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SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21,1890
nr.uerii uLuyuniit,
Senator Cockrell's Concluding Argu
ment on the Silver Coinage Qucs
tlon, -#
On Monday last Senator'Eock
M made rtlt elaborate argunmlt . il
favor of silver ebinage. The fol
lowing is the concluding portior
of it.
In view of aii thescTdata . J ruus
conclude that the prophecies of i
deluge of silver into our mints upor
i the adoption of .the free coinage o'
the silver dollar,'are like the exag
gerated statements, spread broad
.... feast over .Europe by our officials, o:
our gold and silver production flood
7 lug Europe at th«s rate of tbrei
lmndrod or four hundred millions o:
dollarannnually. _
1 admit, that for a time, we -roai
■ have 3 rapid influx of silver a»<
and may lose some of our gold, atu
; may have for the time an excess o:
l silver coinst which will be a lega!
constitutional money, a full tend;,
f iu piiyraeftt of debts in this country
■ alid in exchange for our other pro
ducts.and to all intents be as gout
as gold. Even should our gold coins
rise to a premium over our silvei
. coins, the effect will lie- to chect
\ the exhort of gold. - ..
On May 1, 1880, our nations
. , bank notes amounted to ? 189,442,
473, Our national bonds, upon th<
basis of which these notes, are is
sued, will soon be paid and: cancel
ed and these notes retired from om
feircalufioir. With what kind ol
money shall we supply this large re
dnotion or contraction of our cur
fancy?
Shall it he with full legal tendei
coin certificates or with’ legal ten
der United States notes or Treasurj
Vre must supply the arteries ol
trade Anil commerce with some cur
rency. equal in amount to the re
tire%%ank notes. Our mints have
long beeu open to the free coinage
or gold, with gold bullion equal tc
coin, and have failed to supply the
- necessary increase, of gold. ~
•. .We must then use silver or sonic
paper currency to meet this want.
Silver is indispensable as money
to us, and also to the world.
* The records show that every na
tion is to-day using silver as money,
in some form, giving it by law free
coinage, limited or no coinage, with
full or limited legal tender.
Silver when coined by law has
hot been deprived of its function, as
money anywhere, but has been de
prived of free coinage, or limited in
the amount and its legal tender;
and when not coined lias been de
clared to be a mere commodity, like
irou and copper. No nation, how
ever, lias ventured to make its sil
ver coins of any reasonable stand
ard of finance and full weight re
deemable in gold, as the paper cur
rency has been- made.
An infinitely wise and merciful
(Jod has given to!gold and silver pe
culiar qualities, fitting them for use
ns money, not possessed by any of
llie metals, like iron, copper, zinc,
. ' etc, which can be produced in un
limited quanities, and has endowed
Uiau wit h an instinct of tlieir pre
, piousness and fitness for measuring
the values, of other products.
In all ages, among all natrons,
they have boon regarded as “precibus
: toetsls” and used for exchanges'and
monetary purposes. By far the
greatest demand which has existed
In the world for ages has been for
-their use as money in its several
functions, und tlieir most important
Use as money has been to serve as a
Standard measure of values" with
free coinage or-u small seigniorage,.
. I have been able to trace the ori
gin of laws, giving them legal ten
tier in payment of debts and liabili
ties, hut such laws have beep in opf
erati on for ages past. Free coin
age or coinage at a small co'sk and
legal tender in payments, with
■ exchangeability one for the . other
at some established ratio of weights
and fineness, became as it Were an
Inherent port and parcel of each
metal ahu very, .largely increased
the demand for each and also their
Uses, and made them in the estima
tions aud.transactions of tlie world,
money in its fullest meaning, and
invested each of them with inher
'ent functions aud qualities not be
longing to any pthor metals or com
: . Beingendowed, with these func
' turns and qualities not Belonging to
articles of commerce, they censed to
. be mere fconmifidittes, and -became
. sensitively subject'to every intlu*
.. '.encc and operation of political jag
„: illations and legal enactments of
; Huy one nr more najirms, which
might increase or diminish the de
mand and tiie uses for the due or
the.other, and- thus change tJioir
Hatire tnluot* .....I /„ .
' i et senator bhennan said in liU
report of .1808;. “(jp'ld wiih.us js-O.ike
- cotton a ruw print net ’—and the
doctrinaires proclaim that gold and
sitve.r. an;. mere Coni modi ties, tike
irqn,'copper, wheat, cotton and farm
. products, and belong to undare siib
jeet to the regulations of commerce,
and iiot of legislation or taws'which
fcaii_Only operate ns a 'certificate- of
tlieir weight. and fineness. They
tell us that the great imperious, ir
f revocable law of ■ supply and
demand alone regulates the" values
of gold and silver, regardless of the
operations of laws.
' 8ur.li statements have been sc
fong proclaimed as truths, iijcontro
. vertible facts, by our dictionaries
’ and economic writers that the great
. agricultural masses of our country
aro concluding that, If true, and
! gold and silver are only commodi
ties, only articles of merchandise,
Subject alone to the regulations of
commerce and the law of supply
and demand then they have the le
i gal right to have their staple pro
ducts, their commodities placed by
law upon an equal footing with the
so-called commodities, gold and
; silver, or gold metal. They
say if gold is a raw product like
cotton, then by law place the yaw
produet cotton on an equal footing
with the raw product gold, and give
the farmer, an equal chance before
the law with the miner.
tience we Uny^^iSL tihe legitimate!
fruit of these false teachings the
Ml- as now pending before the com
mittee of this Senate for the estab
lishment of the so-called warehouse
system tor-staple farm products-4u
. numerous localities throughout our
couutry, to be determined by pro
duction, wherein the farmers can de
posit their raw products, like cotton,
etc., and receive Government certifi
cates of Treasury notes—not for
the full market value of their pro
ducts, as the existing law gives to
the depositor" of the raw product
gold, and as the pending hill now
ufider consideration proposes to give
to the depositors of the raw product
silver, but onlv for 70 per 'cent, of
the market value as determined by
commerce. :, - ’f- ■
Mr. President, gold is no longer a
raw product, a mere commodity,
nor is silver. They cannot be, and
never have been produced in unlim
ited quantities, us iron, copper, cot
ton, wheat and like commodities
have been mid can now be produced.
With a limited production of. gold
and silver taws giving them each
: like coinage and legal tender can
and will control and regulate their
ratios of value and prevent any per
manent material fluctuation*. Sup
pose the discriminations made by
taws and monetary treaties sin our
own and European nations, to which
I have referred, had been in favor
of silver and against gold, am} gold
had been made a mere commodity,
what would be the market value of
25,8 grains 0 parts fine, of gold met
al wiicii measured by our standard
silver ? 1 do not doubt that their
relative value would he to-day rever
sed, and the silver in our dollar
would be increased in value us much
as tlie gold of the gold dollar has
been aud is to-day
Suppose all the nations of the
world had in 1873, demonetized
both gold and silver, prohibited their
coinage and their legal tender in
any payments, and deprived them
of all the functions- and qualities,
and adopted some other metal as
money, with free coinage- and full
tender of money. What would be
their relative value to-day .Compared
with or measured by the ether pro*
il nets of the world? ■
Can anyone doubt that such, ac
tion would hava relegated them to j
the list of mere articles of merchan
dise, only valuable on account of
their superior .-qualities as metals,
for ornament and for itid ustrial us
es, and would have reduced their
market value, when measured by
the money metal having free coin
age and unlimited legal tender in all
payments, and by other metals and
products from, 25 to 50 per cent.
| below what it is now.
Liisenmimiting legislation ana ac
tion has caused tbo divergence. now
existing in their .relative values- [ |
I am opposed to all such discrim
inating legislation,and action,
for gold or silvernr against either.
By our law and executive action
let us place them upon a perfect
eq ually as coin and bullion, and in
addition vre ought also, to increoso
the standard weight of our half and
quarter dollars and dimes to corres
pond with the dollar, and make all
full legttl tender for all sums, and
not have two kinds of the same
metal, one the dollar for the rich,
uwiertOu classes, and the other half
anil quarter dollars and dlisea, for
the great masses, in their millions
and billions of little transactions
under fli in amount; • -
Iu season those who favor the «n
limited coinage of silver nre taunted
with trying to flood the country
with it depreciated 72 ■ cent dollar,
and even that noble, grand national
sentiment inscribed upon our silver
.dollars of the standard weight and
fineness prescribed by our national
laws,. ‘'In God we trust,” is sneered
at anil derided sis meaning "In God
we trust” - for the other 28 cents to
make it a dollar. ■ " ;
The dollar ie :our ' unit Of value
and money of ae,''jnnt,?a'nd«ow ny
law is represented by and attached
fa any coin, gold or silver, or any,
paper issue, a * legal tender for that
unit, audailliabilities, contracts and
obligations are made payable in and ]
can be discharged" by the payment j
of such units of Vftlue, dollars and
cents, which are legal tender by
law, whether they be gold, silver, or
paper, unless it is expressly stipula
tecLtherein that such units of val
ue- -dollars—shall be paid in coins
of a specified weight and fineness
in such dollars, as in the case of our
funded national bonds of 1801 and
1807.
-They charge the friends of silver
with nearly all the crimes of dis
honesty, and say we want cheap
money—a debased, dollar.
. Mr. "President, I tGiall not indulge
in charges or , recrinvinations and
shall not impugn .the motives of
those who differ from me.
. • auc jl uave tnc nonov
ft) part to represent in this Chamber
has no gold or silver mines, no stock
of silver bullion on band to be in
creased in value and can derive no
beuetit, uo gain by any legislation of
Congress -which Will not be equally
shared by other gtatea. Nor* have'*
[ directly or indirectly a cent’s in
terest in any mine of gold or silver
or a cent’s worth* of silver bullion
on hand. Nor do I favor the unlim
ited coinage of si.ver dollars with
full legal tender, because the’United
States are the great producers of
silver and want a market created
by law for this product. I would
favor the unlimited coinage of silver
dollars with full legal tender, if not
a dollar of silver was produced in the
United States; and I p.m Hot aliiug
for the unlimited coiuage of ..that
metal simply bcause it is an' Ameri
can product. -
I find upon our statutes laws dis
criminating in favor of gold coins
and bullion and against" silver dol
lars, limiting the amount of their
coinage and depriving the silver
metal of the functions and qualities
of money; and debasing It to the
condition of a raw product,’ a Com
modity. - , v -j ,. /
1 find in tiro laws of Germany
and other nations, and in the treaties
of the Latin Union, similar discrim
inations. .
I believe. I \ have satisfactorily
shown by the facts mid records that
I have stated and", quoted that our
o*n officials and representatives and
our own discriminating legislation
have caused all the' discriminations
now existing now in Europe, in the
nations which, previously had the
sinjglc standard of silver or the doub
le standard of gold and-silver, ami
that these discriminating laws of
our own and European countries,
and the fear, the apprehension, of
an avalanche of silver from our
mines into Europe, have caused the
depreciation, the change in the rela
tive value of silver to gold, and have
practically relegated silver to the
position of a mere commodity, and
have made, for the present at least,
an international agreement with
inch nations upon a fixity of ratio
between gold and silver in free coin
age of both, an impossibility.
,1 believe it is now our duty, re
gardless of the possible actions of
Other nations, to retrace oiir steps,
correct -the false 'impressions and
apprehensions of European nations
caused by our own unfounded re
presentations and by our laws restore
silver to a perfect, equality with gold
both as coin aud bullion.
Solicitor McNeill.
ttockinyluim Rorkct.
We take it that our estimable
tow us man and unsurpassed Solicitor,
frank McNeill. Esq., by general
consent. will be • • nlhwtfd-4 hwalk
over” in the seventh Judicial Dis
trict, as we hear uf no Opposition, to
him and it is conceded that, bv the
rules of custom, he is entitled to a
second term in offline; doupled with
which consideration, too, is the fact
of his faithful record as, a Solicitor
for four years past and his 'improv
t’ preparation for the discharge of
e laborious duties of the place.
.. While, not assnming to dictate to
the convention which will meet iu
Lauriuburg on the. 10th of next
..month, of pose us the organ of any
particular man, still the Jlaekrt
hopes for Mr, Man’s nomination as
a worthy son of the county and as a
Solicitor who reflects credit upon
the State- •_ • ' y :; •;!
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GRIM TENACITY TO THE SUB-TREAS
URY BILL.
Our Correspondent witl not Desert the
Burning Ship.
lijfpvex* Vorrrspmi de «*» - ' v
; I hive read Messrs. Oittefc, Mills,
Carlisle and the rest of them against
the Sub-Treasury plan. I read every
thing I can for av against-it. I *-re
gret that I have never seen *1tt the
Express a single quotation from the
many able pieces I have read in its
defence. Our. people ought to see
both .sides../*Sapie of them read the
Express &rtlfdo not see the papers
favoring it. .Have you read nothing
in the papers defending it worth
quoting?- -
■ I find hut little difference in what
Mr. Carlislesays than the rest. TlreyT
all play on the same odd string with
some variations in rendering the
music. They have all combined and,
attack the same details of the bill
with about the same arguments if
they may he termed arguments at
I all. r haye seen but little but bare
! assertions from any of them with
out aigninedf or proof to sustain
I any of them. The friends of the
bill have stated all the time that
i iiey careo nothing lor sue details ot
the bill. Why do they Tiot go to
work and make the bill what they
want or think it should be? That
is their’ business. There' are our Sen-:
ators employed to go there, and do
our work. If they are able and
wilting why do they not do it.
What we ask is for the govern
ment to loan ita credit on perfectly
good security to farmers and pro
ducers, directly instead of first loan,
ing it to a close corporation 4 of
National Bankers (without soul or
conscience) to rc-loan to farmers
at from 8 to 25 per cent. Cheaper
money direct from the government,
instead, of high priced money "indi
rectly given, is what we want." Jfr.
Mills and Carlisle say if a man is so
poor as to be compelled to ask’ 80
per cent from the government. he
will not be able to pay back and will
final^y.-lose, tlie balance. He can
certainly savo from 7 to 24 percent
in the way of interest. It would in
crease tli© circulation of money
when the • farmers^ products were
placed on the markets, giving him
better prices, thereby giving him a
chance to pay his debts. The histo
ry of our own and every other coun
try proves that a sufficient currency
has always been a great blessing to
the trade and business of the people.
Mr, Mills says that an amsunt pf
legal tender paper money would
stop specie payments and probably
drive gold from the country. Well
let it stop and drive as much as it
pleases if the sal vation of the mass
es depend on that; , as stated -by
Vanee I believe “The great Ameri
can eagle on the gold dollar like a
Tung hill cock'dnvped his feathers
and slunk to cover when ' the first
gun was fired and. the greatest war
of modern times .ivas fought with
legal tender paper money, and times
were much better for the masses
when we had plenty of paper money
and no specie payments. But wlmt
will the consumers do, those in towns
and villages, those who hare to buy
products, you will starve them? J
am perfectly surprised lit any man
of ordinary business sense to ask
such fc question. Every one from
the Secretary down will admit that
there is not enough money in cir
culation. If there Was a great deal
more, products would go up. There;
would be work for every map. every,
tramp, at better prices. No one,
would be idle for the want of work,
as is tlie case now. Those who con
tracted debts when products were
high could pay them now with high
products without, injury to his Cred
it, Farmers then would have .a
chance to get. out of debt, as it Is
they never will. " ' v
Jefferson. Calhoun. Jackson. Ben
ton, Wobster, Chase Lincoln aha
many of our Ixst men of both par->
ties favored this plan in some way*
Mr. Oates, Mills, Carlisle and others
don’t like it. I have always believed
in Jefferson, Calhoun and Jackson
and don’t think I will leave them
Cor Mr. Mil is or Carlisle yet awhile.
About 20 years ago or more we paid
Mr." Cirri isle and 'our imeSnbers of
Congress $5,000, by forgery, bribery.
Forcing specie payments, demonet
izing silver and HI .sorts of lngislab
tion in favor of the gold bags. Wo
now pay them $15,000 about raeas^
tired by thcproduets of our labor,
That its Mr. Carlisle can take one
dollar of his salary now and buy
three times as much of .the products
of my labor as when he first went to
Congress. How do you like this
brother farmers for a ‘'Salary grab?”
I do not say Mills and . Carlisle
worked for those tilings, but they
have been there and seem ever
anxious to remain and I have not
heard much of a howl against these
things from them. They throw
the tariff tub to the whale once and
a while. 1 believe that is all the
idea Mills has in his head. We un
derstand that a high tariff makei-us
pay highert for manufactured
products but deny that it alone has
brought agricultural products to the
present ruinous low prices; if so
Mills and Carlisle to be consistent
ought to favor it, for they say you
must-not raise the prices of agricul
tural products byrthe Sub-Treasury
bill, if yog do you /will starve the
consumer of them. What are we
to do, we work hard, our wives work
hard, our children are growing op
in many cases ignorant, we cannot
pay our preachers Or doctors', or get
necessary medicine, nor clothe mir
■ selves decently and comfortably.
The growth of our . products has
I decreased about three fould, there
by increasing onr indebtedness and
the salaries of Millsand Carlisle
and all others about in proportion.
Will yon Mr. Editor or Mr. Mills pr
Carlisle tell us what to do, we have
waited a long time. We have pro
posed a plan. Mr. M. and C. say
111 at won’t do, its paternalism or
auui.ebiuug ui tiiat 3Q1C. VVJtiat
then? Well! the tariff they say
| will fix it. Well Mr.,M..and C. five
years ago with a Democrat,ie Presi
dent and House and the Senate about
evenly divided, commenced as Dem
ocratic leaders to give us low tariff.
They advanced one foot forwards
and two backwards 'till they have
all President and both Houses by
good majorities against them. - Now
by these tactics how long will it
j take them to bring us tariff reform
by way of China. Mr. Editor neith
er of them are fit for leaders as they
have proven conclusively, and I beg
of my. brother farmers and all citl
zens uot to be led by them without
looking into matters and thinking
for your selves. Mills and Carlisle
Indeed! What has either ever done
to entitle them to our especial grati
tude. I do not know of anything.
Oh! they are brilliant men, great
speakers. But what have they done
that we should follow ? just because
fthey say so or assert a ' thing to be
wrong, shall we still pull off our
liats and hurrah for them, or shall
we read, think, investigate a little
for ourselves. My friends let us do
a little of the latter, we have tried
the other long enough. If you have
grit in you stand firm : and let us
teach them sooner or later that „vyo
are the masters and they our ser
vants, wo can bring all of them to
their senses if we will. Shall we
do it? • •>' *‘W." V
Race Feeling in the North. ;
1 Sat Ion" l /h Mi. <J -ut ?
We have published a go ld deal of
matter about the political,social and
industrial discriminations against
the negro in the North because the
North ii’fuff of well-meaning iieo
plo, who have never seen any mani
i'jstutioiT of the color line, because
people of a different color from
themselves have never come into
their neighborhood, who imagine
that the people of the South are cru
el, oppress the liegrp maliciously and
trampleon his rights because they
are still angry'at emancipation. '
Now, the truth of the matter, is
tfiat.there is not one man in a hnn
dred in the South who regrets em an
cipation, because free labor is in the
loug ruri"cheaper than slave labor.
Industrially, the negro is well treat
ed at the South', add he is . content.
He is fairly paid, and when indus
trious amt thrifty accumulates prcP.
porty. The Southern whites support
schools for his children, and he has
a chanee, and some of his race are
improving ft. '■ V .. .>
_ roimcauy arm socially the negro
is just as much under the ban m the
North as in the South. We have
published abundant illustrations of
the drawing of the color- line by
white Republicans in Kansas, Indi
ana, Pennsylvania, New York, Con
necticut and so on, and in the Grand
Army of the Eepoblic in several
Southern as welt as Northern Stated
At this very time the colored people
of I he Presidents own State are
calling a convention to k protest
against the political discrimination
'main tained against them by the .Re
publican party which ' would never
carry Indiana but for-15,000 negro
Republican voters. Lately a colored
newspaper was removed from the
banner Republican State of Kansas
to the Democratic State of Missouri
| because there' was so.inueh unfriend
tiness to the eniernri— i-t t li.* i<»r
mcr. An edue.ro1 e ;tu"e4 irh'itiled
in Senator Alli.soii’>,it,,ry because on
account oL her color she could get
nothing bet niniiuei Tabor to dtqand
for that she was not strong enough.
Within a few Weekha colorfed clef
gymap lias been trying to hire a
house in'” the city where Senator
Hawley lives, and failed because he
was a negro.
A number of phil-on jhfopists met
ftt Lake Mohonk, N. Y., last week*
and dis-ussedthe negro. Several of
them were a good deal more candid
than enthusiastic philanthropists
are apt lo be,. President McGill, of
Swurthinore College, in Pennsylva
nia, said he “thought the conference
would do well to consider how the
prejudice which now exists at the
North against the- Northern negro
can be lessened. In Philadelphia a
negro is allowed to Carry morter up
a ladder, hut is not allowed - -to-- lay.
hrick; while if he should undertake
to drive a horse car he would be mob
bed.”
Albion W, Tourgee is not a man
to whom wo should look for any
very broad or candid views on a sub
ject of this kind, but even this kind,
but even this man, who has for
years been painting .the people of
the South as hopelessly brutal to
ward the negro and disloyal towards
the Government, supported Presi
dent McGill. lie said (wo quote
as before from the New York Trib
une s report.) “A young colored
man who had a genius for mechan
ics once come to him from the South,
and he endeavored in vain to get him
a place in a machine shop, either in
Pennsylvania or Massachusetts. The
negro in question is now living in
uiiu uuu urtnaturany nates
the United States as the devil hates
holy water. The people of the
North, and more particularly the
chmch of the North, does not give
the negro a fair show." '
What is called the race question
is not a matter of party, or a matter
of section. Wherever the whites
and blacks come in contact the race
question occurs, and the only differ
ence between the North and South
is that there is more personal friend
liness for the negro in the latter than
in the former, aud he has more op
portunities of earning a living and
getting on in the world in the South
than in the North. .
DRTAYLOrVaDORESS
To the Graduating Class at Wake For
est College.
After the speaking, President Tay
lor, of Wake Forest Collpge, deliv
ered the diplomas to the graduating
clasS. In presenting them, he said:
,‘*In one of his charming essays,
Benjamin Franklin expressed the
wish that he could awake at the end
of a hundred years and be witness
of the wonderful things which a
century would produce. But far
seeing: though he was, his proph
etic dream fell short of the reality
as we know it. The vision young
gentlemen, which was denied to
him, is presented unto you. You
enter life and assume the toga riri
lis in such an ora as this world has
never seen before--an era of great
and growing enterprise, of widening
knowledge, of quickened sympa
thies of universal peace.
Especially are you tu be congrat
ulated, as sons of the Sooth, on
coming into your well trained man
hood at such a time as this. W hat
ever problems you may have to
solve, the questions that harassed
your fathers are settled, for a quar
ter of a century flowers have been
blooming on the scarred fields of
their battles. A new era has open
ed for North Carolina* and her
Southern sister states. Each morn
ing’s paper tells of some new enter
prise—of furnaces, cotton-mills,
rtietories, improvement companies.
Therein we all rejoice. And it is
with a feeling of peculiar pride that
the old mother college sees so many
of her sons in the forefront of this
bloodless stsoggle. This is the new
South of which the eloquent and
lamented Qrady was the prophet—
New in its enterprises, In its lead
era, in its spirit: And this spirit,
[ need not tell you; is thoroughly
materialistic. - Chafed at being lag
garas in tfte race tor wealth,. weary
of the almost universal poverty, oor
own Southern* meii who hare dis
cerned the bidden utilities in soil
and fprets ami Sunshine are striving
Vith as great intoytivenesf and en
ergy ns has ever hern displayed by
Northern Yankee or Western lloos
ier. Ami we nay,' God bless" and
speed them;
3tet oithis &hfirhe-weayjhg I ail'd
intensity of application there are
j obrious-b ndencies which are to be
dej lured. The pendulum is a\Yin«- _
ing from lisllinoss and inactivity to
! rush and burry of all business en- ■* ■■
! ierprise. May it not awing too far?
Are not going, of the cbaructeris-__
tics of the old Smith worthy-of prei
vation—not as hallowed memories,
hut a» living realities? If it is the
fittest that survives, they should not
perish.
Yortr fathers, will tell you, young
gentlemen, of the spirit of that civ
ilization which is passing away. It
taught an honesty which is some
thing more than the best policy. It
practiced a oeifelihorliness ami hos
pitality which knit communities to
1 gether like great families. It breath
ed-a reyerohee for the hearthstone .
and the sancities of home, for the
purity and dignity of " Womanhood
("such as has never been Surpassed. J
It was hallowed by a patriotism
. which w as as wide, as.it was iutense ... .
—a patriotism which took unsel
fish interest in all public affairs, -
sought the ablest for office, and
was ready to die for liberty.' 1 It be
lieved that gentleness made a gen- ’
tleman, that personal honor.was
ipriceless, it was - illustrated by
many a life such that sentiment and ;r;
-poetry were ns true as science- ifc
showed many a sparkling fountain
aim fragrant flower by life’s way
side, believing in the enjoyment of
lift, rather than the enjoyment of
money. If, as we drift into the
prosperities of a New South, we are -
to forget this—if the flower is to be j
crushed the fountain'' denial, jnay 1 ri
not the new have eost too much?
But we need not lose unless will.
And I avail myself of the oppor
■ trinity, in this presence, to deliver a
; message from the Old South to the
«»»>,• u. wouia oia you nun a wine
eclecticism. to foster the best in
both., Turn every stream over »/
wheel, explore the mountains for
ores, cover the plains with growing
crope and lowing cattle, cast the
spell of your enchantments over the
land until villages become towns
and towns cities-—until your barns
are tilled with harvests and your
banks with coin. Do all that—andf
more, till the land smiles with pros
perity and famished want ^retires :
from our borders. But amid it alt,
the Old South would say, remember
that the true life of a, man consists
not merely in metirial prosper
ity. Not what one has, but what"
he is, after all, the criterion
of successful living. The love of
nature in all her moods, sweet and
tender affections, chastened imagi
nations, holy and hallowed! memo
ries, the consciousness of rectitude,
the exercise of charitable disposi
tions, the aspiration which can Took
up reverently, yet confidently and,
say “Our Father.” These are bet-1
ter than even the hum of machinery
or clink of gold.
Our ideals af social and political
life, Atlantis and Eutopia, lie before
us, not behind. The highest reali
zation of our dreams would come in.
the blending of the amenities of the
Old South with the activities of the
New. And what an arena is offered
in North Carolina for working out'
the destiny of the greatest opulence
and the highest civilization! It was
within a few miles of where some
of you were born that the first A i
glo-Saxon settler pressed this c u-'
ti.nent. But the vines whose fra
grance charmed the senses of Sirr
Walter Raleigh still, in nature wil
derness breath their perfume over,
the placid . waters of Albemarle
Sound, North Caronina is still
largely Virginia soil. Old in years
and rich in history, it is, in some
respectS'as new a State as Colorado;
Young men stay in North Carolina.
If the negro will go, let him go in
peace: but let there be a cessation
of that exodus, which for a hundred .
years has drained away the white
men of our State. How can our
ideals be realj*d. We shall not
live to see the full fruition of our
hope, but we can help its coming and
perhaps see the flush of theduwn
that ushers it in.
Your ideals of personal character
and individual life, also, are yet to
he made realities. See that they
ays exalted and noble. ' ]§ach has
hut one life to live in the world.
Make the most of yours. . Have a
definite purpose and struggle to ac
complish it.
“The busy world shoves angrily made
The man who stmida with aimsakimbo
set
Until occasion tells tilm what to do.
And he who waits to have his tyak
■parked out
Shall die
le and leave
ill led."
his errand nnful
nnguteii file liven ot others a*_.
you can.su briugiug suiuIum into
your own. Believe Boimstbinf?.
wnff, if needful go •.<. ;b /
your convictions. Bj honest torn J
anti Faithful, be paticat,- mothst* . J
persistent toilers. - Thence will cotoe if™
victoiHW, Imirelcd crowns and.
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