Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-02-11
MAJOR STEDMAN.
A PROMINENT CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR.
What a Life Long Friend Who
Knows Men and How to Esti-
mate Them Has to Say of
This PatraiOtic North
CarOl;nian.

patriotic, exhiIarating and impress
sive address at Charlotte on the
birthday of Gen. r obert Edward
Lee, the peerless Knight of the
Ages, without fear, without re-
proach, by that gifted alumnus of
the University of North Carolina,
faithful, ever true citizen and dis
tinguiohed and most honorable law
yer, Major Charles Manly Stedman,
of Greensboro. It is very good read
ing for this decadent day, when
honor is kept in allegiance, and COM
mercialism and greedy money-grab-
bers rule the country, and is full of |
fine conceptions and noble senti-
ments every way worthy of the true !
and manly man who spoke them. 1t
fitted the time, the place, the State,
and was distinctlvely North Caro- |
linian in tone and principles. 1t was
full of grand views and high ideals
of citizenship, and unbroken devo-
tion to duty, and in style was much
above the average productions of
our day of much speechmaking.
Read the folling warning to his
countrymen, and it is we'll bated, for
the signs are OminOus and ruin is
ahead under the leadership of enem-
les and marplots and cOrraptionists
and demagogues of the most despic-
able type. The political thimble-
Triggers and vile abusers of opportun-
tiles, under Roosevelt, the marauder
and political gambler, have for their
motto and plan of operation "Con-
fusion, and illusion, and relation,
illusion, and occasion, evasion" In
contrast read this admirable extract
among many equally fine and i'm
pressive that could be selected, from
the noble Stedman:
"The day will come, though trust
it may be far distant, when the in
tentions and ideas of the founders of
this government will be disregarded
by those who, in the wild greed for
money and amidst the dissolute lux
ury, engendered by the vast accum-
ulation of wealth, have forgotten the
teachings of purer and better days;
and the very existence of a constitu-
tional form of government, as framed
by our ancestors, will be in jeopar-
dy. Then will be found amongst a
people regenerated by fire and blood,
that high and broad and lofty pa
triotism which shall constitute them
the strongest, safest and best defen-
ders of the land of our fathers in it's
entirety. And as the suffering and
oppressed of every land and every
cline shall still turn their steadfast
gaze towards the western hemis-
phere, they shall rise up and call
you blessed.
"Have you learned naught from
the silent endurance, the patient
agony, the deathless valor of the
Confederate soldier! His lifo and
his conduct have taught US the les
O over again which history has
ever repeated"
I have known Major Charles M.
Stedman since September, 1876, I
saw much of him until he removed
I.- 80 4~ o~okhoa o-y~ ~o~~
years ago. The impression he made
upon me early in our acquaintance;
remains fxed-that of an honest
and honorable gentleman, without
guile, without hypocrisy, brave, res
olute, self-contained, trustworthy
every way, sincere, unalterable in
principle, and faithful to his pledges,
to his own high character and to his
friends. He was a very gallant sol
dier in the great, disastrous war. I
heard more than thirty years ago, a
captain in Pender's grand old Thir-
teenth Regiment, say once-"I do
not know personally who the Major
Stedman I see mentioned in the
newspapers is, but if ne is the Major
Stedman I-saw in battle, / am sure I
never saw a drawer MANN the war;"
Major Stedman, like his race, is
fearless. But he is forbearing, kind,
gentle. He is a gentleman in the
high sense of that most sadly abused
word, of real ability, ofexalted char