The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-18
ONE HISTORIAN OF OHIO
WHO GLORIFIED THE SOUTH
DIR. kingsbury Writes of Dow Patt and His Work
Which Was Rather Hard on Northern
Digestions.

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rial for monuments to generals
That is penetrating and is absolute
ly true. / wish to cite again from the
able and conscientious Ohioan. that
my readers may read the truth no
longer from what writer's in the South
have said, but as it is SO clearly given
by a man of brilliant parts on the
other side:
1.-The mystery attending Grants
eminence, aside from the fact that he
was in at the death of the fierce Con-
! federacy, is of easy solution. After
the war, while he hung doubtful be-
tween the party he had acted with
and the party in power. he was seized
upon by the last named as so much
political capital, and used in that dl-
rection for more than he was worth.
| Recognizing the inevitable found in
| the military bullet-headS, as Hay
thorne expressed it. and bound TO
make Presidents for years to come,
| the Republican party made Grant
/ their own. The press of the country,
| that is, in the main, Republican, the
| tremendous army OF office-holders
| and office-SeekerS are, and have been,
| united in making a hero OF a man
! whose operations and whose civil SER
| vice and financial operations can be
| condoned only on the ground or ms
| miraculous ignorance and stupidity.
| | knew General Grant personally.
| He was the one General on the North
! ern side i ever met. save a forgotten
! Brigadier I met at Raleigh in 1865. at
| friends private dinner table. l.
| had quite an hours talk with Grant
| in November, 1865. and l have some
| times thought L would write 1t up.
will only say here that Grant am
pressed me as a dignified. sensible,
agreeable man, and showed his good
sense in the character of some ques-
tons he asked me. / may again
| draw upon Mr.. Piatt for few I'M
| Dressive quotations
In 1889, an old and valued friend
| of mine sent me a work he had just
published Its title is-"The Birth
| of the Republic: compiled from the
National and Colonia! Histories and
Historical Collections, from the
American Archives. and from Me-
moirS, and from the Journals ana
| Proceedings of the British Parma
ment" Its title shows its breadth, It's
research The author is dead. put
he has left an useful and instructive
work behind him. 1t is an octave Oh
400 pages. is we'll printed and bound,
and is published by Bedford. Clarke.
and Company, Chicago, New YORK
and San Francisco. The author was
Daniel K. Goodloe. a native of Frank
lin county, North Carolina. and VINO
died few years ago in his S6th year,
highly esteemed by all who knew him
we'll i date my recollection of hlm
to about 1898. when / knew him as a
lad at oxford. He was a clear, strong
writer, patient student of history, a
capable vigorous journalist, who was
connected at one time both as edl-
torial contributor as we'll as Wash
ington correspondent of the New
York Times, when its greatest editor
had charge, the late Henry j. Kay
mond, who founded It. Mr.. Goodloe'S
work will be sure to interest students
in search of the early history of the
American Colonies. / have to admit
that / have not read the Voidmc. A
glance reveals that North Carolina,
like the other most important Colo
MES is amply treated. It is q book
to study and is a capital DOCK Tor rel
erence The index shows how full it
is of matter. and it will help any
patient inquirer i'm learning no little of
/ the early historical events OF our
| country. / mention one instructive
! fact that I get from it. 1t was a
| foreSone conclusion that soon or late
J the American Colonies would be sep
/ aratod from Great Britain. the MOTH
! er Country-tEat they would become
| independent Lord Mansfield in q
| speech in the British House of Lords
] on November 18th. 1775. made Ii
! clear that the separation was fore
| seen and forecast. He tells how 1T
was long before him that it wag
seen by others that bad conse-
| quences would follow the planting Of
Northern Colonies in North Am
hot Sorn1
/ Child foretold before the Revolution
(the English Revolution of 1636'S9),
/ that they would, in the end, prove our
! rivals in power, commerce. and manu-
! features. Davenaut, adopting the
same IDEAS foresaw what has hap
! pened; he foresaw that whenever
| America found herself Of sufficient
strength to contend with the mothe"
country, she would endeavor to form
| herself into q separate and independ-
ent state "'rhis has been the constant
| object of New England almost from
I her earliest infancy. She was
4; conspirator, [ add, from the start. and
/ came near breaking up the new or
ganization during Washington's first
term of office. Then for the next
twenty-five years she talked. favored
and sought secession. But how she
! changed about when she had got sur
ficient contro! of the new Government
to enrich her at the expense of the
| South. When the latter in 1S60-'61
| talked secession how the Yankees
jumped upon her and called her
| traitor.
An educated friend in Granville
county, Mr.. William II. Gregory, a
| most worthy member of prominent
| family of that superior old county,
that was founded or erected in 1746,
had the following brief article in the
now leading paper in Richmond. Va,
\ a city famous and historic. ! copy it
because of its interest:
''Ts,c WORD Tote.
Editor Of Dispatch
"Sfr:-In your issue of yesterday
| you gave your readers an article on
| the subject Of the word tote" in
which the opinion is expressed that
it is of Latin derivation from the
| verb, "tollo," which means to lift or
remove. You are entirely correct. in
| your statement. and Webster's die
/ tionary is in error. as to the word be-
ing of African origin. Tote" is used
/ by Chaucer. in Canterbury Tales, in
the sense of carrying upon the back.
Chaucer was an English author of
fourteenth century, and has been