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

Of dc Gratfenreid who was born ia the
Swiss capitol
This city was long the seat OF gov
eminent, and the palace Of Governor
Tryon, erected here, was said to be the
most magnificent edifice in North or
South America. The North Carolina
Magazine" the first paper ever printed
IN the State, was published here in
I7G4; and in that year a law was pass
ed for the erection of school the first
eifectual effort i'm the State, for the
encouragement Of literature. Here
lived that great jurist, your illustrious
citizen, William CASTOR, from whose
patriotic heart burst in grandest cho-
rus the Marseillaise of North Carolina.
Carolina, Carolina, Heavens blessings
attend her,
While we live we will cherish, protect
and defend her,
Though the scoruer may sneer at, and
willing defame her,
Yet our hearts swell with gladness,
whenever we name her"
Your city was torn and SCARED by
the horrors of War, Yet
From the wave
! see your structures rise
As from the stroke Of the enchanter's
wand,
until to-day Newborn stands among
the first of Southern cities. and her an
nual Fair, for the display of the savory
products of our sounds and rivers is
uncaualled in the world, and empha-
sizes in a splendid way one of the chief
riches of our State.
IN THE LATE WAR.
The record Of North Carolina ia the
late war can never grow dim, and the
repetition of that glorious story not
only cannot grow old, but if IS our
sacred duty to herald it ON every oc-
casion Let us repeat for our children
and posterity, that in that gigantic
contest, where all the States of the
South won immortal honor, North Car
DINA stood i'm the front. She lost the
first man in battle. With less popula-
ton than some, she furnished more
men than any one of her sisters. She
left more dead on the battle field She
lost more men in the hospitals than
any Southern State. On her soil was
fought at Bentonville, the last general
battle of the war, where her distin-
guished son and soldier, Major-Gener-
al Hoke, with fourteen thousand Of her
heroes, held sixty thousand Union vet
Grams, with twenty-siX thousand in
easy supporting distance, at bay for
three dreadful days.
When Napoleon, at Waterloo, swept
his field glass over the plain, he eX-
pressed surprise to see Wellington still
in his front. Marshal Soult, who had
fought the armies Of Britain many
times in Spain, remarked, Sire, the
English infantry is the devil in bat
tie" But the best deeds of the Eng
lish do not reach the sublimity of this
stand Of General Hoke and his North
Carolinians against an army of eighty
six thousand disciplined soldiers flush
ed with victory. This heroism of the
Confederate soldier, was exhibited on
am hundred fields, from Bull Run to
AppomattoX.
let MS tell our children that under
our great War Governor, Wilmington
was for months the granary and store
house OF the Army of Northern Virgin
ia That the troops Of North Caro-
lima, led by North Carolinas own gal
liant sire, Cen VIM. Rufffn Cox, made
the last charge. and that Wilmington
battery fred the last gun, and rang
down tie curtain upon the saddest
and bloodiest tragedy in "Ihe Book Of
Time"
RECORD OF Our WOMEN
And let us present in words Of living
light the record OF our women during
that contest. Tn the same degree that
the sons OF North Carolina have shown
themselves great in the halls of State,
and heroic on the field of battle, her
daughters have shown themselves the
queens Of home, beautiful, refinedY de-
voted and fearless, equaling the hero
ism and loneliness of the best of their
sex throughout the centuries.
North Carolina is not only the great
est State of the Union in historical in
cident original area, and in the press
Of battle, but she is the grandest in
climate and natural resources, and is
rapidly becoming the first in their de.
yelopnent. From the rushing Roam
oke TO the sparkling Catawba, her wa
ter power is incalculable. She has the
greatest fisheries in the world, and her
corn lands constitute the Egypt of the
South. She Is equal to the best in cot
ton and tobacco, and the product Of her
famous Golden Belt" surpasses any
thing Of it's kind in civilization. Her
forests are unsurpassed in variety and
value. and her hills and mountains,
from Nash county to her western line
ARE stored with one hundred and
eighty different minerals, some of
great rarity.
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES.
We read that when the Tai Mahal of
India, the most beautiful building yet
erected by man, was built Of white
marble and costly woods, that, to a.
dorm it, "Bagdad sent it's comedian,
and Ceylon it's Iapis-lazuli, and Puajab
it's jasper and Persia it's amethyst, and
Thibet its turquoise, and Lanka its
sapphire, and Yemen its agate, and
Puma its diamonds, and sardonyX
and chaIcedony.' But my Country
men, that Indian palace in all the glory
of marble and decorative wood, and
splendid gems, might have been erect
ed and adorned in North Carolina with