. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. e,you must go up and tell my sister that Mr. Lincoln and Iare to be married this evening, and to me: Get on your bon-net and go with me to get my gloves, shoes, etc., and then toMr. Edwardss. When we reached there we found some ex-citement over a wedding being sprung upon them so sud-denly. However, my father, in his lovely, pacific way,poured oil upon the waters, and we thought everything was HIS MARRIAGE ENGAGEMENT 191 ship-shape, when Mrs. Edwards laughingly
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. e,you must go up and tell my sister that Mr. Lincoln and Iare to be married this evening, and to me: Get on your bon-net and go with me to get my gloves, shoes, etc., and then toMr. Edwardss. When we reached there we found some ex-citement over a wedding being sprung upon them so sud-denly. However, my father, in his lovely, pacific way,poured oil upon the waters, and we thought everything was HIS MARRIAGE ENGAGEMENT 191 ship-shape, when Mrs. Edwards laughingly said: How for-tunately you selected this evening, for the Episcopal SewingSociety is to meet here, and my supper is all ordered. But that comfortable little arrangement would not hold,as Mary declared she would not make a spectacle for gossip-ing ladies to gaze upon and talk about; there had already To any Minister of ihf Cospcl, or other authorisdPerson-GREETING. ffiSSSSiS CL^£, to ^ujinie, (xiDjieumt ^ to join, ut t^ fiof^ ianiijanaomoM. and ifUiie, <X jfiCCnoii, cuvO hx *o ^na., Ifti* jAott 6e. Moi*V 4«#ia«lt FACSIMILE OF MAKBIAOB LICENSE AND CEBTIFIOATB OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. From the original on file in the County Clerk3 office of Springfield, 111. been too much talk about her. Then my father was des-patched to tell Mr. Lincoln that the wedding would be de-ferred until the next evening. Clergyman, attendants andintimate friends were notified, and on Friday evening, in themidst of a small circle of friends, with the elements doingtheir worst in the way of rain, this singular courtshipculminated in marriage. This I know to be literally true, asI was one of her bridesmaids. Miss Jayne (afterwards Trumbull) and Miss Rodney being the others. CHAPTER XII LINCOLN BECOMES A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS AND IS DEFEATED ON THE STUMP IN 1844 NOMINATED AND ELECTED TO THE 3OTH CONGRESS For eight successive years Lincoln had been a member ofthe General Assembly of Ill
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