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

! that paper he maid his respects 10 tiiC
Raleigh Progress 1t was general!
understood that its manager hau DeSuh
his business life selling lemonade III d
travelling circus. Without preilh.ll"!E
comment, the speaker introduced MN -
his audience by throwing his head pacH
and body forward. with hands eAiehueu
as if holding platter filled Wltll Sl''F't -
and saying in monotone AT th1 tou 49,, % 10
| voice: 20 veZ. ladies and gentlemen
here is vour ice cold lemonade at &c.
glass. While he never undderyalueu an?
hnnest pmDlov-nent. he relied upon MS
hearers agreeing with him that SeIllng
rod ar water-colored circus lemonade WIS
hardly proper traInlnn Tor pul ar
adncotor Certainly half an hours de-
nnnciation would hardly have so ehectu-
niIv disnosed of this editor: and he dis
n,i.sod him with a few more words
When he concluded, amid enthusiastic
cheers. personal friends and retalners OF
Mr.. Holden, including Il near connection
who had experienced personal TaVoIS
from him, were heard to say theE co uIu
NOT withhold their votes from Governor
Vance after that speech. He was again
triunDhantly elected. by fair vote ana
omen count. and held his office untli 1t
was vacated by the surrender OF the
Southern armies.
He surrendered himself to the Federal
general in command at Greensboro, IN
May. 1865, and being paroled' J3lned MS
family at Statesville. L give ms own
account of his arrest in spicy letter pro
lvoked by a false report of it by famous
United States general Of cavalry. GU
will command it for the plucA 1t displays
gwen if YOU doubt its prudence. he DelnS
then under political disabilities. we
viii agree that it was deserved, and
emipentlv characteristic of the writer.
Charlotte. Oct. 13, 1868.
~, T,1.4o,. of tho Nav York Herald
7 see bv the public prints that General
K1motrick has decorated me with his
Instrumentation before the people OF
PENNSYLVANIA. He informs them, sub
stantially. that he tanned me by captur-
inc me and riding 200 miles on bare
back mule | will do him the honor to
SAY that he knew that was lie when
he uttered it. surrendered III Nreens-
boro. \. c., on the I'd of May, 1860, to
General Schofield who told me to go
to my home and remain there, saying II
he cot any orders to arrest me he Would
send there for me.
Accordingly | went home and there re-
NAMED until | was arrested on the l2In
Of May by Il detachment OF 3OO caFalr!
under Major Porter, of HarrlsDurg, from rom
whom | received nothing but kindness
and courtesy. | came in buggy to
Salisbury. where we took the cars l
saw no mule on the trip, yet | Thought
saw an ass at the generals headquar-
tiers: this impression has since been CON
frmed.
Respectfully yours,
Il. g. VANCE.
He was brought through this city, and
with other friends, was allowed to
/, see him. 1t was generally feared that
he, with President jefferson Davis ana
Il few others of prominence, whose spe-
cial arrest had been ordered from w ASH,
ington, was to be tried and condemned
TO death for treason. Well do remem-
her with what courage and dignity he
bore himself while beneath the easy
cordiaIity with which he greeted old
friends, in the presence of Federal
guards, | could see anxious forebodlng
for the helpless wife and four little boys
he was leaving behind. it might be for
ever. among impoverished friends. He
; had had ample opportunity i'll the times
of blockade running TO send Few paleS
! Of cotton on his own account, TO Liver
pool and have money put TO his credit
across the waters. ana provide against
contingencies for himself and family.
Prudent friends. including masters OF
the blockade runners and y. Coihe Y
Co, commercial agents at Liverpool ad-
viSed him to this course, and offered to
advance the money to purchase the cot
ton: burt he had positively refused, say
Ing he preferred to share the fortunes OF
might be, taking no advantage Of such
accidents of his official position. And
SO he left with his heart-broken wife Il
little money. few friends happened to
have and offered to share with him, and
went to prison i'll the old capitol 1T
Washington.
Two incidents connected with his am
prisonmpnt illustrate his pluck and ire
sistibe spirits. Arriving at Washington
his guard took him to Wizards Hotel.
to await orders, and he took his seat
beside the guard against the wall III the
reception room. Soon old Thad. Stevens,
the arch-epemy of the South. its in
Stitutiou. who had known Vance we'll in
Congress before the war. walked in front
of him and gaZed at him as at Il Gagged
animal i'll Il menagerie. Vance returned
his gaze for 4 moment, and seeing no
sign OF friendly recognition, raised his
dexter thumb to his nose and waved his
fingers in token of contempt. Old Thad.
turned away. feeling that he had been
worSted in the encounter. After Vance
had been lodged in prison, Tom Corwin
of Ohio. an old Wing Congressman, dis
tinguished for hig wit and ability, called
to see him. After cordial greeting given
and received he said, Nance, | don't
understand this. | knew Aou as IA warm
advocate for the Union; and here you are
prisoner for treason or something OF
the kind, while you old secession OPP
DOncntS are IeIt ut nome. L can get
the hang of it" With countenanCe
purposely elongated, Vance replied, Il
am afraid | will get the hang Of it be-
fore long" Corwin laughed and said
"A man who could so take Il doubtful
fate should be relieved if he could help
him." 1t may have been due to his in
fuence that Secretary Stanton had the
prisoners case looked into, and had him
discharged. on his record. BY his or
ders the Governors letter-book had been
sent to the War Office, and upon exam
nation of them he found that Vance,
with his big heart that would not en-
dure the maltrcatment of Il surrendered
foe, had demonstrated in most earnest
terms. during the war, with the authori-
ties at Richmond upon lealningyt that Fed
eral prisoners at Salisbury We're INSULT
ciently fed and clothed. This mercy to
Stanton's soldiers, when helpless in
prison III Nances State, aroused his sense
of justice TO one Of his most dangerous
enemies; and he said, LET the man be
paroled and allowed to so home to his
family
While he ever kept bold front, the
result of his anxiety and confinement
and maybe partly from the excessive use
of ltOhaccO ''fOp cOT0DaDV'S sake - viii h