The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-21

MS was pecu larry gratifying to me who
from my childhood, ], bad followed his his.
tory, whether its event was in heroism
to press North Carolina close to the great
heart of his vital manhood when her
garments were wet with the blood of her
dying aud her face was blanched with
he reflected ghastliness of her dead: or
whether in sacrifice, coerced from the
light of freedom, he paid the penalty of
that love in the gloom Of a prison, in the |
very capital city where now his devotion |
to North Carolina is no less conspcuo
in the forum of Senate than was the |
love that intensified in the confines of a
prison.
| am aware that I am touching a
point IN his history, the mention of
which ne has never encouraged. l trust
that be and his family will pardon my
reference to his prison life-a reference
which possibly, within the bounds of
strict propriety, l ought not to indulge.
But since beginning this article my en-
thusiasm, caught from the annals of his
history, has brought me to the painful
scene when peace had been declared,
when the living soldiers had returned to
their homes, but when he, in
the night time, alone with his
family in the town of Statesville, was
appllsed that his residence was
environed by troop of horsemen, and
when he, the next morning, was started
on journey to the prison in Washing
ton City. Jefferson Davis, in a dungeon
in Fort Monroe, bore the consequences
of each of the Southern States. Zebu'o1
Vance stopped low, and lifted from ''the
old man in chains" the glory and honor
of North Carolina, which by the alien
had been wrought into burden of re-
| proach. Transferring the burden to his
own shoulders as father clinglng to
daughter reproached by the stranger,
but whose stainlessness he ever believes,
he walked into the gloom of a prison, at
testing in the REIMBURSEMENT of his lib
erty, an imperishabie faith in the integ
rity of North Carolina.
| North Carolina, has he ever been un-
true to you2 Let him who holds the re-
cord of his unfaithfulness arise and
speak.
The graves of our soldier-dead are
settling to the common level of the soil.
The fields whereon were wrought the
miracles of blood no longer billowing
with the smoke of battle, now b5neath
harvest moons, in undulations Of rest
lessness for the reaper's garnering G
scythe, are atte3ting the triumphs of
toll and symbolizing the perfections of
peace | know that nature and hus
bandry il thus hiding the havoc of war
would teach me the philosophy Of seren-
ity--a philosophy abjlri15 all bitterness,
bldiing me to turn from the contempla
ton of turbulent past TO a speechless
communion with the God Of Pt9c,. But
sacrifice uuself,h and uncomplaining,
for my father, my mother, my sister, my
brother and myself Is memory
that God would MT and the rule of gov
einment shall not cause TO perish from
, my heart And, few weeks ago, while
sitting in the gallery OF the Senate ant
witnessing aud hearing Vance's efforts
, for the poor of whom there are SO many
, in North Carolina, thought Of the time
when he loved the Union and desired ne
+ war, but how, when it came, he wrough
: for the poor women and children at hom'
' and sought to keep nakedness and star
r vation from the soldiers in. the field
and how to this end, he bough
ships which he sent on perllOu
VOYAGES, from our blockaded port
: to distant lands to return laden wit
d the necessaries of life for the poor a
s home and the distressed soldiers in Vii
O ginia, and, how, at that very moment, b
= stood, and, from his desk in the Senate
e appealed to the heartless protectlonist
,e of the North not to raise, by an unJus
tariff, the price of seeks, woollens al
10 flannels beyond the ability of the poo
II man in North Carolina TO furnish h
o wife and child against the winters COLI
r. I thought that if there was white ma
al in North Carolina who did not 10y
of Vance and would not vote for legisl
OF tor to return him to the Senate, perhal
"a that man did not love his wife and Chi
he as God intended that we should love tt
n. wives of our bosoms and the children
of our loins.
Ie- Now, before entering into the histo
all of an economic question, trust tn
,s- the reader has been able to perceive ht
en- may unselfshly send to the people tt
lls tribute to him who served them SO fait
III fully when his head was dark, and al
are serves them so faithfully since its ha
zoe have eumeshed the white drift of
of years.
at possibly have failed to preserve
erv literary balances and measurements
Id this paper, but Senator Vance was
to thoroughly identified by his opposit
to the shameful but signal triumph
on the wealthy iron masters over every n
nm who lives under a timed roof nou
EN- whose family uses single package
sti- canned goods, or has an article
by tinware in domestic service, t
ers: to consider the tariff with
was considering what manner of q
ibly rose so Indignantly and sought so
hat hemently to drive the vandals II
D in the halls of legislation would be as
xact attempt to write the history OF the 4
,nIv olutionary war without recognizing {
rder Washington
With propose to, show that the tin indu;
c;es of tho world when history first da
on delivers ff~ mines and trafficl
,hi,e in merchandise was confined to Wa
Ioor. and that all ancient nations repal
,bby thither for their tin; that the tipdln
c !, h,,C n