The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-23

The State was now IN posses sion OF
the Democratic party and Hampton
soon made all necessary appointments.
His administration was marked with a
singular fidelity to his promises male
during the canvass. lie became the
Governor Of the whole people and de-
voted every effort to allay discomfort
and political rancor. The negroes
were safer in his hands than they had
been since freedom Tho whites were
freed from apprehension aud despair.
Crime became infrcqucnt and the
Courts for two years had little to DO
save prosecute those who had used Of
fee to rob the State The election in
1873 was marked by quiet. Hampton
was unanimously reelected. But the
State desired his services in Congress,
for there the great battle Of home rule
was to be fought. Hampton was sent
to the United States Senate anl staid
there until 1891. He became at once
leader in that body, and while he
made few set speeches his work on
the floor and in the committee rooms
carried great influence. Placed upon
the military committee, he made more
than FIVE hundred reports, all Of which
were adopted. lie was frequently in
consultation with President Hayes.
When great deal Of unrest was caus-
ed by the prosecution Of number Of
Democrats for alleged violation of the
Federal election law, Senator Hamp-
ton succeeded in securing from Prcsi-
dent Hayes an agreement or a gcner-
al amnesty, both to Democrats and
Republicans, for all past acts.
Since the close of his political life
Gen. Hampton has been living in dig
niied retirement, beloved by his
friends and honorcd by all. Tempo
rary arrangements that had been
caused between him and some of his
former associates owing to political
issues were healed and again he was
the man above all men whom the
State delighted to honor. In recent
years he has been brought into special
prominence because of his record in
war, but this record, glorious as it
was, must pale into insigni6cancc be-
side the story Of his service as peace
maker. In every movement looking
to the harmony Of the State and in all
great questions involving the honor of
the United States he has been on the
rient side. His four-score years of
life have been full of incident, full of
prosperity and adversely, full of pleas
urc and pain, full Of time for work
and full Of leisure for sport. AS his
massive head and fine figure attested,
he was wcll-rounded man. There is
no line in which he undertook that he
failed to excel. But if we seek for his
monument we shall find it pre- -emi-
nently in State restored to State
hood, in distracted people united, in
land, once devastated, now smiling
in all tho apparel Of intelligent labor.
In him the whites have lost their fore
most representative, the negroes their
best friend.
1t will be noticed with interest that
he died on the 11th Of April, the an
niversary Of his undisputed posses
sion of the position of Governor of
South Carolina. On the 11th Of April,
1877, at midday, the private secretary
Of Mr.. Chamberlain officially turned
over to Col. Wade Hampton Manning
the Executive Office in the State capi-
tol. Twenty-Five years later, as peace
fully and as bravely, Hampton enters
into an eternal abode of peace, where
the soul unfettered and undisturbed
by the prison Of material body, no
longer sees through a glass darkly,
but face to faoe.-R. Means Davis, in
News and Courier.