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advocated its justice. The committee to whom it was referred returned a report, “ Not to grant this memorial would be unworthy a wise and just nation.”

But it was too late. Before any compensation reached her Lady Blennerhassett died in a humble chamber in New York City. She was tended in her last hours by Sisters of Charity.

Alone, in a foreign land, under a darkened sky, she drifted from our sight to that shore where “ the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.”