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NORTH CAROLINA'S WAR GOVERNOR, Z. B. VANCE
THE SUBJECT OF AN
At the Presentation of a Portrait of Vance to the Graded School of
Halifax by the United Daughters of the Confederacy of That
Town. The Program of the Day Greatly Enjoyed.
The Halifax Chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy ob
served Lee-Jackson Day in the Court
at Halifax with the following most
interesting exercises:
Prayer.
Chorus, How Firm a Foundation,
(he Daughters.
Recitation, Tne Veteran, Miss Mil
dred Campbell.
Chorus, We're Tenting To-Night,
the School.
Recitation, The Men in Gray,
Horace Jennings.
Quartette, Let Us Pass Over The
River, Mrs. Fui'gerson, Mrs. Mer
chant, Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox.
Recitation, Stonewall Jackson,
Hugh Webb.
Chorus, Old Stonewall, The Daugh
ters Qucrtette, Nellie Gray, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilcox, Mrs. Merchant, Mrs.
Gary.
Recitation, The Passing of The
Gray, Mabel Hux.
Quartette, Just Before the Battle,
Mother, Lucile, Bettie and Paul
Merchant, Hugh Webb.
Recitation, The Men Who Wore
The Gray, Josephine Gowan.
Chorus, Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
the School.
Chorus. Old Black Joe, The Daugh
ters. Mr. Ashby Dunn, of Scotland
Neck, in behalf of the Daughters,
presented the picture of Zebulon B.
Vance to the Halifax school, this
being accepted by Miss Mildred
Campbell. Then in the following
eloquent address Mr. Dunn did hon
or to our noble War Governor:
Lsd:es and Gentlemen and Pupils of
the School:
Just a little over six months ago I
delivered an aidres; in Halifax on
the life of Jefferson Davis At that
time I voiced the pleasure I experi
enced and the honor I felt that had
been conferred upon me in that it
ha 1 been given to me to speak to a
Halifax audience. Doubtless many
of you who heard me then have for-
tten the many reasons I gave for
the especial pride I took in the great
favor you had bestowed, but I tru?t
I left at least in your mind some im-pre--sion
of my genuine and sincere
gratification. To-day my feen'ng of
pleasure is the same, except per
haps it is more intense, for that I
have come to do honor to the life of
one of North Carolina's sons and to
pay loving tribute to the memory of
his illustrious deeds and signal
achievements. This is indeed a
happy occasion for me. Loving
North Carp'ina as I do, cherishing
v-itb loving pride the part that Hal
ifax county has played in her histo
ry, nothing could delight me more
than this to rehearse before a Hal
ifax people the incidents of the life
of one of North Carolina's favor?d
and favorite sons, and to present to
this school in behalf of the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy of Halifax
Chapter number twelve thirty-two,
a portrait of his likeness.
Often I have deplored the fact
that our people have seemingly spent
more time in studying the lives of
those who have lived and wrought
outside the borders of our State
than they have devoted to the study
of our own great and illustrious
men. We have been prone to feel
that the farthest hills are the green
est, that a thing wins glory from its
being far, and orbs into the perfect
star we saw not when we moved
within its circle, that no good thing
can come out of Nazareth, that a
profit is not without honor save in
his own country. In this respect
we are like the old fellow who met a
stranger on a train one day. They
' began to discuss the relative merits
of several big men. The stranger
mentioned Bill Jones. The old fel
low said, "We can pass Bill by, he
Hve3 in my town." Natural im
pulse doubtless prompts most of us
to feel that way, yet this shou'd not
be; certainly not, when we come to
consider North Carolina and her
loyal son3 whom she has honored and
who in turn have honored her.
North Carolina is great in past
achievement, the record of her his
tory testifies to the strength and
hopefulness, the faithfulness and
and fortitude of a worthy and noble
ADDRESS BY ASHBY W. DUNN
ancestry. Therefore let us take a
justifiable pride in the fact that we
have met here for this laudable pur
pose. This is a gathering of North
Carolinians for North Carolina. It's
a case of me and my wife, my son
John and his wife, us four and no
more. Do not understand me to
speak in the spirit of vain glory; I
only speak in a spirit of justifiable
pride, glad for what we are and for
what we have done, yet realizing
our short comings and always seeing
something ahead yet to be accom
plished. I wish that every citizen in
our State could be imbued with the
spirit of patriotism and loyalty. It
is only such a spirit that will insure
us a glorious future and leave to
generations yet unborn a rich and
priceless heritage. Assuming that
these considerations have moved us
how completely should our hearts
and minds be in harmony with a
purpose for which we have met.
Not merely because we have met to
do honor to the life of a great man,
and he a North Carolinian, which in
itself 13 much, but also because in
paying loving tribute to his memory
we shall be benefitted and the fires
of patriotism be hindled anew with
in our breasts.
Zebulon B. Vance was born in
Bumcombe county, N. C, May 13,
1830. He was born in sight of the
French Broad River and in the midst
of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His
eyes first beheld the light of day in
a veritable temple of nature. There
in that land are grand and lofty
mountains standing upon their eter
nal base and lifting their heads into
the very, eloud, there the sands of
tumbling cascades can be heard and
the soft murmur of rhythmic water?,
rhere dark and gigantic forests mir-
j ro! themeivf s in pellucid sirea-r
'In fact every nicture that nature
paints there in that land of the sky
is a most beautiful one. and one
catches a variety of scenery there
the like of which is hardly found
anywhere else. Vance was a son of
the mountains, and surely the moun
tains and brooks and the rivers and
the forests were the books from
which he learned the lessons that
were to be the foundation of his able
career. He was educated at Wash
ington College, Tennessee, and at
the University of North Carolina,
studied law under Judge William H.
Battle and Mr. Samuel F. Phillips,
was adm'tted to the bar in January,
1852, and was elected county attor
ney for Bumcombe county the same
year. He was a member of the
State House of Commons in 1854,
and was a representative from
North Carolina in the thirty-fifth
and thirty-sixth Congresses. He
enterea tne uonteaerate army as
captain in May, 1861, and was made
colonel in August of that year. He
was elected Governor of North Car
olina in August, 1862, and re-elected
in August, 1864. He was elected to 1
the United States Senate in Novem
ber, 1870, but refused an admission
and resigned in January, 1872, and
was elected Governor of North Car
rolina for the third time in 1876.
Again January, 1878, he was elected
to the United States Senate, was re
elected in 1885, and again re-elected
in 1891, and died at his residence in
Washington, April 14, 1894. Thus
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is tola in very orieiest outline
the history of the life of Zebulon
Baird Vance. It were impracticable
as well as impossible to discuss at
length all the important incidents in
his life. It would require more
time than that allotted to me to
study him as lawyer, soldier, states
man, man. Suffice it to say in this
respect that in all positions, in what
ever activity he acquitted himself as
only true men can, always proving
himself worthy of the confidence im
posed in him, faithful to every trust,
zealous in the performance of every
duty. My aim shall be this after
noon to bring before your mental
vision as nearly as I can a personal
life picture of the man himself, en
deavoring at the same time to give
some idea of the importance and
the scope of the work he accomplish
ed, and to ascertain if possible the
secret of his greatness and of the
high esteem in which he was held by
all who knew him. And to this end
I desire to first tell you something
of his boyhood.
He was a remarkable boy in many
respects. He was a boy of spirit,
dash, energy, snap and vim.! On
one occasion he was reprimanded by
his teacher for loud talking, and as
a punishment for. his fault, Mr.
Woodson, placed Zed at a mouse
hole with a pair of tongs in his!
hands and told him not to open his J
mouth until he caught the mouse.
Zeb took his place at tne hole, and '
the work of the school went on. t
Finally the time for "spelling by
heart" came around, and in the ex
citement of the contest everybody
forgot Zeb. All at once he startled
the school by shouting out, "Darned
if I haven't got him!" And sure
enough he had the mouse gripped
with the tongs. Some travelers
passed his father's house one day
and asked Zeb if there was any7
liquor about the house. He said
yes his mother had some. They
gave him a bottle and he went to !
Mammy Vertus and got a bottle of
pot-liquor and gave to the strangers. I
He charged them nothing for it but j
made them promise not to open it J
until they had gotten- out of sight.
Zeb had kept in sight to see the fun.
Zeb's mother possessed a great deal .
of skill in reducing Captain Vance's .
old broadcloth suits to fit Zeb. The
following is a poem he wrote when j
he was a boy in memory of the fact: j
How dear to the heart are the pants
of my childhood,
When fond recollections present
them to view;
The pants that I wore in the deep-
tangled wild wood,
And likewise the groves where
the crab-apple grew.
The wide-spreading seat .with its lit
tle square patches,
The pockets that bulged with my
luncheon for noon.
And also with marbles, fish-worms
and matches.
And gum-drops and kite-strings
from March until June.
The little patched trousers, the made
over trousers,
The high-water trousers that fit
me too soon.
No pantaloons ever performed great
er service
In filling the heart of us young
sters with joy; - :
They made the descent from Adol
phus to Jervis,
Right down through a family of
ten little boys.
Through no fault of mine known to
me or to others,
I have made the tenderest branch
on our big family tree,
And having done service for nine
other brothers,
They came down to me slightly
bagged at the knee.
The little patched trousers, the second-nand
trousers,
The old family trousers that bag
ged at the knee.
Vance was mischievous, but it was
said of him by an old mountaineer
with whom Vance had lived during
a part of his school days that he was
ever honest "under fire." When he
alighted as a student at Chapel Hill
his popularity immediately began.
Most of his companions were long
term students and of course were
overwhelmed by cordial greetings
from their friends, and Vance, of
cours3. was neglected and solitary.
Determined not to be outdone he
rushed to a venerable old negro
standing near whom he had never
seen before, and shook his hand with
extreme cordiality It was not five
minutes before every man had
sought his acquaintance and taken
him in his heart. His life sparkled
with wit, and he was conspicuous
for his sense of humor. He was big
hearted and companionable, and
perhaps no student attended the
University at Chapel Hill and re
mained such a short time as did
Vance, who gained such wide-spread
popularity. He possessed that rare
power of winning friends, was bless
ed with rare power of persuasive
speech. His spirit was ambitious
and ever self-reliant, his integrity
was incorruptible. As he left his
university to go out into the larger
world into a larger field of action
he went well equipped for the life
that lay out before him.
Leaving Chapel Hill, Vance imme
diately began the prastice of law.
This was in the year 1852, in the
same year he was elected solicitor of
Buncombe county. Long after
wards in lecturing to the law college
of the District of Columbia he re
ferred to his wcrk as solicitor in the
following manner: I went out to
court on horse back, and carried a
pair of saddle-bags with a change
of shirts and a North Carolina Form
Book in one end of the saddle bags.
and it is none of your business what
was in the other end. Vance went
on with the practice of the law until
he was called upon to run for the
legislature. A highly respected
gentleman, a great deal older than
Vance was his competitor, who
stated as 6110 of his grounds of ob
jection why Vance should not be
elected was the fact that he was too
young. I cannot tell you how Vance
met the objection, but he met it in a
manner most satisfactory to those
who heard him, and it goes without
saying that Zeb was elected. As
illustrative of Vance's ability as a
campaign speaker and his readiness
at repartee I desire to relate the fol
lowing incident that occurred when
Hon. David Coleman was running
against Vance for Congress. Col
onel Coleman quoted the parable of
the barren fig tree and applied it to
Vance, saying that Vance had been
to Congress and that there was no
fruit to be seen, and he shouted,
"Now, fellow citizens, cut him
down." When the time had come
for Vance to speak he turned to
Colonel Coleman and said, "Colonel,
your Scripture quotation was un
fortunate. The facts are that the
Lord went into the garden with the
gardener, and seeing no fruit on
the fig tree he said to the gardener,
'Cut it down,' but the gardener
answered, 'Not so, Lord, but let it
stand another year and I will dig
about it, and then if it bears no
fruit cut it down.' Now, gentle
men," said Vance, "all things ac
cording to Scripture." His reply
was enough. Such a shout as had
never been heard in the old court
house before went up that day, and
Vance defeated his eloquent oppon
ent by 1,900 votes. But I would do
the subject of this sketch a gross in
justice if I should lead one of you to
think that the inimitable humor
which lightened up his speech war
the distinguishing feature of hi3
oratory, or that it was a disting
uishing characteristic of Vance.
His humor was but the adornment
of a masterful intellect, and if he
sometimes seemed to live on the sur
face of things, to lack earnestness
and seriousness, it was due to the
fact that men failed to look beneath
the surface and see hidden there a
treasure-house full of golden vir
tues. He was full of the milk of
human kindness; he loved his fel
lowmen, and was a happy spirit hirr
Felf. It was his joy to lighten the
cares which weighed upon others.
He possessed a keen sense of duty,
and no man can be reckoned as care
less and thoughtless or shallow who
possesses that.
During the interval when Vance
first began the practice of the la.v to
the lime when he was first elected
Governor of North Carolina, a peri
od of ten years, there was nothing
especially notable in the work he ac
plished. Owing to the fact that he
had spent so much of his time dur
ing that interval eitner in public
office or on the stump, he had not
had opportunity to become a thor
oughly equipped lawyer, and in
Congress he made no elaborate
speeches nor was he the author of
any legislation of wide-spread in
terest, yet even at this early stage in
his career he had won reputation as
being a good jury lawyer, and in
Congress he had proved himself
alert, lively and industrious as the
official records abundantly show.
Vance was accustomod to telling the
following story on himself relatirg
to this early period of hi3 career
and concerning more especially his
profession: While attending court
in one of the counties of his circuit a
group of men were discussing in the
court yard the merits of the differ
ent lawyers who attended at the bar.
Some said Woodfin was the best
lawyer; some thought Gaither the
best; some one and some another,
and finally a large man with a small
sharp voice squeaked out, "Well,
gintlemen, I have noticed this little
feller Vance, and if he can git apast
the jedge, he's about as good as any
av 'em."
As I have already stated, Vance
entered the Confederate army as
captain in May, 1861, and was made
colonel in August of that year.
During the short time that he was
in the army he won distinction as a
soldier and a reputation for fear
lessness. The following August he was
chosen Governor of his State by a
very large majority in spite of the
face that he had not sought the
office. In a letter written to ex
press his willingness to accept the
office should the people of North
Carolina see fit to bestow that great
honor upon him he said: "Believ
ing that the only hope of the South
depends upon the prosecution of the
i war at all hazards and to the utmost
extremity so long as the foot of an
invader presses the Southern soil, I
tookthe field at an early day with
the determination to remain there
until our indebtedness was achieved.
My convictions in this regard re-
main unchanged. In accordance
therewith I have speedily and sin
cerely declined all promotions save
that which placed me at the head of
the gallant men whom I now com
mand. A true man should, however,
be willing to serve wherever the
public voice may assign him. If,
therefore, my fellow citizens believe
that I could serve the great cause
better as Governor than I am now
doing and should see proper to con
fer this great responsibility upon me
without solicitation on my part I
would not feel at liberty to decline
it, however conscious of my own
unworthiness." How efficiently he
served as Governor during this pe
riod that tried men's souls is writ
ten on the pages of history in glit
tering letters. He is known to us
as the War Governor of North Caro
lina. He equipped and sent to the
the field more troops, according to
population, than were sent from any
other State one-sixth, in fact, of
the soldiers that were mustered into
the Confederate army. As a result
of his efforts the North Carolina
soldiers were better fed and better
clothed than were the soldiers from
any other State in the Confederacy.
He accomplished this result in a
most systematic and vigorous way.
Ocean steamers were purchased to
transport cotton abroad. These
steamers made frequent trips to
Liverpool, and were reloaded with
all such articles as the necessities ot
the people of the State required.
An agent was sent to England to
superintend the sale of the cotton
and the purchase of the articles
which so enhanced the comforts of
the people and the soldiers. In this
way he was enabled to satisfy not
only the immediate necessities of his
own people and the soldiers of his
own State, but large quantities of
provisions and supplies were turned
over to the Confederate government
for the troops of other States. In
the winter succeeding the battle of
Chiekamauga he sent General Long-
street's corps 14,000 suits of cloth
mg complete. wmie Vance was
Governor he frequently visited the
North Carolina troops in Virginia.
general J. tl. is. btuart said ot one
of his speeches to the army that "If
the test of eloquence is its oile
this speech was the most powerful
ever delivered." General Lee said,
"Speech equivalent to a force of
ten thousand men."
Next to Governor Vance's earnest
desire to care for the people of the
State and North Carolina soldiers,
he was concerned in maintaining
the supremacy of civil authorities of
the state against the agression of
military power. To him is due the
proud destinction that in North
Corolina alone, of all other States,
with one possible exception, in the
United States or Confederate
States, the writ of habeas corpus
was at no time suspended during
the four years of war. This is as
tounding when we remember that
forty millions of people wore en
gaged in desperate strife. It seems
well-nigh impossible that amid the
gleaming of bayonets, the roarirg
of cannon, the thunder of charging
squadrons and the light of burning
cities he could -accomplished this.
j No wonder that when the war clouds
had rolled away and the Sun of
Peace looked down on a blood soak
ed land and the task of replenishing,
rebuilding and revivifying a deso
late, devastated and deadened land
weighed heavily upon the people of
our State, no wonder, I say, that
they should have looked to Vance
for needed guidance and leadership,
and how right and fit it seems that
the people of the State from that
time on to the close of his life con
ferred on him every honor that it
was in their power to bestow. Vance
met the necessity of every require
ment. The outcome of the memor
able campaign for the governorship
of North Carolina in which Vance
had for his competitor Judge Tom
Settle, an able and mo3t astute man,
is only illustrative of Vance's ability
to meet the demands of every occa
sion. Prior to this campaign the
Republicans had had complete con
trol of all the departments of the
State government ever since ihe
close of the war. All the election
machinery was in their hands. Un
limited supplies of money for cam
paign purposes were at their com
mand. Settle was by far the strong
est and most popuiar Republican in
the State, yet Vance was elected by
a very large majority. It dees not
take a very vivid imagination to see
what a benefit his election was to
j the entire State and what a god-fend
it was to the cause of reconstruc
tion. In all the trials through which
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Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Office in the rear of the Crescent
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Office up-st?.irs in the Whitehead
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Life Insurance
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Representing the Metropolitan
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Executor's Notice.
Having qualified ss executor of
the estate of W. K. Williams, late of
Halifax county, N. C, under his
last will and testament, this is to no
tify all persons having claims against
his estate to present them to me
duly verified on or before the 3rd
day of December, 11)15, or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons owing said
estate will please make immediate
payment. This Dec. 2, 1914.
E. P. IlYMAN, Ex'r.
A. Paul Kitchin. Atty.