Show 1 n I 1 c o One of OT the he Old School OT of Southern t Gentlemen c Among the really great names of or the n who gave to the south its reputation and nd renown the he Hamptons of v Hampton are easily among the first lI HI who di died dId d the other day was the thet t eighth fl of o th the name nume There is always a aVa Va ir Hampton and as long as the he tr endures endure there will wUl be one They The raw fl to t this country about 1710 and nd for lw Ira a time nine lived in Virginia Virgina a If to the revolutionary war oj to toM bf M nire mort accurate in the early part patt of tiC t th thA eighteenth century the Wade Vade rade Hampton of that date removed re ocd to Carolina carrying with him about abou bou TO I slaves laves He saw raw then that the soil of or Virginia was being exhaust exhausted ed eI b by successive and continuous crops of 0 tut a co coH H also aiM perceived that cotton and rice urn a frt rc valuable a agricultural products and that cotton culture then in its in f fan in j was N as bound to be the most profit t f all aU southern crops The world j lu 1 MO In n linen as Ito ita underwear until I then thE But linen had its disadvantages v s h hi i otton was the ideal fabric for tor the clothing particularly that of or v n garments says a writer in the thea a Times so SI the t ti third Wade ade Hampton of Amer AmerIan Ameri 1 i Ian an determined to grow cotton an 1 if the soil suited it rice rIc rIcA A litle experimentation showed It t IM the till Ideal crop to be with withA A labor Jabor The Orient had hud long rec rae reci i 1 r rice rne oe as one of or its great food tood ftH ft l s Warren Hastings first called thi th attrition Of ot the English speaking e unties of or Europe and America to its ita vain 1111 as HS a commercial crop If J you MIU can grow it successfully in j yur our ur he wrote rore Sir William FergUSOn lieutenant governor of ot Geor Georgia ala gia and the two Carolina S you will have barr added to your food tood supply one of or orth the th best bf st and cheapest cereals of the world He ll 11 was a true prophet in both re respect But though old Colonel Wade Hampton the generals father tather realized all this his shrewd farseeing mind faid taid that the great greut source of ot the must be Its ita crop of or cot cott t tn rn HP HI 11 also perceived that the true home of If cotton plant was from the ben twenty ty to the tl edge of the thirty f furth parallel in the United States and awl that with Americas organized la Ia labor lx bw bor r system controlled by the tha ablest and and shrewdest lot of agriculturists the orld orld has ever known the United States Mate must mURt have haye the monopoly of cot cotton cotton cotton ton growing for years And it did didIn dIdIn didIn In 1661 1161 we grew bales wIth labor and the world looked on amazed We will vill make or ore e eln n 10 in bales and market It all allI I t tv said General Hampton Hapton in an ad addi di s delivered to the Southern Cot ton tn PI inters at Vicksburg Miss s n fl 1868 He ll lived jM to see Itan OOOO bale balei balet i t tOP op made by free freel labor bor directed by the old oll oj masters and all aU marketed at p j PS j yieldIng elding It the grower from 28 8 to 6 I per ont ent t profit t jer Ier bale The Hamptons Hampt ps i were ere agriculturists agI alone aAn they abhorred and it was nas as only onh distinguished i representatives s of South So th Carolina wait watt waited ed rd upon him in 1876 and assured him that he hI was the only oni man who could heal the divisions in the party and arry arf the th state that he e would consent to Ic run for Cor governor He Hp beat at Chamberlain so badly that the Republican party in South Carolina lr a i i ito to 10 u p Chamberlains own On words be before fore fou fox a c n SI just lai laid dl died I Of Bourse ourse his hie election to the th United d States Statts senate was wasa a part of the pro gramme and the hope llope ope of the ultraists In South Carolina arolina was lost for General Hampton was declared duly dub elected by bym byan an m ultra Republican majority of or the senate committee on privileges and and that closed the content conte t General Hampton Hampf n always alwa a man of the most charming and highbred plAn man manner ner npr soon oon made friends of the most stat star wart aart of the Republican leaders Sen Senator Senator ator Carpenter Carpnter of Wisconsin was one of Ins his closest and warmest t friends Hamp Un tn was a Ii very ery handsome man phy and he and Senator Conkling or of New Xen rV York were w e the two most pow powerful erful men mn physically ever cyer in the United States senate Have you ever used dumbbells or Indian milan dubs clubs general asked Mr i of Hampton one day when he hI ha hal I been bp n admiring the sol U driy bearing No So responded the latter my gym na ium has been the southern fields gun or rUle rifle in hand handIn In lila his prime General Hampton was sas the deadliest shot at or Ot Otin winged Minced in d game gamp of his time The writer who ho lived next to his Mississippi es estat estat tat for thirty years once asked him h ha vi many mam bears bars bea s he had killed 1 I houM pay ay oer 00 was his an answer anWer and a O thIrds of o these I killed with 1 ith the nil knife kniE Tr Tr r ago IJO before the war there lived m in th French quarter of ot New Ne v Orleans a min man tailed aIled Pedro the Skilled Cut ler Hf 11 was famous for the kind and of his steel st eJ His bowle bowie knives uH simply whittle ordinary iron or steel SIp as though it were a pine shingle leIr barged for tor his best beat knife I i lied find Ji for his second best The edge o fus hh blades blad s was like that of a fine t Tr taz and 11 1 one honing once each year u j t 1 kr keep ep It so 80 r 1 made General Hamptons ta ahr r md and the general f himself each a ai a i i knife knite The length of or the blade blad 11 i ne Inches and for the first IVr HI hes the th weapon was double Nor eIg ik You iou could shave the hair pf f th til riK i X of or your hand with Tl and it was with this knife t thaT fh thc general killed A bear when j by the dogs will always alway 3 Dark Up u ii against a tree the dogs cannot get behind I lurn hut must face him When the thew th bar har w as s busily engaged by the pack pac m fI ef J Ii g m in n front of ot him Hampton would I u w v top tep up to the tree and reach nard mard from behind would drive ts K n knife through the bears heart S i fIly and skillfully did he use his that the blade would generally ie 1 to the hilt in the bears body JU JJ i the shoulder and in almost y 1 y instance tance the heart was split in inN N v at to te the bear Hampton was a h hr r hunter and he killed many man a al Ji l nr f these beasts that are still to be uril un in some Ome abundance in the Mis I i swamps Every lvery autumn Gen r Hampton visited his Mississippi P r a for the shooting but chiefly I for r f tn th hear bar par hunting He lIe always hunted t when he expected to shoot Vr r turkeys s the then he took v hy ma a former slave whose father fathers s 5 sail said to be ChillIe Mackintosh a aa taI a us reek Creek Indian chief who was a al l 1 r rTh The Th lh r rr reeks ks owned the section of or Mis Us p S il IM i w where here the Hampton estates and hillie MackIntosh and some r r II ns chiefs used to l return to tood ir od Id hunting grounds to see the a axes ae theIr fathers They The were wet t g HI ratified gratified and much touched 11 t 1 Hamptons father had 0 f graves ta s surrounded by b a neat In ure and the weeds and rank un Pr 1 uth removed and the whole in tk K burial ground fenced In and put a order r f V r that there was nothing a Creek i d 5 t 1 do for a Hampton that was wag not note I T r IJ lie e was a friend of the tribe tt 1 t Wat a enough nough t jt t anat the ti Hamptons living Hying their th tr lr ti t UT ostentatious kindly life un nfl fh the fictions of and 60 6 C fi ri that there was a party and a a strong one onet too o located mainly in Itt the r New England states that intended to destroy the th institution of slavery even if they had to dissolve the Union nIon to do foil It The Hampton estates in Louisiana and Mississippi were worked by from 1100 to 1200 negroes Whenever as you you rode through the country contiguous ous OU to the Hampton fupton estates yop you met a slick sli k welt w lf dressed d smiling negro and you asked ed i Who Is your oUT master boy 7 fn nine Instances out of ten the reply would be Colonel Wade Hampton sah I sahIt It was waa a rule of the Hamptons that no negro should eVer be whipped until all the facts were laid before the gen general genera eral era or OJ his brother Kit one of whom was generally on the Louisiana and Mississippi estates tes The negro tera were of ot brick with usually four tour rooms each A Hampton Hamton negro was nev er sold The generals body servant old Louis Louls was a towering aristocrat Once while the general was disfranchised as were all the white men who had been In the army and could not take the he Ironclad as It was denom mated he lie was on his way to New Or leans and of course Louis was with him The writer In order to see what he be would woud say sa said ald Louis what do you think of or this new tash fashion on of negroes doing all the vot Yot ing while your our old master here Gen eral oral Hampton and I I cant vote yote at all 7 Well ci master said Louis judicial ly ise Wades Vades concerned its Ils all aU rigid right d Why Vh what the devil do you ou mean said Hampton Bampton in seeming anger by telling 1 such li a thing dif g that Marse Wade W de said Louis Louts how long is ts i you OU had me rnE 1 Well over forty f or ty years I think I dont just remember now flOw liB How ow many man votes did we have wen I you firs bought me Why one oneo o of course replied the general Well Vel wese got de same vote sun still I we e replied Louis That closed clos d the discussion They had ha I as many votes voter te as s they ever had had only just then Louis was doing the voting and not the general But that thai E did not last very erY long Two yrs Y ra before hostilities actually commenced Hampton began to make ready for the coming civil war I am alil 40 years ears old he said but I must be able to do what I can for my country He was a member of two secession L that Q his native state Dec 20 1860 and that of Mississippi Jan 26 He opposed the act of ot seceSsion sion in both bolh states but the popular wave was too tn to i Well gent he said d to o a group roup g of planters of ot Jackson Miss who v ho were Wt re talking rather startled at what w hat tIle the convention had that day done my grandfather fought to make this republic re public and anji my father tather shed his blood to uphold It It It may be that we have done d one wisely today but I have my ny doubts doubt d about it itOh itOh ItOh Oh said ope standing by who was afterward a a brigadier general Martin Witherspoon W Gary the dd d d Yankees wont w ont fight Dont you believe it replied Gen General General Genral eral e ral Hampton slowly They fought in the war of the revolution they ought fought f all of the war of or 1812 at sea seand and a nd a good deal of it on dry dr land I tell tel te ll you he concluded with conviction in his voice and manner m all Ameri cans c ans ns fight and andas as d it rule r le when hen all a ll mendo fight people can TV w whip hip He left l ft the group that had h ad gathered to hear what hat Hampton had h ad to say in a rather startled and a much less confident frame of or mind than han t they the had been a ahaU half hour before Seeing what was coming General Hampton H ampton got ready for the coming storm torm s He had sold his Louisiana es tates atea t to John Burnside of or New Orleans for fot f or cash as Mr Burnside dis die discounted discounted counted c his own notes Some of this money m in fact the greater part of or it was In the oldest and strongest banks In i n New Orleans He allowed It to re remain reain main m ain there i But TV when hen the confederate treasury ordered o all the banks in the seceded states lates s to turn their specie and exchange It the city of New Orleans was in the possession p n of the federal forces and thus hus t General Hamptons gold was wassa saved aved sa s ved vedAt At an expense of nearly General G Hampton raised ral ed clothed and L equipped quipped e et the Hampton legion He en ered t the confederate army arm AS is s a i private vate yate v ate soldier but was at once elected I cl colonel c of the cavalry of the Hampton H I legion l which was w s composed of artil lery Itry l ery cavalry and Infantry In a few ten days das d ays he had ha t a fine cavalry command which w he drilled and put Into shape In Ic L to time ime t for the first battle of Manassas or o r as the Union army anny called It Bull I Iun Run R un Hampton was badly wounded but bul s that at genius for command that L made him the most successful of the th lieutenant l generals g appointed from fron 1 civil c ivil life o tt c army of northern Vir VirgInIa ginia g inia I do flo not need to see any ny recommendations recommendations recommendations in General G n ral Hamptons fa Ia favor vor v or 01 said Davis w en his hh C name n was s bM d by bythe the South Car Carolina Carolina olina llna o og delegation del g i n In iii the confederate con congress congress gress g ress for or promotion and on the death of o f General Stuart it at Yellow Tavern Hampton succeeded to the of ot o f all a ll the cavalry of ot General R H E Lees Leet S army How flow gallantly and well he hi fought ought f It I history has justly justl recorded As soon as he could he ho got out of or o f practical politics and like the old Ro Roman Roman Roman man patriot returned to the shade of or o f his fig tt es and vines And there he h i lived ived l an honor to his section and re respected respected respected I jt py y both north no th and south the tb a highest example in his conduct and an ci life ife l of oC the southern so soldier Idler and gentle gentleman gentleman gentleman man Arid And d thus he lived Jived and thus he h e died soul sout May Ma God rest his gentle genUe manly maul IT |