New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-20
Mrs. yailandigham's Death.

We have already published notice of
the sudden decease of the widow of the late
C. L. Vallandigham. The Cincinnati E"-
q,sirer furnishes the following particulars;
In our telegraphic columns to-day viii be
found the announcement OF tire death OF
Mrs c. L. Tallandigham, widow of the emf
nent Ohio statesman, an account Of whose
sudden and tragic end 1t became our sad
duty to chronicle not quite two months ago
Although not unexpected by those who
were familiar with the sensitive and deli
cate organization of the woman. and knew
in consequence how certain it was that her
loving and atfectionate heart would soon
succumb to the terrible blow of her hus-
bands death, the announcement will
carry none the less of grief and sadness to
the thousands of her noble husbands ad-
mirers throughout the length and the
breadth of the land of his birth and of his
love- At the time of Mr.. Vallandigham's
death the writer Of this received from an
old and intimate friend Of the Departed
statesman and his estimable wife the pro-
phecy that the latter would not for many
days survive the awful tidings of her hus-
bands fate.
The fulness of that prediction flashed
yesterday from the mountains of Maryland
to every quarter of the continent, carrying
with 1t sadness and gloom TO not only the
intimate friends of the deceased, but to
thousands of other loyal hearts who knew
her only as the bereaved widow of him
whose banner, torn, but flying" they had
followed through many holly contested
political battlefield, and whose sudden
taking of they had mourned with a sincerity
OF sorrow such as it is not the portion of
many Of earth's children however gifted or
distinguished, to create. Mrs. Vallandighan
received the tidings Of her idOlized hus-
bands death while standing beside the
coffin of beloved brother. Although par
TALLY paralyzed by the shock, the strong
warnings OF her love lifted her above the
effects of physical and mental prostration,
and gave her strength to perform the long
and weary journey to her desolated home in
| Dayton in time to view the inanimate body
OF the husband of her choice before it was
consigned TO its honored resting place in
the soil of his own Ohio, the State of his
| nativity, the commonwealth of his love
and the scene of his social and political
| joys and sorrows. trials and triumphs.
For some weeks after her husbands flu
| neral, Mrs. Vallandigham was confined to
her bed by prostration, superinduced by the
| terrible calamity that had torn her heart
strings assunder, and shattered the alread J
exhausted physical strength of an originally
feeble and delicate organization. AS soon
as she had rallied a little, upon the advice
of physician, she started on trip to the
home Of her girlhood in Maryland, in the
vain hope that a change of air and scene
would result in a change for the better
How vain that hope was, the dispatches
| from Cumberland show. Mrs. Vallandighan
was woman singularly refined, loving ant
sensitive, and one iil-ftted, by disposition
to be the companion of the man whose bold
and daring nature led him to joy in the
storms of hfe rather than to walk by til.
still waters of peace, or to lie down in the
green pastures of idleness; a nature tina
told, with the eloquence of shattered con
stitution, how terrible was the shock giveI
by husbands simple sentence of exil,
might well illustrate with new patho
when the tragical closing scene, came, Ir
wings tale of the Broken Heart" Coul,
we call her back to weary life by one wore
of ours-whe, as Dickens said over til,
grave of Little Nelf," who. Will speal
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