The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-29

shipped her home To Tennessee and
kept her there until she pleaded for
forgiveness and expressed her perfect
Willingness to receive Peggy o'Neal. He
was fr!gidly polite 10 the wives Of the
Cabinet members who would not recog-
nize Peggy II" thought they were hut
tools in the hands If Clay and Calhoun.
whom he suspected of all wrongs or
troubles that worried him.
A year took the blush of Eaton's
love madness. The violence of the gos-
sip about his wife made him miserable.
II didn't affect Peggy She was as gay
and as lively as ever. What added Ia
Gen. Eatun's embarrassment was the
knowledge that he was powerless. The
opposition to his wife h"ing feminine"
and intangible he could not make head
way against it, The more Jackson
striyed to right Eaton's wrongs the
worse became Eaton's position. And
then came the climax.
To punish the Cabinet Ministers who
would not obey him. or at least would
not make their wives and daughters
obey. jackson determined to get rid Of
them lie arranged with Eaton and
Van Buren, to send in their rcsigna-
tons. The others could not in good
t1dt 10 oll'IN lSt IMAM IblloN suit
Jackson sent Eaton to Florida AS Gov
crnor and "A little later appointed him
Minister to Spain. Van Buren, he sent
rs Minister to the Court of 50. Jamcs's.
Eaton before going to Florida tried
his best to get Samuel w. msham, who
was in the Cabinet with him. to meet
him in duel There is "A story that
pretty Peggy would not have been
| averse to having had little of the
Secretary of the Trcasury's blood shed.
| She was bitter enough ON one occasion
to tell him at the White House that all
he lacked was petticoats.
Eaton and InGham didn't meet on the
field of honor. lnGham had no lust for
combat. He fled from Washington af-
ter refusing an invitation to fight and
upon receiving word from Eaton that
the latter would attack him on sight.
| Tallahassee was very slow place for
| Peggy O'Neal after the splendors of
Washington and its eXcitcments. She
didn't like the dreary old Spanish town,
and neither did Eaton. Their transfer
to Madrid was much more to their lik-
| ing at first, but Madrid palled on Eaton
aftcrs1i time, as it did on pretty Peggy
Neither of them could speak Spanish
Neither Of them had much desire for
the stlltcd LIE of the Spanish court. And
| II the truth must he told Eaton was he
| ginning To tire of the capr!cious Peggy
| and she already was tired of her aged
husband, To Eaton Madrid mean,
exile. To Peggy Madrid meant that
she was out of the world, cut off from
all life, Iayety, everything that she ono,
held dear, and all because she was the
wife OF a white headed and romantic
soldier politician.
Eaton asked to be recalled and to b,
taken into the newly formed Cabinet
Jackson, who knew that the return o
the EatOns to America meant reviva
of all the old gossip. refused. Eaton re
malned abroad as long as he could stan,
It. Then, bitter and resentful, he re
turned to Washington, quarrellcd will
Jackson and quarrelled with prett!
Peggy. ...
II Is odd how queerly men view tn,
things or the persons that affect thei
lives most. Eaton. after his love 10
Peggy O'Neal began to lessen, rathe
felt that Jackson was responsible TO
he fact that Peggy became Mrs. Eato,