The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-13
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this time may have accounted for this.

items. That she was somewhat an invalid az
this time may have accounted for this.
ANDREW JOHNsoN's ECoEoMY
had something to do with keeping his family
st home. He was very economical. His cir
cumstances made him SO when he was young
snd his habits thus acquired stuck to him.
He died worth $4,000 and this was purely
the accumulation of his salary and interest
He made little or no money outside of his
salary. While he was in Congress he accu-
muiated $50 600. and out of his salary as
President $40 600. The Presidents salary
was then $4,000, and 1 suppose johnson
saved more than any other President ex-
cept Hayes. Whom he studied law he was
too poor TO buy books. and be spent bis leis-
uIe time about the Court House in Green
vile reading those belonging there. He
never kept q horse or carriage ana
during his Congressional campaigns he
borrowed q neighbor's steed to ride
over the district. This was probably
one of the reasons why he did not give his
children college education. His three sons
went to the common country school of the
South, and the only academic education
given any one of them was the youngest
while ne was President, who was then twelve
years old. He sezt this boy to school for g
treated, and they were at school in George
town while be was in the White House. Per-
hsps he did not believe in college educa-
tion. he had gotten along with so little
himself"
JOHNSON AS A SCHOLAR.
"Did he ever become anything of scho-
lsr7"
"Nol He was good speaker. but he was
very ungrsmmsiicsl. He was man of force
and ideas, but he could not write q speech.
While he was in the White House ne did
not write his own messages. You know
Jere Black testified to having written some
parts of certain messages while on the wit
ness stand. Many of his speeches were writ
ten by Judge Milligsn, who was his intimate
friend through life. He and johnson came
from the same town. They were elected to
the Legislature at the same time, and they
remained friends throughout life Milligan
often disagreed with johnson as topublic mat
teri, but johnson stuck to his friends though he
did not always stick TO his party. One of
his lsst acts as President was to obtain for
Milligan Judgeship in the Court of Claims.
"Whst kind of a man was
ANDREW JOHNSON soCIALLY2"
"He could be very pleasant indeed. But
he did not care for society, and he Stunned
the dinners of his brother statesmen. Mr..
johnson possessed great native personal dig
nifty, and he could, upon occasion, be as po-
lite as Chesterfield. He had way with
him which pleased all with whom he came
in contSct, and he could be free-and-essy
without abatIng one jot of his oignityf"
"Whst / as become of his fsmily7"
"Moet of them are dead. He had three
sons and two daughters. One daughter is
the soul survivor This is Martha johnson
that vas, and Mira. Judge Peterson that is.
She was the eldest daughter, and she presided
at the White House while johnson was
President. She takes much after her father,
has a strikingly Characteristic face, and is q
woman of great intellectual force. She is
married to Judge Peterson, man much
older than herself, and lives on farm near
Greenville, Tenn"
"By the wey," continued Mr.. Brownlow,
"you have never heard of Andrew Johnson's
first love. The President fell in love early.
He was only nineteen years old when no
married, but two years before this, while he
Was journeyman tailor in South Carolina,
he fell in love with the daughter of small
planter. His love was returned, but the
girls father, who hsd few acres of land
and a-couple Of negroes, would not consent
to his daughter marrying tailor, and tne fu.
tuTe President was rudely repulsed.''