Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-25
The Assassination Of the Sewarcs.
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Doster, one Of bis attorneys in the trial. !.
One night Frederick Seward had had
one of those terrible beworrhages from
biz wounds that eeversl timer had go
threaten ed his life Major Dostcr visis
ing Payne The following morning. said.
"Payne, your case II getting desperate /;
IL is teartd that Frederick Seward may
die at any mnn.nt be h,s had another
heE5rIasge." EliE -al
Payne remained silent for moment,
then .nlde this remark Il think / owe
Frederick Seward ~ apology"
Mr.. Seward lay rsos,raie his wound
ed cheek had ium Il d and inHamed -
His nervous -y stem had received such
shock that, even without that excessive
loss OF blood, had dimiui.hed the natural
resources for reaction. Ills sleep was
restless and interrupted by terrible dreams
We feared that even hi, strong constitu-
tion would finally yield. But no, his
power Of rcsi-;ance "n. truly e1traordi-
nary it was principally due to his men
tai sIrngIh. This man, so fonlly dealt
with, would struggle and conquer in az
rrrsity lie treated his case from a high
siai d Point Of philosophy. lie spoke OF
i as an historical fact, avoiding individ-
ual;sm, and treated it as another instance
Of The madness that oyrrcomes weak
minds in gres. national couvulsions. |.
was sublime to hear this stricken down
man, with jaws screwed together by
surgical art, speaking through hole
made in tie apparatus that held III.
mouth fast, not a word for himself, tu;
she words of sound philosopher who
will moi despise Enman nature for the &C;
Of a madman. With nothing but misery
suffering agony and with death staring
him in the face, be was calm, submissive,
even folbearing. 81 his sal citude was
about his son. Cf the calamity to his
fellow colaboror, Mr. Lincoln, he knew
nHihing for several days
The wounds Of Frederick excited the |
greatest sOlicitude. The brain was ex-
posed ID both places; in the interior one
fully 4 square inch of the membranes of
The brain wac exposed TO view. A lacer
aied vessel on the interior surface of the
c.an;um wogli from time to time bleed /
70 profns,ly as to put his life in immi-
nsut jeopardy. and yet it could not b.
reached for ligatnre. We were con-
stan,ly kept in fearful apprehension of
these hemorrhages
With noble fortitude did that family
bear the anxietics and the fafigues Of this
long and sad period Mrs, Seward, so
delicate in frame, SO bic in health, un-
ceasinsly supervised all the nursing that
required such fine judgement and unre-
mitting care.
Human endurance, however, has its
limits, and Mrs. Seward finally sue
cumbel. The little Alme that lighted
that body expired on the 2lst of June.
Like her life, her death was the calm
ness of Heaven bern spiiit.
Overcome by these multiplied trials. her
daughter at length sank into a nervous
fever that consumed her. Her body
could not bear what her coal had borne,
and in a years time she added one more
to the victims 10 TIE terrible plot OF
Booth and Surratt.
Tie Secretary himself is now dead
After completing the history of his
travels around the world, at the age of
seventy one, with only a few days ILL.,
ness. his mind unimpared, he peacefully
breathed his last in his own home, at .
on the 10Th of October, 1872 -
Washington RepW,H:.