The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-23
THE LAST SAD RITES.
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: The mortal remains .! the .iius.iou;
! dead were laid TO rest Oh Sunday
afternoon in the presence Of thou
sands of people. The State says:
Wade Hampton is gathered unto his
| fathers. His sacred dust was consign-
ed to the grave Sunday, and just as
| the sun was sinking the buglerS sound
ed taps over the soldiers grave. They
| hurried him under the spreading
| branches of a mammoth live oak
| which stands firm and unawed by
any storms as Wade Hampton stood
| in the midst of turmoil; it stands
green and llouriShing in all seasons,
and as did he appear more beautiful and
symmetrical in character when tried by
adversity. It's bGughs droop in benedic-
! tion over Lis grave. just as he but a
| few months ago gave blessing to
hundreds of his old comrades who
gathered under his uplifted hands, as
! he stood upon the portico OF his cot
| tage on Senate street. It was in that
cottage that his soul took its flight to
the God who gave it. and it was hap
/ py ending to his grand career, to his
unSelfSh life, that he should pass
away in the house which represented
the love. admiration and loyalty OF the
women OF South Carolina. He endur-
| ed to The end without murmur, know
ing that these just and critical CEN
sors were proud TO be South Caro-
| linians because Wade Hampton was
their ideal soldier and gentleman.
But it is needless now to pay fur
| ther tribute to the man who in life
needed it not. 1t is to tell of his
! obseQuies that the chronicle Of today
must be devoted. The capital Of the
State yesterday saw such funeral
tribute to a man as has perhaps never
been given in South Carolina history.
! 1t was al outpouring Of the people.
not only Of Columbia, but from all
: points OF the State. No attempt was
made by any to make the obseQuieS
of Wade Hampton other than simple.
! In Difference to his own wishes, the
! desires of the people for State funer-
| al for the States illuStriouS dead was
disregarded. The most significant
feature of yesterdays outpouring
therefore was the very naturalness Of
it, showing beyond expression the
love that the people had for the
! grand old man who was no more. No
finer spectacle has ever been witnessed
| in South Carolina. Men who knew
stated that the funeral of Grant did
not compare with that of Hampton;
! that the obseQuies Of Calhoun were
: overshadowed. Many conservative
men who know how to estimate
crowds said yesterday afternoon that
; there must have been at least 10000
people about the residence and the
church and along the line Of march.
: And that vast multitude Of people
were bowed with sorrow that was not
! feigned. Each man and woman
realized that they were paying just
j tribute to great man, and the faces
! that watched the solemn passing Of
the funeral cortege were marked with
mourning.
Walking in that procession were
such men as the aged scholar and SOL
dier, DR.. James Woodrow, supported
; by younger veterans, and walking
with the noble women of the State
were such as the venerable WoodroW's
sanity wife. At the church was a
veteran who has not been out Of his
room for three years; when he heard
Hampton was dead he said take me
to Columbia and let me go to the fun
eral. He had to be carried to the
church. The world of meaning be-
! hind such incidents as these is obvi-
Gus. From the first sound of the
muttied drum yesterday afternoon to
the blowing Of the soldiers requiem
upon the bugles the people bowed
their uncovered heads. The crowd
was uAwieldly, but it was good natur-
ed and kind to itself.