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FREE LOVE AND PASSIONAL ATTRACTION IN THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. – It has been generally supposed that Thurlow Weed had the inside track with old Abe; but the speech of the new President at Indianapolis refers in express terms to Greeley’s favorite theories – free love and passional attraction. It is quite true that Lincoln uses these terms in a figurative manner, but it must also be recollected that Hon. Massa Greeley himself has latterly deserted his old friends, and declared that he never endorsed their peculiar theories. So, after all, Lincoln and Greeley are in the same boat, driving up Salt River with Garrison, Phillips & Co. Old Abe is precisely in the position of a young bear, with his troubles all before him, and a few weeks experience at Washington will go very far to enlighten him as to the real condition of things – a subject upon which he appears just now profoundly ignorant.
