El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-04

Z upon him. What effect this infornoa
! ton had upon her is evidenced bv the
! feet that early in 1850, a little more
than year after he first met her, they
were married.
To the credit of stout hearted old
Peter Schuyler, her father. be if said
{ he wrote to Hamilton at the time he
I looked upon II as an honor to have the
young man come into his family.
The honeymoon of Hamilton and
Betsy was all too short. A few DAYS of
companiOnship and he had to hurry
back to the camp of Washington. He
was wonder in those days, more of a
wonder even than in the later neriod
when he filled a larger role in the D11b-
lie eye. All the details of the army
management were in his hands Wash
ingtOn trusted him implicitly He Ia
bored from early morn until late at
night. He wrote in that clear and
beautiful hand of his nIultitudes of let
ters, every one so plains so well worded.
so clear that there could be no misun-
Outstanding.
He helped plan campaigns was ad
wiser and shield to the cOmmanderin-
chief, and he seemed never to tire.
With all his duties he found time to
write love letters that must have de-
lighted the heart of the fair Betsy He
called her his nutbrOWn maid Il
have told you, and told you truly" he
wrote in one Of his letters, chat 1 love
you too much. You engross nv
thoughts too entirely to allow me to
think of anything else"
And again, after a raphsOdy in which
he ilened her to a goddess, he said:
ITO drop figures, my lovely girl, you
become dearer to me every moment"
The night before he led the assault
at yorktown, he wrote telling her that
he expected to win immortal fame on
the morrow, and he closed his letter
with this sentence: Think of me,
dream of me, and love me, my Betsy,
as I do you"
Difference to His Wife's Opinion.
When the war closed and Hamilton
was able to rejoin his wife, he said it
was impossible for him to be unhappy
Perhaps he was right. He had taken
rank as one of the great men of the
new nation The world was before
him. He had been blessed with one of
the tendereSt best and most patient of
wives; and she had given a son to him
who was the apple Of his eve. The fu-
ture was full of promise.
They went to New York to live, and
there she was more than wife 20 him
She, a woman Of but moderate educa-
ton, mad such rare good sense that
Hamilton deferred to her opinion in
many matters. Nearly everything he
wrote he submitted to her for approval
or disapprovaL She sat by his side
while ne worked. When he finished
writing, he would read to her and ask
for her opinion. You must be to me-
Betsy" he said, what MOliere's old |
nurse was to him."
These two married lovers had some /
queer experiences. It was Hamilton
who wrote Washington's farewell ad-
dress to the army. Hamilton and his !
wife were walking in Broadway a few
days after the delivery of the address. !
when an old soldier who was selling /
the address TO the people, asked Hamil- (
ton to buy a copy. When Hamilton had /
handed coin to the soldier. Betsy 1
smiled and said: IF he only knew |
that he has sold to you a copy of your !
own work, what would he Think
Busy as Hamilton had been during I
the war he had more active days in the
ten years that followed. and he did a
greater work. The winning of indie
1endence was no less a task than the
ashionlng OF a government such as I
he world never had known before. Few /