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V r PAGES 9 to 16 Vol. IX JIALEIG-H. N. C. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1905 No: 112 SECTION TWO 1 V r VAST BREEDING GROlil NFIDELITYi; No Class of Educational Institution in North Carolina is Excepted From the Sweeping Allegation SPECIFICATIONS ' ON FIVE COUNTS Tenacious Adherence to Ori ginal Statement "Our Schools are Sending ForthJMen With Knowledge and Sharpened Minds, Who Talk Philosophy With the Ease of Plato and Aris totle, Weo Feel at Home-in the Realm of the Classics, and Who - Blush With Shame .When the Name of Jesus. Christ is Mention ed in Their Presence." BY BRUCE CRAVEN In replying to the criticisms of my recent article, I wish it to be under stood that I will not engage in a con troversy, since it is unfortunately true that controversies usually degenerate into a profitless exchange of undigested opinion and prejudices. Plutarch left food advice irrthe words: "When two discourses,- if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is f wise." La Fontaine spoke to the point In Baying: "Religious contention Is tltfe devil's harvest." and cotton struck fire o-ith ttift observation that "we are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one arother for point3 on ; whidi we agree." I gladly concede .honest inten tions to those who differ with me, and all I ask Is for them to Investigate and to leave out personal recriminations. Vitriolic Investive happens to come easy to me, but I learned in my foot ball days that it is not right to slug your opponent Just because you can't get by him with the ball. Only the specific request could have Induced me to say more at the pres ent timef with regard to the un godliness of our schools. You were kind enoiigh to treat my article with consideration and I can do no less than give the same attention to your sensi ble and pointed inquiries. In. doing so, some people will probably expect that I will attempt to calm the troubled waters, but the recent Sunday school lesson about Daniel's interpretation of the hand-writing on the wall sets me another and better example to follow. I will begin with the assertion that on the wall of nearly every school in this state today is that fateful message that anyone with care can decipher for himself: "Mene, mene, Zekel uphar- sin." Nothing can be accomplished by This happened at a "religious college" misunderstanding or misquoting myjan(j the one l believe to be far the best position because (whatever faults it I m the state for religious influence, but may have) It is certainly void of all ambiguity or subterfuge. Discussions of new buildings, endowments, attend ance, opportunity, sympathy, doctrines and creeds, are irrelevant to the point advanced. It is evident that the truk Is expanding and the branches becom ing more luxuriant, but these things can not atone for the rottenness of the very heart of the tree of knowledge it self. "Man looketh on the outward ap-? pearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." Exposure of inward corruption is nat urally "startling," but no more so than the naked truth always is. My scrap book on this subject carries the review back seventy-five years and though the truth was Invariably tacitly admitted, Ihe admission was qualified with the hope that the reality was not so bad as the picture and that re-touching the picture was the thing needed. Once upon a time a young curate assumed charge of a parish and found the coat ing on the walls of his church to be crumbling and falling. His parishion ers "told him that they always used whitewash in similar instances, but. he insisted on the use of soap. It was ound that the walls were so covered ; nith whotewash that it took much ; Aork to remove it. Then were brought o view the beautiful frescoes which ad been hidden in a vain attempt to obscure the faults of the wall; and in itead of applying more whitewash, the Jefects were remedied and the restor ition of the ancient glory of the edi ice was complete. It is comforting to jhut our eyes to unpleasant views and ;o appease our convictions with vain nopes as Belshazzar did his with wine; but while we are doing these things, our schools are sending forth men with knowledge and sharpened minds, who talk philosophy with the ease of Pla to and Aristotle, who feel at'home in the realm of the classics, and who blush with shame when the name of i FOR AG1OTI1 c Jesus Christ is mentioned in their pres ence. - My first statement, to which I ten aciously adhere, was that the schools altogether constitute one vast breed ing ground for infidelity and agnosti cism. . This declaration was made before I was born, has been made every few years since, arid is yet true. From this I except no class of in stitutions. Some are above and some below the general estimate, and the on ly exceptions are the few that in daily practice evince faith in the old-time-ideal that godliness is the one thing in comparison with which all other things are as the satellites to the sun. Religion means belief and the colleges no longer teach belief but in its stead emphasize the glory of absolute free dom of thought. All the students i boast of their unrestrained Intellectual and moral liberty, which to the imma ture college boy is the assuption that no one cares where he goes and that if he wants, to go to hell its his own business and he has a perfect right to go there if the broad road happens to suit him best. And it so happens. Students are free to do as they please so long as their actions do not threat en to bring the school into bad repute. Those who engage in street brawls may be expelled, and athletic teams that be come rowdy may be suppressed, but there is no restriction nor restraint nor j supplication to prevent the boys in : school from reveling in card-playing ': and gambling, drunkenness and licen- tiousness. It is in the secret that the devil does his work. place(s I would willingly refrain from going further in this matter but for the ex pressed Intimation that I have nothing definite to support my sweeping asser tions. This challenge can not be ig nored and I here present a few scraps, the particulars of which will be given anyone who desires them for any high er motive than idle curiosity. 1. Boys convicted before the faculty of gambling were given a "presidential lecture," which to them meant: "Here after be more careful about getting caught." .. . .... .., 2. There is a college graduate in North Carolina who is a professed Pan theist and who says he went to college a Christian and that in four years the faith of his fathers fell before the teachings of a single professor. While his religion was changing, many other seeds were sown and are bearing today fruit of which we know not. 3. " There are professed infidels, guid ing the mind-training in our state to day. 4. There are hundreds of teachers so indifferent to consecrated godliness as to daily Impress the students with the belief that phisolophy and litera ture and kindred things are the only gods. ' 5. There is a boy who went to col 'rege a Christian and from a Christian f family, who knew not' the allurements of wine and associated vices. At col lege he became so dissipated as to lose his mind and character, and he told me in his asylum cell that he would not have lost himself and the hopes of his life if there had been any spiritual gui dance or restraint when he was first subjected to the novel temptations. like all others it depends too much On the "Christian atmosphere:' result ing from the pious lies of men too busy to lend a helping hand to pull a Pilgrim from the slough of despond. . t - . ' ..'. Can these five items be exaggerated? Can there be any defense of conditions that make possible these and worse things? Can evil fruit be found on a good tree? , One of the most distinguished col-, lege presidents in America, who has been called "America's first citizen," says that the ideal of a college should be to make "gentlemen." This, term he defines as meaning one who "is quiet, does not bluster, or hurry, pr hustle or vociferate, but is a serene person." Se renity of test of education! Where is there a finer example of -serenity than that of the fallen angels plotting eter nal warfare against the soul of man? In serene waters are bred ; the things that spread death, I but this is the anchor of those who have left the' ships1 of T faith and are casting about for an' idol on which to hang their hopes. "Christian gentlemen" would be a goal worth striving for, but this is not the Ideal. It Is the surface serenity regardless of of the depths below in which there may be tlje bones that are mute reminders of the tragedies of life. It is the se Venity T of Ingersoll, and not that of Abraham. ' . When these obvious evils are admit ted it will be possible to remedy them; but so long as they are denied by the over-zealous and ultra-optimistic breth ren, any little objection will keep the. Bible out of the schools. It is foolish to talk of doctrines and creeds, because -t a person who can not distinguish be- tween the form and the spirit should , be wbarred from teaching not because of doctrines but because of deficient morality. I believe that the right kind cf teaching is impossible without con secrated Christianity, but , this condi- j tlon can be attained without mention- ihg the Bible to the students. When a one lies, or steals or is profane or wor ships the gods of idleness, the com mandments should be impressed "upon horn as coming from the godly-character of the teacher and not as laws from printed pages. I maintain that all mind training is soul-training, and if the first be, un-godly itis inevitable that the second be the same. The mind and soul cannot be separated, but the ed ucational tendency of a day is . to the latest belief that the mind is -the soul (there 'is nothing in us but the things ye think we understand), that, the mind is the essential factor, that the pres ent (not the future) should be our care, that self-satisfied man (and not the "unknown GOd") is the greatest thing in the Avorld. Judged by the standards of the self -styled "new thinkers," I am behind the times. Judged by my stan dard which is the, word Of God, these iconoclasts are not thinkers at all but ! are merely re-vamping the teachings of ine pagans. According to my way of thinking, advancement in though is from unbe left to convictions, and I do not rec ognize any such advancement in recent years. Lyman Abbott, whose brilliant mind delights his hearers, stood in a pulpit twenty years ago on an Easter morning and leaning upon a cross of roses an nqunced his text: "In the cross of Christ I glory." A short while ago he said to college students that God is everywhere a doctrine that ante-dated Christ by thousands of years. For 'my self, I would choose as my teacher the Lyman- Abbott leaning on the cross. There is little originality in these things I write and I know it, but I do not thing so much of originality, as to leave the truth to get it. ' All observant people have heard these conclusions long before now; but if anyone wants to really discover the college sentiment, just suggest to a prominent college of- ficial that the students should be cons tantly taught the truths of the Bible. I have talked with them, and I was never given any more consideration than is to be found in a laugh of ridi cule. Their overpowering Indifference to' reverend things is well illustrated by the incident of a college boy whose in tellect was hampered by early Chris tian influences, answered a question on recitation with a Bible quotation which so exasperated the professor that he told the student to henceforth thfnk for himself and not depend upon old prejudices. The vital part of teaching ligious schools set Jn motion influences exerted by the teachers' character on the student's character. The famous seven churches of Mecklenburg with their seven pastors and seven truly re ligious schools set in motion influence for good that are now bearing fruit. These godly men taught dostrine and creeds unnecessarily, but the sectarian lsm was losl in tne spirituality; ana u men are true followers of the Lord Je sus Christ, it makes precious little dif ference about their doctrinal beliefs. I am a Methodist myself, but I would prefer all creation to go to Heaven as Baptists or Presbyterians or Episcopa lians than to hot go at all. That there is no pleasure is disclosing a skeleton in the closet is obvious, but no less so than the unrighteousness of again obscuring the, ghastly spectacle and leaving it there to profane a household. Notwithstanding these things are "thus," as Lord Bacon says, I want it known that I believe that North Car olina is the most moral state- in the Union, and it is because of my state pride that I feel these things so strong ly. , No More Papier Mache Stage Food (From the Philadelphia Bulletin) "Papier mache food won't be seen on the stage this season. Everything chickens, chops, cutlets, loaves will be real." The speaker, , a. manufacturer of stage properties, dusted a casqueand resumed, a little sadly: "I have had to do away with my papier mache food department, dis charging two men and an apprentice. For even the ten, twenty and thirty cent shows won't carry fake viands now: They say that as far back as Paint Rock, Merna and Lodi, the peo ple Insist that actors eat real food 'on the .stage. "It looks . better, I suppose. At the same time this new fangled realism is playing the deuce with the stage I-roperty business. It is putting good men out' of work. "And consider its expense. I know of one comedy, with a banquet of real, champagne and a real lobster salad scene in the second act, where a bottle of real champagne and a real lobster salad are used every night. This comedy has been played 1,000 times in the last three years. There is expense for you an expense of $4,000 for food alone. Well, one pa pier mache champagne bottle and one papier mache salad worth about" $2 would have saved all that money." Many Mothers of a Like Opinion Mrs. Pilmer, of Cordova, Iowa, says: "One of my children was subject to croup of a severe type, and the giving of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy promptly always brought relief. Many mothers in the neighborhood think the same as I do about this remedy and want no other kind for their children." For sale by W. G. Thomas, Robert Simpson, Bobbitt-Wynne Drug Co. ZEBU LM VANCE By SAVOYARD "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettys burg, last at Appomatox such la the confiding hese and a vast fund of proud boast of North Carolina for her , common sense, a memory tenacious grand devoir in the great war of 1861- j of the slightest particular, a- sover 65. Of her white population, men, wo- eign contempt for sham, a sovereign men and children, one. out of every hatred of meanness, an engaging fan six was at the front. No, state em- Cy, and a command of plain, simple, braced secession with, more reluc- I and direct language these oombmed tance, hut having engaged in it, no ! to give him verdicts. He was nogreat state supported the catise with more j lawyer, like Pinckney,, and he waa heroism or more fortitude. She gave j never an authority on a great consti everything but honor jto the south, j tutional question, even when he was and there reposes in the bosom of old Virginia as much burled valour and unselfish patriotism from North Caro lina as from . any other state, north or south. ' . When the news was flashed over the wires that President Lincoln had issued a call for volunteers to coerce soverign states, Zebulon' B. "Vance was addressing an immense audience, immense pleading for the Union; and opposing j the Confederacy. His hand was raised ! aloft in appealing gestures when the fatal tidings came, and in relating ; the incident to . a New England au- J aience a quarter of a century later, gress and took high rank. He was the he continued: "When my hand came . special favorite of Tom Corwin, a down from that impassioned gesticu- j congenial spirit, who. was instrument ation, it fell slowly and sadly by the ai In securing his release from prison, side of a secessionist. I immediately, I where he had been thrown on the with altered voice and manner, call ed upon the assembled multitude to volunteer, not to fight against, but for, North Carolina. If war must come, I prefer to e with my own people. If we have to shed blood, I prefer to shed northern rather than southern blood." Nprth Carolina took j her favorite son at his word, turned j secessionist with him, and volunteer- , ed for the conflict. . j The fisher left his skiff, to rock on Tamar's glittering waves, -The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves; O'er Longleat's towers or Cranbourne's oaks the fiery herald flew And roused the shepherds of Stone- henge the rangers of Beaulieu. 1 0f that historic command. When j governor-elect he went into the battle Zebulon Baird Vance was' not only of Malvern Hill over the protest of North Carolina's favorite, son, but her , his comrades, who told him his place greatest man, and I am not unmjndful '. was at Raleigh. that Nathaniel Macon-' Willie P. Man-T As governor he put in commission a gum and George E. Badger were also ; blockade runner that he purchased sons of North Carolina. Never was on the Clyde. The vessel made nu there a man of whom it could with ; merous successful ventures, bringing more truth be said that he was In supplies and arms and taking out sprung from the people. Never was cotton. It is very likely that the war there a simpler character, never one would have ended a year sooner but of less guile, never one whose heart for Vance's efforts in this behalf. He was more conspicuous on his sleeve was governor when the war came to than this mountaneer vKth-the tongue an end, and it was his proud boast of an orator, the heart of a patriot, that in North Carolina the writ of the mind of a statesman, and the soul habeas curpus was not suspended and of a poet. He enthused the popualee the civil remained paramount to mil f rom the stump, and he instructed itary authority. It was true of but grave senators in, the council chamber, one other state, north or south. At His tongue never acquired the art of least, that is a statement in one of deception and his hand never felt the Vance's speeches. Of course, he meant contact nf a. tainted dollar. One mitrht that the habeas corpus, so far as as easily have "plowed up hell with a pine shingle" as to-' have tempted him with a bribe. The Vances went .from Normandy with the conqueror and helped to gain the day at Hastings. They were of the equestrian order, and in the Eng- lish peerage the name is De Vaux, as It was in France. At an early day the family settled in Virginia, and it was from the Old Dominion that came ! the North Carolina branch. The grand father of Zebulon B. Vance was a sol dier of ' the Revolution and a captain at King's Mountain. Here is a pas sage from his will that is perhaps literature to those who got their idea of African slavery at the south from Mrs. Stowe's absurd fiction, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In disposing of some old slaves the will directs: "It is my will and desire that they have full liberty, and I do by these presents, give them full liberty to go and live with any of my children where their own children live, not as slaves, but as old acquaintances, who-labored and spent their strength to raise my saici children and their own also. I en join it upon my children who may I Viairo tVio oVilldrpn nf said nld ' nla.ck people not to confine them, but let thorn go awhile to one and awhile to another, where their children may be; and I enjoin it upon my children to see that the evening of the lives of these black people slide down as com fortably as may be." The mother of Zebulon B. Vance was Mira Margaret Baird and It was from her that her son derived .lis genius. She was the acquaintance and friend of John C. Calhoun and William C. Preston, whom she had frequently entertained at her husband's board. It was from her that Zeb Vance got his fancy and his? humor, and from kher, too, he got his big heart and his-'noble nature. The boy acquired a good education and was well ground ed in Latin: The Bible was his fa vorite book and he could repeat whole chapters of it. Perhaps no other pub lic man of our country ever drew so liberally and so. constantly from its sacred pages for illustration as he His lecture, "The Scattered Nation," Is a classic, and perhaps as eloquent defense of the Jewish race as our lan guage affords. Some of its passages are grand, and the. closing paragraph is sublime in its energy and imagery. " When Vance completed his educa tion he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a successful prac titioner and invincible before a jury. Many was the case he laughed out of court, and ' it was a compliment a mountaineer paid him: "If that young feller Vance kin only git his case apast the jedge, he is as good a law yer as any of 'em," meaning if his i ;. : : r pleading only withstood the demurrer. No man ever understood the com mon people better, N man ever hd a prefounder sympathy for them. No man ever had a keener perception of the ridiculous, or a profounder con ception of the pathetic He 'was ever genial, and j cordial and candid' and a leading senator in congress; but when it came to convincing a jury upon a question of fact, or persuading an audience on a -uqestion of policy he was unrivaled and invincible. After serving in the state legislature, Vance was chosen a member of con gress in 1S58. He was the youngest member of the house and a Whig. He and John Sherman and Justin g. Morrill were agreed on economic subjects', though these two found him a formidable adversary a quarter of a century later in the United States Senate. Vance was re-elected to Con- order of Edwin M, Stanton without warrant and in defiance of law. When Lincoln was elected Cance did all in his power, to prevent se cession. He took the stump in that behalf, . and the majority of North Carolina s was with him; but the bombardment of Fort Sumter fired the Northern heart, and Lincoln's cail for volunteers served to recruit Ko-ithern as well as Northern armies. It sant Vance to war as captain in the Fourteenth North Carolina Reg iment. Later he recruited and was appointed colonel of the Twenty sixth North Carolina, and . partial- pated in numerous battles at the head North Carolina was concerned, was not suspended by Confederate or state authority. It was suspended by Fed eral authority in the closing days of the war. j , ; when Vance got out of prison he returned to North Carolina and began the nractice of Jaw. In 1870 he' was chosen senator in congress, but was dnieri his seat. Six vears later he was elected governor, after a most exciting contest, defeating Judge Set tle. He was re-elected, and "probably was. chief magistrate of the "Old North State" longer than any other individual. To him is attributed the immortal suggestion of the "governor of North Carolina to the governor of South Carolina." He was a man of infinite jest. When a friend remarked to him once that i could byt realize it and again, fur it was strange that he and his broth- ther on, I repeated: 'What have you er belonged to different churchjes he answered: "Yes; but a stranger thing than that is that Bob believes In the doctrine of falling from graci and never falls, while I do not believe in the possibility of falling from Jgrace, but am always falling.' Vance f entered the United States senate in 1S79, simultaneously with Vest, of Missouri, and remained a member of that body until his death In 1894. He was a leader of his side from the day . he became a member, and men saw in him one of the very great debaters of that; body during the fifteen years he was a member of it. He could hit hard and never fear ed to strike, be the adversary whom Tie misrht. Infrulls' himself felt his i gteel and neVer challenged him more. The Kansas senator had made a speech on the negro question that was a thing of brilliant phrases. In reply Vance said: ,lIt constitutes the burden of his speech (the ; negro's wrongs,) around which is clustered the i brightest dis play of rhetorical pyrotechnics ever employed to conceal . a paucity of ideas by the gorgeousness of phrase ology. This rhetorical display across the forensic heavens reminds me for cibly of an gastronomer's description of the remarkable tenuity of the tail of a certain cbmet. He said its length was a hundred million miles as it stretched athwart the skies; that its breadth was 50,000 milesand yet the solid matter which it contained could be condensed! and transported in a one-horse cart." f But he vwas not content to employ the weapon of . ridicule only. He as sailed Ingalls with invective, and one who would 'read a splendid' burst of eloquent indignation should read Vance's speech on the legislative, ex- ecutive, and judicial appropriation (Continued oa page twelve. FRIEND PAYS TO CAPT. Honored Citijen and Soldier, One of the Finest Lawyers of the Entire South Hon. Charles Price died this morn ing, September 28, about 3 o'clock, at his home in Salisbury. For years he, his. doctors and his intimate friends have known that his death was a mese matter of time, under that fatal malady. Blight's disease. But, , with all this knowledge, his death : comes with great grief to those who knew him best and loved him because they know him. And his loss jitis profession of the law is a great one. No intelli gent lawyer ever, disputed Mr. Price's ability and general intellectual attain ments. He was a scholar as well as a great lawyer. But thdse who mourn at his death, "sorrow not as others which have no hope." For, they have good reason" to know that he died in the true faith of a Christian; and on this knowledge is their hope firmly fixed for his happy resurrection. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." Mr. Prioe was born in Warrenton, N. C, on the 26th of July, 1846. He was the fourth child of John Price and Martha Reynolds. He began school early in life under Professor John Dugger . and Henry Thompson, was a trood student, fond of his books and especially inerested in the. dead languages, both for their trailing ef fects and for their beauties, and he maintained their study through life. But his school studies were inter rupted in the spring of 1864 by the needs of the Southern Confederacy for; soldier. At the age of 17 he became a member, of a company of boys, know.i as "Junior Reserves," from Warren, Franklin, aiid Nash counties, of which he soon became captain, and which was assigned as Company A, to the First Batalllon of Junior Reserves, J afterwards Seventieth North Carolina j Troops, commanded by Colonel Arm- j stead. Captain Price valiantly shared j the fortunes and the misfortunes of his command and participated in the , battles of-Belfield, Klnston and Ben- j tonsville. To, the personal knowledge i of the writer of this sketch compiled j in part from data given him today, ! Captain . Price,' with part of his regi- j ment, bore a gallant and conspicuous j part during the cold night of storm, j sleet and freezing, December 9th, i 1SR4. at the battle of Belfleld where ; General , Warren, with a great invad ing army, intended for North Caroli na, was defeated and turned back. Of these boys, this writer wrote on another occasion several years ago: "And, Oh! how' those boys did fire. They made their lines lurid In the darkness." The next fnorning the ground and trees were all covered with ice. with weierht of which great ; limbs broke , and crashed to the earth i alone: the line of pursuit of Warren. This writer tells of it thus: -"The next morning I saw those sam bo5rs following in the pursuit, some of them almost absolutely bare-footed. A scene nitiable I saw among; them, ' too. As i i rode past their marching lines, I no ticed that every other boy had a tin cup in his little hand, holding it as if he feared to spill something. I said 'what have you in that cup?' in that cup?'- 'Sorghum for two.' The answer Was, "Sorghum for two. And sorghum was home made molas- ' ses which those boys were carrying thus for part of that day.s rations! And Captain Charles Price , was Blaine for the presidency against Mr, marching there at the head of six Cleveland. Since then Mr. Price has companies of one regiment of those adhered to the Republican party,' bu( boys, "somebody's darlings," as their has not generally been an active parti commander. This writer saw Col. Arm- cipant in its campaigns, stead of. that regiment put under ar- ; jn jggi Captain Price was appointed rest by General Hampton late in the iOCal counsel of the Richmond & Dan afternoon of December the 9th. Lieut- ville Railroad Company and of tha enant Colonel Broadfoot was absent Western North Garolina Railroad, and on an expedition near Plymouth with continued so until 1884, when he- be the other companies of his regiment, came assistant to Hon. D. Schenck, Major Walter Clark was absent on a the general counsel of the Richmond few days' leave visiting1 his old com- an(j Danville in North Carolina. rades in the trenches near Petersburg, wnen Judge Scheheck retired on ac and Captain Price was in command of COunt of . ill health, ' and . the the six companiesof his regiment at panies constituting . the West Point Belfield's battle and in the pursuit in One OI me last mia nui" ever had with Capt. Price, recently, he spoke most practically of "Col. Armstend's beiner under arrest. And thus showed the great tender feeling of his soul over an incident 6f 41 years ago. At Bentonsville Captain Price was or dered to charge with his company across an open field in front of Man- ly's battery of artillery" and did so j with great coolness and resolution, for which he and his boy comrades re ceived thel warmest praise from that greay veteran commanaer, general Robert F. Hoke. He surrendered with General Johnston's army at Greens boro. At the end of the war he was forc ed to forego his purpose to complete his education for the want of means. A year later, at the age of 19 he de- termined to seek a professional career. I He borrowed the necessary funds '-.to1 pay his expenses at th great law ' school of Chief Justice Pearson, at - Richmond Hill Yadkin county, N. C. ; J He remained there five sessions, not JRIBUTE V CHAS. PRICE returning to his home at all during vacations In order to save his small -borrowed funds and to devote all his time to studya beautiful lesson to boys and girls who now must have frequent vacations for Idleness and a "good time," generally, speding monjey, and a most beneficial lesson it is, too, for such boys and girls of the preseA day if they could only "purpose la their hearts" to Improve by it. During this time Captain Prlc not only studied . law but read the classics, devoting about 14 hours ev ery day to intellectual improvement. He not only read the best books, but it became his-habit to study words their' derivation and the shades of dif ference in their meaning, so that he acquired a large amount of special In formation, which not only has been of great value to him, but has through life contributed much to hia own pleasure and that of others. In particular, - It fostered an accuracy of expression and i clearness of thought that characterized him as a lawyec and as a speaker, and which has largely contributed to the distinction; . he has so justly achieved atthe bar. Captain Price at first allied Elm self with the Democratic party and In 1872 .was elected senator to the state general assembly from the Senatorial district, composed of Rowan and Da vie counties. He proved himself a worthy senator. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1875. In its deliberations, he was a useful and Important factor and he warmly supported the amendments, which that convention adopted anJ the next year he advocated their rat ification before the people. At that election, when these amendx ments were adopted by the people, in 1876, Captain Price was a candll date to represent Davie county in th( house of general assembly and Govern nor Vance was nominee for gover ernor. He warmly supported Vance iq a brilliant canvass of Davie, and wa elected, when only 30 years of age, though a stranger to three-fourths of the members of the house. .Suclj was his personality and his reputation as a lawyer that he was elected speakt er of the house and discharged th( important and delicate duties of thai high office most'' creditably to himself and witn entire satistaction to tn house, i In 1871 Captain Price married Mis Annie Hobspn, a most excellent Christian woman, daughter of Mrs. j Ann Hobson, of Davie county, whoi ! was a sister of Governor John M. Morehead. They had only one child,' Mr. Augustus II. Price, an eminent lawyer in Salisbury, and now United ! States Assistant District Attorney. In July 1878, Captain Price married Miss Mary KoDerts, oz MoDiie, Aia., an ; accomplished and beautiful woman, ' whose Christian character and social virtues make her at once an ornament to society and the beloved centre of : their home circle. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Nat ional Democratic Convention at Cin cinnati and ardently advocated the nomination of Thomas F. Bayard fol president. ' The following year the "Liberal Par ty" ' was organized in North Carol!- na and Captain Price, with some othetf prominent Democrats, became a mem ber of that organization and pubse- quently he joined the Republican par- ty. In 1884 he zealously supported Mr. Terminal system passed into the hands of receivers, Capt. Price took charge of the legal business in North Carolina for the receivers until 1894, he was appointed division counsel of the ; southern Railway Company In North Carolina, which he continued to be to his death. In 1889 he was appointed by Pres dent Harrison United States' District ! Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina' and held this office for one term. Captain Price made, as a lawyer. jmany notable argument; among them. . Jn supreme court of the United States inwhat Is known as the Julian case, reported in 193 United States reports. The general counsel of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company who was present, said that he had never heard an abler argument, though practicing In annrpmfi court for 20 years. Of this argument Judge Simonton wrote to captain Price: "I think, perhaps, it s tjje m0st Important case I ever heard In North Carolina. If the Cir- Continued on page ten.)
The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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