The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-06-12

was charged with infantiCide, he Sc
cured the warmest congratulations OF
the Raleigh Bar and Of His Honor the
presiding Judge, and the virtual &C
quittal of the woman, she being i'm
prisoned for only one year in the pen
iteEtiary. His cross examination OF
the medical expert for the State was
pronounced by the leaders Of that Bar
to be one Of The finest they had ever
heard. While it IS true that Mr..
Henry has ALWAYS been a dlligent and
earnest student of the Law, he has not
confined himself exclusively to the
same. but has addressed himself to the
study of general literature and has SO
familiarized himself with the standard
works, both ancient and modern, that
he has been pronounced one of the
best read men Of his age in the State,
and is recognized by all who know
him as a fine beIes kthes scholar.
For the last two years Mr.. Henry
has been engaged at times in writing
a work on Criminal Law and Proceed
ure, of which he has about six hundred
pages completed, The plan of his
proposed Book on Criminal Law we
are told has been submitted to and
highly endorsed by some of the most
prominent lawyers in the country.
Mr.. Henry has been justly regarded
as speaker of exceptional gifts. In
1888 he was invited to deliver the ad-
dress before the Jefferson Literary So
ciety, of the Davis Military Institute,
at La Grange, and DR.. B. f. Dixon,
writing to the NezOs anu Obse1Ve,,
about it, said: "In my judgment the
address of Mr.. Henry was one Of the
very best to which | have ever lis
tened" And many others who heard
Mr.. Henry on this occasion also de-
dlared it was the finest address that
had ever been delivered at that splen
did school. His eulogiums upon the
Confederate dead and his appeal for
Justice in behalf of the wounded and
INDECENT Veterans of the Lost Cause
by the erection of a Soldiers Home
for their support and comfort in their
declining years, and his splendid trib-
ute to the noble women Of the South, as
reported in the papers at the time, was
one of the finest things we have read.
In the politica, campaigns during
the last ten years, Mr.. Henry has been
quick to respond to any call of duty,
| and has labored arduously for the
Democratic party. In the Bennett
campaign of 1882, he canvassed part
Of Wake and Johnston counties, and
50 good an impression did he make
and such confidence inspire that Hon.
Octavius Coke, the Chairman of the
| Democratic Executive Committee, sent
Mr.. Henry to fill one of Judge Ben
nett's appointments in Johnston coun,
ty, and to meet and discuss the issues
OF the day with the Republican "war
horse" Col Oliver H. Dockery.
In the last campaign Mr.. Henry
canvassed large part of the First Dis
trict, and was greeted at all his ap-
pointments by large and enthusiastic
crowds. The papers spoke in the high,
est possible terms of his power and clio
quence, and everywhere he made
friends and admirers and we have rea
son to believe Democratic voters also
We quote in this connection from {
report of his speech at Aulander, Ber
tie county, written by special CORE
spondent of the Ne5Vs amt Obse,0e1,
under date of October Fl, 1888:
at has been a day of triumph il
Capua. We have always been Dem
Ocrat from birth, from principle and from
reason, but we We're never prOuder of it
| and would never have felt more like
TOOL had our opinions been different, thar
when Mr.. Henry closed his powerful
speech OF two hours, replete with stern
sober facts clothed in beautiful language
We have never heard the Republican
party handled in a fairer or rOugher way
or the cause OF Democracy more ably o
justly praised. We have never seen
speaker command and hold such rapt at
tentiOn. Old men, who as they walked
tottered beneath the weight of thei
years, stood erect for two hours unmOv
ing but deeply moved, drinking in hi
words.
During the same campaign by spe
cial invitation of the Cleveland ant
Fowle Club of Greenyille, Mr.. Herr
addressed the citszens of Pitt county
when an immense crowd, estimated a
not less than for thousand, heard him
He also spoke by invitation at Wash
ington, n. c., and other points, ant
our recollection is that the papers c
those places spoke in the most eulgo
CYSTIC terms of his speeches as bein;
sound and logical, and of great powe
and eloquence.
Mr.. Henry has always been a tru
friend to the cause of agriculture. H
recognizes in the farmer the mansta
OF the country and sees in his prospect
ty the welfare of all. In 1883 he wrot
an extensive PolitiCo-Economic argu