The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-06-22

weight. The CHRONICLE knows what Col.
Holt can do, and it knows that his plain,
direct, strong speeches in the campaign
will please the thoughtful voters of North
Carolina. of that, we have 40 donbt,
TT WAS 4 MODEL.
A Description of Il Model Commences
ment Address.
Especial Cor. STATE CHEoNiCLEI
] Your correspondent heard a commence
ment address short time since which
struck him I, model specimen of the kind
of oratorv which is needed upon such oc-
casions. 1t was delivered before the Will
son Collegiate Institute by your townsman,
Mr.. W. J. Peele, a private in the legal
ranks but who has the capacity for gaining
more than a subordinate position in any
corps where single aim and a direct shot
are pre- requisites for preferment. No
doubt this modest limb of the law would
promptly rise up and object to being set
before actors of more wide spread reputa-
ton. long experience, and popular gifts,
as a standard Of eXccllency to whom they
should refer IN lifting together and pol
/ lshlng their piece, for doing execution
upon the young Americans arrayed before
them on these warm June days. Now this
critic would by no means subject him to
+ such an unenyiable position. but when a
man does a good thing, which men do not
! ordinarily succeed in doing, why of course
! all of Us ought to be curiOusly disposed
| enough to ask, How did he do it," When
! Il CONNER cement orator arises with
/ sufficient might of dignity to place the
| sIlis OF the rO>trum III jeopardy, and
/ rompOuSlY and theatrcally commences
/ The subject upon which | shall expatiate,
ladies and gentlemen, friends and fellow
} f.jtf of fraA tod
is The Sunny South, or perhaps The Old
North State Forever, or still more proba
bly,, The Nature. the Necessity and the
Advantage of a Broad System of Thorough
/ National and industrial Education YOU
! are tempted to hope that there may in
stantly be d great yawniug fioor-quake to
swallow up both the Anticipated gentleman
and his closely written manuscript
Mr.. Peele did nothing Of this kind He
looked as if he had nothing to say and
then said a very striking thing: for his
theme had the merit of novelty and the
still higher recommendation of fitness.
The Law and the Ladies that was the
phrase and being lawyer he certainly
knew something about the first, and being
bachelor he had of course made special
study OF the second. We pricked up our
ears because We couldn't help it, and Mr..
leeie's incisive, direct, and epigrammatic
sentences pricked our usually drowsy in
telects with a very startling effect. We
do not remember hearing any pathetic,
heart bursting, adoring eulOgy of that old
hoary gen leman, the Law, (what a mag
niticent opportunity lost) or any resuscita-
ton of those memory 'paper-curls' con-
corning the beauty, nobility, unfading
charms of the Southern women chow they
heaved a sigh of gratitude at the omis-
sionD Everything ought to have been said
that was said, and every sentence that was
there ought to have been there. He had
humor but it was not used like a straw or
perpetual motion trying to generate a con-
Stantly recurring wave of ''tickle;'' and he
had pathos but It was not welded like
pump handle IN the hands of man who
seems determined to keep it going until he
has pulled up the bottom of the we'll. And
finally above all, the whole address occu-
pied only thirty minutes instead of the Or
thOdOX length of four times thirty. Thirty
minutes has not often recorded as many
apt things put in as few select words to as
many truly interested hearers. Now your
correspondent submits that whether the
qualities above enumerated are he OrthO-
doX ones for Il set, stilted, stated com
mencement Grafton, they are certainly
such as evoke the gratitude and apprecia
non of an ordinary audience upon hot
.
pal OF the school, exhibited his usual Wis
dom in this selection as in all of his ap-
pOlnfments- r.
Thurman's North Carolina KinfoIks.
/ Washington Cor. Durham Tobacco Plant !
Judge Thurman has a great many kin
folks in North Carolina. His mother. Miss
Allen, of Edenton, Was Il first cousin, once
removed of the late Col. W. A. Allen, Of
Goldsboro, and of Mr. Nicholas Allen, a
we'll to do farmer now living near Raleigh.
, Col VIM. Allen often spoke to me of his
relationship to Senator Thurman and to
Gov VIM Allen, whose statue was re-
5 Gently placed in Statuary Hall, this city.
, If am not mistaken. he cOrresponded
with both gentlemen and Judge Thurman
| felt an essential interest in his North Car
= oina kin, who bore his mothers name
The two sons of Col VIM Allen, who sur
2 vive him, O. H. Allen, Esq. Solicitor of
t the Sixth Judicial District, and " illiam
, Alien. Esq, Of Goldsboro, are therefore
} second cousins Of the ''Old Roman and
ought to stand up to him in the coming
canvass. AS good Democrats, they will
| doubtless do so. but "blood is thicker than
t water" and they owe it to The Vice Presi
: dental candidate to do yeoman service in
3 : his cause thus summer and fall They
Y need not talk to a Democrat, for Judge
g Thurman can command the support oil
t that party in all North Carolina, but they
S ought to ''beat the bushes for mugwumpS
y and lukewarm Republicans, i. Q. if our ole
5 commonwealth has any of that "kind Of
. cattle among her citizens. Both the gen
j, tlemen referred to are good lawyers anC
/ convincing speakers.