The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-01
DURHAM And HENDERSON,
EXTRACTS FROM THE ORA
TON OF w. r. HENRY.

Delivered in Burwell Hall on
the Occasion of the Visit OF
the Durham Tobacco Asso-.
citation to Henderson, April
18th.
Being introduced by Mr.. W. II.
Smoot, Chairman Of the Recep
ton Committee, Mr.. Henry said !:
Gentlemen of the Durham and
Henderson Tobacco Boards 0f
Trade, Ladies and Gentlemen :
This is an exceedingly brilliant,
interesting and happy OCCASION
and especially is it a happy one
TO the citizens OF Henderson. for
their neighbors and friends, and
generous, high-minded rivals in
the race of progress and prosper
fly. are with them to-day, as hon.
osed and honorable guests.
Ihaye said that Durham and
Henderson are rivals-but they
are friends-and while doing at
all times, all in their power to
climb The Hill OF Success, ] am
sure the time will never come,
when each will not doeverything,
not inconsistent with her own in
terest to advance the welfare OF
the other.
We welcome our noble friends,
the representatives OF Durham,
to-day, as gladly as Cardinal
Wolsey welcomed the Ambassa-
doris OF France Mt Hampton
Court. and if We do not entertain
them as royalty, if we do not in
vite them to a banquet as grand.
as that is said to have been-'to
a hall hung with silk and cloth OF
gold, with tables that glitter with
massive plate, laden with the rar-
est meats, and a-blush with the
cOstliest wines. with fruits ripe
and luscious. in baskets of silver,
entwined with leaves plucked
from royal Conservatives: with
fountains rising up from enclos-
ures of ivory, in jets Of crystal, to
fall i'm rain OF diamonds aud
pearls" while all around from
mysterious recesses, yelled by cur
tains OF Tyrian purple, floats mu.
sic with its ''voluptuous swell" il
We do not entertain you thus roy
ally, D, men OF Durham, it il ow-
ing to our lack of ability, and TO
no want of a desire to thus sig
nalize your visit, and testify our
great appreciation of your pres
ence in our midst.
While the army of Darius, King
af Persia, was besieging the city
OF Babylon, one Zopyrus, a SOL
der, in many ways proved his in.
tense friendship for the King, and
one day, the King, holding at the
time a pOmegranate in his hand.
was asked by one OF his Captains,
What good il there that you
would wish to multiply, as often
as that fruit contains seed?" The
King replied. without hesitation.
''Such friends as Zopyrus "
And, il | had a pomegranate in
my hand at this moment, and
were asked what good il there
you would wish TO multiply AZ
often az that fruit contains seed"
] should reply without hesitation.
such friends as Durham and Hen.
derson are, and will continue to
be, 10 each other; such treasures
as they both are. to North Caro-.
lima. North Carolina, God bless
her!
Lord Byron in his immortal
poem, Childe Harold. says:
Il stood 10 vsBie on the Bridge n sigbs.
And sac Uw ont the wsVe her Il, ueture@ fiss
A. IRON the sirsEs Of an sbeasHtsf's sabd."
One visiting Durham and Hen.
ders0n now. after an absence Of
ten or even five years. might also
exclaim, II saw from out the
eaItb her structures rise, az from
the stroke Of a magician's wand. {"
Athens. letaiIse Of her rpuuta.