Hannibal Hamlin

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(06-28-2018 12:20 PM)Anita Wrote:  

(06-28-2018 05:28 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  In The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage author Daniel Mark Epstein writes (with regard to the Inaugural Ball):

"As the band struck up Hail Columbia, Mr. Lincoln and Washington's mayor, arm in arm, led a grand march across the pavilion, and Mrs. Lincoln followed with Stephen Douglas. Then the president stood with Mrs. Hamlin at the upper end of the room, at the head of the receiving line, while Mary stood lower down."

Could Mary have reacted poorly to this? Could this have turned her against the Hamlins?

Mary would not have been happy with Mrs. Hamlin next to Lincoln! Mary's reaction in similar situations is documented. Her place was next to Lincoln.

I am not sure if solid protocol as to how such events were handled was in place in 1861, but if they were as strict then as they are now, Mary Lincoln would have had no choice. And, she is the one who dreamed of the pomp, ceremony, and pageantry that went with the office of President. Let's hope for once that she understood the situation,