The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-03-04

are told, he declared II he had his way, he
would begin with james Buchanan, then with
these he would lang every rebel Governor who
aided the war. The gentlemen to whom he was
speaking, said {" But you would not hang Zeb
vance?" Yes, said he, he would be the first,
and he would 90 to witness Zeb's hanging, and
rejoice over it. This, we learn, is undoubtedly
true. And such man is brought forth for the
votes OF the people Of North-C Carolina r'-Sar
ttnd
!, There is not more smiable, kind hearted
gentleman in the State than Tod R. Calwell.
We are glad the Sentinel has made the above
alusion, for it affords US All opportunity n
state some facts which will abundantly vim
dictate Mr.. Caldwell. is = ei
In May, 1866, Gov. Vance was very prop
erly arrested by President johnson and con-
fined in the old Capitol prison at Washing
ton. He remained there until the ensuing
4th day of July. While in prison he Ia
bored, as we know, under the mortal fear
that he would be tired, convicted and exc
cuted for treason. When he learned, as he
did through friend, that if he should be
convicted, the writer of this would make an
earnest personal appeal to President john
son to spare his life, he expressed himself as
deeply gratifed by the information. Col.
Tod R. Caldwell was one of the Aids of the
then Provisional Governor. He returned ON
the morHing of the 4th of July, 1855, from
visit to the West On his way through
Statesvillc he learned that member of Gov
Vance's family. then in that town, was very
sick, and not expected tn survive. As soon
as he reached Raleigh he appealed in the
most feeling terms to the Provisional Gov
ernor to ask the President to allow Gov
Vance to leave his prison and return home
on parole. The Provisional Governor tele-
graphed at once to the President asking the
release of Gov. Vance, and the request
was complied with. Gov. Vance re-
turned to his afflicted family, who were no
doubt rejoiced to see him and as the result
of that release from prison, obtained thrWgh
the intereession Of Tod r. CaldweN, Gov.
Vance went at large ON his parole until par
doned by the President. These are the
facts Do they mark Col. Caldwell as
"petulant, vindictive man2
Again, in August, 1865, tine Provisional
Governor having refused to endorse the APP
plication for pardon of Paul C. Cameron, of
Orange, Col. Caldwell, on account of the
distress in Mr.. Cameron's family because of
his condition, interested himself in the mat
ter. He appealed repeatedly to the writer
on the subject. At last he gave it as his APP
prehension, if not opinion, that if Mr.. Cam
eron should not be pardoned he would COM
nit suicide, so that his lands, which he ex-
pected would be coniscated for treason du-
ring his life, might at once descend to his
family The writer still hesitated. Mr..
Cameron-this being his second or third
visit on the subject-rosc to go. The writer
reflected, first, that he had just received an
earnest appeal from some thirty or forty
Union citizens of Orange in Mr.. Cameron's
behalf, made with his knowledge and con-
sent, in which, while they pleaded for him,
they admitted that he had been instrumen-
tai in running his country; and secondly,
that as one man only, his pardon, if improp-
erly granted, could do no harm, and that if
he should commit suicide, as some of his
friends feared he would, the writer hereof
could never forgive himself for refusing him
his pardon. He therefore endorsed his APP
plication, and the President at once pardon
ed him. Col. Caldwell was instrumental
in procuring this pardon, as he had pre-
viously procured the release of Gov. Vance
Do these facts prove him to be pctulant,
vindictive" MANI
The history of the civilized world has
never revealed body of men more migrate
full to even their own chicftains and leaders
than the secessionists. When Mr.. Davis
toppled and fell, and fed ingloriously from
the scene of his triumphs and his crimes,
these men began to forsakc him; and when
he reached Greensborough, in this State, of
all the big leaders of his party who had
basked in his smiles and grown fat from the
plumber which they had ciutched under his
government, not one offered him a shelter,
but he had to remain for time in the cars,
until some Union citizens offered him re-
freshments and shelter. At Charlotte he
took up his abode with the unpretending
Agent of the Express Company. while Mr.
Benjamin found lodgings with his Jewish
friends. As he fed south he fed almost alone,
the big leaders whom he had honored re-
naming behind to make terms for themselves.
The same was the case with Gov. Vance
He wandered for a time like hunted pat
ridge among the hills. Arrested and brought
through Raleigh, without money, going to a
distant prison, and as he feared to death,
when one of the many whom he had honor.
ed, and fed, and "clothed in purple and fine
linen" during the rebellion, was asked to
contribute small sun, to make him comfor-
table in prison, his reply was he had no
greenbacks! Oh. ineffabIc meanuess!
Dogs that can be bought to fawn on any man p
When the writer of this was in Washing
ton in May, 1865, he had too much respect
for Gov. Vances feelings to visit him in his
prison, but he requested Others to do SO, and
suggested especially that all his personal
wants should be provided for.
The party of wrath, of vindictiveness, Of
base ingratitude, of merciless prescription,