The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-07

gentleman, / am the representative OF
a great party, n l demand that you
shall treat me as a gentleman ana IL
YOU don't l shall kill you. Stanly saw
that he meant what he said and after
that there was nc more trouble be-
tween them. Colonel Ruffin was de-
feated BY Stanly by a small majority.
and Stanly not daring to risk another
election went to California n was
there when the war began. In 1883
Ruffn was elected to G and
continuously served until the war.
After the fall Of New Bern in March.
1862, lincoln appointed Stanly mill
tary governor with headquarters at
New Bern. The president knew that
Stanly was the ideal and pride OF the
old Wings n he thought he could
exert a beneficial influence in favor OF
the Union. but the people were too
thoroughly impregnated with the spirit
Of rebellion for him to have any lnf1u-
ence over them, SO he r~elinQulshed his
mission and returned to California
! While there a negro who was the body
servant of Col. D. NJ. Carter, was cap
tured and carried to New Bern lie
applied to Stanly for a pass TO return
to his master. Colonel. Carter was an
old Wing and a strong Ir1enO OF
Stanly. SO he sent the negro back to his
master. The fidelity Of this negro TO
his master is worthy Of imitation by
men in higher walks Of life and is an
unanswerable argument to the charges
Of the abolitionists about the cruelty
Of the Southern master. Rufhn was
no debater in Congress-. He was a
man Of action. l don't think he ever
made more than one speech in Con-
gress / remember when a boy read
ing a speech he made. l him
speak in Snow Hill in 1856 In the
Buchanan campaign. He was a
strong, forcible speaker before the
people and they were impressed by his
candor and sincerity, qualities that
draw men. He was terrible IN his
abuse of the Know Nothings. They
sent him word that at a certain place
in the congressional district he should
rot speak. He went and when he
walked in the courthouse and as
cended the judges place, he placed a
pistol on the desk and repeated what
he had heard and declared that If any
man molested him he would shoot
him. He was not troubled. On one
occasion Stanly went to Edgecombe
county. that gave less than 100 Wing
votes. The Democrats notified MIN
that he should not speak in the cOun-
ty. He went and opened his speech
with this bold, defiant declaration,
Il come not as a supplicant but as q
CONQuCIOI. is IL IOt klId1iSS uOW
foolish people are over politics? In
the early seventies I met DR.. j. l.. M.
Curry at the Virginia White Sulphur
Springs He was In Congress with
Rufln and when he learned that ]
lived in his Did congressional district,
he had a great deal to say about him.
saying that he was one Of the most
honest, the bravcst and most faithful
Ii he over knew. My old friend
, ex-Sherif William B. Lane who wa
in his regiment from the beginning
, writes me that he was a very bashfu
man in the presence Of ladies, n ye'
, when the hot blast Of war swept over
: the South he offered his services a
: : once in her defence, fully frustrating
= what Shakespeare says:
E E TN peace there is nothing SO become!
!, AS modest stiffness and hur.ility;
But when the blasts OF war blow il
5 his ears
He raised a company of cavalry IL
n 1861 and it was attached to the frs
s North Carolina Cavalry with Robex
Ransom as Colonel, who afterWaxd
c become a Major-General. His com
! pany was composed OF the flow tr o
u the young men OF Wayne, Greene, LIE
l1O1i. S1dtVA oAu Wl1SOI COUutlCS, O.
in his old congressional district. The
= were the sons Of the rich planters Q
those counties, many of them wer
graduates of colleges Mr.. Ian
writes Inc that he always ad1r esse,
n them as gentlemen. and that the col
o onei of the regiment told him to az
IL dress them as men. but he persiste
in addressing them as gentlemen
"a Tho same gentleman says he was a
lie kind to his men as q father was to hi
IN children. and If one got into the guar
q house RUM would always come t
as his relief. Colonel Rufin was horn
gentleman and when such men ar
e. placed In authority 1t does not tur
E their heads nnd make tyrants out {
r. them, like it does some little fello
I'd who sprung from nothing and whe
OF elevated to q position his head bs
h. comes dizzy. After going throug
lg the different grades he became colon
Of the regiment. He was with h