The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-05-03

he purchased {, young Jersey bull and on
Monday it was shipped to kawona, n. Y.
When North Carolina bought Jersey cat
tie in New York money went out of the
State TO New York
When New York buys cattle from North
Carolina money comes into the State.
And that is the difference between profit
and loss. between success and failure.
AN ORNATE ADDRESS.
Our Correspondent PAYS Walter X. Hem
~. ESD. High Compliment.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLEl
1t was my good fortune, a few days
since, to be present at the entertainment
Of the Durham Board of Trade at Hender
son, =. c., and to hear the Grafton of
Walter R. Henry, Esq which was one of
the most chaste, classical and ornate ad
dresses that it has ever been my pleasure
to hear Mr. Henry is fast approaching
the position where he Will be looked upon
by North CaroIinians as her first orator
His speech was a real gem, and | have So
cured portion of II for publication IN
your valuable paper Ii they receive but
one-teutn the pleasure in reading it, which
the hearing gave me, ! shall feel We'll re
paid iii securing II for publication.
The following is the address
We have heard much recently of a New
South. We all remember the eloquent and
Immediately famous GRAFTON of that mirror
of Southern chiyalry, Hon. Henry V.
4 k.io ba Nf
York in 1897: MS subject was. The New
South :" We al thank and will ever honor
him.fot his grand deliua4tiou Of Southern
character, and his matchlesS defence of
Southern principles and deeds, on that oc-
casion, but it will also be remembered that
Mr Grady ID using the term New South,
anticipated that many would think be
meant to repudiate the ''Old South, the
principles ste loved and bled for, and the
memories that eucircle her like 2 halo OF
glory, broad as the Universe, and as last
ing as Eternity.
Mr. Grady meant no such thing. but in
using the term, he fel5 the necessity of
dcvotiug Al least half his time 10 defining
his true position
Many wri els and orators have since de-
c ared that there l. no New South. bat
rhat It's the same ..Old South, that star
tle.i world with her valor, and wrote the
manhood Of her men and the Womanhcod,
purity and hsroism of her women across
al the centuries.
think thai neither appellation, New
South" nor Old South Is strictly speak
ing. the proper one. Let US rather call her
the Progressive South, " aud by the force
OF the term it will be manifest that We
mean TO repudiate nothing. That cling
ing to the crown Ct glory that already
glitters upon her brow, The south wilt
pause for a moment TO drink deep at the
FOuut Of Progress, then, spring forward
in the race and ere long throw about her
neck the imperial jewels Of Prosperity and
Wealth. Indeed she has already sprung
forward ia the race for the golden pIlze.
She is even now imbued with the same
spirit that elevated Alexander, Babylon,
Balbec. Corinth, Ephesus, and Palmyra to
the summit of human greatness; the same
spirit that emptied the richest treasures
Of commerce III their market places, and
adorned their groves and public squares
with splendid temples, gorgeous palaces
and colossal theatres, and erected statues
and columns which, until annlhllated by
time, viii remain the wonder and admra
ton of the world.
Oh, thou divine spirit of Progress, the
great Heart Of the South is thrObbing with
the new life thou hast instilled.
Durham and Henderson are children OF
the Progressive South children Of
whom she may well be proud, and though
they have run far ahead of their mother,
they illustrate in their success the possl-
biIities within her reach, should she once
become animated by the same fiery ardor
that impels them onward
Nithstalding their inherent ylgor
and indomita0le energy, what could Dur
ham or Henderson have done without the
n L.a,7 I,Nth to he.Ir
excellent hcme papers? The Press that
tells their excellencies TO the listening ma
tions: the Press, that incites them to re
neued endeayor; the Press, that dictates
policy to statesmen Ind SOverelgnS, and
sways the people of all lands; the Press,
! that censor of all the mighty acts played
| on the great stages Of the earth.
Inc Press, from the ice mountains OF
| the North to the rfringed isles OF the
Southern seas, from the Blushing Orient
| to the dropping West, thou art rolling on
the mighty car of progress and waking and
| warning mems hearts everywhere to the
| love of their GOD and fellow man.
| | have asked what Durham and Hender-
son could nave done without the Press? |
| now ask what could the Press do without
| the Railroads.
Some time ago | read of the wounding
| of a golden eagle by a Scottish huntsman-
| the writer thus describes the scene: lie
| sailed upward gloriously with slow maJes-
| tic notion through the light, far below
| him lav the white crested waves cleaning
afar off, the purple stretch Of the dark
moors, and the rounded masses OF the
woods; higher and higher, leaving the
earth behind him he rose III his royal
grandeur fronting the sun, and so aiming
| onward and upward against the blue skies
| and the snowy piles of clouds, rejoicing IN
| his solitude and kingly in his strength.
Far beneath him, deep down among the
tangled mass of heather and brown moor
grasses, giistened the lean cruel steel Of a
rifle barrel like the shine of snake 5
back, pointing upward; there was one
sharp sullen report, and a single gray pun
of smoke curled up from the heather, the
eagle wheeled once round then dropped
down through the sunny air with the
wings that had placed him in proud king
ship with the sun broken and shattered. .