Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-05-02
REPUBLICAN COURT BELLIES.

REPUBLICAN COURT BELLIES.
beautiful womsa VINO Have Excitet
4 Admiration.
1 All through our national history wo
men have exerted q strong, though gen
orally quiet influence In shaping the
destinies of our country; not, like the
women of the days Of Louis XIV, Louis
XVI, the French Revolution and the
two Napoleons with intrigues and
schemes, and liaisons, but with honor
and for the country's welfare.
When Patrick Henry was on his way
to the Continental Congress in 1774,
passing day at Mount Vernon, Martha
Washington talked to him like a Spartan
mother. II hope. she said, ayou will
stand firm, I know George will" The
encouragement was not without its ef-
feet upon the destinies of the country.
The wife of John Adams supported
him in his advocacy of the Declaration
of Independence, while John Dickin-
sons women made him timid by con-
juring up visions of the scaffold and he
lodged the vote on the adoption of the
Declaration. Abigail Adams constantly
supported her husband in his efforts for
American Independence.
John Hancock's wife, who was a
Quincy, married him when price was
set upon his head and he was in hiding.
She said she would willingly incur beg.
gary to see the colonies throw off the
British yoke.
Martha Washington was frequently in
camp with her husband, and they spent
that awful winter at Valley Forge to-
gether, enduring the same hardships,
while she devised means to comfort the
sick and wounded.
Elizabeth, the wife Of Alexander Ham
ilton, and daughter Of Gen. Philip
Schuyler, assisted him in his labors,
counseled him in his affairs, and kept
his accounts in order. She was a
beautiful, accomplished and educated
lady.
The wife of Gen. Henry Knox was an
intelligent, sensible woman, of shrewd
wit and popular favorite at the early
Republican court. She was very
large lady and lady of fashion of the
day.
Mrs. Robert Morris was an elegant,
accomplished, and rich lady, and when
her husband was cast into debtors
prison she refused to sign certain papers
in favor of the Holland Land Company
until they agreed to have her husband
released and grant her an annuity of
$4,000.
Mrs. John Jay was very viyacious
beauty and great favorite of Nine.
Lafayette and the other social leaders
of that time. She was possessed of rare
accomplishments, talked French like a
Parisienne and was fine artist and
musician.
Dolly Madison, the beautiful Quaker
ess, when she entered the White House
became the disputed queen Of society.
She became the rage, for she was pretty,
amiable, winning, a charming enter
tainer, bon mots rose to her in appar-
ent unstudied spontaneity, and her
favorites always secured what they
desired.
Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron
Burr, and wife of Gov. Joseph Allston,
Of South Carolina, was a beautiful and
learned woman. She idolized her father,
and attended his trial for treason at
Richmond, where her beauty and in
tellectual graces did much to conquer
popular hostility and secure favorable
verdict. She was lost at sea while 60
ing from Charleston to New York in
December, 1872.
Mrs. Eaton peggy O'NeaD, wife Of
Gen. Jackson's War Secretary, though
beautiful and lively, was snubbed by
all the other Cabinet ladies, and be-
cause the Presidents niece, Mrs. Don
elson wouldn't recognize her he sent
that lady home. jackson, who could
conquer the Indians and the British,
couldn't settle the women's fight, so he
reformed his Cabinet and sent Eaton
abroad, where the latter's wife had de-
cided social success.
Among the ruling beauties at Wash
ington just before the war were Mrs.
Slidell wife of the Louisiana Senator,
and Mrs. Fremont, daughter Of Thomas
Benton. The destinations of the later
were so great. her intellect SO strong
and bright, her wit SO sprightly, that
her power with our leading statemen
became mighty. Washington Critic,