The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-16
WADE HAMPTON IS DEAD!

the people CT South Carolina, of the
people of the South at large and of
many others who knew and admired
and loved the dead chieftain.
Wade Hampton was born in Char
lestor, ). c., on March %, 1913. His
father was Col. Wade Hampton, who
served on the staff of Gen. Jackson
in tho var nf 1919, and he in turn
was the son Of Gen. Wade Hampton,
o Colonel in the war of the Rcvolu-
tion and General in the war Of 1912.
Gen. Hampton 8 mother was Miss
Fitzsimmons. lie was twice married;
his first wife was sister Of the fam
Gus orator, Vim. Preston, and his
last wife was daughter Of Governor
McDnf1ic. To each Of these marriages
were born three children; al those Of
the first marriage being dead, and all
those Of the second marriage being
alive. His gallant young son, Pres
ton, was killed in battle in the civil
war.
Gen. Hampton graduated at the
South Carolina College, and, after
pursuing course Of study in law,
took up the business, Of planting, lie
being the owner Of large landed estates
and slaves in South Carolina and in
Mississippi. He served while young
man in the Legislature, but sought
no other political Office. Whilst lie
was firm believer in tho Democratic
doctrine Of State sovereignty, he was
opposed to that Of secession. Never
theless, as soon as the State had
taken that step he promptly set about
raising that body Of troops known as
the hampton Legion, which, under
his command and that Of other lcud-
crs, achieved undying fame in the
war that followed. He rapidly rose
to be Brigadcr:G General aud Major
General, and after the death Of Gen.
j. B. Il. Stuart was made Licutenant-
General and put in command Of all
the cavalry of Lees army. But his
deeds Of prowess and his fame MS a
soldier are writ large in the book of
history, and are known Of oil men.
When the war ended he returned to
his planting, but the results Of the
war had impoverished him and he did
not succeed.
There is scarcely child who has
not heard from the lips of those who
participated in it under his matchless
leadership the story of Gen. Hamp-
tons redemption Of South Carolina
from the degradation of Radical rule
in 1876. No such bloodless revolu-
tion was ever wrought before-so
momentous in the events of the time,
30 stupendous in the results which
flowed from its successful consum-
nation. To the abiding confidence
of the people in Hampton, to his own
clear judgment, cool head and wise
foresight must be ascribed the honor
of this victory of peaceful methods
over force, power and corruption.
Gen. Hampton was elected to the
United States Senate in 1879 and SER
we'd for twelve years. His services in
this body was marked by that same
calm equipoise of temperament and
judgment which have ever been char
acteristic Of the man. Without os-
tentation or display, with no effort to
dazzle, he yet, by the force of his
rounded and symmetrical character,
his great good sense, and judgment
acquired great influence in that body.
In 1890 the Tillman movement swept
over this State with the power and
march of the destructive force of
prairie fire. In the lust and greed of
Office born Of this movement, it was
determined that every man in Office
must go, even Hampton, the soldier,
the patriot, the tribune of the people,
the saviour of the State, and there
were found enough men in the Gen
eral Assembly of South Carolina to
perpetuate the deed. He was defeat
ed in 1891 by John L. NJ. Irby. In
1893 he was appointed on the United
States Railroad Commission by Presi-
dent Cleveland, and was succeeded in
1893 by Gen. Longstrect.
Gen. Hampton's defeat for the Sen
ate wounded him to the heart, not be-
cause he sought Office Che never mad
done that), but because it seemed to
show that his people, for whom he
had shed his blood in war, for whom
he had sacrificed his enormous for
tune, for whom he had endangered
his life and liberty to redeem them
from alien rule, had repudiated him
and lost confidence in him, and this