The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-08-18
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The doctors proceeded to loosen the
clothes OF the sufferers and ascertain
n nature of their wounds. The lit
tie green valley at the breakfast hour
1t were represented nearly all the nav.
al victories in the republic -Tripoli
and Algiers, Lake Erie and both
oceans ; they held solemn congress in
this unholy amphitheatre.
Barron was struck in the hip and
about the groin. Decatur had caught
the ball on his hip, and it had glanced
upward into his abdomen, severing
the large blood vessels there. The
two doctors exchanged glances there
vas no hope for Decatur : his pulsa-
ton had almost ceased.
Now began on the ground, as they
lay upon croaks spread for them, that
dying interview Of mingled tenderness
and recrimination which Writ has
compared to the last intercourse of
Hamlet and Laertes. Each striving
to- clear up his fame, and prove that
this crime was mistake or the work
Of oficious enemies. Barron, certain
that his hours were numbered, wished
to be at peace with his enemy that
they might enter the court of iudg-
ment friends. 3 Decatur vas less re-
lenting, but he consented to forgive
Barron, though not his advisers.
Itwas a sadder scene than Nelson,
Pecaturs-admirer dying in the cock
.pit-Auringi the battle, OF Bayard, to
whom he had been compared, bleed
ing bon the battlefield.
The carriage came, and they bore
Decatur to 1t, cambridge kissing his
Scheek. He had wrested Bainbridge
from the dungeons of the Moors.
cambridge, in return, had measured
the ground for him to stain it with his
blood.
To Rodgers took D~ecatur's head upon
his shoulders, the doctor, Treyitt,
seated with them and the carriage took
ifs painful way back to the city. Balm
bridge and Hambleton FASTENED to the
navy yard, where the tug ~ to carry
them back to the Columbus, that ship
of discard At halfpast ten o'clock,
Decatur re-entered his elegant man
: sion, his wife and household disturb
ed al the breakfast table with the APP
.Palling news, and they were driven to
The upper part of the house. Around
: the city the evil news spread. Friends
crowded around the door and into the
sdpelist's dying chamber, He sighed
Ills will, refused to have the ball ex-
tracted from his wound, and spoke af
: fectionately Of his wife, whom he yet
I 4Tefdsed to see: Excrutiating pains
came to him. After one of the spasms,
~ ~ 49,
m did not believe it possible for a
.opersonl to endure so much pain. as /
e"agThst town was aroused, and his door
ways and pavements crowded. They
stopped the drawing-room at President
M~onroe,s.y 4 Uncomplaining, in the
midst of anguish to the last, the un-
seeonquerable soul of the fBayard of
the Seas, yielded itself up without a
groan at half-past ten o'clock in the
night. &C.
Next day the little old National In
te1igencer came out with a loaded edi-
,terial head, saying that il would be
- afecsatien" to be silent upon the fact
that the duel had occurred, and that
the combatants were MORALLY wound
sy0A-s Aha L OSlSCilPI II ACIoIOo Ih"I
Decatur was dead, and added in the
; crude a~postrophe of that period,
Mourn, Columbia for n of thy
{ brightest stars is set !" Three days
afterwards the mail was robbed three
miles from Baltimore, the driver tied
to a tree and shot dead, and the mail
bags picked over in the bushes near
by. All this while Decatur's body
: vas going from his residence, close by
the White House, to 'tKalorama," an
: estatesson a hill overlooking George
town, and while Barron lay in the
acity,awriting in pain and listening to
the funeral drums. In Congress, John
Randolph. offered consolatory resolu-
tons, but they. were obje,ted to. The
tone of the press, commenting on the
duel was respectful both to the living
and the dead antagonist, but as stern
IL denunciatory of 'fthe code as our
newspapers nowadays could be Bar
ron suffered dreadfully for many
smonths. but recovered at last, and liv-
ed down. to 1851, surviving, / think,
'sDecatur's chitdless widoT A, who was
.represeuted in 1746 to be alive in the
Georgetown Catholic College, Sin i'll
neaitn anu poverty, HnuInS inc CoH
ISOLATION of religion alone alienation
lofi her sorrews,' y but hopeful of secur
ing something from Congress. Bar
ron vent TO sea again, and had charge
of several vessels, but the shadow of
'1hesduel lay across his life. People
forgot the apology for it in the catas-
atrophesof If. A new generation of
sbsys rose up who read of Decaturs
sValor, and learned to regard Barron
as his, assassin. The poor living vic
tim could not explain against a dead
man. He asked for a court-martial on
.DecatuF's charge against him,and was
e~Yoporated with niggard compli-
ments-e sr-t.-..,..T ara IT .:,,-
Decatur lies buried behind St
FetHGChurch, Philadelphia, ina
Yenerable and spacious graveyard
nDderr an zeagie-capped monument
Hi portfait is In Georgetown College
HAkame fssconferred on many towns
and counties in this country What
he lived for he has obtained-glory in
heheHeyesofhi ms countrymen. Barron
obtained stsatisfaction"-little more.
Yet I think that the latter was
Throughout the aggrieyed spirit
-. An Old Mans Sond,