Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-05-13
point all who may listen to the radiance Of her:

point all who may listen to the radiance Of her
fame.
Hers has been TO common lot of usefulness and
honor. II he is benefactor of mankind who makes
two blades of grass grow where only one grew be
fore, how much more worthy of lasting fame Is that
institution, by whose aid an hundred ideas springup
and flourish in the place of the rank weeds of isno-
rance. We may imagine her the queen OF literature
and science, seated on her granite throne, ut en-
b!em of the durability of her empire, her younger
children, now playing, now tong among the tall,
old oaks which shade her feet gazing with exultng
pride at the progress of her older children, as they
adorn the even paths of a quiet life, or climb the
steep road to greatness. How her eye kindes as
she seated on its summit, the ruler of great
people, the President she cnce delighted to honor!
tear rolls down her majestic cheek, as her Vice
President droops and dies with the laurels on his
brow. No fear had she for her conntry's honor
when Graham and Dobbin chief CAPTAINS Of
her ships, and Mason and Barringer stood senti
nells at Paris and Madrid. And now, when low
mutter the thunders of fanaticism, and the pilot
anxiously watches whether the storm shall burst
from the North the South the far region Of the
setting sun, she feels more that two of her
sons, with her conservatism instilled into their
hearts, ready in the cabinet assist the Strong
Old Nan, when the hour of danger comes.
But sir, has her glory departed? Is she like
noble old tree which, with the golden fruit that has
fallen from its branches in former years. has lost its
vitality and its strength No sir her later children
treadng the way their fathers trod Besides
many eminent in civil pursuits-in the pulpit-on
the bench-in all the Professions Bryan amid the
thunders Of artillery on the plains Of Mcxico-and
in fierce struggles with painted savages on our
Western frontier, is showing that her teachings do
not render feeble in the rude art of war. At this
present moment, aided by her respected chief, who
having won many honors, finds his greatest reward
in her service, with able Faculty 10 instruct the
five hundred children who toll around her. unassist
ed by legislative grants, she enduring cdificcs
gathers within her libraries the best books of every
age; endows new and useful Profrssorshps and
will soon become, in fact as well as in name, Uni
vcrsity where the thirsty student may drink at the
fount of every science.
Mr. President l have spoken long enough. can
the faces Of some Of the old students of the Uni
versity miserable at my long delay, they once
at the unapprecated c"quence of DIR. Phillips
Analytics. | am not i'm the habit of "Speakng for
Buncombe," but this occasion am proud to pro-
pose the health and happiness Of that man, whom,
long observation has convinced me. be the best
fit for the station he holds of all in North Carolina
that man is President Swain, ofthe University.
! [Musc.1
Eleventh regular toast:
"Lnternal hnPr~remsnt'-A few years. a few
spades and shuvels ania few more dllurs will nd
the East and West in bond ut common ineres, and
enduring sympathy; that all distinctions of places
the same honest pr de whenever
wherever name the Good Old North State"
Hon. Sion H. ROGERS was received with loud
cheers as he to respond. He said,
! Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen I: I scarcely know
how to make response. So much might be said
and little ought be sa j upon an occasion lie
this, and that little ought to be said aoett, that
distrust self Che, RS By that sentiment we
have presented in view, North, Carolina she
has been, as she is. and hope her to he
! she has been, behind all her sisters in the great
race of improvements she is non, slowly bu,
surely moving along, with her works opening up
every day, some freshly discovered mime at wealth
and developing her vastly rich resources [Ch, erS
+ Now even, the i" iron horse" with his sirl neigh
is no stranger to her people. With graceful case he
takes the rich growth of her wes,er bills, and places
them in her flour ishng towns in the east. Zap
plause,] What feelings must spring up in the hos
! ON of the hardy and generous farmer of the west
when he contrasts the present with the past Feel
ings of pleasure And his bosom sweils with pride
and delight at the prospect in the future. \ single
glance at that future: See our beloved State with
, her lines of road reaching from her extreme ives
tern to her extreme esstcrn Limit, and from points
! in her interior to her coast-running through hel
high mountains and over her rich PLANES see ne,
majestic rivers, bearing upon their bosom the rict
and heavy freights now emboweled in her carth-ir
! TINT future, North Carolina will not only have char
actcr for the honesty and integrity of her people
but also for her power and wealth. Loud cheers
Then she will stand peer among her sisters-equa
in ali respects, superior in many. [Continuee
cheers
w
the spirit and enterprise of the people of Whining
ton much is due for the progress that We have nj
ready made" Honor he to them 20 whom honor il
due" [Great cheering and musc.l
The twelfth regular toast
Z" Tie uouay Of .Sate"-We hail them as
band of brothers noble cause fellow aborcs and fel
lo" snldiers hand in hand shoulder to shoulder W.
strive for the Glory of our Native State.
7 WM J. SAUNDERS, Esq, was loudly called on t,
respond. Ii expressed his sense of the comp iment
and proceeded at considerable length In conclu
sion and on behalf of the young men of the State
he thanked the company for the distinguished homo
! paid to them generally and for the particular res
pect shown to him in choosing him their repre-
sentative. Mr.. Saunders effort happy one
and was deservedly applaudcd.
The last regular toast then announced, a
follows, and received with three hearty cheers:
Tie Lndies Of Rateigh"-What heart so cold tha
has not warmed beneath their smile? What tongue $
dumb that will not Slnd their praise? May their charm
soon render old bachelor.hOod an extinct FOSSIL
LIEUT. Tucker, of the Oak City Guards res
ponded. He insisted that he was no speaking man
and proved satisfactorily, before he got through
that he acas He eulogiscd the fair to their heart
content and pointed to their handwork in the deco
rations of the hall as a sample OF what they coul
do in that particular He was, he said, thorough
going ladies' man, and fully believed in them. II
kept the cnmpauy i'm "A continuous throngho
his speech, aud concluded by offering the followin
sentiment:
r,veted by the bristng steel may friendship be
lasting S the and as bright the other!
[Received with three cheers the band striking IL
l. ." Home sweet home"