The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-14
ORATOR HAYDN'S
ADDRESS.

Tue SpflguLlg charlotte ChT0Htcle,
made a most happy hit in his ora>
ton. He said:
At the very outset, you will permit
me, ladies and gentlemen, to take
you into my fullest confidence; not
me into your confdence-don't mis-
understand me in the very begin
ming, please-for 1t is far from my
intention to attempt to work the
''confdence game" here tonight.
The fact is. the impression is abroad,
but very unjustly, I dare say, that q
bunco steerer never stoops to work
an editor.
In protfering 70 take you into my
fullest con6dence-to be dead honest
with you-it is not so much as q
compliment to you, as it IS to give
myself the opportunity to put a so
per cent. excuse on my effort this
evening IN hopes thereby to bring it
up to about par, with "marked easy
and no demand"
When | accepted the honor of ad-
dressing the North Carolina Press
Association, on this occasion, had
not expected that "this occasion"
would be in the metropolis of Dur
ham (where the finest Carr works in
the world are, | may mention in
passing.) Indeed [ had anticipated
that the Association would meet way
off yonder, where it would perforce
flock considerably by itself; and in
that event, felt that it would not
be unbecoming in NE to talk to the
gang" just dry so.
Imagine my surprise, then, when
the executive committee announced
that the convention should be held
in Durham; not that | did not want
TO come to Durham, but that | did
not feel that / could acquit myself
with credit, or do credit to the editors
of North Carolins, in q set grafton.
You may be sure that | lack none of
the common stock of vanity inherent
in man, and cultivated in woman by
mans flattery.
When [ was fully aroused to the
fact that l had to appear before a
Durham audience, rest assured that
s0phmOric ambition tempted me.
There were moments when the
worthy desire to electrifY this audi .,
elce by my eloquence, almost crowd
ed ne into the vortex of fatal effort;
and | heartily congratulate you upon
my escape from myself in that hour
of temptation.
1t is true that in those moments
when [ was encouraged by the merit
orious desire to "take you by Storm"
foiled by my own incapacity, l long>
ed for that torrent of eloquenCe that
IS perpetually on tap in my brother
Deal, of the Wilkesboro Chronicle I;
and in the tRmulU of which I myself
barely escaped with sound bones,
last year, at Lenoir.
You will, | feel confident pardon
my envy in earnestly casting about
for topic to discuss before you, and
after it was found, for ideas upon it.
that | yearned for the splendid fl
nesse of that fipe Italian hand' that
so brilliantly and so sklllfully directs
the Raleigh News and Observer. Yet,
even then, [ was not totally lost in
envy, for | remember well that there
was an hour when l seriously con
templated initiating the broad chari.
ty and the generous good feeling that
permeates the columns ofthe Raleigh
Chronicle, when I had hoped to
spring subject on SO broad plat.
form as the "Thoso will" of INV
brother Daniels.
In soberer moments, | had dared
to think of climbing the constitution
al parapets Of the subtreasurv bill
aud surveying all the world at one
per cent. and free storage; and IN
that | was only deferred by The
| dread that | should encounter tha,
maker of constitutions my most
worthy brother Eldridge, who pre-
sides over The Durham Glohe, and
is high priest of the North C3rolins
Press Associations constitution
Had l, however, have followed tn.
worthy editor of the Durham Sun.
should have concluded these remark,
even before now. You have doubt,
less observed, though, from my ram
bling and desultorY remarks, tha
there are 20 Old Hurrygraphs il
mine.
At one time, | had almost con
cluded to write q state paper on tha
nehu1onS. and pert ,Os slar1erou