The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-02-13
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The Facts about the Sumner Scan.
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The Boston correspondent sof Il
Chicago Times gives the following !
of marital history, about which thel
has been 50 much mystery:
The announcement has been going Il
rounds, couched in the tendcrestt term
that "incompatability Of Temperament
"difference of opinion upon certain q
cial questions" which were rdiscove
ed only too late," have. precluded Il
possibility Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sumnt
living together as man and wife. III
simple fact is, that Senator Sumner an
bis young wife discovered their s'incon
patability' long ago. They had bee
but a few months married when a RI
sonal friend of the parties--who, ! Ke
hardly mention, was herself Q.ncs
gentle sex-informed me in coz v.y waro
that "Charles Sumner and hisIe M ~
not happy" It was not sns nssioo0oO
Sturgis gave up a fortune A;st;ncn;sh.
to become the bride of 4 little ~ to offer
Senator, who, indeed xfion." She was
her besides his "disxsasat a. least mid.
young y'a gyaa ana IyG gay; .Rfably stupid. She
die aged ana q queen Of society; he
was 80, porn n TO can call Mr.. Summer a
MMeal, s.,S,:a ! ho oiety man. Their tastes and
oriiilant Nations were totally at yari-
@ sno.s iW.he senator would have liked
nceeRife, one who could live, upon
..Vvbreath of his lips-who could find
Xhis cold nature all that a fervent wo
man desires. He would have been sat
isfied with one who would go home
early and read his latest speech, in
stead of reading the last German-who
preferred stupidity to brilliancy, and
dead rhetoric TO living small talk.
From the commencement Of his mar.
,;;..;,. life the senator found that he had
made a mistake. His wife naturally
claimed her right to tic enjoyments OF
society to which she had been accus'
while he grumblcd at what ne
was pleased to construe into neglect
bis precious self. In addition to this,
Mr.. Sumner was not pecuniarily to
maintain such an establishment as was
expected, and his cndeavors to cut
down family expenses were not pro
ductiye Of an increased good feeling.
4 In this eminently unpleasant way,
matters went. on until that Holstern af-
fair, when Senator made q complete ass
of himself, and caused the estrange
mcnt which has never been patched up,
the result of which is the present sepa-
ration. The main facts of the difficult
ty alluded to are we'll known, and it is
unnecessary to repeat them. The part
which Mrs. Sumner took. however, IS
not so generally known. She is lady
in every respect, high spirited and well
bred which can hardly be said OF the
Scnator-and it is with regret that hel
name IS mentioned at all. Let it sui
flee to say that, when Mr., Summers
foolish jealousy led him to cast renee
tions upon her fair name--to foul hls
own nest with yirtuous Indignation she
demo unccd him, and, after stinging re-
buke, for his lack Of manly dignity and
respect for himself and for his wife, she
announced her determination Of quit
ting his roof. Shctold him she woule
20 to Europe and remain there NV
Years, at the end of which period II
would be entitled to divorce and sh'
expected he would procure II. A wit
ness of this scene tells me the Senate
WINGED like whipped spaniel unde
the mcrited and dignified rcbuke OF tn
insulted lady. Mrs, Sumner went tt
Europe where she remained with ne
sister at Paris. But Count Holstell
was at Vienna, and Mrs. Grundy, VIII
knew there was railroad between tn
two capitals, began 70 remark that per
haps the Senator was right after all
! No one who knows the lady wonld Civ
breath to such suspicion; but to say
appearance, Mrs. Summers friends urg
ed her to return--in fact, almost com
manded it--and she came back bu
not to the arms Of the Senator, as wa
so triumphantly announced at the time
She never for a moment retracted tn
indignant words spoken when so stun! n!
by her husbands meanness and foil
at Washington and these best acquair
ted with her say she never will swer'
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