The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-30
YATES AND

point of sending you some papers on the
above subject when THE GLOBE came to
hand and I saw that the doctor had been
so ably handled editorially that | decided
to refrain. Again, your able correspon-
dent IS" of Richmond, Va had so ex
actly expressed my thoughts, even to US
ing some of the very words to be found
in my MSS, that l concluded the battle
had been bravely fought and there was
nothing left for me to do. But Mr.. Yates
is out again and | feel that O is my Op-
portunity-that after all there is some
thing for me to say and | will proceed
Herewith. Mr.. Yates began his defence
of Colonel Harrell by declaring that he
knew nothing whatever about the subject
upon which he proposed to e~nlighten his
readers, which was a very good begin
ming, and he was wise to that
lLbpOItdut lat III lhC OuIoSI3 olIdoOSh i
would have become apparent to all con
cerned before the close of his communi
cations. He states that he does not know
Colonel Harrell and that he never went
on an excursion, that he could not be
hired to go upon one. If he had gone or
the colonies excursion he would have
known something of him by this time,
but Colonel Harrell would have had the
money. | am sure he would have taken
cago pale, sad, and with a tired, tired
feeling. After a fast of thirty six hours
continuance he would have been sorry to
realize that he knew the colonel. If he
had advanced funds to E. G Harrell to
"pay all necessary expenses" and carried
only eleven dollars with him, as the col
onel recommended the eXcursionists to
do, and then had to live upon that eleven
dollars "to and from" Chicago, paying
seventy-fve cents per meal, and then had
to pay 81 80 in part pay for board at
hotel, also fifty cents each for admission
tickets into the exposition grounds for
seven days and street car fare for same
length of time and buy his dinner on the
grounds every day, all out of that eleven
dollars, to say nothing Of an occasional
glass of Hygeia water or lemonade, which
at times seemed a necessity, whilst Col.
onel Harrell kept all his money except
lars towards his hotel board, where would
Mr.. Yates have been now? If, when he
called upon Colonel Harrell to comply
| with the terms of his contract and mete
to him simply justice only, the colonel
had pleasantly and carelessly, With a
wave Of his dainty hand, replied ooh,
lunch with your friends. Why, borrow
some money from our friends, you can
repay it in a few days when you get
home" (His own words) With the ex-
p~erience that the party had, would Mr..
Yates mantle of charity been so broad,
so protecting, so defensive, so admirable
a screen for the truculent colonel?
One of the strongest logical points of
MIR. Yates is the standing, position, repu.
tatiOn Of the colonel | want some
one to tell me by what means he ever
acquired all that. Was it by exercising
the principles, using the methods and
in his journey to Chicago? If he has
risen to his present eminence by such
means then voc is the day. Let North
Carolina blush and tremble. Let her
weep and rend her garments, for her
glory has departed from her, and bats
and owls and loathsome creatures are
nesting in the pinnacles of temples, and
the winds Of ruin and of desolation will
inevitably erewhile sing their dirges of
moaning and sorrow through the crew.
ces of her broken walls, over the fallen
columns of her banished greatness, and
around the brow of her bruised and
wounded honor will be bound the bandage
Of spoliation, in lieu of the laurel wreath,
the victors crown, or the sceptre Of
prominent statehood.
Very Respectfully,
Mrs. REBECCA BLEDsoE BUXTON.
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