The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-26
THE LATE DANIEL R. GOODLOE.


Washington, Hon. Carroll ID. Wright, the
highest authority upon statistics in the
| United States, in a public address sup
ported some argument he was making
| by giving the result of an investigation
made by Hon. Daniel R. Goodloe. He
said: Mr.. Goodlie is an authority upon
any subject that he has investigated.
! Coils Wright did not know it, but at
that moment Mr.. Goodloe was lying dead
in his native county in North Carolina.
Daniel Rives Goodloe was born in
Louisburg, May 2Sth, 1914, son of Kemp
Strother and Mary Jones Goodloe. He
was the son of a plain country physician
whose life was as honest and beautiful
as that of his more widely known son.
He was educated in the country schools
of Franklin county and of Maury county,
Tennessee, but his education was main
iy Cotcinld e.. ough his own efforts. He
became a Unitarian in faith through the
influence of DR.. Channing's works which
were given him by his old teacher in
Tennessee. From Tennessee he returned
to North Carolina, studied law under
Judge CASTOR, and was licensed by the
Supreme court to practise law He was
untitled by nature to succeed in the law
and gave it up to pursue journalism,
which he loved. He moved to Washing
ton in 1S4S and resided almost continu-
Ously in that city until his health failed
| when he returned to North Carolina
where his relatives did everything for his
comfort that love could do. He had
often said that he wished to be buried
in North Carolna-either in Warrenton
or Louisburg. He was buried in Fair
view cemetery in Warrenton. The citi-
zens of that good town paid him every
honor which affection and respect could
suggest, and which a community of re-
fined and cultivated people could accom-
plish. His bOyhood's friend and school
mate, Mr. Henry Hunter, and his old
! friend. Mrs. VIM. Polk, with the children
of other friends, took charge of his fun
eral. Rev. B. S. Bronson, who conducted
the services, was his valued friend of
many years.
Upon going to Washington in 1S4S Mr..
Goodloe found as his best friend in that
city, the late Willie P. Mangum, who was
then in the Senate, and was President
pro TEN of that body His kindness to
Mr.. Goodloe made a deep impression upon
| the young stranger and he never spoke of
Mr.. Mangum but with words of admira-
| tion and gratitude. Mr. Goodloe was an
abolitionist from conviction and in Wash
ington wrote much for the press, coming
to be regarded as one of the ableSt of
the journalists in the capital of the Re-
public. He won the friendship and es-
TEEN of his fellow journalists and of the
leading men in public life who often re-
lied upon his we'll prepared argument
The foremost men in Washington held
him in the highest esteem, not as a mere
literary man, but as a man of ability
and judgment whose help and counsel they
sought. No man ever patronized him.
He would not have permitted that.
The Washington Era was the first
abolition paper established. When Mr.
work he went to Europe. leaving Mr.
Goodloe in charge of the editorial de-
partmcnt. 1t had a large circulation and
welded immense influence. Mr.. Good
loe often said that its success killed it,,
for many other abolition papers were es-
tablished throughout the North The
Era was not only strong political pa
per, but literary power as we'll.
Through Mr.. Goodloe's influence the fol-
lowing writer's first found public utterance
in the paper-Grace Greenwood, Mary
Mapcs Dodge, Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Mrs. Southworth. Whittier published
some of his earliest poems in the New
Era. Mr.. Goodloe's true literary taste
assured him of the merit of these writer's
| and he was always eager to hold out a
helping hand
Among the public men of North Caro-
| lima. he most admired Mr.. Badger for his
| intellect He aways said that Mr.. Bad-
ger might have been President if he had
not wavered under the weight of home
opinion. The following clipping is from
the Normal Magazine (which by the way,
he used to say would develop some good
North Carolina woman's literary tai
cnts)
Lawyers were generally amiable.
Now and then giant like Badger would
come among them with his sledge ham
mer blows to knock their brains out.
IF he had always done this, the coun-
try would have been under infinite obli-
cations to him. But it was in the United
States Senate that he greatly failed. He
was Henry Clay Whig-a Daniel Web
ster Wing. He could not have failed to
have been opposed to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. All his convic-
tions. all his prejudices, all his true in
forests were against that disastrous
measure. He afterwards confessed in a
speech at Salisbury that it was the great
mistake of his life. His old friend,
Nathaniel Boyden, embraced him on this
occasion.
Badger wanted as the French say
"the courage of his opinion and in an
evil hour. he was induced to abandon the
principles of his life. If he had been
true TO himself on that occasion; if he
had made such a speech as he could have
made against the repeal-and neither
Webster nor Clay. if alive, coula have
made better-he might have saved the
Union.
The Wings of the country wanted just
such a man as Badger might have been
at the time. John Bell. of Tennessee.
opposed the repeal in a half hearted way;
and if he had had Badger at his back
others would have joined them. and the
measure might have been defeated, the
Union saved, and Badger would have
been made President
He greatly admired CASTOR. Rufrin
Governor Graham. Mr.. Moore. He has
told friends that no State has produced
finer minds than these mon Had but M