The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-04-29
A WOman's Grief

There are none who, while overborne
with their own grief at the sudden and
violent death of the late President, will
forget the one who has given him IN
as sacrifice on the altar of our Union
yet sits apart in the solitude Of 4 sor-
row which none but widowed hearts
can properly estimate. She whom the
departed President has left behind de-
serves q sincere tribute Of tenderest
sympathy from every one. The crueI
stroke that took from the nation its
Chief Magistrate, deprived her of q fond
ana devoted husband, the father of
her children and the stay Of her life.
how poignant must be her reasc-
ilonsi as she runs back in her minG TO
what so lately was, and forward 81 what
now Is. One moment, sitting behind
her husband, on whom all eyes we're
centered with expressions of gratitude
and hllal aftection-the happy wife of
an honored President-in possession of
every earthly gift that a bountiful for
tune mad 10 bestow-and looking for
ward with a confident fondness 10 q
iour years life in the great house of
the nation, the happy dispenser of So
clal oehghts Tor q whole people and the
grained sharer of those tokens Of
anectlonate respect Of which her hon
ored husband was most generously
the recipient:-the next moment in
the twinklihg Of an eye, as quickly as
thought itself ever sped on its way, ali
this bright scenery Of happiness and
hope obscured forever. the brilliant
lights gone out in utter darkness, her
beloved husband and the peoples
President struggling with the fatal
grasp Of death, herself a stricken,
moaning widow, her life become shape
less, sigbtless, blank
Whose heart does not bleed for her
in contemplating the overwhelming
sorrow that has been permitted to crush
her to the earth with its burden The
constant presence Of such q grief can
not but become heavier TO her every
day. She must more and more realize
the great loss to which she has been
compelled TO submit. The treasure Of
her heart, though but an inanimste
form now, has been removed from the
home which the nation provided for
them both, and neither he nor she
viii 60 IN or cut there any more There
are none Of her sisteThOod all through
the land who do not send her their
pity and their sympathy. Mothers who
have given up beloved boys in the red
trial Of battle, and wives who have
vainly tried 10 reconcile themselves
entirely to the violent deaths Of their
husbands on the field-they will give
her, who can tell how generously Of
their heartfelt sympathy now. She has
made her great sacrifice for the nation,
too She has gwen her husband, even
while he was seeking to represent and
execute the nation 3 will, as her sacrI-
fee on the common altar. IL IS a costly
one 70 her and 20 US all; and we each
of us feel it's value the more because
we ourselves had a share in the gift as
well as she.
The testimonial which IL is proposed
by the ladies 20 secure and offer Mrs.
Lincoln, Is eminently proper and
timely one, in our opinion. With every
dollar that - counted in it will 60 an
unspoken wish of kindest sympathy
Tor her who was 30 deeply wounded
when we were ell striker ourselves.
We feel that she who has freely given
up all for us should be at least placed
ia such circumstances in return Gs shall
assist in some degree in the alienation
of her grief-BgsiJa Post