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forcing Winchester at Miami. He

severely criticized his management OF
the Thames.
The best part Of Caldwell's speech
was his description of Harrison's first
Cabinet meeting, if he should happen
to be elected. He invoked the higher
powers to save the country from such
a calamity. 1t is near fifty.two years
since that speech was made and your
readers will pardon me for not being
able to follow trained lawyer in this
description Of Harrison's first Cabinet
meeting. He supposed that Harrison
would have to he like man made Of
wax. Clay with bis high tariff the
ory and Colone! Preston the best null
fication orator at that time, stumping
North Carolina for Harrison. Harri-
son would have to submit to a twist
each way to please Clay and Preston.
Seward and Stevens, of Georgia, would
have to take him through the same
process. Caldwell showed that Harrison
would have innumerable such cases as
Clay's and Preston's to conciliate and
before they all got done twisting him,
he would be out of shape or something
to that effect. Caldwell mentioned all
the good and strong parts of General
Jackson's character and wound up by
giving a laundering stamp on the
floor and saying at the same time that
Harrison would not make such man
as Jackson if he was to live tLou-
sand years. The audience vociferously
cheered him. VIM. Walker called for
DR.. Winsmith. Elisha Poole seconded
the call of Walker. Messrs. Poole and
Walker got their friend in trouble.
DR.. Winsmith had a stumpy road to
travel and as matter of course made
the poorest effort of his life. Hun
dreds of people, then in the house re-
membered his speeches in favor of nulli-
ication, urging the people to nullify
the very acts that Harrison, as a
member Of the United States Senate,
had voted for. He made SO poor de-
fence Of Harrison that his remarks
were almost incoherent and it became
evident that he was speaking against
time. Night came on and the court
house had to be lighted. Calls were made
from every part of the house for vote
on the resolutions, which eventually
drowned the doctor out and brought
his prolix remarks to- close. The
vote was taken and the resolutions
passed almost unanimously. Some
person made call for the sentiments
of the candidates, allowing two min
utes for each one to define his position.
Capt. Ralph Smith and Mr.. Moses
Wilkins declared for Harrison and
were greeted with a hundred shouts
that they would never see Columbia
only at their own expense. Dr., Biv-
ings and his Lieutenants were not sat-
isfed with the results of the day and ap-
pointed another day for big Harrison
demonstration and it was heralded
in advance that Col. Preston was to be
the big gun of the day. The meeting
took place, think, in September. 1
don't recollect the day of the month.
Col. Preston was On hand but his
powerful eloquence, which it was
claimed in notification times, had
swayed solid masses of men and electri-
fed senates, had lost its charm, from
what cause I don't know. Perhaps it
was bad health, age and other causes.
They took him in to North Carolina
to make Wing speeches but the DEM
ocrats called up his notification
speeches in South Carolina and the
Wing majority was greatly reduced in
North Carolina by the reproduction
of those speeches. In one of these
speeches be had called North Carolina
the Rip Van Winkle of the South.
Your readers will please excuse me for
not inserting in the proper place the
names of all the candidates for the
legislature in 1910. When Messrs.
Smith and Wilkins declared for Har-
rison, Major Henry, John Hunt, VIM.
Poole, H. H. Thomson, DR.. Littlejohn,
James Cooper, and Robert Alexander
all declared themselves for Van Buren,
The first five were elected. Smith and
Wilkins received about six hundred
votes each.