New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-24


Alas / sec thee now, shah zee thee lorgi
but ne or ,hsl bittsr feeling. the " onG
That. 20 mob, wsald give the o~usuie duo
1s those hs, armed the plsadez-sIeedy essw"
Bm poetry was poor dependence then. Her poem
did not SELL her has bands bopes Of employ msnt either
Mt the bar or On the bench not realized pover
IN their advancing age with three sons to provids ios
stared them in tie face and as last rcson, Bienncr
hassett sailed in 12 for Ireland proeecuse bis csn
to q large reyersonary estate. He had known OF tss
estate fox nny years but with bis usual neapacity IN
business had neglected il 70 long inst he fousd re-
oovery barred by the sistue ofmitations. lie sought
office from Government but failed again. Hs wifes
letters to him during his separation are affecting evi'
denoes Of her love- her ,ra!s and her s thickening
des,itatiop. Jn l5 he rt,urued to this country and
took his family 10 England There be died N 1881, h
HE sxty-third year. His wife, now aoubly destitute,
cod scarcely obtain Subsistence for ber children. But
the old energy of her mind remained. Sbe again re-
verted 10 hsr sald In the Ohio. She remembered that
the agents OF the President hid destroyed her husbnds
bosis, eousumsd his stores, Invaded his household,
broken his furniture id waste his gardens, destroyed
hin ence-, and dsne ,eri,s injury ~ the psnson. For
these gross nvasns Of Fnvsse hight restitution had
ever bccn made. She received 20 demand Il from Con-
gress, and in 1872 the eare-worn widow arrived ~
desc1bes mndieb the wrongs they had endured. Sbe
had troops Of friends 70 aid in this appeal Robert E-
met, who knew the BIsDeshassc's WELL enlisted him.
sef in the cause. Henry Clay, who st one time had
been Bsnnsrhsesets co~nse presented the petition 10
the Senate aod advocated most eloquensy. lie had
ysed ,he island when IN al Ne glory partsken Of iss
bospaties and eooa vosch NO, only for the truth Of
her ale gtons but for the inter aesuiiou Oh the pc
,itomr The claim reported Oh az legal and prop
er, and woad undoubtedly have been granted, when
death Unexpectedly close the eyes of the unhappy wife
of Bennerbassett She.whO had been born and reared
in ahiuence oo.ed her cbeckered career in humble
i.b de in the City OF NewYerk OF her three sons, ss
only survivor i- now living IN Missouri.
Ssfords recent narrative Of B'ehneIiassetts disas
history lifts tie eartain of mystery behind which,
for more than half century, v had been vailed. Ire
public had heard o. him through bic connection with
Barr, bis island ard tie mlessioned a2ostrophe Of
Wit spoa his trial which, though widely varantfrom
the flctw yet i've and sparkle brilliant N shs
caske, Of human eloqnenoe. But o his domestic bis
tory they knew comparatively nothing TRADITION had
thrown around it that sndefnsble charm with which
nyesss the memory Of all who have been unfortunate
To this day his once enchanted leland in the Ohio An
object of interest 10 all who psss IT, Fancy msgnises
lie former elegance, and strange stories Of ns once
happy owners, tbeir wealth, tieir accomplishments
er infstsson, and their rum, pass from lip 70 lp,
losing nothing by continued repetition. The great u
derinng fast Of all reusins, that BsDne hassett was .
traitor and that for his crime he suffered evey thing
bu. the Last tndiguity Of the hsngnian How many
hundred other families are being made houe1ese
faltives frop, justice by kindred crime With Az q
them the excuse exits tina, s their rst expcsnee Of
the crime aud it, Punishment Bat even this feeble
jusiacadqn be pleaded Tor the deliberate criplinay Of
Edu ard Blenuerhassettf