The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-18
, OWES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN.

Eancroft.
From, the Neto York Star.
Each of our American heroes has lived
.,s material for a novel, and the successes
and disappointments of their love affairs
xvould make library of interesting story.
what can be more pathetic than the life
long disappointments Of James Buchanan,
John Randolph and Alexander III. Stephens?
Ruchanan's sweetheart died during lovers
quarrel. and his bachelorhood became her
r,onument. Alexander II. Stephens, disap-
nointed in his schoolboy love, refers often
Ia her in his letters of long life of single
hIessedness:' and John Randolph, the
moody, unhappy, cratic genius of Roanoke,
lingering for years on the verge of insanity,
enc lis of Maria Ward las one whom he
loved better than his own soul or him who
Randolphs 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-
Tor of a friend of his mother, and Powhatan
Rouldin, a relative of Randolph, says that
he was engaged to her for many years.
Rouldin does not gives the reason why the
engagement was suddenly broken off, but
saws the distinguished lover left the presence
of his idol very much incensed, and that
when he came to his horse, which was tied
70 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 not
on speaking terms. Still he calls her his
angel. and in his letters after her death he
uses this remarkable expression:
Il 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; a son of Edmund
Randolph, who was President Washington's
Secretary of State, and it is related that
4 she so charmed Gen. Lafayette when he Wis
\ tied Richmond thathe wanted to adopt her
as his daughter and asked her to visit him
in France
Gen. Sam Houston, the president of the
republic of Texas and United States Sena-
. tor, was the youngest governor who had
ever presided over the state of Tennessee
i when he fell in love with pretty girl at the
/ state capital. He was fine looking man,
4 and the young ladies' parents considered
| him very desirable husband. They per-
4 suaded his sweetheart to accept him, and
he married her, not knowing that the match
was not love one on her part
After the marriage had taken place
be found that his wife had loved
another He asked her if this was so,
4 hul sic UOlI ullIl IL was. Il6 I6pllcu
she could have her freedom, and that he
would leave Tennessee and permit her to
get divorce on the ground of deserJion.
He did SO, went to the frontier, and joined
tribe of Cherokee Indians. Here he re-
manned three years, and when he visited
Washington in behalf of the Indians in
1882 he wore the Indians garb. From thence
he went to Texas, and after making a name
snd having been president of the republic of
IaYaS hn ynorriaH Mnffat To-
bama lady. His first wife had, it is said, in
the meantime got divorce and had mar
ried her lover
Davy Crockett, another frontier states
man and 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 counting her
richer sutton carried her away before his
very eyes. He next met beauty at ball,
fell In love at first sight, and became en-
gagged at the close of the fifth dance The
day was fixed for him to announce the en-
gegement to her parents. He started to go
to them, but fell in with some boon COM
panlonS, and Nate, as they say. "a night of
it." He arrived a day too late and found
that his lady-love was to be married that
very night to another. He was not deep
lover, however, and he made the best of
bad bargain. He laughed off his disap-
pointment, and danced all night at the we'd
ding 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 Greek war of 1918 made
a reputation in fighting the Indians He
was elected to the legislature, and dur
ing President Jackson's term was sent
to congress. He was killed at the very
battle of the Alamo which was the be-
ginning of Sam Houston's great Texan
career
Most OF our statesmen have pure domes-
nc records, and most of them have been
ardent lovers and have made good husbands.
ihomas Benton was devoted to his wife,
ana he says in his thirty years memoirs that
ne never atten ded any place of festivity or
amusement after her death. The wife of
Senator Allen of Ohio, better known as
Fog Horn' Allen, died at Washington
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 jour
ney, until at last he laid it beside her father,
Goy. Arthur. in the beautiful cemetery at
Chillicothe
Chief Justice Marshall's marriage was a
happy one, and his married life comprised
MY fears of the tenderest affection. His
uiAo ueu DuO snort time before him, and
haIshall directed that his body should be
lad beside hers, and that the plain stone
over their grave should have only this in
scription:
:, John Marshall, son of Mary and Thomas
marshall. was born on the oath of Septem-
oer, 1893, lntermarried with Mary Willis
amber on the Sd of January, 1888, and de-
parted this life on the - day of -,
John c. Calhouns domestic life was
tu1Vely one. He married his consin, and
tne property he got from her made his
ppiltcal career free from financial cares
ihenry Clay married Lucretia Hart, re-
ialVe OF Thomas Benton, who had a good
house. f
Daniel Webster's two marriages were
S SoIh marriages of love. His first wife was
24lace Fletcher, the daughter Of New
naImpshlre clergyman, and Webster mar
neg her when he was 26 years of age, and
"ule he was yet poor lawyer. His
poppihg OF the question was most delicately
uone Miss Grace had been winding a
isAelh OF yarn while he held it for her on his
lug arms: The skein had become entan-
81 esea and through his untwisting, the heads
a tGe TWO lovers came very CLOSE together
as the knot became united, Mr. Webster
~au, we have succeeded Miss Grace, in
III 'yIhS this knot; can we not now tie an
Ei liner which will remain tied as long as we
nneF Miss Grace blushed, and kiss, it is
Ihau, sealed the bargain. The two lived
Iuapplly for eighteen years, when Mrs
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