Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-02
Execution of Col. Hayne.

Among the distinguished men who
fell victims during the war of the Revo-
luton, was Colonel Isaac Hayne. of
South Carolina man who, by his
amiability of character and high senti-
ments 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 tenderly attached, fell
not improbably by the inconvenience
and suffering incident to state of war,
in which the whole family largely par
ticipated. Colonel Hayne himself was
taken prisoner by the British forces,
and in a short time was executed on the
gallows, under circumstances calculated
to excite the deepest commisseration.
A great number of persons, both Eng
lish and American, interceded for his
life. The ladies of Charleston signed a
petition in his behalf; his motherless
children were presented on their bend
ed knees as humble suitors for their
beloved father but all in vain.
During the imprisonment OF the ia
Their, 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 over
whelmed with CONSERVATION and sor-
row. The wretched. father endeavored
to console him, by reminding him that
the unavailing grief of the son tended
only to increase his own misery that
he could even rejoice that his troubles
were so near an end. Tomorrow"
said he, Il 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, "Oh, my father
my father! l will die for you'll | will
die with your'
Col. Hayne, as he was loaded with
irons, was unable to return the embrace
of his son, and merely said to him in
reply: "Live, my son; live to honor
God by good life; live to serve your
country and live to take care of your
brother and little sisters p
The next morning Col. Hayne was
conducted to the place of execution.
His son accompanied him. Soon as
they came in sight of the gallows the
father strengthened himself and said
" No, 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 toe
much at heart our separation; it will
be but short. To-day l die, and you
my son, though but young, must follow
me-"
Eyes, my father" replied the bro
ken-hearted youth, " shall shortly fol
low me, for, indeed, l feel that | can
not live long"
And his melancholy anticipation wa
fulfilled in a manner more dreadful
than is implied in the mere extinction
of life. On seeing his father in tn
hands of the executioner, and thel
struggling in the halter, he stood ik
one transixed and motionless with hor
ror. TIL then he had wept incessant
ly but as soon as he saw that sight, tn
fountains of his tears were staunched
and he never wept more. He died in
sane; and in his last moment otter
called upon his father in terms tina
brought tears from the hardest hearts
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