The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-04-08

ger, LOT the tElOI Nv ~ 4
tho State, [ alternative OF joining
that armed invasion of our Southern
sister States for their s~ubjugatlon. or
resisting the authorities OF the CnlteO
States, our position was taken WITH
out o moments hesitation tie be-
came a delegate to the secession con-
vention of May, 1851, and Immediate
" upon its organization, offered a
resolution declaring "all connection OF
government between this State and the
United States OF America dissolved and
a~brogated. and this State to be a free.
sovereign and Independent State"
His resolution, however. based this
action on the right Of revolution; an
other resolution, basing the separa- |
ton Of the State from the Union on
the constitutional right of secession,
vas offered az a substitute, and was
adopted by a vote Of Y to 40. The
vote was then made unanimous, and
Mr.. Badger, sinking his individual
preferences in the general cause, join
ed the most ultra-secess1onists in sign
ing the Of Secession.
Ills career was now at an end. He
lived just long enough to see the Con-
federacy, to which he gave his loyal
support, oyerthrown, and the Union
restored, dying at Raleigh May IL,
1865. He may nave had his equals
wrote Judge David Schenck, who
served with him in the secession con-
ventiOn. but ] do not believe that his
superior AS a lawyer, an orator, a
scholar and q c~onversationist lived in
this generation. He was the greatest
man ! yer knew"
William A. Graham.
1t is pleasant to turn from the so
ctal squabblcs and political Quarrels
which distinguished the cabinet ca
reers of Branch and Badger. to the
cordial official relations an sincere
! NVo0ro1 ftNrIo1- SA
lied the associations of Graham and
Dobbin with their respective chiefs.
William A.. Graham was Of Scotch
irish descent, and in his intellectual
and personal characteristics illustrated
the qualities for which the Scotch
Irish have been famous. Both his
father and his maternal grandfather
were distinguished partisan leaders
on the Carolina frontier during tho
Revolution. and by their activity con-
tflOuted no little toward winning for
N~ecklenourg county the reputation
which 1t bore among the officers Of
Lord Cornwallis's army as SO, Slammed
rebellious county," and for the town
OF Charlotte its proud title OF s.Hor-
nets Nest Of the Revolution"
at the 6 OF sixteen years Graham
entered the University OF North Caro-
INA His powers Of concentration
were great, his perceptions quick. and
D. Tic JO1OI
exercise Of these faculties he could
much in little time An
course III general reading
stored his mind with a large and
I varied stock OF information on which
a. grew at pleasure IN after life. He
= applied himself diligently to the duties
: OF the Dialectic Literary So
4 ciety, prepared with care all the
debates and other exercises in which
re participated and BECAME an able
and formidable debater. With II
e al ne paid exemplary attention to his
y CLASS work. gathering from each reel
0 tauon some permanent addition to his
stock Of useful knowledge. A HARD
, worker. he reaped the rewards Of Ia
{ Dor. he was graduated in 1894 with
n1enest honofS' among the first fou1
einbe OF his class and was selected
. to deliver the classical Grafton" a,
commencement,
To the graduate Of 1924. ambition.
= !" Tor political distinction, no other ca
reer seemed possible thar that Offered
Dy the bar. This was the career vii
non a. Graham marked out for him
self. He read law under Thomas Ruff
4 fin and was admitted TO the bar Of tn,
superior Court at Hillsboro in 1927
Perhaps no other village of It's eixa
20 ana but Few towns many times its size
d In n Union could then have boaste,
W such a bar as Hillsboro. Among It
to members were Thomas Rufin. tn
I'd great Chief Justice Of North Carolina
H. Frederick Nash, destined to q caree
OF eminence on the Supreme Cour
Of bench; Archibald d. Murphey, who 70
ne oioau-!nlhosu, constructive statesman
to ship still stands without 4 superior /
the history Of North Carolina; Frame,
id L.. Hawks. eminent as lawyer, preach
to er. and scholar; and Willie p. Man
gum. who added luster to the Sepat
O. of the United States even in the day
IFS or Webster, Clay and Calhoun. 9th
on ers who then practiced at the Hill.
bOrO bar We're George r. Badge
es' counted among the ablest LAWYERS {
the Union; William IT. Haywood. lil
n Badger. afterwards a Senator in Cor
gress; and Bartlett Yancey, inferior
neither in learning and e~loQuence. TT
"a. self-confdence which impelled tn
nj young man., fresh from the ceremor
which invested him with the dipr;,