The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-13

According to the last census there ART
1926 natives of North Carolina now liv
ing in Virginia. If that is a correct est
mate, and there is every reason to believ'
that the number is now larger rather thar
smaller than it was in 1900, it seems that
besides the scores of us who have the de
lightful privilege of responding in person
to the call of our venerated mother tt
gather again under the ancestral roof
tree, there are some fifty thousand othel
sons and daughter of her within the
bounds of me Old Dominion, who think
no less tenderly and proudly than we OF
the good old State that gave us birth
whose hearts turn wistfully to Greens
horo today, and whose memories echo the
stately music of Judge Gaston's hymn.
Carolina. Cardinal Heavens blessings
attend her!
While we live we will cherish, protect and
defend her;
Though the scorncr may sheer at and
VIKINGS defame her,
Our hearts swell with gladness whenever
we name her."
For these fifty thousand Virginia Caro-
linian or Carolina Viriginians, whichever
you may prefer to call them-and I do not
| believe that any better brand of either
Carolinans or V rginians ever drew breath
for these fifty thousand brothers and
sisters of ours whom North Carolina has
loaned to Virginia, and who, though busy
and happy in the State of their adoption,
nevertheless turn longing and loving eyes
towards the State of their birth, l wish
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and especially for that thrice-happy con-
tingent whose good fortune it is to live
n the famous and beautiful city by the
James which is the capital of that Com
monwealth, and which was and is and
will ever be history and memory the CAPT
| tai also Of the short-lived but immortal
| Confederacy.
| There is no city in the world whose
| name thrills the hearts of all true Caro-
linians with such tender and heroic memo
ries When the red wave of war rolled
around her forty years ago and the troops
of all the Confederated States We'd with
each other in the defence of their belea-
| cured capital, there were none whose
blood flowed more freely in her behalf
| than that of the sons of North Carolina,
and so to the sons of North Carolina in
every succeeding generation the very soil
of Richmond will be holy ground by rea-
son of that baptism with North Carolina
blood. In her peaceful cemeteries at Oak
wood and Hollywood hundreds of the
heroes sleep who at their countrys call
left these hills and plains, which they
loved no less than we, to lay down their
lives on the fields of Virginia. For these
reasons North Carolinians can never be
indifferent to Richmond, nor can Rich
mond ever be Indifferent to them.
| In the Confederat Museum, which oc-
! cupies the war time residence of President
| Davis there is a North Carolina room,
along the side of which, in large letters,
runs the ringing line which summarizes
our record in the war: First at Bethel,
Farthest at Gettysburg, Last at Apo
mattox"-and from the walls of which,
among the portraits of other men of our
stock whom Virginia delights to honor,
there looks down the strong and genial
face of that transcendant North Carolinian,
Ztl'ulon B. Vance, the greatest war Gov
ernor of any State, North or South, and
| the man who on a later occasion, when
Virginia lacked fit champion of her own
on the floor of the Federal Senate, became
her defender and stood as fearessly for
the rights of her people as he had ever
stood for the rights of his own. Virginia
will never forget that service.
Here the speaker told of General Brad
ley T. Johunson's splendid tribute to Gov
ernor Vance, and the many eulogistic ex-
pressons from Virginians concerning
North Carolina and North Carolinians, he
continued.
But hasten to turn these remarks into
another channel lest we appear to be gull
ty of unseemly self-prase. l was told re-
Gently of native of North Carolina and
of my part of North Carolina, too who
had moved to one of the Gulf States and
naturally enough had been made Govern
or of the State and had given the Com
monwealth a strong, clean, prosperous ad,
ministration, and who, in standing for
reelection, reviewed his services to the
State with pardonable pride, describing
con amore and in extenso u2on what he
had done for her, and dwelling upon it
with such evident satisfaction and glowing
emphasis as to call forth from an old
darkey who was among his hearers and
who was asked what he thought of the
GONcILOI SpccCH, tilc SucClucl IeuldIh.
'He sut'ny do recommend hisself." But
Mr.. President, if we seem to do the same
this morning, let it be remembered that
this Is our time for boasting, if ever such
a time comes to such a ppnnlo &c "''"e
| this is North Carolina
may be permitted a solid,
going State like our, whic
more renowned for doing
talking about them, to cal
in & modest way on the
first reunion of her scat
daughters to what the p,
about them among whom
Nay, sir, l go further;
Scott was correct in what
Roderick Dhu thai
''One blast upon his bugle
Were worth a thousand m
then, reversing the sentiI
say that for three hund
thousand men of North
living and laboring in 9th
two blasts upon bugle