The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-31

charge of these he put men Of expert
ence and daring courage, who. like
himself, were ready TO risk and dare all
to serve his State and people
Upon these ships he sent To Bermuda
and other places cotton and other
Southern products which brought high
prices in Europe. and exchanged them
for Just the very articles that the sof-
dlers needed in the field and the peo-
ple in their homes. To cooperate
with these blockade runners, he sent
abroad agents in England and France
As purchasing agents for the State. ana
BY these wise arrangements he wa9 en-
abled to feed and clOthe and equip the
| North Carolina soldiers better than the
troops from any other State In the
Confederate service While he was
providing for the soldiers, he did not
neglect their families, and other needy
people at home, but provided for them
those things which were necessary to
enable them to supply their families
with the necessities, ifnot the comforts
| al to
coast of North Carolina salt works
where salt was made for the people,
and through his agents sent it into the
| interior and distributed it among the
people. It may seem in this city, amid
its spendor add its wealth, like almost
trifing with the occasion to speak OF
this great man as sending cards to the
poor women with which to card and
prepare the cotton and wool for gar
ments, and salt to poor people trough
out North Carolina. But those who
lived in those days will remember that
it meant food and raiment for suffering
women and children, and there is many
a woman in North Carolina even tC
this dav ready to rise up and call hin
blessed for the care and thought ano
devotion he exhibited toward then
when their husbands, fathers ant
brothers we're away from them II
the army, fighting the battle OF thel
country.
Another thing / desire to emphasize
was his devotion to the great prince
ples of human liberty. II is wei
known that North and South as a ge,:
eral thing men we're arrested and i'm
prisoned without due process OF law
and on account of the great struggle L
which the two sections Of the cOuntr
we're engaged, men laid in prise
. weeks, months and years, appealing j
vain to the civil law which was powe
less to relieve them, because the gre;
writ OF the peoples rights, the writ
haGeas corpus, was suspended ana S
lent. But there was one State Whel
that great writ could 90 and always |
obeved. There was one Governor WI
held human freedom in such high r
gard that he was ever ready to sustal
the courts in their efforts to lnqul
into the ]awfulness of the arrest Of Il
hu1nblcst human beings. In Mort
=, Carolina this great writ WAS never 81
peudcd. because uCbulOn i. Vance d
cIared that neither the existence
war nor the armies of the COnfedera
" should trample that sacred writ und
= foot. 1t was he who sustained it a,
upheld it.
Another characteristic OF this gre
man was that he lived all the :;!;te
the sunshine of life No one eve, :;
him sitting down smld the a,ic- of :
dead past lamenting over what W'1
what might have been no one e
saw him standing III deep .'oli;''"r Y :
his face toward the setting sun bit
was alwars seen with bis hrigi.- q
honef,l! conntenHrce facing lie r'S'
, s.,n. F,,!l q hn'aor and se'od "i!l
, ward men. he was cTe' bright =
;, cheerful. even in the most trying {
cum.,ances. and when c,l!er, we're
pininin- and con- ap:@.ning win fate.
would break tie Gloom with so
striking anecdote. A notable instas
Of this kind occurred when he was
prison in this city in the old capitol
the spring of 1860. There was.