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PORTY years ago a mortal combat
waged between North and South. On
the field rode a distinguished-looking
anon whose broad shoulders bore a Major
General's state. His flowing hair, long
tmustache and Imperial were raven black,
'his eye piercing, his imposing presence In
spiring, his voice commanding an ideal
.beau sabreur.
Peace at last. The dashing soldier lays
Aside his sword. He becomes Governor
of a territory, a Minister to a foreign
power, and, finally, a writer, and an au
thor of books. Notable as had been his
achievements in the civil conflict, still
-more so was to be his works in later life
in the field of literary endeavors, till who
can say that tho words put into the mouth
of Richelieu by Bulwer Lytton do not
;apply to General Lew "Wallace, the author
fof "Ben Hur," which, in book form, has
"been read in many tongues by hundreds
fol thousands of people, and, as a drama,
hhas been seen in 131 weeks, or 1075 per
formances, by more than a million and a
fcalf
Bcneath tho rulo of men entirely great,
Tho pen is mightier than the sword.
Today General "Wallace, a grizzled and
.sturdy veteran of many a hard-fought
(battle in two wars, with whitened hair
end beard and world-wide honors won by
(Ws magic pen and wonderfully brilliant
Imagination, in the autumn of his life,
may look back over his eventful career
with, the satisfaction of knowing that
$eace has even greater honors to bestow
'than -wars, for in many a household in
REeOLLEeTlONS OF THOMAS FITCH No.X. Birth of the
ISTORY consists of grouped blogra-'
"f phles. It is possible so to state
" facts as to construct them into an
edifice of falsehood. The camera may be
so adjusted as to distort its object. The
writer of biography should, in the per
formance of his task, be uninfluenced by
Jove or hatred, fear or favor. I have
knowrrthe persons and to some small ex
tent participated In the events I shall at
tempt to review In these articles, yet as a
narrator I hope to be able to divest my
self of all personal and partisan likes
and dislikes, for time wears out preju
dices, tranquillzes passions and induces
snon to respect the integrity of motives of
those from whom they have radically
differed. If Wendell Phillips were alive
today, iie would Incur no risk of personal
- assault ""In addressing an audience ia
New Orleans. If Jefferson Davis were
still in the flesh he would be accorded a
patient hearing in Boston. Such was not
the case In 1SC0. The men of this genera
tion can scarcely realize that less than
half a century ago slavery was not only
powerful but popular in the North as
well as the South, while those who pro
claimed themselves in favor of its aboli
tion incurred the risk of social, political
and business ostracism in the North, and
assault and expulsion In the South. Few
postmasters south of Mason and Dixon's
line would have delivered a copy of the
New York Tribune to a subscriber, and
few subscribers in that section would
have ventured to receive a copy of it
except in a sealed envelope. The North
ern man who journeyed southward pad
locked his lips when he crossed the Po
tomac or the Ohio. In the streets of
Southern cities slaves marched to the
auction block with the clank of their
manacles unmuflled, but the voice of free
dom was hushed In silence, her dramas
were unrepresented, and her songs un
sung. A despotism more drastic than
that of Russia ruled in 15 states. The
vast amount of capital invested in slave
property was apparently safely en
trenched behind barriers of Judge-made
law, bastions of commercial power, and
batteries of social prestige. In all of the
Southern and In many of the Northern
States the great forces of society were
enlisted in the Interests of the slavehold
ers. The conservative Influence of the
churches always exercised In favor of
existing authority was allied to the
prejudices of the slums against the ne
gro. The power of the banks millions
of whose money was loaned upon the se
curity of human chattels was linked to
the ambition of politicians, whose nomi
nation and election depended upon the fa
yor of the slaveholders.
For the existence of these conditions
Impartial history will not hold tho peo
a of tho South, responsible. Slavery ia
our broad land, beside the Bible, the most
revered of all books, rests a copy of
"Ben Hur," the beautifully written crea-
j tlon of fiction, which for fully 20 years
nas neia a place in tne highest esteem of
all lovers of pure and inspiring litera
ture. The influence that lead one to achieve
ments are always of interest to a reader,
and how General Wallace came o write
"Ben Hur" Is especially so to every one
who has read his story, or who has seen
it as translated to the stage. The first
chapters of the novel, the book that refers
to the meeting of the "Wise Men, Bal
thasar, Casper and Melchoir, and the ap
pearance to them of "the Star of Bethle
hem," was written and published before
General Wallace had conceived the idea
of writing "Ben Hur."
He was Journeying from Chicago to In
dianapolis many years ago. In passing
the door of a stateroom in his sleeper in
the early morning he heard a familiar
voice. He .rapped and partly entered in
response to a cheery "Come in!" Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll was the occupant.
"I will come In," said General Wallace,
"if I may choose the subject of conver
sation." "You certainly may," replied Colonel
Ingersoll, undoubtedly thinking that the
"mistake of Moses" and "creeds" were to
be barred from the conversation.
General Wallace seated himself oppo
site Colonel Ingersoll. Looking him
squarely in the eye, he asked:
"Is there a God?"
Without an instant of hesitation Col
onel Ingersoll replied: V
"I don't know; do you?"
"Is there a future life?" asked th
I General.
finmn fnrm tivlcta anmAn.aA In 4UA
world up to the very dawn of the present J
century. Tne rortunes of battle, the acci
dent of birth or the color of the epidermis
was each in Its time a potent factor In
determining which man was a slave and
which was a freeman. The Hebrew with
the awl mark of bondage in his ear was
of the same race as his master. The
Iron-collared thrall of Cedrlc was of pure
Saxon blood, and the white Goth was the
slave of the dusk-browed Roman. The
early emigrants to the new world,
whether they landed at Plymouth or on
the shores of Chesapeake Bay .were crafts
men or traders, or soldiers, or farm pro
prietors, or tenants, or men of gentle
blood, who came to America In pursuit of
freedom or fortune, and among them was
not included any great number of unskilled
laborers. The need of hewers of wood and
drawers of water was supplied by white
convicts, and by kidnaped Africans, and
in the early part of the eighteenth century
the lash was applied to the back of labor
as freely and as frequently In Connecticut
as in Carolina.
Cotton culture and not conscience swept
slavery out of New England the Middle
States Into the country south of the
Potomac, and It remained there long
after England and France had banished
it from their West Indian colonies, and
even after the half barbaric Russian had
emancipated every serf from the White
Sea to the Black Sea, from the Baltic
to the Pacific
At the close of the Revolutionary War
the existence of slavery was defended
in the South on economic rather than on
moral grounds. Slave-holding abolition
ists ivere not uncommon, and Washington
and Jefferson left on record as strong
t
ucuuuuuuuiu uj. stuvery as were ever
penned by Garrison. But as the area and
the profits of cotton culture and the fa
cilities of inter-communication Increased,
so did 'the necessity for the protection
of slave property, and slavery became
aggressive by that very necessity of its
nature which demanded expansion as a
condition precedent of continued exist
ence. Where it ceased to grow, it began
to die. It refused to believe that the
world was weary of it. It refused to ap
preciate the fact that the moral sense
of tho North, no longer deadened by the
opiate of profit, was Intolerant of further
alliance with it. It refused to under
stand that agitation for its present re
striction and ultimate abolition could no
more be suppressed than could the waves
be stopped from dashing when the storm
king rides the seas, or the earth be
stopped from quivering when Internal
fires throb in her furnaces. Unmindful or
disregardful of the fact that the dormant
and drowsy hostility of the North to
slavery was sleeping but not dead, the
slave holders rudely; awakened It by i
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Again tho reply, "I don't know; do I Yet this has been brought about by the gT fJjfflL f jBPHuJ r " SStS j S
you?" soldier's story, by the pen in the hand sSSgiV' 0 " Jwls$ Hr5HBBAi - kksHS
Again tho reply, "I don't know; do
you?"
"Was Christ divine?"
Again, "I don't know; do you?"
"The floor is yours, Colonel," remarked
General Wallace, setting himself back in
his seat in anticipation of the brilliant
discourse he was to listen to and for
which he had laid a foundation.
It was many years before General Wal
lace spoke of this conversation and not
fully until after the production of "Ben
Hur as a drama at the Broadway The
ater, New York City, four years ago. He
then said that he was amazed at his own
Ignorance of the subject he had led Col
onel Ingersoll to discuss. When he parted
from the Colonel It was with the deter
mination to know more of It. It was this
study of Christianity that led him to be
lieve in the divinity of Christ and Inspired
him indirectly to write "Ben Hur."
Strange indeed that a conversation with
the greatest agnostic of the nineteenth
century should inspire him to write a
book that has proved the foundation for
a drama of which a writer has said in
reference to two Incidents In it:
"Nothing in all literature or art so pro
foundly brings home to one a realization
of Christ's living presence on earth as
these two wonderfully realistic scenes,
presented with such evident respect for
the greatest Name In all history."
And stranger still, considering the preju-t
dice against the theater that has always
existed among church people, that believ
ers should at last accept from the stage
one of the most powerful Christian les
sons that can possibly be conveyed a
representation of Christ's time on earth
so realistically presented that His merely
suggested presence Inspires one with awe.
repealing the Mossouri compromise, which
they themselves had enacted 34 years be
fore. For that which followed let no man un
duly and unjustly censure the Southern
people. They were and are bravesacri
flclng, generous, hospitable, chivalrlc
people of the best type of American man
hood and womanhood, and that Is the
best type of manhood and womanhood in
the world. From causes beyond their
control and almost beyond their compre
hension slavery had woven Its cancer
ous fibers Into the social and commercial
life of their body politic, and they were
as helpless slaves to the Institution of
slavery as the black people were slaves to
them. Slavery could not, as the advocates
of compensated emancipation proposed, be
bought out of existence it had to be
fought out.
When the Missouri compromise line was
destroyed the freemen of the North awoke
with the spring and roar of lions aroused
from slumber. Out of the farms apd
factories, out of the forests and mines,
out of the shops and counting-houses
they came. They formed the grandest
organization of freemen that the world
has ever known, and they named it the
Republican party. For it and its be
neficent purposes the tongue of the orator
has been kindled with fire from the altar.
For It the strain of the poet has swelled
to the sweetness of song. For It the
sword of the soldier has flashed along the
line of victorious armies, and whatever
the future may. have in store for it, its
glorious past will live as long as the
English tongue.
X
The Republican party may not always
have ben infallible in its selection of
measures, and it may not always have
been wise in Its choice of representatives,
but its purposes have ever been high and
patriotic It was officered at its incep
tion by captains whose names now stand
high upon the roll call of fame. Sumner
and Wilson, and Fessenden and' John F.
Hale in New England. Seward in New
York, Winter Davis, and Cassius M. Clay
and the Elairs in the Border States;
Chase, and Wade, and Giddlngs, and
Trumbull, and Chandler, and Doollttle In
the Northwest, Baker and Tracy, and the
Shatters on the Pacific. "There were
giants in the land In those days" Intel
lectual caryatides who upheld their age
Small men with large bank accounts had
not then excluded large men with small
bank accounts from the high places of
state. The Pretorlan guards of politics
had not then Inaugurated the practice of
shamelessly selling Senatorial togas to
metallic accidents whose dense and un
sensltlve egotism mode -them unaware
that a seat in the United States Senate
is not of Itself distinction, but only an
opportunity to achieve it. The man who
had no claims to high places, and no
Qualifications for It but who had a talent-
Yet this has been brought about by the
soldier's story, by the pen in the hand
of "the truly great," translated to the
stage with most marked reverence for its
religious side so emphasized as to call
forth the unqualified commendation of
clergymen of every denomination, Catho
lic, Protestant and Hebrew.
Many years ago General Wallace was
besought for the right to present "Ben
Hur" as a drama. Lawrence Barrett was
particularly anxious to produce the sto
ry, but General Wallace declined to en
tertain any proposition. Nojne who ap
proached him could explain a practical
way In which the great sea flght and the
rescue of Arrius by Ben Hur, the chariot
race and the miracle scene could be pre
sented as incidents In a dramatic story,
or how the religious atmosphere of the
tale could be maintained In its integrity
without offense to Christian people. For
20 years he turned a deaf ear to all ap
plicants, until nearly sir years ago,
Messrs. Klaw & Erllnger began negotia
tions with him.
They approached him In a practical
way. They had solved all the mechanical
difficulties and could demonstrate how
the sea fight and chariot race could be
presented as realistic, or so cleverly mim
icking reality as to seem real.
"But what about the Nazarene? Tho
story of 'Ben Hur cannot be told in a
play without the miracle scene," re
marked General Wallace.
His main objection to the dramatiza
tion of his work has always centered in
this incident- He would never consent to
the story being dramatized In a form that
involved the appearance of the Christ as
a personality. The difficulties attending
the presentation of a realistic sea fight
and chariot race he had always made
for caucus manipulation and a fortune
that he was willing to expend to grat-
rify his absurd ambition, would never havo
aspired to a Senatorial seat. No Ken
tucky distiller would havo attempted to
supersede John C. Brekenrldge. No Mas
sachusetts cotton spinner could have
bought Charles Sumner's seat from under
him, and a syndicate of state legislators
organized to sell' the votes of its mem
bers on all bills in a job lot for a round
sum for the session, would have ex
pected to leave tho state immediately
after adjournment.
The history of the organization of the
Republican party is a history of patriot
ism and of unselfish devotion to principle.
It has often been aptly described as a
party of high ideals. The passage of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill made no longer
available tho honoyed glue of compromise
with which Henry Clay had so often
linked repellant atoms In inharmonious
alliance, and in 1850. for the first time in
our history, the forces of freedom and
slavery were aligned for battle. Candi
dates for Democratic nomination for the
Presidency Were numerous, but the chief
contest was between IJouglas and Bu-
cnanan. .uougias was cunipuruuvciy
young, his fidelity to slavery had not been
tested, the slaveholders needed the Key
stone state, and they selected the morally
cartilaginous and mentally unsatisfied
Pennsylvanlan as an affable availability.
Out of the ultimate West came Fremont
to lead the forces of freedom. Pathfinder
was he, seeking untrodden ways in poli
tics as In the exploration of mountain
and desert. With the light of freedom
in his loyal eyes, and the bronze of West
ern suns in the face that never feared a
foe or shirked a contest, he led the Re
publican party In a battle which, though
lost, yet proved the Bunker's Hill of a
new revolution. The contest of 185G was
the midnight sun of an emancipated
North, for its setting rays glowed with
the presage of a victory that was to
bring the illumination of freedom to a
Nation.
Thirty-four years after his nomination
for President, atthe ripe age of 77, after
a life of more than ordinary vicissitudes,
John C. Fremont journeyed on. It was
my privilege to know him Intimately in
his later years. He combined the tire
less energy and the adventurous spirit of
the frontiersman, and the close applica
tion and analytical mind of the scholar,
with the suave and cultured courtesy
of the diplomat. Whether hunting griz
zlies, fighting Apaches, exploring secrets
of the mountains, or presiding with ex
quisite grace at social gatherings, he was
equally at home, and was ever the same
brave, unsuspicious, generous, manly,
loyal gentleman. "His dauntless yet un
obtruslve courage, his comprehensive
grasp of Ideas, his painstaking attention
to details bis strict performance of all
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secondary to a reverent interpretation
of the touching Incident of the healing
of the lepers on Mount Olivet, where he
believed the tale of "Ben Hur" for dra
matic purpose should end.
"True," was the reply to the General's
inquiry. "We have a plan which-will be
perfectly effective and yet treat the sub
ject with all possible reticence and re
spect. We would present the miracle In
cident, but instead of the Nazarene, ap
pearing as a personality, we would sim
ply suggest his presence by a shaft of
light
General Wallace sat for some moments
in deep study. Finally he raised his head.
"Gentlemen," he said, "I think you
have described plans which will lead
to a perfect presentation of 'Ben
Hur' on the stage. For years I have re
fused to consider such propositions, be
cause those who made them could not
demonstrate to me how my own concep
tion of what this story should be as a
play could be realized. You have done
so completely and I will accept your
proposition."
Tho contract signed that day has re
-Republican Party and 'Personality of Fremont
duties, his generous surrender to others
when only his own Interests were at
stake, his tenacious loyalty to principle
when the public interest was Involved.
his sacrificing adherence to purposes and
plans when the Interests of his friends
were concerned, his exquisite manners
and his sweetness of disposition especially
endeared him to all who were admitted
to the inner circle of his friendship, and
these were not many, for he was natur.
ally reserved and retiring.
The paths which the pioneer hewed
through tho passes and over the summits
of the mountains are now resonant with
the push of Iron feet, and about the
ashes of his campfire" cities have grown,
yet not for many generations will his
name and his fame be forgotten In tho
land ho served and loved so well.
Jessie Benton Fremont was not only an
inheritor of thegenius of her father, but
she was the inspiring spirit of her hus
band's undertakings. They were not
merely husband and wife they were close
companions, coworkers, friends, and the
admiration of each for the other seemed
fresh and untarnished to the last.
From some letters of Mrs. Fremont to
Mrs. Fitch, I select a few extracts which
i in some small degree illustrate tho homo
life and Thought of this remarkable wom
an. Prescott. March 13, 1S7!. I would give
two cents not to be such a coward about
horses, for this is weather In which driv
ing Is indispensable. I used to think no one
(meaning myself) could be unhappy who
can command tho sea, plenty of music and
flowers, and an open carriage.. Behold me
destitute of all theso props of the mind,
and not even lonesome.
Washington, January 30. 1SS7. I fancy If
Noah had sent a telegram from Ararat h
would have simply said "the rain has ceased
to fall;" other words would havo been be
w the fact. Into my life the rain has
ceased to fall, for my sons arc with me
again. Is there anything so dear as the
"talUs," when years drop Into the back
ground and the home Is again complete?
I am more busy than is reasonable. I go
nowhere and see only near friends, and they
in- tho. evening, for this right hand of mine
Is too useful to the General for me to waste
any nerve power. You will get by mall
some collected papers written for a young
people's magazine. You will please remem
ber nursery puddings cannot have- any
flavor but nutmeg or cinnamon, so they are
not harmless (my papers and the puddings),
but I know you will find both 'to please you,
and It pleases me to send it to you. Breathe
up some soft sea air for me flowers, fruits,
sunshine and sea air. Why must I live
inland so much?
Los Angeles, May 0, 1S03. Wo are in
that sort of Nirvana that has but llttlo
foreground and a lovely background, so we
rest on what has been. More than content
z:Bss HuR-AHD-H-isIoTWEVP-JS-raK"
sulted in the greatest artistic and finan
cial success the world has ever known
in an exhibition of most exalted dramatic
and scenic art that has held the stage
in 31 cities and which attracts great
crowds wherever presented.
William Young, a scholar of great at
tainments and a dramatic writer of force
and dignity, made the dramatic version
of "Ben Hur" which is presented in six
acts and 15 scenes. The scenes represent
ing the Wise Men In the desert and
the appearance to them of the Star of
Bethlehem; the roof-terrace of the palace
of Bur In Jerusalem where the quarrel
between Ben Hur and Messala and the in
cident of the falling tile changes the for
tune of the hero and his mother and sis
ter, and brings them under the crushing
hand of Gratus, the new Roman pro
curator; the rowers' deck on the galley
of Arrius, the Roman tribune; the rescue
of Arrius by Ben Hur; the house of SI
monldes in Antioch; the temple of Apollo
In the Grove of Daphne; the fountain of
Castalla; the dowar of the Shlek Ilderim
in the orchard of Palms, the lake in the
orchard of Palms; the exterior of the
In the soft case of climate and flowers,
and true friends who keep us well reminded
that wc are pleasant to them.
Los Angeles, January 20, 1S0C Your hus
band has Cleopatra's charm, for there Is
no wither or stale to his continued power
to put things common into fresh most con
vincing light. I have been reading with
more than usual pleasure his lucid, com
pact, common-sense view of possible re
sults between us and England, if there
should come actual war out of the Vene
zuelan question.
You spoke the beautiful true appreciation
of the General's delightful simplicity of
courtesy the courtesy of the heart as well
as of training. You will feel what It was
to him to write his resignation from the
army and send it to my father bt'ore he
raised tho Hag "In case the Gotrnment
wished to disavow the ad."
I am not so dark as I am depicted in the
enclosed photograph I see you shudder,
but when one has survived one's self and
the past is forever post, what matters the
picture.
And now the "Jessie" for whom in the
campaign of 1S3G I held a blazing brand
aloft, and whom it was our good fortune
to welcome with the General to our Ari
zona home in the little world of our own,
"in the brave days of old," when Pres
cott was SCO miles from a railroad, has
journeyed on to meet her husband on the
other bank of the ultimate river, whoso
roar deadens all sound to mortal ears.
For years she waited, neither eary of
this life nor fearful of the next, tran
quilly and cheerfully, recalling all that
was sweetest in the past, and waiting
for all that Is best In the future. For
her as for all who comprehend the true
philosophy of life and death, old age
does not exist for that part of us which
alone lives. Time may plough furrows
In the face and make the joints rickety,
and dull the senses, but our ego Is be
yond his puny malice. It will surely
"flourish In immortal youth, unhurt amid
tho wreck of matter and the crash of
worlds." It need3 no priest to estab
lish this, and no skeptic can deny It, for
we know It with an Intuition higher than
reason; we know it from the testimony
of our own souls, and thought Is a witness
never suborned.
Both General and Mrs. Fremont were
keenly appreciative of the humorous side
of life, and Incidents were not left unre
lated because the Joke was upon the nar
rator. Mrs. Fremont was fond of garden
ing and the General had employed a
French gardener who understood his
trade but who was exceedingly averse to
receiving orders from a woman. His pe
culiarities were overlooked as much as
possible, but on one occasion Antolne flat
ly and Insolently refused to execute an
order given by Mrs. Fremont. It was
impossible to condonfc such deliberate in-
1 subordination, and the man was discharg
N
great arena at Antioch; the chariot race;
the victory of Ben Hur; the Palace of
Hur In Jerusalem; the tombs of the lepers
in the "Vale of Hinnom ad Mount Olivet.
It will be observed that this scenario re
tains every vital Incident of the story
to the crucifixion, which, of course, could
have n6 place In any dramatic perform
ance except the Passion Play, performed
abroad every ten years solely as a re
ligious rite. It omits only, with this ex
ception, the fight between Ben Hur and
the companion of Thord, the Northman in
the palace in Antioch. where the victor
in the chariot race is lured after the con
test by the crippled Messala, who plots
his death.
What a contrast between the. dramatic
version of "Ben Hur" and some others
that have been based on "popular novels"
during the past seven years. Both from,
a literary and dramatic standpoint, with
out reference to the merit and interest in
the story on which It Is founded. It pos
sesses a true ring that Is not even echoed
In the slightest degree by the carpdnter
shop creations which have been inflicted
on the public as "dramatizations" of late.
ed on the spot, and directed to go to the
General's office for his pay. Arrived at
his destination, Antoine's wrath had cooled
and he attempted an explanation. "Gen
eral," said he, "I am sorry for this. I
like you. General; I could live viz you
forevare. But you wife. General; Mon
Dleu, you wife is a terrare." "There,"
said General Fremont,, "that will do, my
man. You can go." Antoine gathered up
andj pocketed his wages and with a shrug,
exclaimed: "General, good bye. General,
I am very, very sorry for you. As for
me, as you say, I can go. But you, ah,
you must stay!"
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