The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-01

for copying kind words that are said
to never die.
The death of the eminent Or. Curry
at Ashevne was expected. have known
him personally since 1863, and desire
to give some estimate of him. He was
a SOuthron Of admirable qualities,
staunch convictions and many accom-
plishments. In fact he was one OF tFe
very foremost men Of the South during
the last thirty years.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was born
in Georgia in June, 1925, and was, thcre-
fore in the 18th year OF his age He
was graduated at the University of
Georgia and at the Harvard University
Law School He served CALAMITY in TWO
wars. He was a private in the famous
Texas Rangers in the Mexican War. lie
served four terms in the Alabama Leg
islature and was elected to the
Federal Congress as an answering States
Rights Democrat He served in tho
House OF Representatives from 1857 10
21st January. 1861 when he resigned TO
share the fate of his adopted State, he
so ably and faithfully served in The
Federal Congress as an answering States
Rights Democrat which means a true
and abiding Democrat of Democrats. He
was a delegate to the Provisional Con-
federate Congress. He was a memb ar
OF the First Confederate Congress that
met at Richmond, Va He served as
Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry under that
great soldier, Gen, Joseph E. Johnston, in
1SG4-65 Soon after the war he was
ordained a Baptist preacher. He was
President of Howard College, Alabama. N
1865. In 1881-'S5 he was Agent of the
Peabody Fund, and in 1885, was appointed
by Cleveland Minister to Spain. He
again served, and until his lamented
death, as Manager of the Peabody Fund.
think he gave but little time. if any,
to the ministry after 1880 He was a
capital preacher, speaker OF force in
any sphere or arena. He had command
ing talents that always carried him to
the front. / heard him in Metropolitan
Hall at Raleigh, preach sermon OF
distinguished merit and interest-earn-
est, magnetic and elegant as to dictlon.
1t was during the session Of the South
ern Baptist Convention that met, / think
it was. in 1869 l heard also the famous
Rev. DR.. Fuller, of Baltimore, (but a
native of South Caroiina). in the First
I
rvs of superior quality to that dis
course. Prior to the great war he en-
3oyed a high reputation in the Federal
/ House. When he was in the Confederate
House l heard the late Chief Justice
/ Smith, a gentleman of high ability, who
/ was then serving with, DR.. Curry in th5
/ Congress, say that he regarded him as the
/ ablest man in body Of much ability
1 He was both ID. d. and an LII. d. lie
wrote, while Minister TO Spain, very
! interesting and informing book in review
/ Of the political services of the greatest
Of modern statesmen--W. e. Gladstone
1t is a decidedly valuable book en- the
! grand old man in English Parliamentary
/ life. In 1901, he published another work
of still more Importance, and particular
/ ly to Southern people, and the youne
men specially. 1t is we'll entitled Civil
History of the Government of the Con-
federate State, With Personal Remin-
iscences." This work I found admirable
and Illuminating, in a field made obscure
by Northern writer's. | wrote of it a
some length when it appeared, and nov
would commend it as a very timely
helpful, entertaining, strong book IN be-
half of the South and it's people in the