Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-09-07

having full faith in the honor and ;nte,r;.n :.
executor above named, he shall not be had " ny
count to any court or power whatever for ths &C.
charge of the trust confided by me to him ;p u.s.
by the foregoing will" 1 IN AID
Andthe event has proved that bis judgu.n, =.
always. committed no mistake when II 6as uat@
mat confidence lie had bis peculiarities-
with him. suited to him, constituting nav. e0fa
character, and necessary to its completenes." Ms
never subscribed to chSrities but gave, and f,..
according to his means-the left hand not Lnlg,
what the right hand did. He never subscrh hOSas
new books, giving as q reason to tina so,o.'o
scent, that nobody purchased his tobacco .'..g
was inspected and he could buy no book nn.
had examined it He would not attend the Cona,1ae
Presidential Caucus of 1924 although It was ses
to nominate his own choice, (Mr Crawford sure
when reason was wanted, he gave it in the bnat
answer that he attended one once and they cheated
him, and he had said that he would never at.ss.
another. He always wore the same dress-th .'.'a
TO say suit Of the same material, cut and coi,A
superfne navy blue-the whole suit from the s.Sa
piece and in the fashion of the time o. the Rssol
ton; and always replaced by new one befo,o y
showed age. He was neat in his person. av..s
wore fine linen, fine cambria stock, fine fnr f.s
with brim to it. fair topboots-the boot ontV;a a
of the pantaloons, on the principle that leather wv.
stronger than cloth. He would wear no my
honors, and when complimented on the renort 80
the Panama mission, which, IS chairman Of t Nv
committee on foreign relations he had presented ~
the Senate, he would answer, eyes; It IL a aoo "
report; Tazewell wrote it" Left to himself w.
was ready to take the last place, and the lowest
seat any where; but in his representative cspscitv
he would suffer no derogation of . CONSTITUTIONS:
or Of popular right. Thus, when Speaker of Fl.
House, and place behind the Presidents Secrct.
ries had been assigned him in some ceremonv :.
disregarded the programme; and, as the elect ~
the elect of all the people, took his place next After
those whom the national vote had elected. And
in 1903, on the question to change the form If
voting for President and Vice President and ths
vete wanting one Of the constitutional number Of
twothirds he resisted the rule of the House which
would make tie, claimed bis constitutional right
to vote as q member obtained it, gave the Vote
made the two thirds and carried tie Amendment
And, what may well Be deemed idiosyncratic in
these days, be was punctual in the performance Of
all his minor duties to the Senate, attending its sit
tings to the moment, attending all the committees
to which he was appointed, attending all the funs
rails of the members and officers of the Houses
always in time at every place where duty REQUIRED
him and refusing double mileage for one travel.
ling, when elected from the House of Represents.
tves to the Senate, or summoned to an extra ses.
sion. He was an habituA reader and student Of
the Bible, pious and religious man, and of the
Baptist persuasion" as he was accustomed to OK.
press it.
have pleasure in recalling the recsHections Of
this wise, just, and good man. and in writing them
down, not without profit, hope, to rising genera.
tons, and at least as extending the knowledge Of
the kind of men to whom we are indebted for our
independence, and for the form Of government
which they established for US. Mr. Macon was the
| real Cincinnatus of America, the pride and orna.
ment Of my native State, my mentor in the first
seven years of my Senatorial and the last seven Of
Of his Senatorial lie; and a feeling of gratitude
and of lial affection mingles itself with this dis
charge of historical duty to his memory.-Ar
| Benton's Thirty Years Visso.