The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-09-28
LIFE or BAKERY.
DO lOs SPELL IT DARkERY OR
DOCkERN
fi~ Life ila> Not Been Aiiogether Ine-
ventfni--ssead the Full biography of
the Candidate.

Nentfni--s Head The Full Biography OF
the Candidate.
II Is We'll, nov and then at least, to
trace the careers Of men who have attain
ed ''minence, good or b I'd, that ambitious
yuath may learn therefrom how to reach
fame on the one hand or avoid shame on
the other. lmbued with this patriotic
purpose, We give brief sketch of the
principal events in the life Of man whose
name is now upon every ones lips That
man is
oliver Hart Dockery.
To begin with our hero i no slouch, no
horny handed son Of tell. 10 poor bockra
of any sort, but {; sou Of leading polite
ian. a rich mans son, with means as well
as the inclination to crafty his every
whim. Born with silver spoon IN his
mouth. as the saying Is, and clothed IN
purple and fine linen. he began his earthly
existence about the year 1926 III the coun-
tv in which he noW lives Surrounded by
every comfort and luxury that wealth
could command with slaves TO DO his every
bidding, he grew apace. In time, like
other rich mems sons, he went to school
.lnd learned a little Latin and less Greek
! / 1916 he went to Chapel Hill; what his
career was there tradition doth not tell,
as IN the case Of Johnston Pettigrew and
Matt. Ransom. who We're his seniors BY a
Year. Suffice it TO say, however, thar he
grad uated in 1913 by the skin of his teeth,
or the toughness of his cheek, OF III some
other way. aud Proceeded to study law
under that good man, Judge Battle Of
his career II the bar that treacherous
it:e, tra'' -. again fails to say any
thing. With his great voice and his un-
limited cheek he ought to have succeeded,
bt,t there is no evidence that he did
AID then he heeamea planter" They
We're planters, not farmers, in those days,
and indeed. planting Vas not such bad
min. with lot of negroes wenches il
ciuaed and a pushing oyerse er to drive
them. The science Of planting was mainly
il picking out the overseer, and it may BE
That our b, ro, with the help q his father,
,a, successful in that Tradition, how
es,.r. SIN treacherons, throws no light on
the situation.
In the winter of 1853 80 he went to the
l..>,i ,lafnr" ara distinguished him~,
jurr. y h.: efforts to compel tree negroes
to leay1 The state or become slaves.
And then lie war came on. Now, though
valiant man. our hero Was not eager for
the fray. He feared from the beginning
he would lose his -'nisgers. md he WAS
fond of neg -ue> then as he il now, out
With this difference, note: as slave, then,
as voters uaw. Bat emancipation and he
surrender were a long way III a; the be-
ginning ot the war, and our hero. with a
company of his younS friends aud uei Lh-
I borS became Il part of the 3Sth Regiment
of North Carolina Troops, and a Very the
regim"tt il was. especially after our hero
left Ii. Had not circumstances compelled
! him To leave the service Just be ore the
fighting began the war might possibly
/ have euded differently. Possibly Meade
and Grant would have suffered the fate
I Of Mcclellan. Hooker and Burnside, and
/ AppcmattDN he still unknown Bat how
ever that may be, ou- herO's commission
As captain in the Confederate army bore
date Both October, 1861, aud then, at a
lieutenant oo0nelcy of the regiment on
the 9Th January, 1862; and there he stay
ed until the spring was well advanced and
the fighting about to begin in earnest,
when he failed to be e-elected was re
| CURED Leaving his young friends and
neiehbolS 30 stop Yankee bullets. he once
more hied him home 10 thu Shad, ot
private life and the protection. We pre-
sumo. Of "tbe twenty Niger clause. y
And lust here, We pause IL adm on
Of she many uses to which negroes, i,4clud
ing wenches. can be put Under the Con
feder;ttc law twenty negroes" would keep
even al cXlieutenant colonel out Of the
war No wonder some people love negroes
80 We'll for gratitude still lives
We hear 1io more Of our hero as a mill
tary mar until the Holden Kirk war
wh. II be Nas commissioned It brgaCiiel
general. He did not reach the field ever
in this war, however. Its duration wa:
short. 1t will be seen, therefore. thai
circumstances which our hero could not
or at least did not, control came between
him and success rs military man, JUS
as they did in his other efforts
After the war our hero rested upon hi;
ianrels or something else for 4 time, re
cruiting from his wounds, as it were, in {
sort of chr>>a!is state; that is to say, IL
fashioned white grub worm and the mod
ern colored Radical butterfly But b,
1868 iust about the time Fe'erdl bayOnet
converted negroes into voters, our hero
bloomed out as a full grown Radical, 70
he then saw his Way clear before him
The truth is, there is no man in Amerci
who cau put regloes, not excluding evel
the wenches, to more useful purposes thai
our hero. for he is as good a Judge to- -da
Of the value of a negro, whether Smar
buck or a likely weLch, AS any other trade
ever was before the war. IT the negro b
a buck he has vote; if wench she
good to point a slander with, and of bot
he has need upon occasion.
r But it must not be supposed the none
expended by our hero's father on his legf
education was money thrown away. Ou
= hero was a lawyer Of the old school or h
; was not a lawyer at all. Some people sa
t one thing and some say the other. Hi
r strict adherence however to a maxim {
y the old school law books fortities US in til
= belief that he was lawyer ''Of that lik.
2 Throughout his entire career, when Ou
e hero could not get exactly what he Wante
he has taken the next best thing to ii b
could get This doctrine was called in h
>. old books if We lccollect Alright, the c
PRES coust ructiun, or, As we would say
3 the common talk of the day, the doctrir
that half loaf is better than no loaf. Al
cordinglv. after the surrender came "wit
Ill the words implied as Mrs Tilton r