The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
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the younger Of the inmates. She bears the
famous name of Calhoun, and, as is natural,
regards the South with unchanging admiration.
In speaking Of the race question, this lady,
familiar with the old plantation life, was led
to say: "Only the Southern people know and
appreciate the colored people. We alone
understand them. The North dislilles the
negro personally, loveshim politically. If we
deny him political rights we are his personal
friends.n She then related touching in
cdent in her experience of the after-war days,
which she said was repeated all over the
South Said she: "At the close of the war we
were miserably poor. We had nothing and 10
ability to earn anything. Winter came on and
we would have suffered from cold had it not
been for the generosity of one of our old
servants, who had been a favorite house-ser-
want, who hauled and split the wood he gave
us. Again and again he came with his load
until he had winters supply, and when my
mother died he came again with his brothers
and begged that they alone might have the
privilege of preparing her for burial, of carry
ing her to the church, and covering her in the
grave. Do you not Think and the lady's
eyes were bright with tears, "that there is no
affection between the races in the South? Yet
those very servants all voted the Republican
ticket because of their gratitude
Miss Margaret Loughborough, another white
haired lady of particularly gentle and elegant
manners, is the only permanent guest of the
Louise Home who enjoys the distinguishing
title of "a Union woman" She was a
daughter of the late Nathan Loughborough a
gentleman of the old school who served in
official life during the administration of
Madison and jefferson He was lifelong
intimate friend of Mr.. Corcoran, and when his
daughter late in life needed q home she was
personally invited by the founder to reside
here. 1t is little wonder that this delicate and
refined woman of nearly eighty dwells with
special warmth on the great kindness and
generosity of the liberal founder. Nor does
she vince at the name 'Union woman, ,''butre-
lates with quiet satisfaction that it this fact
alone-her own and her fathers loyalty to the
Union-that enabled her at the close of the
war to obtain Government position and
thereby aid her impoverished friends in the
South. Grasslands, which had descended to
Nathan Loughborough, at his death became
the property of his son, who in turn sold it
during the Cleveland administration to Secre-
tary Whitney. Miss Loughborough's room at
the Home is filled with quaint bits of furni-
ture, and handsome pieces of silver. china,
here she hopes to remain until the end.
'sHappier,n she said, ethan have ever been in
any house except my fathers"
Mrs Daniels, widow of Judge Daniels, of
North Carolina, is one of the popular inmates
of the Louise Home. During the war the
Daniel family lived on their great plantation
in Louisiana Their wealth was not lost in
the war; nor until after her husbands death,
when the fortune, intrusted to a relative,
faded away, and she like all the other aristo-
cratic inmates of this house, was forced to ac-
cept the hospitalities she had once been so
lavish in extending
Miss Jones, another Southern-born lady, is
among the youngest of the household She
was daughter of Gen. Walter Jones, we'll
known lawyer of the District, and is rela-
tive of President Harrison, which fact Miss
Jones has never brought to the Presidents
notice.
An article on the Home were incomplete
without reference to Mrs. Hareford, of Mary
land, grandaunt of Mrs. Frances Scott Key,
whose husband was the author of the ''Star-
Spangled Banner" or to Miss Williston, who,
in addition to Virginian birth and blue blood,
has the distinction of being the grandniece of
Martha Washington. These, together with
Mrs Irwin, Mrs. Mcneil, and many other
lovely and attractive old ladies and loyal ad-
herents to the manners and customs of old
Southern days, have turned philosophically
from the vanished power and grandeur of the
past to the rest and comfort and security of
the present.
OF the forty residents in addition to the
matron, Miss Lucy Hunter, and her assistants,
nearly all are Virginians. There are but two
from South Carolina, two from Maryland, two
or three from the District of Columbia and
one from New York. OF the seventeen ad-
mtted at the opening but five are living, and
since the endowment will continue to main
tain the Home it is inevitable that in time it
will lose its distinctive Southern character and
that the Union flag will supersede the Con-
federate one.
The Louise Home is managed by board
composed of eight ladies, under the advice of
the board of trustees, who are gentlemen.
These directors since Mr.. Corcorans death
found it eXpedient to make one new rule.
| Secure in the possession of lifelong home,
several old ladies having wealthy relatives
| spent most of the year away from Washing
| ton, using the Home as q winter residence
| only. To follow out the idea of the founder
relating to a home for the homeless, it has
been decided that longer visit than three
months is equivalent to another residence,
! and the room must be surrendered in such
cases to a lady in need.
Miss GRUNDY, JR.