Year: 1876

your renders to know that the remark


able orator against whose eloqnence


in your midst even the elements were


lately powerless. has been moving, as


they are not often moved, the less


il, ercurial people of the West. Judge


Fowle made great speech here OF


Friday He is born orator, and even


the glowing story of his triumphs on


the Cape Fear and IN toe East, which


the JOURNAL has so well narratt Il, had


not prepared this people for HE match


less power. His audience yielded to his


magnetism with the first sweep of his


hand and the easy flow of his melodlous


voice charmed them IN steady pro-


gressiun. No words or symbols can


reproduce a speech whose admirable"


matter lacked no accessory at the


hands of man who supplements the


grace and facial power OF an actor


with the earneatuess of one who


speaks the living truth. For who of


us will forget his description of the


true decentralization when the glory


of Lee shall have become the common


heritage of nation united at length,


indeed and the Government, which


must at some day raise a monument


to Custer, shall. with even pace, rear


Stonewall Jackson's? Or who fail to


thrill with patriotic anticipation as he


recalls the picture of common care


for the Federal and the Confed


crate dead, replacing that neg


lect of the latter, which now


all that Sparta wishes to know?"


for his consummate arraignment of the


ItS


hands in horror at the assassination of


Lincoln, an act none tl2e less con-


demned at the South, and yet itself Is


guilty of the murder of Mrs. Surratt,


whose only crime was that, in the


goodness of her woman's heart, she
had bandaged the broken leg of a hu-


man being who happened to be the as


sassin? Nor shall we soon forget, as he
continued this division of his speech,


the admirable irony with which he eX-


posed the claim of that party to be the
party of the Constitution and the laws.


which in time of peace turned loose


the cut-throats of Holden and Kirk


upon defenseless people, whose last


resort in the HaOe0s Corpus became


but the empty form of protection,


it's Substance dlssipated 3 in an


exhausted judiciary. And which, at


an earlier period but yet in time of


peace. in the person of the federal


commander defying this great writ,


sent Tolar to Fort Macon; that COM


mander who. at the capital of the


State, in answer to warrant of arrest


and the posse co7Jtitattts sent to en-


force it, threw open window of the


palace of her Governors, now become


his military headquarters and, point


ing the sheriff to battalion of his


soldiers drawn up i'll the yard, TINS


enforced his resistance to the peaceful


processes of the LAW Rather was the


Democratic party the true Union and
constitutional party which, in his own
person. as judge on the bench,
ordered the commitment of Tolar be-
cause it was his duty; aud yet,
because it was his duty, or
dered the arrest of the federal
commander WHO refused to regard the
service of the writ. And which, IN the
person Of it's chosen standard bearer,
the incompatible Vance, defied the
power of the Confederacy, and, through
period of war, saved unscathed the
palladium of liberty. A noble apos-
trophe 10 Judge Brooks then followed,
and this sacred instrument, in it's re
lation to the Tree of Liberty, was
likened to the Flaming Sword which
guarded the Tree of Life. Now came
amusing illustrations of the Civil
Rights doctrines of the Republican
party, and then followed, IN rapid re-
sumo, an exhaustive rresentment of
the corruption of the lawless party III
power, with its long line of disgraced
officials who had found again the mil
lions {" lost % to the people,. OF the
misery which followed to the
nation that spent more than the
people saved. just as surely as
misery came to the individual |
who had not needed Micawbers aphor-
ism. that the secret of happiness and
misery lay in the true determination |
e20 income the odd sixpence should |
fall. Of the impossibillty of reform |
within the Republican party, happily |
by the resolutions of the |
who resolved, first, to
build new church; second, to occupy
the old church until the new was
built; and, third. to build the new
church out of the material of the old,
and OF the ingenious purpose of this
party in their advocacy of woman's |
suffrage to gain the votes of negro
who would hasten to exercise
a right which the delicate ladies of the
South shrink from.


Nor was his eloquence, and his skill |
IN strong contrasts, less effective in
describing the danger to the republic
IF making ruler of a weak man like
Hayes, who would give offense as
neither the lion, northe fox, nor the ele-
ohant; and whose character and deeds
ne held up beside those of the strong
Did man in whom the Democratic
party discerns reformer destined to
become to us what Pericles was to the
Athenians.


And now, following a discourse
whose naked logic was in no wise hid.
len by the glorious adornment of his
came an appeal from this
Eastern man to his Western brethren
which was utterly irresistible. The
tory of the Jones county enormity. az
furnished by gentleman of that
county to the newspapers, is touching
enough in the simple details of its
ruth; but who that heard this master
# elocution can ever forget the
,athos with which he read that
"a lady, aged and blind, was bid off to
N ignorant negro at 81 per month";"
nd with what graphic skill he pictured 7
he feelings of that white woman,
nee wealthy, as she turned from the
uctioneer's block towards the home
f her MASTER, and thus drove home i
0 this Anglo-Saxon people his plea L
hat within the borders of their State b
nd his the i ke should never be wit n
essed again? And whose blood did not .
ow faster as with the fiery cross OF Q
Ian Alpine-in his hands the glorious
amer of referm--he had each sue s,
sssive runner to tell the news that :"
ne enemy were to be met on the 7th of a.
and begged that he might
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