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VOLUME XXIV
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WARRENTON, N. C, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1919
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HISTORY CROWDED WITH REFERENCE TO DEITY IN ALL
NATIONAL UNDERTAKINGS; RELIGIOUS STRAIN IN U. S.
plea of Benjamin Franklin To Compatriots For Prayer Before Dis
cussion Formed Bed-Rock Upon Which Constitution Was Built;
Lincoln Based North's Stand On Scriptural Quotation "A House
Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand"; Other Sidelights.
pv Harry F. Atwood, Author of "Back
to the Republic'
(Written for Manufacturers Record)
The proudest heritage of this coun
ty is that all through our history
there has run the goldten thread of a
religious strain. The great Baptist
theologican, jear 0ld Dr. George Nor
thrup, once said, "God Almighty
writes a legible hand," and it seems
to me that we find the handwriting of
God all over the wall of the Republic.
We find it written into our State
papers, in the words spoken by our
statesmen, on the coins that we cir
culate, m the songs that we sing, in
the literature that has been written,
and in the aspirations of our people.
More, far more than any other coun
try we nave been essentially a relig
ious and God-loving nation: and it is
that fact more than anything else
which has put character into our
statesmen, courage into our soldiers,
justice into our Government and con
science into our people.
The Mayflower compact begins: "In
the name of God, Amen. And having
undertaken for the glory of God and
the advancement of the Christian
faith.'.' That is the opening sentence
of the first State paper ever adopted
on American soil.
In the Declaration of Independence
we find such sentences as "Appealing
to the Supreme Judge of the World
for the rectitude of our intentions
and for support of this declaration j
with a firm reliance upon Divine Prov
dence." In our Constitutional Convention
weie assembled the greatest body cf
men, frorn the standpoint of physical
vigor, mental acumen and moral
courage, that ever met together for
human achievement. When the great
William Pitt read our Constitution he
exclaimed: "It will be the wonder and
admiration of all future generations
and the model of all future constitu
tions." It is to the everlasting dis
credit of our various States (which by
the Constitution are guaranteed a re
public as the form of government)
and of all foreign countries that they
have failed to make it their model,
and that Pitt's prophecy has not been
realized.
The writing and adoption of our
Constitution was unquestionably the
greatest and most important human
achievement since the creation, and as
an event it ranks in history second!
only to the birth of Christ. That mar
velous body of men met day after day
for four weeks and had not agreed on
a single word or a single sentence.
On the last morning of the fifth week,
m the midst of a very heated discus
sion, they were about to adjourn and
abandon the great purpose for which
they had met, when Benjamin Frank
lin, perhaps the wisest man in the
convention, mature in years, ripe in
wisdom and! consummate in tact, arose
and, adressing George Washington in
the chair, spoke as follows:
"Mr. President, the small progress
we have made after four or five
Peeks' close attention and continual
rasonings with each other, our differ
ent sentiments on almost every ques
tion, several of the last producing as
ttany noes as ayes, is, methinks, a
melancholy proof of the imperfection
f the human understanding. We in-
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"cm iu ieei uur want, ui uuiin-
cal wisdom, since we have been run-!
nm nil ,,4- u -r witionai convention.
have gone back to ancient history for
yodels of government and examined
the different forms of those republics
which, having been originally formed
with the seeds of their own dissolu
tions, now no longer exist: and we
nave viewed modern States all around
ope, but find none of their consti
utions suitable in our circumstances.
'!n this situation of this assembly,
Ping, as it were, in the dark to find
Mitical truth, and scarce able to dis
tinguish it when presented to us, how
as s it happened, sir, that we have not
jtherto once thought of humbly ap
riving to the Father of Lights to il
nate our understandings?
1 have lived, sir, a long time: and
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the longer I live the more convincing
proofs I see of this truth, that God
governs in the affairs of men. And if
a sparrow cannot fall to the ground
without His notice, is it probable that
an empire can rise without His aid?
We have been assured, sir, in the
Sacred Writings, that except the Lord
build the house, they labor in vain
that build it.' I firmly believe this;
and I also believe that without His
concuring aid we shall succeed in this
political building no better than the
builders of Babel; we shall be divided
by our ljttle, partial, local interests,
our project will be confounded, and we
ourselves shall become a reproach and
a byword down to future ages. And,
what is worse, mankind may hereaf
ter, from this unfortunate instance,
despair of establishing government by
human wisdom and leave it to chance,
war, conquest.
"I therefore beg leave to move:
"That hereafter prayers, imploring
the assistance of Heaven and its bless
ing on our deliberations, be held in
this assmbly every morning before we
proceed to business, and that one or
more of the clergy of this city be re
quested to officiate in that service."
And from that moment they began
to make progress in the framing and
adoption of that fame-crowned docu
ment, which Gladstone said was the
greatest piece of work ever struck off
at a given time by the brain and pur-
pose of man.
There were men in the Constitu
tional Convention . who refused to sign
that immortal document. Alexander
Hamilton was the only man from the
great State of New York who signed
it, but those who refused have all long
since been forgotten. The men who
refused to sign the Constitution were
urging the inclusion of popular falla
cies that are as old as Methuselah and
played their part in the downfall of
Greece, Rome and other countries, and
during recent years have been advo
cated by modern demagogues in this
country as new milleniums, such as
iniative, referendum, recall, boards
and commissions, etc. When the men
who favored those socialistic nos-
trums learned! that they could not ap
peal to the reason of the men who
wrote and signed the Constitution,
they tried to appeal to their fear, and
they said: "Unless you write into this
Constitution some popular fallacies to
fool and please the people, the Consti
tution will never be adopted." George
Washington had taken no part in the
discussion of the convention up to that
time, but when he heard that state
ment he rose from the President's
chair and! in tones of. suppressed emo
tion said: "It is too probable that no
plan we propose will be adopted; per
haps another dreadful conflict is to be
sustained: if, to please the people, we
offer what we ourselves disapprove,
how can we afterwards defend our
work? Let us raise a standard to
which the wise and honest can repair;
the event is in the hands of God."
Professor Fosk has well said that
those words ought to be written on
the walls of every legislative hall,
State and national, in this country,
and ought to be carved upon the walls
of every convention room where peo
ple meet to write a platform or adopt
a resolution or" nominate a canaiaaxe.
It is illustrative of the type of reas-
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oning that prevailed m the Constitu-
Those men were not trying to fol
low the crowd; they were trying to
mold public opinion and give the peo
ple what they needed. The great dif
ficulty during recent years is that we
have had crowd followers instead of
statesmen who were leaders. The
crowd does not want to be followed; it
wants to be guided; and the great
men the men who have molded pub
lic sentiment, frequently have had to
stand in the minority for a time; but
history points to these men finally as
those who molded public opinion and
who stood for what they believed to
be rights , .
George Washington wrote to Gov
ernor Trumbull of Connecticut: f.I can
If it's a tie between INCOME and SPENDING, we lose. If
we lose, we are handicapped on the next lap of life's relay. But
if we beat our FOOLISH SPENDING, we start the next lap
ahead of the game. If we keep up our saving pace, we dis
tance the Wolf.
almost trace the finger of Divine
Providence through those dark and
mysterious days which first led the
colonists to assemble in convention,
thereby laying the foundation for
peace and prosperity, when we had
too much reason to fear that misery
and confusion were coming too rapidly
upon us."
In his Farewell Address he said,
among other things: "Of all habits
and customs leading to political pros
perity, religion 'and morality are in
dispensable supports. It is substan
tially true that virtue or morality is j
a necessary spring of popular govern
ment."
Daniel Webster, expounder and de
fender of the Constitution, who stands
at the mountain peak of New England
historv and ranks second onlv to
Hamilton as a governmental genus,
said: "I mean to stand upon the Con -
stitution. I need no other1 platform,
The ends I aim at shall be my coun
try's, my God's, and truth's."
Into our national anthem, "The Star
Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key
wrote: "And this is our motto, 'In God
is our trust,' " and we have written
that motto upon the coins that we cir
culate. In the "Battle Hymn of the Repub
lic" Julia Ward Howe wrote these
beautiful lines:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of
the coming of the Lord.
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In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea, "
With a glory in His bosom
That transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy,
Let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah;
His truth is marching on.
Samuel Francis Smith wrote as the
closing verse of our inspiring national
hymn:
Our Fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing!
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light!
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!
Coming down to the next great
epoch of history, when it was neces
sary to preserve the Union and save
the Republic founded on our Constitu
tion written by Alexander Hamilton
and his associates, on one occasion
someone said to Abraham Lincoln:
"I hope God is on our side," to which
Lincoln replied: "My concern is
so much whether God is on our side.
My great concern is to be on God'3
side, for God is always right."
Lincoln based the great issue of this
Republic upon a text taken from the
ible, "A house divided against itself
cannot stand.
In his farewell address to his old
neighbors at Springfield he said,
among other things: "Today I leave
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you. 1 go xo assume a. tasK. mure uia-
fi'cult than that which devolved upon
George Washington. Unless the Great
God who inspired him shall be with
and inspire me, I must fail; but if tlw
same Omniscient Mind and Almighty
Arm that directed me and protected
him shall guide and support me, I
shall not fail; I shall succeed. Let us
pray that the God of our fathers will
not forsake us now. To Him I com
mend you all. Permit me to ask that
with equal sincerity and faith you will
invoke ; His wisdom and guidance for
m- The great God who can stay here
with you and go there with me and be
every where for good!
In his inaugural address, when pas
sion was running high, he wrote:
"With malice toward? none, with char
ity for all, with firmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right, let
us strive on to finish the work we are
m.
Into the Emancipation Proclamation
be wrote: "And upon this act, sincere
ly believed to be an act of justice, I
invoke the deliberate judgement of
mankind and the gracious favor of Al
mighty God."
."In his Gettysburg address he said:
"That this nation, under God, shall
jhave a new birth of freedom."
At the time of Lincoln's assassina
tion crowds had gathered m New
(York City, and their minds were in
if lamed with the thought. "Our leader
is gonei our cause is lost.'! Men kill
ed one another upon the streets. A
group was organized to destroy the
World building, in which the news
paper was published which had op
posed Lincoln's administration. James
A. Garfield happened to be in the city,
and it was suggested that his pres
ence and personality upon the plat
form where the telegrams had been
read announcing Lincoln's condition
might tend to bring calm to the situa
tion. He raised his hand and wove
together some of the choicest gems
of the Psalms that his good old moth
er had taught him in childhood as she
held him upon her knee.
He said: "Fellow-Citizens: Clouds
and darknes are 'round about him.
His pavilion is dark waters and thick
clouds of the sky. Justice and judge
ment are the establishment of His
throne. Mercy and truth shall go be
fore His face. Fellow-citizens, God
reigns, and the Government at Wash
ington still lives." Those words
wrought like magic, and from that
moment violence ceased in the city of
New York. '
Rutherford B. Hayes said: "Look
ing for the guidance of that Divine
hand by which the destines of nations
and individuals are shaped."
Benjamin Harrison said: "God has
placed upon our head a diadem and
has laid at our feet power and wealth
beyond definition or calculation; but
we must not forget that we take these
gifts upon condition that justice and
mercy shall hold the reins of power.'
Grover Cleveland said: "Above all I
know there is a Supreme Being who
hot-(les the affairs of men and whose
goodness and mercy have always fol
lowed the American people, and I
know He will not turn from us now
if we humbly and reverently seek His
powerful aid." .
In opening his inaugural f dress
William McKinley said: "Invoking the
guidance of Almighty God, our faith
teaches us that there is no safer re -liance
than upon the God of our fath
ers, Who has so singularly favored the
American people in every national
trial" and Who will not forsake us so
long as we obey His commandments
and walk humbly in His footsteps.-'
And in cooing he said. "J will, to the
best of my ability, preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution of the
United States. This is the obligation
I have reverently taken before the
Lord Most High. To keep it will ue
my single purpose, my constant
prayer."
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WARREN'S FAIR AT NOR
LINA OCTOBER 9 and 10TH
Prizes In Addition To Those In
Catalogue To Be Awarded; Of
ficers Asking Aid To Make A
Great Success of Undertaking.
At, the Norliha School building on
October the iyth and 10th there will be
held an agricultural fair for Warren
County, this place being selected on
account of the superior advantages
afforded by the school building and
grounds for the exhibits, especially
the live stock. The management of
the fair receives absolutely no com
pensation for time or trouble, it be
ing given free for the good we hope
will come to the county on account of
the fair. This being a fact we con-
ndentally expect the co-operation of
the farmers, business and manufac
turing interests of the county, that
our combined efforts may be crowned
with success. If we fail on account
of not having exhibits it will be a re
flection on our county.
We hope to be able to select out of
the exhibits shown an exhibit which
will do credit to our county at the
State Fair.
If you have not received a catalogue
we will be glad to mail one on receipt
of your your name and address,
Below you will find a few special
premiums received since catalogue
came from the press.
Mr. R. B. Boyd $5.00 Best collection
canned fruit.
Mr. J. A. Dowtin $5.00 Best collec
tion canned vegetables.
Allen & Fleming $5 Best collection
preserves.
Mr. W. G. Rogers $5 Best loaf bread.
Mr. C. C. Hunter $5 Best three
pounds of butter.
W. A. Miles Co. Alumnum kettle for
best peck sweet potatoes."
LMti J- D. Newell $1 for best whiesa?
apples. '
Mr. W. D. Rose $1 best caromel cake
Mr. J. A. Dameron $1 best butter
milk biscuit.
Mr. Bob Pinnell $1 best ham. .
Mr. Rob Watson $1 best home made
molasses.
Mr. Ben Hilliard good tie for best
home made broom.
Mr. A. D. Harris $1 best pound cake
Mr. J. Willie White $1 best ginger
cakes.
Mr. H. L. Falkener $1 best beaten
biscujt.
Dr. W. D. Rodgers $1 best tea cakes.
Celebration at
Littleton 13th
Littleton is to be the center Thurs
day of an interested and enthusiastic
crowd at its welcome home celebra
tion given the soldiers, sailors and
marines of the surrounding territory.
The Red Cross as sponsor for the day
guarantees an auspicuous gathering
which is destined to be staged in splen
did style.
Dr. Alston's grove will be the gen
eral headquarters to which the sol
diers of River, Judkins, and Fishing
Creek in Warren and of Butterwood
Brinkleyville and Littleton in Halifax
are invited. Five hundred pounds of
'cue with many other tempting things
to eat will form a delicious dinner for
the soldiers. Families are expected
to bring baskets as the dinner will
only be served the honor guests of the
occasion.
S Judge Francis D. Winston will be
the speaker of the day.' Soldiers of
different sections, however, will
called to the platform for short talks
as will other citizens prominent in war
work. Garber-Davis orchestra, of Wil
son, will furnish music during the
day.
Every effort is being made by the
committee for a successful celebration
and the attendance of a large crowd
from the surrounding country side is
confidently expected.
Philathea Club With Mrs. Allen
The Philathea Literary Club of the
Baptist church met with Mrs. T. V.
Allen last Friday night. A very in
teresting program was helpfully en
joyed and the evening an occasion of
pleasant social intercourse. Delicious
fruit punch was seived.
TOBACCO FLOWS HERE FOR
OPENING SALE TUESDAY
Streets Crowded With Citizens
and Wagons Block Side Streets
Leading To Warehouses; Price
of Weed Declared "Good."
The streets rang this morning with
the familar "awgon in the road" as
the warehousemen of Warrenton
handled the biggest opening break in
the history of the market. Citizens
from all sections crowded the side
walks and wagons literally blocked
traffic on two of our side streets in the
effort to place the golden weed upon
the floors.
Farmers were present from all sec
tions of Warren and' some from ad
joining counties. Even as early as
four o'clock yesterday evening the
farmers commenced to arrive for to
day's sales, and this steady flow con
tinued until sales time today.
Much damaged tobacco was in evi
dence. The heavy rains of the latter
part of July being one of the chief
uses for the damage. The prices
received were good and the farmers as
a whole were satisfied with the results!
of the first day's sale.
COLORDED FARMERS CONFEtt
ENCE TO MEET SEPT. 26TH
The Colored Farmers Conference i&
called to meet in its annual session
Friday before the 4th Sunday in
September, 1919 (Friday, September
26th, 1919) at the County Court
House, Warrenton, N. C. Meeting
called at 12 o'clock.
All colored farmers of Warren
county are urged to be present. Bus
iness of much importance. Election
of officers, arrangements for County
Colored Demonstrator, and etc. Mr.
L. E. Hall, State Farm Demonstrator
for colored farmers is invited to speak.
Let" the colored farmers turn out as
never before.
JACOB JORDAN, President.
C. H. WILLIAMSON, Secty.
Big Crowds In At
tendance at Court
Superior Court convened promptly
Monday morning with Judge Lyon
presiding and Solicitor Midyette on
hand to look after the tate's business.
The Grand Jury was quickly drawn
and ably charged by Judge Lyon, and
proceeded to business.
A detailed statement of cases and
their disposition will appear in Fri
day's issue, as press of business
around the Clerk's desk has prevented
getting Court proceedings in detail.
Clerk Newell, assisted by Mr. Joseph
J. Macon, is handling the records in
good shape and with little inconven
ience to witnesses and the Bar.
Panacea Property
To Change Hands
Persistent Rumor has it that the
Panacea Springs property has been
purchased by a syndicate composed of
Henderson business men and northern
capital and that the Hotel will be con
ducted throut the entire year.
Good authority from our neighbor
ing city states that the report is cur
rent that the Hotel with improve
ments will be conducted as such and
that a modern sanitarium will be built
on the hill facing the resort.
No direct authority is to hand for
this rumor but Madame is persistent
enough to make the most doubtful
think that there is something to thl3
ripple of news.
Robert Plummer Passes Away
Robert Plummer, highly respected
colored barber of Littleton, a son of
John S. Plummer, of this city, was
buried here yesterday afternoon with
Masonic honors. Many flowers by
white friends attested to the esteem
in which he was held.
Mr. John T. Waring to Wed
Mr. John T. Waring announces his
coming marriage to the popular and
beautiful Mrs. Jessie Terry Phillips,
New Bern, N. C, on Thursday, Sep
tember eighteenth, nineteen hundred
and nineteen.
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