The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-01-22
TARHEELIA AT CHICAGO.
The Lyceum Society's Discussion-Ress-
buttons Adopted.

The Lyceun Society's Discussion-Ress-
buttons Adopted.
i Asheville Citizen says: The Lyceum
society held a meeting last night, despite
the bad weather. The subject for the
society's consideration was "Should
North Carolina have an exhibit at the
Worlds fair% Maj. W. H.. Malone
made the opening address. He said:
SIN the advocacy of the affirmation of
this question, l feel that l am speaking
for the state of North Carolina. Some
n has dared to speak Of North Caro-
lima as a strip of land between two
states Indeed, a native Of Buncombs,
after having been governor of the state
and president of the university, said in a
public speech that North Carolina had
been a good state to 0 from In
this expression Governor Swain meant
no willful derision Of the state, but q
candid admission of its slow progress
and its Rip Van Wrinkle tendencies. He
showed that many of our sons whose as
pirations had caused them to watch the
rapid rise and wonderful development
of the younger states of the union, had
gone hither and found promotion to the
highest seats of honor and distinction.
CAS- | have just said, I speak for North
Carolina. Shall this grand old state re-
main the object Of invidious comparison?
Shall one of the great original thirteen
not be found at tits grand American ex-
hibition at Chicago? Shall the descend
ants of the signers of the MeckIenburg
declaration Of independence ignore this
great occasion? Shall those whose an
cestors drove the British from Kings
Mountain, and made freedom from tyr
amy possible by the struggle at Guilford
court house, feel no pride in the future
glory of the state, which is to result from
industrial growth and commercial wealth?
Is here only a slip Of land between two
states ?"
No. North Carolina has 450 miles in
length, with an extreme breadth of 1876
miles, with 52,25Q square miles, with a
coast line of 400 miles, with vast harbors,
such as Wilmington, Beaufort, Edenton
and New Berne, with a population in1090
Of 100000. We have 10000 more square
miles than Ohio, 5000 more than New
York, 1000 more than Pennsylvania and
10000 more than Virginia.
GGTNhan 10oI OF tho raoo,,r2oa - tha
state. 1t is true we raise peanuts, rosin,
pitch and ~turpentine; and likewise we
raise rice, cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat,
rye and all the cereals fruits of all kinds,
with a grape which produces the very
best of wine. Look at our vast mineral
resources. The finest magnetic iron in
the world, the marble beds, rivaling the
Italian marble, with gold, corundum, and
other minerals which cannot be men
toned. Behold our vast water power,
to urn the machinery of a
thousand Lowells. Then we have an in
tellectual people, whose inventive genius
is shown by its being the third state, in
point of the numbers of useful inventions
which have passed through the patent
Office since the war.
"This exposition at Chicago is called
the Columbian exposition. 1t commem-
CRATES the 40Oth university of Columbus
discovery of America. Four centuries!
What a vast period of time. Who can
comprehend the wonderful progress of
the world in a period of 400 years? Our
own growth is wonderful, but when the
civilized world is on exhibition l suggest
that no tongue can express nor imagi-
nation conceive of these grand results.
"Where is North Carolina? what are
her boards of trade and her commercial
clubs doing? Who are the opponents Of
North Carolina's enterprise? What are
her governor and legislators doing? tits
men who make a state. Every town and
city is known by its enterprising, brainy
men. The states of the union are what
their leading men have made them. We
need more independent thinkers and
fewer camp-follwers, With such leaders
North Carolina would come to the front
in 1898 in such a grand and charming po-
sition that all nations would know that
Carolina is not only a state of the
American union, but the grandest proud
old state of them all
Short talks on the subject were made
by Col. L. NJ. Hatch and others. The
following resolution was then adopted
Resolved, That in the opinion of the
the governor of the state would
be amply justified in calling the legisla-
ture together in special session to consider
the propriety of providing means for
North Carolina being represented ut the
Chicago fair in 1893"
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