Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-16
Thomas J. Jarvis.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE!
Joseph A. EngeIhard.

The following telegram has been re-
ceived from Raleigh:
RALEIGH, N. c. June Il, 1876.
Zebulon B. Vance and Thomas j.
Jarvis were nominated on the first bal.
lot for Governor and Lieutenant Gov |
orner.
Joseph A. Engelbard has been nomi-
mated for Secretary OF State.
For Superintendent of Public In
struction-J. G. Scarborough of John
ston county.
For Auditor-Samnel p. Love Of
Haywood county.
For Treasurer j. M. Worth of
Randolph county.
Presidential Electors for State at
'large-Danl. G.. Fowle of Wake, j.
M. Leach of Davidson.
For Attorney Geoeral--Thomas 8.
keenan, of Wilson. :.
No man in the Site is more widely
known or better loved by the people
of every degree and condition in life,
than is z ebulon B. Vance. Born and
reared in the West, tho people of the
sand hills of the East are devoted to
him as strongly as are his own sturdy
mountaineers.
Everybody knows who Governor
Vance is, but it may not be amiss to-
day to recall some of the incidents of
the public life of man who, before he
was thirty-five years old. had attained
greater degree of personal popHlari-
ty than any man that ever lived in the
State has enjoyed.
Governor Vance is now just in the
prime of life, being barely forty six
years of age. He was born in Bun
combe county. in the year of 1880.
In the year 1851, he became student
| of law at the University. Shortly after
his return home in that year, and
shortly after obtaining his license to
practice law, he was elected Solicitor
for his county. But Zebulon Vance
WAS a politician by nature, and the
charmes of the law. with all it's honors
and emoluments, did not possess
power enough to rule with undivided
sway ovei him. 1t was only IN the
political arena that he could find room
and verge enough for the development
of his real nature. Accordingly, in
1854, he became n candidate for the
House of Commons, as it was then
called, and was elected by hi fellow
citizens as the Representative of his
native county. He served only one
term in the Legislature. In 1855,
he was associated with Colonel John
ID. Hyman in the editorial conduct OF
the leading paper of the Wing party
in that section of the State, then
called. if We mistake not, the Ashe-
Vile Spectator.
In 1856 he was a candidate for the
State Senate against Colonel David
Coleman and was benton, Coleman and
Democracy being too strong for Know
Nothingism even whom advocated by
Vance.
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representative in the United States
Congress from the Mountain District
was appointed by General Bragg to fill
an unexpired term in the United States
Senate, caused by the resignation OF
Hon. Asa Biggs who had been appoint
ed Judge of the United States Court
for North Carolina. Colonel David
Coleman and W. W. Avery, Esq, OF
Burke, both Democrats, became can
didates to fill the unexpired term
caused by General CIingman's resigna.
ton. As soon as the contest had waxed
sufficiently warm, young Vance came
forward az Wing candidate. Cole
man withdrew, but it WIS too late, q
fatal breach had been made in the
Democratic party and Vance was
elected. In 1859 he was candidate
for reelection for the next full regular
term, and having firmly established
himself in the affections of the people
of the District, was able to defeat his
old opponent, Colonel Coleman, one of
the best, purest, ablest and most pop
ular men that ever lived in the noun
tains. He served in Congress until
March 1861.
While a candidate for reelection in
1861, the ordinance of secession was
passed by the Convention on the Goth
IF May. Preparations for war were
already on foot. and Vance was no
lagg lrd-in war. He responded, and
at once. to the very call to arms. He
had not favored the secession move
ment, but he was a true North Caro-
linian, and ready to obey the behests
| of his State at all hazards-at the
hazard even of his life. Before the
end of May, indeed On the very day
on which the ordinance of secession
was passed, he was Captain Vance, and
| His company was one of those that
formed the Fourteenth Regiment, first
commanded by tnat gallant soldier
| General Junius Daniel. Captain Vance
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until late in the fall or early winter,
| when he was elected Colonel of the
Twenty-Sixth Regiment, in command
of which he fought at the battle of
Newbern and in the fights around
Richmond. In August, 1862. he was
elected..(tovernor, and having resigned
his colonelcy was inaugurated in the
fall of that year, under special ordi-
nance of the Convention fixing the
date of the beginning of his term of
Office. In 1854, he was reelected
Governor of the State. His vigorous,
earnest efforts for the successful pros
ecution of the war are matters of COM
mon history.
In April, 1866, he left Raleigh with
General Joe Johnston's army, went to
Greensboro, arfd from thence to Char
lotte, where he joined President Davis.