The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 13, 1913, Page THREE, Image 3
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Recollections <
By Col. D.
No. 7. S
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In a great gloomy, iour siux > man
building, in a somber street in New
York, lives today a man, alone, broken,
as if on a wheel, without a fri-end
in the world. This street was once a
busy mart of trade, but now, like the
old battered soldier, deserted. Nothing
now is heard but the steady tread
of the roundsman and the occasional
rattle of the ash cart. The cricket
chirps monotonously on the hearthstone,
the owl hoots in the housetop,
the leather wing flits in and out the
broken windows, while the old man
sits in his invalid chair. Harking back
to the days of his greatness, when he
led his legions in the thickest storms
of battle, he nurses the wounds in
his heart. He remembers the days of
his greatness, when he was the idol
of the army, the pride of a nation,
towering above his fellowmen in the
strength of his mind, now an outcast
"with none so poor to do him homage."
Who is this recluse? He has
been much in the public eye in recent
weeks nothing, however, to his good.
* 1- ire a rt> Hpfrtrp
.Let us go DacK iu a icn j v0 ,
the great War B-etween the Sections. |
At that time lived the subject of this
sketch in Washington, the brightest,
most intellectual and most dominant
factor in the fashionable and aristocratic
circles of the capitol. He was
courted and flattered oy the best and
was a power in the councils of the
great. If my mind serves me correctly
he was attorney general in President
Buchanan's cabinet.
He had married, a few years prior
10 the opening of th:'.s story, a beautiful
and accomplished lady, in wealth!
and social standing every way his j
equal. Everything prospered, and me,
to the young couple, looked promising
and rosy as a dream. But a day came
"when the serpent entered the household
and fatally stung the young husband
with the poison of jealousy. Then
folly held its carousals. The tempter
first caressed him, then conquered
and at last jilted hiin. The first sting
" ' ?tVion 9c it miirS
oi jeaiousv Hui?i?u Oj buvu V?w .
es through the blood to the brain, it
becomes a carousal, and reason is dethroned.
The whispers of his wife's
wrong-doing was at the first on the
soft pedal, but grew louder with >time,
until his heart was swept into a tempest.
Sitting in his home one day, with
a coterie of fri-ends, a young Kentuckon
thp srrane and brilliance
laJLI, V> 1WU C4.A* 0
for which his countrymen are noted,
passed the place and saluted the
young wi?e, sitting at an upper window.
This enraged the husband to a
frenzy. Grasping a pistol from a nearby
drawer, the young husband rushed
from the house bareheaded, saying to
his friends, as he ran, "That man is
making signals to my wife." Before
the friends could recover from their
astonishment five pistol shots rang out |
' and the young Kentuckian fell dead
upon the street. Washington and the
country at large were shaken from
center to circumference by the news
of this sensational and unexpected
tragedy. The wife was driven from
her house, and took refuge with what
few friends were now left her. The
husband, claiming his home had been
invaded and his honor outraged, received
most of the sympathy.
His wife returned her wedding ring,
broken in twain, as emblematic of her
broken heart.
A great trial took place. On either j
side were a galaxy of the brightest legal
talent on the continent, the most
noted and success?u\ criminal lawvpr?
that money or influence could
employ. After weeks of intense, exciting
and sensational *egal battles, the
' jurors returned a verdict of "not guilty."
He had been given the benefit
of the unwritten law. To save the life
of her unfaithful husband, the wife
had to submit to her fair name being
dragged in the mire, herself ostracis
ed and scorned by her own sex. only
receiving pity and eommisseration
from the sterner being
But a shadow was upon him. a black
menacing shadow, that was to follow
him through life. Faint and indistinct
at first, like ohantoms flitting
across his sense, but as old age crept
upon him, this shadow became as burdensome
as the "old man of the sea."
It became a vampire at his throat, not
sucking his life's blood, but the very
essence of his soul. That same tormenting
shadawy will-o-the-wisp that
for thirty years remorselessly pursued
"E\icrcmp Aram all over
lilt; UillUl tuuai.^ uuQvov ? ?
England until unable to longer withstand
the terrors of this every day
shadow, he returned to the place of
his crime and voluntarily gave his life
to the law. 7 ~
It is a shadow and unseen terror
>f a Long Life
A. Dickert
thadowed.
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that follows every man who once dips
his hands in the blood of his fellow
man. It matters not if it be involuntary,
in self defense, under stress
of great provocation, th^ mark of
Cain is upon him, and th-t jd stains
will follow to plague him to his grave.
it may be but a glow m tne vioiet ana
primrose of life, but when the sunflower
bencls its head to the setting
sun of on-e's career, it no longer is a
flitting phantom but a dread reality
The subject of this sketch tried to
shake himself loose from this unseen
incubus by entering again into the
battl-es of the busy world. The war
coming on, he entered the army in the
hopes of washing out the stain of
hlnnrf nf hie ron-ir^nion. bv drenching'
himself in the blood of the South. His J
great mind and fearless spirit pushed
him to the front, he rose rapidly in
fame and rank.
To drown the voice of a torturing
conscience he thirsted for the din of
battle. At Gettysburg, leading the
Third Corps of Mead's army, just as
his commander-in-chief had rode to
him advising a change in his lines,
Kershaw's Sou^h Carolinians and
Barksdale's Mississippians crossed ov
er the brow of a hill and w.ith a wild
mad rush, shattered his lines and
drove them from the field. The commander
of the Third Corps left his
leg in this deadly assault of the Southerners.
,
The war over, the white wings of
peace overshadowed the land, but to
the subject of this sketch had no
peace. He entered into the stirring
times of reconstruction with a deadly
hatred to the South, and by the strange
irony of fate, he was appointed military
governor over those same South
Carolinians who had so unmercifully
assailed and shattered his ranks, robbing
him of a leg. He rode- in great
state through the streets of our cities,
in a coach and four tandem, much to
the joy and delight or our enemies 01
the North, while the spirits of the Palmettoes
were vibrant with merriment,
and jocular ridicule. When these times
ceased he returned again to the shades
of private life, his government retiring
him on full pay, $800 or 1,000 per
month.
But the phantom of blood followed
him. It had followed him in palaces
and upon the tent-sd field. Only on the
storm swept field of battle was he
free from its presence. His wife had
>died in the meantime, of mental anguish,
this adding nothing to the quiettude
of his soul. He sought foreign
fields. He wished *be ocean to roll
between him and the scenes of his
greatness and his faM. He was made
ambassador to Spoiu, and in that proud
! *
capital, he joined into gaities and fri
volities of that pleasure loving people,
with mad abandon, scattering his gold
as easily as it had come.
He wooed and won a lady of dis!
tinction, a member of one of the oldest
| families in Spain, a princess in wealth
and beauty. She bore him a son and
| instead of being a blessing to him on
i whom he could lavish the love of his
t old age, he became a veritable ghoul
| in his father's sight and revived the
I poison in his oul. The torments of
hell were upon him. He fled the country
of his adoption, the wife of his
bosom, and the child of his old age.
He bid them remain. Her proud Costillion
blood was up. She would not
ask the return of her money he had
squandered, neither would she weep
over her abandonment. "The women
of old Spain weep over no man who
nnmnrthv of their love."
I iO UUUV4 .
Back to his old haunts he returns,
and shut himself up in the gioomy
old house. There for years, and today,
sits, alone, an outcast, apart from
his kind. As the fire flickers and
burns low in the grate, he watches in
'his disordered mind, the goblins, the
misshapen elfs. and phantom mon
j strositifs from tne lineruai icsiun, ao
j they -engage in some wanton shadow
i dance of hell. They climb along the
walls, climb upon his couch, stare into
his face with ghoulish eyes, shaking
the while, the bloody finger at his guilj
ty soul. It chas-es away sleep, flitting
j before him in his feverish dreams,
rousing him from his slumber like an
unseen, uncontrolable monstrosity,
ever whirling before his eyes, like
some satanic lop wing. It was ever
thus, and will ever be with those who
take the life of their fellowman. It is
is always to pity and sympathize with
the victim of a tragedy, but he is bless
ed in comparison, to him that strikes
the fatal blow.
Some few years ago the wife in far
away Spain, learning of the sad plight
of her faithless husband, crossed the
Atlantic, with her son determined to
; do a wife's part to the t nd. T'nani
nounced, she entered his room and
stood before him. Xot with a gesture,
a motion or a J.ign *?f emotion, did he
meet her. His heart was dcad. his
body only lived. She brought his son,
now a man, in the bloom of early life,
but with the same indifference, did he
receive him. She told him of her purpose,
to nurse and attend him to his
end. He bowed his head in silent assent.
She rented a house nearby, and
daily gave him all the care and atten-i
tion of a true and devoted wife. She!
may be there yet. doing it.
Who is this strange, haunted old
? ? i.:..
man? He is the sole survivor, 01 ms
rank, on either side in the War Between
the Sections, the only living general
of his grade, who took part in the
!ate war, Major General Daniel E.
Sickles, U. S. A., and the man whom
he slew was Barton Key, district attorney
of Kentucky.
WHY STOKE\ LOST COLLECTORH
Senior Senator Issues Strong: Statement
in Regard to Patronage and
Politics.
Washigton, May 8.?Senator Tillman
today gave out the following statement
about patronage and politics in;
the 1st South Carolia Congressional!
district: 1
j "Some people In Charleston and Col|
leton counties will not understand just
how or why Mr. Murray has become
postmaster at Walterboro, while Mr.
Stor-en has lost out in his fight for
the position as collector of customs at
Charleston. The situation was just
this:
"George Legare, while living, endorsed
both of these men for the r?*
spective office and I promised him ""*1
would do "what I could for both of
them.
Storen\ Xame Held Up.
"While the second primary was still
I pending in the congressional district,
both names wer sent to tne president
for appointment, brt no action was
taken. Senator Smith and I endorsed
both men and had the appointment
been made when the names first went
to the president both would have been
in office now. For some reason, which
I have never been able to understand
Mr. Murray's name came to the senate
for postmaster at Walterboro
while Storen's name hung fire.
j "When Mr. Whaley came to Washington
and urged his rigihts to make
th* appointments in his district as we
all had agreed -that congressmen
should do, the situation was, as I have
above indicated. We indorsed Mr. Murray,
and to our surprise, the name
came to the senate the day after Mr.
Whalev armeared here and after the
second primary had been held. Although
be was not a congressman, he
was to all intents and purposes elected,
and w-9 so recognized him.
Consulted Legare's Friends.
"Realizing that it would be unfair to
Mr. Whaley to press Storen's appoint'
x J ni'rAiinlota n/lDc TL'CL lipid
t, U. IIQ C 2 tilC V/ll ^/Unioi'Muwo ?i v MV-?>
it up and waited for news from
Charleston. I wrote to George Legare's
bosom friends there and asked their
opinion and advice. The replies were
that if George Legare were living they
believed he would t>e against Storen
rather than for him.
"Mr. Whaley had indicated a preference
for Mr. Harvey first, and for Mr.
Peters second. Fnally it was agreed
that Mr. Peters should be recommended
for appointment and his name was
sent to the president and is now before
the senate.
"Murray's appointment hac* been
made and was out of reach before Mr.
Whaley arrived in Washington. The
senators would have stultified themselves
had they tried to recall it. With
Storen, the case was different, and we
??n nr.ma substituted
U1Q ItUc&il uia uuuiv _
Peters. Mr. Storen's activity against
Mr. Whaley is the cause of his failure
to get the office.
Would Warn the People.
"I think it worth while, and. indeed,
my duty, :o warn the people of the 1st
congressional district, ^that if half we
hear in Washington is true somebody
ought to be put in the penitentiary
j pretty soon. An examination of the
I Pen.il Code snows uiai aecuuus ouv,
361, 363 and 365 have all been violated
by more people than are aware
of it, perhaps. Promises to give offices,
actual payment of money for
votes, and other serious crimes are
mentioned. Many men, not in one
county, but in several, are uauie l<j &?j
to the penitentiary or pay fines. The
papers of the State would do well and
render the public a service if they
would print these sections of the Code
as a warning to office-seekers and
thvir friends.
Hopes Legislature will Act.
"I sincerely trust that the next session
of the legislature will throw such
safeguards around the primary as tc
make the corruption which is charged
impossible to occur. We have laws
franri and bribery.
enougu to jiuuiou '*v>uu ?? .
? if tliev are only enforced, but laws are
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ville, S. C., account Gala Week and
Greenville Horse Show association,
May 19th?24th, 1913.
[Columbia... >.. $3.60
I Prosperity 2.55
; Newberry 2.30
Clinton... 1.65
Laurens 1.35
Proportionately low rates from intermediate
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22, 1913. Going journey must comj
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Return limit: Tickets to be limited
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j For further information, phone or J
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mere waste paper if there are no officials
ready to carry them out. Public
opinion must compel the officers
i to do their duty or else the State will
I
he corrupted throughout its borders,
It will be remembered that these statutes
were enacted after a congression
al race in the 2nd district where much !
money was used. It is very clear to
my mind that the democratic party
must take active aggressive steps to
stop such transactions. We cannot
[hope for good government otherwise,
or to maintain the State's fair name.
It is enough to make any South Carolinian
ashamed of his State to hear
of so much rottenness and corruption
in the 1st congressional district."
K. F. Murray.
Heredity.
Woman's Home Companion.
' Higgins is a self-made man, is he
not?"
"He claims to be, but I do not believe
those bad manners of his could
ever have been acquired; he must
; have ben born so."
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