The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-02-18


THOSE " no HAVE rot T,ttT.
Card in Which Hv Tsil. rtca.antis te
Ills Editorial irtsnd. aud the fasiis
ho Have Read " hat rhes Say.
T. rHr FnnoK ~ TUX ClRn>lesf
oh>srN tt@t a4mher ~ ststeneat>
ao~aat NE are apf.~suus SEA sHue FHar
s'Asa4-snsse- Contrary la As>~t t..#c ap-
4ette unnecessarily. / hoFe A4t ta sa-sA.l
sure that none uf.uA friend. sAaN th.as =
have 80 utterty changed ms ua,-tv 3 %.
have h-cone malicious, Z ts=s ju-f -faee
enough To- correct had a aasag es tae.a
ul>s.ttcAeg4tS which. / stse. Aetq EgaA4#a
grow ug, here a TWIST and tagrv 50 fHss.
until they have already become -rs;s 4at
tales. take them lin hump having
10 tame nor desire t. discuss tAs al. sa4 /
I shall not again have anything to a.,y atss..l
| them, slu-lS or As i whulc kug hANc
no taste nor talent for controversy
never nade application for a ehasr Af
| Chapel I'M, and never sought ! uau44UA.
| ton for Superintendent Of FutIle iu~tHus
| tlon- AM neither fitted nor hAt 3 tHr
least desire to till either OF these aaHar
| able positions. Neither DO / tA.ut / am
! disappointed or have slauderei ans bady
| Certainly have never had austhiu2 bui
the highest esteem and praise tef the han
| dred or more local newspapers lu North
| Carolina, which are 80 full II aii .-s.4f ol1
Tar Heel gifts and graccs. such ~ truth.
! fairness love for North IarolsuIAus p1s.
sum hunts aud all the good humog ~
hcalthful life; indeed / admire them Gbc
more because they have 10 I'LL both their
own useful places and the places that here
ought 10 be broader papers IT, ull. aud Ga
| my brotheredltors III the state. a,ud nt
compliments. My latch string hangs ou
the outside, gentlemen. Whenever you can
| find 1t convenient % come - New York
| Wei have "A good time too Moreover
| am "A citizen Of North Carolina. / expect
To spend the greater part of the uoNt 3o
| years IN the State nj an editorial desk
playing the Same cheerful tune my plans
| pecuniary. recrcational, literary culinary
| domestic and professional are all sueovod
| ing SO "ell that | increase daily ,u aFolr
dupols and happiness and grow ln grace,
| hope, and certainly III patience, ! arm
| not conscious of a spite against anybody,
| have no resentments, and unless the
! mummles are losing their temper ! do not
think l have any enemy IN the world
| have such spite against the GuHer
| sity that should like to see ii~ apprupria-
| uons greater and greater and iis doors
| open to every youth in the State. dis
| like Mr.. Battle so much that wish 10
Heaven be had such help and was >o rd
| o. the petty ecclesiastical stagnation which
binds him, that he would never have to
do the balancing and explaining lac now
has to do.
Those papers which have given currency
| to any of the serious charges | have thus
denied or which nave casually remarked
| that | am murderer and a fugitive from
| justice, or that ! have committed au as.
sault on the State Of North Carolina, Will,
! am sure, give me the benefit OF this cor
| I,.t ttf;f
desire TO add "A few more charges to the
| list are at liberty 10 do SO. II Is as good
| a way aS any for them TO prove hat all
| have SAID about them Is true. ! accuse
| them OF narrOwucs9 aud Eugeuerositt =.
| Forthwith they set to and show how uar-
row and ungcncrous they can be Ntltu
they try. They even outdo themooiyt7 %
prove that am right Could gentlemen
be more oblging
What a spectacle the mummy is When
anybody points finger at him and says,
See the mummy he solemuly wraps
himself in the memory Of the great dead,
begins to sing 'Thc 0.d North state, " and
cries out: ''Strike nc md you dlshonor
the memory Of Weston Gales and T.. j.
| Hale, and Judge CASTOR and Judge Badg-
! er-ugh, You slandcrcr, you dcfamc
| North Carolina,"
This reminds me of an incident OF my
Doyhood. went one night 10 "frolc"
III Wake county. There were lots Of pretty y
girls there and it was a jolly time But
there were three old spinsters who bad
passed the period Of their usefulneas for
such an occasion. 4 brisk young fellow
| with "A keen sense of the humorous, who
is now the father Of family III Wake,
saw them when all three happened 10 be
in group. He leaned over to me and
said Great Scott, aiut they out o date
they wouldn't bring "A quarter apiece .u
Utah" They heard him. They Hes into
a passion. They declared he had slandered
| society. They talked about all Then old
bcauA the offers they had had, and about
the beauty Of their mothers in their day,
and Of their grandmother, in their day
They had to End a reason for such slaudcr
| They circulated the report that be Was
'spteful' because he had wished to dance
with a certain girl that wouldn't allow H.
For month they talked about him aud
fished up explanations and, though he had
simply told the truth and every body knew
it was The truth, he was berated by all the
old women in the ncighborhood for break
ing all the ten commandments.
Now / have slandered North Carolina
very much as this young man >iaGdercd
, society The News and Observer and
the Wilmington Star, | see, imagine that
| have slandered all the editors living and
dead because | said that the papers which
ought to be the leading papers ia the state
, are weak and narrow. called no name.
) | call no names now. But If have really
slandered anybody il is the living, not the
dead and il is III order for the News and
Observer to prove that ! am .landor.r
: BY showing how broad and generous and
able "a newspaper the Star Is. and for the
star to show how brilliant and manly and
5 intellectual a journal the Nea and Ob.cr-
2 yer is Then well all - smile. They
have said much worse things about one
r another than | ever said or eyer expect o.
say about anybody. Yet have slanaered
North Carolina and broken al the com
/ rnandlnents. and they are the defenders Of
the good old State. If they are great and
able and noble newspaper. ! have ne.c.
r said they are Hct-let them call Oue al
: other so.
k observe. TOO. that the Charlotte Obseg
G yer finds out that ] am disappointed aud
sour and am a little penny a liner, and
G don't know what else Oh, l grant il all
z why, certainly. grant I'LL my own mi.
, fortunes HeaKuo ,es, failures, faults
/ everything 900 like Now, nay dear Col
/ Jones, you WeIe very candid and fIiondlr