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HAMPTON, TI .A. Warm Tribute froi ern E Col. A. K. McClure, in The recent death of "Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, removes one of the notable characters of the last half century. * * * In the tierce sectional discussions which were precipitated for some years before the civil war Hampton took no part. While he loved the South and had all the pride of tts noblest blood, he was not an agitator, and earnestly and sincerely deplored secessions and civil war. He was reared in the school that knew only ! obedience to thc sovereignty of the j State. The pride of the South Caro- j linian had taught him that his was the ; noblest and grandest of all the Com monwealths-an empire by courtesy called a State. Thc sovereignty of the State had been taught in his mother's lap, in every school he en tered, fioni every pulpit from which he heard a minister of the Gospel, and the great statesmen, such as Cal houn, Mcl>uflic and Ilayne, had ad vocated it sincerely aud ably. Ile saw the imposing walls and pillars of the Columbia Capitol slowly growing j vp year after year to be completed in tho greatest splendor as the future Capitol of the Southern Republic, if the sectional issue should ever lead to thc dismemberment of the Union, and he little dreamed that this magnificent st-ucture would within his lifetime bo hastily and rudely completed for a in'?: ii og in which his own slaves would V .. ? is lawmakers: but even when this in-r humiliation came to him he had the courage to bow to the inevitable, and only one year after the war had ended he pleaded the cause of the negro, saying: "As a slave he was faithful to us; as a free man let us treat him as a friend; deal with him frankly, justly and kindly." Had tho Southern men generally shared the bi~ad and sensible views of Hampton the problem of reconstruction would have been an easy one, and the South would have been spared unspeakable suffering and sorrow. When war oameit is needless to say that Hampton was one of the first to offer his services, and ho volunteered as a private, but before the company ho had joined had been organized he was appealed to by many hundreds to accept tho command of a special bri gade, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery, and to be known as the "Hampton Legion." He commanded tho Legion at Bull Run, the first bat tle of the war, and thcro, as in all tho subsequent battles in which it was en gaged, it bore a distinguished part. In the battle of Seven Pines, on tho Pen insula, Hampton's command lost near ly half its members in killed, wounded and missing, and Hampton was severe ly wounded. After the Peninsular campaign Hampton was promoted and assigned to a brigade of cavalry under Stuart, and in nearly every im portant raid made by the Confederate oavalry with Lee's army during the War Hampton had an important part. He was regarded as one of the best cavalry officers for detached service, and was second in command with Stuart when the most audacious raid of the war was made through Mercers burg and Chambersb?rg and around McClellan's army soon after the bat tle of Antietam. At the battle of Gettysburg Hampton received three wounds, and the majority of thc offi cers of his command were either killed or wounded. Perhaps the most im portant special service be rendered as a cavalry commander was when he checked Sheridan at Trevillian's Sta tion, in 1861, aud broke up Hunter's campaign in thc valley by preventing thc junction of Sheridan and Hunter at Lynchburg. He was made lieuten ant general and commander of Lee's cavalry in August, and he made a number of successful raids, capturing many prisoners and at one time some twentv-four hundred beef cattle from the Union army. In one of these raids his son, a gallant officer under him, was killed in action. When Johnson organized his army in North Carolina to oppose the ad vance of Sherman northward from South Carolina Hampton was assigned >fto that army tc command the cavalry. He was in possession of his home city of Columbia, the Capital of the State, when Sherman advanoed upon it, and retreated northward as Sherman's army entered. Before retiring hs had fired a considerable amount of cotton that was 6torcdin the outskirts of tho city and this gave some color of plausi bility to the charge that he was respon sible for tho burning of Columbia. A somewhat heated controversy oc curred between Hampton and Sherman aft? r the war as to who was responsi ble ior the destruction of thc beauti ful Capital of thc Palmetto State, but tho weight of testimony certainly ac quitted Hampton. He surrendered with Johnson'*) army to Sherman in ?sorth Carolina and returned to his IE PEERLESS. xi an Eminent >Torth ]ditor. the Philadelphia Record. home with thc hope of gathering up some remnant of his broken fortune. From thc day that the war ended no j expression of bitterness or resentment ever caine from Wade Hampton. On thc contrary, he mot only earnestly urged the restoration of peace and fraternal brotherhood, but was one of the few men in the South who appre ciated the fact that tho negro was not only a freeman, but a citizen, and was entitled to be treated and respected as such. My tirst acquaintance with Hamp ton was in October, 1802, when Stuart made his celebrated raid around Mc Clellan's army, then in Maryland. I was then on duty at Harrisburg as assistant Adjutant General of thc United States, but always spent one or two days with Sunday at my home at Chauibcrsburg. When I arrived at the Cha.nbersburg depot on one of my home visits for a brief rest I was sum moned by thc telegraph operator to his private ofiice. He had just re; ceived several dispatches from Mer cersburg stating that a Confederate cavalry force was then in possession of that town and was moving in thc direction of Chaiubersburg. It was starting intelligence, indeed, and it seemed incredible that a Confederate! force would attempt to raid Cham bersburg, only an hour's distance from Hagerstowo, where there was a large Union force, with ample time and equipment to bring it to any point in the Cumberland Valley. I waited for an hour aud was advised of thc pro gress of the Confederate force as it moved steadily toward Chaiubersburg. I telegraphed to the Union comman der at Hagerstown, not knowing who he was, stating the facts and suggest ing as a matter of precaution that a small force of infantry and artillery should be hurried to the defence of the towD. In charity I will not give the name of the Union commander, who answered that the suggestion of a Confederate force entering Chaiu bersburg was too absurd to be consid ered. Half an hour later the advanc ing Confederates had reached Cham bersburg turn-pike, and were moving directly upon us and only ten miles distant. I then repeated an appeal to the Union commander at Hagerstown, stating the facts and urging him to send a force to intercept the enemy, as there was yet ample time to do so, but the only reply was an intimation that military commanders had no time to waste on lunatics. Finding it im possible to get any relief from the Union army, as I could not hopefully communicate with any officer beyond Hagerstown, I went to my office and sat down to await events and accept the situation as philosophically as possible. Soon after dark several Confeder ates appeared at the western part of the town with a white rag tied on a stick, and announced to the first citi zens they met that they bore a flag of truce from the Confederate army and desired to be conducted to the Union commander of the town. As there were no troops in Chambersburg they were so informed, and they asked to bc conducted to some citizens of the town with whom they could communi cate the w.: hes of their oommander. They were brought to my office, where they courteously announced that they were there by orders of their comman der to ask for the surrender of the city. I told them that there were no troops to oppose them, and that there was nothing to hinder them from en tering Chambersburg whenever they chose to do so, but as this first inva sion of the enemy naturally produced the wildest consternation in the com munity I said to thc bearers of the truce that I wished to know what as surance of safety could be given to the people. I asked who their comman der was und was told that his name could not be given. I then asked where he was and that information was also refused. I then inquired whether they could take me to their commander and assure my safe return. They said they would, and, accompa nied by Col. Thomas B. Kennedy, then a prominent lawyer of the town and now president of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, we mounted horses and rode to the front. It was pitch dark, and when wo had ridden out be yond the suburbs we were finally halted with the information that we were now in the presenoe of the Con federate commander. It was only barely possible to see that a body of men were in front of us, but what they looked like we could form no conception. When wo stopped an officer rode up to us and announoed that he was Gen. Hampton, command ing part of the Confederate force, and that he desired to kno-v whether they could enter Chambersburg. We as sured him that there was no force to oppose him, and that we desired sim ply to learn from him what assurance could bc given to quiet the people of the town when the Confederates en tered. Ile promptly answered that they made no war upon private citi zens and non-combatants; that tho people should be advised to remain in their homes, as they would not be disturbed, and that no property would be taken from any ono except such as was needed by the army. Ile then directed Mr. Kennedy and myself to lead his forces into Chambersbnrg, and in a very short time the town was practically filled with them. The peo ple were at once assured that they had nothing to apprehend and there was no tendency to panic. In crossing the Centre square a short time after Hampton's force bad entered I was familiarly slapped on thc shoulder, and, turning around, re cognized Hugh Logau, then a captain in the Confederate army and thc guide of the raid, as he had been born and grown up on thc South Mountain in Franklin County, and I had once suc cessfully defended him when charged with kidnapping. Ile was one of thc rugged mountaineers whose fidelity is equally rugged, and he informed me that I was one of a number of citizens of Franklin County whose names had been scleotcd and given to Gen. Stuart, who commanded thc raid, to be taken as prisoners to Richmond to be held as hostages for Pope's arrest of civil ians in Virginia. I told him that I had met Hampton, although he did not ask my name, and had his assur ance that officers would be paroled, and that T was an army officer. He answered in a characteristic, terse maimer: "Well, Hampton's a gentle man, and if you arc taken and get to him he'll discharge you, but JCD (Stuart) wants you damn bad." Seven citizens had been arrested and were taken to Libby, one of whom died be fore his release. I asked Logan what he thought it best that I should do, to which he answered: "Go out to your home. We're in abell of a hurry and you probably won't be disturbed, but if you are taken I'll put you out to-morrow night." If I. had been taken he would have fulfilled his promise, even at the peril of his life. I went to my home On a farm some distanoe outside the town, and fonnd my ten horses had already been con scripted into the Confederate army. I was not disturbed, and thus escaped an unpleasant journey to Libby prison and the necossity of an appeal to Gen. Hampton for my discharge. I did not again meet Hampton until after his election to theGovernship in 1876. At our first meeting we had a ploasant evening, recalling tho inter esting inoidents of the Chambersburg i raid. From thon until the last few i years I met him many times in Wash ington and was always delighted to j enjoy his genial and kindly compan ionship. He had been aoandidate for Governor immediately after the war and before the Congressional recon struction of the South, but was de feated by Governor Orr. In 1876, when the people were goaded to des peration by the licentious carpet-bag rule of the State, Hampton was forced into the campaign for Governor against Governor Chamberlain, who was greatly the best of all the carpet baggers of the State, and who would have made reputable Republioan gov ernment had it been possible. The contest was one of unusual despera tion, but with all the power and ma chinery in the hands of the State au thorities, sustained by the army and by a State constabulary that permeat ed every precinct, Hampton was elect ed by 1,134 majority. A State return board in South Carolina had the au thority to revise the returns and it bodily threw out tho counties of Edge field and Laurens, the first of which HOT POTOS? Hight pounds of love and laughter, of pm ile* and sunshine or-? Many a mother can fill up thc blank out of her experience of puny, wailing children, whose coming brought no glad ness to thc home. Women who have used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip tion as a pre-natal preparation know that it makes all the difference be tween happy, healthy mother hood, anda mother hood of murmur ing and misery. And they know also, that happy, healthy mothers have happy, healthy children. .'Favor ite Prescription" strengthens the whole body for the strain of mother hood. It practic ally does away with the pains of child birth, give? the mother abundant vitality and en ables her to nurse and nourish a healthy child. The "Favorite Prescription"contains no alcohol, neither opium, cocaine, chloral nor any other narcotic. ?I am mother of six children," writes Mrs. C. A. Briggs, of Millwood, Douglas Co., Oregon, "and always took three or four bottles of * Fa, vorite Prescription ' before confinement and never suffered, any to speak of ; had no after pains ; my babies were large-they all weighe? more than eight pounds, and I am not a large woman; weigh about 115 pounds. I have had some stomach trouble, but a few doses of 'Golden Medical Discovery ' would set me all right. I am hardly ever without your medicines. They are all the medicine one needs, if taken in tine, to keep one in perfect health. "I feel that I owe nv little boy's life to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, as he had convulsions, and everything he ate would bring them on. I commenced to ?ive him the 'Golden Medical Discovery ' in ten drop docer three times a day. Now he is just as healthy a child as eau be found and he grows like a weed." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pelleta are the bext i laxative for women. I gave 3,000 Democratic majority and ] thc second 1,100, by which it returned a majority for Chamberlain of 3,433. The Senators and Representatives elected on the Democratic ticket in those counties were refused admission to their seats and the result was the organization of two Legislatures and the inauguration of two Governors. Chamberlain had the advantage of being in possession, and I doubt whether Hampton rendered more he roic service in the flame of battle than he did in restraining bio friends from resorting to violence, when the elec tion fraud was perpetrated, and driv ing the corrupt oarpet-baggera from thc State; but he held bis people steadily to law and order, feeling as sured that in time the right would triumph. President Hayes's assur ance had been given that the Demo cratic State officers of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina would be given their places, as they were un doubtedly elected, and after several conferences between both the disput ing parties and tho President, notice was finally given that thc Federal troops would be withdrawn from Co lumbia, and that at once ended the cr ntest. Chamberlain quietly gave up the office of Governor, and the Democratic State and Legislative offi cers were admitted to their scats with out further dispute. Having assured honest government in his State, his friends naturally desired to confer upon him the highest honors within their gift, and he was soon thereafter chosen United States Senator practi cally without a contest, and at the end of his first term was re-eleoted in like manner. During his twelve years' service in the Senate he was always one of the most conservative and patriotic of Southern lawmakers. He exhausted his efforts to suppress sectional strife. Not only by example, but by every deliverance he ever made, ho pleaded for thc suppression of sectional bitter ness and the restoration ot fraternal relations between the North and the South. He was one of the most de lightful of all the Senators to meet in social intercourse, and his magnificent physique, soldierly bearing and hon est face oommanded the admiration of all who came within the range of his acquaintance. At the end of his twelve years' service in the Senate he was overwhelmed by the agrarian Populist element that swept the South. He oould have no sympathy with those who would destroy the Government credit that is the life of the Republic, and he had none of the arts of the demagogue td pacify the masses by promising them impossi bilities. He oould have retained his position in the Senate until bis death if ho had joined in the tempest of passion, but he was honest in all things, and he bowed to it, preferring to maintain his convictions, his in- I tegrity and his patriotic manhood to continuance in office. President Cleveland recognized Hampton's claim upon the country by appointing him as commissioner of Pacific RiHways, where he served with his'usual fidelity until a change of administration de posed him; and since then he has quietly lived among the people who so Harrows, Cultiva Ai Seasonable Goods for tin WE ate prepared to furnish the 1 j men ts as he needs at this season of the You will always find our stock of There is no way that the Farmer < our UNIVERSAL GUANO DI8TR1 pitts in the Fertilizer at the same time, ERS, and run it over the cotton field j hard crust that forms on the bedded ro that never fails to come. 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