The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-19

the advantage of a college training
and of this number tifty-one were
from the State UniVersity-that Ia
more thsn one-third of the ent"s
number of delegates. Among them
were Win. y. Graham. Kemp I. bat-
tie Bryan Grimes, John NannlnC'
William Johnston, Ham G. Jones, Giles
Mebane, James w Osborne, Rufus -.
Patterson. w S. Pettigrew, Robert
Strange George V. Strong and Charles
r. Thomas William A. Granam nal
been United States Senator in lS4l.
Governor in 1916 and was sent as Sen
ator 10 the Congress of the Confedcf-
ate States. The secretary of the con-
Nentlon and the assistant secretary
were 10th sons of the University. me
Governor, John w. Ellis. and the Lieu
tenant Governor, Henry 4 Clark
were both alumni and on the death
OF Ellis in 1861, Clark became Gov
eTnor ana was followed in 1868 by
Zebulon z. Vance, the Great war
Governor" Thus from 1874 contln-
uousIy until the close of the struggle
| A University man sat in the Governor S
chair and guided the fortunes OF the
state. Indeed from 1914 to 1865 or
| for fifty years there had been only
| four breaks with a total Of fourteen
years in the long line Of Governors
drawn from the States Training
school.
AS to the Secession Convention the
Influence of the University was very
great. This may be seen from the
| fact that when on June 18th, 1861,
| TIE convention chose it's Senators 70
be sent to the Provisional Congress OF
the Confederate States four men were
uominated-all University men--seV~n
others received votes without MONT
aation and five of these were also UNI
| ve1S:ty men. The two chosen DAVIS
land Avery. were from the University.
iDf the eight men chosen for seats II
| the Confederate House of Represen-
tatives four we're from the University.
The two II. S. Senators at the time OF
the opening OF the war were sons OF
1.-THE University. Indeed for 10 years
Irhe University was continuously repre-
Isented in the Senate of the unlteC
States by one and often by both or
the Senators from North Carolina. ,
| The call 10 active service In the
lheld in behalf of their native State
and beloved South was nobly answered
by the students and alumni OF the
university. The University had great
lily prospered and its halls We're filled
| to overlooking. At no time in the to"-
ty-five years that have passed sine"
then has it sent forth such era duatino
classes The University riValed in
numbers the strongest institutions at
the North. and its students We're drawn
from all parts of the South The last
class to graduate was that OF 1859
flor before the commencement OF 1Shl
| faculty and students had begun +"
Exchange the quiet of the campus for
| the soldiers life. This class numbered
leighty-two. Eighty of these entered
the army and twenty-three were
killed. The freshman class of th@
same year numbered eighty and seven
/ ty-nine fought Cor their country, one
being kept by feeble health Eat home
IOf all the living alumni about ono
half entered the army of the South
land one in every eight laid down MS
| life. That is one-fourth of all of those
in active service were killed. ! do not
believe this record is equalled anywhere
| North or South. The grand old mothH'
stripped herself of her offspring, ma IL
sacrifice of her noblest and best. av'
poured out her verv hearts blood tha'
the invading hosts might be driver
from the soil of her beloved countr"
Is if strange that the aged preSidan
should have pleaded with the gov
ler1ment that at least some OF fn'
Iseod corn might be left FourteH'
members of his faculty had left h'n
land half of these were killed. | cor
fess that the story stirs my bl"ot
like some glorious legend of the her
idays of Rome.
And these men SO grandly given t