Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-07
LOVES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN.
Early and Later Loves of Sam Houston,
Chief Justice Marshall and Others.

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Chief Justice Marshall and Others.
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Each Of our American heroes has lived
the material for a novel, and the successes
and disappointments Of their love affairs
would make library of interesting story.
What can be more pathetic than the life
long disappointments of james Buchanan,
John Randolph and Alexander H. Steph-
ems? Buchanan's sweetheart died during
a lovers quarrel and his bachelorhood be-
came her monument. Alexander III.
Stephens, disappointed in his schooi-boy
love, refers often to her in his letters of
long life of single blessedness and John
Randolph, the moody unhappy, erratic
genius of Roanoke, lingering for years on
the verge of insanity, speaks of Maria Ward
''as one whom he loved better than his
own soul or Him who created it."
Randolph's love affair is shrouded in
mystery. He never married, and it was in
his early youth that he fell desperately in
love with Miss Ward. She was the daugh-
ter of friend of his mother, and Pew
hatan Bouldin, relative of Randolph,
says that he was engaged to her for many
years. Bouldin does not give the reason
why the engagement was suddenly broken
of, but says the distinguished lover left
the presence of his idol very much in
censed, and that when he came to his
horse, which was tied to the limb of tree
near the front gate, he cut the reins loose
with his knife and rode off in great haste.
Randolph seldom met Miss Ward after this,
and they were net on speaking terms.
Still he calls her his angel, and in letters
after her death ne uses this remarkable
expression: 81 loved, aye, and was loved
again, not wisely, but too we'll"
Maria Ward is said to have been the
greatest belle of Virginia in her day. She
married Peyton Randolph, son of Ed
mund Randolph, who was President Wash
ington's Secretary of State, and it is re-
lated that she so charmed General La
fayette when he visited Richmond that he
wanted to adopt her rs his daughter, and
asked her to visit him in France.
General Sam Houston, the President of
the Republic of Texas and United States
Senator, was the youngest Governor who
had ever presided over the State Of Ten
nessee when he fell in love with pretty
girl at the State capital. He was a fine
looking man, and the young lady's parents
considered him q very desirable husband.
They persuaded his sweetheart to accept
him, and he married her, not knowing that
the match was not love one on her part.
After it had taken place he found that his
wife loved another. He asked her if this
was SO, and she told him it was. He re-
piled that she could have her freedom, and
that he would leave Tennessee and permit
her to get a divorce on the ground of de-
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and joined tribe of Cherokee Indians.
Here he remained three years, and when
he visited Washington in behalf of the
Indians In 1882 he wore the Indian garb.
From thence he went to Texas, and after
making name and having been Presi-
dent of the Republic of Texas he married
Margaret Moffet, an Alabama lady. His
first wife had, it is said, in the meantime
got divorce and had married her lover.
Davy Crockett, another frontier states
man and a noted hunter, was not less sus-
ceptible to the disappointments of love.
He first became enamored of a relative of
his schoolmaster, but while he was court
ing her richer suitor carried her awav
before his very eyes. He next met a
beauty at ball, fell in love at first sight.
and became engaged at the close of the
fifth dance. The day was fixed for him to
announce the engagement to her parents.
He started to go to them, but fell in with
some boon companions, and made, as they
say, "a night of it, He arrived a day too
late and found that his lady love was 10
be married that night to another. He
was not a deep lover, however, and he
made the best of a bad bargain. He
laughed off his disappointment, and danced
all night at the wedding party given in
honor of the union of his Sweetheart and
his rival. He soon fell in love again, and
this time was happily married. He lived
at first with his wife's mother, and in the
Creek war of 1913 made reputation in
fighting the Indians. He was elected to
the Legislature, and during President
Jachson's term was sent to Congress. He
was killed at the very battle of the Alamo
which was the beginning of Sam Hous-
tons great Texan career.
Most of our statesmen have pure domes-
tic records, and most of them have been
ardent lovers and have made good hus-
bands. Thomas Benton was devoted to
his wife, and he says in his thirty years
memoirs that he never attended al place
OF festivity or amusement after her ,.sath.
The wife of Senator Allen, of Ohio, better
known as "Fog-horn" Allen, died at Wash
ington during the winter of 1S47. 1t was
before the days of railroad to the West.
and the old Senator carried her corpse
home to Ohio over the mountains, riding
beside it on horseback during the day and
watching it at night throughout the
cold, dreary journey, until at last he
laid it beside her father, Governor Arthur,
in the beautiful cemetery at Chillicothe.
Chief Justice MarshalPs marriage was a
happy one, and his married life comprised
itty years of the tenderest affection. His
wife died but short time before him, and
Marshall directed that his body should
DE laid with hers, and that the plain stone
over their grave should have only this
inscription:
John Marshall, son of Mary and
Thomas Marshall, was born on the 24th
of September, 1855, intermarried with
Mary Willis Amber on the Sd OF January,
1888, and departed this life on the -
day of -, 1S-."
John c. Calhoun's domestic life was a
lovely one. He married his cousin, and
the property he got from her made his
political career free from financial cares
Henry Clay married Lucretia Hart, a rel
ative of Thomas Benton, who had good
dowry and understood how to keep house.
Daniel Webster's two marriages were
both marriages of love. His first wife was
Grace Fletcher, the daughter of New
Hampshire clergyman, and Webster mar
ried her when he was 26 years of age, and
while he was yet poor lawyer. His
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