Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-01
JAMES BucaASAS,s LOVE.
His Obituary Of HI- Bsishted Love-A Let
ter to the Father Returned Tn
oprned-Tbe True story

Young, high-spirited and full Of en-
ergy. IL seemed that happiness bad
heen provided for him by his own
merits. and kind Providence. But
there now occurred an cpiSOde in his
life which cast upon him reverend
ing sorrow. He became engaged 10
be married to young lady in
Lancaster, who hos been described 20
me. by persons who knew her, % a
very beautiful girl. Of singularly at
tracsive and gentle disposition. but re-
firing aud sensitive. Her father, Rob
crt Coleman. ESQ Of Lancaster, en-
tirely approved of the engagement.
After this connection had existed for
some time. she suddenly wrote a note
lo her lover and asked him 10 release
her from the engagement. There
Is no reason TO belleve
that their mutual feelings had
i'm any degree changed. He could
only reply that IL il was Der wish 10
put am end to their engagement, he
must submit This occurred in the
latter part Of the summer Of 1919. The
young lady died very suddenly, while
on visit to Philadelphia, on the 9Th
Of the December following, in the
twenty-third year Of her age. Her re-
mains were brought to her fathers
house i'm Lancaster, on the next Satur-
day, just one week from the day on
which she left home. The funeral,
says the diary already quoted
from, took place the next day,
and was attended by great number
Of the inhabitants. who appeared TO
feel deep sympathy with the family
on this distressing OCCASION
From the same source | transcribe a
little obituary notice, which was pub
lished in Lancaster paper on the 18th
OF December, aud Which the diary
states WAS written by Mr.. Buchanan
departed this life on Thursday
morning last. in the twenty-third year
OF her age, while on visit to her
friends in the city OF Philadelphia.
Miss Anne e. Coleman. daughter OF
Robert Coleman, Esquire, Of this city
1t rarely falls to our lot 10 shed a tear
over the mortal remains OF one so much
and so deservedly beloved as was the
deceased. She was everything which
the fondest parent ar the fondest friend
could have wishedher to be. Although
she WAS young and beautiful and
accomplished and the smiles
OF fortune shone upon her, yet
her native modesty and worth made
her unconscious Of her own attrac-
tions. Her heart was the seat Of all
the softer virtues which ennoble and
dignity the character of woman. She
has now gone 10 world where in the
bosom Of her God she will be happy
with congenial spirits. May the mem
ory of her virtues be ever green i'll the
hearts Of her surviving friends. May
her mild spirit, which on earth still
breathes peace and goodwill be their
guardian angel to preserve them from
the faults TO which she WAS ever q
stranger:
''rhe spiders most atienuated thread
Is cord, IL catae, 10 mems tender tie
On earthly hiiaS-it breaks Mt every breeze.
The following letter, written by Mr.
Buchanan to the father of the young
lady, is all that remains of written
evidence 10 attest the depth of his at
taobmeEt 10 her
JAMES BUCHANAN 70 ROBERT COLE
MAN, ESQ.
Lancaster, Dee. 10, 1919.
Ny DEAR SIR:-Y You have lost q
child, q dear, dear child. | have lost
the only earthly object of my afiec-
tons. without whom life now presents
to me a dreary blank. My prospects
are all cut Off. and feel that my hap
piness will be buried with her in the
grave. Il Is now no time for explana
ton, but the time will come when
you will discover that she
as we'll as i, have been
much abused. God forgive the author.
OF IL. My feelings of resentment
against them, whoever they may be
are buried In the dust. | have now
one request to make, and, for the love
of God and OF your dear, departed
daughter whom / loved infinitely
more than any other human being
couid love, deny me not. Afford me
the melancholy pleasure of seeing her
body before its Internent / would
not for the world be denied this re-
quest.
might make another but from the
misrepresentation which must have
been made to you, ana almost afraid.
would like 10 follow her remains TO
the grave ar n m0urner. / would like
to convince tAe world, and / hope vet
10 convince you, that she was infinite
ly dearcr to me than life. | may sus-
tain the shock of her death, ba, / feel
that happiness has fled from sils, for
ever. The prsyer which ! make to
God without eeasing is, that yet may
he able To show my veneration for the
memory OF nay dear departed saint,
by my respect atad attachment for her
surviving irieHds.
A'tHN hSaNtu Httre NDu anu eta 4ble
you 10 bear the shock with the foiti-
tude OF Christlan
am, forever, your sincere aud
grateful friend,
jaws BUCHANAN.
In the course of AIR. Buchanan's
long subsequent palitlcal career, this
incident in his early kie was often al
ludad TO in partisan newspapers, and
In that species OF literature called
campaign Documents accompanied
byInany perversioas amt inisrepresen-
iations. These publications are each
and adj unworthy of notice. On one
occasion, after he Lao retired 10
Wheatland, aud when he had passed
the age of seventy, he was
shown by friend N newspaper article
Inisrepresenting, as usual, the details
OF this Segair. He then sad with
deep emotion, that there weBs papers
aud relics which he had rslGgiously
preserved, then in "A sealed package in
u place OF deposit in the city " n sw
York, which would explain the trivial
origin Of this separation His execu-
tors found these papers inelose.l and
sealed separately from all others, and
with direetios upon them ia iais
handwriting, that they were 10
be destroyed without being read Ther