The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-01

Thos. II. Benton and Weldon y. Ed
wards. together with Macon's speech ON
the Missouri compromise: ARCHIBALD
MURPHY. by William A. Graham, with
Murphy's Historical address at the Uni
versity; William CASTOR, by w. ii. Bat
tie, with Gaston's university address;
GEORGE Il. BADGER, by William A.
Graham, with Badgers speech on slavery
and the onion; DAVID t. SWAIN, by
Zebulon Il. Vance. with SWANS address
EARLY Times in Raleigh" THOMAS
RUFFIN. by William \. Graham, with
an opinion of Ruffins: THOMAS
BRAGG, by Pulaski Cowper, with one
of Bragg's political discussions: VIII.
LIAM a. GRAHAM by Montford Nc
Gehee; BARTHOLOMEW Il. MOORE.
by Ed Granam Haywood, with one of
Moore's legal arguments: J. JOHNSTON
PETvTIGREW, by Mrs c. z. Spencer,
with Pettigrew's THE Character of the
British and AN Evening ut Seville
WILLIAM ID. PENDER, by w. A.,
Montgomery; STEPHEN ID. RAM
SEI1R, by W. II. Cox; BRYAN
CRIMES, by III. A. London. with
Grimes surrender at Appomattox; DAN
TEL ii. HILL. by A. c. Avery with
Hills ADDRESS, THE Old South.
From survey of this table Of CON
tents it wlIl be noted that the method
has been followed of presenting a charac-
ter sketch of the individual together with
some literary remain where any such
was extant or obtainable. The diff
Guilty of securing some production that
would competently body forth the worth
and measure of some of the subjects is
sufficiently obvious. They lived in Il
time when mems utterances were less
commonly recorded than in these latter
days and were withal. men great the
rather in their habit as they lived than
in literature. With some of the sub
iects accordingly, only the sketch is
given.
As the editor sets forth in the preface
of the volume. no attempt is made 70
give sketches of all the distinguished
men North Carolina has produced, but
merely of Il few that are typical. Doubt
less speaking for the society the editor
says that SHOULD the book be approved
and sufficiently sustained by reading
people, another volume may be added ut
some future time"
The purpose of the volume, as stated,
is to create a deeper interest i'll the
history of the State by bringing its incl
dents and the men who have helped To
make it within reach of the general
public and also TO preserve the mate
rails of history against. the day when
some history OF North Carolina worthy
the name shall be written. There is the
additional purpose to counteract the
often false and sometimes vicious teach
ings and tendencies of Northern histories.
or this phase the editor says in the i'm
Productions: 1.-THE incubation of New
England's semi-foreign views goes on
apace. With conceit, born of provincial
ism, these people have magnified their
Mayfower scrap of local history into
national Importance: they have dinned 1t
with such Codrus-like persistency into
our ears that the average North Caro-
lnian knows their story better than he
does that of the settlement of Roanoke
Island" A statement in which the dis
corning reader will note at once an ac-
curate estimate of the Importance of the
Mayfiower episode and of the knowledge
the average North Carolinian" has of
the history of his own State Certainly
the history of the State has been neg
lected hitherto to an extent that is
shameful and this patriotic and worthy
attempt to create new historical inter
est is worthy of cordial support.
The book is the handsomest volume
dea.,ng with North Carolina history that
has yet been gotten out and is suitable
alike for reading in the homes of orr
people and as collateral reading in the
history classes of high schools and col
leges. The sketches are written, as the
introduction states, and as glance at
the names of the writer's will show, by
men mo less distinguished than their
subjects"
The editing OF the volume. involving
as it did Il great deal of labor, patience
and critical judgment, has been, in the
main, well done The editor has said
only so much as is necessary by way
of explanation and illumination and that
is we'll and clearly said From the views
expressed in the introduction some will.
of course, dissent. but the writer has
succeeded admirably in presenting Il
bird s-eye view of the field in which
were east the lives and labors of the
subjects of this work.
There are embodied in the volume some
speeches and addresses that should be
read by every Moth Carolinian. Some
were delivered by our broadest men at
the sharpest crises in our history and Will
do more than anything beside to set the
crises in Il clear light. while others are
replete with the cal,ner philosophy that
comes when time has softened difference
The speech of Nathaniel Macon on the
Missouri Compromise Macon whom lei
ferson styled the ''lasr of the Romans
and whom many have .raarded as tdr|
..noblest Roman of them .lll-should bel
in every library as should also Castor
University address and badgers mag
nificent speech in The Senate on la{ery
ard the Union.
Lives of Distinguished North Caro-
linians" is filled with our best public
traditions. with the inspiration of the
example and precept of our greatest
public men. 1t should, and doubteless
will. meet with a cordial reception at the
hands of the public. 1t is bound in four
styles, ranging in price from 81 to So
and is scld by agents and by the society
directly.
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