The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-01


publish in full the Rayner's speech of 1885.
which. by the way, was a fine speech.
q little further on I find Hon. John
Kerr, an old line Wing, writing to E. J.
Hale & Son, Of the Fayetteville Observer,
giving his reasons why he cannot afford 70
animate with the Know Nothings. He
says: Il am aware that they Wing party
i d~lsbanded.' etc. e : : But secret
political. oath bound associations are al
ways dangerous to liberty, and can never
&c justified in a free country Judge
Kerr was right. Know N~othingism had
! short hfe. Henry a. Wis killed it in
Virginia when he and Flournoy ran for
Governor in 1855.
4 few pages further along I find Ed.
Graham Haywood one OF the brightest
young men Raleigh ever raised. making Z
speech IN the House OF Commons OF North
Carolina on his own eligibility to a seat
IN that body. The Committee on Privi-
leges and Elections reported to the House
tlat e. G.. Haywood, a sitting member.
was at the time Of his election Cand l.
nov, the report said) clerk ana master
OF the court Of Equity for Wake county"
and recommended the adoption of a reso-
luton declaring his seat vacant. Mr..
Haywood ably defended his position in a
speech, which took him two days TO de-
liver; but the resolution was adopted and
his seat declared vacant.
a few pages further on | see Frank l.
wilson, associate editor of the Raleigh
Standard making a literary address be-
fore Horner's School in Oxford. y. G.. on
The Supremacy of the Present Age" and
he Is giving the boys a fine address-wish
| could give n ia tho raa darS-bn+ - -
too long at this stage of my article.
Besides. here Is the Hon. d. NJ. Bar
llnser, of Raleigh, making an address be-
lore the Mccklenburg Agricultural Society,
and he Is saying: q an glad to be with
you here today and in the thirtv-two
pages that followed he told his Large
and intelligent audience why he was glad
And next my eye fell upon an address
delivered before The State Educational
Association of North Carolina. at War
r%enton, June 1st, 1857. by William w.
Holden, Esq, and published by request
OF the association. This address contains
more information. l venture TO say, than
any other man could have crowded into
a thlrd-page speech AS q sample he says:
IN 1910. when ommon schools were es-
tabllsled, there were but two colleges IN
the State. but one hundred and forty
academies, and but six hundred and thirty
two primary schools. at the two col
leges there were but IT'S Students. at the
academies 5000, and at all the other
schools about 10000. making in all. NAL
and females, about 10000 Just think Of
that Brother Joyner. only 90, 600 children
going to school as late as 1910. sixtv-thret
years ago, when I was a boy. But the
address states that in 1857. only twelve
years from the beginning Of tho common
schools. instead of a total Of 10000, ther,
were 153. COO children IN school.
A little further on / hear my old frient
Moses A. Bledsoe, Esq, laundering in tht
Senate o. 1859 on the subject of az
valorem. If he were dead | would com
phmcnt his speech, but being yet alivt
ard being like myself, a modest man.
am afraid he might construe the goot
things I could truthfully say Of his fin
argument into 1attery. so | guess l hat
better not say more.
/ see right ahead of me Col. E. E. Hay
wood, chairman of the Democratic Exc
cutlvC Committee of North Carolina, hold
ing in his hand an address, to the peopl
of the State, which 1t IS supposed will no
only answer every argument which Nj
Bledsoe set forth in his Senatorial speech
but knocked old al valorem. himself int,
q cooked hat.
Here is a sermon preached at Chape
Hill, June 18th, 1885, by Rev. 3. NJ
Palmer, D. D., Of Columbia. S. c. Mex
| find a discourse prepared to be ~lellvere,
to the graduating class at Wake Forest i
1852, by r. W. Cushman, OF Washington
City.
Then comes an address by Edwar,
C.ntNell at Holly Springs, Wake county
10 the students of the Holly Springs Aca
/, deny, June, 1899.
How real these faded pamphlets MAX
the old times seem.
+ I knew all the men who signed til
Working-Men's Address; I knew Goyerno
E lis. Mr.. Rayner, Judge Kerr, Col. Hay
wood, Frank L. Wilson, Mr.. BarringeI
Governor Holden, Mr.. Bledsoe, (still il
, the 1esh), and Edward C~antweil. Wit.
one exception all ere gone, and that ey
~ception, as well as the writer, will 500
!, follow. How still the once busy. Dustin;
noisy past. The grave at last lulls tn
; restless world into silence.
r. H. whitaker.