The Slander against Mrs. Lincoln

Stories are being circulated throughout the country reflecting on the loyalty of the President’s wife, some going so far as to aver even that she boldly avows her sympathy with secession!  As to the “avowal part” we can at least speak by authority, and brand it as a whole cloth fabrication.  Mrs. Lincoln does indignantly deny sympathy with secession in any shape or form and is less charitable towards the “peculiar institution” than is her husband.  In this vindictive of the fair fame of our Lady President we have the attest of Senator Browning, and intimately acquainted as he has long been with the President’s family, his opportunity for judging as to Mrs. Lincoln’s loyalty ought to be satisfactory. – Quincy Whig.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 2