The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-23
FROM WASHINGTON
A Tribute to Mr.. Vance's
Memory.
APPOINTMENT OF JARVIS
The Western Part of the State Should
lave Had Ii.

But Jarvis Will Make Fine Senator
Mrs. Jarvis COnversed with Dom Pedro
in Latin-Taylor's Nomination Rejected
Now That the New Rules Are Adopte d
the Wheels of Business Move Easily.
Especial Correspondence of The GLOBEl
WASHINGTON, D c., April %, 1894 -
The irreparabie loss of Senator Vance to
the state is still the talk here. Last week
l could not write of him. I cannot 90 so
yet. A film of tears fills my eyes when
ever try to chronicle what friends and
his late foes say of him here. Bat on the
day of his burial in his native soil, heard
deliver a eulogy which for brevity, truth
fulness, sincerity, and elegance excels
anything Of the kind have read or heard
on the subject Weighed down with re
gret at Vance's death, | followed his fun
eral cortege to North Carolina, to witness
a ceremony ushered in by wedding
chimes, not funeral bells. 1t was q duty
| owed to one of North Carolina's fair
est, brightest and most royalty endowed
daughters. This occasion enabled me to
hear the memorial services at Winston
Salem. Orator, judge and lawyer had
spoken. Vance's own regimental band
the Twenty sixth North Carolina, had
played requiem and hymn, when young
man, born like Vance under the shadows
Of the mighty Blue Ridge, unknown to
me until then, unheard of by me, arose
, and said; in a firm, musical, trained voice,
we'll modulated and full of expression,
: accentuated by graceful gestures and a
sta. wart manly bearing: "Speech is the
expression of thought, sorrow has other
tongues Let him whose words well not
from the heart, be silent to-day Since
the found Of our state, this is the first
hour that the dirge eyer touched to ten.
derness and to tears the hearts of every
one from the mountains to the sea. To
t the last, be kept the whiteness of his
soul, and so men mourn for him. He
fused in his hero heart, the tenderest anC
the sternest, the lightest and the gravest
the lowliest and the loftiest, all that enc.
mics fear, all that friends revere. The
p great Ila!ian poet, in speaking of 6
mighty presence that he met in the mys.
tic realm Of departed spirits uttered the
finest tribute that genius ever paid to
kindred nature when he said, "His was
life so full and round that when be rolled
ont of tine into eternity, the world knew
; not what void was left until genera
tions had passed away" These are no
: the last sad rites that we shall pay to hi
r memory He will be remembered by
/ thousand recurring needs that miss tht
touch Of the vanished hand, and the
sound of the voice that is still "He was
y he is, the best loved, the best rcmem
I bered man that ever went to sleep il
Carolina's soil The accumulated glorie:
of the past constitute the moral force O.
a state. In lieu of his great life, the fOnC
and tender memories of his gloriou
r name have filled the whole land as wit
It plenty. Let US thank God that he ha
:, lived in this sordid age, where the purpl
- Of royalty has bowed to the yellow cres
of mammon, where the measure of meri
is the measure of the purse, that one nal
untitled and free, poor in purse but ricl
y in human sympathies, has locked arm
with the lordiliest, stood breast to breas
a with the mightiest and amid figures grow
). colossal with wealth and fullness, tOuche
[. the shoulder of endeavor with the acco
lade of honor; lived the purest and die
y the best beloved of them ALL
!. LET him sleep, Let him sleep in tn
bosom of those mountains he loved, il
e that glorious land of peak and vale
= where first he saw the light Wher
,r the hear of nature beats strong amid he
hills His life iliumined them like tn
sun in his coming; his going down ha
y kindled upon every peak, a blaze O
glory that fingers in reflection on th
world"
>; Every sentence of the above deserve