HON. BEpFoRp BROWN.
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We perceive with extreme regret that this dis
tinguishsd gentleman contemplates leaving North


Carolina. Thirty years, we believe, have nearly


elapsed since Col. Brown entered the service o1
the people ofthis State, as member of the Legls


lature from the sterling democratic county Of Gas


well. In 1916, the Legislature was distinguished


for high talent; many of the great men who now


shed lustre upon their beloved Commonwealth,


were members of it but Col. Brown soon took
a prominent stand among them, and gave bright


presages of those commanding qualities of mind
and heart which have since more fully developed
themselves, and raised him TO a high position in
the public estimation. AS member of that most
respectable body, Col. Brown was characterfz-
ed by energy, ability, and high integrity; and
throughout the stormy period of Mr.. MADISON
administration, he preserved and practised, as he
has constantly done since, those pure and i'm
perishable principles of democratic truth, which
have constituted and now constitute the crowning
glory of his life And when elevated to the au-
gust post of National Senator his talents expand
ed with remarkable facility to the measure of the
station he was called to occupy. Through light
and through darkness; amid prosperity and amid
disaster, he held to the principles and bat
tied for the same great truths; and long, very
long will it be, ere the green laurels he won by
the side of CALHOUN and BENTON, shall perish
from the admiring gaze of the lovers of consitu-
tional freedom.


! Dating from the last war the commencement of
his political career; elevated and strengthened in
all his purposes for good by the fiery trials of that
uncertain and dangerous period; always the fear
less champion of democracy, and the friend of the
poor man-the withdrawal of Col BROWN from
our midst would be we'll calculated at any time to
stir up recollecons of the past, as well as to cre-
ate the conviction that the loss of such aman could
not easily be repaired. But especially do we need
now his strong and scorching eloquence, and the
weight of that bold arm of his, which has won the
day for the right cause in so many popular bat
Iles and as we need him much, and regard him
with sincere and deep affection, so we depIore the
existence of any reasons strong enough to incline
him to leave the State. If he aoiU CO. however,
we hope that whatever Of happiness in private life
he anticipates may go with him; and that his for-
tunes in the distant West may be as brilliant and
auspcious as his most ardent friends could desire