The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-24
TAR HEELS IN RICHMOND.

Richmond, Va, especially TOT the lar
Heel residents of that city. They
held the annual meeting of their club
and celebrated the Mecklenburg Dec
laration day. Hon. Alfred M. Wad-
dell, of our city, was the guest of hon
or INC the orator of the occasion.
The Richmond newspapers of Friday
and Saturday give full accounts of the
affair and are very complimentary in
their illusions to the orator and the
members of club now resident in
that city. Lack Of space is the cause
of our giving such a short account Of
this joyful occasion. That Colonel
Waddell gave the Virginians and the
C~arolinian residents in their capital
city a magnificent address goes with
out saying. Virginia has some fine
orators, but we venture to say that
those who were fortunate enough to
attend the North Carolina club a
quet Friday night were treated to a
literary feast seldom enjoyed by them.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch of
Friday morning has an article fore
casting the pleasures Of the entertain
ment to take place that night. 1t
pays handsome tributes to several
North Carolinians. The article is IL
Illustrated with portraits of Hon.. A.
NJ. Waddell, DR.. J.. Allison Hodges,
Governor G.. B. Aycock, Captain Sam
uel A. Ashe and c L Stevens. Fri
days Times-Dispatch was really a
North Carolina edition. There were
published articles ON North Carolina's
past record and present condition by
the gentlemen whose portraits appear
as above named and by other Tar
Heels.
gives a full account Of the banquet Of
the night before. In speaking of Col
onel Waddelrs address, it says:
The feature of the entire evening,
however, was the address of Colonel
Alfred M. Waddell, of Wilmington.
before the society. This speech was
highest encomiumS of those who
heard it. The speaker was very hap
PLY presented by the president of the
society, DR.. j. Allison Hodges, who
commended the speaker in graceful
terms"
Referring to the controversy now
on W the two states regarding
events of the war between the states.
Colonel Waddell said:
Il rejoice. however, as 1 know you
do, lat in regard to events of a more
recen date, we have been more care
full to see that history shall do justice
to North Carolina. She envies not
l,0~ I~s- 49,
not detract one infinitessimal frag-
ment from the fair fame of any of her
sister states, but she has aroused from
her cuipaLle indifference to the record
of her own achievements, and will
henceforth see that it is kept full and
clear. She cherishes an honest pride
in the fact that she as preserved, as
perhaps no other southern state has
done. her record in the war for south
ern independence, and that it is mag
nificent, If not unparalleled"
Colonel waddell touched upon the
Ogden movement and other matters
of public interest in the following re-
marks to the North Carolinians now
residing in Richmond:
You have made your homes here
among the brave and generous people
of this grand old state, and in doing
so % are perpetuating relations
which hav existed between the o
pie of North Carolina and Virginia
for nearly two centuries.
1T has been my fortune more than
once on public occasions in this city
to refer to these relations with un-
feigned satisfaction, and they will al
way De to me a subject OF pleasing
interest. for they recall a long series
of h most stirring events in Ameri-
can history, beginning in the early
colonial days and extending down to
the present, in which the heroic men
of the two states shared a common
glory.
1.-The ties between hem are numer-
Gus and strong. May they increase and
be perpetual. and may the people of
the two states be always found in the
future as they have bee in the past.
h united and inflexible defenders OF
constitutional liberty and Anglo-Saxon
civilization. For forty years past, in
common with the people Of h south.
they have borne a burden n been
subjected to a strain which would