The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-10-05
Letter from Ringwood.
RINGWOOD, n. c., Sept. 3. 9

Letter from RingwOod.
RINGwooD, n. c., Sept. 3. '93.
1 have noticed with sorrow the death
of DR.. Edward Warren, Of Paris.
While professor in Baltimore | was his
pupil and know him to have been one
Of the ablest men North Carolina ever
produced, and in all the vicissitudes of
his most eventful life he never failed
to love and appre late his native State.
The following orders have been CO :
ferred on him in foreign lands: The
Redemption of the Holy Sepulchre Of
Jerusalem, that Of the White Cross Of
Italy, the Medal Of Victor Emanuel,
the Cross Of the Legion Of Honor Of
France, all on account Of professional
successes and work done in the cause
Of humanity. He also had the honorary
degree of S. M.-Master Of Surgery
from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Baltimore, and that of IL.
D. from the University Of North Ca
DINA, the latter being accompanied by
a letter from Hon. Kemp. p. Battle,
President Of the institution, as follows ::
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CARoLISA,O
CHAPEL HILL, \. c., June 20, 1854
DIR. EDWARD WARREN-BEY,
Su:-In recognition OF your distin-
guished ability and learning and services
to humanity, the Board OF Trustees and
the Faculty of the University Of North
Carolina have unanimously conferred on
you the honorary degree OF Doctor OF
Laws. They hope you will accept this
evidence of the regard Of the University
of your native State.
In accepting this degree, DR.. Warren
very beautifully said looming from
the University of my native State this
degree has proven the source of more
real qualification than all my foreign
honors combined. It has likewise
warmed up my bosom toward North
Carolina and inspired me with a
stronger desire and a firmer purpose to
prove myself worthy of Noteworthy to
be recognized as her son and to wear
her honors. l have always loved her,
but my affection is now intensified and
feel that there is not a rock upon her
rugged mountains nor a blade of grass
within her grand savannas nor ripple
upon hor majestic streams-not a foot
of her soil from Buncombe to the sea
without place in my heart, and wher-
ever my feet may wander or whatever
my fate may be, for her my every
thought shall be a prayer and my latest
breath blessing.
For freely my LIES blood bestowng
For her | would sever each vein
And die for the pleasure Of knowing
Nv anpuiSh had saved her main
DR.. Warren greatly desired some
years since to return to America and
end his days and be buried here. In a
letter the writer had the honor Of re-
ceiving from him written from Paris
few years since he said: 1.-The longer
| have resided abroad the more ex-
tremely American have [ become and
the greater has grown my love for my
native land. Other lands may possess
their treasures Of art, their marvels of
luxury, their triumphs of architecture,
and all that is calculated to captivate
the Imagination and to arouse the
senses, but America is the land pre-
eminently blessed by Heaven. Call me
an enthusiast if you will, but to me her
skies are the brightest, her mountains
the grandest, her rivers the broadcast,
her fields the greenest, her women the
loveliest, her men the noblest, her his
tory the proudest, and all that relates
to her the best of all besides. Else
where her sons may be content to lin
ger for a season, but to them she is the
only land in which they can ever real
ize the idea Of home or feel that they
are aught else than aliens and sojourn-
ers.''
A great intellectual North Carroll
MAN is dead. as / remember him, his
voice was deep, sonorous and peculiarly
sympathetic; his flow of spirits spon-
taneous and inexhaustible his wit was
as bright as blade of. Damascus and
as trenchant; his intellect equally log
lcal and rhetorical; and his bosom a
nursery in which all kindly sentiments
and generous impulses grew in richest
luXurlance. His book. "a Doctors
Experience i'll Three Continents,' re-
counts the history of career in which
the domination Of a strange but impe-
rious destiny manifests itself in the
transformation Of a country doctor
into professor, a surgeon-general and
a Chevalier Of the Legion of Honor
Of France, and the transformation of
the scene Of his labors from the swamps
of Carolina to the shores of the Chesa-
peake, to the borders of the Nile and
the quarters of the Seine. 1 could say
much more Of his wonderful career but
this has already been extended beyond
the limits of my original intention of
simply paying short tribute to one
who was my friend in ''the days that
are gone,'' and SO much love to re-
member. G.. E. NJ.