The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-02
D|XON'S LECTURE
ON NEW AMERICA"
Defense of the Doctrine of
Imperialism.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Blessings That Have Followed in It's
Bloody Track.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
The REUNION OF THE ANGLO SAXON RACE
The Part The South Took in That War and the
Effect It Has Had in Putting an Erd
to All Sectional Bitterness.

ISfs 1HoHldS blAoH ueilNeISu d lcSLui 2
on Imperialism, which he called New
America
1t consisted principally of review of
the Spanish American War, the causes
leading up to it, it's results and effect
upon our national history.
In portraying this last and latest strug-
gle, the speaker found it of greater i'm
portance than the Civil War and unmer-
cifully ridiculed the Revolutionary heroes.
Touching these last-named, he said;
IF ever God Almighty interfered to
save a group of mad fools, He interfered
to save our fathers. If He hadn't so in
terfered they would have slept in treach-
erous graves
How did they manage to keep up the
fight for seven years? Why, by develop
ing the muscles in their legs. They out
ran any people God ever made they got
to the woods quicker and stayed there
longer.
But when they were hemmed in a
corner and compelled to fight, as they
sometimes were, they did the best they
could
now-I'm not going to name them--but
what sort of battles were they? l know
and maybe you do too. When the British
charged, our fathers ran, and such run
ming. The reason they didn't fly was be-
cause they couldn't
why in one battle, when the British
appeared our fathers struck out for the
nearest wood and kept we'll to the front,
- b,,t bo q ch
legged fellow And one leg was shorter
than the other and what was worse he
hung his long leg in hole and fell down.
So the British soldiers caught him and
were about to kill him.
'''Well, kill away, ding you,' he ex-
claimed, you won't get much. =
Though he wished such a thing were
possible the speaker saw no hope of the
as "a clash of two irreconcilable moral
principles.
In the Cuban war he saw "the fulfill
ment Of Gods hour and the ushering in
CT a new national life.
''Our fathers wrote poets dreams on
paper and adopted as national motto
e Pluribus Unum, but they never realized
the dream. They hoped, they dreamed,
Out II G0LudlISQ 1OI uo W NdAo anu SCC
the fruition of their hopes. The Cuban
war made us one people, with one coun-
try, one flag, one purpose, one ideal The
ghost of sectionalism disappeared and the
great mass of the Northern people were
made to realize that the South was loyal
to the Union"
In this connection, Mr.. Dixon spoke elo-
quently of how, in a night, one million
l. dn1 xr-hn Nor noll
for $4,000 volunteers.
g thank God | have lived to see this
day. when the South, the land of ashes
and of tombs, took to herself the pain
and glory of the first offer of heroic blood
in this great struggle.
The first man to distinguish himself
in this conflict was Victor Blue, a son
of North Carolina Confederate veteran
though today he lives in South Carolina.
He brought the first information that led
to the discovery and destruction of Ger
vera's fleet in Santiago harbor.
1.-The next was Richmond Pearson Hob
son, also the son of North Carolina
Confederate soldier. He led the fleet into
the harbor.
THE first man to seal the conflict with
his blood and to die for the new flag with
smile on his proud face was the son of
a Confederate veteran-Worth Bagley of
Raleigh
He paid a glowing tribute also to the
Confederate leaders, like Wheeler and
Lee, who donned the blue and went to
the front.
This war also, the speaker declared
marked reunion of the Anglo Saxon
race and marks an end forever to our
,;c4s, - Al
The achievements of the Anglo Saxon
race in the past were reviewed and glow
ing prophecies made as to its future
Touching the negro and his future, Mr..
Dixon was less confident. He thought
it would be with the son of Ham a sort
of survival of the -fittest case:
cit is with him the most serious hour
since emancipation. The people of the
North are now convinced of the loyalty of
the South to the flag. This Cuban war
did this, and with this there comes a
change in the negro's condition. He must
stand on his own footing, expecting here
after less aid from the North. If he
lives he must live, and if he dies he must
die
The administration at Washington was
glorified for joining in the fight for strug-
Cling Cuba, but for the Beers in South
Africa there was no word of sympathy. 1t
was declared that they didn't know the
difference between liberty and despotism
But the most remarkable part of the
lecture was the statement that we now
had the most powerful ruler of all the
nations of the earth--''more imperial than
the Emperor of Germany, more powerful
than the Gar of Russia He added
There is no fundamental difference be-
tween Monarchical England and Republi-
can America. The monarchy of Great
Britain is simply ceremonial institution,
that has no power on earth or in heaven
unless the timid opinion of the monarch
should happen to have some influence with
the real ruler. Queen Victoria was abso-
the United States is the mightiest mon
arch on earth
Having thus crowned Mckinley, the
lecturer Ecw turned his attention to the
neweet acroasions to our empire. Touch
ing Cuba, he declared:
eve ere going to give the people OF