The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-08-14
RALEIGH N. c., FRIDAY, AUGUST "A, 1891.

dentists what the chlsel is to the
sculptor. You were not then an !
infant, as age goes, having had an
existence of thirteen years, but in
influence you were young, COM
paratively.o Your growth had been
slow, and a formula for proper
nourishment was the result of the
Asheville meeting. From a Sec
tional organization (and use the
term because at the Asheville meet
ing there was not member of
the profession present who
resided in other than the
Southern States) you have devel-
oped and assumed proportions, both
in point of numbers and scientific
attainments, equal, if not superior
to any kindred institution any
where.
Sectional lines have been obliter-
ated, and to-day there are present,
as members and visitors, represen-
tatives of the profession of large
proportion of the States of the
Union. But for the distance to be
traversed we have no doubt that
every State would be represented
here to-day. 1t is my pleasure, to-
day, as the mouth-piece of my
brethren, to welcome you again to
North Carolina; but this time to
the "sandy shores of our sounding
seas"
You have climbed our lofty
mountains, you shall revel in our
beautiful waters! Morehead is not
the splendid city depicted in your
hearing at Atlanta last year, by a
, gentlemen who desired to deal len
: iently with the invitation from
-. North Carolina, but who opposed
it's acceptance in the interest of pro-
badly a more desirable place
but to Morehead; beautiful for stu
uation, with all the sea for its out
look, with its life. giving breeze
borne in on Old Oceans wave,
: voicing it's eloquent but wordless
welcome in the ceaseless rush and
I roar of its mighty surf-we wei
come you with a right hearty vel
:, come.
Old Neptune himself shall be
your servant while you stay; all hi:
briny realms shall be laid under
tribute to his distinguished guests
= and bed and board shall be blessed
. by his royal bounty.
e ToNorth Carolina, too, and tt
6 the great hearts of her great peop!
| bid you welcome.
She goeth not about to sound he
% own praises, yet her sons love he
:. and are proud of her.
n Her mighty domain, from Hat
teras to Tomotta, from the Atlanti
Is to the Great Smokies-fve hun
a dred miles away-is one, in climate
d in soil, in hospitable sons and daugf
|y tiers, in teaming resources whic
ID kings might envy.
le Her history is that Of the Angle
Ia Saxon race, and constitutional lii
es erty on this continent. 1t is a
oft told tale that her sun locke
Id down on the first English settlemer
to in America; that her winds waite
the wall of the frstAmerican born il
ce fan,; that her sons first declared, ;
es Mecklenburg, that call men al
nd and of right ought to be free ar
er independents" that her soil dram
n. the blood of the first martyrs
re liberty; that in all the wars of tt
ur Republic her sons have borne ht
nd flag always in the forefront OF tt
N hottest Of the fight; that in war al
ys in peace her people have been bra1
lie, and hospitable, well meriting f
on her the name of 'the good Old Nor
un State But, / would not wea
he you with even seeming boastin
ur North Carolina welcomes you
her honored guests, and she fet
,rs that she is hostess who nee
ed not to be ashamed. 70
,ar former visit gave impetus
tn DENTS try in North Carolir
resulting in lasting benefit to tt
M cause of our common professio
Ill, The membership Of our State De
ta- tai Society has doubled, with p1