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A TRAGEDY OF THE REVOLUTION
ARY WAR.
( Written for THE CONSERVATIVE. )
Rev. James Galdwell was born in
Charlotte county , Virginia. At the age
of 15 he was sent to Princeton college ,
where he graduated in 1769. He was
ordained and installed pastor of the
First Presbyterian church , Elizabeth-
town , N. J. , in December , 1701.
On the 14th of March , 1768 , he mar
ried Miss Hannah Ogden , of Newark ,
N. J. , and by her cheerful piety and un
shaken fortitude she sustained and com
forted him amid the dark and stormy
scenes through which he was called to
pass.
pass.Mr.
Mr. Caldwell was of Huguenot de
scent , and shared in that distinct and
positive character which has been so
marked and conspicuous in all our early
history. The very things that made him
popular with the friends of his country
rendered him odious to its enemies.
The church in which he preached was
used as a hospital for the sick and
wounded. Its steeple was the watch
tower , and its bell sent out the notes of
warning upon the approach of the foe.
On the 26th of January , 1780 , the
church was fired by a refugee and
burned to the ground.
On the 26th of the following June
Mrs. Oaldwell was shot at Connecticut
Farms , whilst General Kuyphausen
was on his way to Springfield , and on
the 24th of November , 1781 , Mr. Cald
well himself was shot at Elizabeth-town-
Point , whither he had gone , under a
flag of truce , to protect a young lady
who was coming from New York.
"It IB some comfort to know that the
man who committed the deed was tried
and found guilty of murder and hung.
It was afterward found that he had been
urged to the murderous act.
By these barbarous acts , which I have
hastily described , nine helpless orphans
were left and the annals of our country
show that they all became useful mem
bers of the church and filled places of
honor and usefulness with distinction.
I have thus gleaned from the records
of my native state this tragic history , in
order to place before your readers the
conduct of one of the most distinguished
of the heroes that gave lustre to those
trying years of our early history.
The aid rendered to the colonial
cause by the Marquis de Lafayette has
never been overstated , nor fully esti
mated by the American people ; but
when we view this simple act which I
have recorded , it seems to me that it as
fully reveals the nobility of this great
man as do his services and braveryjin
the field and his diplomatic aid secured
for us from Franco.
Grant never appears so great to me ,
hi his whole career , as when he was
issuing rations to Lee's army , twenty
minutes after its surrender , and when he
gave his"laconic order ; "Let the men
bake their horses and go home and
plow. " Fighting Bob was never so
dangerous to our country's foes as when ,
above the din and roar of battle , he cried :
"Don't cheer , boys , the poor fellows are
drowning. ' ' And so here , when General
Lafayette took the third eldest orphan
of this Protestant clergyman , John E.
Caldwell , to France and educated him
at his own expense and returned him as
lie went , to fill places of high usefulness ,
I say this showed a greatness of soul
which no pen con glorify or language
exaggerate.
Consider that Lafayette was not of
the same race or religious creed ( doubt
less a Catholic ) ; consider , also , that this
was the period of warfare , when fight
ing was the chief thing , not alone with
guns and swords , but the conflict of
ideas and opinions ; these all accentuate
and enlarge this action and make it
noble.
About twelve miles from the city
of Newark , Essex county , New Jer
sey , lies the beautiful village of Cald
well , named for this martyred clergy
man , whose tragic fate I have herein
described ,
This village , if I mistake not , is the
of ex-President Cleveland
birth-place - ,
whose father was a minister of the
Presbyterian church at that place , some
forty or fifty years ago.
I will only add , that when all men are
able to look at one another through the
eye of true charity , forgetting creeds , to
do good deeds , then will come the
millenium.
Let us never forget Sir Philip Sydney
when he said to the wounded soldiers
lying on the battlefield ; "Drink ; thy
need is greater than mine. "
A. H. CONDIOT.
Mansfield , Ohio , June 16 , 1901.
DR. PATTON AND THE CORRE
SPONDENTS.
Burton Egbert Stevenson , the author
of the capital college story in the June
Lippihoott's , is 29 years old , and entered
Princeton college in 1890. The story in
question , the author says , is in a sense
autobiographical. Stevenson went to
Princeton , just as Murray did , from a
small Ohio town , knowing nothing
about the history or traditions of the
university , but persuaded to the step by
an old Presbyterian clergyman who
lived there. Stevenson relates the fol
lowing story of his experience with
President Patton when he , the writer , as
a correspondent for daily papers , in com
pany with the other college correspond
ents , waited on President Patton with a
request for the text of a baccalaureate
sermon. "There won't be any manu
script , " said President Patton ; "only a
few notes. " "Perhaps we might be
able to use the notes , " suggested Stev
enson. "No , you will have to get a
stenographer\'saidthe | president. Stev
enson hunted high and low for a sten
ographer , but in vain. The young
Prinoetoniaii then went to Dr. Patton
again and told him his troubles , but got
little encouragement. The result was
that each college correspondent copied
what he could of the president's speech
as it was delivered , and these pieces
were fitted together. Stevenson took
the word-map thus made to Dr.
Patton for "correction. " Dr. Patton -
ton read three or four sentences
gravely , then jumped up and began
walking the room and pulling his
whiskers. "I can't stand any more , "
he declared. "I never said anything
even remotely resembling this stuff. "
Then Stevenson told how the report had
been made , The Doctor smiled , threw
the report in the waste-basket and said :
"Come back in half an hour and I will
give you an outline of the sermon. "
The story which the papers thus got was
one which delighted the editors. The
incident , is an excellent reflection of Dr.
Pattern's Mndheartedness.
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