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which was quite strong with many who opposed secession until after Sumter was fired on. They thought that President Davis, Governor Ellis, and their party generally, regarded them with some degree of suspicion, or at least lacking in ardor for the Southern cause. There was an early division in the convention on this line, Graham, Badger, Satterthwaite, etc., against Edwards, Ruffin, Biggs, Howard, etc. The contest for Governor between Vance and Johnston was the re- sult of this difference of sentiment, each party, however, uniting in the avowal of hostility to the restoration of the Union and determi- nation to fight to the bitter end for independence.

I add further that all the speakers in the foregoing discussion are dead except Mr. Pettigrew, who, having left the University of North Carolina fifty-eight years ago, is still doing active and efficient work in the cause of his Master, universally honored and beloved.

KEMP P. BATTLE.

[From the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, February 9, 1896.]

HOW THE SOUTHERN SOLDIERS KEPT HOUSE DURING THE WAR.

The Experience of Dr. W. W. Parker, Major of Artillery, Confederate States Army.

DID NOT SUFFER EXCEPT WHEN SEPARATED FROM HIS NEGRO JOE.

A Cow With a History She Supplied Milk and was Used as a Pack-

Horse on the March Piles of Biscuits Chosen

by Lot War Reminiscences.

[The "solitary horseman" of the novelist, G. P. R. James, was scarcely more familiar to his once numerous readers than is our excellent friend Dr. Parker to the good people of Richmond and its vicinity. In his knightly figure on gaunt steed as he trots daily in his broad ministrations of mercy and healing, do we feel that the type of the tried and tireless "country doc- tor" is still personified.

Why shouldn't he be as "lovely" as he is loving? His good wife, noble matron, to whom he so tenderly refers, will, we are assured, vote him " sweet." Dr. Parker is as gentle as he is ever brave.