Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-23
STRIKING INCIDENTS.
SCENES THAT WE'RE PHOTOGRAPHED
ON THE MEMORY.
Tho Professor Heard Governor Brough
Make His Last Speech With Head Barred.
General Buell. and the Sergeant Crazed
with Thirst at the Spring.

Make His Last Speech With Head Barred.
with Thirst at the Spring.
Some of you youngsters, said the
professor, wonder how we old fellows
remember the prominent men Of 90 or
80 or 40 years ago SO well. Because we
associate them with some particular
event, not necessarily of any impor-
lance, but serving to bring the men as
ISOLATED with it wildly before the
mind. For example, saw old Govern
or Brough Of Ohio scores of times, but
whenever think OF him l do not see
him as he walked ia his unwieldy way
along the streets nor as he sat in his
Office, a dominating presence, nor as he
appGtced on state occasions, nor when
he ragged in controversy with the stron-
gest enen in the ration over the conduct
of the war, but SEQ him as he stood
one night on pile of bricks, just out
side Capitol square in Columbus.
1.-THE fall of Richmond had been an
nounced. The people were wild with
standing was that the governor would
speak to them that night, and, standing
on pile of tricks at the corner of High
and State streets, no talked to the peo-
pie of the great news and what it meant
ito the nation. While he was speaking
lit began to rain, and still he spoke on.
Those in the crowd who had umbrellas
raised them, and there was general
shout for the governor to put on his hat.
AS he stood there that minute, with the
raindrops pattering down on his bald
head and>splattering and sparkling in
the light-of the street lamp near, Gov
ernor Bpugh always comes to me.
HE paid no heed to the rain, and in
his deep, resonant voice he said to the
calls ofSGhe crowd: i will not put on
my hat A man must stand uncovered
in the presence of an event that means
so much to this people. And he talked
on, the people standing in the rain and
glorying in every word he said. That
was the last speech made by Governor
Brough, because the cold that resulted
from the exposure took HIM down to
death.
"Brough was one Of the very strong
est mon of that period in public life,
but do you know that heard one of
the most prominent ladies in Ohio urge
that he be not renominated because he
was so reckless in his use of tobacco?
She forgot the ability, honesty, earnest
ness and zeal of the man who had re-
ceived the largest majority ever given q
candidate for any office in Ohio and
made violent campaign against him
because he had rough way and because
he was such an inveterate tobacco
chewer."
III remember General Buell." said
the sergeant, ''not;as he appeared in
the battle Of Shiloh, not as he appeared
in full uniform at grand review, but as
l saw him on q forced march, when he
wore the negligee or fatigue dress. Our
company had come. with dry threats
and empty canteens, to large spring
that burst from the earth with force
enough to turn the wheels of mill
The men proceeded to fill their canteens
and drink their fill An orderly sat on
his horse near and advised the men to
be very careful in filling their canteens
sc as to leave the water clear for those
who came after A little apart from
him on spiendid horse sat an officer in
a straw hat. The man and the horse,
even though the man was in so simple
a dress, made a fine picture, but the
n ELL
either to recognize the officer or the
horse
lone of the sergeants, crazed by
thirst plunging forward to the spring,
intent only Oh getting the clear water
to his parched throat, put one foot into
the shallow edge of the spring Instant
ly there came from the man in the straw
hat the quiet and imperious order, Take
ayonr foot out The sergeant, irritated
beyond endurance by what he regarded
"a trifing matter. turned and saidyinso-
lently: Mind your own business, sir.
Il will have no quartermaster' clerk
giving orders to me-
"As though he had been part of the
man the splendid horse made one jump
coward the spring and toward the ser
geant, and the man in the straw hat
said, with increased emphasis and i'm
,periousness, Take your foot out, and
the bewildered sergeant recognized the
commander in chief of the army He
stepped back and saluted. and then Gen
'eral Buell. said quietly, locking down
with a sort of sympathy into the dis
mayed face: Fill your canteens, but
be careful Thirty thousand men must
take water frol1 this spring before
night.
Those who remembered what a
mudhole thousand men make of a
spring understood why General Buell.
stood guard on that day. "-Chicago
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