The Greensborough patriot [October 18, 1867]

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THE GREENSBOR
Volume XXIX. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1867. Number 1,367.
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IlilPUDIATION.
EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT:—Since the
publication of my former article, a little
more than twelve months ago, upon the
above subject, my view? have not changed,
but on ili • contrary, they have been great-ly
strengthened by reflections, mutation of
time, and by personal observations in my
intercourse among the people. In
this communication I shall quote free-ly
from my former observations as
well as IV 'in authority distinguished for fi-nancial
ability.
in the publication above referred to, I
Bald that " 1 did not believe in the princi-ple
of repudiationper ee, * * * but recent
enactments ofthe law-making power of
our State, together with a continuation of
extraordinary circumstances, have, as I
humbly believe, forced i!, as a necessity
upon the people. And I believe it is the
only policy I M to the p 'Ople now, to save
them From utter ruin and pecuniary de-structi
Il-pudiation was begun by
The consequence comes at last to a focus,
and falls with crashing fares on the heads
ofthe working people, who produce and
make everything that is produced in the
country. It is impossible that any person
in the country can be free from the bur-wears
clothing, pays a share of the com-mon
tax, which therefore falls on man, wo-man
and child. Those who do not pay
for themselves must be paid for by others.
constitution a nnlity. Tie is bold and hon-est
enough to publicly declare that the
ruling power in the United States, pays no
attention to the constitution—lhat all the
legislation ofCongress is in disregard ofthat
instrument.' Then why should we be such
den of debt. Whoever eats food and sticklers to our great detriment ? It is
further held that the State is dissolved. If
that be so-and really they are treating ns as
though it is so—all debts due to and from
the State as a corporation are wiped out.
Even for the infant just born the tax must This is according to the old common law-be
paid The most distinctive and mate-rial
bearings of our great bond, capital
spring from the fact that it is capital to
those only who hold it and a tax to every
body else. The whole estate of the coun-try
is reaped over to supply income to the
bondholder, that is, the properly of the
many supplies income to the few. There is
consequently a pr gressive aggregation of
the general wealth to increase particular
wealth; and the longer it continues the
worse it becomes. This is because the
bonds partake more of the character of
fixed than of circulating capital. Though
they may be used as currency, they are
principles upon which corporations are
founded. (See Blackstone, Vol. I page 484.)
But I will not here trouble you in attempt-ing
to argue the law, and constitution, were
I capable of doing so.
My opinion is the people will take mat-ters
in their own hands and will repudiate.
I»y far the largest portion of our popula-tion
are property holders only to a limited
extent. Hence as a general thing they
pay only poll tax. This is especially so as
to our colored population; They are not
going to be eternally saddled with a tax
to pay another man's debt—a debt in which
they had no hand in making. They are
inations among those who are able to
hold and manage them, whereas divisibili-ty
of capital causes it to escape freely and
confined by the magnitude of their denom- going to Vote to do away sooner or later,
with this state of things, as they then
would only have to pay a small poll tax to
pay current expenses ofthe government.—
to flow in small currents. Hence our'bond 11 tell you just so certain as this subject >ia
capital is an exclusive capital—the capital I brought and discussed before the public,
ot a class ; not like money which is the j"*t *° certain will it be seized with av.d.ly
capital of the people, continually and with i ty the popular mind. It never has been
infinite repetition applicable to small ! discussed before the people ofthe State
wants. The credit side is always ostenta- F«* 5 i""1 it8 opponents are afraid for it to
ciously held out to view while the debt come before them, and they will do all they
side is kept in the background and con- ( can to prevent it, but sooner or later, it j to the public at iarge w„ether a State or
'■ will be submitted to them. It ought to territory.
But recollect that the people are required
by the Congress to reconstruct. This word
by necessary implication carries the idea
of a tearing down of a prior construction.
We are required by the Supreme law of
the land to reform or reorganize the entire
fabric of government, by incorporating or-ganic
laws in a written constitution, which
is to be submitted to Congress ; which re-cognizes
no written national constitution.
Now dontyou suppose Congress would
admit us all the more readily if we have rid
oursel ves of all encumbrances in the way
of debt, thereby enabling us the better to
pay our portion ofthe national debt ? Be-fore
we are admitted by Congress we are
not a State, and hence were we to adopt
repudiating laws it would not conflict with
the constitutional inhibition—supposing
the constitution to be adhered to—" no
State shall pass laws impairing the obliga-tion
of contracts." That prohibition does
not prevent a territory from passing such
laws. North Carolina is treated as, and is
said to be a territory. We would not be
a State until we shall have reconstructed,
by writing a code of organized laws, and
admitted into the Union. My opinion is
Congress will not admit us as bankrupts,
but will either require us to be a solvent
people, or be indifferent as to what we do
in the way of repudiation. Hence I think
there can be no constitutional objection as
to the honesty part.
It is a fundamental principle of law that
private must yield to public interest. The
private interest of some individuals must
yield to the interest of the whole'/ that is,
The people cannot pay if they would.—
When these debts were «ontraded, they
cealed.
The natural tendency of excessive taxa-! he done in this Convention campaign, so
tiou is to create a ruling and a subject or the principles may be discussed ; and, if
vassal class in society. The whole mass carried, action might be taken upon it by j had negroes, banknotes and other valua-of
property is reaped over and the product the Convention prior to framing a coasti- j b|es, but now they have nothing but land
goes into the possession ol the few, grad- tutio11- So n,uch f,,r the State debt- Now j and that very much deteriorated in value.
ir closed, "ally concentrating in their hands the pow- let us notice individual debts. T|ie basis w,lich upon tb«e contracts was
,. repudiated the war debt owing by the er of money and credit, and finally the I As a repudiation of a portion of the pub- j tbundedhas been awepta way by circumstan-
State It was done it is true "by the ' public offices also. The higher the tax Bo debt necessitates the repudiation ot the j ce8 over which we had no control. What, it
inexorable behests from the Government the more rapidly does this unequalizing whole of it so I think a repudiation of a j isask.d, wou)d become of the ophans ? It
at Washington City, hut that doesalter its ; process go on. No tyranny is more abso- portWB ot the private debts, (viz in the i(J gai)1 lhcv would 8U,rer. They would no
,,,,-„., r ,„ ti, ,„.' ,i. For if the State lute than the tyranny of circumstances case of the banks) necessitates the rcpud-a-1 doubt> but lia9 not an suffered ? To take
V he cannot pay B and he growing out of the domination of capital, turn ot the whole ot them—and this even ( broaJ flom one 8Ct of children and give it
I • and so on ad inflnUum and no dependence more servile than the >f the necessity did not arise from an ma- t0 another would not better our condition
l*e next act ©^repudiation was by the dependence for bread. Of all the injuries bihty to pay, ol which there is, ... my , To OL,g ouc lo suppiv another would not
urc in allow!.. ' the banks to close ' that a government can inflict on the peo- °P""°». "° *>"hl- <*eBeral Sheridan gave j ,ubserveany interest. All fall m the same
would be engendered in collecting debts;
I say in view of aH this, the best thing
that could be done would be to cancel all
debts contracted prior to May, 1805, and
begin anew, letting each man keep what
he has and he could make out to live in
peace. All would be inspired with new
vigor and would go to work with new en-ergy
and make something as an inheri-tance
for the rising generation. Under
ordinary circumstances I am much oppos-ed
to the impairing of the obligation of
contracts as any man living, but the fore-going
reasons cause me to form my be-liefas
expressed in this communication. It is
only my present belief, and as I am open to
conviction, if any person will offer reasons
on the other side that will show fallacy in
the positions I have assumed, I will yield
the point. For I entertain these views
from an honest conviction of what I con-ceive
to be right.
HUMMINGDALE.
CHICAGO, Sept. i, 18»7. | and it must have been will, disappoi
MR. BKADV, Commission Broker, No. 009, | ment and disgust tint she took her .I-I>
Scandalum Magnatum!
Mrs. Lincoln nnd Her Wardrobe.
Curious Developments— White House
Revelations—How Executive Patron-age
is Controlled—Influence of Valu-able
Presents to Members of the l*resi-dent's
Family—Difference Between Be
ing the Wife of a Live JVesident and
t/ie Widow ofa Dead One, *fcc, &c.
From The New York Herald of the 4th
A short time since no. man was more
popular in the United States than Abraham
Lincoln, to whom all were willing to pay
their homage and express their friendship
—to himself in protestations, to hisfamily
in costly and magnificent presents. This
was in the day of power, when the keen
scent ofthe place hunter told him when to
fawn and crawl, to elide himself by any
means to office, so that the country might
repay him for the losses sustained in ob-taining
it. Times, however, have changed.
Mr. Lincoln is no more. Patronage is
no longer in the hands of his family and
the vultures have flown away. Now for
one curious sequel.
AH INCOGNITO ARRIVAL AT A UOTEL.
On the 19th of September last a lady,
calling herself Mrs. Clarke, accompanie 1
by a colored female servant, arrived at the
Union Square Hotel in this city. Her bag.
gage consisted oftwo trunks, on the largest
of which the name "Mrs. Lincoln, Spring-field,
Illinois," was visible, though an ett'ort
corporations I me passions o. uieuiuiuiuuc w UMJ-W r . —— —- -- —- ■ —- , i written in pencil
Con-ress mxt stepped for- naticism. The inequality of the condition that he believed ...a very tew-v ears the prcacher to his Sunday School, and good ,je name i.McCay.. iI1(ii8tmCtry lettered
ward and i,as,cdtho Bankrupt Law, which in the extreme classes in Great Britain has whole property ... Mississippi, both real to write upon paper, but when you have thereon.-Those gentlemen at the hotel
j and personal, would change hands ; and to deal with men in money matters, it will j who had known Mrs. Lincoln, thought
that, in nine cases out often, it would fall all vauish |ikl. the mist before a noon-day's that this Mrs. Clarke was not she, although
i„ U» M. O..OTUK,™ .gUb*. N.O. sim. Soll;,M „,„ click h «,„ ear *»U,e ^SttZSZSiTjZSi
ing can IKS plainer than such will be the s!ow and never ceasing pulsations of the out but VCry little during her May of ex-casein
this State. If the Stay Law should heart. The last crumb would be taken from actly a week, and left on the 2tfth of Scp-be
pronounced unconstitutional (as no t]ic cryjng babe's mouth. Those who have tomber, promising to give directions by
doubt our judges will be sticklers enough ', , t dcal wilh Uie wor]d know that letter subsequently as to the disposal <f
to do) and the old course of collection of ..... , __, writin„ is true. in aH the ' h,er *?** It very soon became known
' . . wnat i am \\iiiiii0 i" ""t. in an "'" j t|,at the lady was none other than Mrs.
debts he resorted to, the property in the transactions I have heard of there has not; LjIK.0in> w|10, after leaving the Uniou
In his message to the General Assembly Stete wiU completely change hands in two boeIiaiiaifdozc.,c. editors who were willing j Hotel, absented herself from the city, but
• • n u- .u » <-» I vcars by forcing the people into the whirl- in „ iim.rnmi„ hut «n the contrarv have for a very short time, and on her return
ed, hut at the lowest estimate it is large . Gov. \\ orth says: Our only resource ->ca ' » » » . ,0 C' ' ,y ,, took rooms at the St Denis Hotel, under
enough toswell the amount to*16,000,- other than taxation, to meet our debt, is P°°'°' bantruptcy. And it will fall into fc^ exacting and re.entl.ss Md actually ^J2^iTwliTu^^n Her
rpwards of three fourths stock in our Rail Roads." Is not that a the hands ot note-shavers, land-sharks, g)t angry wi,|, the debtor because he is^^assuming the fictitious names
or $12,000,01 .of this amount is held in lamentable confession ? A few thousand b|?^™^^~J?^1^J^? _.^ j billing to pay more than 4be scaling law are given in the following extracts of a
bonds by creditors in Europe and New dollars interest in a tottering corporation,
York, bought up at from fifty to seventy- the stock of which is at a great discount
is nothing more nor less than a species of become so confirmed by the long continue
repudiation. Thus the ball has been put action of excessive taxation, that the ten-distincl
instances and dency to pauperization is no longer an ac-t
point ... shai! stop cideiital, but a constitutional fact. As the
it. We will first notice tli Stale debt. j weight of a tax is more grievous on the
According to authentic and official sta-1 poor than on the rich, the unequalizing
tisl ■- i1 ■■ debl of the Stale amounted be- process never ceases. The consequence is
the war, to $1 1,436,500. The debt iu- that one out of every twenty is a pauper.
J durii » the war other than in aid of, Then how are we to remedy these evils?
„•,., per Uscotmt. Now the people ' to pay ON.: HtrxDBED AND ONE MILLIONS
arc called up nt.>pay, to the full amount! ($101,000,000) of dollars in gold. Yet
thisd bt and interest in SJ ie or its equiv- (such is the official facts. Were we to
ale.it. Our portion of the debt of the transfer these stock, it would not amelio-
General Government will not fall short of rate our condition. It would not greatly
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principally Northern men. Thus we would ' ;l]|ows. you know this is true.
have a perfect landed aristocracy—princes , q-j)C pcop)e ;ire less abtS to pay now
and peasants. Let these heavy taxes be tbrln at any period since the War, and are
i.n;
forced,
th
LETTER FUOM MRS. LINCOLN.
Through the ingratitude of the Repub-licans
toward the memory ofthe lamented
consequence) for sale all at one ; wild and useless shrubbery, and their j Lincoln, the honored and beloved wife of
i
get
A
ti m ofthe national -lb!, and we have ex- charges as they might deem fit ; and if it
hibited the i ns and astounding sum | suited their purposes and caprices they
ofofl hundixd and one millions of dot- [would stop running the roads altogether,
lars,which the State has set down to her j unless some extorting condition was com-in"
the personal. One of the strongest proceeding. Although in her overwhelm-debt.
How is tlii- amount to be paid ?
All the property in the State put up at auc-tion
and sold would not pay it. To at-tempt
(for it would only be an attempt) to
me. t these demauds we will have the fol-lowi.'
g speei < of taxes to pay, viz:
1st tax for National debt.
2nd tax for Interest on same.
I'• \ enue.
tax i Bani i] tcy.
Jbr tin ',':■■■ mi n's Bureau.
expenses of GOV-ernmi
nt.
7tli tax for State debt.
• ax for Inti es i ;i same.
!Uh tax for i in cut expenses of State
(>■ 'vernmc.it.
lOth t is for County debt.
1 Ith lax for interest on same.
12th tax for current expenses of the
• ty.
Ive species of taxes.
i!, v. ir closi 1 we have only been
taxi I to defray the current and "■tcessary
»1 carrying on the Government.
Now ifsnel taxes as bav been levied and
e did last two years (being two
II rs on the poll and
ion) are only adi qnateto
pay ciirr !», w at oh! what will
it 1M -' . havcbi en levied to pay
tli intercs* d thi principal debts, and the
prii ipal th msclves ? Wo have
not as yel ' '••.: rest down, much
. I ortii n of the principal of
this largi in . i. bt. What is the
pffec ii banging over us ? La-bor
isoppr—id in all its branches. By
the ■;■ ;sive taxes, capital
in tl ' ands ofthe fvw, and
tends '. (avi ra wealthy class, which grad-rbs
all the functions of tho State,
.. to perpetuate its own rule:
plied with. Should this enormous debt
be assumed, it would hang like an incubus
over the already impoverished and bank-rupt
people, parallizing their industrial
pursuits, and producing such a desponding
tendency ns to cripple the energies ofthe.
farming population. Who would have the
courage to attempt to make more than a
bare subsistence ? What would there he
to stimulate the farmer to sow his fields
and the reaper to reap the harvest ?—tin-smith
to beat the iron—the mechanic to
ply the plane—the laborer to follow the
plow—the tailor to ply the needle and the
maiden to nurse her flowers ? when their
slumbers would be continual!} disturbed by
the ghostly apparition of enormous taxes .
Oh ! the truth had as well be told. The
Sheriff's mallet falls. A man with #20,000 mer p(,,.;od . and that they cannot pay
would be able to buy a half of a county, j tlu.ir Jt.bts {f) ti,e fell amount. And yet
As I said above, let ihe courts be open- nesavs » t)K, creditor must be satisfied"—
ed and the process already begun for col-; |nat .*m iiupossibility must be performed—
looting debts will go on, and new process that the creditor must say to the debtor
delicacy in desiring
their own ignomiuy from bciug known to
the world.
MBS. LINCOLN'S PECUNIARY DIFFICULTIES.
Mrs. Lincoln's visit, so privately, it was
ascertained, was made for the purpose of
disposing of some other personal property,
will issue for the collection of such debts as "notwithstanding lam doing very well and ' aB j,er present iecome is inadequate to In r
people cannot pav their taxes and debts, trouble of attending upon Courts from
and it had as well be told first as last.-
They cannot perform an impossibility. As
I said above, the State has already repu-diated
in two instances. If it can do so in
one instance, has it not the power to do so
in others ? If it bencfitted the State to
get rid of a part of an evil, does it not ar-gue
that it would be of still greater bene-fit
to get rid ofthe whole ? But it is said
the State has no power to repudiate under
the constitution d inhibition that " no
State shall pass laws impairing the obliga-gation
ol contracts." She ha; already done
so, and so did the State of Mississippi some
years since, aud her power to do so was
folly vindicated and established. These
facts clearly prove the power of a State to
do so, and even if they did not, what is the
constitution now ? What now? Tbaddeus
Stevens who holds the political destinies of
thirty-five millions of people in his own
hands-—has very truthfully declared the
has not been pushed. Let us see what will j notwithstanding you are impoverished by
be the cost of collection, and to whom the events over which you had no control, yet
benefit of litigation will ultimately accrue, j I must strip yooof what little you have
We have eighty-five counties. Each conn-: left and begger your children "
ty will have say 1000 writs or suits ; and | q'|10 people are getting on very well nn-th.
it is not an overestimate, as some conn-1 dor General Order, No. 10, everybody
tics have already exceeded that number by j givjnir it a willing acquiesenco, and if it
hundreds. Then we will have 85,000 writs j was made perpetual it would suit them
or suits. Each suit will average in cost i aj| l]!C better, for it is a unanimous senti-
$20. The cost of collecting these debts j nu.nt that a law embodying the principles
then would be $1,700,000 before any debt 10f General Order No. 10 will eventually
be paid; to say nothing of the time aad be passed.
In conclusion my opinion is thst repu-diation
is not so impossible that we are
out of the debtor class as cost, &c. and go jratified in treating it with contempt. It
in the pockds of the lawyers and the ofii-! \s B0| pir se, as il has been generally
cers of the Court. Th.s vast amount of
litigation would cost a vast amount oftime,
hard feeling and cnmiiy among the people
gcneially. And if the Courts of common
law only get the debtor's hide, the Courts
of Bankruptcy wouU finish him by taking
his tallow also ; and thus make bis pover-ty
more completely splendid. There are
interested classes that will oppose it and
usemany opprobrious epithets, such as dis-honesty,
«£c. They will say it is unconsti-tutional.
This is all bosh, and proceeds
Iron, just the sentiment they charge against
the man who honestly believes it would be
best for the State end people, under the
peculiar circumstances to "wipe out and
be<rin anew." Some will say that the na-tional
constitution will prevent the people
from " rubbing out and beginning anew."
characterized, an extrinsic, unnatural and
totally unjust measure, indicative of a low
state of public morals ofthe social anarchy
Which preceeds national dissolution. It
may on the contrary be a proof of social
vi.,or_an evidence of the sense of individ-ual
right in the popular mind—an asser-tion
of the claim? of labor against a sys-tem
of grinding oppression.
Then I say considering the cxtraordina-rj
circumstances by which we are surroun-ded
of havi-ig commenced repudiation—
the deprivation by the war of all means to
pay—events over which we had no con-trol—
the distracted condition ofthe coun-try
aud money matters—the almost impos-sibiii'.
y of ascertaining the exact amount
due from one to another—the great ex-pense,
trouble, cost i»nd ill-feeling that
wants, she being possessed of in all but
81,700 a year, $300 of which comes from
the rent of her old house in Springfield,
the remainder being the interest of the
$25,000 which Congress appropriated for
her benefit, in place off100,000 which her
friends made an effort to obtain, but which
the friends of the dead President succeed-ed
in defeating. The lady, immediately
after living in such splendid style, felt em-barrassed
in endeavoring to support her-self
and young ones on so small a pittance.
She went to live at a second class hotel in
Chicago, where ultimately she found her-self
scarcely able to pay her bills. The re-sult
was her determination to part with
some of her personal effects and it was for
this purpose that, accompanied by her
faithful negro servant Lizzie, the only one
who left the luxuries ofthe White House
to follow the fortunes ot the President's
widow, she visited our city, and very soon
enteied into negotiations with a well known
broker on Broadway, to whom she had
previously addressed the following letters :
sins. LINCOLN'S CORUESPONI>KNCE.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1, 1867.
MR. BRADY.—A notice in a New Yo.k
paper having attracted my attention, thai
you sold articles of value on commission,
prompts me to write you.--The articles I
am sending you to dispose of were gifts ol
dear friends, which only urgent necessity
compels me to part with, and I am ehpscial-ly
anxious that they shall not be sacrificed.
The circumstances are pcculirr and pain-fully
embarrassing; therefore I hope you
will endeavor to realize as much as pos-sible
from them. Hoping soon to hear
from you, I remain, very respectfully,
yours,
Broadway, New York:
I have this day sent you personal pro-perty
which I am compelled to part with,
and which you will find of considerable
value. The articles consist of four camel's
hair shawls, lace dress and shawls, i para-sol
cover, a diamond ring, two dress pat^
terns, some furs, &c- Please have then.
appraised and confer by letter with me.
Many, respectfully.
MRS. A. LINCOLN.
CIW-AGO, Sept. 22, 1987.
W. II. BRADY, E«q.:
You write me that reporters are after
you concerning my goods deposited with
you—which, iu consideration ofmy urgent
wants I assure you I am compelled to re-linquish—
and also that is a fear that these
newsmen will seize upon the painful cir-cumstances
of your bating these articles
placed in your hands to injure the reptuV
liean party politically. Inlhc cause of this
party and for universal freedom my be-loved
husband's pr. cionslil'c was sacrificed,
nor for the world would I do anything to
injure the cause. My heart is ever anxious
lor its success, notwithstanding the very
men tor whom my noble husband did so
much unhesitatingly deprived me of all
means of support and left me in a pitiless
condition. The necessities of life are upon
me. Urgent and imperative, and I am
scarcely removed from want—so different
from the lot my loving and devoted hus-band
would have assigned me—and I find
myself left to struggle for myself. Iain
compelled to pursue the only course luf i
KM—immediately within the next week to
sell these goods, and ifnot wholly disposed
of by Wednesday, October 30, on that
day please sell th<m at auction, after ad-vertising
very largely that they are uiy
goods. Very respectfully,
Mns. A. LINCOLN.
Si.i'i KMia.i; 25.
W. II. BRADY, Esq.:
I have reflected upon your remarks, ami
have concluded to leave everything to yoai
good judgment and excellent sense. My
great, great sorrow ami loss have male
me painfully sensitive; but as my feelings
and pecuniary comfort were never regarded
or even recognized in the midst of n•>
overwhelming bereavement, /tow that I am
pressed in a most startling manner for
means of common subsistence I do not
know why I should shrink from an op-portunity
of improving my trying position.
Being assured lhat all you do will be ap-propriately
executed, and in a manner thai
will not startle me very greatly and excite
as little c nitnent as possible, again I shall
leave all in your hands. I am passing
through a very painful ordeal which the
country, in remembrance of my noble and
elevated h'jsband, should have spared me.
I remain, with great respect, very truly.
Mrs. L.
I'. S.—As you mention that my goods
have been valued at $24,000, I will be
willing to make a reduction of $£,000, and
relinquish them for *!C.000, in fhe-twen-ties—'
nothing less. If" this is not accom-plished
I will continue to advertise large!)
until every article is sold. I must have
means to live, at least iu a medium com
fortable state. Mas. L.
W. II. Bn*DY,Esqn60fl Broadway, X. V.:
Sin—The goods arc consigned to you
by me, to be disposed of at private sale or
pnblie auction.—-My necessities are so ur-gent
lhat I give you full discretional \
power to act as my confidential agent at
this time and point. You have my full
consent to use whatever document from
me in your possession, rnd to act in every-thing
as your judgment may dictate. I re-main,
with great respect, very truly,
.Mi:s. LINCOLN.
THE REl't IIMCAN LEADERS.
On being questioned what were her
feelings in regard to the conduct of the re-publican
party towards herself and family,
.Mrs. Lincoln replied: "1 could not relin-quish
my attachment for the parly to which
my husband belonged, and iu whose cause
his precious life was sacrificed, notwith-standing
it is composed of such men as
Weed, Baymond and Seward, who nom-inally
belong to it, and who, to accomplish
their purposes, would drag it down to the
lowest depths of degradation. The lute
1'resi-leit thoroughly tested these m< n.
and had become fully aware before his
death of their treachery and falseness. She
complains bitterly, however, that men w'ho
tx sought her influence to secure their offi-cial
positions and professed themselves her
best friends should now ignore her alto-geiher,
and is particularly severe on parties
such as Weed, Baymond, Seward and
others, through whose influence, she says,
the plan torates voluhtary subscription
ofthe people was defeated.
SURVEYOR WAKEMAN AND MRS. LINCOLN.
Gentlemen interested iu the widow of
the late President called at various times
ti.ro yesterday morning from a oil.!
which rcsido men of wealth, who
derived their riches from her husb*u,
1 utuds and through theinsti umemalitv al
influence of herself.
oBscarPTfox or THE ARTICLES FOR sat
Asone enters the room u here the artk I
are exhibited, the first that attracts the u|e
are five elegant camel's hair shawls hangi);
carelessly on the back of a chair. 'll..y
are of the finest texture, and were con-sidered
the most expensive in the market
at the lime ol their purchase, the largest
costing $ 1.000 in goid and the others from
$325 to $500 each. Two white Paisley
shawls on thcloange. They ai e of remark-able
fmeiic-s aud delicate finish, and :>te
valued at $300 each. On the bhowcase \<**
*•} exquisite and magnificent white J»o;At
lace Shawl which eost $1,000, and mar ijy
are five of the tame, averaging from t-l'
to $400 each. Seven heavy double po'Jt
lace shawls included in the list am worfi
$4,500, and a parasol, covered with t
richest of thread lace, is viilu- 1 at |3(jj
Conspicuous among the articles is a K
fian sable cape of tue linest :m I sc-fo I I
It is very large, and cost $4,600 in go
and is iiccoinpauiod b_\ arable boa vail
accordingly. Thiown upon the furs is^.i
point lace handkerchief ol the most delic 11 <*
textnie, worth $100, ami lying in a pile
upon a long table are lueiity-lhrcc aVstaeS
whose estimated value is $10,000. Two
elaboiately urofight bracelets, ofthe(hu-et
gold and uniquely made, are valued at
#800, and iu the »howoase are displayed
some ofthe richest gems iu the world. An
exquisite set of diamonds, comprising .
pin and earrings, the stones of raia In . -
lia.icy and large size, are exposed tor
They ar valued at 11,500. A single si»lifaii«u
diamond ring, of great brilliancy, is \ aim 1
at $1,500, and two smaller ones coal *:i. >
and $500 respectively. A set ol solitaii I
diamond earrings is valued at $300, an 1
alongside are a watch and chain worm xl -
0' 0. It would be too difficult to dssc I v
the various trinkets and other articles ntfi
ed for sale, the value ofthe whole of whi
is estimated at dose on $.io,ooo iu gold.
MRS. LINCOLN'S KFJ KCTS.
on some of the republican officeholders,
who were panly indebted to that lady for
their j osition, but all of no purpose.—
Among others, in compliance with the fol-lowing
letter, Surveyor Wakeman was
waited on, aud promised two or -three
times to accede to Mrs. Lincoln's request.
Up to the present, it Ts said, he has not
been heard from:
CHICAGO, September 14, 18«7.
W. II. BRAOV, E*v:
Mv DEAR SIR—Please call and see [Ion.
Abram Wakeman. lie was largely indebt-ed
to me for obtaining the lucrative office
which he has held for several years, and
from which he has amasFed a very nrg*
fortune. He will assist me in my painlul
and humiliating situation, scarcely removed
from want. He would scarcely hesitate to
return in a small manner the many favors
my husband and myself always showered
upon him. Mr. Wakeman many times ex-cited
my sympathies in his urgent appeals
for office, as well for bimaell as others.
Therefore he will only be too happy to
relieve me by purchasing oue or more of
the articles you will piease place before
him. Yc.y truly, MRS. A. LINCOLN.
bEl'AKll'KE FROM NEW VOKK UNAIDED.
Mrs. Lincoln's appeal to her -so-called
friends have been made in vain. The men
who gave her valuable prescuts in her hour
of success, now, in her hour of trial, refuse
torelieve her from comparative want. The
poor»lady by this time has discovered the
amount of honor, honesty or disiutcrested-
Comments of the Radical Press—(
rfout Statements—Outburst* of -l/o/l
Wrath Against a Woman.
PriMS The Koi'liistiT Dellioeiat.
Mrs. Lincoln, the widow ol the murdi •-
<-d President, has made an exhibition > t
herself through the columns oi Tht AV-York
World, which we arc sorry to «■. •
for her own sake and that, of her fam:l\».
She has ostentatiously sent lo New YoiyC
for sale certain arlichs if her wardrobi.
such as camel's hair shawls, varying i
value from three hundred and fifty to
teen hundred dollars, point lace sh.-.wi-,
worth two thousand dollars, and a <Ji<-«
iff the same material valued a four thousai il
dollars, a fur cape at fifteen hundred d
lars, a lur boa at twelve hundred, togclh.
with diamonds, Ac, to the total value •
twenty four thousand dollars. She pleai
poverty as the reason (ordisposing of the
articles, and authorises y'hc M'urtd lo sta
that her income is but $1,700 a year, ai
she also authorizes the publication of h
letters to the broker in New York to w Ie-she
has consigned the articles lor sale,
this correspondence and in her conv« r»
th>ns with The World reporters, she <e
plains bitterly of the coun'iy aud of '•'
Republican p:ir!y,and especially ufllcasi,..
Seward, Weed and Raymond for not pro-viding
tor her "rightful maintenance, ;;s
site terms it. Thess three gentlemen are
the only ones she names, probably In <
they are the moat unpopular she can think
of, and she declare! that '"the late l*n
dent, thoroughly tested there in< n and had
become fully aware before his death of
their treachery and falseness."
This is aad, very sad—but it is none of
our funeral. Wean- not Ksponsibi'
Republicans, tut M tor*. Seward, M 111
and Kaymund, v\ ho haw forfeited si]
claims upon ihu paity and have done
they could to destroy it, though the Un
of the trio has hail the grace to conies
IOS fault and to return alter H dubious]
l:t.hioii to his allegiance. I hit bad politic!
ans and recreant republican* ::« tin _\ ati
Messrs, Sewaid, Weed and Itayinou i an
assuredly gentlemen, aid wearo eoufiden
can never have treated .Mrs. I.in >ln oihe
wise than with cou.tesy and uehcuv. il<
fling at them is doubtless a in re • bulhiioi
of feminine spite, tier letters are
nd Vulgar from tin ir publication ari.tine
woman would have shrunk with borro
The whole proceeding is obviously a tua
Denary advertising dodge to advance ti
sale of the articles sent to New V rk. II
prices affixed to these articles are sufficient
to refute Mrs. Lincoln"* pica ol poverl
If she is poor, it is because she liaa wa |
her resources in the purchase ofarticli -
luxury to which she had no claim. Wh ,
business had she with lac- dres-cs Worth
focr thousand dollars each; or with t'o|-
camel's hair shawls worth two thousa f
dollars, or with furs worth thousandsl la
the first of the letters, where she fa!->
assumes the name of Mrs. Clarke, shes'at.p
that these articles Ware pn Sfllila from In
friends. We do not beli \e it.Sbenai bccfi
extravagant, and must take the o nt
quences. She has hn isJM i the mom y giv
to her by the nation on diamonds, fu i a
•ee. and if she has MVeBteva humb
dollars a year left, she has enough f r w.
• t ..an other education and social positiov.
Her conduct during her bushai d'a life w..
not such as to oomntead her very strongly
to public favor, aud th s axtrciucl* un-lignified
correspondence and its very in-
. elicale publication have deprived her of
all farther claims to consideration or ic-spect.
Front Tlie Albany Journal.
We publish today a scathing conitn. -
tary by the New York Commercial A i-
MRS. A. LINCOLN. * ness to be found in the placehunter's heart, 1 be disguis' d that ii
ccrtistr upon the recent nc veuieiit* o! M
Liucoln, in connccliou with Ihe sale f
. urplus articles from her wardrobe and I r
jewellery. It is very sever*-; hut putt c
opinion will pronounce it jus'. ItisdlfHc l
in such sense nj tins to speak m desert d
terms if the misbehavior of an indivi In 1,
more esp. cially when that individua i a
woman, and one who has by virtue of I r
connections occupied the exalted po.it n
of First Lndv ofthe republic, lint it CM l
'.he course she ; .»
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