The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-17

where he was buried. nor where his ashes
are today, but this matter little
"a world is his monument"
And we. sing in his honor
AND ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be
be slaves,
! While the earth bears a plant or the sea
rolls it's waves
At the end of the sixteenth century, at
least four nations claimed titled inter-
est in this new world. The contention was
at last settled.
ION the simple PLAN
That they should take who have the
power,
And they should keep who can"
Then followed more than century and
half of strife and bloodshed before the
title of the survival of the fittest' was
acknowledged.
Nor was the time long before the young
nation said and proved to England's en-
tire satisfaction that it was old enough
and abundantly able to take care of it
self AS in the history of all Anglo
Saxon people, there have been certain
! times when the people were ready and
prepared for q decided forward step, and
each time some man has doomed up as
leader. George Washington, Thomas JEFF
ferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham
Lincoln were truly men of destiny, and
will add l believe Grover Cleveland as
we'll. When the time came for the colo
mics to declare their independence Wash
ington led the American armies to Victo-
ry, despite the jeers and cavilings and
treachery of some, and the doubts and
fears and discouragements of many.
In the war of 1912 the man who as a
boy, stood around the country blacksmith
shop watching the men of Carolina fash
ion old saws into swords and melt pew
ter mugs into bullets, and who as boy
prisoner in the Revolutionary War, had
refused to black the boots of a British
! officer, was of all men of the nation best
fitted to take command of the western
frontiersmen, and to combat and drive
back Packenham and his trained veter
ans at New Orleans. This man rose to
leadership in both military and civil af
, fairs His election to the Presidency of
the United States was the passing of the
sceptre from the East toward the West,
and marked distinct epoch in the
growth of the government by the people
ana OF the people.
1t was the birth, if you please, of an
American spirit of Democracy, as re-
action against the Federalism of New
England and the British conservatism of
the South--notably Virginia and her in
fiuence This awakening of the common
people, who are the people, gave them
confidence in themselves not bfore felt
nor realized. With this came an impe-
tus to common schools for all the people.
This was and has been the leading cause
of the great West becoming the mighty
power it is today.
Through the efficiency of its public
schools the West constantly grew strong
er and more prosperous Sad to have to
say Through the lack of efficiency of
its public schools the old South-grand
and noble as it was in many respects
per in the true meaning of the term &
/ believe that careful study and anal
ysis CT the causes that tend to progress
and prosperity, and of the causes that
impede progress and growth, will bear out
the statement that the most unfortunate
and greatest hindrance TO the develop
ment of the South-save the institution
of slavery and it's results was the fact
that the South gained control and held
the reins of the general government for
too great a length of time in the early
history of this country. 1t is simply his
tory repeated, that any section or party,
when entrusted too long with the govern