The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-04
NORTH CAROLINA.
Tribute to the Old State by the Late
Professor Edward Graham Dawes.

Professor Edward Graham Dawes.
Richmond Dispatch.
Following is the address which was
delivered by the late Professor Edward
Graham Dawes, of Baltimore, at a din
ner given by the Massac husetts Society
of the Cincinnati, in Boston, last July
Mr.. President You remember the
familiar Latin proverb, "Non cuiris
| hOmini cOntingit ddire Corinthuna,
which may be freely translated, at ii
not every one who is lucky enough to
visit the Hub"
| I, however, am one of the fortunate
outside Philistines privileged not in
frequently to see the glories OF the mod
ern Corinth and to put my legs under
her hospitabIe mahogany.
1t is delightful for us Southern mer
to be here on occasions like this, wher
everything is redolent of patriotic asso
citation, and we call to mind the enthu.
siasm with which the news of Lexing
ton was received at Baltimore, and the
fact that the Marylanders we're the first
Southern troops to Join Washington at
Cambridge.
have the honor to represent, in a
certain sense, two bodies of the Cincin-
natl. As resident of Baltimore am
a member of the Maryland Society, but
my hereditary claim is derived from
my grandfather, one of the founders of
the North Carolina Cincinnati, an as
sociation long since dormant. / do not
say extinct, for it still has legal exist
ence, as there was no formal vote of
dissolution Or distribution sof it's funds
Meetings simply ceased to be held on
account of the impossibility of bring
ing men together Who were scattered
widely over a purely agricultural State,
very great in extent, without any met
ropolitan centre, and then with very
imperfect means of communication
Allow me to say word about North
Carolina-presumably a fresh topic
here-the modest, conservative old
State, lacking, perhaps, in enterprises,
lacking in self assertion, but always
prompt at the call of duty and shrink
ing from no sacrifice when honor is at
stake. The "Tar-heels" are prompt
singularly unpretentious and unosten-
tatious hardy, patient under suffering,
obedient to law, divine and human,
yet as ready to resist tyranny as loyal
ly submissive to just authority; race
of brave, honest men and pure, tender
women, unsurpassed in the world Tor
sterling qualities. From the time when
North Carolina sounded the keynote of
independence for the other Colonies to
ten days of our civil lwar, when, with
population of but 100000, she put
into the field 10000 soldiers, her mill
tary record has been unsullied, while
the wisdom OF her political conduct
has heen such that your historian,
Bancroft, says; eff there be any who
doubt mans capacity for self-goyern-
ment, let them study the history Of
North Carolina"
Her annals are little read, yet within
her borders have happened events OF
supreme interest in the history Of our
country and of our race. On Roanoke
Island are the first footprints of the
English people on this continent, and
there is the real cradle of Anglo-Amer-
lean life. Virginia Dare, born to one
of Sir Walter Ralelgh's colonists in
1887, is the first native Anglo-Ameri-
can, and the baptism in the same year
of the friendly Indian chief Mantoe is
the first Chistian sacrament performed
within the limits of the thirteen Col
Onies.
The North Carolina Regulators Of
fered the first armed resistance to Brit
ish authority and at the battle Of
Alamance in It'll was shed the first
blood in the struggle for liberty. At
Charlotte, in Mecklengurg county, on
Nav 20, 1775, was made the first Dec
laration of Independence, and when
hostilities had fairly hegun North Car