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hand conflict. Petersburg had fed Richmond during 

 the war, and its fall, as already noticed, marked the 

 end of the struggle. 



At Petersburg some one told us about a negro who 

 rather resented a respectful question from a Northern 

 visitor who called him " Mister. " But a Southerner, 

 coming along, said : " Hello, niggah, what you all doin' 

 hyah?" This delighted him. Some one asked: 

 "Would you let a Northerner talk to you that way?" 

 "No," he promptly replied; "You'se my folks!" 



At Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, we were At RaUigh 

 treated with unusual courtesy, being invited to 

 leave the second-best hotel we had inadvertently 

 selected, and accept a choice of rooms in the finest one 

 at the city's expense. This change, I understood, was 

 made at the suggestion of the editor of the Raleigh 

 Observer, Hon. Josephus Daniels, since a national 

 figure. 



We now met Hon. Walter Clark, chief justice of Judge 

 the state, a man with keen, critical mind and very ^''"^^ 

 definite opinions. Judge Clark strongly insisted that 

 Petersburg, though the sole key to Richmond, was 

 finally hit upon only by accident. And he said that 

 if the Northern army had come by sea to Petersburg, 

 Richmond would have fallen at once. He also laid 

 special stress on the abuses of the national pension 

 system; according to his calculation the whole ad- 

 justment is unfair to the already impoverished South, 

 and excessive pensions are used by politicians to 

 justify the high protective tariff^. 



From Raleigh on our way homeward we passed 

 by my old fishing grounds on the rapid Holston 

 River. At Knoxville, Tennessee, we met William K. Tait 

 Tait, superintendent of rural schools in South 



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