The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1886-12-23
SENATOR VANCE.

qualification to the GOLD LEAF that it
was North Carolinian, and that man
Senator Vance, who in all the South
has had the courage, and honesty, and
candor to talk to a Northern audience,
composed of Massachusetts people, as
sembled in the city of Boston: on such
subject as the one that furnished the
basis of the theme for his lecture there
recently. Always full of admiration
for the able and gifted Carolinian,
recognizing his splendid: powers, ex-
IRENE honesty and deep courage, we
are still more a Zeb Vance man since
reading his Boston lecture We re-
spect him we admire Kim we honor
him we love him and as an humble
North Carolinian we are proud of him.
The Wilmington. Star says editorially:
We must felicitate Senator Vance
upon his admirable lecture before the
Boston ans. How they relished SO
candid and SO forceful presentation
of the war theme he selected we DO
not know. They ought to be educa-
ted up to the point Of tolerance, and
to hear with patience the other side.
Andi aLtcram battem. We have not
been able to get the full report Of the
lecture that occupied two full hours,
but we have read a somewhat full alb
stract and it is very appetizing. We
are like little Oliver Twist-we are
hungry and are "asking more
Our readers need not to be told that
we have very kind feelings for our
gifted and able Senator. We have
made no mistake in the past as to his
capacity. We have recognized all
along those powers that have made
him popular and SO dear to the North
Carolina heart-patriotism, common
sense, inexhaustible humor, courage,
and integrity. But we have gone be-
yond this. Holding him to be sin
gularly upright and honest politician,
and a man who had been. fully tried
amid the "hery pangs" of battle and
the most vexatious, troublous, suffering
times of war and the calamitous epoch
following war, we have believed him
all along to be patriot and statesman.
A man of cultivation, man of singu-
lar and Astounding humor, a man Of
study and of business, he is also man
of ideas, of broad and enlightened
craftsmanship. He is the fullest
roundest, wisest, ablest of our North
Carolina politicians. He is the mos
many-sided of our men. He write:
we'll His style is one of his very bes
points. He has cultivated the art O
conveying his thoughts in limpid, di
rect, vigorous modern English. He
writes with scholarly accuracy, anc
often with the felicity of the genuine
man Of letters.
We doubt if he has ever been wise
in his public utterances than his tall
before the Boston Yankees. He hac
a most difficult labarynth to thread
TO change the figure there were dan
gers lying right before him, and OF
either hand rocks and shoals. Scyll;
and Charybdis were there. But will
the skill of master mariner he avoid
ed all dangers and went out into tn
, open sea of success beyond with hi
t Southern gonfalon floating proudly
and from the masthead the ensign O
the Union streaming in the Northern
breeze.
The lecture has impressed us as be
7 ing capital from first to last. He ha
S presented facts with accuracy and h
, gave his audience views that wer
doubtless as novel as entertaining, bu
they will not be new to men of rehec
ton in the South. We will copy
few characteristic paragraphs fror
2 North Cardinals favorite son. Ma
it be far into the coming century be
, fore the asterisk Of death is place
against his name in the catalogue {
the illustrious men Of North Carolin;
: May he, like good, gentle, dear Co
onel NewComb, answer for a score {
years to come the roll call Of the Ser
ate each morning-AAsum.