The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-03-06
GENERAL EPPA HUS1ON.
. The old order ChauEeth. Yielding PIaoe
to the New"

to the New"
Editor Times: BY the retirement OF
General Eppa Hunton Monday the coun-
fry bv The concurrent testimony OF ms
colleagues. loses the services OF one OF
itr most useful Senators and the State OF
Virginia parts with one OF her trueSt'
blayest. wisest sons. From his advent
into public life, now more than twenty
yeats ago. General Hunton has teen
commanding figure. Entering congress
when Grant was on the throne and Blaine
Was i'm the Speakers chair, his practical
wisdom. rugged force and dominating
VIII. his iron tenacity and daunuess cour-
age won the confidence Of his associates
and impressed his strong personality
upon all who were thrown in contact with
him. Soon after his entrance into inc
lower house he a confederate solder
with the blood Of battle hardly dry upon
his garments, was placed upon the Mill
tarv Committee composed Of officers
against whom he had been but recently
dghting. II IS authentic tradition in
WASHINGTON that before the first session
had passed the chairman OF that commit
tee pronounced him the fairest, the frank
est. the most Industrious ana useful mem
her upon it, When the country was
brought TO the verge of civil, not sec
tional. war. when the crisis was so I'M
minent and the prospect or conflict so
appalling that stump orators, leading
editors" political traders and all the
vermin that infest peaceful politics, either
covered from sight or were impatlently
swept by an alarmed nation into obscutl-
". this man. this Confederate soldier,
was selected as one ia whose hands could
be trusted the peace Of a continent the
honor of a party and the disposition OF
a crown.
His rise to the Senate was not less hon
ordble and his career there mas Deen
not less creditabe and useful than 1t
was I'm the lower house. The same stain
lass integrity. sound judgment, blunt bon
esty and veracity of character won from
his new associates the same respect
which had been bestowed by his old col
leagues of the House. IN Virginia we
have all looked upon this gentleman as
man to tie to-" He never faileI
frend or chrunk from foe. No I'M
CCan moLey has ever been suspected OF
clinging 10 his hands. The Tile spectre
of calUnny, which kaunts 50 many lives,
has never soiled his name. He never
traded in politics or sought office By de-
yiCUs paths.
Whatever he would highly that he
would holly"
place my candidacy on the highest
plane and keep it there was his message
TO his son when, for the first time In Nir-
.ria's history a shadow hung over
senatorial election. The retirement OF
such d man from public life is an event
10 be felt and should be noticed. When
Cornelia counts her jewels. one Of her
purost should not be omitted from the
shining circle. He is one OF her sons who
has never brought blush to the cheek
nor a pans To the heart OF the mother
he loved and served so we'll The gray
haired veterans who toiled and fought
and suffered for Virginia are we'll aware
that
Some porter age
Has come tittering on TO shove us from
the stage"
May we when we come TO 'bow and
walk beyond the stars" leave this theatre
as Hunton does. with all
THAT should accompany old age,
AS honor. love, obedience. troops OF
friends"
a FRIEND AND COMRADE.