| Show I NEW NEWS OF F YESTERDAY THE SOLDIER LAD WHO JUSTIFIED FAITH IN HIM HUr HUrBy By J E Edwards This dally daily serIes or of and Incidents that throw threw new Interesting frequently dramatic light on famous events anti personalities or of the tho pMt past havo been collected by Edwards during nearly forty Corty years ot of moro more or less mate mato man ot of tho ho leaders since tho ho CIvil war Each anecdote or Incident Is fresh from Mr Mm Edwar ss notebook and either In whole or In part It constitutes New News ot of Yesterday garnered from the tho men who made mado the ho from equally authoritatIve sources As Im Important contrIbutions or of tIle the Human Interest sort to American history these articles have a distinctive value oil all their thet r own Tle rhe tn tenderness erness of heart healt o of Abraham Lincoln was backed b hI good judgment In belief once said salil to tome me inc the tho late laIc Col Joseph H who was oa for a number comber of years ears chairman or of lie tho Republican state committee for Connecticut and a relative of the Into lato Morrison R Waite alle chief justice of the lie theU lieU U S supreme court And In n the case or of Beckwith there thero Is most striking proof of m may belief beller when ll a mere bo boIn boy In years cars enlisted In iii a Connecticut regiment shortly after the lie outbreak o otho of the tho Civil Will war froni Crom hIs own home town Norwich Everything wont well with hIm until some somo time In the winter of I believe It was sas we got ot word that lint he hc lied been discovered asleep while shilie on sentry dut anti amI had been court and sentenced to ho be shot Instant we In iii communication cation with our eur wal governor rU em 01 Vt V A at Hartford for wo 0 felt that the tho governor who OW young oung vell would be that I ii had a breach of oC discipline as serious as t that hat o of sleeping on 01 pot flOS It Ii had Imd been due dime to ae ac accident eldont and not to Intent and amid so lie he tho do all that lie ho could to 1 stave nO th Chic lads hads lIfe liCe Vc 0 w ere ro right In Iii our sUPPo The gov governor aroused to cc ac action tion seIzed a and aId b tho fIrst train available wont vent to Washing Washington ton and amil to tho thio ll and laid haitI beCore th the latter lie tho case casc or of young Beckwith I will not hot that boy to bu be beI shot unless the circumstances are arc so I heInous as to justIfy the extremo pen penalty alty declared Mr Lincoln when lie ho lied had lie tho governor through For FoI nil my part I dont believe there thero Is an thins thing heinous connected with tile the case You say this young man Is or of good goud family I dont that an any boy of good family who lies haR entered the arm army would om 01 deliberately the do an anything to justIfy the punishment of lIC death I take charge chargo of thIs case So President Lincoln called for the tho papers and when ho had read them ho instantly pardoned the lie condemned lad thou then only IS years ears of ao ago For It was mol as Lincoln had there had been no nothing heinous In the lie case caso Beckwith had been sent out on picket dut duty nt at night ot at a time when lie ho had not had hada a wInk of sleep In 48 hours and despite the lie fact that lie ho had and done other things to keep whilo on hIs lonely vigil III nature had proved too strong for hIm and so the tho corporals guard fuard had found him him dead deada a asleep leep still standing amid with the lie butt buttor buttof or of his musket resting on the he ground But there was wall to ho he still greater Justification o of faith In young oung A few months after ho ha lied been heen pardoned he was captured b by the lie con confederates federates Nine months later when lie ho howaR Was waR exchanged ho he was 50 10 III that Clint his hIli doubted It would bo be for or them to get him chive out of the tho prIson gates But they managed to carl carry him a as far north all as Philadel Philadelphia phia and amid there a surgeon decided that It was necessary to place the he poor fel how ow In the tho army hospital A little while hater as ai lie ho was as laid on a fresh Cresh clean cot In iii the hospital lie he looked up smiling at the attend attendant attendants ants ant Now I feel comfortable ho said q I know I 1 never get oft off this cot amid so I want you OU to 0 premise me ono one thinS thing When I die I whole you ou would wrap me In the old hag The bo boys s lust wish was wa a aCC CC tev days das later hater anti ami toda today he lIes lIel In a patrIots grave grao because Abraham Lin coins tender mere mercy in Herbert Beck Teck cue at least was backed b bAbraham by Abraham good sound judg judgment ment |
