The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27

nv armor in battle.
This day. fellow Carolinians, marks
the erection of a landmark OF history.
At last the people of the United States
will commemorate the first landing OF
their Anglo Saxon forefathers upon the
shores of the Western Continent. Where
we stand, this suspicious day, the cur
tain rose upon the drama OF American
settlement and progress (and II Goa
WILD, of such influence that 1T VIII not
fall, until every people under the sun
shall have learned that peace ana pless-
ing follow where it leads.
At last, the citizens of this ancient
State, the first of the American colonies
to assert it's independence of oppressive
control beyond the seas, ana jealous
always of the rights of freemen, porn Oh
a line of heroes, have come upon q
pious pilgrimage to the cradle OF Anglo
Saxon life, where Cardinals history
began.
1t is not too much to say that from the
efforts and sacrilces-the influence and
the treasure of one immortal man, the
history of mankind was changed. He
whose means were poured out for five
great voyages to this coast, and whose
name honored the first fertilization
thrown up in English America, was no
| less the inspirer of the later expedl-
| ton to the Chesapeake and the James
| The archives of the London Company
| and it's very subscribers names attest
| that.
| 1t is safe to say that had there been
no Raleigh there would have been no
| Jamestown When and where in the
| progress of human events, our fathers
| of the East would have landed on these
| shores, no man can say.
! But it was reserved under Providence,
for this honor to come to our beloved E,
! Commonwealth. Well therefore, has its
capital been named after the genius
whose work we celebrate this day. Let
it be enshrincd among the golden days
of a peoples calendar!
| Long as the sea chafes at thy granite
gates,
Thy valiant deeds shall live, thou State
of States, North Carolina!
From lonely Hatteras, where the break
ers foam.
| To where, reared in the Heavens, stands
thy dome, North Cardinal"
North Carolina, rich in all that makes
a people great, has been too modest to
blazon her virtues She has made his
tory, but has not controlled the pen that
speaks to the ages She is dotted with
the graves of heroes, but hitherto their
commemoration has been only upon the
lip of tradition, or in the silent heart
/ of the people.
At last, we are awakening to under
stand that the duty of the Present, is to
1 interpret the Past for the Future. At
last, we are beginning to perceive that
to transmit the ideals of honor. truth,
| Iar xr-icd nj
ism, as illustrated by land and sea, in
the forum, the cabinet the halls of
Legislature, the tented field, by the sons
of North Carolina, is essential to the
education and inspiration of the children
of the State.
l hail the work of the Daughters of
the Confederacy; of the Daughters of the
| Revolution, and of the Colonial Danes.
and of the Literary and Historical So
! ciety, in the preservation of the relics of
The past, the traditions of our fathers, the
truth of history; the perpetuation of
North Cardinals heroic annals for the
generations to come.
Especially am l gratified to witness
the first fruits of the admirable work
set on foot by the State Literary and
Historical Society. All honor to those
who have periodically combined to
direct into effective channels the forces
for our advancement in native literature,
and the study and exploitation of our
history, so replete with instruction and
interest.
You have rightly begun at the begin
ming. The first fact in the history of the
English people, the Anglo-Saxon race,
in America, is the settlement of Roanoke
Island, within our own beloved State.
And the first name which challenges the
attention and regard of universal man.
kind, is that of the immortal genius who
conceived the founding of an Anglo
Saxon home on the Western continent,
the soldier, sailor, poet, historian,
courtier. scientific explorer and states
man, Sir Walter Raleigh.
General Carr here followed with an
admirable and interesting delineation of
Sir Walter Raleigh, and an appreciative
| summing up of his great service to Anglo
Saxon civilization.l
The story of Roanoke Island is re-
served for the distinguished orators who
will recount it's romantic annals Per-
nit me to say something of the extra
ordinary man who inspired the under
taking to settle this fair land, and again
and again gave his efforts and his means
for success.
Take this charge into your care, men
and women of North Carolina. on this
historic day! You are the representa-
tives of State least known to all the
world, in her true likeness, but yet,
through your efforts, to stand in her
glorious light before mankind.
For when from the Areopagus, Paul
! Numbered the truths that form the dia-
| dem of civilization, he was surrounded
| by no more historic scene than that
which is about me today.
Let the great commemorative exposi-
ton of Roanoke Island awaken America
to the knowledge of our historic treas
ures. Cardinals children will owe you
debt of gratitude. History will call
you blessed, who are sponsors before
mankind for her right and title to the
crale of Anglo Saxon civilization, and
the birthplace of liberty in America.
| 1t is to this spirit l appeal today
1t is due General Carr to say that
/ when he arose he was greeted most cor
daily. Having crossed the rostrum to