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IUH Mta Aa 1 K Th mm mm the journal. GEN. ROBERT RANSOM. ii is c AUF.ru x v soi.iur.u. V Confederate Memorial Adiln -. Deliv ered br Col. Wharton J. (ireon. In "ew Heme, M.iy 10th lx!i. Ladies of the M -nion.il A friends tt ml i'mi .. : r m H'l I Hi! Fonr yers aj.) o;i this rtTurru: anniversary . hiil)ed to i'atnot ism and heroic memories, 011r ora tor wasi he whose enli'y by your bidding devolves on me : il.iy. He gave you graphic ptcture and panoramic ol oce if the grandest and most melndram i'ic battles that History will ever be called on to record. I n ines Lexer by com mon consent of mil. r try critic has given in bi-t great novel of O'Mal ley, the liuest descriptor of Waterloo ever published. Yoqt townsman, (Jeneral Kob ert Kansom, portrayed on occasion referred to the field of Fredericks burg rivaling in pomp, panoply and nnmericals the other, in words scarce less tvefitting. That he was a war actor the rorld knew. That he was a war artiat his eiDgle effort proved. 8nch was Caesar, actor and artist. Allowance make, my countrymen for discrepancy between his work then and mine today. When heroes pass the bourne, their people it worthy to have he roes ever pay them, suitable trib at. Corrt-lati ve thereto, the race tbat falls therein rarely produces the genome article. No account is taken of the nickle plated or Bur magenized specimen, the mere throat cutter on extended scale. Slavish barbarians can evolve such aa those, aa witness Genghis, Attila, Alva and Tamerlane. But the true grnntne broad gauged world recognized hero, is the almost ex clusive development of lree born men and women. Great races and critical j unctures beget great men who adorn their epochs and honor humanity. Most prol.flc of all in such product was the seven hilled city on the Tiber and long centuries later on, the little island with wooden walls and her first great trans-oceanic offiboot. Tboce races inherently great byond all others in past and present times, raised brainy think ers and brawny but gentle actors, who taught and illustrated how to govern others and the far higher lesson for free peoples, how to gov ern themselves, rfuch teacher and actor combined in one, is the quin tescence of godlike heroism. Of such, where can higher typ and more frequent be found iu any era than la the Confederate ar mies! Take, forsooth, as highest lllasU-atio-', Davis, Lee and Sidney Johnston, our three ranking lead ers. Individually never surpassed, collectively never equaled in any war by mortals waged in attribute here outlined. Legitimate praise must needs sound fulsome to those who knew them not, and all pane gyric tame, to those who did. Gentns coupled with gentleness, self assertion with modest claim, loftiest ambition with humility, flawless record with tempting op portnnitj, sublime faith with un flagging zeal, and every impulse subordinate to patriotic end. con- atitnted fitness In the highest for, highest command. Let it content ns in defeat, my brothers, that thej cause by them espoused will be j ganged in history by their exalted . standard. "Causa rictria placint drM ted ticta L'atoni." Observe in like connection, Jackson the su perb, grandest lieutenant that ever j Captain had, aud hia brother Hill, cast in kindred mould; tbat stern inflexible brace of old Ironsides, who held implicit faith in Frovi deuce and Presbyterianism, dry powder, and cold iteel, and couldn't realizethat soldiers could die before their time bad come. It would seem that they had interpo lated another tenet in the articles of the church militant; namely. dying for liberty is a no mean atonement. Soch has ever been a conquering creed for under sized armies, defi cient alike in numbers and re sources. It made the camel dri ver of Mecca the prophet, the law giver, the master of the Eastern orld. It made Huntingdon's brewer the most renowned and re spected potentate oi his time. It enabled the adrentnrer Gorfez with a few score followers to subiueate nation of millions, and so the embattled host urged on by faith In God and duty to man, is well nigh invincible until by attrition nihilation follows. The eizht thousand gnns grounded at Appo mattox is eternal proof of the die- tain laid down. Brief retrospect of a few others of oar typical heroes, and we pass on to the subject of our text. The entire roster could scarce be called between "the rising of the inn'and the going down of the same,'" for from the modest President to the jocund drummer boy, It was an army oi heroes. Take the two fighting parsons for instance. Hear them at critical juncture in the hour of battle and you have the annua of those glorious legions. "Hold your positlou Gen. Cheat ham, for it's the ky of the line" exclaims Bishop General Folk a brief space before his lamented (all, hold it though it cost every man in your command." '-Can't promise General, wa-s the jocular . retoit. since you've made me prom lse to give un cuss-words ." Speak to them in 3onr own em phatic war, Cheatham, bat hold your part of the line. " 'Take good aim mv men before pulling the lanyard." is tbe caution of the erave old artillerist brother Pendleton, and may the Lord have mercy on their souls.'' And now let u. make asilaam to the "critter company," as the cav alry was jokinely dubbed bv the roys on foot. There's Stuart, the noblest ot the line of kings whose name and blood he bears replete itb p ety, patriotism and school boy fan, who to well laid plans loved a fight for right as be did a frolic. It claims to kinship there was with Scotland's Kings, the knightly Ropert who towered above them all, must have been his lineal progenitor. Farewell "old Reaaty," good bve, "Jeb,"' old friend and classmate. And there rides one unskilled in chools and hence conlJ never master the definition of the word defeat, ill name is Forrest. A rough rider they say but bv my troth a courtly. His theory of war may be crnde, but it has proved Napoleonic: "I make It a pint to fight the enemy wherever I find it and to try and get the most men there first." Doff your cap Marat, Kmc of Naples, ami discard your cockney lV.it hers, for her ce on jou rule bet, :ml t hat untutored son ot Gen in. An I h re ri Hampton. He i lark river jet, be far distant, his blushes we h.i nt lunleil the God gr.ur the day and h lire to spare mu-t in nls be chary ot praite, Hir. tin!; hath he ridden well un-len.-irr ersal report belie him. Iiy b;rthr'glit ami by right of pell made good prouder aud no Bayard e'er bore more snotless front. Pooti '. it's puny dul the 1 their's at 1 ingratitude may hurl shalts at such an one as ale men in Lilliput Captain Gulliver, but the muse 01 history Lias mm enrolled amoug-tthe world's foremost and most unselfish cavaliers. Brothers o'er the border, these be a few of our honored leaders. Soldiers ail they were in high de t gree but more than mere soldiers gentlemen. We do not challenge competitive claim, but defy de-I traction. I ti that galaxy ot immor-' tals, few wen more enviable fame in successive grade than did Robert Hansom, i e was born and reared in Warien county, N. C, long an-! terior t hereto and thence on until the war the recognized home ot re-1 tinemeut and hospitality. Her rep utation in that regard extended far bepond State boiders. Whilst there was perhaps more average wealth per capita than in any other county in the State, it's pos session was rarely accompanied by vulgar assumption. Kducat:on, reflnemint and culture were un ' question d passports to every cir cle. It was the privilege of the speaker to have his lot cast amongst that generous people in middle boy hood, and thence on with interruptions to the present time; and he hesitates not to say that tor the beautiful traits named be has after extended travel and close observation never known the country community that surpa-sed if equalled it. Whilst as said, there was much wealth there for that day and a rural population, Bob Kansom was not one of the boj a who was ''bom with a silver spoon in his month." 1 Perhaps as ccnducive to the proud name and tame he left, quite the reverse. His ancestors were of the very first who settled that pait of our Stale, but open doors and open handed welcome had reduced his own and many collateral branches of his house to scant means of con tinuing that mode of living; bn: still tbe latch strmg was eer on the outside of Ins Father's door. To tbe credit of both be it said, he and his illustrious brother Matt now serving his fourth term in the L". S. Senate, and with a proud war record besides, had to contri bute by manual labor on the farm in intervals from desultory schooling to maintain tbat unpretentious but hereditary hospitality. I His father was Robert Ransom 'senior, and his mother Priscilla Whitaker by birth. His grand ! father Sey mour Ransom who had married Birchett the daughter of ! William Green, one of the most ! eucccessful planters and remarka 1 ble men in the South. His pater J nal great grand father was James Ransom aud Ins wife Friscilla, born Jones, the daughter of Ed ward Jones ar,d his wife Abigail augau. r li This lat named was one of the moat remarkable women of the last century or any preceding century, and is better known to her thous ands, ay e! ten s of thousands de scendents as"Grand Mother Cook," (Her second husbaud was named Cook) She was a woman of marked traits of character, who left her impress upon succeeding genera tions of her posterity, and a more distinguished progeny than man or woman probably ever did whose death date is within a century. Governors and law makers, soldiers and Divines of high degree have through all that time been proud to claim that barefoot, unsophisti cated pioneer girl as most illustri ous fountain head of their stocks Priscilla her daughter first mar ried Col. Macon and was the moth er of y. C.'s most distinguished son, Nathaniel of that name. It will thus be seen that Gen. Ran som's great grand father was the step father of that inflexible old Roman' Nathaniel Macon ;whose name is honored and revered wherever known. Mr. Macon was consequently his great uncle through his paternal as he was likewise through his grand ma ternal side of the house, and most striking were their traits in com mon. Gen. Ransom's preliminary edu cation was obtained at the War- renton Academy, necessitating a walk of three or four miles a nay each way, not to speak of inciden tal exercise. His teacher was "old Bob Ezell," familiarly so known, a npa scholar he was, who believed in hickory and the high classics, and instilled tbe last by a free ap plication of the first. It was a cruel system, as I for one can feel ing certify, that under which we old boys oi that day were indoctri nated in "the Humanities," Heaven ease the mark. It may well be qnestioned however wheth er its enure subversion or substitu tion by the new fangled "fad" called moral suasion is conducive to a higher order ol m anhrod. The proof is on the boy s of t he List and rising generations and others to follow. 1-rom the village school he was transferred to the 1. S. Military Academy in 1SIG, and the transi tion was not a feather bed bv com parison. Four years later he left that nursery of heioes as a brevet 2ud lieutenant in the 1st Drag oons. His cl.iss standing was good ordinary only in the acade mic curriculum, but according to the old Scythian staudard of a liberal education there was none above him. "He knew how to ride, to shcot and to speak and act the truth. None stood higher for these and other high qualities than did this modest gentleman, as I well know who entered the school as he was leaving it and know the name he left behind him. By tbe way, he wrote me a long letter ot advice before my matriculation, snch as an older brother might be supposed to have penned ol the occasion to a yonnger. The gist of it as now re called, wra obedience to constitu ted authority as the basis and essential element of a military life; regard tor the rights of your fel lows eonpled with a reasonable self assertion of yonr own, and avoidance of all low dissipation. His branch of the service, tbe mounted, was st ationed almost ex clusively in the far west, in order to hold the Indians in check, at that day constantly on the verge of outbreak when r.ot in actual hostility. In that then remote quarter the next ten years of his I life was almost continnsly passed in hard but inglorious service. ! Nevertheless it was a fit school of preparation for the mighty struggle ' then impending. lie had jast at tained in the line of promotion a rapid rise to the coveted commis-1 sion of Captain, having married his first wife in the meantime and had children born to him. Then came the great political cloud burst of '(51 and the four eventlul years of carnage to follow. Gentle men in the military and naval ser vice from the South wero reduced to choice of alternatives poverty ami honor on the one hand, and assured pay and position and speedv promotion on the other: or to state it iu other and plainer terms, to elect and fight for or against the mothers that bore them. To their eternal credit be it spoken, that in that test election and severe ordeal of true manhood, few wrongly voted and wrongly acted, almost solidly their ballot waf: "poverty and nnsullied hoDor." Some few there were who otherwise elected, and some of these did strike mos: hurtful blow ot all ! against the mother who bore them. Marbles and bronze in their honor I evince the victor's gratitude. F'or 'sweet charity, throw the mantle jo'er jihtir name and fame. Bob ! Ransom, like a Carolinian of the olden time, the true gentleman and knightly Soldier, came quick to call, and laid his babre, almost sole (earthly possessior, upon the altar of his mother state. Cbivalric : Ellis, then on the brink ol the grave, gave him the right hand ol 1 welcome and bade him raise the only regiment of horsemen then authorized. Never did he or any other Governor make more ju dicious selection. !Never was trust more worthily executed. Never was there a more superb mounted regiment than the one he organ ized, equipped and carried lrom Ridgeway to Richmond. It elicited unstiec'nt praise from the martial President down even to the mercenary contractor: and bet ter still aroused the emulation and rivalry ot similar commands from its own and sister states. In this last regard as exemplar, it was ot untold t-ervice to the cause. To i t- tii st Colonel was that credit main ly due. lne post ot danger was ever its coveted place, and the one by discerning generalship usually assigned it. Many and oft tbe time have I heard grand old Hampton dilate in loving and ad miring terms of its ott proved valor at critical j tincture. Of all the daring deeds of that 1'reux Chera iter, 1 think he takes mo6t nnde in bis night attack at Atlee's Station With 30G men, 233 being of the 1st N. C. Cavalry under command of Col. Wm. H. Cheek, and the re maining 53 of the 2nd N. C. under Major Andrews, all Tar Heels, he attacked Kilpatrick's entire dlvis ion and caused it to retreat or rather stampede at the dead hour of night, after capturing a bigadier general and a train of other cap tives outnumbering the force he led. I read a letter on the subject from Senator Hampton: Columbia, March 4,h, 1E92. My dear Colonel: I am glad to learn that you are to deliver a eulogy on Gen. Robert Ransom, for his character and career reflected honor on North Carolina. It was my good foitune to have the ltt N. C. Cavalry in my com rnnd during a large part of the war and I always attributed much of the efficiency of ihia nobis regiment to it first Celonel, afterwards the diatin guiehed Gen. Robert Ransom. To him was due in a large measure those sol dierly qualities which won for his old regiment its high reputation, a repnta uon it deserved, fcr in my opinion there wag no dner body of men in the A N. Vs. than those comprising the lsl N. C. Cvalrj Of the many instances when this regiment distinguished itsell I recall one, when in conjunction witb a small detachment from the 2d N. C. it performed a memorable achievement in tbe defeat of Kilpntrick on his raid attempting the capture of Richmond. With only 250 men in its ranks, under command of Col. Cheek-, and with 50 men of the 2d we struck Kilpatrick's camp at one o'clock in the morning, in a snow storm, after a march of forty miles, captured more prisoners repre senting five regiments than our num ber, including the officer commanding tbe brigade, and put to night Kilpat rick s wbole foroe of tbree brigades, in which were 5.000 men. But on every field this regiment displayed conspicu ous gallantry, l our state, which fur nished so many gallant soldiers to the Confederacy, gave none who upheld ber honor, and reelected glory on our fltg, more bravely than did tbe 1st Regiment of Cavalry. I can never for get my old comrades who comprised it. Peace to their dead; and all honor to their living. Sincerely yours. Wads Hampton When it is taken into account that Kilpatrick's purpose was a junction with Dahlgreen the in famous, whose purpose was aa pro claimed by papers found upon his base carcass the next day, after captaring our Capital and murder ing the President and other high officials, to release the Federal prisoners and turn the city over to indiscriminate sack and pillage and ultimate destruction Tbe discomfortnre of this hellish scheme was mainly due to the General in command and tue uenerai wno bad organized and inlnsed his spirit into that gallant regiment and made it adequate to the des perate undertaking. But let its old commander ppeak for himself. Long before that, Col. Ransom had been assigued to Brigade command and a little later on to a Divisional. From the time of his first promo tion to the end, he was alternately in command of Cavalry and In fantry, thus proving his versatility for command, and the great confi dence reposed in him by those above. Nov. CI, whilst Colonel of the 1st Cavalry he led succesfully in the first encounter between the Cavalry of the two armies. In the spring of 0- he was promoted Brig. Gen. for the special purpose of de tailing him to organize the Caval ry under Gen. A. Sidoey Johnston in the West, but New Berne hav ing fallen this purpose was aban doned and he was ordered to East' ern N. C. to hold the enemy in check and to maintain railroad communications. In Juue 02 he was assigned to the command of a N. C. Brigade of Infantry, and was with Holmes ami linger during the seven days fight, and at Malvern Hill his Bri gade made the last charge and left some of its dead among the Fede ral guns. In the first Maryland campaign his brigade was a part of J. G. Walker's Division, and was at the fall of Harper's Ferry and in the hard fought battle of Sharpsbnrg. From the extreme right, (Sept. 17th) he was at ft a. m. double quicked to the left center, where the enemy had penetrated our lines. They were driven back, and three successive attacks in overwhelming force repulsed, and the position held until our army was withdrawn on the night of the 18th. That feat is all the more worthy of men tion when it is taken into account that two gallant commands had been forced back when he came to the rescue, and that his force was subjected to an artillery fire at canister ranee for several hours without the chance of replying. At Fridericksbnrg he command ed Walker's old Division (Dec, 13tb, 02.) and "was in special charge of Mary's and Willis' Hills"', where the Federals suffered heavi er than any other part of the line Here it was that Meagher's fa mous Irish Brigade was almost ex terminated after various and re peated charges to carry the posi tion. Perhaps the lesson then re ceived lrom the force in his front, was the prompting impulse of the generous tribute paid his foeman by that gallant son of Eiin, Thos. Francis Meagher. In replv to a serenade given him in Chicago after the war he was reported at the time to have used this language; "Now that they are prostrate, the question comes np how shall we treat them! My answer is, with the utmost kindness, cordiality, generosity and magnanimity, for they deserve it. No people have ever dared as they did, no people have ever endured as they did, aye, by the god of battle no people have ever fought as they did. They have proven themselves tbe master Revolutionists of all history. To treat such a people otherwise than indicated, would be quintescence of baseness, coward ice and pnBilanimity." Had that magnanimous course prevailed as it probable would had it been lelt to the decision of the true soldier elemeut of the North, the asperities and animosities of tbe war had long since been as ef fectually wiped out as have the earthworks ar tnd yonr town that tbe war called into being. But alas, thoee "sons of thunder", mouthers, ranters and hot house polticians, who had a Falstaffian repugnance "the villainous smell of saltpetre" and illustrate John Phoenix Bneer of, "Soldiers in pea e, citizens in war," had no no tion of giving up their chief stock in trade. In Jan. 18G3 he was ordered to N. C. with a Division "to repulse threatened attack on the W. &. W. R. R. Here he remained in active service till May ensuing, when he was made-Major General and su perceded Gen. D. H. Hill in the command of Richmond when the latter was transferred to Bragg's arnfy in the west. Here he re mained about two months whea sickness compelled him to give up the command. In October G3 he was assigned to command in East Tenn. and drove the enemy as lar South as Knoxville, and in Nov. had a Bri gade of their Cavalry captured at Rogersville. He remained in East Tenn. till April 04 in command of the Cavalry, and was then ordered to Richmond "for other and dis tant service". It was the Presi dent's purpose to assign him to the command of the trans Mississippi Department and his nomination to a Lieut. Generalcy was sent in. But the threatened condition of affairs at Richmond and the confi dence reposed in him by the President, induced a change in that arrangement, and he was assigned to the command having for its ob ject the defence and protection of the Confederate Capital. How well that duty was per formed is shown by a manuscript letter of Mr. Davis to him, from which 1 make a short excerpt. "Yon had been my main reliance for the defenne of Richmond. You had shown both your gallantry and capacity before you were ordered to reinlorce Beauregard for tem porary service." This letter bears date 19th march 1S87, only two years before that immortal man left us. Only six weeks before hie death I heard from his own lips strong confirmatory evidence of the high estimate in which he held him. Apropos of those two; the last time that I ever met Gen. Ransom, was at the old veterans encamp ment at Wrightsville last summer. He was the then President of the association as I had been its first one. in consequence of tnat, i was booked for a speech, and took as theme our hero President, Jef ferson Davis. In that crowd of old Graybeards, no more attentive listener was there then Gen. Bob Ransom. When ended, he was pleased to thank me as he phrased :t," lor a deserved tribute to one of the grandest men that ever lived." Little did either of ns im agine, what today brings forth. Besides checkmating raiders, he was assigned to special duty under Gen. Beauregard to meet Butler's movement near Bermuda hundreds He commaded the left wing, and repulsed the enemy's right. With proper concert and direction from the general in command, there is every reason to Deneve tnat tne battle berow Drewry'a Blun would have been a crushing and an over whelming defeat to Butler. In special orders the day after the fight Gen. Beauregard was pleased to compliment his Divisional General n most eulogistic terms. Un the 10th of June, nearly a month later, in his report to the war ofBce he virtually unsays what was then published and animadverts i on Generals Ransom and Whiting. There be some who opine that the change of tone in the two docu ments as to the first was simply self exculpatory, when the command ing General discovered that there was a feeling of general disap pointment at general results that day obtained, and that he prefer red for others to bear the respon sibility to shouldering it himself. So did not Bobai t Lee after Get tysburg. Be that as it may, there is no denying that the discrepancy of statement is very extraordinary to say the least. In JuneB'64 he was assigned to the command of Early's Cavalry in his movement to meet Hunter and was with him all through his march to the rear ot Washington in July 1SG4 He was taken sick and relived Aug. loth, C4, and was on leave until Sept. of same year when he was sent as President of Court of Inquiry to investigate nntrauM renorted to have been done on Morgan's last raid into Kentucky. In Novenber 64 he was sent to the command of Charleston and surrounding country, which renewed sickness compelled him to give np shortly afterwards. Such is a brief outline or synop- sis of the war record of your towns man and it is one that any man ! be and his posterity miCTht well be' proved of. As adjunct to it, par don a few extracts lrom a manu script letter of his of Dec. G, 1SS3. It was written to one of his old soldiers and couriers, Professor Nat Allen of Kingstree S. C. who submitted a sketch for magazine publication for his revision and correction. They are given as evidence of his high sense of honor, of truth and honesty, which would not permit him to profit by the partial mistakes of a loving friend at the same time he modestly claims what be was justly intitled to. He writes: , . . "In some respects you are mistaken. I did not supersede or relieve Sam. Jones in S. W. Va. and E. T. I reported to kiji as a subordinate. . . . You were right as to my doing the work andentirely independent of his direc tions, for he gave me none. I did not decline to go to tbe trans-Mississippi, but did not suit the politicians, ana the pressure being so great around Richmond, was by the President's order assigned command at Richmond ! and Department of Henrico. . I stopped Butler. The affair at Rogers villewason the Gth Nov., lGo. . . . I took command of larly's Cavalry at Lynchburg, Ya., about the 18th or l'Jth of June, 18G4. Disorganized as was this force, I made it do some good service. 1 got nearer to Washington, D. C, I believe, than did any other general officer of the Confederacy, going within less than a hundred yards of the works north of the city. In Nov. 'G-t I went to Charleston, S. C., and left there just after Xrras and was no more on duty. At Malvern Hill my brigade made the last charge and my men fell at the muzzles of the enemy"? cannrn. At Sharpsburg 1 masked (.') the junction of Early and Hood, who were iought out, and re pulsed Sumner's and Hooker's attacks uuiiug iue uajr. ai j.' i euencjisourg, with less thaa 5,000 men I repulsed the Federal attacks with a trifling loss to us, killing over 2,000 Federals. I think, though, my best service was in organizing the 1st N. C. Cavalry, and in my work near Kinston, N. C, in the spring of 'G2, when I brought order out ot chaos, after the fall of New Berne, and in my operations around Richmond in 'G4 (the spring;, when with only a handful ef men 1 prevented the fall of the city against raids and Butler's attacks. I have been trying to get up data, lut it seems a hopeless job, and I hate to write anything which will not be com plete and convincing. . . . It does appear that I am for all my life to be at hard employment. Well, better wear out too quickly than rust out aid linger too loDg. I rctirn tie paper, and if you can correct it satis factorily and do justice to Brig. Gen. W. E. Jones for his part at Rogers ville, for you know he was in imme diate command, I will as fully appre ciate and recognize your kindness and friendslaip as a grateful ma"n can. Be sure not to claim anything tor me that is not justly mine. . . . Faith fully yours. Much of this letter, my friends, i repetition in the main, but it is given as confirmation of what was gleaned from other sources, for you who knew him well will affirm that "he would not claim anything for himself that was not justly his.'' And now my friends, with a brief summary of character, we wil close this too extended sketch. Old Tom Carl yle hath pungently said, in effect if not in words: that "none but earnest men do deeds worth chronicle." True for you old Epigram! and here's an illns tration. noo Kansom was an earnest man. Convince his judg ment, and every fibre and difficulty was sure to follow to make that judgment good. Tie needless to say to those who knew him. that conscience had first to be con vinced. inat done ana work or fight or pray, "he did his level best." I have told joo a$ you knew be fore that he was a follower true and tried of "the Southern Cross." Those who knew him only on the surface, little thought that there was another "Cross" lor which he strove and etrived within himse even more strenuously. I know i of observation in the dead hour of night, and have had it confirmed by tongue of one whose word with me is almost tantamount to either of the five senses, his old comrade in arms Col. E. D. Hall. Judging from his war diary he seemed never to have missed divine service when secular permitted his attendance One entry is here inserted; April 8th '64 "Fast Day. Tried faith fnllv anrl ninnnl trt nhoArpfi ir --- j - - "So groan 'd Sir Lancelot in remorseful pain Not knowing he should die a holy man. Whils't few had higher regard for the good opinion of the dis cerning good, none nela in more sovereign scorn the ephemeral popularity, for which small men strive as good supreme of earthly aspiration. Perhaps in him it was carried too far, both in peace and war. His idea was, that an ap proving conscience is essential to happiness. "The rest is but leath er and prunella." So held Socratees the Philosophe-, and Simon the man hater. It may be a fallacious creed for worldly gain, but for eternal give it me every time before that of the smiling, smirking time server, now this, now that, all things to all men. It is essentially the faith of brave, high strung, straight for ward self reliant natureo. And now in conclusion To you gentle lady, who was both solace and consolation of his last declining years our heart felt sympathy is tendered. We are almost prepared to bear it rejected as was done by a daughter ol the Scipios on a kindred occasion "Reserve yonr pity loving friends, for I am not fit recipient. I'd rather be the widow of mv dead hero than the wife of any living general Senator, tribune or consul." Fair maids and matrons whose pious and self imposed duty it is today, to bedeck the graves of our patriot dead with the flowers of spring, do not pass by his humble monnd, for none there be of high or humble grade who deserves yonr tribute. Keep green his grave and transmit the charge to those who will come after you, The latter years of his life were passed in your midst in bard work lor the developement and material good of our State and in the beautiful city of your dead in company witb your fathers and mothers, your sons and daughters and heroic de fenders will this worthy, self deny ing, duty loving Soldier respond to his name at final Roll call. Some Foolish People Allow a cough to run until it gets beyond the reach of medicine. They often say, 'Oh, it will wear away," but in most cases it wears them awav. Could thev induced to try the successful medicine called Kemp s Balsam, which is sold o a positive guaiiimee 10 cure, iney woui immediately see the excellent effect afte taking the tirst dosa. Price 50c. and $1 Trial size froe. At all druggists. mar22deod weow A LEGEM). I read a legend of a man who painted, In an old convent cell in days agone. Pictures of martyrs arid of virgins sainted, And the sweet Christ-face with the crown of t1 Poor daubs ! i to be a chapel "e treasure . Full many i them full But the good tuuiirig word upon abbot Ut him, for his pleasure. Adorn with thtrin Lii e ry cell . One tight tbe poor mouk "(Jould I but render Honor to Chri't as oihi t pa ioters do, Were but my ski. I ts pretu a the tender Love that inepirfs me when Hisccm-p I view. 'But no lis v.hiq I toil mid strive in sorrow : What man so scores still !im can He admire: My life's work is valueless, to-morrow I'll cast mv ill-wrought t ictureB in the ftre." He raised bis ev it ijin hiB cell oh, wonder ! There stood nvifiior :1k. e ro w n ' d was He: And a sweet vti-f th- silence rent asunder I scorn no work thai e done for love of Me ! ' ' And round the walla ihe pictures ohone resplendent Wi'.h liRbts and colors to this world unknown. A perfect beauty end a hue tracucen dent, Tbat never yet on ni r-hl r mva Bhone. There is a mcaniDg iu the strange old story Let none dare jjdo 1 i-i brother's worth or need . The pure intent gives to tbe act its glory; The noblest purpose ruados tbe grand est deed. Democratic Convention in Onslow. Pursuant to a call of the County Executive Committee issued 8th day of April 1892, the Democracy of Onslow met in the court house in Jacksonville on Monday the 2d day of May. The convention, which was unusually full and en thusiastic, was called to order by Dr. C. Thompson, chairman of the committee, who requested S. L. Gerock to act as temporary secre tary. The temporary organization was then, on motion, made per manent. On motion, the chairman was instructed to appoint a committee of five, one from each township, on resolutions. The following com mittee was thereupon appointed: Dr. J. L. Nicholson, J. F. Foyles, J. F. Henderson, A. T. Farnell, Jr., and J. W. Spicer. The com mittee reported the following reso lutions, which were almost unani mously adopted: Resolved, 1st. That the Demo cratic voters of this couuty take pleasure iu endorsing the course of our distinguished Congressman, B. F. Grady. 2nd. That the chairman be in structed to appoint twenty five delegates to the State Convention in Raleigh May 18th, and a like number to the Congressional Con vention which assembles in Clinton July 20th 1892. The following delegates were appointed: State. . E LFranck, Sr., Wm. Birbee, Marshburn, Jos. E Rhodes, L D Bryan, J U Foyles, T, J Jarman, Geo. T Walton, J N Lanier, H H Shepard, S L Gerock, Micajah Farnell, Alfred E Simmons, Jos. F Henderson, D W Smith, A F Far nell, jr., I N Henderson, W W Rnssell, W H Hurst, A G Hurst, J M Bishop. Jas M Hobbs, Z R Thompson, H E King and J W Spicer. Congressional: EL Franck.jr., Jno. A Hoffman, J I Brown, E F Howard, F W Hargett, Dr. J S Nicholson. Dr. E S Cox, W II Jarman, J N Idwards, M C Daw son, Thos. J Jarman. CB Hewitt, John Hurst, J B 1-Yeeman, C 8 Hewitt, jr., BS Gibson, A T Arthur, John F Willis, E W Far nell, Ruffin Bryant, E I Provow. Wallace W Lewis, R E Batts, J W Spicer, Fayette King. The chairman and secretary were on motion, added to each list. The proceedings of this conven tion were ordered to be sent for publication to the Raleigh Chroni cle, the Clinton Caucasian and the New Berne Journal. The convention then adjourned. C. Thompson, Chm'n. S. L. Gerock, Sec. N'ew Hope Festival. According to programme, our entertainment and festival at New Hope school house came off suc cessfully last F'riday evening the Gth inst, our expectations were more than realized. A large crowd, for tbe small place, was there over 100 people and they were very liberal in their donations we think. We never saw more lemonade drank in so short a time, oysters, cake, fruit &o., gingerale and soda waters, were dispensed, but we failed to get tbe music instruments. We speak of these little things, because ours was a small place in the country and not thickly set tled. New Hope school house is only a little house in the woods, and we want to bnild it larger, and we are going to do it or try very hard. Abont $74 were taken in. We will have another about tbe fourth of July next. SIM PL, K im CORSTRUCTIO. PERirXANENX IK DURATION. EASILY APPLIED. ITS SKII.I HL USE Q.CICKLY LElliKEu, The Electropoige is an Instrument for THE CURE OF DISEASE WITHOUT MEDICINE. BASED on new theories of the raune anil cure of disease, it deals with the electrical and magnetic conditions of i lie body aud the gases surrounding It In the atmosphere, controlling these conditions at will. It is not electricity. DISEASE ia simply lm- pairea vitality. xie hieciropouo consiaut y adds to the vitality and only asRiHtR Nature, In Nature's way, to throw ol! the trouble. A 40-pace book, describing treatment mil containing testimonials from all eertlons, and for the cure of all diseases, mailed fbek on application. Address ATLANTIC ELECTROPOISE CO., Washington. D. C. Charleston. S. C Atlanta, Uai. W, M. WATSON. .Agent. KewB.rne.N' (J- Early failure often leads to ulti mate success. The Population of e Jlcrne Is about nine thousand, arid wo wou'd say at least one-half uro troubled with some affection on the Throat and Luns, as those complaints are, according to sta tistics, more numerous than otheis. Wo would advise all our readers not to ne glect the opportunity to call on their druggist and get a bottle of Kemp's Bal sam for the Throat and Lungs. Trial size free. Large bottle 50c. and 1. Sold by all druggists. o J) It's easy enough Fi.il I corset. That's bc k l..t.s coils of line wire spri cl.is n the sides. They : closely, but t: t tire yi( motion. lr.it tli'-y come s your money Th. a k y ,1, - if yo e worn a Hall cor s t t .' !" llin-c weeks, and fi ; it...: i (ii 'ii t like it. O. MARKS &. SON. NEW STOCK IN Horses Mules DOWM GOES THE PRICES OF BUGGIES! New Open; Buggies from $50.00 to $37.50. New Top Buggies from $70.00 to $55.00. Some other grades in proportion. Also, Iload Cart and Harness. Must be sold regardless of cost. J. W. Stewart. Etiilwaukee ER. i rati am SOI cl Beer i : ACKNT for New Berne . this Cole- ON DRAUGHT. Schooner for 5 Cents. I kop oa hand a CHOICE LOT of WIKES, LIQUORS, Cigars and Tobacco. T. C. HOWARD, RED LIGHT, Middle Street, Near Market Dock. mai23 dwtf THE 8TURTEVANT HOUSE, NEW YORK. o- -oo o AMERICAN EUROPE AN PLAN 2.50 TO 3 50 PLAN 1 .OO Per Day J'ICK DAY, UPWARD. o- OO- o THE STURTEVART HOtlE Ii the moat oentral In the oltj! n.ir all 1 vated roads, street ear line., prlnolple plaoo. or amu.oment Dd large retail ator.a. All the Comforts of Home with tie addi tional oonveolrncc. of the melropolle f offered our Knema. THE STL'RTKVA T IIOI SK. Bro.duoy, '48tli&20th .. Mew York. It. V JOE k. w : LIS. PROPRIETOR OT Eastern Nortl Carol! Marble Works NEW BERNE, N. C. IlaUmn Anmioan HurU mU Ordari soil cl tod And rlran prompt at tention, with atlsfAcUom tT'-mntttd. tVAWha4 M U. vary Uvm rataa, ROBERTSTROT Wholesale Dealara In Groceries, Provisions JOBACCO and SMTP, BOOTS and SIIOES." We are al.o agent for HTtXlK "DlADKaf PLOUK, every barrel wan anted. A large tx-k of 1'IIRK WHIT INIIA MOL.AHHKH, our own lmpor'-aMon. a vme to aee ns. or aend yonr ordere Tou will find our Prices aa LOW aa Ur oweat. :nav24dwt KOBKKTB A ERO
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