Two Giants Vance and Ransom Compared as Orators
The essay extols Henry Blount’s praise of two famed speakers, Vance and Ransom, praising Vance’s fiery logic and magnetism and Ransom’s polished rhetoric and persuasive delivery. It contrasts their styles with vivid classical imagery, declaring both giants of North Carolina eloquence.
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Pgic
Ransom
Snow Hill
Pict
Cocles
Democratic Party
Mark Anthony
Cesar
Rome
Bezonian
Ever
North Carolina
Humorous Notes and Global Odds and Ends
A collage of pithy observations touches on Wales strikes, bank exams, locomotives, shepherds, and sea rations, interlaced with political notes. It cites Norfolk cotton, a West Virginia speaker, Secretary Whitney, Italian deficits, and a Pittsburg parrot, then shifts to reflections on life, education, love, and duty with brief vignettes and quips.
State News Highlights From North Carolina Briefs
Tarboro to install water works. Asheville welcomes Northern visitors and hosts an opera house plan. Reidsville to get a cotton factory. Granville copper mining boom. Shad fishing expanding. Tarboro cotton factory mid February. Deaf and Blind Asylum crowd. 19 lawyers licensed. Holly Springs oil mill pending. Bonded debt projected at 34 408 511 dollars. Wilmington merchants form organization. RaleighSpring Hope railroad rumor. Amma Ellis hanged at Clinton. 3,000 witnesses. rail and steamship notes.
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Springhope
John Adams
Harnett County
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