The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-05-17
OUR FAVORITE SON.
SENATOR ZEBULON B. VANCE
Press Comments on the Death of
the Great Carolinian---His Life
and Labors Should be Held up
to Coming Generations---Let Us
Erect Fitting Memorial to His
Memory.
HE WILL BE MISSED.

HE WILL BE MISSED.
The death of Zebulon B. Vance,
will touch sympathetic chord in the
heart of every North Carolinian.
Beyond all question, he was one of the
most remarkable men this country has
produced and his name and fame
will live forever in the memory of the
people he loved and served SO we'll.
In peace and in war he has always
been the same brave, conscientious
and devoted patriot. He loved his
whole country, but be loved North
Carolina best of all, and in every city,
town and hamlet of the State the in
telligenCe of his death will be received
with a sorrow born of sincere affection.
Now that he is gone he may be spoken
of without suspicion of f1attery by those
who admired him, and even they who
in latter years criticised some of his
uttcrances and actions on political
questions may now do him justice.
In some respects we do not think
that the character or ability of this
distinguished son of North Carolina
were fully understood because the
| humor in the man overshadowed other
traits Tor which he did not get full
credit. But with all his huror, fund
of anecdote and wit which never
| forsook him, there was a depth and a
breadth of intellectual resource that
not many men of his day possessed.
| AS Governor of North Carolina during
| the troublous times OF war he showed
an executive ability of an extraordinary
| character, which looked not only after
home affairs but to the welfare of our
soldiers in the field who were clothed
and otherwise provided for by the
| blOCkaders in the service of the State,
and wheh It came to maintaining
State sovereignty against the assumed
power of the Government at Rich
mond, he showed that he had the
nerve TO do that. As United States
Senator he took his place among the
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credit to himself and to his State. In
the numerous addresses he delivered
he showed a versatility of thought that
gave him rank not only among the
most eloquent, but the most thoughtful
of speakers and writers. He was a
nany-sjded and many gifted man,
wondrously and happily endowed,
with a rare blending of talents not
often found in one person.
There certainly has lived in our day
or generation no man who more fully
commanded the confidence of the
people, who more fully deserved that
confidence or more zealously and faith
fully stood by his people and under all
circumstances and at all times more
uncompromisingly and fearlessly es-
poused their cause as he saw it and
understood it. 1t was this very zeal
and devotion that subjected him to
much of the critic ism that he has been
subjected to in late years. There
were those who could not peer into
the future as he, could not comprehend
the complications that presented them
selves as he did, and therefore they
could not understand the motives thai
sometimes inspired his uttsrances, bu
now that he is gone and we shall have
his counsels no more, they may dis
cover how much we Will miss this cool
headed, thoughtful, wise leader, who
could bring the jarring factions to
gether and out of chaos bring har
mOny.
There is no man within the border:
of North Carolina to-day that coule
not be better spared than the great
magnetic and trusted leader who ha
been called from us, whose counsel
when followed, always proved to b
the counsels of wisdom, and who's
banner always led to victory. Livin!
he loved North Carolina, dead, Mort
Carolina should love and cherish hi
Wilmington Sta,.
THE FAVORED AND FAVORIrE SON O
NORTH CAROLINA.
All North Carolina and the Sout
mourn the loss of Senator Zebulon I
Vance. For quarter OF Centu1
he has been the central figure in Mort
Carolina politics and no more nobl
career in unselfish service to his Stat
has been recorded of any many sine
the Old North State has had name
Not only was Senator Vance III
favored and favorlte son of his natlv
State, but he was 4 favorlte with til
people of the entire South as we'll an
in many respects his was a nation;
fame, and the sad announcement {
his death carried sorrow to his frienC
in every State in the Union.
Senator NanCe's name is enrolle
high on the tablet that bears the name
of honored sons of the South. A goo
citizen, true and unswerving from h
earliest manhood brave and gallal
: soldier in the 5oisterous days of wal
an eloquent statesman, standing L
and pleading for the rights of his pei
pie against any and al adds; stude'
of history and passing events, with il
tellectual attainments in which h
peers were few noble leader in wa
and a safe counselor in time Of peace
profound statesman Of the tvuest an
. the purest type, he has left a mob
! record and his name will ever live
the memory of his people.
! That towering form will no more
! conspicuous in the Nations gre
! council the eloquent tongue that hi
! SO often thrilled the thousands
breathless listeners around the hustin