The Shasta courier., 1865-06-10
NUMBER 10.
Execution of Colonel Hayne.


Among the distinguished men who fell
victims during the war of tbs Revolution was
Colonel Isaac Hayne of South Carolina. a
man who, by his amiability of character and
high sentiments of honor and uprightness,
had secured the good will and affection of all
who knew him. He had wife and six small
children, the Oldest boy of thirteen years of
age. His wife, to whom he was tenderty at
tached, fell victim to disease; an event
hastened.not otimprobably by the Inconvenience
and suherlngs incidents to state of war, in
which the whole family largely participated.
Colonel Hayne himself was taken prisoner
by the British forces, and in short time
was executed upon the gallows, under cir
cumstances calculated to excite the deepest
commseration. A great number of persons,
both English and American. interceded for
his life The ladies' of Charleston signed a
petition in his behalf his motherless chill
dren we're presented on their bended knees
as humble suitors for their beloved father;
but all in vain.
During the imprisonment of the father the
eldest son, was permitted to stay with him
in prison. Beholding his only surviving
parent, for whom he felt the deepest affection,
loaded with irons and condemned to die, he
was overwhelmed with CONSERVATION and
SORROW The wretched father endeavored to
console him that the unavailing grief of the
son tended only to increase his own misery
that we came into this world merely to die,
and he could even rejoice that lis troubles
were $50 near at an end. g Tomorrow"
said he, ~ set out for Immortality. You
will accompany me to the place of execution,
and when am dead take my body and bury
it by the side of your mother" The youth
here fell on his fathers neck, crying, "0h.
nv father my father | will die for yonl
| will die for you'll" Colonel IIayne, as he
was loaded with irons, was unable to return
the embrace of bis son, and merely said to
him in reply: g Live, my son, live to honor
God by a good life ; and live to take care Of
your brother and little sisters"
The next morning, Col. Hayne was con.
Quoted to the execution. His son accompan-
led him. Soon as they came in sight of the
gallows the father Strengthened himself and
said: Now, my son, show yourself man
That tree is the boundary of my life. and all
my life's sorrows. Beyond that, the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.
Don't lay too much at heart our separation.
it will be but short. Today | die, ,.and you,
my son. though but young, must shortly fol-
low me-" Yes, my father" replied the
broken hearted youth, " | shall shortly fol-
you, for, indeed. feel that l cannot live
long" And his melancholy anticipation
was fulfilled in manner more dreadful than
is implied in the mere extinction of life.
On seeing his father in the hands of the ex-
ecutioner and then struggling in the halter,
he stood like one transiixed and motionless
with horror Till then he had wept inces-
sanity; but as soon as he saw that sight,
the fountains of his tears were staunched,
and he never wept more. He died insane,
and in his last moments often called upon his
father in terms that brought tears from the
hardest hearts.-P Philadelphia Press.