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

than rage, his manner was grave, mia
and reserved. He was a lover of little
children and an admirer and defender
of women. Quincy, who disapproVed
OF him, portrayed him as "a knightly
parsonage, narrow, mistaken on many
points, but vigorously gentleman in
his high sense of honor, and in the nat
ural straightforward Courtesies which
are easily distinguishable from the We
neer of policy" 1t was his simple faith
to punish his enemies and to reward
his friends, and, beyond this, he hated
the former and loved the latter to the
utmost tension of every fiber of his su-
per-vitalized personality. When,
therefore, he learned. shortly after the |
beginning of his administration, that |
the wife of his secretary of war was
denied social recognition by the fami-
lies of other members of the cabinet, |
he swore as soon as bewilderment and |
wrath would permit that by the Eter- |
nal he would champion and restore the
injured and insulted lady. With Jack
son it was an easy matter not only to
be right but also to be president!
1t was clergyman who first called
Jackson's attention to the alleged i'm
prophecies of Mrs. Eaton's past-how
many there are who will at once COM
ment, "Of counsel" And very regret
full clergyman he was before the gene
raj got through with him. He was re-
quired to submit PROOFS not platitudes,
and naturally, the task was strange
one for him. The president instituted
veritable inquiry into rumors whose
main strength was their vagueness.
Nothing could exceed the energy with
| which he prosecuted searches, wrote
letters and sent agents scurrying hith-
| err and thither He called special
| cabinet meeting and forced the reVe-
rend gentleman to repeat his charges,
| only to refute them seriatim with evil
| dence as to time and place. Thus he
| felt that he had triumphantly vindica-
| ted Mrs. Eaton with only the tritling
| loss of one clergyman numbered
| thenceforth among the missing!
| The ladies remained obdurate, how
| ever They were not parties to any
| such proceeding, and not only were not
| bound by it's decision, but filled with
contempt for it. They refused to call
on Mrs. Eaton; they refused to recog-
| nize her presence at any public or pri-
. | waite 1ullCllbH. llltliIc NiouVb NiAe's
has been aptly termed 1.-THE importa
ton of Mrs. Eaton's visiting list into
the politics and government Of this
country"
She was denounced to the depths;
she was applauded to the skies. She
was idealized as ''Bellona;" she was
stigmatized as THE scarlet woman Of
the administration. The cabinet, the
congress, the country one and all be-
came passionately divided over the en-
crossing question of her lapse or i'm
peccability.
And how did this latter-day Helen
view all this notoriety? 1t amused
her; she enjoyed it, She was as full of
high ambitions as she was of redoubta-
BILE courage. She never doubted her
ultimate triumph There is a calnlness
which belongs exclusively to beauty.
Doubtless it comes as an additional en-
! dowment from Venus. One can pic
ture her as murmuring. with plying
smile: what fools these mortals be-!
even though every dance in which she
stood up instantly dissolved into Its
original elements.
Washington at this time was great
Il
1 plete: a place of possible grandeur and
! of present needs Its society presented
much the same incongruity between Its
aspirations and realities. Notnht
: could be more democratic than the Of
. fetal hordes with whom the new presi'
: dent speedily surrounded himself
Hitherto they had been the great neg
. lected; the lookers-on, while the loaVe
IL and fishes went to the cultured few
d from Virginia and New England; nov
i they had elected their man, and tn
i day had come. Let the weakest TAX
the hindmost in a general push ant
crush! And yet, the conventionalitie
of the old world We're surprisingly dea
l. to these people. They We're not half
is century away from a monarchy an
1t they reverenced it's traditions as muc
% as they despised it's institutions. An
q so, while the men smoked long ella
nj pipes and conjured low political trick
a over port and Madeira, the wome
at were alive and alert on all questions c
l. precedence and ceremony, and keen
r. concerted response to the whispers {
Islander, especially if their object hal
al pened to be as radical in conduct a
,e- she was unusual in charm. They Ell
no loved their festivities in the blaze {
a. candles, but with this blaze there ws
a. always a certain accepted quantity
an smell and smoke.
of There were peculiar reasons VIII
H. President Jackson should be unusual
it vehement in this championship. Il
e. was fond of Eaton; he had known Mr.
all Eaton from her childhood, and ha
,ir been wont to call her little frien
ar, Peg" and he liked her, too. But, b.
.lf sides all this, he had had his own mar
al tai eccentricity, and had suffered fro
.ct it all the chagrin of a proud, sensiti'
C. man. He had married his wife aft
to a, supposed divorce from former hu
er band, and when this divorce was act
D. ally granted, he had married h
he again. Mrs. Jackson was good, tn
or woman, and the general loved her d
votedly. He had fought duels on
Ike count of slurring references to her mi
ay fortunes; during the late campaign /
H. opponents had reiterated the old st
me ries with wanton and vile exagger
it'll ton And in the hour of his trump
ad this helpmate of years, who had nurs
III his wounds and managed his affai1
1st YES. and had smoked many corn-c
ted pipe with him evenings before t
see kitchen hearth of the Hermitage, h
,b- died and left him alone and inconsol