The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-08

of God upward. whittier our aspirations
turn, / wonder how man could, at any
time, be at variance with his fellows.
The echoes of the clamor of battle, of
the clash of resounding arms must have
come to their ears with almost a divine
pathos from the bosom of the ripping
waters of the Connecticut from the ifs
sures of these rocked-ribbed mountains.
How could the ancestors of these people
think of a war of invasion when God had
given to them His benediction and peace
in fertile lands, purling streams and
fragrant valleys and surrounded them
with such aff1uence and civilization. The
richest jewel of New Hampshire is the
renowned Dartmouth College. Here she
reclines TRANQUILITY in the lap of the
mountains, whilst she bathes her face in
the waters of the Connecticut that go on
and on ''never resting, never hasting, :"
until they mingle sweetly with the ever
restless ocean.
Dartmouth College! what an association
of ideals. Dartmouth and Webster,
Webster and our American ideal of Re-
publicanism, Webster who centralized
The vagrant powers of thirty three States
in a union indivisible. indestructible in
the famous declaration Secession here is
Accession elsewhere, Webster who with
prophetic ken, saw the spheres shoot
out of their orbits, and who heard
in his day, the blasts of bugles calling
the nation to arms. and who read with
the vision of the seer the proclamation
preparatory to the mortal combat of
brothers. Here, too, is the ever filling,
ever flowing fountain of knowledge. Here
the votaries gather to drink until they
are filled to repletion. Here the Titans
of past age jeremiah Mason, Ichabod
Bartlett, Eleazer Weelock, Rufus Choate,
Samuel j. Tilden, came to learn in the
concrete what are the rights of man and
to assimilate powers and principles which
in great, pressing exigency made their
lives an influence, virtuous and efficient.
Last Wednesday night the Dartmouth
Library Society met in Bartlett Hall.
The first address was made by the re-
nowned vulcanologist, Prof. Hitchcock,
D., upon the subject of volcanic dis
turbanceS. 1t was a great effort and
worthy the fame of the distinguished
speaker. The next address was by Prof.
Colby, LII. D., dean professor Of the Law
Department of Dartmouth upon the
Changes made in the organic law Of
New Hampshire within the last CEN
tury." This ~eviaw of the law in logical
sequence justified his reputation as
profound thinker, ripe scholar, an emf
nent lawyer.
The third address was by the writer
upon 1.-THE changes wrought in the Con-
stitutional laws of North Carolina, since
it's admission into the Union" The speak
or not ri oil m
work now being wrought by our young
and alert governor to make effective the
amendments to the Constitution and to
diminish the percentage of illteracy. For
himself he could see that the only re-
tardation to the complete success of the
work was the employment Of white chill
dren within school age in the factories.
This evil however will be averted by leg
islation. He spoke also encouragingly
of the negro, that his happiness and
prosperity lay in the pathway of indus
trial education that in his hands the
saw, hammer and plow were potent in
strumentalities of civilization than the
ballot.
That Northern capitalists were begin
ming to realize hat investments in North
Carolina were safeguarded by conserva-
tive legislation. Our people, | am sure,
will be glad to know that young North
Carolnian, DR.. H. H. Horne, Professor
in Dartmouth College, is achieving high
and deserved reputation in this land OF
colleges, savants and philosophy.
/ successfully trust Judge Walter Clark
will have no opposition for the Chief
Justiceship
D. WORTHINGTON.