The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-04-16

of Is miles.
He grew up at all handsome lad and
took his degree at the South Carolina
College, for which institution he has
always had most enduring affection.
Before the war he was a member of
the State legislature, and by his calm
judgment and wise conservative
thought checked many an imprudent
act. His salary as legislator was
always given to some charity and he
never took single dollar from the
State, for his valuable services. He
was not a secessionist, but when war
became inevitable, he raised body OF
troops, which became known as the.
Hampton Legion. With these troops
be went to Virginia and his command
was the first from any State to go to
the front and to aid Virginia in repell-
ing the foe from her borders. At the
first Manassas his Legion occupied the
extreme left of our line, and resisted
repeated charges, whilst Mcdowell was
endeavoring to turn that flank Of our
army and reach the rear. At TIVE
O'Clock of that momentols day, he
was wounded and taken from the field.
He soon returned to duty, and from
| that time, his course was, onWard and
upward. He rose from a. Colonel to
Brigadier General, a Major General
and finally a Lieutenant General
He never surrendered, and when the
war was over, he returned to. South
Carolina and aided in every effort TO
rehabilitate the State.
His sympathies were aroused for the
colored people who had, lost the fos-
tering care of the white race who had
cared for them, when. sick. and old
and had protected their children
when young.
When the State was reused to action
by the ever recurring venality of its
rulers, he came to- the; front, and
under his wise and careful leadership,
he brought the State through the
hours of desperate trial and restored
to her the blessings Of good govern
ment. Though always calm and
courteous, his courage was. OF the very
highest order.
When Sherman wrote TO-. him, that
some of his foragers had been killed,
and threatened to have an equal num-
Der of his Confederate prisoners shot,
HAMPTON, whose troops did not.amouns.
to one tenth of those whom Sherman;
commanded, did not quail: He replied
to Sherman that those miserable
wretches, whom Sherman called
foragers, we're without and beyond the
protection of any military law; That
they were engaged in robblng and
burning the homes of -combatantsz
that they committed even blacker
crimes and deserved the fate which
they sometimes met. He further said,
that if Sherman carried ont his threat
to murder prisoners, that ne, Hampe
ton, would have double number OF
federal prisoners, in hls hands,
executed and that ne should choose
officers first. This bold defiance had
| it's effect and not man Wasskill Dy
/ Sherman. Why was this? How was
it. that he who had but q corpofaFs|
guard of men at his back could thus
hurl defiance to. the commander OF
Sherman's countless hordes.. 1t was.
because:
''Thrice is he armed who has his
quarrel just
And he but naked, tho locked up in
steel
Whose conscience with injustice is
corrupted"
Now he is gone. Yesterday he was
laid in the earth; around his grave
there was assembled all the very best.
of Carolinas' people, from the hoary
/ headed veteran, to the hsping child,
| from the aged lady to the young and
blooming maid. Never before IN the
history of this State was there SUCH
an assemblage, of the very noblesti
representatives Of all the people. Never
was SO much feeling shown.
The spontaneous outburst Of the,
public sorrow, was art-rendiDg.
There was the old white haired negro
who had been the Generals body.
servant for many years, bent with age
and stricken with grief; there was the
Confederate Veteran, whose furrozed
cheeks and tottering steps denoted the.
trials he had borne, yet whose tears
rolled down his swarthy cheeks wheu
he looked for the last time on his old
commander, now to go forever from
his gaze. There was the ,cbild. whose
head he had so often placed his hand
upon and blessed; there was the
honored and respected citizen who had
learned to love and to respect the most
representative man of the time; there
was the matron, whose grey hair had
lost its old time shade. from the
trials, which She too had borne, with
out !; word of complaint: there was
the young maiden. who had grown so
womanhood under the soft radiance OF
his winning smile: and there, too, the
men who had wronged him and
brought his grey hairs in sorrow to
the grave.
there such an outpouring of love and
reverence: nor was there ever IN this
State such multitude of mourners.
Fifty-four years age, another great
CaroIinian. passed to his reward
John c. Calhoun was buried in the
city of Charleston. 4 city more
than double the size OF Columbia
now. and then having double the EOpu-