Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-05
PrOvidential Escape.

Mrs. Lincoln has turned up again. The
dispatches inform us that almost at the
hour for sailing, the orders for a state room,
for her. on the steamer bound from Balti-
more to Southampton, were countermand-
ed, and the room was Immediately taken
by Colorado Jewett-certainlya a most suit
able substitute. So Mr.. Reverdy johnson
does not escort Mrs. L. on-a visit to the
Queen of England and the Empress of
France, the reason alleged being q sudden
attack of illness-not, on the part of Mr..
johnson, but Mrs. Lincoln.~ We have oura
suspicious about this illness.
Whenyft; was first announced that this
unfortunate woman, who is cheap, coarse.
and common, was to go abroad in charge of
the new Envoy to England, there was a
feeIifg ofintehse regret that woman who
has so lastin gly disgraced the nation and
herself, should have even an apparent Off.
cial endorsement and introduction to, give,
her currency abroad. But it seems that
she had written to Mr.. .Reverdy johnson
asking him to take charge of her, and of
course the polite Marylander could do
nothing else than say that he would. But
when the time came, the thought of ap-
pearing at the Court of St. James with
Mrs. Lincoln on his arm, appalled, him, and
we suspect that he has been so shockingly
inattentive to his charge since her arrival
| in Baltimore, that that preposterous fe-
males dignity has been mortally offended.
| Madame Lincoln probably expected the
American EmbassadOr to dance daily at
tendance, to purchase her, tickets, handle
her trunks, &C., Sc, and he having failed
in these strictly diplomatic duties, she
probably in high dudgeon resolved that
sshe wouldn't 90 at all.,,' Thanks, to Mr..
Johnson's diplomacy, we are spared this
Threatened disgrace and humiliation, and
Americans abroad willthrowup their hats
when they were aboptito hang their heads
l--Ohio State Journal. r..
This notice Of Mrs LINCOLN may be de-
cent! 1t may be dignffed to speak of the
wife of an ex-President of the United
States as a "cheap, coarse and common wo.
man." What do the words, used in this
connection, imply? Mrs. LINCOLN belongs
to the party in the interest of which the
Journal labors Ia party for which it claims
a monopoly of the refinement and intelli.
genee of the country. In the day wher
LINcoLN reigned supreme-w his wort
was autocratic- Mrs. LINCOLN was~he re
cipient Of adnlation from the leaders o
the Republican party. With her husband
this woman was powerful, and consequent
1y she was fawned upon. -. -. III
Now, she is without power or influence
, and she is held up to public gaze by tn
Ohio State Journal, which aspires to tn
Central Organship OF the Republican part
of Ohio. as sscheap, coarse and icommo
woman Even if Mrs LINCOLN is not
woman of more than ordinary refinement
the fact that she was the wife Of Presiden
ABRAH M LINCoLN,a man leaders of th
Republican party have extolled beyon
i measure as the greatest and purest of mel
t should at least secure for her from his pal
, ty friends Kind treatment.
: IfIthe editor of the Ohio State Jouruds
capable of treating the wife of the martyr
, ed LINCOLN thus-of speaking of her wit
5 greater coarseness than the local editor
, that paper speaks OF the fallen women wf
/. are arraigned before the Mayor-how coul
it be expected that he would do justice I
+ Democratic candidates or the Democrat
: party? A man who will needlessly defan
!, detenseless woman, is a man in whol
5 there is no sense of justice or of honor.
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