Wilmington journal., 1876-09-01
For the Journal.
Judge EOXVIe AT Hickory.

your renders to know that the remark
able orator against whose eloqnence
in your midst even the elements were
lately powerless. has been moving, as
they are not often moved, the less
il, ercurial people of the West. Judge
Fowle made great speech here OF
Friday He is born orator, and even
the glowing story of his triumphs on
the Cape Fear and IN toe East, which
the JOURNAL has so well narratt Il, had
not prepared this people for HE match
less power. His audience yielded to his
magnetism with the first sweep of his
hand and the easy flow of his melodlous
voice charmed them IN steady pro-
gressiun. No words or symbols can
reproduce a speech whose admirable"
matter lacked no accessory at the
hands of man who supplements the
grace and facial power OF an actor
with the earneatuess of one who
speaks the living truth. For who of
us will forget his description of the
true decentralization when the glory
of Lee shall have become the common
heritage of nation united at length,
indeed and the Government, which
must at some day raise a monument
to Custer, shall. with even pace, rear
Stonewall Jackson's? Or who fail to
thrill with patriotic anticipation as he
recalls the picture of common care
for the Federal and the Confed
crate dead, replacing that neg
lect of the latter, which now
all that Sparta wishes to know?"
for his consummate arraignment of the
ItS
hands in horror at the assassination of
Lincoln, an act none tl2e less con-
demned at the South, and yet itself Is
guilty of the murder of Mrs. Surratt,
whose only crime was that, in the
goodness of her woman's heart, she
had bandaged the broken leg of a hu-
man being who happened to be the as
sassin? Nor shall we soon forget, as he
continued this division of his speech,
the admirable irony with which he eX-
posed the claim of that party to be the
party of the Constitution and the laws.
which in time of peace turned loose
the cut-throats of Holden and Kirk
upon defenseless people, whose last
resort in the HaOe0s Corpus became
but the empty form of protection,
it's Substance dlssipated 3 in an
exhausted judiciary. And which, at
an earlier period but yet in time of
peace. in the person of the federal
commander defying this great writ,
sent Tolar to Fort Macon; that COM
mander who. at the capital of the
State, in answer to warrant of arrest
and the posse co7Jtitattts sent to en-
force it, threw open window of the
palace of her Governors, now become
his military headquarters and, point
ing the sheriff to battalion of his
soldiers drawn up i'll the yard, TINS
enforced his resistance to the peaceful
processes of the LAW Rather was the
Democratic party the true Union and
constitutional party which, in his own
person. as judge on the bench,
ordered the commitment of Tolar be-
cause it was his duty; aud yet,
because it was his duty, or
dered the arrest of the federal
commander WHO refused to regard the
service of the writ. And which, IN the
person Of it's chosen standard bearer,
the incompatible Vance, defied the
power of the Confederacy, and, through
period of war, saved unscathed the
palladium of liberty. A noble apos-
trophe 10 Judge Brooks then followed,
and this sacred instrument, in it's re
lation to the Tree of Liberty, was
likened to the Flaming Sword which
guarded the Tree of Life. Now came
amusing illustrations of the Civil
Rights doctrines of the Republican
party, and then followed, IN rapid re-
sumo, an exhaustive rresentment of
the corruption of the lawless party III
power, with its long line of disgraced
officials who had found again the mil
lions {" lost % to the people,. OF the
misery which followed to the
nation that spent more than the
people saved. just as surely as
misery came to the individual |
who had not needed Micawbers aphor-
ism. that the secret of happiness and
misery lay in the true determination |
e20 income the odd sixpence should |
fall. Of the impossibillty of reform |
within the Republican party, happily |
by the resolutions of the |
who resolved, first, to
build new church; second, to occupy
the old church until the new was
built; and, third. to build the new
church out of the material of the old,
and OF the ingenious purpose of this
party in their advocacy of woman's |
suffrage to gain the votes of negro
who would hasten to exercise
a right which the delicate ladies of the
South shrink from.
Nor was his eloquence, and his skill |
IN strong contrasts, less effective in
describing the danger to the republic
IF making ruler of a weak man like
Hayes, who would give offense as
neither the lion, northe fox, nor the ele-
ohant; and whose character and deeds
ne held up beside those of the strong
Did man in whom the Democratic
party discerns reformer destined to
become to us what Pericles was to the
Athenians.
And now, following a discourse
whose naked logic was in no wise hid.
len by the glorious adornment of his
came an appeal from this
Eastern man to his Western brethren
which was utterly irresistible. The
tory of the Jones county enormity. az
furnished by gentleman of that
county to the newspapers, is touching
enough in the simple details of its
ruth; but who that heard this master
# elocution can ever forget the
,athos with which he read that
"a lady, aged and blind, was bid off to
N ignorant negro at 81 per month";"
nd with what graphic skill he pictured 7
he feelings of that white woman,
nee wealthy, as she turned from the
uctioneer's block towards the home
f her MASTER, and thus drove home i
0 this Anglo-Saxon people his plea L
hat within the borders of their State b
nd his the i ke should never be wit n
essed again? And whose blood did not .
ow faster as with the fiery cross OF Q
Ian Alpine-in his hands the glorious
amer of referm--he had each sue s,
sssive runner to tell the news that :"
ne enemy were to be met on the 7th of a.
and begged that he might
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