The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-03-22
STATE TREASURER.
Col. VIM. ii. S. Burgwyn the Man for
the Place,

From the Roanoke Chouan Times.
published at Rich Square. Northamp-
ton county. Col. Burgwyn's native
county, we take the following:
or the several gentlemen who have
been suggested for the office Of State
treasurer there is one in whom the
people OF Northampton county have
more than passing interest. a brother
OF our fellow countyman. Mr.. George
p. Burgwyn, one of our largest and
most successful farmers, and of the
late j. Alveston Burgwyn, so widely
and favorably known as our county
treasurer, and of Col. Harry X. Burg
wyn, who was killed at Gettysburg
while leading his regiment, the
Twenty-sixth North Carolina Volun-
teers, into the midst of one of the
most severe battles the world has
ever known, this regiment having lost
more men, killed and wounded, than
any regiment on either side in the
civil war-going into battle with S64
men and coming out with Stone
company having only one man left to
answer the roll call
Col. VIM. H. S. Burgwyn. of Vance
county, we see from the Henderson
GOLD LEAF, is most favorably sug-
gested and urged for the office of State
treasurer, and the people of North
ampton county have a right to claim
an interest and to feel proud of Col.
Burgwyn, who was reared on his
fathers plantation i'll the Neck" A
short sketch Of his life we give below ::
At the early age of sixteen VIM. H.
S. Burgwyn volunteered in the late
civil war and served until his COM
mand surrendered with Gen. John
ston's army. Part of the time he was
a member of the Thirty-fifth regiment
of Gen. Matt W. Ransom's brigade,
and when that distinguished states
man and gallant soldier won the bril-
liant and important victory over Gen.
Speer at Boone's Mill Capt. Burgwyn,
who had been detailed by Gen. Ran
som to mount squad of his company
on horses procured from his fathers
plantation and act as scouting
party, rendered valuable aid in giving
| information Of the enemy's move
mentS.
After the war, Capt. Burgwyn cast
| his first vote at jackson in 1867 for
| that brave officer and tried and true
| old Democratic war-hOrse. our fellow
countyman, Capt. X. B. PEBBLES.
| Col. Burgwyn is a graduate of the
State University and has been trus-
tee of that institution since 1888. He
has had great experience as banker
and as a national bank examiner, and
is especially fitted from his familiarity
with details pertaining to fiscal mat
ters to make good and safe treasure
of the State.
While not a politician in the sense
which the term is generally used, he
has always taken the greatest interest
in all matters pertaining to the vel
fare of the State, and on all occasions
has been an uncompromising advo-
cate of white mans rule in North
| Carolina.
The son of a Northampton farmer
and reared upon a North Carolina
farm, his sympathies have always
been with the agricultural classes and
| he has always favored liberal appro-
| priations for free schools.
Northampton county has no candi-
date for place on the State ticket, and
it seems to us important that the
people of the county should seriously
consider Col. Burgwyn's fitness for
| the nomination Tor State treasurer by
| the Democratic convention, to be held
in Raleigh in April next.