The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-13

,.sss a,nb i,ous, and er.A
sssssy anno,anced l.E bbittf that slle ssas !
q desfIned .t8 be die wife sof some tuttre
psesldclit,o For q litJte VILLA she was
eeurted by Douglass as well as by Lincoln !
int she Ii said 10 hare refused the " latlie.
Giant !, .<on account Of his bod .na'a,s.
Being asked which one OF them she i,'tchuen
70 have, SHE answered, The one tnaI t nv,
The tesi chance Of being President. 2 un
decided In favor Of Lincoln, and I'd Ile NIL
ION Of sorne @, her husbands Iriehus, .' -
10 no s,naIl extent in the fsiiaiiilehI " wv
prophecy which the bestowai Oh he'' '1""
implied. Sc. ro,,,,a s;s,er, soys
tbat Lincoln was "clarihea VIA z1.as
a;t and fascinated with her quick sas.ei.s,
nor nature, and culture. They were sle W
iiy' eng red, and their marriase was on's r.. .
m,estioli OF time But somehow the II Llnc ysN
loye affairs seem never to lave pseh ;s WA,
gether satisfactory. A Miss sdMatitaa E r..
wards presently made her appearance. one
was the sister OF Mr.. 3Ninian EDWARDS,
fresh Young beauty, whom Lincoln saw, anu
seeing. loved. The ailair with MISS fooa,
according to the Edwardscs, ACCORDING 70
stuart. according to- Herndon. according 10
lincoln himself, was ga policy lia'cli bu.
this was love. Gentle ghost OF sweet ann !,
Rutledge, did your spirit eyes grow sao =
Mr.. Edwards tried to marry his sister "
Speed, but she preferred MIR: schuyler
Strong, and presently married hllh. LIZ
coin had been restrained hY-a SENSE oi
honor from declaring his passion, though any
words Of his would probably nave ote''
uttered in vain. But now conscience as
sailed him. He concluded, with great agony
of mind, that he would be doing Mary 11uu
grleyolis wrong were he 10 marry i,er "i, rI'
his heart had thus wandered from hef. . ite
went to her, accordingly, ana toiu hci lne
| whole story. She released nm ifohl Ills CIR
easement, and then some parting ehue'n.
| ments followed, and, as the natliiai resuI'
| Of those cndcarmcnts, recohclliatioh'
l(Moral: When yOu wish TO bfeik Oh youl
engagement with a woman never Kiss her
onod-bypl Lincoln and Mary were again
engaged; everything was ready 1or the nlal,
ria0e even the supper. Mr.. Lincoln failed
| Tn meet his engagement, the cause being I'll
sanity. His friend Speed took him TO Ken
tucky and kept him there until he recovered
MIR. Herndoa believes that Lincoln's insal'
| ity grew out of u most extraordinary com
| njication of fcelings--avelsion to the mar
rinpe prOposed, a cOunter-attachment to
Miss Edwards, and q new access OF unSpeak'
able tenderness for the memory OF Ann
| Rutled.c. But after his recovery and re-
| turn TO Springfield it WAS not long before nc
| married Miss Todd. She told him that
| tbo,,ub she had released him from the Ell
earcment her own feelings for him remained
unchanged. He went to see his friend d;
| Fl. Matheny, and said to him, "Jhn, shall
hive TO marry that girl" At another time
Lincoln told him that he was driven llto
the marriage---that ii was thing planned
by the Edwards family. However, through
weakness, or through tenderness, he
seems to have submitted 10 his fate
and in 1872 Mary Todd became Mrs
Lincoln. Such is the complicated story
of the loves of Lincoln. MIR. Lamon
has succeeded in proving him weak, incon
slant, and unchyalrous. He bestows cqlla
energy in proving him to 4Aa'e been m
christian. lie prints various letters from Ills
friends lecountinS the intidel sentiments
and speeches of Lincoln's youth, and he con-
cIudes that "whie it is very clear that MI
Lincoln was at al times an lntldel III The
orthodox sense of the word, il is also very
clear that he was not ut all times equally
willing that everybody should know it. He
never offered to purge or recant; but lit
was willy politician, and did not diSdaln &c
regulate his religious manifestations with
some reference to his political interests