Lincoln & Herndon

[LincolnToddFan]

Thanks Eva.

Mr. Herndon's opinion is that Mary suffered because Lincoln did not love her, and that she knew it because he told her so. He believes that Mary went through her entire 23 year marriage knowing this, and that is what "ennobled" her.

And he thinks AL of course suffered because he did not love his wife, but did the honorable thing of committing perjury and lying at the altar, thus "ennobling" himself.

There is some evidence that AL told Mary he did not love her(once) in order to break their engagement.

But my opinion is that if Herndon believed this passionate, volatile, possessive woman would marry, bear children for and loyally support the career of a man who steadfastly maintained that he had no love for her all during their marriage, he was a completely deluded idiot.

If Herndon had stuck to subjects he had 100% certain knowledge of instead of coming to conclusions about AL's intimate relationships based on his own subjective opinions and experiences(like certain academics and "experts" in our own time) I would not have such contempt for him.