Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-09-15

dungeons of the MOOTs. BaInbrIdge IN
return, had measured the ground for
him to stain it with his blood.
Rodgers took Decatur's head upon his
shoulder, the doctor, TTevitt, seated with
them, and the carriage took It's painful
way back TO the city. Baiubridge and
HambletOn hastened to the navy Yard
where the tug lay to carry them back TO
Columbus, that ship Of discord. AT
half-past ten O'Clock Decatur re-enLereu
his elegant mansion, his wife and house
hold distributed ut the breakfast table
with the appalling 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 duelist's dying cham
Der. He signed his will, refused to have
the bail eXtricated from his wound, and
spoke affectiOnately of his wife, whom
he yet refused to see. EXcruciating
pains came to him. After one Of the
spasms he said:
81 did not believe 1t possible for per
son TO endure so much pain as now
feel"
The town was aT0U ed, and his door
ways and pavCmentS crowded. They
stopped the dTawing-rOOm at President
ALOurOe'S. UncOmpiaining, in the midst
of anguish to the last, the eUncOnquerable
soul of the "BayaTds of the Seas" yield
ed itself up without a gTOan at IIalf-past
ten o'clock in the MI ut.
Next day the little old National Intel
FgCHcCs' came ont with a loaded editorial
head, saying that it would ''attectatiOn'
to be silent upon the fact that the duel
had occurred and that the cOmbatantS
were mOrtally wounded. In 4 post
script it related that Decatur was dead
and added in the crude apOstrOphe Of
that period, "MOurH, Columbia for one
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 DecatuU'S body was
going from his residence, close by the
White house, to "KalUrama," " an estate
on the hill overlooking Georgetown, and
while Barron lay in the city wTithing in
pain aud listening to funeral drums.
In Congress, John Randolph offered
cOnsOlatOry resolutions, but they were
objected to. The tone of the press, COM
menting on the duel was respectful,
both to the living and the dead antOgOn-
ist, but as sternly dCuunciatOry Of "the
CODE as our newspapers nowadays
could be. Barron suffered dreadfully
for many months, bat recovered at last,
and lived down to 1851, surviving, 1
think Decatur's childless widow, who
was represented in 1916 to he alive in
the Georgetown Catholic College, Gin
ill-health and poverty, finding in the
consolation Of religion alone alleviatiOn
of her sorrOws," but hopeful Of securing
something from Congress, Barron went
to sea again, and had charge of several
vessels, but the shadow Of the duel lay
across his life. People forgot the apollo
gy for it in the catastrophe of it. \
new generation of boys TOseup whOread
of DecatuT's valor, and learned to regard
b. as his assassin. The OOrliving victim
could not explain against a dead man.
He asked for a court tmartialOn Decatur's
charge against him, and was eNOneTated
with niggardly compliments.
Decatur lies buried behind st. Peters
Church, Philadelphia, in avUmGrabie and
spacious graveyard, under an eagle cap
ped monument. His portrait is in
Georgetown College. His name IS con-
fcTTed on many towns and counties in
this country. What he lived for he had
Obtained-gloTy in the eyes of his coun-
tTymen.
Barron obtained ''satisfaction"-littIe
more. Yet think that the latter was
throughout, the aggrieved spirit.