The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-06
General Wade hampton.
one of the Old School of Southern
Gentlemen

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New England states, that intended Il
destroy the Institution of slavery. ever
! II they had TO dissolve the Union Il
do IL
The Hampton estates in Louisiana
and Mississippi were worked by from
1,lOO to 100 negroes. Whenever as
you rode through the country contigu-
Gus 20 the Hampton estates. you met q
SICK Well dressed. smiling negro. and
you asked; who is your master, boy?'
IN nine instances out of ten the reply
would be: Colonel Wade Hampton
sahi" ''-
1t was rule of the Hamptons thai
no negro should ever be whipped until
all the facts were laid before the gen
erai or his brother Kit" one of whom
was generally on the Louisiana and
AlIsS1sSlppi estates. The negro quar-
tefs were Of brick. with usually -four
rooms each A Hampton negro was
never sold.
Inc generals body servant. old
Louis, Was towering aristocrat. Once
while the general was disfranchised
as We're all the white men who had
Deeh IN the army. and could not take
the lronclad OATH as it was demon
mated. he was on his way to New Or
leans and, of course, Louis was with
NM Inc writer, in order to see what
he would say. said:
LOUIS what do you think of this new
idsillOll or negroes doing all the vot-
ing, while your old master here. Cen
eIdi hampton, and / can't vote at all ?''
wen, master" said Louis, judicial
~ so fur as-Mafse Wade's concerned.
it's ali right
=. why what the devil do you mean?''
said Hampton, in seeming anger, '.by
telling - - such a thing as thst7''
Marse Wade, said Louis, how long
lis you had me?"
Wen, over forty years. think. ]
oon just remember, now"
row many votes did we have wen
you frs bought me?'
why one, of course" replied the
Well, we'se got de same vote still
nam we? replied Louis.
That closed the discussion They had
as many votes as they ever had had,
only Just then Louis was doing the
voting and not the general. But that
did not last very long.
Two yours before hostilities actually
commenced Hampton began to make
ready for the coming civil war. AZ am
~ years DID,, he said, but l must be
able to do what / can for my country
ne was a member of two secession
conventions, that of his native state
Jan. 70. He opposed the act of seces-
sion in both states. but the popular
wave was too powerful to stem
Well, gentlemen" he said to a
group OF planters of Jackson. Miss.
VINO were talking, rather startled at
what the convention had that day done.
my grandfather fought to make this
republic, and my father shed his blood
10 uphold it, II may be that we have
zone wisely today, but 1 have my
doubts about it,
on, said one standing by, who was
afterward a brigadier general-Martin
W1therspoon Gary-''the id Yankees
won't fight"
Don't you believe it," replied Cen
erai Hampton. slowly. 'They fought
IN the war of the revolution; they
Fought all of the war of 1912 at sea
and good deal of it on dry land.
tell you, he concluded, with conviction
IN his voice and manner. ''all Ameri-
cans VIII fight, and. as a rule, when
all men de fight, q, zoe 900 people can
whip T,6O0.OOO.' He left the groun that
mad gathered to hear what Hampton
mad to say in a rather startled and
a much less confident frame of mind
than they had been a half hour before
Seeing what was coming, General
Hampton got ready for the coming
storm. He had sold his Louisiana es-
tates TO John Burnside of New Orleans
Tor Sl,O0O,OOO cash, as Mr.. Burnside dis
counted his own notes. Some of this
money-in fact, the greater part of il
was in the oldest and strongest banks
in New Orleans. He allowed it to re-
main there.
But when the confederate treasury
ordered all the banks in the seeded
states to turn their specie and exchange
II the city of New Orleans was i'm the
possession of the federal forces. and
thus General Hampton's gold was
saved
At an expense Of nearly $3.50 600.
General Hampton raised, clothed and
equipped the Hampton legion. He en-
tered the confederate army as a pri-
vate soldier, but was at once elected
colonel of the cavalry of the Hampton
legion, which was composed of artil-
iery, cavalry and infantry In a few
days he had fine cavalry command.
which he drilled and put into shape in
time for the first battle of Manassas.
or, as the Union army called it. Bull
Run"
Hampton was badly wounded. but
showed that genius for command that
made him the most successful of the
lieutenant generals appointed from
80 " -SAAN al my III VIZ
GINA.
II do not need to see any recon-
mendations in General Hampton's IA
yor, said Jefferson Davis. when his
name was submitted by the South Car
Olina delegation in the confederate con-
gress for promotion, and on the death
Of General Stuart at Yellow Tavern.
Hampton succeeded to the command of
all the cavalry of General r. E. Lees
army. How CALAMITY and we'll he
fought it history has justly recorded.
As soon as he could he got out of
practical politics. and, like the old Ro-
man patriot, returned to the shade of
his tig trees and vines. And there he
lived, an honor TO his section and re-
spected by both north and south. the
highest example, in his conduct and
life, of the southern soldier and gentle
man. And thus he lived, and thus he
died. May God rest his gentle, manly
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