
plenty of money tolive comfortably
with, but she wants show, and re
CARDS it her right 10 revelNin bar
baric pomp Hence her cries abou
the ingratitudc Of the people anc
: the need of money. lfshe had had
the good sense to return to her ole
house in Springfield, and to liv'
modestly there, she, with all he
faults, would have been respected
and. perhaps, in time, she nigh
have been rcvered by the Amcri
can people. She could not thinl
of such a thing, however. He
complaint of straitenod circum
stances is unwarranted. The Ohit
State. Journal said when the stor,
, was first started, that she was ex
posing her presents in the New
, York market:
. ave are reliably informed by
| gentleman, who held position i
i, the Treasury Department durint
Mr.. Lincoln's administration, tina
Mr.. L. always carefully saved hi
earnings and invested them il
t United States bonds, and tha
r George Harrington, Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury, was his f
: nancial agent. Mr.. Harringto
u had, a short time before the deaf
o of Mr. Ihncoln, over seventy thol
;. sand dollars invested in Govern
ment bonds for his benefit, Dul
ing the war Mr.. LIS expenses wer
y not so great as the President
expenses usually are in timo
It peace, the Government furnishin
o every thing for him except his pei
sonal expenses.
If Mrs, Lincoln had not show
9 a spirit so vain, unfeeling and so,
did. she would have been provide
J. with means equal to the indu
genoe of oven her extravagal
4 tastes. AS it is she would do we
to take good care of The money r.
allied for her presents now 70
= sale, because neither public ne
r private generosity can hereafter
successfully appealed to in her b