The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-17
DEATH OF SENATOR BEN urr.,;.

The telegraph brought us last night tho
not unexpected yet none the less sad news
of the death of Georeia's great senator,
BENJAMIN HARVEY HILL, who pissed
quietly away yesterday morning at about
six o'clock. lie had varied life as lawyer,
soldier and statesman, and was en-
deared to the the hearts of his people by
those ties which man in his position was
enabled to secure. True to his state and
true to his constituency, his loss will be
felt by them as Il most serious
blow. He was perhaps more OF a
local patriotism than national, a
little too much extreme and arbitrary to
duly reconcile those conflicting interests
which have to be adjusted by repr TIA
tives acting in II national character, a little
too violent to be persuasive after the adj
mirablc manner of such a man as BiYARD,
of Delaware, of later years. He has been
afflicted with that terrible disease, throat
cancer, which seems to battle the physi-
clans 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 sacrifice
must quickly come, and that the door of 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 a Redeemer." 1t has been for him
u horrible passage, with his daily suilerings
with thn t,raat hIncly
nearer and nearer and all the while in full
sight. Weeks ago the cancer had destroyed
all the tissues of the throat and mouth on
the left side us well as on the lower Jaw,
until the opening had become so large that
two or three fingers could be passed freely
up into the mouth from below.
Only amonth or so ago 1t was reported that
what was left Of the tongue was held on by
a very slender ligament, while il 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 generous sore begun
its dread work, which fact he kept for
long while u 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 Dir. Gross, of Philadcl-
phia. During his latter weeks ho
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 aud little
whisky added, about n half gallon of which
per day, passed into his stomach through
tube, has sustained his wasting frame. AN
through the route since his return home no
had been cheerful patient and resigned. In
about month longer he would have at
tanned 80 years of age, having been born
on the Nth September, 1898. His native
place was Jasper county, Georgia. He
received a classical education, graduating
at the university Of Georgia at Athens, in
lSil, 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-
tivcs in 1851, 80 and go; was de.
feated as tho American candidate for con-
gress in 1855, receiving G,Sl3 votes, against
6,SS votes for IL, Warner, democrat was
defeated as the American candidate fer gov
ernor of Georgia in 1856. receiving AZ, $50
votes against 57,63l votes for J. Il. Brown,
democrat; was presidential eector on the
Bell and Everett ticket in 1861 was q dele.
gate to the state convention in 1851, and
advocated the Union until the secession or
dmancc had been adopted; was delegate
from Georgia 10 the Confederate provision.
al congress, and subsequently, a senator
from Georgia in the Confederate congress-
was arrested in 1865 and imprisoned in
Fort Lafayette; was elected representa-.
tive from Georgia in the forty fourth con.
grcss, Ito fill the vacancy caused by the
death OF Garrett McMilan) and was re.
elected to the forty-liilh congress, but re-.
| signed, having been elected United States
senator from Georgia. io took his seat
March 3, 1877, and his term OF
service would have expired March, 3, 1883.
Bat that term of service he will never i'll
out. 10 another legislature, one beyond
mortality's reach, he has gone with his ere.
dcn,ials. He has passed from the suburbs
into the city itself, even while stricken
household and ShndoWCd na'ion mourn.