THE LATE MRS LINCOLN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1010, 28 September 1882, Page 3

THE LATE MRS LINCOLN.

The ingratitude of Republics is proverbial and we fear that the record of Mrs Lincoln’s life between that memorable April day when her husband was martyred in 1805 and the day of her own death will long be quoted to the discredit of onr Translantic kinsmen. How comes it that one of the most generous and warm-hearted nations on earth can so completely have forgotten what, in the ‘Declaration of Independence,’ Thomas Jefferson calls ‘ a decent respect for the opinion of mankind,’ as to allow Abraham Lincoln’s widow to linger out the few final years of her earthly pilgrimage in poverty and obscurity ? There is but one conceivable explanation of this seemingly incomprehensible anomaly. During the war Mrs Lincoln, who was a Kentuckian by birth, was commonly reported to be of Southern or ‘rebel’ proclivities. Whispers got abroad—utterly baseless, we bare no manner of doubt—(hat she was in (he habit of supply-

mg secivi information to her sister, who was toe wife of one of the Con federate generals. When the war was over, the popularity, amounting after In's death to homage, which attached to Abraham Lincoln was buried in bis grave. None of it survived to insure what, under the circumstances, was but common justice to bis widow, for whom, despite tbecountbss opportunities of which he scorned co avail limiself, he had unfortunately made no provision whatever. —European Mail.