Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-03-01

|, W w.shed it there, felt abashed at IFS
presence and telt constrained to re~
buke and order it down.
When American civilization had
planted itself on the Pacific shore
of California, civilization had belt
ed the globe. Rising in the far
East in the distant ages, and pass
ing over Asia and Europe, it
gathered new impulse in the island
homes of the a. -~'~-i.ts.
and here upon this continent 1t has
ound in our own glorious Repub.
lie it's grandest manifestation. It
completed the circuit of the glote
when it paused on the Pacific
shores. What may be its career i'll
that broad ocean beyond we can
not yet define, but we know from
the signs and oE,ens that, as our
own lands are filled up with
teeming population des-
tiny points it's finger to the fare
ther shores. In st, Louis is statue
of Thomas Benton, with outs
stretched hand pointing westward;
under it scroll with the legend
There is the East; there is India.
This little colony in Honolulu
answers the prophetic finger of that
extended hand. 1t is the fret
spray of mighty wave which will
eventually sweep westward with
it's ships and its arts and arme; and
when the cradle OF civilization
shall be rocked in the ancient lands
by a new hand, ard shall hold
within it a new face, that hand and
face will bear the impress OF the
American stock from which it
sprung. Let not the first act in
this new genesis of progress be
tainted with odor of fraud or false
pretense, or of that cunning which
Lord Bacon calls s'a crooked wis
dom." Hither our fathers came
and with high thought and high
hand they conquered westward,
where their children and their dess
cendants 20 with uplifted brow,
disdaining intrigue and low design,
flying high the flag professed, and
making power speak the naked
truths of the Saxon tongue.
While do not in all respects.
in the light of present events, say
that every contemplated step of the
present Administration was the
wisest and best, do say that it des
serves cemmendation, not reproach,
for its adherence to truth, and I
honor the brave and rugged honesty
that shines in its every action.
When all unpleasant incidents of
this passing event are forgotten,
and the small actors in the scene
have disappeared from the stage,
the great honest heart of the Amer
icsn people will not fail to render
Just tribute to the President and
the Secretary of State, who over
all things cherished the honor OF
this people, and interpose them
selves that it might not be taru>
ishsd.
| No. MIR, President, honest men
will not denounce the President
nor his Secretary even if they
conclude in the present condition
OF things that honest Indignation
against wrong carried them in strife
for right beyond the bounds of that
prudence which has been styled on
the battle field "a rascslly virtue"
On the contrary, they will judge
calmly and righteously, and the
aspirations of this great people, as
OF their high.minded rulers, will
be for the new nation that it will
lift its head up out of the fog of
intrigue, and that it and its seed
and its brethren may move still
westward and westward to the
Ultima Thule of hope.
In sight of mortal and immortal powers,
As in boundlsss theater to run
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