The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-31
JARVIS ON VANCE.
A Life Which was an Inspiration.

At the Confederate Veterans Hall in
Washington, ID. c., on the night OF
18th. Senator Jarvis delivered an adj
dress on the late Senator Vance. his
matchless predecessor.
Senator Jarvis spoke as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW
COMRADES
When our ffrefathers were engaged
in the great work Of putting in a consti
tutional shape the system OF govern
ment under which We live, they I'm
Knowingly left open certain questions
out of which in after years grew /, CON
hict of ideas and interests, and which
after years of angry discussions. result
ed in war. Their wisdom, divinely ap
pointed as it seemed to be, their pa
triOtism, limltless as it was, could not
foresee that in less than 100 years their
descendants would settle these grave
questions bv the terrible arbitrament
of the sword Yet, impartial history
| must record the fact that two great ar
mics composed of men OF dauntless
courage and inspired by the highest
motives, and led by such men as Grant
and Lee, Jackson and Sherman, strug
gled with each other in deadly conflict
over the settlement of these questions
until exhaustion came to the one and
victory to the other.
The men who composed these armies
and their great leaders, and the men
who sustained them. are rapidly pass
ing away. Conspicuously among the
great men of those eventful years stood
ZehulOn Baird Vance, whom we have
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we meet tonight to commemorate.
On another occasion other persons
better qualified than !, will speak CT
him as the scholar, the orator, and the
great American statesman. 1t Is my
purpose this evening to speak OF our
departed cor1rade only as a Confeder-
ate.
And. ! Will first remark of him that
he Was a man of strong convictions ano
that he had. in an eminent degree, tho
courage Ct those convictions. He wa:
not, IN the beginning OF the great
, struggle to which l have Just alluded
in any sense of the word, a secessiOnlst
He believed that it was better for hl:
f co,,ntrymen to settle their difference
within the Union and under the pro
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ana 80 believing, he pleaded with th
reC3ic Of bis State. after the election
Of MIR. Lincoln to the presidency, to re
main in the Union and observe It's con
stitutiOn. But. when the President il
the spring Of '6l, called upon his Stat
for troops, and it became necessary 10
;, him in common with his fellOw-clt
zens. to do battle for his native land c
against it, he espcused the cause OF ri
sister States of the South and from tina
dav until the fiery banner went dow
. forever. and all hope of success ha
taken It's everlasting flight, he did a
that mortal man could do to e9tabis
,, the Confederacy.
h In the spring Of 1861 he became
IL soldier and a commander OF reg
e ment. but lie was not allowed t
d. the people of his State to remain Ion
$. in tie field. Called by their sutfraS'
J. to become the Governor and comman
n er-in-chief of the forces of North Car
ID lima. he assumed the duties OF that hlg
Office with an ardent purpose that a
As forwards won for him the title OF tt
ss "great war Governor of the south
or his conduct of that office. we lind hi
exhibiting certain characteristics tn
~ when rroDerv studied and understo'
ex,]ain in large degree, as | thin
y, tho secret of his great strength al
ID nonularitv with the people. ! shi
10 mention this evening two or three
*. these characteristics.
,e In the first place, he showed that /
n nrofo,,ndcst sympathies were with Il
wv soldiers IN the field, and the people
~ their homes. He did not, as he mig