The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-06

posed to send the sick and wounde
federal prisoners home without a.
equivalent in exchange All OF thes,
propositions in the cause OF humanity
were rejected For these acts OF hu.
mainly the Richmond Examiner. dur
ing the var said: "The chivalry and
humanity Of Jefferson Davis will in
evitabiy ruin the C~onfederacy. Mr.
Davis i'll his dealings with the enemy
was as gentle as a sucking dove" Yet
AR. Blaine denounced him As a muir.
derer. Mr.. Hill proved that 1. pc,
cent of the Co~nfederates in Fedora
prisons died while only 8 per cent OF
the Federal prisoners in Confederate
hands died. When Hill concluded hi.
speech Voorhees,. of Indiana. said Il
5 as sublime as the inspired words tina,
fell from the lips of Pau on Mars
Hill
Hills speech produced a new order
of things in the South. it placed hel
Upon her feet and restored her to hel
former prestige as a leader. He said
to Blaine: i tell you that this reck
less Misrepresentation of the South
must stop right here. / put YOU or
notice that hereafter when you make
prepared TO subStantiate it with proof.
These were grand words.
Mr.. Hill took his seat in the Senate
on h 4th OF March, 1917. At thai
time sherman. Lamar. Blaine. Conk'
ing and Carpenter were there. This
was a bright galaxy Of great men ant
he was the peer OF either of them.
shall not aliude to but one more 0,
Mr.. Hills speeches and this one was
delivered in the Senate on May 10th
1879, in reply to Blaine. EdmundS ant
Chandler. 1t is an able exposition o
our dual system of government as h
understood it. He did not take tn
eral and not national. but he said i
was partly Federa and partly nation
al. h is considered his creates
speech and covers forty large page
in his life by his SON. Senator Yes
pronounced it the greatest speech de
Of a century. 1t will rank with tn
great speeches made by Webster anC
Calhoun 1 1888, when they discusset
the theory Of our government. an
when Calhoun's logic convinced Web
ster and he afterwards adopted Cal
houn's conclusions. A correspondent
| of the Rochester Evening Express say
Of the speech: He was bold in hi:
statements, we'll arranged with hi!
books Of reference before him, bO,t
in gesture and voice. sometimes will
one hand opened toward the othe'
side Of the Senate sometimes witt
both extended, and then striking tn
dCtlluue III WllII I1SH1J SIdS IL bio
tured in making his farewell to tn
| Senate. With head and shoulder
thrown back, his feet well advanced
and both hands reaching out and dow
ward in ~elOquence and dignity. l haV
seer Clay, but never heard him Speal
only in conversation, but | have hear
Tom Marshal who is said to have bee
much like Clay in style and %eloquence
Hill has studied them both and equal
if he does not excel them both. An
| other northern writer said: Il hav'
heard may speeches and must say tina
this Of the great rebel for clear state
ment, fine language, strong declama
ton, we'll sustained argument and TO
research and candor, is the best eve
| heard in the Senate on the busting
| or on the PLATFORM What more coult
be said Of any man. This is Well de
| served praise coming from politica
enemies, so OOn after the war, befor.
the passions and hatred Of the peopl'
had cooled as they have now by thu
lapse of a half century. What a nobl'
virtue is true friendship.
who shall compare loves mean anc
gross desire
To the chaste zeal OF friendships sa
cred fire.
Love is a sudden blaze. which Don de
Gays;
Friendship is like the suns eterna
rays
Not daily benefits exhaust the flame
It still is giving and still burns the
same
Everybody is familiar with thu
friendship Of Damon and Pythias anc
JOnatha and David. But none OF
these were more devoted to each other
than was Mr.. Hill to Davis We reaG
in GreCian mythology that Achilles was
the most illuStriOus of the Greciar
heroes. He had a quarrel with Aga
menOn, the commander Of the GreciaU
forces, and he withdrew his forces
from the contest and retired to his
tent and neither prayers and entreat-
les couched in the most flattering and
tempting terms could induce him to
return to the field. and he openly
avowed his intention of returning
home to Greece. Homer avs:
The great Achilles, swift of foot. re
NAMED
yC;th;~ h;S ShinS INDIGNANT for th1