Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-29
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CHICAGO, November 2Sth.-A corresoond.
ent Of the Tribune, writing from New York
OF Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, says:
spent two hours with Mrs. Lincoln this
afternoon, the conversation turning mainly
upon the subject now uppermost in her mind,
and which has during the past week received
and excited certain amount of criticism
which is the possible increase OF her pension
by Congress. Mrs. Lincoln says she has fel!
much grieved to hear that the people of Iii
nois have given expression to such statements
as have found their way into the Press con.
corning her, and she knows full well the par
ticular source from which these reports have
emsnated, and the personal feelings
which have prompted them. This
Government, she says, owes it to her
to see that she is provided for in a manner
that her wants may be fully met, and there
is no reason why she should not receive the
same consideration at the hands Of the ns-
ton that may be contemplated for another,
not on her own account SO much as an act of
justice to the memory of a man to whom this
nation owes great debt of gratitude-Ab-
raham Lincoln.
So far as her present financial condition is
concerned, Mrs. Lincoln says most positively
that she has not enough from the Govern.
ment to maintain her. She is under expenses,
medical and otherwise, which are large.
no matter how simply she may live; and
as for being charity subject on the
hands of her relatives, she VIII never consent
to that. Some had criticised her son Robert
because he did not take care OF her. She did
not desire to have him do so, for he had his
own family to look after, and had his hands
full. His kind heart had urged this many
times, and also his wife had done the same,
but she had insisted it was her duty to live
upon her own resources There has been a
story floating about, said Mrs. Lincoln, aud
il was now freshly repeated in the Western
papers, that she had received SIS 600 from
Congress, and that interest upon this gum,
added to her $1,000 pension, ought to be
enough to maintain her handsomely. There
never was greater falsehood. Congress
never gave her $4,000, but im,uedi-
ately after her husbands death that body
did vote her the amount of the Presidents
salary for one year-S25, 600, less 81, 500,
which Mr.. E. B. Washburne succeeded in
having cut off from the sum originally IL
tended, and this left her so. 500. She ent
to Chicago AID purchased house on West
Washington street, paving therefor Sls 600.
and in addition laid cut a considerable
amount for furniture SO that She had yerv
little left after this TRANSACTION from the
original amount of the appropriation. She
finally found it would cost more than she
could afford to keep up the house 90 sbe
told her sor Robert il he wonld pay
her $1,000 a year for period ot
seven years, he might have + prom
erty. He agreed to this and Maid
that sam annually. The pronerty. much of
the time. failed to nav more than half thai
revenue. He wes Obliged IN make the nav.
rents out Of his own pocket She also gave
to Robert the house il Springfield. which was
very old and worth but little. She was
prompted in both instances by the desire that
her son should have something of what the
country had given her in consideration for his
fathers services. Not until July 15, 1870
more than FIVE years after President Lincoln Is
death-did Congress see fit to grant her a
pension. Ihe Original design was to secure
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