The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-13
A LadY's Tribute TO the Late Gov.
EnnuLEn

A LadT's Tribute TO the Late Gov.
COrwin.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Is. c. Courier, MIRA King, daughter of
the lamented James L. Pettigru,) thus
writes on the death Of the late Gov.
COrWin
WAsHIgGTOy, Dec %. 1868.
take up my pen sadly to-day. Aud
yet why should W. grieve because u
who found life weary has laid its bur
then down.
came to Washington thinking that
my father had many friends here-mep
who had known him long and init.
mstely-snd | had the simplicity 10
imagine that for his sake they would
concern themselves for his daughter.
So far as such people lived, / might
have died OF starvation but | had not
been in the city twenty-four hours
when ex Governor Corwin. Of Ohio,
heard of my arrival, and came TO see
me.
He was q large burly man, with 8
deep, grave rumbling voice, entirely st
variance in its information with the
genial, merry words that the voice ut
tered. | am told that he was the best
stump speaker in the country, and
that will be resdily believed BY any
one who ever heard his quick repartee
or saw the play Of his humorous, strong
face.
His manners were most cordial and
kind, and under his bluff exterior beat
a heart, warm, credulous and confding.
He would rail at the worlds wicked
ness, and be confident of his own DOW
ers TO detect and punish ~hypocrites and
evil-doers; then the next moment his
last FIVE dollars would be quietly ab-
stracted from his tOo-Willing pocket by
the first rogue who wished it or he
could be patiently listening to some
man or roman trying TO impose upon
him; he half conscious of the fact, and
yet so sorry for the sinner that his val
liable time would be wasted uncom-
.plainingly in their service.
/ enjoyed exceedingly, of course, the
evenings that he passed with me.
Wrapped in his big oTercoat of which
| fastened 10 disembarrass him, he was
scarcely seated before some quaint say
ing, some lively comment, would be
the opening of the ball.
Life was not bright for him. He had
toiled all his days to find poverty too
near and threatening a guest He had
suffered in seeing and hearing the Bit
of this war he was naturally /
dissatisfied with the cry Of peace.
where there is no peace. Politically
be opposed disuniOnists, whether they
call themselves "Secessionists' or "Re-
.publicans," or assume the proud and
strangely incongruous title of "Union-
He loved this whole land, and
deprecated the germ Of that danger
which turks in talking Of State rath-
er than country
/ never saw sectionalism or prejudice
him; but he thought badly of those
who wish TO thrust their individual views
down the throats of their fellow citizens
whether they hail from Massachusetts,
Dr. Louisiana, Wisconsin or Florida,
ohio or Texas
Ineyer shall forget tho grieved and
melancholy look with which he handed
ne over two months ago to the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, 20 be
among the governmental bios
Of this wellnurtured garden.
Such q sigh When dismissed at 8
o'clock, l returned to his Office, TO show
him that | was neither pecked at, nor
scowled upon, that / had been offered
al sorts OF ciyilities, and felt quite COM
Il was a little cateohised by an Off
cial N the Treasury Department as to
the record Of a relation, and / said that
although man might be a law abiding
and never resist the constable |
who came in the discharge of his duty,
upon himself, even he might take up
his gun, if the constable were more
than suspected of an intention to burn
the house and insult the women"
Wrong, wrong, my dear child, said
the Governor You ought to have tied
up your face in a frOWn of indignation,
and have denounced every one Of your
t~oWnspeople and friends as monsters Of
iniquity, ripe for the rope. When will
you learn that humanity pays best
and costs nothing
The last time saw HIM alive he was
preparing to start for Ohio, to be pres
emit at his daughters wedding.
"You are very busyg / asked
He courteously kissed my hand,
turned to his paperladen desk, and I
liscreetly withdrew. ON Thursday,
l4th, he sen TO tell me that he was
that evening to make me a
visit | was engaged TO meet a Senator
Of the most radical stripe at the house
Of an acquaintance, and had to excuse
On Friday night he was seized
paralysis. fingered until Monday,
and then, still unconscious, passed
into his rest
The ~eulogies in the Senate on Tues
day ! accidentally missed His funeral
WIS, as it should have been, a full tes-
tinzonial 10 the worth, standing, and
excellence Of the man. And there
were many true mourners amidst the
dense crowd Of the present highest
names in our country
HAHN and snow fell alternately upon
the rich colin in which his remains
were borne TO his home ia the great
West
] have lost 8 friend Those feN
whom l left behind me in the desolated
South viii be interested 70 hear Of one
who felt 20 .~ungenerOus triumph over
s mistaken snd vanquished portion Of
this vast repubhe d Il