Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-15
STATE PRIDE.
3 c6.sty of North CarOIinians-0ur
Distinguished Mention.
A M Waddell.

H A. M. Waddell.
d WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. s, 1875.
+ DEAR JOURNAL: An accidental meet
ag some years ago with Hon. D. K.
lcRae, az one time a resident of you,
kty. anG always most true and loyal
.arolinisn, brought out the following 1:
81 was travelling" said he, ION one
Il our railroads some time ago, and
Rund myself seated beside a gentle
AN between whom and myself, a con-
ersation sprang up. He told me that
d was clergyman from a neighbor-
Ag State, and was on his way to one
3 our many mineral springs, in search
3 health, and desired, while drinking
ne waters of life," to dispense the
bread of life," to the hungry souls
II the neighborhood; and, that he
light not grope in the dark, he begged
se, as one well acquainted with my
sople, to tell him what they most
fcked-what was their greatest need. )"
/ I told him he had judged me rightly
d supposing me we'll acquainted with
" people, and would take pleasure
4 telling him what they most needed:
f is brass, sir, brass! Give them
lat, and you not only make them
appier here, but greatly increase
heir chances of happiness hereafter. 4"
nd I don't know but that the gallant
soloneI of the gallant 9TH was about
ght. What do you think of it2
Has it ever occurred to you, Messrs.
aditors, to ask yourselves the ques-
ons, What has North Carolina done
sr North Carolinians, or what have
sorth Carolinians done for each other :?
hey have thrown up their hats and
1rrahed themselves hoarse for the
Etizens of other States they have
Jade, and I trust will ever be ready
; make sacrifices for the common
pod, and in this they are only true to
aeir history. Whose doors open fast
at the knock Of the stranger ?-but
their treatment of their own home
slks they simply verify the adage ::
"a prophet hath honor save among
Is own people,"
Why, sirs, had Andrew Jackson re-
aimed in North Carolina where he
as born, accidentally, if you wilD,
ad educated, or Polk, or johnson, or
sing, or Bill Allen, as they familiarly
Ill the old war horse Of the Ohio
democracy, or the hundred and
pc others that you will remem-
pr and I could name, who
i've honored and been honored
y the community i'll which they have
we'd, would they have ever illumina-
id the pages of this country's history
] they have done ? Hardly and why ?
secause they might never have had
he brass to assert thsmselves-thei
.eighbors would not have helped
lem and their talents would have
BEN buried in q napkin.
Suppose that eminent physician, DR..
ames 81. Dickson, had lived any
here else, would his fame have been
estricted by State limits ? Do you
ink Gatlin Ca Hartford Co., man)
Hould have made the noise he has in
ie world with his guns and filed his
pckets with lucre had he not emigra-
id to q 6roze,l community Why,
rs, his modest neighbors would have
buried so much cold water on his am
ition that they'd have put his prim-
lg out and not agun would have gone
Who knows anything about William
Cree, the distinguished Col. of En-
.neers ? An old friend Of mine, an
sficer of the army, and like Col. No
ZEE, native of Bladen, told me that
se of Napoleon's Generals told
% that Colonel McRee pos
ssed great military genius and,
Ter Napoleon himself, he knew of no
IA better fitted for the command of
2Eadred men, high praise indeed,