The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-28

49,. National capital; and he gradually
Gf '" an plrnSt advocate Df the plin-
lr.'"'' # .Ielferson.an Democracy. [
c,"- ,hether there is to be found q
dta'. r defence and Justification of the
slI'''~ If the Southern States in 1861
e''t>' sa,- words as is to be found I'm nm
81 ~ ba delivered December s, 1866.
aJ'.' ,+a+i.n. before the Andrew Posi-
~ If the Grand Army of the Re-
E'. IN Boston. Mass. HIS large au-
I'.-".' WAS composed mostly of the
t''...s If Wnde5l Phillips and Charles
d,1.l|. lint when he finished that adj
Stun in which bold candor was but lit
dress listened by the p~oliteness due Iby
1r Guest. his hearers hardly knew
t." ...- Massachusetts or South Caro-
N.'" more responsible for the sins OF
.'[,..ry and SecesSlGn. At sins they We're.
.",g.Z IN their credit, as we'll as his.
Who address was received with
,'.. anplause. His audience were curl
1tI--, hear the other side, from one who
g"~ 1.n,ay it: and surely they heard If.
2t~ nr4.udices must have been shaken.
~. with some, broken down.
have alluded to Governor Nance's
..rla at the time of the Nance-Set-
, .--noli4n. From the time he was 4
Ill. l.t at Chapel Hill until after he be-
s'. GOVERNOR. he was slim, and weighed
.#rrs[ lIlltI w tJotliNiS SlIltI. ulJer
t'-liyn then passing away he were
,- 5f,,k HAIR long. almost to his shoul-
and thrown back from his brow
W. .au 50 see him in the portraits of
-a.,p successive colOnels of the
-, ,..-y-~lAth North Carolina regiment
.|- State library. After he passed
..--t5e age he increased in f1eShneSs until
t. fatal disease attacked him. he
~.l,.i. probably, 80 pounds. One of
IagS was broken by a fall from an
-..I. three when he was q child. and
.I' ,rl3y~ Il little shorter than the
War \ limp was avoided by having the
w., af the shoe. fer the foo of the short
~~n.N made higher than the other: but
ms caused Il sailors roll on slightly
Staggering gait 20 ms walk; This seems
.L4vr been an aid To his beaming face
a..i i,vial manner. when he came in thn
,"s SCI. Of friends; and they uncCn-
...t,,sly greeted his advent with Il smile
- n~lalsure. After middle age his hair
,I....l gray and gradually almost white.
II. then wore it short, and it ever re-
.1.irpd thick. How well it suited his
ior.e. Shapely head. and how it. with
rs partly figure, glaced his seat in the
.uglou from this State, and took his sea-
in the Senate gallery during the years
when Vance was Il Senator, but felt
proud of our representative in that
indy? We have seen what impression
ar inHior Senator made. How about
m. senior Senator. General Matt. w.
Ransom. who now full of years and
hoaur>. j. spending the evening of his
#t, I'm mans most wholesome and indie
pendent occupation. the tilling of the
>%. the largest farmer in the State.
Tall. erect. OF graceful figure. and hand
some face. with ca gle eye, polished man
nrr<. and unsurpassed in dignity of bear
ing and courtesy, whether in his sea ol
nHy,I>iug with fellow senators IN aisle
/ ID. lobby. the attention of every stranger
Was attracted by his distinguished ap-
i rearaurt. His great natural ability and
scholarly a~ttainmeutS are universally
u a-ku, Wle!-ed. That. without military
4 raining. he rose to the rank OF Majol
4 GENERAL in the Confederate Army, at.
tested his skill and gal!antry in war
And when it is remembered that, after
# was confessed 10y the chief justice OF
North Carolina. that the power of the
iI.Iary Of the State was exhausted
and unable to afford the equal protection
If ,ua laws to leading citizens of Ala
mu4 ami CasWeH, imprisoned by mill
tmy orders of the infamous lIrk ano
Bergen, it was upon General Ransom