The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-27
Ihs herala'and JlrNs
COLUMBIA LETTER.
r.. X ACI.L, EDIToR.

While up to the present time very few
Bills have reached third reading. a
majority of the most important meas
ures to come up nave already been pre-
sented and referred to the proper COM
mttees. Each day the number Of new
Bills is increasing and the calendar as
sumes larger proportions.
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The States tribute to the memory of
her most illuStrious son was given on
Friday, when the Hampton memorial
exercises were held in the hall of the
House of Representatives The orator
of the day was General NJ. G. Butler,
distinguished and close companion of
Hampton in the troublouS times of war
and also in the great work of redeem
ing the State in 1876. Perhaps no man
in South Carolina is better qualified for
the task of delivering an oraton upon
the life, services and character of
Hampton than General Butler, and the
address was 4 mastcrful one, rcplete
with interesting historical facts. and en-
bellished with cloqucnce which thrilled
and swayed the large audience fer near
~ an hour
Immediately after the Joint Assembly
was called to order the orator Of the
day and his escort were announced
The party was:
|. Gen. NJ. G. Butler, with the chair
man of the Joint committee. Senator J.
g. Marshall.
2. Ills EXccllcncy. Governor d. C.
Hayward. with the Hon Lew is Ward
law Haskell.
3. Ex-Governor NJ. B. McSwecney,
with the Hon. w. l.. Maudin.
i. Chief Justice Y. J. Pope. with the
Hon. T.. H. Aull.
.. The Rev. O. a. Darby. chaplain,
with Senator Robert Aldrich.
Is. Associate Justice Eugene b. Gary,
with the Hon. Leroy +. Y"umans.
I. Associate Justice Ira b. Jones,
with Senator J. c. Sheppard.
s. Col L. K. Brooks. with the Rev.
Mr.. Pratt
9. Capt, y. J. Griffith. with Can't. O.
Is. Martin. Superintendent Of Education.
The following resolutions, which had
been prepared by Hon. Leroy f. You
mans, who was Attorney General under
Hampton, were offered by Hon. Robert
Aldrlch, Senator from BarwclI:
''Wade Hampton is no more! On the
nth day of April, in the year of our
Lord 1902, one of the most illustrious
sons Of South Carolina was gathered to
his fathers, in a ripe old age, in the
midst OF tina; which should accompany
old age honor, love, obedience, troops
of friends.
I'm the course of his long and event
tul life he discharged all of the duties
Of a citizen both in war and in peace.
m manner worthy Of the admiration
OF all succeeding ages. His achievements
IN the war between the States, in the
successive grades of command from colo
mel OF the Hampton Legion to lieutenant
general in the army of the Confederate
States, will live forever in the pages of
history. sShot and shell and steel
LETT their marks on his princely frame
to show how he redeemed his pledge of
HE and honor to South Carolina and
the South.
After the great struggle of arms
ms services IN peace were fifty crowned
by his redemption Of the State IN 1876
from the rule Of the alien and the traitor,
by his administration as Governor, bv
his career in the Senate Of the United
States. He Us left to the State of his
blrth and love the memory of life
worthy the honor, love, imitation and
confidence of her sons for all time to
come.
''3c it resolved by the General AS
Sembly Of South Carolina, in joint as
scmbly convened:
First. That in the death of Wade
Hampton the State Of South Carolina
has lost her greatest soldier and states
man who, called to the highest positions
IN great emergencies of public need,
ever cxcmplificd the most chivalric ana
tilial devotion to her interests, honor
and glory.
'Second. That his services to the
State deserve to be commemorated bv
a monument more enduring than brass,
which shall keep forever green the
memory Of the life and virtues of Wade
Hampton.
''Third. That this preamble and these
resolutions be properly engrosscd and
communicated to the family of the de-
ceased
Col. Aldrich supported the resolutions
in a short address and one such as onlv
Mr.. Aldrch can deliver. The eloquent
Senator from Barnwell is recognized as
one of the leading orators of the South
Carolina Legislature, and when he rises
to address the chair he never fails to
receive the close and undivided attcn-
tion of all present. On Friday when
speaking of the hcroism. the great
power of leadership, the tenderness as
q man so conspicuously displayed by
his distinguished friend, the immortal