The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-01-28
her work on "England" is considered the

! Years passed on. Madame DArusmont was
separated from her daughter, to whom she
was passonately and tenderly attached. The
hope, and pride, and most lofty ambition OF
her great heart was defeated. She became a
! prey to the most bitter melancholy. She
wandered up and down this broad land,
seeking such poor crumbs of comfort as this
world could offerto such an unsatsfied and
craving soul. Her friends were few and fast,
but they could afford littlo consolation to
one beggared Of the priceless jewery of the
heart. She was untored even by her own
child. Her dreams Of ambition, which had
sustained her great mind through long years
oil effort ana trial. had proved the merest
phantasmagoria. Her manifold schemes, the
impulse Of a generous and lofty soul, involving
large pecuniary sacrifices, had failed; she had
! emancipated her slaves; by a thousand
outlets her fortune had been squandercd, and
she was, now aged, infrm, and poor. 1t
seemed as il her last ties to earth had been
sundered. She was tottering upon the brink
OF the grave, her heart, her intellect, her life
was failure. Fanny Wright was, indeed,
herself no longer. Magnificent she was, even
in ruins.
This was not later than 1851. About this
time the lands which had been purchased in
the vicinity of Cincinnati had became valuable
from the extension Of the city limits They
! came into market at high prices. They were
subdiviGed into lots, and their value was
estimated at near 100000. This portion
had fallen to Mr. D'Arusmont in the division
or settlement Of the estate, which had be n
made at Paris more than twenty wears before.
Madame D'Arusmont, at the time Of the
separation. among other pecuniary troubles,
was annoyed with the failure to receive certain
annuities from Scotland, which she attributed
to restraints instigated by her late husband.
She was in great pecunary want, and determi-
ned to seek redress through the courts,
claiming that she had endow ed Mr.. Darius
mont, who was without fortune, with all he
possessed, and also, that an inequtable
division of property had been made in the
original settlement. In other words, she made
claim of alimony, which able counsel were
retained to prosecute.
In October, of last year, the case had
hearing before Judge r. B. Warden. 1t was
our good fortune, then reporter for one Of
the city papers, to hear the revelations made
to this court during the pendency of the case,
which occupied several days, and we believe,
oven weeks. The most eminent counsel
were employed on either side. Madame d.
was represented by Judge Walker and w. Y.
Gholson, who were opposed by Judge NJ. r.
Tilden. The greatest latitude WAS allowed
by the court, as the investigation was one of
inquiry as to the rights ofthe plaintiff, predi-
eating claim for alimony. The domestic life
ofthese parties, both SO gifted, and whose lives
seemed wonderful in their antagonisms, yet
with great natural afiinities, was spread
before the court, leaf by leaf There were
revealments which our weeak pen dare not
approach with even the attempts at portrayal.
1t is left for abler hands than ours.
The court was patient while this protracted
evidence was detailed, covering two lives of
greater length than usually falls to the lot ofour
race, embracing the most minute domestic
history of two remarkable persUngaes, and in
volving transactions in two hemis pheres, and
various Kingdoms therein situated. The law
involved in the case was not such as usually
comes before American courts, as some ST the
transactions of the parties required the
application of the laws of France and Scotland. !
By far the most able, ingenious, impressive
argument, to which it has ever been our
fortune to listen, was made by Judge Tilden |
on the occasion, in resisting the claims of the |
applicant.
Madame D'Arusmont was present. Mr. !
D'Aiusmont was in France guarding with
parental soctude the daughter OF this sin
gular r,herself child of genius Madame D !
was as remarkable in possession ofthe highest |
style of physical woInanhood, as in the !
muscularlty of her intellect. Even though |
in years Of decrepitudc, she yet possessed
remains of great beauty. Her frame was
large, and her face and head were of singular
beauty and grandeur. She watched with !
eagerness the progress of her case from step
tostep. By permission of the court she /
would occasionally unwrap the mystery which /
involved some portion of the testimony. She !
spoke in the purest style of Saxon, with
precision of earnestness evincing clearness,
comprehensiveness and the fullest confidence |
in the knowledge OF her subject, and the .
justness of her cause. The opposing counsel
in a scathing review of the career of the .
plaintiff, observed sin all the history of the !
world, but one such domestic relation had .
been recorded upon its pages: it was that of
Socrates and Xantippie." 1t was well for him .
that the subject of his satire was a woman,
aged and decrepit. Her eyes Shot volleys of
fire. Such passions were never saw before
delneated upon living face.
The courI, trusting to our recollection, ac-
quesced in the plaintiffs claim, the final de-
csion of which is now pending
These sources of anxiety and solictude,
with the estrangement of her daughter and
husband,no doubt bowed this proud spirit to the
dust! She was endowed with great natural
gifts, surrounded with fortunes favors, and
her heart was the seat of as lofty, noble, and
unselfsh impulses, as ever animated or
thrilled a human breast. With such en-
dowments, rightly directed, her life might
have been more useful than that of any woman
Of her age-her name might have been en-
blazoned on that scroll on which IS inscribed
those Of her sex, who have adorned and
purified the world-whom generations yet
unborn "shsll rise and call them blessed
wrongly directed and 1t is (shall we say it of
woman! bye-word and scorn upon the lps'
of men.
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