The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-21

among the most useful. Fortunately
| for him, and for the great State which
| he represented as its Chief Executive,
the great duties which devolyed upon
him found him at the very meridianfof
a splendid manhood. Born in the coun-
ty Of Buncombe, among the Businesses
| Of his native mountains. IL was the most
| natural thing in the world that in his
| Switzer home he should be taught by
| a devoted mother to low liberty from
| his very cradle. AS a lawyer, perhaps
| both Judge CASTOR and Judge Ruffin
were his superiors; as a United States
| Senator perhaps Judge Badger and
| William II. Haywood were equally as
| well IL not better furnished, simply as
| a governor, we greatly doubt whether
| he was superior to Ex-Governor Thos.
| E. Bragg; as In orator with ~eloQuence
| devine we doubt very much whether he
| could move men as did DR.. Francis L.
| Hawks or Henry Watkins Miller. But
| take him all in all, measured in all d.
| rections. head and heart. he was the
| best all-round representative of the
| genius, temper patriotism, and COM
mon sense that the State has ever
! produced. AS one who knew him and
| loved him. / beg to-day to lay this
| modest tribute on his grave, because /
| believe in my heart Of hearts that new
i CT III HELL ol tlC - AIS
! young life love gentle, beautiful. North
| Carolina maiden with o purer or
] more devoted than that which Gov.
| Vance bore for his native State. He
| has gone, and we ne'er shall see his
| like again, but we shall keep his men,
DRY green in North Carolina as long as
men loving liberty shall behold Mt.
Mitchell overlapping the peaks Of the
surrounding mountains which he loves
co pval1 T 1rouy larOo1v now from
Senator Vance's lecture entitled,
Last days Of the war in North Caro-
| lina," delivered in Baltimore Feb. 23d,
1895, before the Maryland line Of that
city. He says that by the general in
dustry and thrift Of our people, n by
the use Of a number Of blockade run
ming steamers carrying out cotton
and bringing in supplies from Europe.
the following stores had been collected
from abroad: large quantities of ma
chinery supplies, 5000 pairs Of hand
cars, 10000 grain scythes, 200 barrels of
blue stone for the wheat growers,
leather and shoes for $500 pairs, So
600 blankets, gray wool cloth for at
least 250, 900 suits Of uniforms, $4,000
overcoats ready-made, 1000 best En-
field rifles, with 100 rounds of Ixed am
munition for each rifle, 100000 pounds
of bacon, 500 sacks of coffee for hos
pital use, $780, 600 worth of medicines at
gold prices, large quantities of lubrica-
ting oil, and minor supplies Of various
kinds. In the winter succeeding the
battle of Chicamauga, I SEM to Gen.
Longstret's corps Ii, 900 suits Of cloth
ing complete. At the surrender of
Gen. Johnson at Greensboro, the State
had on hand ready-made and in cloth
80, 900 suits of uniform, with great
stores of blankets. leather, etc. I was
800 L.. 49, -o~o~1 u 1ohrCfno fhof
when his army was he
had on hand in the various depots OF
North Carolina supplies for $4,000 men
for five months, and that for many,
many months previous, Gen. Lees ar
my had been almost entirely fed from
North Carolina. In relation to the
number of troops furnished to the Con-
federate Government I have more than
once made the boast that North Caro-
lima furnished not relatively, but alb
solutely more troops than any other
State. This assertion has not yet been
denied to my knowledge" Thus we
see how this remarkable man planned
and cared for the following troops
which North Carolina sent to the field.
I gather this information from the Ad-
jutant Generals office, n to all North
Carolinians, indeed to every true
Southerner, it is a record Of which we
may all justly be proud:
AS volunteers at outset........ s4.ese
Recruited by volunteers from
tim to SSii,0os
Recruited by conscripts.......... 1855
Regular troops in the State
service ............. ............. 3,2O3
Militia on home 1852
Junior reserves, Confederate
service ............ .......... 4,217
Senior reserves, Confederate SER
vice .,........... ............ 1856
Troops from N. G. in regiments
in other States s,1os
Making in 124, 900
troops as North Cardinals part Of the
coo, 900 all told furnished by the Con-
federate States in this fearful Struggle.