Should Mary have received Abraham's salary?

[RJNorton]

(01-29-2016 01:26 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Wasn't it rather a campaign she was asked to join and did for awhile to ban imported goods? (I think it was in "Lincoln in the World", will look up later.)

Eva, I found this in "Mary Todd Lincoln Death and Funeral
Excerpts from newspapers and other sources Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection:"

"There were various movements among women during the Civil War to eschew finery and especially foreign-made finery in order to save money better spent for patriotic purposes. Lincoln and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase opposed Mrs. Lincoln's participation, however, because the government needed the tariff revenue from imported goods to support the war effort."

https://archive.org/stream/marytoddlinco...9_djvu.txt