Tar Heel Editor

ISBN: 0837174406

Author: Daniels, Josephus

Condition: New

Excerpt from the Foreword: The purpose of writing this story of a Tar-heel editor has been to put in durable form a plain account of what befell a Southern boy born amid the bursting shells in a North Carolina town bombed by the Federal forces in the War of the Sixties; who spent his boyhood in a North Carolina democratic and Democratic town that had experienced none of war's material destruction; and who has devoted most of the years of his manhood to editing a newspaper in the capital of his native State...I ave endeavored in the story of the town of Wilson, the home of my boyhood, to tell how the period of Reconstruction and attendant poverty and political strife affected that village during the days that it emerged from the tragedy of war and the greater tragedy of the futile attempt to make the South over after a pattern drawn by Thaddeus Stevens and others alien to its traditions and its aspirations, and the purpose of the carpetbaggers to make bricks without straw was successfully resisted. Another section of this story deals with my period as student at Chapel Hill in the Law School of the University of North Carolina and my removal from Wilson to Raleigh to succeed Walter H. Page as the editor of the State Chronicle, a paper destined after its absorption by the News and Observer to wield State-wide influence. My life as editor in Raleigh deals with the life and times of North Carolina in the period from 1885 to 1893.