The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-06-18
fiJrooklyn Eagle LetierI
WADE nAHrTos AND ms LEG.

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Hampton ia the Senate, nursing biz
stump Of leg and snIjecting his spien.
did physique 10 the disgrace Of crutches.
lie is the only cripple in the body
mean visibly so. To be sure his col
league, the dasbiDg Butler, has but one
leg, but you might watch him move
about for ten years and not know IL, so
perfectly does he manage his cork. To
be sure, too, there arc men who suffer,
sometimes intensely, for trying to STOP
bullets in the late unpleasantncss, like
Gordon, Ransom and Maxey but their
| iniirmities arc not visible. Not 40 with
Hampton. lie is in the very prime oi
life, searcsly over fifty, and hopeless
cripple. Nobody feels pain on looking
Mt Aleck Stephens, for his case Is Just
the result Of IA slow and natural process
Of decay, which be rather seems to rel.
ish. but you insensibiy feel deep
sympathy with lIampton's LOSE, as with
the late Senator Morion's inlii mites.
because both came along prcmaturely,
like the hurricane on the oak, and mar.
red powerful frames. And ths General
croons over his abbreviated limb alFthe
time-not in any growing or iesty spir.
Il, for he is the soul Of patience. l,It IL
must be remembered that his whole life
has been one Of neryee vim, dash, and
his present forced inactivity must only
intensity the memory Of his daring ex.
ploita, and ''m0ying accidents by food
and field. Can it he supposed that
when Morton sat in the Senate, big,
chained dog, the defcnseless prey &C tie.
smallest cur that had legs and could use
them, be never fretted at the picture of
his past activity, when he used to bound
into his saddle at his Governors Office.
in war times, aud dash to the camp or
arsenal, the very embodiment Of plysi.
cal vigor rs he lashed his horse To
white foam through the excited streets.
No wonder, then, that while the Gen.
eral nurses his leg, be also nurses man
ly regrets. Several interesting Incl
dents happened lately in single day.
rs told by one Of Hampton's intimate
friends. The General, in the hope Of
picking nP some views about cut legs,
had way of stopping people similarly
afflicted. As be wss standing on his
crutehes in the main hall, near the Sen
ate entrance, large man came along,
his right leg lost above the kner. aud
he bail some patent arrangement, that
seemed like a framework, light aud port
able. "a heip him ,itt 0f his scraIe. Ac-
costing him, Hampton sJsoke Of their
mutual infiTmitie<, an,l asked how that
arrangement worked "Very we'll" re.
plie.f the stranger. s'It il an invention
Of my own, ,-nnl he went ON to ex.
| ylaiP H., iIiAtnir,IIg tiiif., General. aye
certainly il Hent or when Hampton
charged our battery at Gettysburg. >
''Inaecd I'm grieVed to hear II, said
the General, very sincerely. "My name
is Hampton. They shook hands very
warmly over the bloody chasm, and The
stranger turned out To l,e Representa-.
tive Caulk, nf Wisconsin.
Idtar Ia the day the General WIS OF
his way home in the str..et-ear, when 8
man entered With only one arm, th,
other gone ut the socket The Genera
invited him 70 seat and managed lh,
payment Of his flro.
Where did yop lose yonr arm I
asked Hampton.
"Well, sir. it WIS at CettvsSurg.
answered the man. ''wlen Hampto
made that terrific charge with bis car
airy"
Whereupon the two shook hands an
made NJ, and the man now says that
Hampton is put on the Democrat
ticket he will swallow it hook and line
1t was on the same bloody field tina
{ Pleasanton and Hampton met as riv.
, cavalry leaders, and they met only :,
Wednesday last over the pipe of peacr
} Pleasanton was enchanted with his ol
4 enemy, and said that he was the onJ
. soldier he ever heard of who told I'll
!; whole truth in case of defeat Let N
a tell another instance of Hampton
j kind-heartedness. and then the read,
t can possibly judge why it IS that he
r the idol of the coloresl race OF the Soutl
] Recently, it will bs remembered,
t went ia Mississippi, ON the death
t his son. While there he met three O
$ slaves Of his. They called TO pay the
a respects, and in an apologetic way to-
/. ''Massa Wade" that they had to fig
: for their freedom, aud hoped be did n,
s feel bad about it. Oninqniry he learnt
g of them that all three had been woun
o ell on board tho Moaarch during Il
n war. They knew nothing of how the
" account stood, or Right stand under Il
o law, with the Omitted States TIeasur
d and the Generals Arst act when
}, came back was to obtain them pension
g That's the way tho "rebel Brigadier
n are depriving the Southern negroes
l. their rights.
t, "I very believe" said friend in n;
70 rating the incident, "that If Wa
m Hampton only felt disposed, he cou
i establish monarchy in the Palmet
IS State to-morrow,so absolute is his sws
j. He could start y peerage, found land
Mt estates, and divide them mp among I
ry Earl of Charleston, the Marquis
in Edgefeld and the Duke Of Beanfo
he and the people would enthnsiastica
'st acquiesce."
he SAW FnR0UGu THE MEAT.
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