The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-31

If said ne, should you not De apI9
to give me one or ten, should conclude
that the State is heroic without having
a hero2 Shall l conclude that Norlh
Carolina with all the history OF her
+, struggles, her hopes and her boasts has
no man or set of men whose lives fur
nsh ideals and high inspiration for her
sons in all ages, or shall ! consider that
we are too prosiac and are simply en-
gaged in making our bread and sleeping
at night? If so, he continued Il should
| feel that we~were devoid Of all incentive
! to heroic deeds
but it is not So The story OF North
! Carolina is one long epic story OF the
heroic struggles of an heroic people, and
could Milton or Homer revisit earth and
live in North Carolina then would they
| sing again as in their day they gave
voice to heroic deeds"
| Then, in a sweeping review, Mr.
Bailey spoke of the heroes who crossed
uucharted seas to this land, Of the heroes
who conquered the wilderness and @rove
back the Indians from North Carolina, of
the colonial heroes and OF the-heroes of
the Revolution who builded for us the
! foundation of a great State, and OF a lar.
ger liberty, and of the heroes VINO built
! for us our public school system, men
ike Murphy and Wiley and .Mangum
and Davie and Buncombe, who Tived and
moved when a here spirit was dominant.
& these men" said he severe typical of
hundreds who built the Dulwarks OF
great State"
'Then what of the heroes Of the civil
| War" he exclaimed. 1T is not neces-
sary to ask you of tNem for you know.
Yet surprising even the valor of the
? mer who led at Gettysburg and on many
a field encrimsored with their own blood,
was the valor of the men who came back.
and looking over their deso!ated fields,
made an inventory OF their poverty and
turning their faces to the future have
harded down to you and me a State so
great and so free as North Carolina
You can find IN yonder monument
he said, pointing towards the capitol
, where stands the silent and majectic
statue of Vance. "and in yonder ceme
terry the stories of heroes typical of those
times, but there is a new South for us
to rejoice in. 2 growing prosperity,
new political liberty and State over
which peace broods.''
Il glory in the new South he cried,
but glory too in remembering that the
men who defended the old South are
the men uho have nfsfae the New
South :" At this there was sfee ap-
plause.
'If Trey who fell on the battlefields
We're heroes. no less then are our fathers
heroes who fought and returned to their
homes to make this "New South" and this
new age a happy and glorious one.
Il have not named any Of cur heroes,
but l would be unfathful il I did not.
There is no one great name, like a bril-
liant star, standing out in bold relief for
we are democratic in heroes and have
myliads of them, we have had in every
generation since this country was settled
men of heroic mould. our homes are
filled with them.
ITO mention one hero in North Caro-
lima is not an injustice to the others, for
they are typical of the people. There is
a difference between an ideal and
typical hero, for the latter represents the
great mass, while the ideal stands alone,
and North Carolina rejoices in many
typical heroes"
| Then the speaker with appropriate
comments upon the great work of each
enumerated many of those whose lives
he considered as being typically heroic.
among them Lawson, who lost his life
among the Indians, making a map of the
State; Col. Mitchell, the hero of Fort
| Barnwell: Roger Bacon and VIM. Drum
mend in the contest with the Indians:
Paul Palmer who suffered Imprisonment
at New Bern for preaching the gospel;
Maynard who slew the pirate Black
Beard on his own ship; Waddcll and
Ashe, who without disguise resisted the
! British tax on tea and lead the fight at
! Moore's Creek Bridge, a place Of which
Senator Hoaor great scholar as he is
recently expressed his ignorance. 1T is
time. the speaker said, FOR lbs to teach
New England that North Carolinians
were battline for freedom before New
Eneland began.
Continuing his list he spoke of Cas-
well, Alexander, Brevard, Davie, Nash
and Buncombe. of the Revolutionary
Hardy Murphy at Stoney Point; Otway
Burns the bold privateer in the war of
1872; Macon, Yancey, Calvin Wiley and
Murphy PettisTew. Pendera Grimes,
Prof. Mitchell who lost his life on our
lofty peak, and in the reconstruction
days, Zeb Vance, Josiah Turner. Ran
dolph Shotwell. To these two latter he
pail splendid tributes saying of Josiah
Turner that he lived too long, for after
he had defended his State with his pen
and oftimes with his good right hand, it
was only to die an almost forgotten man,
Though he was aminated'by the spirit of
one who loved his State with his whole
heart and never turned in fear from the
face of man. OF Randolph Shotwell he
said it was most pathetic sight to see
him, who stood firm for his fellow men
who had hcen united with him in
strange but needed band. led shackled
through the streets because he would
not reveal their names.
I''There is one other namo closely con-
nected with this school, whose life comes
within the list of those who were typical
heroes ! am not of those who say he
simply gave his lfe in battle as did
others for Worth Bagley was hero.
(Sreat appIause). He gave his life as a
hero and his life and death stand as
mark in the nations history. tie lived
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