The Gavelyte, February 1909

CEDARVILLE COLLBGE. 34 Abrahatn Lincoln. nn w. R M' H ESNEY. ( no11 t i11 11<'d ) The Lincoln-Douglas rlehatt"s, in which Linr·oln by his plain, Parnest, logical statements in t-very encounter vanquished Douglas and won the au<lin1Cel'I, lircught him so µn,minently and favorably into public view that early in 18G9 his name was mentioned in his home city, against his will, for thP presidency. In 1839, through the schemes of friends of both, Mr. Lincoln and Miss Mary Todd of Lexington, KPntucky, a dashing damsel of Southern traits and sy rnpa thie8, formed an acquaintance. M isR Todd's ambit ion was t,o marry someone, who wo1dd become President of the United States. Lincoln's first and doubtless only real love was in the eternal world, and he cared little to revive the extinct flames of his youth; liut mutual friends and Miss Todd were persistent and though Lincoln trierl twice to av11id serious relationship, ;it l;.ist on Nov. 4, 1842, he waR married to Mis~ Todd . One who was in his pres""ncf' a short time prl-'vious tu the crremony and 1,oticing the serious, if not trouldi-d, countE"nancP of Mr. Lincoln ashJ v. here hr \,·as going ,ind re– portR that ~fr. Linl'uln replied "to hell I suppose." Chroniclers di~agri-e c1s to the hapr11ne8s of Mr. Lincoln's married life. LPt that be as it may, 110 word of rPgret ever escaped his lips after his wPdding day and never was there a rult-r of nations more courtPous, kind, - ,ind faithful to his wife than he to Mrs . Lincoln . On Feb. 25, 1860, he was invited to 8peak in ew York City. That i-µt>PC:h made him friends, who secured his nomination at the Republican l'onvPntion in Chicago for the presidency, May 16, 1860. eward was his <'hit-'f rival, lrnt on the thitd Lallot, Mr. Lincoln received the nomination. The Democratic party split into th1:!-'e facti0ns over the slavery question, an1l on the 6th of Nmr..,mber 1860. RftPr a most vigorous campaign, the re– su I ts stoud; Lincoln 1.857,GOl; Duugl,1ss, ] .~91,57 4; RreckenridgP, 850,082; and B II, G-12,124. Lincoln lacked 9~0,170 of a poµular majority, but the 1•l,•d11ral votP s~tvfld thP day, bPing- 1RO for Linroln, 72 for Rrrrkflnri<1gP,