The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-03

! and handed 1T TO him to compete INC
/ change. 1t was received with satisfac-
ton, accompanied by a laugh. Captain
Turner was very kind to the writer and
often performed his duties when he
wished to be absent in the neighborhood
| of camp. He remembers his association
with him with gratitude and pleasure.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for
Congress in 1861 but was elected in 1863.
| He was an active member.
AFTER THE WAR.
] In 1866 he was elected to the United
! states Congress but was denied admission.
i Al this election every member sent by
/ North Carolina to either house of Con-
gress had opposed secession. None Of
them were admitted
/ Andrew Johnson had promulgated
plan OF reconstruction with which the
| State had complied Congress rejected it
and in 1857 passed the Sherman Shella
berger bill of denominations and vitupera-
ton, from the effect of which the country
is now considering modes of deliverance
| Civilization was overturned. The only
motive sought for the passage of an act
was that 1t might humiliate or injurc the
South. Favors came from Washington.
] hence in the State men of whom better
| things might have been expected pandered
to the authorities, accepting their own
degradation and aiding in that of the
| State. 1t was useless for true white
man, i. e., white within as well with
out, to look for relief from either State
or National Government
! To return to Andrew Johnson's recon
| struction, w. W. Holden had been APP
| pointed Military Governor. Mr.. Lincoln
4 had intended to appoint either David r.
| Caldwell or Jonathan WORLDWIDE had
been an ardent Union man in 1S61-while
for years before that Holden like Johnson
i had been an apostle of high order in the
/ secession ministry. Mr.. Caldwell was
somehow notified of Mr.. Lincoln's inten-
tion and notified him that he could not
accept, but warmly endorsed the selection
OF Mr.. Worth. Mr. Caldwell himself gave
| me these facts.
When the Andy Johnson convention
! met in 1866 many of the aforetime lead
horses, hungered for the public manger
| and that which is put therein were for
making terms with Holden and endorsed
J him for the nomination for Governor. Jo
| Turner'S career which should be in every
| reader used IN the schools of North Caro-
lima, was now iEaugurated He went to
| Raleigh and began a campaign against
| Holden, and chose iona han Worth as the
| man for the people to honor. Some who
.sniffed" the oats from far, or perhaps
nearby, said, Turner, some of our people
don't like your opposition to Holden He
replied, Il know those do not who
are tickling Holden with tho Governors
straw while he tickles him with the soli-
ctor or judges straw" Worth was tril
umphantly elected and North Caroliaa
manhood vindicated.
During this campaign Turner made a
| speech which was published and should
lie engraved and put in our library at Raj
/ cigh. He described his return to the
| Union. how a secessionist (Holden) had
slammed the door in his face, and then
| referred to some who had been omitted
| and added che verse:
Do they miss r.e at home, do they miss
me,
Oh. ii would be an assurance most
dear,
To know that JuJrn Reade was saying
How / miss 10 Tm nor and wish that
he was here.
Holden as Military Governor had dis
| approved Turner's application for pardon.
/ append to this the application with the
| endorsement
In 1867 Congressional reconstruction
came-wth all its horrors. There was
no protection to be derived from the State
or National Government The Anglo Sax
ons are always equal to the occasion. In
North Carolina they only needed to agree
upon whom they would concentrate as a
leader. Rev. Mr.. Pell had established the
Sentinel in Raleigh. a first-class paper,
outspoken against the usurpation and viii
Iainy of the government. Josiah Turner
purchased this paper, moved to Raleigh.
and by his acts said Men of North Caro-
lima, we can descend no lower with
out losing civilization itself in
the State. We must move upward for
the sake of our race, our State and our
families. Here am | send me-" For two
years or more he occupies in the his
tory OF the State a position never
achieved by any other man. He staked his
life and his fortune on her altar.
His worldly possessions were all sac
rificed with little effort ever to remun-
crate him. His life was in danger. Many
who feared him and felt the coat OF
ignominy which he had fitted unon them
would have willingly contributed to pro-
cure his death if they could have done it
secretly. At one time eight men went to
the station to mob him on his return to
the city Accompanied by lone man
armed with a monkey wrench he turns
faces the crowd and at his command they
halt and go some other route.
When Holdens villany eliminated in
the Kirk War Col. A. c. McAuistef
was appointed marshal to execute the
writ of habeas corpus. When Kirk re-
fused to obey it was thought the Supreme
court would order force to execute it, 10
Turner intended to collect five hundred
) or more men, armed and equipped on the
Caswel county line, convenient for Col
McAllister to summons a 'possee.' Most
of them would have been ex-Confederate
soldiers. Many of them knew McAllstel
: in Cookies brigade, Lees army, and that
: no other leader was needed. Had not tho
, court written the words which stand in
our history as "by-word and a Kissing,
! viz. the judiciary is exhausted" but
vindicated the power of the State, Kirk
and his vagabonds would have been lex
hausted" and to 10. Turner would much
of the credit have been due.
No paper ever put moro terror into its
enemies or greeted and influenced Its