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

! lima, sand, WneH Nu iue eve or the col
/ lapse they parted att Greensboro with
tearls lin hrs eyes and i'm his voice and
with warm grasp of the hand, God
> bless YOU, G0yerntG, and your mobile
! State One evening, a few days IA ftel.
| Sherman had crossed the Cape Fear,
ON his victorious march toward Raleigh
he and were walking towards his les-
! ddence at the foot of Fayetteville street
| | said. Governor. / suppose nobobdy can
longer doubt that the end is near at
! hand" His reply was, mo, ut must
! no SO blt SO far as j am personally
concerned. and but for my wife and
| children. | would rather die THAN TO see
! it," He spoke with much feeling and
| with tenas i'm his eyes. The gaudium
| certaminis was STRONG in him; he drew
| the sword and threw away the scab-
| bard when he conferred tine army. lie
was ever ready to sacrifice life TO the
| oanse. he foreSaW the deS0laltiOn and deg
Relation of his beloved State, if lit failed,
! and ,he lima eined uDeXampled horrors as
| the rpSult of the sudden emancipation of
! 1000, 900 slaves. And then the ardent
| wish of his heart THAT the honor of
! Month Carolina should be maintained,
and the faith she had pledged TO the sis
F., ters Of the South redeemed, to the ut
| most!
| The executive ability and THE rmweary-
/
of business he exhibited, after he be-
came governor, were a surprise ITO those
who had been forward i'm forcing his
| Consent to stand for the office, and dn
securing his election The remembrance
OF what he accomplished amid the count
| less and various demands upon his time,
| fills me With amaZement even now. The
| Legislative sessions were frequent and
! hong and TO it The had to send MESA geS
| ON mMtters of public Importance, and
| confer with its members and committees;
! the eastern section was Within the fed
/ eral lines and some of the western
J counties were subject Ito incrrslonS by
desperados, and others, from East Ten
! nessee, and IawlessneSs from buffaloes in
! the East and deseltelts in some of the
| Western and Central counties, and their
sympathiZels demanded constant vigi-
| lance from him and the Home Guards
! under his command. These had TO be
differed. fed and equipped; eait must be
provided ito cure meat for the support of
citizens and slaves Nlt hOme and soldiers
i'm the field; the supply of clothing was
nearly exhausted and the machinery for
| home-spun cloth nearly worm out: TO
avoid plivaaion and suffering new sup
plies must be had; the common schools,
for THE education of poor children, must
not be closed; the railroads and other
modes of transportation. III WMch the
| State was interested. were to be kept an
order for our people, and to transport
Confederate troops; courts must be kept
open, and special terms, f0r punishment
J and prevention of crime provided for;
desenr7elS had Ito be arrested and semi
| back to their command. All these things
were upon him. The execution of the
! Confederate consGipt law raised numer-
Gus issues, (which required the mteryel-
tion of the governor, who must see tnat
those subject to lit did not evade and
those exempt from it were mot sent TO
the front: unlawful eXactions from I'M
| poveldshed farmers had ito be prevented
and q hundred other troublesome ques-
| items had ITO he met and solved. his con-
| lespomdence was immense. and he was
without stenogrraphers or typewlttarS;
| Two Andes. Colonies ID. a. Barnes and
George Little and Private Secretary and
Executive clerk were kept constantly
busy, while Important letters to the
president. secretary of war and Others
| were written by his ON hands. He clearly
saw THAT States rights were the corner
| stone of the Confederate Government,
and his reverence for the law and deter
| minaltion to see that it was observed;
| made him ls film in preventing unlaWful
| encroa dhmefgts from the authorities rot
Richmond, or Confederate officers with
out authority, las he Was to see that the
laws of tlpe State insuring justice be
tween man and man were obeyed, ana
that crime was lepreSSed; while no fa1F-
minded imam. however ardent Confeder-
ate. could deny that Through him rmn
otherwise, this State was dong lts null
| duty to THE common cause.
| What he did fiol. the relief and com 7olTt
of orr people and the soldiers from the
State will appear from the following
figures derived from the State Quarter
masters Department.. BY the use OF
! blockade RUNNING steamers, motably the
Advance (calfed for him by play upon
his name) nullGrlg ITO Nassau and thence
;, to Liverpool, and carrying out COTTON and
rosin and bringing i'm supplies most
needed. he provided besides quantity of
heavy machinery 10000 pairs of hand
(cothon) cards, 10000 scythes, 200 pounds
of blue STONE for wheat growers. 2o0OOO
pairs of shoes rmd leather ito make them,
$4,000 blue Blankets, gltay cloth ito make
100000 suits of uniform, 10000 over
coats, 1900 Enfield rifles with 100
rounds of ammunition for each, 100000
! pounds of Bacon, 800 casks of coffee for
hospital USE $4,000 worth Tin gold) of
medicines, etc., etc. The SHOES ard
clothing were not only sufficient for the
North Carolina troops, but he turned
over large quantlty to the Confederate
troops from other STATES. After the
DaDlIe WI NltcdHlduSd, WITCH I-ohSSuIc Vt %
corps were NEARLY i'm rags, he sent them
10000 suits of uniform. At the sullem-
! der though the advance had been
] captured and the blockade rendered so
effective las to prevent further impor-
tation, he had ON hand nearly l00.0O0
suits and large quantities of blankets
and shoes. Part of these Invaluable anti
Giles had been purchased ON the credit of
his and the States good name, but he
had procured to redeem 1T and had
stored over 10000 bales of cotton and
100000 barrels of rosin. That the cot
ton and rosin were party destroyed and
part fell into the hands lof Federal Of
fcels, ait the collapse of the Confeder-
acy, was one Of the fortunes of War,
for which he was mot held responsible
by our creditors across the waters. They
or their next of kin still have our State
bonds as souvenirs of the war between
the States "redeemable five years after
the treaty of peace between the United
States and the Confederate States of
America"
But more than for these material bene-
fits, provided for the people of North
Carolina. their great debt to him was the
maintenance of the civil authority ana
tho etpnrpmacy of law amid tlp clash of