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[From the Times-Dispatch, September 16, 1904.]

PRESENTATION OF THE PORTRAIT OF LIEUT. - GENERAL WADE HAMPTON, C. S. CAVALRY,

To R. E. Lee Camp, C. V., at Richmond, Va., September

15, 1904.

ADDRESSES OF COLONEL W. W. FINNEY AND EX-GOVERNOR CHARLES T. O'FERRALL.

Among Lee Camp's silent heroes now hangs in an honored place the portrait of South Carolina's most famous son, Wade Hampton, warrior and statesman, general and cavalier, sans peur et sans re- pro die.

In the presence of a distinguished gathering of veterans and min- isters, ladies and gentlemen, who entirely filled the hall, the pre- sentation of the engraving that will in time be replaced by a full length painting in oils, was made last night with considerable cere- mony. On behalf of the donors, the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, S. C., Company A, Hampton Legion, Colonel Wil- liam W. Finney, of this city, spoke words of choice and chaste elegance, and was at times singularly happy and beautiful in his references to the glorified name of Hampton, of South Carolina.

In a manner equally felicitous, Governor Charles T. O'Ferrall, of this city, in the war a cavalry colonel under Hampton, accepted the picture, and expressed to the generous givers the appreciation of the camp.

The occasion was in all respects a most delightful one, and lacked only the presence of General Fitzhugh Lee, friend and comrade of the great South Carolinian, and like him a famous commander of the Confederate horse. On account of illness General Lee was forced to send his regrets, which he did in a message to the camp.

One of the striking incidents of the evening was the immediate response of the audience to the mention of the name, not of Con- federate or a hero dead, but of a statesman and politician, now very much alive, indeed Grover Cleveland. Colonel O'Ferrall was referring to the onslaught of Tillman upon the Democracy that Hampton represented the Democracy of Jefferson, Madison and others, ending with Cleveland, to whom he applied most compli-