THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. { ye? Set of Betty Crocker’s 15 @ incolns —A | All-Star “Kitchen-tested” Recipes! The X ® E P—— . ET —— v we By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HERE is many a paradox in American history, but pone is more curious than this: In the of 1861 to 1863, when the North against Southerner was the mander in chief of Northern forces. Abraham Lincoln was a a a Southern state, Kentucky. than that, his wife was a Southerner, and that fact 1 was the South, native not oniy profoundly Influenced his career but it shaped American history as “wt in and one of the most this: If Ab married Mary ington, Ky. it is would never have heen the United and 3 called upon to lead the armed strength of the nation a his own ple. When the Republican party in 1860 was considering candi undoubtedly well. American his Inter There is an tory, too, esting is had not ncoln Lex- States, peo possible their cholce upon Lincoln partly upon the fact that he was a conservative in regard to the “domi- nant question” of slavery. This servatism brought to him the powerful support of the Border states’ who believed that he possessed a sym- pathetic understanding of their prob lem and could deal with it better than any other candidate before the vention. He had this under standing because his marriage to Mary Todd gave him an opportunity to see both sides of the question. It was in Lexington, in the heart of the largest slave-holding section of Kentue ky, that Lincoln saw at close range the more favorable patriarchal elements of the Institution. His father-in-law owned depended COn- con- sympathetic a resolution, which he always kept, never to sell a slave and thus risk bringing suffering to a human being who had a claim, through faithful service, to his affection. In the home of the Todds and of their friends he saw negro slaves, well-fed, well-housed and kindly treated—the institution of slavery at its best, But there in the chivalrous and ro mantic Blue Grass region, Lincoln also saw slavery at its worst. Some of the masters there abused their slaves; only a short distance from where Mary Todd was born stood a notorious slave prison; and in Cheapside, the market square of Lexington. scarcely a day passed without seeing the publie sale of black men and women. More than that, in the town of Lex. ington there was a miniature repro- duction of the tempest which was rocking the nation—the slavery dis- pute. It was on the borderlund and Robert Wickliffe, father of two of Mary Todd's girlhood chums and the husband of her father's cousin, Lead- ers among the anti-slavery men were Robert J. Breckenridge and Cassius friends of his father-in-law. So when Lincoln made his famous “house-divid- ed-agrinst-itself” speech, he could have pointed to the homes of dozens of families In or near Lexington, Ky., as concrete examples of his symbol. It Is such facts as these that William H. Townsend, a citizen of Lexington, bas brought out In an important study of Lincoln--~the book, “Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town,” published recent. ly by the Bobbs-Merrill company. In the preface Mr. Townsend says: “The name of Abraham Lincoln is forever associated with slavery In the United Btates, Bilographers have traced the gradual development of Lincoln's views on the subject from his first public utterance in the Illinois legls lature down to the Emancipation Proclamation twenty-five years later. Ly 1. Mary Todd Lincoln. 2. Lincoln in 1848. Frecm an old trait of Lincoln, about the time of Lincoln, her marriage to The sources, however, from w» sprung, have not bh vealed, It is the pur to show Lincoln's per hand knowledge of stitution’ the ‘noc could have acquire Mary Todd soon afterwards Lincoln and ried In 1842 and coin was elected to congress, upon a position which contact with appearance the nationa bro the all-im- portant soon to be shaking the nation to the Lincoln's political Mr. that with question wus so its depths, Of importance to Townsend i the lit who went to live Lin- coln at the modest Globe Tavern (in Washington), through her girlhood ex: periences in Lexington, was peculiarly fitted to share in the great task which would make the man she married im- mortal. She had been taught every phase of the great question, which finally came to be nearest his heart, by the very man whom her husband regarded with admiration (Henry Clay). “It may have been that gentle Ann tutledge, or portly, complacent Mary Owens, or youthful, light-hearted Sarah Rickard would endowed the tall Sycamore of the Sangamon with a richer measure of marital bliss, but never did a young wife bring to a husband, interested in stuteeraft anxious for perferment, such future of his marriage, “Seo it happened wife the most have wealth moral and political subject—such fruits of intimate association with great public men of her day as did Mary Todd to Abraham Lincoln." One of these great public men was John C. Breckenridge, a childhood friend of Mary Todd Lincoln in Lex- vice president when Buchanan was President and the candidate of the pro-siavery Democrats in the fateful One of the most dramatic Incidents In Mr, Townsend's book is the story of how It fell to the lot of this friend of Mary Todd's girl- hood to declare the election of her husband to the Presidency. He tells the story as follows: On February 13, 1861, the two houses of congress met in joint ses- sion to count the electoral votes for President of the United States, + + « For days rumors had flown thick and fast that Vice President Breckenridge would refuse to an- nounce the election of Lincoln and thus give the signal for the seizure of Washington by the overwhelm. ing number of southern sympathiz- ers within its gates, General Scott had directed that no person should be admited to the Capitol building except senators, representatives, government employees and those who had tickets signed by the speaker of the house or the presid- ing officer of the scnate, Armed and Bars ing officer ipiter Olympus wit A southern men man cept quest an be entert order. “Is the count of the lectoral menace?” he « ers be required to per yole to pro coed under outed, “Shall mem! form a the Janizaries of General withdrawn from the hall?” “The point of order is not " ruled Breckenridge emphat- Constitutional duty before Scott are Rin tained, ically, as he directed the count to proceed. Slowly, one after another, the long sealed envelopes containing the votes of the various states were opened “Maine for Lincoln™ was followed by a gliight ripple of applause. “South Carolina in an for Breckenridge” was lost outburst of hand-clapping, quickly and sternly su sed by the presiding Then, in an breathless silence and with profound attention on the part of all present, John C. Breckenridge arose from his seat, standing erect, the most dieni- fied and Imposing person in that presence, Dre officer, “Abraham Lincoln,” he announced with a distinctness that carried his mellow the most corner of the gallery, . ceived a majority of number of electoral votes, is duly elected President of the United States for the four years beginning on the fourth of March, 1861." How the Civil war touched person ally this southern family, the Lincolns. who occupied the northern White House during those four eventful years, Is shown in another incident told by Mr. Townsend. Mary Todd had a half-sister named Emille, and she married Ben Hardin Helm, a Lex- ington boy who was graduated from West Point shortly before the open. ing of the Civil war and cast his for tunes with the Confederacy. The aftermath is told in these words of Judge David Davis: “I never saw Mr. Lincoln more moved than when he heard of the death of his young brother-in-law, Ben Hardin Helm, only thirty-two years old, at Chickamauga, I called to see him about four o'clock on the 22d of September, 1 found him in the great. est grief. ‘Davis,’ sald he, ‘I feel as David of old did when he was told of the death of Absalom. 1 saw how grief-stricken he was, so 1 closed the door and left him alone.’ (@® hy Western Newspaper Union.) distant ‘having re the whole Yolice to All-Star, “Kitchen- tested” Recipe by Sarah Field Splint, Director Department of Foods and House- hold Management, McCall's Mag- anne. 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