The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27


er education.
] saw in that Art Palace a mann
moth painting of the White Mountain
Valley of New Hampshire, by George |
Montclair Inness, but I said to myself, |
this is not so beautiful as the valley |
of the Swannanoa, the French Broad, |
the Hiawassee, or the Happy Valley Of |
the Yadkin.
When | contemplate the resources, |
beauties and history of my State, I eX
claim of her, as Virgil sang of Italy
Here the golden corn laughing valley
fills,
The vintage reddens on a thousand
hills,
Luxuriant forests spread from shore to
shore,
And fiocks unnumbered roam the pas
lures DER.
Here Spring perpetual leads the laugh
ing hours,
And Winter wears a wreath Of Sum
mer flowers.
All hail great Mother, hail loved of
fame,
Land rich in fruit, and men Of mighty
name"
In that magnificent Cotton Edition
of the News and Observer, itself a won
derful exhibition of progress, it was
made clear that our State has added
to her other superiorities, by surpass-
ing all the Southern States in the man
ufacture OF cotton. She has one hum
dred and eighty-four mills, an increase
in five years Of one hundred per cent,
in which are invested sixteen million
dollars, employing nine hundred and
eighty-nine thousand spindles, and
twenty-four thousand operatives.
One Of the chief misfortunes this
great Commonwealth has suffered has
been that too many of her sons have
left her, and given their energies and
inteilects to adorn and develop other
States Of the Union. / hope that this
abandonment Of the dear old Mother
has ceased. In the name of justice and
common sense / protest against it. ]
beg her sons to remain within her Dor
ders;
II call upon them now
TO add one single Jewel to the crown
upon her brow"
Let us love North Carolina "as the
sons Of Erin love their dear Emereld
i1iIs iA0Nt llSA DIS AtAC E9NOANIAli1til lDf
Old Scotia, with her bonnie banks
and braes." Let us love her as the Ger
man loves the "Faderland' Love her
as the veteran Of the Old Guard loved
Napoleon, when he said to the surgeon,
as the cruel knife approached his heart,
BE careful, you are cutting close to
my Emperor, now"
Nearly three years ago an expedition
sailed for the North Pole Two years
passed and friends at home heard moth
ing of it. One day the Captain took
carrier pigeon, fastened a message UNI
der its wing and turned the bird loose.
The frait courier darted out into the
les air. 1t few like an arrow over
thousand miles OF frozen water, and
then sped forward over another thou
sand miles Of ocean, plains and forest,
and one morning, after an absence Of
nearly thirty months, entered the VIM
dow Of its home and delivered the mes
sage to its waiting mistress.
Oh! my Countrymen. in all conjunc-
lures, wherever in this great world
we may be, shall we not let the love
Of the little bird for its home, be typi-
cal of our love for North Carolina.
OUR GREATEST NEED.
What our State needs most is edu-
cation Her higher institutions of
learning are doing d great work, all
honor to them. Every North CAROLYN
ian, / take it, is proud of our Grand
Old University, SO ably presided over
by the scholarly Winston. and in this
honorable presence may / be pardon
ed for hoping that no movement TO
embarrass in any wise the high and
honorable course of this grand old IN
stitution shall find any sympathy, but
upon the other hand may it be the aim
and purpose of US all to enlarge the
opportunities of its usefulness, and |
give to the State yet greater occasion |
for rejoicing that the wise Master |
Builders of this grand Commonwealth, |
when they laid the corner stone of the !
Constitution, provided for Universe |
ty. And, too we are proud of Wake |
Forest, presided over so wisely by that |
Christian scholar and gentleman, DR.. |
Taylor and the whole State has cause |
to rejoice over the large meas
ure of success that has be |
fallen this worthy institution of learn
ing, and of Davidson, whose course of /
is so wisely directed by our
genial and well-beloved DIR. Shearer. |
and Of Trinity, upon whose affairs was
poured out as testimonial of his UNI
firing zeal and fidelity the life of DR..
BraXton Craven, and who has been so
ably succeeded by the learned and en-
thusiastic Or, Jno. c. Kiigo, but thou
sands of our boys and girls cannot en-
JOY the advantages they offer. Let
us then stand for the utmost extension
aud perfection Of the common school
system of North Carolina
No address, with our State as a sub
ject, can be complete without an eX-
preston of admiration and love for
that great North Carolina tribune,
Zebulon B, Vance. We will teach our
to emulate his virtues, and
to revere his name.
FIXED as the Northern Star in Heaven,
Firm as the earth it shines upon,
Pure rs the snow by light winds driv-
en-.
Vert thou Cardinals honored SON.
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