Show al 31 VIM arl tit ea fright buried golden talent how wilton wilson G hunt alarmed by bland sliver silver bill kept in yellow money in bank vault for many year years up to the tile time of his tits death lu 1902 Frider Fr lek D tappan had been for tor half a century one of thy the hading bankers of new lork ark city and for years by he was iho the bend of the metropolitan cl Laring bouse house I 1 think he gald said to me oue otle day that one of the most carious expert delicce that ever camo came within my per zonal knowledge was the El al most pathetic evidence of the great grent fright w which once held in its grip 11 eon son G hunt who mho vaa famous as a banker when aben commodore vanderbilt and daniel drew were strong men I 1 in n the financil il destinies of 0 the country it was the so called bland silver bill which was passed in 1878 and which provided for the coin collige ige of not legs less than two million dollars worth of silver bullion a month that give mr air ilson his great scare hut but that ou may have a good understanding of the incident I 1 want mant to say first that beside mr air wilson there were a good many old fashioned bankers and men living upon their capital or the income of it who became greatly dis whan the bland bill became a law chy k by 30 do aou ou know that even a an shrewd clearheaded and icy an intel led as samuel 3 tilden became greatly alarmed when nhen the bland bill was enacted into law governor til tit den whispered to some of bis his friends bis hill fear that the country was going exclusively upon the silver basis he thought that meant the cutting down of capital by at tenet least one half and you should have seen his buying foreign exchange and a good deal of it ills purpose evidently was to convert that exchange into gold and very likely keep it on deposit in some ot of the greater banks of 1 lc don but I 1 guess that governor tilden got over this scare earlier than mr fr hunt did at all events I 1 never learned what he did with the ex change he bought but it came within my nir personal observation what mr hunt did whether Nh ether he bought exchange and con averted it into gold or not I 1 do not know yet I 1 do know that when be he trembled for tear fear that the country N would go to a 0 silver er basis as a result of the enactment of the bland bill he somehow secured approximately nine hundred thousand dollars in gold had his plan as a commanding general wae was to teach that body of fight ere ers to overcome its lt fear of R E lee history tell tells fully of the manner in bich president lincoln and father met for the first time when father went to Nas washington hington to be commis stoned by the president the command ing general of the union army bald said gen fred D grant to me recently I 1 but it doesn t tell of the initial pur pose that father had in mind as re gards the array army of the potomac Io tomac hen he went east you know father was never east from froin the time he lie entered tho the union anny as a a colonel of ot an oil illinois rf rigl gi ment until after the and chattanooga campaigns in ili the tile fall of hut but he hail had studied pretty close ly the movements and rind characteristics charac tt of the army of the in its three great campaigns up to that time and he hid pretty sell ell made up his mind yen ven before he kne knew that ho he wis to command the union armies as a to what was the matter with the arm that protected washington after it had become known that father was to be gf fineral and that he would take personal command of the arm armi of tho the potomac a great many esons rs ons with whom he was acquainted and find some with fill whom lie tic was intimate eald said to him at one time or another be foro tore he started cast general grant what are ou going to do with the he arm of the lie potomac what kind of a campaign general genera lee are ou going to make male have ou formed any plans hat ver for e oper athons at ion lons T of course none of 0 these questions question father would answer out but I 1 have al at ways thought that ho lie at last became convinced that it would be a good plan to tell ronie rome of his friends in a general way what he lie would mould do after he lie had assumed command of the arm of the potomac bo go it happened one day that when a friend said to him general grant orant what are ou going to do after aou ou begin operation i in ili hie the east ho he replied tho the first thing I 1 shall do will be to teach tha the army of the potomac not to be fright ened out of its wits at every i of bobby lees lee inen men I 1 again hen another friend boull ask father a similar question he woul I 1 reply I 1 am going to train tho the army of the florinac Polo floo iaac inac so that it will con tta its feir of or hobby lee and yet it packed in little canvas bags bogs proper ly marked v ath the amount ot of money in cach and stored these bag bags in the ault vault of a certain bank one of the strongest institutions of be the kind in new york city if the worst camo came and the rest of his fortune waa was cut in halt li the country going to a silver basis be he would at least hao close on to a million dollars in ili the nort sort of money that la Is good the world over ar mr hunt died about ten years later and same time before the bland law gae gave a aay to the sherman silver law in the meantime the gold that bo he hal ha I 1 hoarded against again rit the possible evil day of a silver babis lay untouched cd it did not bring him in a penny of income and be he never looked into the vault where it wag was to see it it wie was w ie all right ladeck ulicee little bags lay so long in the pluie place where drat first they were put that gradually they became mold and lie the canvas began to rot rut 1 and at lust last when it beaco nei tsuy u tor for the administrators of 0 mr nir hunts estate to remove that gigantic nes neet ck egg do you know that some of the baa ere so bad rotted that lr I 1 golden contents broke out and sait I 1 uton ulon the floor of the vault fault at our feit i mr hunt concluded mr dalpan tai pan a aa a uese mail and alry courageous in many things but be he had that cu rious dread of belv r lind thit unwar ranted fear that tho united beatts would irise to a silver lasts lists that I 1 dread and that he to in the tile 1 grave arn ith hi him m it bag has bien my ex perince perit tice thu thit th the a in most r t coura tous I 1 and I 1 ravo tail gnoun many of thun will B s metia leg lore lose their senses and be persuaded to a do very foolish almost alii ioel things in order to protect their fortunes fortu noH NJ without e ex 1 caption every emery rich man that I 1 ahre imo known ahas has had some weak eak point in bis his armor in thin this rt i 1910 b E J I 1 lil dward lon longstreeth Long cy streets memories of war wa r great fighter of the confederacy recalls the generous personal re catlon between the opposing leaders in times of conflict it was aas in the early spring ut of 1883 that I 1 bad tho the pleasure of calling for the first time upon gen james long street who ae as one authority puts it enjoyed en eu joed the distinction of being one of the greatest grea teat fighters of the con and possessed the unbound ed confidence and affection of bis his sol rot diers it was at his home in A atlanta that I 1 met the general and the fra grance of 0 early flowers flow ere and the glory that shone in the blossoming peach trees lent an especial ath action to the approach to his big bouse house the picture that I 1 had in in m mind a ee of the great leader who bad had to u often discomfited noted union rim manders andera ra was based on wartime war timo prints all displaying him alt with a long and flowing beard dut but I 1 found him with out beard except h u tuft in front of each ear ilia ills comi complexion lexion was ruddy hi his eye eyes were bright and yet be he seemed somewhat Boce sone what infirm the really noticeable thing about his features was the scar sear that it bore muto mutu evi denap of the frightful wound sound that he be had received nt at the wilderness at a most critical moment in that battle general I 1 said after a ti time me I 1 have bave heard that many military critic critics bele believe that bad had you not been wound sound grant and army of potomac again when hen some one else bad had put the same question to him hie his answer would be the first enemy that ve ae have to conquer Is the fear ear that takes bold hold of the army of the potomac whenever hf never general leee leer name Is 18 men tinned now father bald said this in no disparagement whatever of general lee he ile had the highest admiration of lpes qualities as a soldier and of the purity of his hi chEr character acter but he had become satisfied from his study of the career of the army of the that an unreasonable fear bid eizel it due to the viry high repute of general I 1 ee as a soldier in addition he be bp llevad that the army of the potomac had no tic more reabon u to fear general lee than thin the armlee of the west bad had reason to so and ind in dread of the great commanders comman deis vrho ho ld jod the Conf confederate forces in that section of the country so that before he lie had left he the west to become lieutenant gr general his initial plan for the army of the potomac wag was to teach it no longer to fe to hobby bobby lee and anti you will observe that father never told anyone what his plan of op aeration era ion for that ormy waa was until after he had taught it not to shiver every time tirrie that the name of the great con federate commander com minder was mentioned in its prasede pre seDe el copyright 1910 by 11 J I 1 Jv ards ed just when ami and ft here where sou ere ou probably boull out I 1 have driven grant back cicro s the Hapl dan perhaps was the reply no ono one can ever tell what fiat the result of 0 a bat tic tie will ft be until it Is ner oer for several moments be he was thoughtfully I 1 tha thai hattle be he salil sold la Is one of my thrilling war recollections recollect lona of course the twinges that the wound sound gives me now in n my cheek anu and now in ray my shoulder will III not nut let me forget it I 1 tear fear until the dav of my death hut but I 1 thi think n k t that ha t the in most 0 3 t t thrilling h ral I 1 ing decol sections c the most pleasing that I 1 have ol 01 the late bt ruggle are those which tell of the personal rela eions between the commanders upon one side with those of 0 the other after battle when prisoners boners sere ere captured and esp cfall immediately after the war they tell me questioningly that gen joe johnston who has just retired from congress and gen eral sherman breque frequently fitly bat hat side by side like two intimate friedla in tho the house of representatives at ahing ton conr yea yes that Is true I 1 answered it 1 I have often seen them together there general johnston johnstons s seat beat as near the door tie sherman lai 1 hie the leges of the aloir and frequently he came in quietly edge edgel I 1 hip wa to a vacant seat beside johnston and there they sat side by side like old brunice sometimes tor for two or three hours ah exclaimed general longstreet that illustrates illustrate the real spirit which the men who were true soldiers not political generals on either sido side felt tor for their opponents when the fighting was all over when duty to their rause was done why that spirit began with fill that very kindly t that grant did after buckner had surrendered to him loll 1011 ou know the story how grant received buckner as a personal friend and offered to share his purse with him film that spirit was m as characteristic of the personal relations of the 01 01 posing generals throughout tro tte war and for a long time after and I 1 eteh ish it could also hae haie heel beef characteristic of gome some of the cirtis on either side then would have ien many irnita eions many resentments many diali cuttles of both war and peace ell inIna ted oh I 1 sometimes wish that the reconstruction i 1 erlei coull coul I 1 have been aft it to the direction of those who were in ili important coni mall I 1 at the time of the var I 1 am certain that they would have lime conti continue nuel 1 to show the utmost delicacy of for each other again the general was thoughtfully silent for an appreciable space then ill ills faco face was ballanti ral rall lanti antl illumined with it reminiscent smile les ea he sail sall decisively the ten kenderest tender derest fist the most pi and in nany the moat most thrilling rr recollections collections that I 1 ila haah of thy the war are with sith the courage cour ige and find degnit ani true kindliness which ere characteristic of tho the p personal rhonal relations of opposing commanders they are memories that will not talc fale that not ovon even though of stirring battle can displace 1910 liy by k h 4 kd mearl warts |