The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-22
RALEIGH, N C., TUESDAY, MARCH %, 1898.
Richard L6 Cani6nn8. The Fall Of TOrU8m
Chauncey Depew Address Before the New York Society of
The Sons of the Revolution

New York. March 1o.-Thi> is the an
Norths ministry. and tonight. marking
the occasion, the Empire State Society,
Of the Sons of the American Revolution.
sat ut their annucl banquet in this city.
The most notable feature Of the oc-
cason WAS the address Of the President
Of the Society, Honorable Chaunccy NJ.
Drpcw. who took occasion To make refer
ence to Spain and her methods of Co
lunial Government. Mr.. Dcpen'S adj
dress was opened by reference to modern
criticism of ancestral trees upon Amcri-
can soil, and with Il defence of the hon
est pride which he felt should lc main
tanned by every American whose an
cestors for generations had not only F.,
escaped being hung. or jailed. or mem /
bership iii any poorhouSe. but who had
i'll their several periods done their part
as self supporting citizens for their
ncighborho0d. their colony, their State
and their country.
He expressed his own qualification in !
the consciousness that four of his an
cestorS We're soldiers in the Army Of the
Revolution. and expressed his commiser-
alton for those who had some, too early
to enjoy the possibilities and the future
oof New York. when the whole island Of
Manhattan could have been bought for
twenty-four dollars. Mr.. Depew then
said:
I'm 1882 two boys were born. who
were destined to influence beyond any
other men of their period and almost
of any period, the history of the world
and the happiness of the human race.
One had all the advantages and the
birth. rank, education and position
| would give him in Great Britain. and
| the other had the same opportunities in
| the New World. One. by education,
| habits of mind and association. embOdies
! the spirit of the past. the other, the
| awakened spirit of the age The one
was Lord North, the other George
| Washington. Lord North was a beliey-
| er in the autOcratic authority of the
middle ages. He believed in the divine
rights of kings, and in the concentration
Of all power in the throne He never
| understood the people. nor could he
comprehend that they had any rights
| in the administration of governmct He
was Tory of the Tories. and a Bourbon
| Of the BourbOns. His great aility and
| high character only gave him a larger
| place. and opportunity for the encrOaeh
| ment of his ideas. and the misleading
| of his king. Washington breathed the
air of freedom in the fields and the
| forests of the New World. On the
| farm. at the hustings. in the Legislature.
| in politics and in war, he mingled with
| the people He early learned their in
| telligence and capacity for self govern
| mcnt. The lesson Of civil and religious
| liberty was taught him by example and
prccept until, far beyond his years or
| his contemporaries. he knew the mean
| To-, IL, ,I,,,.i,
| of the great events of the period of
| Lord North. the most hide bound of
| conservatives. become the most danger
| ous of rcvolutioniStS. while Washington,
! the leader of the Revolution. became the
| embodiment of conservatism. Lord
| North. by endorsing the cdicts Of arbi-
| trHry power. created Il revolt which lost
| to the British Crown the greater part
| OF it's colonial possessions and iliIugur-
| ated the era Of political expansion and
| created the Democracy which drove him
! from power. and ultimately elevated to
| the control Of the destinieS OF his coun-
| try the masses Of his countrymcn whom
| he 50 diStrustcd and dcspi,ctl. Wash
| in@ton guided Il revolt against authority.
government and law so wisely, 50 con
servativcly aud with such fairness
| that upon the ruins of the government
which he destroyed. and Of the laws
which he decd. he built a republic with
| the rights Of life. of liberty. Of happi-
| ness and Of property 50 embedded in its
constitution that the institutions Of the
| United States alone of all the nations Of
| ChristendOm have survived the shock
| OF the social and political eyolutions Of
| the nineteenth.
| After one hundred years Lord North
is remembered only because his ashes
| fertilizc free institutions. After one
hundred years Washington is rcverenccd
| as the founder of the most bcnefccnt
| government the world has ever known.
| and as the foremost man in all the ele
mcnts Of patriotism. heroism and state
craft Of his own time and of every age.
Lord North. deserted by his king his
party and his friends, passed his decin-
ing years lamenting. not his loss Of
| sight. which was the misfortune Of his,
| old age. but his blindness in not seeing
| the tendencies of the time and the ris-
| ing spirit of English and American lib
| erty. Washington passed his declining
| years possessing the love and the graft
| tude Of his country and the admiratio
! of the world
There was another young man. CON
temporary with Washington and Lord
| North, who had 50 thoroughly imbibed
the teachings and the spirit Of Chatham
and Burke and Fox. that he remained
out Of power during the whole Of the
Revolutionary War because he believed
| the Americans were right. His first act
| on coming into power on the fall of the
ministry of Lord North was to recognize
| the independence Of the United States.
| and make the Jay treaty of alliance be
| tween the two cCuntries-that great
| Of M nrh frlf hpf o
| these two English speaking peoples.
the spirit of which grows
| stronger and more beneficent year
| hy N4ar and neYar WIG so strong