The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-02-13
sucHANAN,s EARLY ROMANCE.

When young lawyer in Lancaster, Penn
sylvania, he was engaged to be married to
. young lady to whom he was devotedly at
tached. The biographer has given US in a
brief but deeply interesting sketch the his
tory Of this sad episode 'lovers' quar-
REL" originating in the gossip of village
girls, separated them. Tnfes are causes in
the philosophy of life, as in nature, which
sometimes produce commissions, catas'
trophies. Young girls of the past generation
in a country town were marvellously like
young girls Of the preceding and Of the
present generation. The gossip of thought
less children, scarce grown to womanhood,
produced effects which they little imagined.
The lovers were parted. The separation
would have been only temporary, perhaps,
but for her sudden death. In very touch
ing and eloquent letter he begged to be al
lowed to see his dead love- In this he said ::
My prospects are all cut off, and / feel
that my happiness will be buried with her
in the grave. 1t is now no time fSS expla-
nation, but the time will come when you
will discover that she, as we'll as |, has been
much abused. God forgive the authors of
it My feelings Of resentment against them,
whoever they may be, are buried in the
dust. l 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 could
love, deny me not. Afford me the mel
upol,o1u Ylaao,,ra IF oaa;nc, bar 1,od,y bafora
its interment."
Perhaps to the unsentimental reader this
is but a trifing incident in human life.
But, after all, the mighty forces which
move humanity are the forces which core
from the affections rather than from the
cool intellect. Men have died, ..-.a worries
have eaten them, and this aSr love. He
who en2eavora to measure the soul, 60
analyze tie i.clal and Intellectual part OF
man or wcman, and who ridicuies what We
call sentiment, leaves cut the most import
ant element in tia whole subject of consid-
Grafton. Whep 10 later years Mr.. Buchanan
became pu9lio man, political antagonists
according : the accepted American style of
political mpaigns, ralisd cut of the history
81 his 18th this :ncidous, misrepresented
and fq sized it. I'ila bid politician, who
knew better than IL nan in America how
to Jet anu reply all the attacks and ac-
Gus lions, true Q. lalse, of opponents, never
allowed the sol mn sacredness of this men,
orr 90 be tshshed by any allusion to it on
hi 2 w.. Once he told trusted friend that
there wero among his papers letters and
relics which, when he was dead, would, il
necessary, set this history truly before all
who were interested. 1t would seem that
before his decease he came to the conclusion
that the story of his love belonged alone to
himself and to her, and that it mattered lit
tie what was said here when he and she
should talk it over where there are no gos-
sips or scandal-monger. His executors
found sealed package endorsed with di-
rections to burn 1t unopened, and they
obeyed the direction.
The course of true lave, says our bioera-
pher, in terms of very simple eloquence
g ran in this case pure and unbroken in the
heart of the survivor through a long and
varied life. It became grief that could no,
be spoken of, to which only the most distant
allusion could be made, sacred, nnceasine
sorrow, buried deep in the breast of man
who was formed for domestic joys hidden
beneath manners that were most engaging,
beneath strong social tendencies, and a
ehiyalrous old-fashioned Difference to omen
of all ages and all Chimes His peculiar
and reverential demeanor toward the sex.
never varied by rank or station or individual
attractions, was doubtless in large degree
caused by the tender memory of what he
had found or fancied in her whom he had
lost in his early days by such cruel fate"
The immediate effect of this sorrow was to
change the course of his life. He had pre-
yiously determined not to enter political life.
He now sought excitement and associations
with men, and accepted nomination and
election to Congress. The village gossips
who parted the lovers are responsible for o
vast deal that has since occurred in the his
tory of the United States.-- William @. Prime
On Hdrpe,'s Aagasias.
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