The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-13
DR. KINGSBURY WRITES
OF THE DISPERSED ABROAD
Men of Genius North Caroline Has Given to Other
States. Praise and Condemnation of
Dixon's : One Woman

known in Alabama in forty years, were
from your State. l am not q native OF
North Carolina but Of Georgia. | think
he sand. You see the men we sent TO
Alabama were worthy and capable. and
had succeeded. Now suppose all OF the
worthy. active, energetic, aggressive,
strong men who have helped 20 build up
twenty other States had remained at
home, and standing by their mother had
helped to cuItlvate her rich domain and
had helped to develop her vast resources,
what a very grand State 1t would now be-
1t was but some four or five years ago
/ remember to have read in a Baltimore
Republican daily, the Herald, I believe it
was. a cantankerous goldbug and eXpan-
SION tooter, a remark that North Caro-
lima was the poorest Of all the States.
Writings have often tried to 'defame
her" Ignorance, envy, spite and other N
worthy passions have prompted her
slanderers and enemies in their efforts to
belittIe and degrade her. l repeat, the
people of North Carolina IN all the best
elements of character and manhood, are
the equal of any people IN all this world.
Sir William Jones, the very accomplish
ed Oriental scholar of England, long ago
asked-''What constitutes a State?" The
reply Observation-Disclosures men In
all that constitutes an imposing true,
noble, manly people the best type Of
North Carolina manhood Will vic with
any. If the 325, 600 who went out from
her had abided at home, there would be
now rot far from 100000 inhabitants,
and her roll of men of force and eminenct
would perhaps among all the States b.
only second to Virginia. In that count
General Bedford Forrest would have been
a North Carolinian, for his parents we're
natives of this State, and l have under
stood since 1859 that they were from
Person county, although I see it stated
that he was born in Orange, adjacent to
the former. l knew him personally, l am
glad to know. General Joseph f. John
ston was one of the -four or five greatest
of the Southern soldiers in the war for
second independence. General Bradley t.
Johnson says in his interesting work on
General 10, that he once said to him that
he regarded General Forrest as the
greatest military genius in the war Of
either section or army. I believe myself
tina General Lee was the greatest Of
American soldiers. and the highest eX-
preston of the noblest manhood.
After visiting some eleven or twelve Of
the American States, and residing for a
while IN three. l would rather live and
labor and wait and die in this we'll be-
loved North Carolina than In any State
or country. A man might secure more
money and more recorded honors' in
other lands or States. but he would lose
North Carolina, and for that there is no
compensation. / repeat that love with
all my heart my native North Carolina.
When the CLOSING scene comes to me
as it must come to all of the children Of
Adam, and possibly not long hence. I
hope the crumbling tenement in which
the immortal spirit has long dwelt may
be laid away by friendly hands beneath
its native soil, and if some kind hand
shall ever lay a flower upon the silent
grave that it shall be done in memory
Of one who while in life here loved sin
cerely, and in a quiet, unobtrusive, faith
Jul way tried to serve North Carolina. As
l near the edge of the dawn, 1 have a
more ardent. honest wish to be able to
say with the truth of a sincere soul:
Il live for those that love me,
For those that love me true:
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And waits my coming too:
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrongs that need resistance
For the future in the distance,
he good that I can do"
That is a noble aspiration sven though
one should fail in it. l have not consider
ed the many noble and prosperous of the
younger members Of the dispersed
abroad
All of the sons who shall visit their ma
tive North Carolina ,-"HeaVen's bless
ings'' attend her,-and shall be at the great
Reunion Of hearts and hands at Green's
boro, will receive a genuine North Caro-
lima welcome, and that means everything
possible that is goOd-cordiality, sincerity.
and pleasure, into which the heart enters
fully.
a great point has been made by the
brilliant and able author of 1.-THE Leo,
pard's Spots" He has gained a foot
hold in the great German Empire. for his
novel has been translated into scholarly
German and published in fine style by
the lorg famous Leipsic publishing house
of Tauchnitz. 1t is in two volumes and
excellently bound in ~three-quarter NOR
COCO. Let me mention here that this IA
nous novel has reached an actual sale OF
I-c,OOp NpplSS anu 10 sun StIIillS We'll
The people are finding it out more and
more. The publishers Of Mr.. Dixon in 4
recent pamphlet state that his second
novel, THE One Woman" has sold in
six weeks to the number Of 10000 copies,
1t viii be seen, | doubt not. to reach 200.
600 copies. It is the best praised and the
worst damned novel Of which I have
knowledge. Doubleday. Page & Company
state that the reviews of it printed dur
ing its first month of life would fill g
volume Of 1000 closely printed pages.
) have read extracts from perhaps fifty
writer's, and while it is abused with in
/ tense bitterness by d dozen OF these. thu
remainder have only warm praise for ii
| The severest and most brilliant Of the re
r views appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger
9 1t Is worthy of a genius in criticism like
Henley. 1t is very savage, Very bitter
] and still teens with exceeding praise anC
;, Qualification. l must reproduce \ small
/ part of it, but it scintilates and eXco1iatt,