The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-05-15

than Frank
And now .let us tell of brilliant
lawyers experience. We know per
sonally Southern lawyer who has
risen to the front rank among North
ern lawyers. He resides III large
city, has a continental reputation, has
worked like a galley slave for more
than two decades, and is successful in
havinga large practice and reputation.
What does he say? He says if he
could go back to 1865, he would re-
main in his native State, and if he
made less money and less reputation,
he would enjoy the associations he
loved best, and enjoy life more than
has fallen to his lot. He years ag,
when this writer was offered place on
a Northern magazine with a residence
in London or Paris, and another place
on one of the most influential papers
in New York City, secured for us by
DR.. Deems, actually influenced us to
remain in North Carolina. We sim
cerely rejoice that we have done so,
and thank God that We have spent our
years in the State of our nativity
among a people whom We know, and
whose characters command our conf
dence and admiration.> We believe in
our soul that in all the world there are
no better specimens of manhood than
in North Carolina The basic princi-
Piles of North Carolinians of the better
classes are granite and will compare
with the best in any land.
II NJ Tpl.,,e
Washington Duke had made their
millions in New York or Chicago, in
stead of in the village of Durham,
(now grown into fourishing town of
eight thousand) it would have been
said-'.Behold, what gong from home
has done" If Justice Clark or Moore
of the Supreme Court, had gone to
Boston or New York or San Francis
CO, and had risen to the place of the
highest judicatory the cry might have
been heard-"It seems somehow nee
essary for man to leave home, iu or
der to become the highest of which he
is capable" If Senator Vance had in
early life "gone West" and been Gov
ernor three times, and had entered the
Federal House by the time he was
twenty-five, and then been in the Sen
ate for several terms and been known
as an able, we'll furnished, ready, brave
hearted man, it would have been said
-"See what Vance has done by going
from home"
The lesson we would draw is that in
North Carolina men are constantly
making successes and that there is al
ways room at the top. Mr. Badger
lived all his life in North Carolina.
He never practiced in the Supreme
Court of the United States until he
was some fifty years of age and never
made political speech until he was
forty six. He was our greatest law
yer. Mr.. Webster read his written
opinion before the Supreme Court
rather than make an argument of his
own. In half dozen years or so after
entering political life he was the ac-
knowledged leader of the Wing party
in the Senate. Upon his retirement
because the Democrats had voted him
out, Democratic Senate passed res
olution regretting that the country
was to lose his distinguished services.
All this was done by remaining at
home. There is always room at the
top.
Now in the decline of life-not far
from our sixty-second year-with the
sun westering and the shadows length
ening, we urge upon our gifted and
aspiring youth to stand bravely by
North Carolina