Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
THE SOUTH.
Georgia.

Death of Senator HilI-A Brief Sketch of
 His Career.
 ATLANTA, Aug. 16.-About ? o'clock this morning Senator Hill was found to be rap idly sinking. He breathed with much diff culty, but continued to sleep. however, and at few minutes after o'clock his death oc- cured. He died from exhaustion. For sev- sral hours before his death it was evident that the end was near. Soon after daybreak his family was summoned to his bedside, and there were present at his death the following persons: Mrs. Hill, his wife; B. H. Hill, ir. and his wife Dr. R. P. Ridley and his wife, Senator Hills daughter; Charles D. Hill, his son two nephews of the Senator; and Dr. Wright, the attending surgeon Four hours before the Senator's death he made sign for a hypodermic injection of morphine, which was administered. He ap- peared to be awake and conscious several times, but could not speak. At 6:15 he was apparently awake, when he gently closed his eyes and died without even tremor. He partook of no nourishment for the last 24 hours and made no communication for sev- eral days. His last words were, Almost home."
 Senator Hill will be buried Saturday after noon instead of Friday, as was at first ex- pected.
 Mir. Hill was a native of Georgia and was of | Irish descent on his fathers side, and of English on his mother's side. Born in 1923 he graduated at the State University in ls44, l and in 1S45 began practice lawyer. His public life began in 1851, as "Union" mem- Iaro of T,epi Tp !, | was defeated know nothing candidate for 1 Congress, and he was also know nothing candidate for Governor and Presidential cleo | tor. A member of the Georgia secession convention in 1S61 Mir. Hill was & Union l man until he was outvoted and then he ''went | with his State.' He a member of the l Confederate Senate during the war, and was l for time prisoner in Fort Lafayette. In | 1872 MT. Hill was an ardent supporter of Greedy and Brown. In 1873 he was a can didate for United States Senator in opposition | to Alexander H. Stephens, but John R. Cor
 don was elected In 1877 he was elected Senator and his term would have expired | next March
 In the House of Representatives Mir. Hill I was made prominent by bis selection by MT.
 Blaine text for some of MT. Blaine's s | most Stalwart speeches, when the "southern
 brigadiers' were held up for northern disap-
 prova1 This gave Mir. Hill leading posi- l ton among Luo bOuLuoFu SOAkEoSSuSu, una I when the excitement over the electoral dis
 pute of 1876 came his attitude was watched | with good deal of concern. He soon let it
 be known that he favored peaceable settle
 ment of the dispute by any honorable means,
 and that he would oppose any of the revolu-
 tionary schemes which certain northern
 Democrats favored in order to prevent deo-
 laration of the vote in favor of Mir. Hayes
 As he was then candidate for the United
 States Senate, his Bourbon opponents en-
 deavored to use his position to his disadvan
 tage. He accordingly wrote letter defining
 his views beyond cavil In this he said
 ''The political situation was never so criti-
 cal as now. Our constitutional system is on
 a magazine of powder, and ten thousand fools
 and some that not fools are striking matches all around @. None but cool men and patriots who love country more than 1 office can avert the most horrible civil war , that ever disgraced and destroyed liberty and humanity. And yet there was never less ex-
 cuse for any in the history of the world. Such a war, if 1t comes, will be the culmina- 5 tion of human crime in the dastardly destruo- } ton of rights by disgraceful scramble fo1 { office. In the late election both MT. , Iilden and Mir. Hayes re -eived some votes |, Will it not be better to have either for Presi dent than to have a ruler who received nt l votesp He is too stupid for argument who - does not see that the last alternative is possi : ble. But whoever may may not be mad' : President by returning boards or bayonets y one thing is certain: MT. Tilden cannot ant s will not be made President unless he is mad