Show execution or ol col alayne among the distinguished men th that at f fell ell victims during the war of the american revolution was col isaac hayne of south carolina a man who by amiability of charac character and high sentiments of honor and uprightness had bad secured good will and af affection of all who knew him he had a wite wife and six children the oldest a boy of thirteen years year s ilia his wife to ahorn he be was tenderly attached fell a victim to disease an event hastened probably by the inconveniences incon and sufferings brings incident to a state of war in in which the whole family largely participated pate d col hayne hay no himself was taken prisoner by the british forces and in in a short time was axas executed on oil the gallows under circumstances calculated calculated to excite excite the d deepest capet comm isse ration A great number of persons both english and american interceded intercedes inter ceded for his life the ladies of charleston signed a petition iri in his behalf his motherless children were ed on oil their bended bedded knees as humble suitors for their father but all in vain lain during the imari 1 of the father the eldest son was permitted to stay with him in prison beholding his only surviving parent for whom ho he felt the deepest deepe t affection loaded with chains and condemned to die ile he was as overwhelmed with consternation and sorrow I 1 he wretched father endeavored to console him by re minding him that the unavailing grief of the son tended only to in increase indrea se his oi own n misery thai ilia we came into this thi world merely to 10 die and he could even rejoice that his troubles were so near an all end to morrow said he 1 I set out for im immortality you will accompany me to the place of execution and when I 1 am dead t aka me and bury mo me by b the side of your our mother the youth auth felt fell here dribis on his fathers neck bryin cr ing ob my father r rn my father I 1 will die with you col hayne a as he h e was loaded with irons irons could riot not return the embrace of his son and merely said to him iliin in in reply live my son live hie to honor god by a good life live to serve your our country live to take lake care of your our brother and little bisters the next mornin morning col i hayne was vas conducted to the place of elution ee ution his son accompanied him soon as they came in in sight of the gallows the fa father ther strengthened himself and said now my son how yourself f a man that tree is is the boundary of my iny life and my lifes sorro sorrows ws beyond that the kicked cease to trouble and the weary are at rest dont lay too much at heart pur oui separation it wit wil be but short to tod da d ly y I 1 idie die and you 5 ou my son though but young must shortly follow me yes father replied the broken hearted youth 1 1 11 I shall shortly follow you ou for indeed I 1 feel that I 1 cantline cant ine live long arid and his melancholy anticipation was as fulfilled in in a manner more dreadful than is is implied 1 in the mere extinct ioner and then struggling str gling in in the halter batter lie he stood likua like one transfixed and with horror borror till then he be had wept incessantly i i but soon as he saw that sight the fountains of his tears staunches riched ched and he never wept more I 1 lie ile died insane and in in his lat last moments often called upon his father terms that brought tears from hardest heart |