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permits a resumption of operations on
both Sides The Americans are under
taking series Of aggressive move
ments against the insurgents, notably
upon the island Of Samaf, against Cen
eral Lukban, whose forces hold the
entire island with the exception of
three coast towns, each of which is
garrisoned by two companies of the
Twenty-ninth infantry and a platoon
OF artillery. The rebels are continual
ly shooting into the garrisoned towns,
and our forces have not been sufficient
to retaliate effectively. Commerce in
Samar has been at a standstill, and
most of the influential inhabitants
have departed.
Hare Is to Jump on Lukban.
General Hare has arrived there with
$50 men. He will bring eight COM
panies of the Second infantry from the
island Of Martinique, as they may be
needed, and will proceed energetical!y
to crush General Lukban. Meanwhile
United States gunboats will patrol the
coast to prevent the escape Of the in
surgent leader. Lukban still holds three
members of the Forty-third regiment
prisoners. THE Twenty-eighth Infantry
will reinforce the garrisons in the ISL
and of Mindanao, particularly at, Ka-
gayan. where an armed truce between
the rebels and the Americans has eX-
listed for months past.
Trouble in Northern Luzon.
General Wheaton, commanding IL
the department of northern Luzon, is
sending reinforcements to General
Youngss provinces, where the natives
under General Tinio and Aglipay (the
accommodated Filipino priest, are
showing signs Of restlessness, desert
ing the domiciles they have occupied
during the raing season, and joining
under compulsion of fear the insuf-
gents in the mountains. Notable among
tine weeks engagements was General
Grants advance with Maccabee and
American scouts upon a rebel strong
hold thirty-five miles north Of Manila,
which was defended by 200 insurgents
armed with rifles After skirmishing
and fighting for the greater part Of a
day and night the enemy was diSlOdSed
from the mountain fastneSs and i'm
mense quantities of rice and stores,
with ammunition. were destroyed. Fiji
ty Filipinos were killed and many 9th
ers wounded. The insurgents carried
off their dead. The American losses
were eleven privates and one officer
wounded. and one Maccabee killed.
Prisoner in Filipino Hands.
Lieutenant Frederick w. Alstaeter,
of the engineers who was captured by
the insurgents in Luzon last Septem-
ber has sent, with the permissions Of
his captors, letter to Manila asking
for food. money and clothing which
will be forwarded to him by native
runner. His health Is broken and his
release problematical.
Bolomen Attack Our Troops
Manila, Nov. 1.-TWO hundred. Bolo-
men with fifty rifles attacked Buga-
zon, Island of panay, Oct. 80. The
Americans lost three men killed-Lieu-
tenant H NJ Koontz, Sergeant Kitchen
and Corporal Burns. all of company f,
Forty-fourth infantry. The enemy
lost 100 killed. twenty-one wounded
and twenty prisoners.
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speaking of the Normal Schools for train.
ing OF teachers he said: "a school of
similar character should be established
for the education of colored teachers the
want of which is more deeply felt by the
black race even than the white
'In addition to the fact that it is our
plain duty to make no discrimination in
the matter Of public education, / cannot
too strongly urge upon you the impor
lance of the consideration that whatever
of education we may be able to give the
children of the State, should be impair
ted under our own auspices, and with a
thorough North Carolina spirit"
Were Vance living today, in my opin-
ion, he would be leader in the cause of
public education. During his life other
public questions were of such peculiar
nature and condition as to call for his
best service. Today the question of pub
lie education is the most important pub
lie concern before us as people.
The greatest good Vance rendered
North Carolina was the honest public life
he lived, and the faithful service he rem
dered his people in his public life He
never uttered more eloquent words than
when he said of himself: "These hands
are clean.'
G. H. MEBANE,
Superintendent Public Instruction.
Newton, N. c., Aug. 20.
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UPHELD RIGHL OF HABEAS
CORPUS.


Among our great men the one most
typical of North Carolina was Zebulon
b. Vance. The people loved him because
in him they saw themselves. He was
the concentrated essence of North Caro-
lima. Others of our great men, Iredell.
Hooper, Murphy, Haywood, CASTOR, Bad
ger, Graham, Ruffin Morehead, Manly
might have been produced elsewhere, bu5
Zeb Vance, like Nat Macon, was
through and through product
of North Carolina. Plain and
simple in tastes and habits, unpublished
and unveneered but sound and solid to
the core, self-respecting and respecting
others, modest and temperate in victory,
calm and brave in defeat and disaster,
resolute and determined, clear-minded
and keen-witted, he could stand before
kings immovable in council, or IN merry
sport swap jokes and jests with laughing
rustics.
Vance was great in many things and
small in none. His greatness was many
sided. It's sum total was larger than
that of other men who surpassed him
in single talents. Born and reared on
mountain farm with scant privileges of
education ard culture, he became schol-
ar, orator, lawyer, statesman, soldier and
man of business excelling in each and
ALL Had he devoted himself to single
line of work, his greatness would have
been transcendent.
Vances most effective, and therefore
most popular, talent was his wit and hui
NOR. 1t seemed to be inexhaustible, ever
ready, versatile and keen. He flashed it
upon the darkest subjects, making them
clear and distinct even to feeble vision.
AS nature melts an acre Of gross earth
into enc clear, shining diamond, SO Vance
melting in the furnace of his mind muddy
problems in finance and government,
brought them forth in flashes Of wit or
roaring jokes, clear and crystalline truths
to be seen and comprehended even by
simple minds.
Vance's greatness, versatile and many
sided as it was, rested securely upon the
solid basis of common sense. As Shakes
peare's imagination, fancy, humor, pa
thos, eloquence and philosophy are al
ways based upon the broad foundation OF
hard sense. so Vance was never foolish,
Eighty, frothy, excessive or obscure. In
intellect and in character he was neither
Gallo nor Teutonic but, from head to
foot entirely English His greatest
strength was common sense, his greatest
talent wit and humor, his greatest act
unfolding the right of habeas corpus in
North Carolina during the Civil War
against the Confederate military power.
He knew that the liberty of a State is
the liberty Of every citizen. INTER
ARMA SILENT LEGES,'' said the Ro-
man. ''Not so,'' said Vance, "but, IN
TER ARMA LEGES VALENT.'
GEO. T. WINSTON.
Raleigh, N. c., Aug. 20,
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This SCATTERED NATION. "

Your favor of the 18th asking
my estimate of the late Governor Vance
and what 1 deem his most conspicuous
service to the State, has been forwarded
and just received
To the first first | beg to say that l
have always had the very highest opln-
ion of him as a citizen, soldier and states
man which if it had been possible would
have increased after hearing his ceie-
brated lecture on 1.-THE Scattered Nation,
to which l have the honor to belong.
To tie second: l think he rendered his
most conspicuous service to the State
during the war between the States, when
through his fundamentally the blockade
runner advance was purchased and cot
ton shipped to Europe in exchange for
which she returned laden with shoes,
clothing, ETC., for our soldiers and cotton
cards and other necessaries for the peo-
pie of the State.
G. ROSENTHAL.
Raleigh, N c., Aug. 20.
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ORATOR AND TRUE STATESMAN

I am asked to write briefly my estimate
of Vance, and to mention his highest SER
vice to the State. Ny first impressions
of him were received when as mere boy,
I heard him in the memorable campaign
of seventy six. Before an audience num-
berng thousands, about equally divided
in political sentiment, with the polished
and scholarly Settle as his antagonist, he
showed such wit, sarcasm, logical as
elimination, and eloquence and Wlthai
such a kindly regard for the feelings OF
his foes, that he became the hero OF the
hour and was henceforth popular ldol
with his hearers irrespective OF party az
filiations.
NV next impression was received when,
in eighty-seven, heard him at the Cum
berland county fair, before great audi
ence of farmers. The fire and freshness
of the campaign orator had mellowed in
to the ripper wisdom and richer sympathy
of the eloquent statesman with the clear
comprehension of the problems of the
hour. and a ready remedy for the evil
depressing the agricultural classes.
NV third impression was received when,
in eighty-eight, he delivered the literary
address at Wake Forest College. There
the popular orator and eloquent states
man became also the broad minded scho-
lar, calm and clear, showing a ready ac-
ouaintance with literature ancient and
modern and perfect mastery of the most
elegant forms of expression.
From these impressions l form the esti-
mate that, in combining the elements OF
the popular orator, the far seeing states
man and the ripe man of letters with
cultivated tastes and talent, Vance was
the greatest man North Carolina has pro-
duced.
His service to the State was rendered
in relations many and varied. In the
dark reconstruction period, when abuse,
lcalumny and misrepres entation were
heaped on the fair name of his native
State. he stood forth as a fearless and
peerless defender Of her sacred rights and
honor.
When the principle of free trade as OPP
posed to a high protective tariff needed
a champion in Congress it was his edo
quent voice, and penetrating mind that
brushed aside the cunningly spun mesh
of sophistry and indicated the justice
of his party's cardinal doctrine. The re-
cords Of Congress will show no ADLER dis
cussion of the tariff
He left a record Of unfailing faith in
the people and an answering loyalty to
their highest and best interest. This, /
believe to have been his highest service
to his State. On his epitaph should be
written the words Fearless and Faithful.
OF him it may be said in the language OF
Horace:
1.-The just man and tenacious Of his
purpose: not the zeal of citizens giving
base orders, nor the countenance OF the
threatening tyrant, nor Auster, turbid
master of the restless Adriatic. nor the
mighty hand of laundering Jove can shake
from his fixed resolve. Were the vault
above, broken, to fall, it's ruins would
strike him undismayed."
August 20. 1900.
J. b CARLYLE.
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l was told then that they were brought
over on the Advance.
That simple incident is the foundation
of my estimate of this great man.
The spirit that prompted Vance to this
act was the main spring of his life-de-
yotion to the people and fidelity to them.
He never ceased to love them. He never
broke faith with them. At a memorial
meeting in Charlotte Hon. w. E. Audrey
said of him:
He was of the people, by the people
and for the people and he lives in the
hearts of the people," No North Caro-
linian was so near the masses. Their
will was his.
In 1862 he writes from camp: Il shall
be content with the peoples will. Let
them speak"
He loved his State and had faith in her
people. In 1864 he wrote President
Davis:
"If there be a people on earth, given
to the second sober thought, amenable
to reason and regardful of their plighted
honor, 1 believe 1 may claim that it is
the people Of North Carolina"
He knew his people and he trusted
them.
In these two utterances will be found
the secret of his hold on our people. He
was true to them. They were true to
him.
His greatest service to the State was
in unfolding the civil authority-in time
of war. That is the peoples power. He
made the army respect it.
FRANCIS D. WINSTON.
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GREATNESS AS WAR GOVERNOR.

Zebulon B. Vance in my Judgment pos
sessed all the elements of a statesman.
He thoroughly comprehended the
principles of true Democracy, and
applied these principles to the
affairs of government with the ex-
actness of science. He was a firm be-
lever in the doctrine that all men are
born equal, and that governments derive
their Just powers from the consent OF
the governed" Among all the illustrious
men of the State, Senator Vance is per-
haps without a peer. His impress upon
the people of the State, the educated and
illiterate, the rich and the poor, is
strong and lasting
He sympathized deeply with the strug
Cling masses, and his best efforts in
public life were exerted in their behalf
and they loved and trusted him more
than any man living or dead.
/ am now of the opinion that Vances
"most conspicuous service" to the State
was during the Civil War. AS Governor.
he organized and equipped more men for
the Confederate army than any other
Governor of the Seeded States, and the
North Carolina soldiers were better
clothed and better fed than were the
soldiers of any other State, and better
still, provisions and clothing were furn-
ished their helpless families at home
as far as human effort could do it. All
of our ports were blockaded and the lit
tie new-made Republic of the South had
no customers to whom she could sell
and none from whom she could buy,
but Governor Vance succeeded in run
ming the blockade and carried on COM
merce with England in order to sustain
the soldiers in the field and their fami-
lies at home. This was genius of the
highest order-ths was craftsmanship.
No more conspicuous and valuable SER
vice was ever rendered the State by any
man.
Senator Vance's leadership in the mem
orable campaign of 1876 which resulted
in the overthrow Of the Republican par
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-22
INTEREST IN EDUCATION.

/ first saw Gov. Vance In 1861, march
ing up Fayetteville street in Raleigh in
command as Captain of "The Rough and
Ready Guards" from Buncombe county
l served as private soldier in the 4th
N. c. volunteers, in which Vance was a
captain. His conduct as an officer and his
kindness to his men won for him the
admiration and love of every soldier in
the regiment. He knew every man in
the regiment by name before we had
been in the service four months. When
he was rendered the colonelcy of the
Goth N. G. regiment, he called his COM
pany together and informed them of the
protfered promotion. He told them to
freely vote their sentiments. If they vot-
ed for him to stay with them he would
stay as captain and decline the promo
ton. He retired and the company unan-
imously voted that the men preferred not
to place themselves in the way of their
captains promotion. That it would be
unfair to their captain, much as they re-
GREETED to part with him, to let their
personal desires stand as barrier to his
promotion. This was characteristic of
Vance.
l was in his administration from jan
udfy, 1871 10 MdFCH, 1863, WDen lie was
elected to the United States Senate.
was without experience as a public man
and in a State office. His kindness and
consideration for me brought him fire.
quently to my office to advise me as to
the best way Of administering the affairs
in my charge. He was devoted friend
to the public schools and never let an
opportunity pass to forward the cause Of
popular education as represented in the
public schools.
I think the great service of Vance was
the impetus he gave the public schools
and public education in recommending
appropriations for Summer Institutes for
the improvement of interest in educa-
tion and the better organization and pre-
paration Of the teachers who were to
have charge CT the ordinary country
schools as he called them, 1.-The people s
schools
The folks" loved and trusted Vance
because Vance loved and trusted them
and never deceived them.
JOHN c. SCARBOROUGH.
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Tribune of the people. For whatever
else Vance was. he was always the up
holder and defender of popular rights
and the champion of the people. He safe
ly guided the ship of State through all the
storm and strife of the Civil War. He
bravely suffered for his people and with
his people The cares of State and the
weighty Responsibilities of the office Of
Governor during, the war only increased
his solicitude for, and interest in the
sufferings and wants of all the people
of the commonwealth. And Of all the adj
mirable evidences of his successful admin
istration of public affairs nothing to my
mind was more worthy Of praise than his
beautiful bountiful provision for the ma
terial wants of the soldier and his fami-
~. While others in those days, only
thought and were much perplexed not
knowing what to do Governor Vance COM
missioned competent agents to purchase
thousands Of bales of cotton. The "Ad
vance" was bought, fitted out and entered
on her perilous mission. 1t was a brave
and risky thing to do, and there were
croakers and critics innumerable. but
it vast successfully ACCOMPLISHED. ~
exchange for this cotton immense guam
titles of Shoes blankets, cloth and other
supplies came through the blockade to
North Carolina fer her soldiers, and for
their wives and families at home there
came machinery and wire for making cot
ton cards, and it was generally acknowl-
edged that by this wise and patriotic
course of Governor Vance the North Car
DINA troops were better provided for than
any others in the service.
Nothing perhaps in all of Governor
Vance's varied and brilliant career al
fords higher evidence of his innate love
of justice and, truth, and of his hearty
sympathy with the down-trodden and OPP
pressed than that which incidentally APP
pears in the gratuitous and careful pre-
paration Of his able and scholarly adj
dress on "The Scattered Nation"-a per-
Torrance which richly deserves a perma-
nent place in the most valued Literature
of the State.
But this great Tribune of the people
never lost an opportunity to espouse the
cause Of the weak and the wronged
against the strong and the oppressor-and
herein-as l think, in all his well-round-
ed and many sided virtues-1was his high
est claims upon the extraordinary love OF
all the people, which was his rich herit-
age in life, and which now gratefully
cherishes his memory in death.
NJ NJ MARSHALL.
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ty and the inauguration of needed re-
forms, was conspicuous and brilliant, but
doubtless these results would have been
attained under the leadership of other
men, as the people through suffering
were ready for reform and waiting for
a leader.
1t is appropriate to erect a statue to
the memory of this great man at the
capital of the State. 1t will point the
representatives of the people through
coming time to his loyalty, his patriot
ism, and his craftsmanship
Respectfully,
w. T. CRAWFORD.
Waynesville, N. c.. Aug. 20.
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PEOPLE LED TO HIGHER CIVIL
ZATION.

1t is impracticable within the reason
able compass that one should occupy in
your coming Vance issue to furnish a
satisfactory estimate of the greatest trf-
bune of the people that North Carolina
has ever produced.
The most distinguished and greatest
living North Carolinian in the highest
forum Of the world over the bier of the
greatest dead North Carolinian chival-
rously and charmingly said what Tell
was to switzerland, what Bruce was to
Scotland, what William of Orange was
to Holland, l had almost said what Moses
was to Israel, Vance was to North Caro-
lima
He was a natural leader among men
and in all respects the greatest and
most universally and deservedly beloved
man that the State has ever furnished.
His love of liberty, independence OF
character, freedom of thought, rugged
honesty, simple faith, adherence of de-
ceit and president wisdom commanded
the respect, the love and absolute faith
of his people.
1t is very difficult to single out lis
most conspicuous service to the State,
these services were continuous from his
majority to his death and his every SER
vice was directed, in the interest and
for the general welfare of his people
and State.
ifs conspicuous services for convcn-
fence may be generally classified under
three heads-as War Governor, as Peace
Governor and as Senator AS War Gov
ernor it was conspicuous that he organ
lied q fleet whereby he was enabled to
exchange the Southern staple for the
supplies necessary for the well being and
comfort of our soldiers in the field and
our women and children at home.
In 1864 and '65 he made conspicuous
exemplification of his broad, liberal
Christian charity in appealing t0 the
powers at Richmond that failing to his
own people to help and care for the
suffering Union prisoners at Salisbury.
His love of liberty was sgually por-
trayed in the preservation inviolate OF
1.-The Habeas Corpus throughout the
war.
AS Peace Governor his administration
marked a new and developing era for
the State, the State debt was adjusted,
important railroad enterprises and other
internal improvements inaIsurated, the
public school extended AMI the colored
people brought within their protecting
fold, and secured asylums for their in
sane deaf and dumb.
AS a Senator he was 4 grea+ revenue
reformer, the avowed enemy of the IN
ternal Revenue "red-leggsd grasshoppeT
great opponent of the civil service
and believed 'tha hor"~ .Not ullcd the
pillow should eat the fodder the uncom-
promising advocate of retranchment and
reform, the antagonist of the National
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FRIEND OF EDUCATION.

Vance ever rendered the educational in
terest of North Carolina was when he
took a bold stand in 1877 to provide
training for teachers. He said in his
message to the General Assembly of
1877: 1T is impossible to have an effect
i've public school system without provid-
ing for the training of teachers. The
blind cannot lead the blind.
Vance uttered words of wise states
man and words of true philosophy with
regard to the education Of the negro;
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-22
WAS NEAR THE MASSES.

When I was six years old my father
brought my mother a package from Raj
eigh and told her that Governor Vance
had sent it, The package contained a
pair Of hand cards for carding cotton.
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Superintendent Public Instruc
Newton, N. c., Aug. 20.