The Press., 1888-05-03
Issued Every Thursday Evening.
(From Harpers Weeky.) JOSEPH ROSWELL HAWLEY.

brlskest members of the senate Is MT.
 Hawley, of Connecticut. There are few speakers more int teresting than he. When he IS drawn out he has the effect on the senate of an effervescent drink. He does not make set speeches, at least not often,
 but he IS very ready debater, aud he is very likely to assist his fellow members to conclusion by an epigrammatic sentence, or by bits of homely common sense which are both eulightening and stimulating. Senator Hawley is an older man than he looks to be. One would say on seeing him move about the chamber that he had not reached the mid-year of the fifties. His short, sturdy body, his hghtish hair which conceals the gray that has intruded upon it, his active motions, his quick coming
 words and pleasant, vigorous voice, indI- cate a man who is still in the full posses. sion of his physical powers And although Senator Hawley will be sixty-two years old on the last day of next October, there IS a vivacity about him that would do credit to many of the youngest men in congress.
 Senator Hawley was not born in Con- necticut, nor in the north, but in Stewards vile, Richmond county, North Carolina.
 His parents were Connecticut people, however, and returned to the state in 1887.
 Nor was he educated in the state in which
 his whole active life has been passed, and for which all his public civil service has
 been rendered. He was graduated at
 Hamilton College, in New York, in 1S47,
 when he was twenty-one years old. But
 when he was ready to enter the bar in
 1850, it was at Hartford, which has ever since been his home, that he was made a lawyer. Senator Hawley was not long an active practitioner in the profession of the law. He began life at a time too interest ing and exciting to permit a man of his fervid nature to drudge amid precedents and forms. He was fired with the spirit of change and revolution. The anti-slave- ry movement appealed to him more strong ly than the statutes behind which the evil of his native south was intrencbed. It was early in his career that he found the cause of the new republican party more attractive than the causes of clients. Hart
 ford was more of provincial city in the early days before the war than it is now,
 but its people We're of sturdy Puritan stock, and the war upon slavery aroused their energies and awakened their quick intellects. Mir. Hawley abandoned the law, and bee me tbe editor of the Hartford Evening Press, which has since been con. solidated with the Hartford Courant, of
 which he Is editor. For four years he ad- vocated the canse of the republican party
 in his newspaper and on the stump. It
 was ill 1857 that Mir. Huwley became an editor, and while by his pen and Lis voice
 he had strong influence upon the politics
 of his state, ho served in the ranks. He
 was not Candidate for any office. When
 the war broke out he was the first citizen 'tof Connecticut to offer his serv.crs tU the
 government, and he was made first a lieu.
 ~ troops on April 15, 186l Those were ex. citing days in Connecticut. There WAS a
 stroug disloyal element in that staid New
 England commonwealth. The "peace
 party was very strong and very active, and
 the union volunteers had good dealt dc } in keeping the peace at home before they
 started for the seat of war. Mir. Buchau. ans federal office holders were possessed by pretty but disloyal sentiments concern. tug the chaste beauty of tue white flag.
 The loyal citizens of the state lashed them. selves into decided fury by breaking up , peace meetings and destroying disloyal
 newspapers before the battle of Bull Run was fought, and the task of supprt ssinR
 every expression in favor of disuuion WAS
 not wholly accomplished when the three. months troops returned from the war.
 The enthusiasm of the times was congenlaI
 to Lieutenant Hawley, who has even now , lost very little of tue fire of his youth.
 , He went to the war, and remained al the front until it's end When he was
 mustered out of the service in January
 1866, he held the rank of brigadier- genera
 and the brevet rank of major general. He , was good soldier, brave and consoien , tious, with the alertness aud enthusiasm , which have always characterized him. He !, was at the battle of Bull Run, and in Sep I tember of 1861 he was made lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Connecticut In fantry, the regiment which was command 1, ed by his friend General Terry. It wal
 the first command of the state that volun teered. When General Terry was pro , noted to be brigadier- general in 1862 , Lieutenant Colonel Hawley was made col , onel, and was placed i'll command of tho regiment When his old chief was gIver division, Colonel Hawley became a brig , adier-general, and commanded the second brigade of the division. Subsequently he
 was General Terry's chief of staff. He was at the capture of Fort Fisher, fol
 which achievement General Terry wal made maior-general of volunteers and brig adler-general of the regular army, and re- ceived the thanks of congress. In Sep
 tember of 1865 General Hawley received
 the brevet-rank which he had when he quilted the service. In the performance : of his staff duties he exhibited that shrewd
 common sense which makes men popular in New England. Connecticut was grate.
 full and kind to her soldiers. Her people , were tenderly attached to the men who
 made the sacrifices of the war. It was es
 teemed a great privilege to have been 6 soldier, and it was felt to be public duty to honor the soldiers.
 General Hawley was made governor oi , the state three months after he was muster ed out of the military service. While he held that office 1866-D there was almost Hawley cult ill Come cticut. The gov
 eruor was not forty years old when he wa, ele cted, and his dash and spirit made him great favorite throughout the state. Tn,
 memories of the war were very fresh witt him. They have remained so ever since v The pleasure of meeting with his old com
 rades has never worn out He loves ar . old soldier with the fervor of man whC thoroughly appreciates. the deep signifi canoe of his campaigning. His voice h 2 always been heard Tn the songs that ar, sung at the monthly meetings of the Loy 2 al Legion, and he siugs with the force anC intensity with which his Puritan ancestor rdised their songs of praise in the earl, perilous days when they had moved ava, . from Massachusetts Bay, and had encomp -. -. ed between the dangers of tue Pequot and the Dutch of New York. When h, l Eun al