The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-14

preserving it, There is, alas. too much
of truth in the assertion. And 50 it
Is gratifying to note the work upon
which the above named society. com
posed as it is of some of the best known
and most successful business men of Raj
cigh. have embarked. The object of the
society is to perpetuate the lives If dis
tniguished citizens of the State in 4 per-
manent form. Its effort is purely his
torical and educational.-T Hendcr-
son Gold Leaf.
The above is the title of handsome
volume recently issued by the North
Carolina Publication Society. W. j.
Peele, ESQ, of the Raleigh bar, is the
author. or rather the compiler. If the
book. The book is made up of sketches
and addresses on the lives Of some Of
the foremost men of the State such
men as Macon. Swain, Graham, Petit
grew and others.
We can hope for new aad Q really
fair history of our State, its men and
achievements only as we gather together
the lives of its great mon and Sne their
power as men transmitted into the lives
of the people. History is to i great ev.
our biography we know what WE have
done for ourselves and for the nation.
From this point of view then, the vol
ume before us is of the greatest value
as substantial contribution to our State
history; our representative men. our
history as it really is, shall be known
Another value. aside from the histori
cal and the biographical, is the intrinsic
nf nf
literature. The sketches are by great
men themselves writing of great men,
Each sketch is finished literary pro-
duct, and, as such, aside from any inter
est its subject matter may have. is
entitled TO high place in any estimate
of the literary productions of the State
The University Record.
Failure in some writers to give the
sources of information and of ideas.
and to give credit or quote where these
are already well expressed. has caused
much confusion in The historical data
Of this State. This practice is fatal to
any considerable. literary reputation. aud
an unwilling confession OF incapaci;e.
The educational value of these sketches
and speeches. and of such as may De
published at later period. is probably
what will chiefly recommend this under
taking to the consideration of the pub
lie. \ good course of home reading
about worthy men close enough to the
reader to stimulate his interest eau
hardly be overvalued. and it is the best
substitute for the training of the schools
as well as a powerful assistant in such
training the Preface.
y co-partnership was perfected be-
tween the General Government and tn.
protected States by the tariff of 1916.
and the mutual considerations passed
were first named Incidental benefit"
for one party to the contract and lib
eral construction of implied powers for
the other. Angry protests and sectional
determinations and determinations fol
lowed. and awakened Jefferson, like IAN
alarm bell at night out of the sleep Of
old age. The peculiar Institution of
one section gave the other Il terrible ad-
vantage, which it was quick to see and
TO seize; and it was used remorselessly.
Greed, suddenly joining philanthropy.
religion and fanaticism, organized and
led a crusade, against African slavery.
The agitation about the negro, as u
counter-irritant to distract attention
from the injustice of Federal revenue
laws, was more than success: for the
shallow politicians of botn sections for
got the real issue. but the beneticiaries
never lost sight of it. | will use a home
ness on opposite sides of the street.
ly illustrations: a and b are doing bust
begins to undersel A; A becomes angry,
but cannot afford to tell his customers
the cause he hears that + once cheated
Il negro out of a mule: he makes that
charge: they fight; the court record of
the trial shows that the fight was about
the negro and the mule, but there is not
Il business man on the street who does
not know that the record speaks Il lie
From the Introduction.
have pleasure in recalling the recol-
ltctions of this wise, just and good man.
and in writing them down, not without
profit | hope. to rising generations, and
at least as extending the knowledge Of
the kind of men to whom we are indebt
ed for our independence and for the
form of government which they estab-
lished for us. Mr.. Macon was the real
Cincinnatus of America, the pride and
ornament of my native State. my heredi-
tary friend through four generations,
my mentor in the first seven years of
my senatorial, and the last seven of his
senatorial life; and a feeling of graft
tude and flial affection mingles itself
with this discharge of historical duty to
his memory-Benton on Macon.
| take a great deal of interest in your
portraits of the eminent men of North
Carolina, who have now passed away
from the theatre of action 1t was my
happiness to be acquainted with those
of whom you speak as being known to
yourself, and | feel the business of the
, eulogies you have bestowed upon them
/ never heard Mr.. Davie nor Mr.. Moore
at the bar, but the impression they both
made upon me in private circles was
extremely favorable, and | think you
have given to the character of each its
true coloring-John Marshall TO Muir
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