The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-13

who sheds his life's blood for his fell
lowmen at the call of his country and
duty. but rather he who gathers, by
whatever device the greatest quantity
of the product of the labors of others,
into his own keeping?
III fares the land TO Fastening ills a prey
"Where wealth aceumulates and men de-
cay"
"The State has a great history. It's
people have shown themselves equal TO
every call upon them and equal to every
occasion
''But that history has not yet been otc-
sented as it should be Tell it as it hap
pened. it's grand deeds. its heroic suf-
ferings, its unvaunting performance of
duty in the face Of every danger, its un-.
complaining endurance of every hardship.
Paint Ats striking, historical Incl
dents by brush as we'll as by pen; engrave
them. hang them on the walls of your
school rooms, your Libraries and your
public buildings, put them in your school
books Painter and historian have record
ed for the admiration of future ages that
Sir Phillip Sidney, when wounded at
Zutphen, refused cup of water for which
he was dying till a wounded private sol
der who needed it more than he could
be supplied But that incident and even
greater self denial can be related Of many
an unlettered North Carolina soldier who
had never heard of Sir Phillip or Zutphen,
but in whose veins ran the blood of he
roes and whose courage is an INHERITANCE
from centuries of brave ancestors of the
purest Anglo-Saxon stock or the conti-
nent.
North Carolina has history that is worth
the telling, and which, when truly told
will interest 1t is brave story of
people who from the first founding of the
colony would brook no tyranny and who
intended from the first that no one should
govern them but themselves, the story Of
a brave, seIf-relying. liberty loving peo-
pie.
Then tell the story in an Interesting
manner Let the pens of your best writ
ers record it in their most entertaining
manner but plainly and simply as accords
with the character of our people, whose
unpretentious nature is summed up in
their proud motto: Esse Guam Videri. for
in very truth no people can more truly
say. as the great dictator said to Sir
Peter Lely: Paint me as / am Like a
adorned is adorned the most
Then with an interesting history in
terestingly told what more is needed. You
need wider audience. Educate the
masses, create in them an intelligent in
terest in their surroundings and in their
history, make it attractive by short
stories attractively told. Appeal to the
eye by paintings and engravings. Let
the State add, when it can, sculpture and
statuary.
This Rome Greece, England, France
have done. This the States north of us
have done, pre-eminently the great State
of Massachusetts,. The means by which
other States and countries have created
an interest in their history are the
means to which we must resort for the
like purpose. And none of them have a
better foundation upon which to build
Following Judge Clarks paper, to
which all present listened with deep and
absorbed interest and parts of which
aroused much enthusiasm. there We're ad-
dresses and general discussion, and at
night was delivered the magnificent adj
dress Of President Holt.