New York Daily Tribune

LETTER FROM MRS. LINCOLN—It has been published in the Southern papers that the sympathies of the President's wife are with the Secessionists. The following very handsome letter received by one of our fellow Kentuckians does not indicate it.

[Louisville Journal

Executive Mansion, June 20, 1861.

Colonel John Fay—My Dear Sir: It gives me very great pleasure to be the medium of transmission of these weapons, to be used in the defense and national sovereignty upon the soil of Kentucky.

Though some years have passed since I left my native State, I have never ceased to contemplate her progress in happiness and prosperity with sentiments of fond and filial pride. In every effort of industrial energy in every enterprise of honor and valor, my heart has been with her. And I rejoice in the consciousness that, at this time, when the institutions to whose fostering care we owe all we have of happiness and glory, are rudely assailed by ungrateful and parricidal hands, the State of Kentucky, ever true and loyal, furnishes to the insulted flag of the Union a guard of her best and bravest sons. On every field the prowess of Kentuckians has been manifested.

In the holy cause of national defense they must be invincible.

Please accept, Sir, these weapons as a token of the love I shall never cease to cherish for my mother State, of the pride with which I have always regarded the exploits of her sons, and of the confidence which I feel in the ultimate loyalty of her people, who, while never forgetting the homage which their beloved State may justly claim, still remember the higher and grander allegiance due to our common country.

Yours, very sincerely,
MARY LINCOLN.

Col. John Fay.