The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-29
The Admirable Speech of
General Julian S. Carr.
Gen. Julian S. Carr said

Gen. Julian S. Carr said:
Mr.. Chairman: We are upon the
threshold of the great undertaking that
shall bring home to the American people a
knowledge of the birthplace of their
country's glory. This is enchanted
ground-the sparkling waters, the sands,
the verdure, and the Ger arching sky
of the by-gone centuries, abide here
still.
Roll back the curtain of the years.
Behold, across the main, we see the
| majestic form of Raleigh, brightest star
of the golden Elizabethan era, whose
memorial lies at our feet in the lines
vet preserved Of the work Of his own
sailors, and whose remembrance is
doubly kept in our Capital city!
We see the white sails of the fleets
that sought our shores, directed by his
genius, and equipped by his generosity.
We see the first spot in America pressed
by the foot of an English woman, and
cultivated by the hand of an English
| man. Yonder is the dusky form of
| Manteo, the Indian, who loved the white
| man as his brother, through storm and
peril.
| Far to the South, we see the canoes
of the TuScarOraS Cor the COrees) as
! they glide upon the crystal waters Of
| the Neuse, before these forest lords dis
| appear, at the coming of De Gr~affenreid,
| whose birthplace in the Swiss capital,
/ the city Of the Bear, was to be COM
| memorated by the New Bern, whose
| Huguenots and Palatines, with these
| brethren of the Albemar]e and Cape Fear
| were to write resplendent pages in
| liberty's annals.
Sweetest vision of all is the angel
l eo,~, Of Niruinio norn tho foir h Ohio
who was the first English child born
divine, in that innumerable line of the
queens of home, beautiful, refined, de-
voted, and fearless, equalling the hero
ism and the loneliness Of the best Of
their sex throughout the centuries.
What a heritage is ours. Not only is
North Carolina the greatest State in the
Union in historical incident, original
area, and the conflict of battle, but she
is the most richly endowed in climate
and natural resources, while, thank God,
she is on the way to becoming first in
their development.
She has the greatest fisheries in the
world, and her corn lands are the Egypt
Of the South. She equals the best in the
quality Of her cotton and tobacco, while
the product Of her Golden Belt sur.
| passes any tIluS Ol It's kiNu on CdTln.
Her hills and mountains contain nearly
two hundred minerals, of which more
than fifty are of special value to man.
kind her forests are unsurpassed il
wonderful variety and worth. From the
sweeping Roanoke to the sparkl.ins
Catawba, her water power is incalculable
once, in walking through the Ar
Palace of the Columbian Exposition,
saw the richest works OF the master:
of painting, presenting the most gorge
Gus mountain scenery Of Italy. anc
Russia, and France; of Switzerland ant
Norway; but though the ice palaces am
shimmering precipices of the Alps. aye
and the snOW-crOWned Mont Blanc. itself
are more awe inspiring, more terribl,
to behold, l saw nothing so softly
sublimely beautiful, as the Blue Ridge
and the Smoky and Balsam Mountain,
of Western North Carolina, with Noun
Mitchell, the highest peak east of tn.
t Rockies, lifting its head to the Erpyrea1
and standing like a gigantic ~sentine