The news & observer., 1897-04-23
TALK WITH HAWLEY
Gath Interviews the Soldier
Senator From Connecticut.
BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA
EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE
IN THE STATE OF HIS BIRTH.
HAS, NO REGRET AT LEAVING
How His knowledge of North Caro-
Ina Served When in the State
Commanding Federal
Troops.
BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA
HAsa NO REGRET AT LEAVING

Especial Correspondence Of the Times)
Washington April 1T.-General Joseph
Roswell Hawley, the Connecticut Senator
since 1881, before that three times sent
to Congress, a general of division in the
war and a constant soldier, lives in an
oldish, plain brick house back of the
War Department on Il corner. 1t is
quarter of the city once fashionable.
William Writ, William Nj. Seward and
the present Chief Justice preferred it, as
no longer fashionable. therefore more
tranquil vet central.
With young children at the age of 40,
General Hawley has a youthfulness that
mixes well with his fine, thinning hair.
He expresses the idea of comradeship,
of mentality without care, of the blvouac
and the curule chair such as Sulla and
Caesar alternated between when they
were Senator soldiers.
He has a den, or study, in his second
story extension, a little square room with
its windows on garden and nothing but
his desk for furniture and a few chairs.
Photographs of comrale Senators and
good exempiars in war stand around as
in tent.
He sits and talks in Il deep-throated,
continuous voice, whose low pitch keeps
your ears attentive, and his articulation
is Connecticut-like, though he was born
under the pine tree and some tar applied
| under his heel.
His transplanting has been from the
Pee Dee swamps Of North Carolina at
the age of II to his fathers native re-
gion about Hartford, but his mother,
Mary Mcleod, was Of Scotch stock, from
the Isle of Skye.
The Scottish type is what alters Gen-
eral Hawley's stature, temperament and
rhetoric; it rises out of his plain New
| England base like game cock pheasant
out Of the Scotch grouse.
| He was old enough in the South to re
| collect the notification splutter which
antedated secession thirty years.
II was six years old IN notification
| times" said he to me- Everybody, my
Baptist preacher father included, wore
one of two kinds of cockades. We, and
| two or three other families alone, wore
the Union cockade. l was born in Rich
mond county and lived around Laurel
Hill. The place called Shoe Heel, which
you visited in the Henry Berry Lowry
war, was among my childish haunts. l
| went down there a good while after the
| war, to Fayetteville, and revisited the
scenes of my Carolina youth My
mothers relatives are buried there in
| Richmond county, no great ways from
Cheraw, South Carolina"
| "And there you returned in the war;"
my early recollections Of my native
places helped me once in the war. After
Terry captured Wilmington he made me
commander Of a sub-department in that
section of the State and said that enor-
nous supplies would be landed at Will
| mington and above it to feed Sherman's
| army, which was coming up from Colum-
bia. i would like you to communicate
| with Sherman he said. You know
something Of this country and can devise
a way. He ought to know that his sup
plies are here I was left in state of
mind to know how to send up through a
country where strangers seldom appeared
At a certain farm an effusive old gentle
man hailed me as his deliverer from the
rebellion and l sounded him about an
! emissary. He said a man was ON the prem
ises who had been hiding there several
days with his consent. found the man
and asked him how, with his able-bodied
makeup, he had Kept out Of the war.
He said that he had got into the rebel
postal service and stayed in it without
molestation. Where were you raised?
/ 4xn Richmond county, lat Nevermind Cross
Roads 'Ah, then you know the Nc So
and Sos. You remember that wheel
wright shop of McPerths and the store
of Sandy Jarvie's and so forth. What is
| yeur name? 'McFarland,' said the sus-
pect with mouth and eyes wide open at
seeing a Yankee general describe his ma
tive hamlet. 1 knew his family. l told
him that he could make hundred dol
lars by finding Sherman's nearest de-
tachment He returned through my ma
tive haunts and his, and was picked up
by General Blairs pickets and would not
speak till they took him to Blair, and
! then he delivered my letter, and the
junction was made by the power Of old
associations. Afterwards a lady in Will
mington, a school teacher, showed me my
mothers picture which she had kept all
, those years"
Did it not take some time for yonr
Southern nature to wear off
mo. | was plunged into the midst of a
set Of Connecticut relatives planted there
as early as 1G39. My father had gone
South as a secular man and became
preacher later. He was pure, good
man, never worth, suppose, over eight
hundred dollars. A large family, Of which
he was an older son, had pushed him out
to find his living elsewhere, and he took
back to Pennington in time all his family.
Five years afterwards we removed to
Cazenoyia, New York, in 1912, and |
went to Hamilton College, and after
graduating entered the bar at Hartford
in 1850"