The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-23

righteous in the world, should have his
face towards that star. And then,
again. those of us who knew how he
admired. how he loved the glorious rising
of the sun, dispelling darkness and
summoning men to work and to duty,
| like TO think of his brow as being light
ened, Illuminated by the first rays of the
orb of day as it rises IN majesty over
our eastern hills.
sent to us? In it, when the veil shall be
removed by Miss Espy Vance. grand
daughter of our statesman, we shall see,
as / think, Vance as he stood, erect,
gallant self-confident, but without undue
sef-assertion, the master of his subject
and his audience, addressing his peers in
the Senate of the United States, the
most august arena of earth.
AS we look at the statue we shall see
him as | knew him, the qualities of his
great mind, soul and heart in his beam
ing face and shining in every lineament
of his countenance. Let us analyZe those
qualities There is courage, moral and
physical, Unborn and augmented by three
score years of conflict with the hardships
and the battles of life; AKIN to courage,
her twin sister, Truth, will speak from
his lips, truth which his direct mind
sought as the needle the pole, and when
found it was ever part of his very life;
He valued it as priceless jewel, and
his honest heart impelled him to dis
play it to the world for its guidance and
improvement. He is speaking words OF
truth now. And honesty you will see,
development of truth, its expression
in the life of the man as he death with
his fellow-men, taking only what was
his and freely according to others what
was fairly theirs. And you can see
benignancy and charity beaming from
that face, tender kindness for his friends
and indulgence to the faults of his adj
versarieS. Il say not enemies, for few
could be enemies to one of so open ana
genial Il nature as his.) And there is
wit and humor-keen wit, twinkling from
his eye, and racy humOr bubbling from
his half-open lips. And behind them
friend can see the playful irony with
which he met the SOphistry of Il good
natured adversary, and the cutting sar-
casm for the malicious charge of one who
would traduce his people Here again
| is the pose and confident power of the
! orator, not the elocutiOnist merely, but
the orator whose words carry conviction
| to the prejudiced and confusion to the
prejudiced nearer And patriotism, too,
| the love of his fatherland needing not
words to give it expression, and graft
tude to his Creator for giving him so
| fair Il land, and il nature so richly en-
dowed for the enjoyment of its blessings.
And there you may see consciousness
of other gifts, to be used not so much
for his own glory as for the good of his
State and country. In word, we may
see in his manly form and expressive
face Il combination of those qualities,
| that virtue characterizing Il man such
as Mare Antony described Brutus to be,
1.-THE noblest Roman of them all" His
life was gentle, and the elements so
mixed in him that Nature might stand
up and say to all the world, This is a
man.
| Possibly. as ages roll by and dress and
customs change, Il critic, in view of
| Vance's eventful and successful life,
may say the sculptor ought to have put
| Il crown of laurels on his brow; but as
long as the friends who knew him, and
their traditions of him. shall live. the
hushy lock will seem the better crown
for his massive head. Thus he looked
as we loved him, as thus he looked as
we buried him beneath the soil of his
native county, amid the scenes from