The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17

of war cam, entertained towards Walter
Clark, their brave and gallant young
major. And in that particular. we be-
lieve we voice the sentiment of all who
knew him in those dark days. When
we proclaim
The man who says Clark
Is not the peer
OF any man in Carolina here,
East or West. far or near,
Or any Wilson, anywhere,
Then that man. he has lied
Many years have now passed since the
dissolution of the veteran legions of
Johnston's army: then scattered amid
the gentle slopes and forest-clad hills,
in the uplands of Carolina. And since
last night with him spent at the hos
pitable country residence of the vener-
able DIR. Workman, in Granville county
(while on our journey homel, we have
seldom met. But through report, we have
kept track of him, in his advancement,
in public favor.
And since those days of personal
touch, now long since past, and gone,
the most of the middle-aged and elderly
people, then on the stage of action, have
been gathered unto their fathers, and
with them rest, in the silent shadows of
the other shore; while those of US of lesser
years and those just entering the TIRES
hold of mans estate, have now passed
the meridian milestone in our onward
journey, and are fast descending the
sunset slope of the scar and yellow leaf
And with us, it will take more evidence,
and much better evidence, than has
been, or can be produced, by such wit
nesses as have yet appeared before the
footlights of public scrutiny, even if
backed up by the confederation of their
monopolistic masters and political bosses,
before we will believe. that he, who was
then the pesonification of chivalry and
the soul of honor, has now. with adj
vancing age, and accumulated honors,
degenerated into the hideous monster,
depicted in the catalogue of despicable
charges, made by those ghoulish fiends
in human form.
We have thus used the plural, for the
re ason that no sane man believes Major
Wilson the real author of the articles
claimed as his. Or that there was any
just and honorable cause for their MAX
ing. But rather, that they had their
origin in the perverted imagination and
diabolical brains of a coterie of envious
malicious and lying spirits.
Now whether his party people, in the
oncoming occasion. will select him as
their standard bearer for Chief Justice,
and by so doing honor themselves in
thus honoring him, or in obedience to
the dictates of his enemies-the common
enemy of all-will refuse to do So and
in thus dishonoring him, disgrace them
selves, 1--WE know not Nor is it within
our province to advise.
Yet we feel it an incumbent duty of
ours, to express a few of our personal
views on the matter. In obedience to
our sense of justice and consideration
of the association of other days. as be-
fore stated, and in the language of old
Andrew Jackson, "by the Eternal, we
have
Now we have been expecting that
some of his official comrades of those
days would rise up in his defense; and
have delayed our effort on that account,
and as none have done so. as yet Chat
we are aware off, we gladly tender this
in behalf of justice. and as a token of
the loving friendship of the surviving
members of old Company A, from War
rem, Nash and Franklin.
B. S. KEARNEY.
June II. 1902.