The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-04

Jackson at HrSl niu NOT isSiS'N" |
idea. He realized that the haturai
course of events together win tne
mans signal services and apllltS'
would name Calhoun as a candidate
He had dictated, too, from the begin
nine that no member of his cabinet
should have any such ASPIRATION,
Likely enough, the favorite son OF
South Carolina would not have become
disappointed and soured had alfalrs
only retained their masculine dlrect-
ness. But when chiValry had come 10
mean party allegiance, and the door OIL
society to be the gate to political pre-
ferment, then the stiff-backed were
sure to be left far behind by those who
could bow and scrape,
Mrs Calhoun refused to know Mrs
Eaton; and yet, anterior to the admin.
istration, she had been in the habit Oh
calling on her. This distinction With
out n difference, so purely feminine
fairly maddened the president. He eX-
postulated with Calhoun in long, for-
NAL letter-indeed, it would be dihicult
to say whether the letters of that day
were the more distressing for their
length or their formality-Calhoun re-
sponded in a tlippant style, when OF
itself was an added injury. He SAID
that it was ladies quarrel. ana
that 1.-THE laws of the ladies, like those
of Modes and the Persians, admitted
neither of argument nor amendment,
jackson repudiated both propositions
The quarrel was his own; and the only
immutability of edict legitimate in the
lo tot mo hlDlSelI.
Thenceforth he looked with doubt on
Calhoun's future and with suspicion on
his past, much to the delight of certain
unofficial advisers, who believed that
Martin Van Buren, was the one anu
only Elisha to strut in their Elijah's
robe.
Van Buren, was widower when he
came to Washington to assume office
as Jackson's secretary of state
| Doubtless had his wife been living, she
would have accompanied him in his
| immediate call on Mrs Eaton; for he
was we'll constituted to be one of a
model couple, knowing but q single
will, and that will his, of course. The
! French and Russian ministers CHANGED
to be bachelors and they found good
natured amusement in the situation,
With them Van Buren, formed an ALI
ance to give Mrs. Eaton the vindica-
ton of social prestige, and thus to sat
| isfy the fierce determination of his
chief. incidentally, the adroit little
man hoped to advance himself: nor are
instances uncommon wherein a fair
lady's handkerchief has proved an eff
cient aid to climbing. So there were a
dazzling succession of receptions, balls
and dinners, at which Mrs. Eaton was
the bright particular planet but, alas!
no feminine satellite revolved around
her!
Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs Donelson, the
wife of the presidents private secreta-
ry, and mistress of the Palace, as the
White House was then called; Nine
Huygens. the wife of the Dutch minis
ter, and the wives of the Messrs Ing
ham, Branch and Berrien of the cabi.
net attended all the routs, but they
never saw Mrs Eaton. A very charac'
teristc scene took place at a ball giver
by the Russian minister, when supper
was served. 1t was the custom il
those days for the ladies to sit at
long table by themselves, while the
men thronged about the buffet in an
other room. This custom, by the way
, was one of the Domestic Habits of thu
Americans" with which the more o
less celebrated Mrs. Trollope found |
profitable to find so much fault, sh
claiming that drunkenness and incivil
ity were its cause.
At this supper, then, Mrs. Eaton wa
) escorted with much state, by the host
: to the head of the table, where she sal
: smiling, lovely and triumphant. Th
chair next to her was vacant and t
. this, with similar ceremony, Nine
: Huygens was led Not supinely, how
$ ever The naughty lady cast on
v glance of defiance on her foe. and on
V look of contempt at her allies, who ha
e been too cowardly to resist, and the
e marched out of the house! One ca
d picture the general consternatio
s which followed this insult, unusual
+ not being yelled; the rufi1ing of the III
: happy secretary of war, the diplomat
d shruggings of the Dutch minister, II
h half-amused, half-timorous expires
d sions which shot like silent message
V around the lavish board, overburdene
8 with crowded platters, massive tanl
n ards, glittering plate and towering cal
If delabra. There was the awkwal
II pause of the unexpected, in which 9
If shared, save the one who shou
y have been most affected. Mrs. Eatt
Is calmly raised her lorgnette to her ey
l. and, gazing after the retreating dam
If remarked: What an elegant carriat
Is she has" 1t must be remembered tn
Of in the old fables Venus was never en-
barrassed.
" Jackson and his lieutenants were d
" feated. The hero of New Orleans h;
lie met adversities more powerful and pi
$. Hess than the veterans of the Penins
I'd la. The ladies We're irreconcilable,
d. | they have ever been from the Fren
o. Revolution to the American civil WE
i and their husbands conceded in t
m dictum: 1.-THE society Of Washingt
We must be the best judge of whom
or ought to receive" Nothing then /
G. manned but to punish such gross reb,
H. lion. Jackson dismissed his privs
or secretary, who was also his favor
,e nephew. He nearly provoked a forei
o. complication by threatening to give t
O. Dutch minister his walking pape
s. AS for Calhoun, the kitchen cabir
tic attended to his aspirations. Inform
a. ton was obtained from Crawford II
a Calhoun, as a member of Monro
III cabinet, had disapproved of Jackso
cd conduct in Florida-an unpardona'