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vote by jerrymander or otherwise; there is no purchase of the floating vote in blocks of five, no ejection of colored children from white schools or colored men from theaters and barbers chairs, and where we may hope that, in the process of time and in the spread of intelligence and increased appreciation for the virtues of the negroes, one black man may soon be sent to
Congress from the North; that some railroad attorney or millionaire will make room in the Senate of the United States for the colored brother; that one colored postmaster for a white town may be appointed in the North; that in the State of Kansas, the soil so prolific in friendships for the colored man, a respectable negro, duly nominated on the Republican ticket, may receive the full vote of his party, and not be scratched almost to the point of defeat by those who love him, as he was in Topeka; that one accomplished colored man may be sent abroad to represent his country in some other land than Hayti
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about creating normal schools, Vance says, "A school of a similar character should be established for the education of colored teachers, the want of which is more deeply felt by the black race even than the white. In addition to the fact that it is our plain duty to make no discrimination in the matter of public education…their desire for education is an extremely credible one, and should be gratified as far as our means will permit. In short, I regard it as an unmistakable policy to imbue these black people with a hearty North
Carolina feeling and make them cease to look abroad for the aids to their progress and civilization, and the protection of their rights as they have been taught to do, and teach them to look to their State instead...."
1903:. To fund Gombroom, Vance used his wife's money and sold land in downtown Asheville that he inherited from his mother. Vance was embarrassed that his new wife had more money than he did. Weeks before their wedding, he wrote her, "Tell them the simple truth about me Darling, as I told it to you—that I am a poor man & ever likely to be. You may boast of nothing for me except my love for you. …I do hope they will all learn to love me." Nevertheless, Gombroon was completed in 1887 and became their main home when Vance's health declined. Surrounded by forests, it was "the ideal retreat in the mountains of North Carolina" and had gardens, orchards, and vineyards, along with a dairy, springhouse, and other outbuildings.
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treated as though we were out of the Union, and our State governments were rebellious usurpations...You deposed our State governments and ejected from office every official, from
Governor to township constable. and remitted us to a state of chaos...You disenfranchised at least ten percent of our citizens, embracing the wisest, best, and most experienced. You enfranchised slaves, the lowest and most ignorant; and you placed them over them as leaders of a class of men who have attained to the highest positions of infamy known to modern ages...
1490:. Many of the state's convicts were freed slaves arrested under North Carolina's vagrancy laws which essentially allowed the imprisonment of those without jobs. Having found a free labor source, Vance then had to resolve a cash shortfall—the State did not have the funds to both equip and transport the convicts. He turned to J. E. Rankin, chair of the Buncombe County Commission, asking that local elites provide the needed $ 25,000. When Rankin sent a negative reply, Vance wrote a heated response. He then asked the Federal government.
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Democratic Party into two parties as this would only benefit the
Republicans. Vance also reminds everyone, "Since I have been your representative in the Senate I have both spoken and voted against that unjust legislation. At home, as you know, I never ceased to expose inequalities and to advise farmers to organize for resistance to it...My unfaltering confidence is in the true farmers of North Carolina, who as members of the Alliance will, I trust, not permit their noble order and their just cause to be perverted and debased."
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made is another and very different thing indeed...If we refuse to abide by the voice of the majority of our fellow
Democrats, freely and unmistakably expressed in friendly convention, there is an end of all associated party effort in the government of our country; if we personally participate in that...convention and then refuse to abide by the decision of its tribunal...then there is an end of all personal honor among all men, and the confidence which is necessary to all combined efforts is forever gone.
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Reconsidered." Kimberly Floyd, site manager of the Vance Birthplace and symposium co-convener said, "Zebulon Vance was a prominent figure in our state for four decades, and his is the story of both a hero and scoundrel." In August 2020, the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Asheville voted to rename Vance Hall because Vance "maintained racist stances that do not align with UNC Asheville’s core values." In October 2020, the
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American continent a wilderness. In short, it would have been Africanized..." However, Vance was "glad to say that North Carolina is one of the States in the South where there is the least complaint of infringement of the colored man's rights, either at the ballot box or in the courts of justice...That there are instances of mistreatment and occasionally of cruelty to the negros now and then occurring in the South I candidly admit and regret."
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of compensation exists in politics as well as in other things...If we violate the laws of health we suffer bodily pains or early dissolution; if we violate the laws of society we suffer in public esteem; if we violate the laws of man we are subject to its pains and penalties; if we violate the laws of God, we will suffer the penalties of sin; if we violate the laws of nature we can reap none of the benefits which our knowledge of them now enables us to derive therefrom. So it is in politics....
2147:, and Raleigh. Thousands passed through the railroad car to pay their respects, filling it with a variety of flowers. Once the train arrived in Asheville, there were funeral services at First Presbyterian Church. Surviving members of Vance's Rough and Ready Guard led a procession of 710 carriages from the church to Riverside Cemetery where nearly 10,000 mourners attended his funeral and burial, including people he formerly enslaved. In 1890, the total population of Asheville was 10,235.
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have taken place within ten years prior. The more of this talk, the better for the farmers. Their wrongs are so palpable that the justice of readdressing them will become more and more irresistible as the light is turned on. The policy of the farmers, being right now, is to keep within the right. Demand nothing that is illegal, ask nothing that is unreasonable." Vance also hinted that the sub-treasury scheme could be harmful to him and that the farmers should stand by their friend.
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the great civil war that occurred. They had no idea that 500,000 slaves would be liberated by that war, and still less of an idea that the 500,000 slaves would be forced into…absolute equality of citizenship...They had no idea that their institutions and work of their hand would ever be committed to ignorant and unlettered
Africans for protection and preservation." Vance also pointed out North Carolina's successes in creating schools to educate the freed slaves.
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1201:. Vance wrote to Sherman requesting a meeting, hoping to prevent the state's capital city from being pillaged. He requested safe conduct to discuss North Carolina surrendering to the Union. Two of Vance's men met with Sherman; although they did not reach an agreement about ending the war, they did save Raleigh. Sherman was willing to talk to Vance, but by then Vance had been called to meet with Confederate President
1415:, also notes that Vance established a relationship with Samuel Wittkowsky, a Jew and fellow Mason. When Vance was arrested, he was physically unable to walk to the train station and was only offered a mule by the federal troops; Vance was rescued from this humiliation by Wittkowsky who gave Vance a ride in his wagon. The two men's later friendship may have impacted Vance's perspective.
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Therefore, he that increases the abundance of money benefits the production and enhances prices and wages, and he that contracts or diminishes the amount of this money depreciates everything which is for sale, including wages...The effect upon the well-being of mankind which would follow the destruction of one-half of this currency—it is impossible to accurately describe."
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elections, is to declare unmistakably that the people therein are incapable of self-government...For one, I can say, with unspeakable pride and absolute truth, that the people of North
Carolina who sent me here are able, willing, and virtuous enough to fulfill these and all other higher functions of government; that they have ever done so since the keels of
1704:—gaining a reputation as an opposition senator. Vance was also against capitalistic monopolies and the government purchasing railroads and telegraph lines, as well as a monopoly by national banks. However, he did not believe railroads or other non-government entities should be allowed to own more public land than was needed for their primary function.
1273:. Samuel Wittkowsky, the man who gave prisoner Vance a wagon ride to the train station, noted that Vance was silently shedding tears at first. Then, wiping his eyes, Vance expressed concern for his wife and children who had no money to live on and worried about the "indignities" that North Carolina might suffer in the aftermath of the war.
1880:. Vance joined the church for the first time at the age of 48, choosing his wife's Presbyterian church. However, his wife Harriette died on November 3, 1878, after a long and painful illness, just one month after the death of Vance's mother. A train took Harriette's remains back to Asheville to be buried at Riverside Cemetery.
635:. In January 1844, his father died from a construction accident, forcing Vance to withdraw before the school year was over. Mira Vance sold much of the family's property to pay her husband's many debts and to support her seven children. As one writer noted, the family was "embarrassed with debt". She moved her family to nearby
1887:, with a twelve-year-old son. When she returned home three weeks later, the two were engaged. Based on the more than 100 letters Vance sent her over the next four months, this was a love match. Vance told a friend that Mrs. Martin was perfect for him except for her religion. He wrote, "Think of it! What
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Riverside Cemetery in the Vance family plot. Later, his second wife Florence had Vance moved to a grave in her family's plot in Riverside Cemetery. Vance's children, who were all born to his first wife, successfully petitioned to court to return Vance
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in Asheville, reaching the degree of Master Mason on June 20, 1853. When he moved to Charlotte after the Civil War, Vance attended Phalanx Lodge No. 31. That lodge quickly grew in size with Vance's membership. In 1867, Vance co-founded the Excelsior Lodge No. 261 as the second lodge in Charlotte with
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Similarly, in a review of Vance's writings of the era, historian Milton Ready notes, " embraced the racial stereotypes of the time that deemed newly freed blacks inferior. Yet he loathed the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, condemning its members as cowards and 'ruffians,' its intimidating methods as
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Vance supported increasing the volume of currency and silver coinage; at the time, the amount of paper and coin money released could not exceed the gold in the treasury. Vance made his last speech in the Senate on September 1, 1893, speaking against House Bill 1, regarding the unconditional repeal of
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In a speech on January 30, 1890, regarding Senate Bill 1121, which authorized people of color to emigrate from Southern states, Vance came close to speaking against slavery, saying, "Those of us in the South who had deprecated the war and deplored the agitation which led to it, as we sat in the ashes
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The new governments went to work, and in a short space of four years, they plundered those eleven Southern States to the extent of $ 262,000,000; that is to say, they took all that we had that was amenable to larceny...It would be well enough for Republican leaders to remember that the inflexible law
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Peace then came—no, not peace, but the end of war came—no not the end of war, but the end of legitimate, civilized war, and for three years you dallied with us. One day we were treated as though we were in the Union, and as though we had legitimate State governments in operation; another day, we were
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had been subjected to cruel treatment, including being overworked and whipped. Vance wrote that such conditions were "not to be tolerated for a moment" and requested immediate punishment of those who were guilty of "such disgraceful conduct." However, the state only provided seven cents a day to feed
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Holden, like Vance, was now a member of the Conservative Democratic Party of North Carolina, a coalition of former Whigs and Democrats who were against secession. Holden simply wrote that voters should "elect the man who defended their homes", noting that Johnston was at home tending to his railroads
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in March 1862. Although outnumbered four to one, Vance's troops held back the enemy for five hours and were the last Confederates to leave the battlefield. Vance wrote his wife praising the performance of his men.” Even in their 35-mile forced retreat, Vance showed bravery. He nearly drowned swimming
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When Congress proposed giving a $ 10,000 or 25% increase in fringe benefits to each representative in the next session, Vance spoke out. He said, "I do not think he is entitled to $ 10,000 more for miscellaneous items than I am myself...the whole bill reminds me very much of the bills I have seen of
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In 1890, at the age of sixty, Vance gave more speeches than in any other year of his life. His nervous affliction from his previous stroke became worse, and back in Black Mountain, he fell from a wagon. His doctors feared he would go blind if they did not surgically remove one eye to save the other.
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Regardless of what Vance was writing or saying, historian Joe T. Mobley says it is important to consider Vance's "acquiescence to the violence of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction." Vance also capitalized on "the tension created by the Klan in the mountain region to help the Conservatives sweep
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Many of our people, it is true, have objected to Mr. Cleveland and preferred that he should not have been nominated. I confess that I was among that number. But an individual preference before the nomination of a candidate is one thing and the duty of a true man after that nomination has been fairly
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Nonetheless, Vance's racial views showed when he talked about Reconstruction. He said, "The truth is, he began to prosper when the whites took control. Progress for him would have been impossible under his own rule as it was for the whites. Ten more years of such government as reconstruction fixed
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which requested federal funding to help educate the freed slaves in the South. Although, Vance says, "I admit that there is no special provision in the constitution or perhaps one looking directly toward it for public education. But the men who formed the constitution had no idea that there would be
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of 1868. Vance was depressed during this period and resented this limitation, especially since the same amendment that kept him out of the politics he loved also granted African American men citizenship and full political rights. Around 1868, he began supporting Conservative Party politicians, using
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The blockade runners also brought needed shoes, blankets, and medicine. Vance ensured that his state's soldiers were kept clothed by having women and children fashion new uniforms in their homes with material manufactured in the state's mills. As a result, North Carolina was the only state to clothe
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Samuel Wittkowsky, a Jewish intimate of Vance, wrote, "I speak for my race in North Carolina...the deceased has even by his words and writings demonstrated that he was their friend. His lecture on the Scattered Nation will ever remain green in the memory of my race, and will be one of the brightest
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About Vance, F. Lane Williamson wrote, "Did he moderate his racial views in later years? Perhaps, but who knows? It’s fair to say, though, that his legacy is that he set the stage for North Carolina to be perceived as at least somewhat more racially tolerant and culturally progressive than its Deep
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Furthermore, the organization's origins in North Carolina started with Vance. Because Vance was against tariffs which he felt enriched the few and impoverished the many, he encouraged North Carolina's farmers to organize so they could collectively defend themselves against outside forces. Later, he
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The millennium has not yet arrived in the land of reconstruction; the reign of perfect righteousness, of absolute justice, has not yet been established south of Mason and Dixon's line, though of course, it is in full operation north of that imaginary division. There is no suppression of the popular
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In 1878, Vance was again elected to the United States Senate where he became a leader of the Democratic Party. Although Vance fought for Southern interests while in the Senate, he showed "little bitterness" towards the North. As a result, he helped unify Congress which was still struggling with the
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Two years later, his message to the legislature announced that the Board of Education had created two normal schools—a summer institute at the University of North Carolina for white teachers and a new permanent institution, the State Colored Normal School, for black teachers at the Howard School in
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As a postwar governor, Vance was considered progressive for his era. He proposed agricultural reforms, the expansion of teacher training through normal schools, and the addition of more public schools, including separate but equal access for African Americans. In his 1877 message to the legislature
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Some have said that Vance left Raleigh when it was captured by Sherman and that his house in Statesville was a temporary state capitol. These claims emerged as part of a political attack against Vance by Republicans during the 1876 governor's race. There is no evidence that Vance conducted official
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convinced Vance to join the newspaper as an editorial assistant. He predicted that Vance would have "a brilliant career in the editorial line". This weekly newspaper was published from 1853 to 1858 and was the leading Whig paper in the region. One of the stories Vance wrote was about the search for
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Although he was not on board for this solution to the farmer's needs, Vance nevertheless praised the Farmer's Alliance in correspondence to its president, noting, "For the past six months there has been more discussion upon the condition of the farmer and matters pertaining to their interests than
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in North Carolina. Some claimed Vance made concessions with this organization to gain reelection to the Senate because the Farmers' Alliance essentially served as a third political party at the time. On the flip side, Vance was accused of being insincere in his dealings with the Farmers' Alliance,
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Later on in his speech, Vance asked, "Was it the Union you fought for or political supremacy?" He pointed out that the nation has benefitted from the leadership of other political parties. He also said, "To suppose the States are either unable, unwilling, or too corrupt to hold peaceful and honest
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In his unpublished autobiography, Vance stated that his main reason for supporting the Confederate government was to preserve the institution of slavery. Historian Selig Adler wrote, "As war governor, Vance endeared himself forever to his people. He mitigated the horrors of war by insisting on the
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However, Vance was in favor of a secession convention so that the people of North Carolina could make their own decision. In March 1861, Vance traveled throughout North Carolina, trying to persuade the State not to follow South Carolina by seceding. In April, he was addressing a large crowd when a
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and received his county court license in Raleigh. He returned to Asheville where he practiced law. Vance said, "I went out to Court horseback, and carried a pair of saddle bags with a change of shirts and the North Carolina Form book...." Almost immediately, the Buncombe County magistrates elected
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announced plans to indefinitely imprison Southerners suspected of "disloyalty" without a trial, Vance refused to deprive North Carolinians of their constitutional rights, saying he would rather recall the state's soldiers fighting in Virginia and order them to protect his constituents by force if
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Similarly, he showed a dislike for the recurring Treasury deficit. Ignoring the figures and charts presented by his colleagues, Vance said, "As we are in debt, and spending more than our income, and our income is derived principally from the tariff, we have to do one of three things; either raise
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While a youth, Vance broke his thigh when he fell from a tree. This was treated by confining Vance in a box, as was common medical care at the time. As a result of this injury, his right leg was shorter, requiring him to wear a taller heel on the right shoe. Even so, it was said that Vance had "a
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Always a controversial political figure, Vance became even more of an issue in the early 21st century because of his connection to slavery and his history of racism. In September 2017, the University of North Carolina at Asheville's Department of History and the Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State
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that was approved in 1890. Although noticeably weakened from illness, Vance spoke for two hours and gave what many consider the best speech of his career. Early in the speech, Vance simply explains, "When money is abundant prices are high; when money is scarce the prices of all products are low.
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When the North Carolina legislature stated that their appointed Senator for the 1891 term should vote for the sub-treasury scheme, Vance "positively and emphatically declined" to agree to be elected under such constraints. Rather than give up Vance, the legislature reworded their instructions to
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Another problem facing Vance was that this railroad was the greatest engineering challenge east of the Rockies, requiring a climb of some 1,000 feet (300 m) in just over 3 miles (4.8 km). One modern historian notes that the Blue Ridge railroad project became Vance's "personal crusade."
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noted that the convention was noteworthy for its hatred of the government and formerly enslaved people. After many calls from the attendees for him to speak, Vance spontaneously talked about his lack of prejudice toward the formerly enslaved, commending their conduct and fidelity during the war.
878:. For this campaign, he went on a fifteen-county speaking tour that "set the mountains on fire". Vance was elected for a term starting in December 1858. At 28 years old, he was the youngest member of Congress at the time. He was reelected in 1859 over his former political opponent David Coleman.
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Despite Vance's intervention, at least 125 of the 558 convicts died because of inclement weather, inadequate housing, lack of food, and dangerous working conditions such as the cave-ins and accidents at the Swannanoa Tunnel that killed 21 people. Guards also shot men trying to escape. Historian
1422:" call for tolerance to Jews, Vance also made his prejudices clear, saying, " contrast to the Jews, the 'African negro' had contributed nothing to…the civilization of mankind" and that “laws and partisan courts alike have been used to force into an equality with those whom he could not equal."
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While he was kept out of politics, Vance earned income in the lecture circuit. His first important lecture was "The Duties of Defeat" which he gave at the University of North Carolina's commencement on June 7, 1866. Shortly afterward, he was speaking in venues ranging from county fairs to large
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In a kindness not always seen by political opponents, the entire Senate voted to pay for a private secretary for Vance from their contingency funds. However, Vance's health continued to decline from 1890 through 1894. As travel was believed to be curative in the 19th century, he visited Egypt,
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Vance, who was dealing with poor health at the time, wrote a letter, rather than speaking in public, about the need for Democrats to fight the Republicans who want to limit rights given by the Constitution. Vance stated that the "situation is most critical" and cautioned against splitting the
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In his January 1879 address to the legislature, Vance acknowledged some problems with the convict labor program. However, he never acknowledged his role in the tragedy. What his voting public remembered was that the new railroad network transported supplies to farms and factories, and then to
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on August 3, 1853. They had five sons: Robert Espy Vance (born 1854, died young), Charles Noel Vance (born 1856), David Mitchell Vance (born 1857), Zebulon Baird Vance Jr. (born 1860), and Thomas Malvern Vance (born 1862). The family lived on a 5 acres (20,000 m) lot in Asheville, North
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who disappeared in June 1857, having fallen to his death while trying to prove which peak was the highest in North Carolina. Mitchell taught Vance geology at the University of North Carolina, and Vance immediately volunteered for the search party. His account of the search, published in the
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saying, "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 confer this responsibility upon me without solicitation on my part, I should not feel at liberty to decline it, however conscious of my own
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of all our great men, and in the affections and love of the people, he towered above them all. As ages to come will not be able to mar the grandeur and greatness of Mount Mitchell, so they will not be able to efface from the hearts and minds of the people the name of their beloved Vance."
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Vance aspired to provide the state's troops with needed food, clothing, and weapons. He also demonstrated concern for the soldiers' families. He continued to operate salt works on the coast, selling the salt at one-third of its value and distributing salt supplies to every county for meat
1784:. The statement issued by Vance reads: "I opposed the Ku Klux from the start...refusing to have anything to do with such an organization on the grounds that it was a secret society...I not only refused to approve of it but made a speech in a certain county against such organizations."
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In reality, Vance believed in white supremacy. He said, "I am not only willing but anxious to have justice done them in everything, and to do all that may be required of me to aid them in the difficulties of their position; but I am not willing that they should rule my people."
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starting in July 1851 and had a "brilliant academic year". One of his classmates, Major James W. Wilson, recalled Vance's arrival in Chapel Hill with "homemade shoes and clothes, about three inches of between pants and shoes, showing his sturdy ankles...." Another classmate,
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Although he did not always prepare fully for cases, Vance was skilled at reading the jury and remembering every detail of testimony. However, his success in court "was usually the result of wit, humor, boisterous eloquence, and clever retorts, not knowledge of the law."
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and President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. At that moment, Vance recalled sadly changing into a secessionist, as he "preferred to shed northern rather than southern blood." On the spot, he shifted his speech to a call to fight for South Carolina. After the
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him Christianity, care for him in sickness and old age, and make his bondage light as may be; but above all, keep him a slave and in strict subordination; for that is his normal condition; the one in which alone he can promote the interest of himself or his fellows.
1453:. In 1876, Vance was elected to his third term of Governor as North Carolina. However, he only served two years of the four-year term. His swearing-in in 1877 was accompanied by festivities that began a tradition of lavish gubernatorial inaugurations in the state.
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because of Vance, saying "Despite his family's hard times after the early death of his father, Zeb Vance managed to get an education, read law, and get himself elected governor by the age of thirty. I thought that Vance could counteract the stereotypes..."
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jewels in his ever-liberal, fair, and untarnished escutcheon. And I venture the assertion that in the history of North Carolina, no Israelite has cast a vote against Z. B. Vance." Annually on Vance's birthday for more than 75 years, the Jewish organization,
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In February 1865, Vance had a stroke that caused temporary paralysis and “the muscles of the left cheek and eye to occasionally jerk and twitch....” In October 1878, the Vances moved into a residence on Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, the former home of
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In 1953, Frontis W. Johnston wrote, "North Carolina has loved, idolized, and rewarded no other man in her history as she has Zebulon Baird Vance." Johnston also states that North Carolina's towns "swarmed with literally hundreds of little Zebulons."
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Carolina, purchased for $ 2,300 which came from Hattie's dowry. Vance enslaved six people—Isaac, Julia, Hannah, Marion, and two unnamed children—who cleaned the house, cooked, maintained the garden, did laundry, and helped rear the Vance children.
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Horne writes, "Ex-Governor Zebulon Baird Vance was generally supposed to be the Grand Dragon of the Realm, and the testimony of the confessed Ku Klux was to the effect that within the Klan Vance was generally looked upon as the chief of state."
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to export North Carolina's cotton abroad. This yielded funds to provide food and money for the general population and to keep the mills open; the legislature was able to issue $ 6,000,000 for the care of impoverished citizens and keep the mills
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such as introducing a bill on their behalf with no effort made towards getting it passed. However, from the beginning, Vance tended to side with the masses, including the farming class. In addition, both Vance and the farmers agreed on the
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my Presbyterian friends say to me?" In reality, there were legitimate concerns that her religion could negatively impact his political career, but Vance was not deterred. They married on June 17, 1880, some six months after meeting, in
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also attended. For the service, Vance's desk and chair were draped in black, and the floral decorations included pine to represent North Carolina. The service was followed by a funeral procession to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station.
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to markets to the south and east. Although frequently short of cash, the family enslaved as many as eighteen people. Vance's family had an unusually large library for its era and location, left to them by an uncle.
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Board of Education voted to remove his name from its high school. In 2021, the City of Asheville and Buncombe County both voted to remove the Vance Monument from Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Also in 2021,
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of our own homes and scraped ourselves with potsherds of desolation, yet consoled ourselves for the slaughter of our kindred and the devastation of our fields by the reflection that this, at least, was the end;
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Thousands of people lined the railroad tracks "to pay their last respects to one whom they loved and admired very much" as the funeral train headed south and west and stopped at towns and cities such as
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Gordan McKinney says, "This episode thereby qualifies as one of the most egregious industrial–construction disasters in Appalachian history." Yet, Vance continued to push for the grueling pace of work.
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request that Vance "use all honorable means" to secure financial reforms. Yet Vance was loath to accept any such conditions. In a letter written to a member of the legislature on April 1, 1897,
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that income, lower our expenses, or walk into the insolvent court and file our schedule. I do not think there is, or ever was, a political economist on earth who could deny these propositions."
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England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Scotland. Vance told his son that he "was home-sick while abroad and that the trip had made him a better American." In January 1894, he visited
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Vance donated to keep the University of North Carolina operating. In 1875 when the university reopened after the war, he was asked to be its president, following in the footsteps of former
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and, later, on the French Broad River. Both were far enough from home that he had to board with others. He also was a student at a school in Lapland run by Jane Hughey.
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Vance as Solicitor of the Court of Pleas. He was admitted to the state's superior courts in 1853. In 1858, he became partners with attorney William Caleb Brown.
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when he learned about the outcome of the election. He resigned his commission and traveled to Raleigh to become governor. At the time, he was 32 years old.
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showing a snowstorm depositing silver coins at the Capitol and the Department of Treasury with Vance and others gathering coins for a snowball fight. From
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This helped calm the North Carolina Democrats and the Confederate government who both feared Vance would rejoin the union or withdraw from the Confederacy.
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and his cabinet in Charlotte, North Carolina. At that meeting, the Confederate government released Vance from any obligations to defend the Confederacy.
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fast young men at fashionable hotels: For two days board, $ 5, sundries, $ 50. It is like a comet, a very small body with an exceedingly great tail."
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Next, Vance ran as a Whig candidate for the North Carolina Senate, winning with a term starting in December 1854. Vance was a Whig in the mode of
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by many during his lifetime, Vance was also a slave owner and is now regarded as a racist by some modern historians and biographers.
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precedence of civil law, and stoutly protected the state from the uncomfortable militarism of the Confederate government."
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in Florida while the Senate was in session. When he returned to Washington, D.C. in April 1894, he could no longer walk.
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in Raleigh on August 22, 1900. It was moved from its original pedestal and relocated to Raleigh's Union Square in 1949.
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and equip its regiments during the Civil War. Vance also shared surpluses with the rest of the Confederacy;
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signed an amnesty bill that included Vance. Vance ran for an open seat in the U.S. Senate but lost to
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fraternity. Vance received an LL.D in 1852 and repaid the loan from the university with interest.
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Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
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Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
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The Ballad of Tom Dula: The Documented Story Behind the Murder of Laura Foster
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Vance Elementary in Asheville, North Carolina (name changed in February 2021).
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Weil, Julie Zauzmer; Blanco, Adrian; Dominguez, Leo (January 10, 2022).
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List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)
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5787:"Zeb Vance Ruritan Club Presents Dictionaries Over School Broadcast"
5116:"Old Salem Historic District: National Historic Landmark Nomination"
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dedicated a memorial plaque to Vance at Calvary Episcopal Church in
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Vance also outlined his vision of the future, with a bit of sarcasm:
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practices, which became more severe as Confederate defeats mounted.
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Johnston, Frontis W. “Zebulon Baird Vance: A Personality Sketch.”
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Vance's residence in Charlotte, North Carolina in the 19th century
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Vance was born in a log cabin in the settlement of Reems Creek in
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each convict and the schedule worked the men seven days a week.
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National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory
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United States. Congress.; Poland, Luke P.; Scott, John (1872).
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via Documenting the American South. Retrieved on April 3, 2012.
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Zebulon B. Vance: as War Governor of North Carolina, 1862‑1865
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Vance Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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markets, helping to stimulate the economy across the state.
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Vance Cabin, Reems Creek, North Carolina in the 19th century
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Democratic Party United States senators from North Carolina
5428:"A census of Confederate symbols and monuments in the U.S."
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2680:. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill – via Internet Archive.
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Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866–1871.
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Vance opposed important legislation of the era such as the
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Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871
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The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History
3877:"Five Things You Probably Didn't Know About Zebulon Vance"
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On April 26, 1865, Vance learned that Confederate General
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Burials at Riverside Cemetery (Asheville, North Carolina)
4288:. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
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5260:. DocSouth, University of North Carolina. March 19, 2010
5180:. DocSouth, University of North Carolina. March 19, 2010
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4346:. New York, New York: Susan Lawrence Davis. p. 292.
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Vance County Middle School in Henderson, North Carolina
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to protect the railroad and watch the enemy encampments.
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Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
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31, no. 2 (1954): 222–39. via JSTOR, April 12, 2022.
3282:. The State Library of North Carolina. Archived from
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for burial. He was accompanied by seven congressmen (
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Fayetteville. The State Colored Normal School became
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and keep its courts fully functional during the war.
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North Carolina, Vance County, Zeb Vance School (974)
4871:"Excelsior Masonic Lodge: Charlotte, NC Freemasonry"
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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on May 20, 1865. There, he shared a small cell with
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4987:Johnston, Frontis W. “The Courtship of Zeb Vance.”
4819:. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
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96 (3): 305–40. via EBSCO. Accessed April 12, 2022.
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Vance's first law office, Asheville, North Carolina
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5512:"Vance High School renamed for Julius L. Chambers"
5280:"History of Zebulon – Zebulon Chamber of Commerce"
4083:75, no. 1 (1998): 69–85. via JSTOR April 10, 2022.
2607:"When past is present: Zeb Vance and his monument"
1651:"The Administration Sawmill" political cartoon by
1399:Starting around 1870, Vance gave a speech called "
1094:said, "Vance's oratory was worth 5,000 soldiers".
5723:. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
5697:. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
5455:"Asheville City Schools Renames Vance Elementary"
3596:"Asheville Spectator (Asheville, N.C.) 1853-1858"
2502:changed the name of its Vance Elementary School.
2444:Vance County Schools in Henderson, North Carolina
2336:Vance Charter School in Henderson, North Carolina
751:. The goal of the convention was to convince the
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6121:U.S. Senator-elect (Class 2) from North Carolina
5769:"What the world needs now is another think tank"
5387:Holmes, C. Scott; O'Rouke-Owens, Amelia (2022).
4343:Authentic History of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1877
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2695:Leonard C. Schlup, and James Gilbert Ryan, eds.
1601:Vance also faced a political challenge with the
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5670:North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
5645:North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
3570:The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, North Carolina)
1620:National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union
5898:""The Ballad of Tom Dooley" by Sharyn McCrumb"
4282:Zebulon Baird Vance, 13 May 1830-14 Apr. 1894"
4095:"One Nation, Again After Johnston's Surrender"
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7295:Democratic Party governors of North Carolina
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4613:Battle, George Gordon (September 28, 1928).
4150:"10 Ways Blandwood is NC's Historic Center!"
3459:(3), 46. via EBSCO. Accessed April 10, 2022.
1687:. He made a speech in North Carolina saying:
7345:People from Buncombe County, North Carolina
6021:North Carolina's 8th congressional district
5099:. U.S. Government Printing Office. p.
3961:"President's Message - On Legacy Buildings"
1757:Modern experts note other discrepancies in
1002:In July 1862, Vance and the 26th fought at
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950:Governor Vance on his Inauguration Day 1862
663:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
656:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
159:January 1, 1877 – February 5, 1879
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5861:. April 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
5855:President's Message - On Legacy Buildings"
5258:Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina
5225:"Rabbi Wise Eulogizes Zebulon Baird Vance"
5178:Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina
3745:Zebulon B. Vance and the 'Scattered Nation
3451:Fowler, R. H. (1998). Mouth of the South.
1845:Vance joined the Mt. Hermon Lodge No. 118
1737:Authentic History Ku Klux Klan, 1865–1877,
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261:December 7, 1858 – March 3, 1861
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981:26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
870:In 1858, Vance ran for a seat in the
797:by way of Asheville, North Carolina.
624:peculiar and slightly ambling gait".
454:26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
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5767:Millard, Hal L. (December 4, 2007).
4989:The North Carolina Historical Review
4957:30, no. 2 (1953): 178–90. via JSTOR
4955:The North Carolina Historical Review
4792:The North Carolina Historical Review
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4693:KĂĽhner, Wilhelm (January 16, 2021).
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4154:Preservation Greensboro Incorporated
4081:The North Carolina Historical Review
4028:The North Carolina Historical Review
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787:French Broad and Greenville Railroad
7380:University of North Carolina alumni
5990:Online Books by Zebulon Baird Vance
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4251:"Vance, Zebulon | Encyclopedia.com"
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2799:Swofford, Stan (January 21, 2005).
2467:United Daughters of the Confederacy
2436:United Daughters of the Confederacy
2371:(name changed on October 13, 2020).
2204:Reconstruction of the cabin at the
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5721:North Carolina Digital Collections
4921:"Gov. Zebulon B. Vance's New Home"
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4728:. Houghton Mifflin. p. 1939.
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2858:Vance Birthplace, official website
2720:Elliston, Jon (January 19, 2005).
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2578:"Vance, Zebulon Baird 1830 – 1894"
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1500:Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
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994:Vance and the 26th engaged in the
921:telegraph was read announcing the
789:. He also supported extending the
753:Charleston and Cincinnati Railroad
685:, where he studied law with Judge
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7240:19th-century American politicians
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5114:Rettig, Polly M (June 15, 1976).
4722:Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald (1939).
4212:Statesville Record & Landmark
4177:Hardy, Michael C. (May 5, 2015).
4148:Briggs, Benjamin (June 9, 2017).
3685:Calder, Thomas (June 16, 2020). "
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2469:held a joint ceremony and laid a
2255:National Statuary Hall Collection
2078:North Carolina Secretary of State
1735:In her 1924 self-published book,
1669:"Snowed In" political cartoon by
1520:discord between North and South.
1395:Speaking out against antisemitism
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7285:Confederate States Army officers
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5872:"Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb"
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5093:United States. Congress (1895).
4456:North Carolina Historical Review
4306:West, John Foster (April 2002).
4093:Gerard, Philip (April 7, 2015).
3991:Current, Richard Nelson (1992).
3931:Rasmussen, Steve (May 7, 2003).
3796:Gerard, Philip (June 28, 2011).
2231:, a 75 feet (23 m) granite
1847:Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
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7360:Proponents of scientific racism
5981:Works by or about Zebulon Vance
5952:"Zebulon B. Vance Reconsidered"
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5361:. November 23, 1941. p. 54
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4606:
4543:
4494:Walton, Beth (March 13, 2015).
4461:
4422:Andrea Cooper (April 6, 2021).
4218:
4206:McNally, Jim (April 11, 2019).
4183:Looking for the Confederate War
4141:
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3894:
3679:
3620:Representative Men of the South
3613:
3588:
3490:
2851:
2837:News And Events | UNC Asheville
2605:Ready, Milton (June 25, 2015).
2374:Zeb Vance Elementary School in
2286:was named in his honor in 1881.
2071:North Carolina Attorney General
1484:Western North Carolina Railroad
1234:He then surrendered to General
1161:Vance also opposed Confederate
1076:
989:Carteret County, North Carolina
791:Western North Carolina Railroad
589:. His maternal grandfather was
575:North Carolina House of Commons
563:Buncombe County, North Carolina
27:American politician (1830–1894)
7250:Activists against antisemitism
5831:. December 29, 1896. p. 4
4531:. University of North Carolina
4361:"The Rebel Pow Wow in Raleigh"
4340:Davis, Susan Lawrence (1924).
3901:Dykman, Wilma (July 9, 1961).
3875:Darty, J. D. (July 15, 2015).
3693:. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
3676:(1937) vol. 3, no.1, pp 43‑75.
3477:Documenting the American South
2792:
2767:
2739:
2428:The Zeb Vance Ruritan Club in
1901:Black Mountain, North Carolina
1822:Black Mountain, North Carolina
1730:Lincoln County, North Carolina
1514:
1413:Jewish Heritage North Carolina
1223:had surrendered his forces to
862:Vance, 35th Congress photo by
13:
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6016:U.S. House of Representatives
5999:U.S. House of Representatives
5516:Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
5048:. January 26, 1895. p. 6
4930:. October 28, 1878. p. 4
4558:. Western Carolina University
4396:. February 8, 1868. p. 1
4367:. February 7, 1868. p. 2
3415:North Carolina Historic Sites
2522:
2495:Charlotte–Mecklenburg Schools
2305:Craven County, North Carolina
1782:Orange County, North Carolina
1721:Following the Civil War, the
1468:Fayetteville State University
1435:
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1193:In early April 1865, General
1038:His campaign was overseen by
874:opened by the resignation of
808:
552:
522:
7330:North Carolina Know Nothings
5829:The Asheville Weekly Citizen
5541:U.S. News & World Report
5067:Mitchell, Memory F. (1979).
4585:"Solemn Scene in the Senate"
2382:Vance County, North Carolina
2365:Zebulon B. Vance High School
2345:in Henderson, North Carolina
2333:in Henderson, North Carolina
2284:Vance County, North Carolina
2257:in Washington, D.C. in 1916.
2249:A bronze statue of Vance by
2244:North Carolina State Capitol
2100:North Carolina Supreme Court
2048:Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn
2034:of New York), six senators (
1974:, Secretary of the Interior
1958:, Secretary of the Treasury
1839:Burke County, North Carolina
1812:Florence Steele Martin Vance
1473:
1456:
965:14th North Carolina Infantry
933:
691:North Carolina Supreme Court
507:periods. As a leader of the
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7370:Southern Historical Society
7305:Governors of North Carolina
5931:The Asheville Citizen-Times
5641:"Marker: M-25: Vance House"
4699:KĂĽhner Kommentar an Amerika
4649:The Asheville Citizen-Times
4594:. April 17, 1894. p. 2
4550:Osment, Timothy N. (2008).
4404:– via Newspapers.com.
4394:The Wilmington Morning Star
4375:– via Newspapers.com.
3881:Historic Riverside Cemetery
3749:Journal of Southern History
3674:Journal of Southern History
3572:. March 21, 1855. p. 3
3543:. April 15, 1894. p. 5
3453:Civil War Times Illustrated
3226:29, no. 1/2 (2001): 58–67.
2505:
2295:Wake County, North Carolina
2263:The Asheville Lodge of the
2206:Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace
1982:, the Speaker of the House
1978:, Secretary of Agriculture
1870:Southern Historical Society
1710:Sherman Silver Purchase Act
1702:Sherman Silver Purchase Act
1532:Criticism of Reconstruction
1264:
1248:Statesville, North Carolina
1018:
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648:Hot Springs, North Carolina
541:Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace
492:from North Carolina, and a
346:Reems Creek, North Carolina
10:
7401:
7365:Race-related controversies
6087:Governor of North Carolina
6060:Governor of North Carolina
5825:"Sons of Veterans Invited"
5691:"Marker: N-17: Camp Vance"
5039:"Zebulon B. Vance's Pluck"
5019:. June 18, 1880. p. 1
2805:Greensboro News and Record
2722:"Zeb Vance: No Simple Man"
2331:Northern Vance High School
1944:President Grover Cleveland
1866:Governor David Lowry Swain
1742:states that Vance was the
1717:Vance and the Ku Klux Klan
1447:President Ulysses S. Grant
1244:Greensboro, North Carolina
954:
579:American Revolutionary War
147:Governor of North Carolina
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5812:Minutes of the 7th Annual
5396:North Carolina Law Review
4756:McKinney, Gordan (2004).
3150:Barrett, John G. (1996).
2863:December 9, 2003, at the
2451:
2406:Morganton, North Carolina
2380:Zeb Vance High School in
2369:Charlotte, North Carolina
2326:Henderson, North Carolina
2165:
2123:The Fayetteville Observer
2092:Auditor of North Carolina
2004:Asheville, North Carolina
1804:Harriett Espy Vance, 1878
1561:Vance also supported the
1149:President Jefferson Davis
969:Morganton, North Carolina
842:wrote, "Mr. Vance is the
749:Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
543:cabin in the 19th century
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6187:Party political offices
5611:"Vance House, Marker-25"
5204:Architect of the Capital
4129:. May 9, 1865. p. 1
3534:"Death of Senator Vance"
3064:– via Hathi Trust.
3053:Life of Zebulon B. Vance
2438:is the Zeb Vance Chapter
2430:Kittrell, North Carolina
2376:Kittrell, North Carolina
2343:Vance County High School
2269:Fletcher, North Carolina
1970:, Secretary of the Navy
1833:, the home of her uncle
1138:General James Longstreet
606:Marshall, North Carolina
393:Conservative (1862–1868)
5431:Knoxville News Sentinel
5327:"Zebulon B. Vance, USS"
5069:"Battle, Richard Henry"
5010:"Senator Vance Married"
4843:Greensboro Mason Museum
4615:"A War Governor's View"
4500:Asheville Citizen-Times
4022:Mobley, Joe A. (2000).
2358:(name changed in 2020).
2180:Raleigh, North Carolina
2109:The News & Observer
2060:Secretary of the Senate
2058:of New Hampshire), the
1984:Charles Frederick Crisp
1894:Oldham County, Kentucky
1792:the western counties."
1776:In the 2004 biography,
1679:magazine, January 1886.
1661:magazine, February 1886
1199:Raleigh, North Carolina
1175:the Battle of New Bern.
1110:Kinston, North Carolina
1044:North-Carolina Standard
743:presidential candidate
7335:North Carolina lawyers
7275:American speechwriters
7265:American Presbyterians
5859:Mecklenburg County Bar
5791:The Dictionary Project
5695:North Carolina Markers
5537:"Zeb Vance Elementary"
5459:Blueridge Public Radio
5325:Warren, Harry (2006).
4790:, by G. B. McKinney].
4780:Mobley, J. A. (2005).
4310:. Parkway Publishers.
3965:Mecklenburg County Bar
3152:"Vance, Zebulon Baird"
3050:Dowd, Clement (1897).
2775:"Congress slaveowners"
2674:Tucker, Glenn (1966).
2500:Asheville City Schools
2486:The Ballad of Tom Dula
2324:Kerr-Vance Academy in
2240:Henry Jackson Ellicott
2209:
2197:
2195:National Statuary Hall
2182:
2176:Henry Jackson Ellicott
2096:Alphonso Calhoun Avery
1988:Sir Julian Paunceforte
1980:Julius Sterling Morton
1966:, Post Master General
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1238:in the west parlor of
1229:Durham, North Carolina
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1050:, of the Fayetteville
961:Rough and Ready Guards
951:
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942:Vance in the Civil War
876:Thomas Lanier Clingman
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776:Eastern North Carolina
757:Western North Carolina
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573:, was a member of the
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457:Rough and Ready Guards
7270:American rhetoricians
5902:www.sharynmccrumb.com
5567:(published June 1995)
4900:www.perseus.tufts.edu
4120:"From North Carolina"
3566:"Asheville Spectator"
3276:"Zebulon Baird Vance"
2238:A statue of Vance by
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2016:Sydenham B. Alexander
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923:firing on Fort Sumter
895:Slavery and secession
882:Salaries and deficits
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739:After canvassing for
735:North Carolina Senate
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577:and a colonel in the
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293:North Carolina Senate
56:United States Senator
7340:North Carolina Whigs
6258:lieutenant governors
5958:. September 13, 2017
5793:. September 30, 2015
5621:on February 15, 2019
5590:historicsites.nc.gov
4255:www.encyclopedia.com
3827:"Conservative Party"
3825:Faulkner, Ronnie W.
3798:"Unflinching Leader"
2094:R. M. Furman, Judge
2088:Samuel McDowell Tate
2024:Elijah V. Brookshire
1885:Louisville, Kentucky
1740:Susan Lawrence Davis
1563:Blair Education Bill
1363:Fourteenth Amendment
1357:Fourteenth Amendment
1290:Governor of Virginia
1195:William T. Sherman's
1071:Petersburg, Virginia
975:, helping to defend
967:, and encamped near
795:Knoxville, Tennessee
705:Pre-Civil War career
84:Augustus S. Merrimon
7255:American Freemasons
4875:Excelsior Lodge:261
4428:The Times of Israel
3668:Yates, Richard E. "
3600:Library of Congress
3224:Appalachian Journal
2779:The Washington Post
2753:The Washington Post
2319:SS Zebulon B. Vance
2208:State Historic Site
2056:William E. Chandler
2038:of North Carolina,
2018:of North Carolina;
2012:William T. Crawford
1996:Catholic University
1962:, Attorney General
1824:in the 19th–century
1371:The Dailey Standard
687:William Horn Battle
681:Vance then went to
556: 1845 to 1850
496:officer during the
482:Zebulon Baird Vance
333:Zebulon Baird Vance
18:Zebulon Baird Vance
6169:Served alongside:
6135:Served alongside:
6045:Political offices
6032:Title next held by
6008:Thomas L. Clingman
5461:. February 2, 2021
5359:The New York Times
5232:The New York Times
5046:The New York Times
5017:The New York Times
4928:The New York Times
4622:The New York Times
4592:The New York Times
4365:The Daily Standard
4280:Barrett, John G. "
4127:The New York Times
3910:The New York Times
3541:The New York Times
3502:phigamarchives.org
2781:, January 27, 2022
2540:"Zebulon B. Vance"
2354:Vance Hall at the
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1859:Riverside Cemetery
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1278:Old Capitol Prison
1221:Joseph E. Johnston
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1186:Governor, 2nd term
1101:, and protect the
1014:Governor, 1st term
996:Battle of New Bern
952:
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724:North Carolina Bar
720:
695:Samuel F. Phillips
629:Washington College
595:Robert Brank Vance
559:
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505:Reconstruction Era
498:American Civil War
470:Seven Days Battles
466:Battle of New Bern
434:Confederate States
374:Riverside Cemetery
272:Thomas L. Clingman
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6212:Succeeded by
6195:Augustus Merrimon
6177:Succeeded by
6167:1879–1894
6156:Augustus Merrimon
6143:Succeeded by
6094:Succeeded by
6067:Succeeded by
5876:Publishers Weekly
5404:See footnote 103.
5305:Town of Vanceboro
4767:978-1-4696-0731-3
4008:978-1-55553-124-9
2839:. August 28, 2020
2253:was added to the
2127:and many others.
2008:John S. Henderson
1972:Hilary A. Herbert
1968:Wilson S. Bissell
1956:Walter Q. Gresham
1946:, Vice President
1935:Death and funeral
1855:Charles T. Colyer
1759:Authentic History
1603:Farmers' Alliance
1597:Farmers' Alliance
1451:Augustus Merrimon
1418:Yet, within the "
1240:Blandwood Mansion
1236:John M. Schofield
1213:Blandwood Mansion
1040:William W. Holden
973:Suffolk, Virginia
672:Dialectic Society
610:Buncombe Turnpike
583:George Washington
565:near present-day
539:Fireplace inside
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2074:Frank I. Osborne
2042:of Mississippi,
2028:Luther M. Strong
1960:John G. Carlisle
1929:Suwannee Springs
1835:Charles McDowell
1752:Thomas Dixon Jr.
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1632:Thomas J. Jarvis
1616:Leonidas L. Polk
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