The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

Lulling them into rest.
!. SANITY and still and queenly
n Stands the white maiden there.
Wearing his etfts, serenely.
AS maid their jewels wear.
she and the Frost her lover,
i In the wan, waning light
OF the mi moon above her.
Il Watch through the quiet night.
i ID. cambridge in Godey's Lady's Book.
HET LOVES DE- OUR srArEsMEN
How Webster Popped the Question-Lov
Affairs of Clay. Calhoun. Doug las, Wise
Dsvy Crockett, Brewster, ingalls,, CongeE
Vance, Malone and Others.
New York Mail ana Express.
The past year has been noted for it's socia
scandals and Senator Sharon's divorce add
another item to this part of its history. Tn
late Presidential campaign comprised con
tinuous washing OF dirty linens. and tn
mode after which the great man makes low
has become as important as his vote on th'
tariff or civil-service reform. Most of on
statesmen, however, have pure domestic
records, and the marriages of many OF them
have been marriages of love. Old Senator
Benton was devoted TO his wife and ht
would never attend any place OF festivity OF
amusement after her death. The wife OF
Senator Allen better known as Fog horn
Allen. died here at Washington during the
winter of 1S47, before the days of railroads.
and the old Senator carried her corpse home
| to Ohio over the mountains, riding beside II
on horseback during the day and watching
i il at night throughout the cold dreary jour
ney, until he laid it at last beside her father,
Governor Arthur, in the beautiful cemetery
at Chillicothe. Daniel Webster's two mar.
riages were marriages of love. His
| first wife was Grace Fletcher, the
daughter of q New Hampshire clergyman.
Webster married her when he was twenty
six years of age and while he was yet poor
lawyer. His popping the question was most
delicately done. Miss Grace had been wind
| ing q skein of = arm while he had held it for
her on his long arms. The skeln had become
tangled. and during its untwisting the heads
of the two lovers had come very close to-
gether. AS the knot became united Mr..
| Webster said: I'VE have succeeded, Mi 8
Grace in untying this knot; can we not now
tie another which will remain tied as long
as we liver Miss Grace blushed, and kiss,
it is said, sealed the bargain. The two lived
happily for eighteen years. when Mrs. Web
ster died in New York on her way to Wash.
ington, where her husband was a member of
Congress. She was i'll three weeks, daring
which time Webster watched at her bedside.
but two years after she died he married
again. Webster's second wife was Caroline
Leroy. a New York lady, tall, brown-haired
and beautiful. She presided over his estab-
lishment here and accompanied him to
Europe, where she dined with the Queen.
She always addressed her husband as Mr..
Webster" and his favOrite terra for her was
Lady Caroline"
John o. Calhoun married his cousin, and
the property he got with her made his polit-
ical life free from financial cares. Henry
Clay married Lucretia Hart, q relative Of
Tom Benton, who had good dowry and un'
derstood how to keep house. jeff Davis mar
ried for bis first wife the daughter Of Zacn
TAYLOR and his father in-law decidedly OBJ
jected to the match. He would have little
to do with Davis until after the battle of
Buena Vista, where Davis excited Taylor's
admiration by his bravery. Ger raj
Fremont eloped with Tom Ben
toms daughter. and it was some
time before old Benton grew reconciled to
the match. When he did, however, be be.
came infatuated with Fremont, and he con-
sidered him, next to himself. the greatest
man inthe country. Mrs. Fremopt is still liv-
| ing, and the hairs of herself and her hus-
band have grown gray in their married life.
1t Ia said that neither of them has ever re-
GREETED their elopement.
James Buchanan, Alexander Stephens
and John Randolph of Roanoke were each
disappointed in love when they arrived at
the age of manhood, and they all remained
true to their first affection. they said but
little about it, and the subject was forbidden
ground to their dearest friends. Rsndol oh
once spoke of his love as one for whom he
cared more than his own soul or the God
that made IL, and from Stephens papers We
find that he fell in love while he was yet Q
boy at school.
The first wife of Stephen A. Douglas was
North Carolina woman and q slsve-owner.
His second wife he got here in Washington.
She was very beautiful, and it is said she
was o poor gill. She was many years
younger than Douglas and several years af
ter be died she married again. David Davis
present wife ia twenty eight years younger
than the old Senator, and, as ne Is worth
about three millions, she will be we'll fixed
if he should happen to drop off.
Henry A. Wise, the noted Virginia states
man of Tyler's day, was married three times
His third wife survives him, and is l think
living at Richmond to-day. His first love
college, q Miss Jennings, whom he married
in Tennessee. His second wife was daugh
ter of John Sergeant the Wing candidate
for Vice President in 1892 Wise proposed
to Miss Sergeant the dome o.
the capitol here, and one of the re
suits of the marriage was Johr
, Sergeant Wise, the present member OF Con
gress from Virginia, who was b)rn in Rio
Janeiro. where Henry A. Wise was offciat
ing as minister at the time" As John Wise
was not born in the United States. he car
never be president, though it is said at the
moment of his birth his father, determined
to have him born under the American flag
ran mp dozen on different parts of the con
sular mansion.
Senator Sam Houston, the president of tn,
republic of Texas. was the youngest mar
, who had ever governed the state of Ten
; nessee, when he fell in love with q prett,
girl at the state capital. He was the gov
, ernor of the state, good looking and q splen
. did catch. After his marriage be found hi
: wife loved another and she had been force
) by her parents to marry him. He left tn
= governors chair, and telling his wife to "a
. divorce on the ground of desertion. wen
= to the front and joined tribe of Cherokee
Indians Here he::marned squaw in II
dian fashion, and then became q chief h
was drinking hard and going to the dog
when one day he was told of the troubles 1
Texas and the battle of the Alamo was d