The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-05
WON HIS AUDITORS
Continued from first page.)

| the near future may come from foreign
iealous1es and aggresslons. Need
remind you that when dangers iron
abroad threaten, party banners are
fnrled-party names forgotten? IL
the words of Webster, "Our politics
go no further than the waters edge
We study the things that make FOL
peace, but must never forget phai
verse even than war, with all its hof-
rors. is national dishonor.
III was The earnest prayer of Wash
ineton that "Heaven would continue
to his eountrymen the choicest tokens
of it's benefcence." May we not be-
licye that our land has been the favor
ed of the Almighty during all the years
of our evendful history. Truly he
hath not dealt so with any nation"
II is said that in Venice there Is
sacredgv preserved a letter written 10y
Columbus, few hours before he sailed
from Palos. With reverent expression
of trust i'm God-humbly but with I'M
faltering faith--ha spoke of his past
VOYAGE TO that famous land" He
builded wiser than he knew. His
dream, while a suppliant i'm the outer
chamber of kings, and while keeping
lonely vigil upon the deep, was the
discovery of a new pathway to the
Indies. Yet, who can doubt that TO
his prophetic soul was then foreshad-
owed something Of that famous
land with the warp and Woot OF
whose history, tradition and song, his
name and fame are linked for all time.
Was it Mr.. Winthrop who said of Col
umbus and his cOmpeers, They were
the pioneers in the march to Indepen-
dence, the precursors in the only pro-
DRESS of freedom, which was to have
no backward step" In the modest
word Got the great navigator, he only
''opened the gates" and 10, there came
in the builders OF Il new and mlghty
nation.
The poet Bryant, upon his farewell
VISIT to his Alma Mater, said: 1t mas
occurred to me since |, in the decline OF
life. came to visit once more TINS seat
of learning, in which our youths are
traineCl-to succeed us on the stage oil
the world. that / am in the situation
of one who. standing on a spot desc
Late with Winter, and dim with tWl-
light. should be permitted by sort OF
miracle TO look upon the neighborlhg
region. glorious with the bloom OF
Spring. and bright with the beams oil
morning. On the side where | stand
are herbless fields and leahess woods,
The pools sheeted with ice, the frozen
soil. and the shadows of approaching
night On the side TO which | look are
emerald meadows, fields of springing
wheat, orchards in bloom, transparent
streams. and genial sunshine"
To those of us who stand where ufe
shadows fall to the eastward, what
snectacle more sublime than that OF
the procession of young men, equipped
for the work that awaits them, moving
from these halls out upon the broader
theatre. with life's highest prizes With
in their r'each-before them POSSIBLE
ties greater than dreamed OF IN uhe
mast. These prizes are yours, but not
without effort. The grand school
master" SAYS Carlyle, lis practice.
Labor" says Adam Smith, was the
first price, the original purchase mon
ey paid for all things"
True. difficulties are in the way, yet
il was Burke who said: "Ditficulty was
the severe instructor set over us by the
Supreme ordinance of parental guar
diam and legislator, who knows us oes-
ter than we know ourselves. From
a vet higher authority are the words:
"Seest thou man diligent In business
he shall stand before kings"
America is the heir of all the ages.
,you who to-day leave college and uni
syersity for the broad field where life )
battles are to be fought, it's prizes won
or lost. are the heirs of all that has
been wrought out upon TINS continent
bv two centuries of suffering, OF hero
ism, of tireless endeavor. What bound
less possibilities are before you 1t IS
indeed worth while to Live in this IA
vored land during the closing years
of the nineteenth century. STANDING
in it's twilight, the retrospect-a gov
ernment 'by the people, and for the
people" marching with steady tread
from the lowest to the highest place
among the nations of earth; reVerent-
Nv needing the parting admonition OF
Washington: Justice to all nations
entangling alliances with none-peace
abiding in it's own borders, at peace
with. and through its kindly interpo'
sition, the arbiter and peace-make1
between nations"
1.-The school-master is abroad" and tf
the humblest child of toll, without
price, are open wide the doors of sohoo
and hall, without figure of speech-tht
doors TO the very school-house OF
knowledge.
To woman has been accorded equa
and exact justice before the law. New
pathways of endeavor are constantly
opening to her; along every line bet
| ter opportunities for honorable, indie
pendent maintenance. | firmly believe
| that what has been gained for woman
is the browning glory for the CLOSING
century.
AS to material progress, Single
| illustration: In 1904, by direction o
| President jefferson, Lewis and Clark
| with a small detachment of soldier