The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-08-24
DEATH: OF SENATOR. BEN HILL.

DEATH: OF SENATOR. BEN Hill
The telegraph brought US last night the
not unexpected yet none the less sad news
of death of Georgia's great senator,
BENJAMIN HARVEY HILL, who passed
quietly away yesterday morning at about
six o'clock. He had a varied life as lawyer,
soldier and statesman, and was ell
deared to the the hearts of his people by
those ties which man in his position was
enabled to secure. True to his state ana
true to his constituency, his loss Will be
felt by them as most serious
blow. He was perhaps more oil
local patriotism than national d
little too much extreme and arbitrary 10
duly reconcile those conflicting interests
which have to be adjusted by repr Ia
tives acting in national character, little
too violent to be persuasive after 'he a''-
mirable manner of such man as bAfARp'
of Delaware Of later years. lie has peen
afflicted with that terrible disease, throat
cancer, which seems to battle the physl-
clan s skill to heal or check, and the ability
of science and all pathological labor honest
ly to promise cure for. For months and
months he has known that the sacrillce-
must quickly come, and that the door oil the
sepulchre was opening to disclose what may
lie in the silence of the beyond where be
gins the rainbow woven out of the falling
tears of Redeemer." 1t has been Tor him
q horrible passage, with his daily sufierlngs,
with the great black camel approaching
nearer and nearer and all the whhe IN iuii
sight. Weeks ago the cancer had destroyed
all the tissues of the throat and mouth on
the left side, as well as on the lower jaw,
until the opening had become 80 large that
two or three fingers could be passed freely
up into the mouth from below.
Only month or so ago twas reported that
what was left Of the tongue was held on by
a very slender ligament, while it was hour
ly feared that this might break and the
tongue fall into the sick mans throat While
he slept. II was on the tongue some three
years since that the cancerous sore begun
its dread work, which fact he kept for q
long while secret from even his wife.
Then for several months he submitted him
self to homeopathic treatment in New
York, but grew worse and worse. Thence
he had recourse to DR.. GROSS, OF Philadel-
phia. During his latter weeks he
has been kept much under the
influence of morphine, ETC., to deaden the
pain, while his food has mainly consisted
of milk, with the yolks of eggs and little
whisky added, about half gallon of which
per day, passed into his stomach through
tube, has sustained his wasting frame. All
through the route since his return home he
had been cheerful, patient and resigned. In
about month longer he would have at
tanned SO years of age, having been born
on the Nth September, 1923. His native
place was Jasper county, Georgia. He
received classical education, graduating
at the university of Georgia, at Athens, in
1874, studied law, was admitted to the bar
;. In 1915, and commenced to practice at La
Grange, Georgia; was member
of The state house of representa-
tiyes in 1851, 80 and go; was de.
feated as the American candidate for con-
rress in 1855, receiving 6,Sl3 votes, against
6,ss3 votes for II. Warner, democrat; was
defeated as the American candidate for gov
ernor of Georgia in 1856 receiving 4G,SS9
votes, against. 81 ,631 votes for J. e. Brown,
democrat; was presidential elector OH the
Bell and Everett ticket in 1861; was dele
gate to the state convention in 1851, and
advocated the Union until the secession or
dinance had been adopted; was a delegate
from Georgia TO the Confederate provision.
nj congress, and subsequently q senator
from Georgia in the Confederate congress;
was arrested in 1865 and imprisoned in
Fort Lafayette; was elected a representa-
tive from Georgia in the forty-fourth con-
gress,---tto fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of Garrett Mcmillan. and was re-
elected 10 the forty-fifth congress, but re-
signed, having been elected United States
senator from Georgia. lie took his seat
March 5, 1877, and his term Of
service would have expired March, 3, 1883.
Bat that term Of service he will never I'll
out. To another Legislature, one beyond
mortality's reach, he has gone with his ere
dentials. He has passed from the suburbs
into the city itself, even while stricken
Household and q Swallowed nation mourn.