The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-05

"A
sword the King was forced 10 Weld End
guarantee to all the people tie adm1nis-
tration Of justice as they understood it
They laid as a basis of constitutional GOV
eminent the immovable rock of Magma
Chartar. They receded before the prowess
and diplomacy of the Tudors and the
Stuarts, but at last aroused they de-
stroyed by war the prerogatives Of the
Crown, repudiated forever the divine right
z of Kingship, tried and condemned the
Monarch before the High Court of Justice
and expiated the crimes Of the RoyaI
Usurpers by the blood of Charles the
First The Bill of Rights guaranteed
to the people privileges unclaimed by
Magma Charta.
In obedience to this same aItruistic
spirit they left the homes of their child
hood and the graves of their fathers
Drawing the perils of the sea, defying the
dangers of the wilderness, to build in
the New World the affairs and the insti-
tutors of purer freedom. They would
submit no more to arbitrary power When
the lights in the steeple at midnight
signalled to Paul Revere that British SOL
diers were landing he leaped upon his
horse, ard like the "Bedouin Of the
a
carried the news to the men of Concord
and Lexington. The people echoed the
words of Patrick Henry, when he hurled
at the power of King George that de-
faint alternative Liberty or Death The
Declaration of independence embodying
the automatic dogmas of free govern
ment, advanced beyond Magma Charta
and the Bill of Rights towards the reaI-
1t =. F,I,.
evolution of this law has been the history
of the race. This spirit is the germ of
the infinite energy. It may be over
thrown but Anteus like, when it strikes
the earth it rises with renewed vigor to
q stronger life. Outgrowing the envelope
Of its existence, it does not merely pass
into another envelope nor rise rejuyenes-
cent from the ashes of its previous form,
but irrepressible, ever toiling and strug-
Cling it comes forth from its travail from
the consuming fires, exalted, purified and
glorified. This fall and rise, this develop
mcnt, this inevitable evolution, is the
eternal Mythus Of man, foreshadowed in
Adam, typifed in Job, exemplifed and
gloriied in the One that was Crucifted,
The people of North Carolina must pre-
greater responsibilities. The utmost en-
deavcr of the human intellect, and the
utmost energy of human character are
now demanded. Her people must BE- edu-
Gated. In the years that followed the war
she was poor Her industries had been
destroyed her social system swept away.
her children had been slain. She had
been smitten and smitten again by the
hqy nd of civil Jtc+ In
her poverty and misfortune she save of
her necessities for the education OF her
boys and girls, and reopened for her
young men the doors of her university.
Now in the days of her prosperity, when
she is great in agriculture, when she is
developing her mines, building cotton mills
and railroads. and cities, she is building
up the manhood and womanhOOd. As
stated by Governor Aycock in New York
she is giving more for education than
for all the other departments of the State
Government She is a State of strong
conservatism; not that conservatism that
prefers the old wrong to the new right.
not the conservatism that toadies to power
and wealth and vested privilege but she
is slow to quit the old ways, cautious to
walk in the new. Arouse her and she
is thorough She burns and CLOVIS like the
furnace that is fed with coal, yea with
anthracite coal. She has determined to
have an enlightened citizenship; it has
been written into her organic law; new
Renaissance has begun In the fields of
the East there is dawning the light of
grandcr morning, and on the mountain
tops there is the day spring of a gran
der destiny. This university as the head
and front of our public school system is
responsible for the advancement CT this
educational movement and her alumni
must be its foremost Apostles.
We ascribe all honor to the great and
good that have endowed this institution
with their gifts, whether those gifts he
great or small. They build to themselves
monuments more durable than brass and
1Oftier than the rOVal built DVraDids -