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Show CommuDicated.J tOVERSOR V4SCE, OF XOHTII CAROLINA. This notorious individual has just been elected, by the Legislature of his State, to a seat in the United States Senate a circumstance which presents one of the knottiest points American politicians have had to deal with since the close of the rebellion. Governor Vance, at the outbreak of that struggle, strug-gle, cast his fortunes with the Confederates, Confed-erates, and participated in the war with a desperation and determination which certainly entitle him to the admiration ad-miration of tho sympathizers in the "Lost Cause." Being possessed of a remarkable degree of eloquence, and combining rare mental faculties with superior scholastic acquirements, he wielded an influence in his native State which was not to be disputed nor despised. des-pised. At the close of the war, he defiantly de-fiantly refused to acknowledge his defeat, de-feat, cliiming that the doctrine of State Bights was the only principle by which the United States could maintain main-tain a truly republican form of government, govern-ment, and that to ask a pardon for what ho had done would be at once to admit the unjastness of bis cause and consequently to condemn himself. Though his abilities are universally acknowledged, his dlitidi'lUtrx arc somewhat some-what weightier at present, and his prospects for adiuisssion into tho Senate chamber are slim. Henri Bu lk. |
