The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-04

lor's title to recognition rests, by re-
minding you that he is the author of
a monumental work, The Origin and
Growth of the English Constitutions
(Applause) Recognising that Ameri-
can constitutional history finds it's key
in English constitutional history, of
which it is the organic outcome, DR..
Hannis Taylor has given us an ac-
count OF political development IN Eng
land from the earliest beginnings
which for comprehenSiVeness OF range
is without rival.
mot less remarkable. however, than
these first fruits of his literary actlvi-
nv is a treatise of later date on Inter
national Public Law. No country can
boast a lengthier or more eminent
series Of writer's on this great de-
partment of Jurisprudence than
America, but / DO rot hesitate TO say
that DR. Hannis Taylor's volume, re-
nlete with historical learning charac-
terised by philosophical breadth OF
view, and distinguished for the class
ical stateliness Of its diction, entities
it's author to q conspicuous place III
a galaxy which includes the names OF
Wheaton and Kent and Halleck, or
Woolsey and Dudley Field. But
shall be falling in my duty if | leave
Won to suppose that DR.. Hannls ray
lor's achievements are confined 10 tne
sphere of legal literature. 1t is not
often that great literary and scientihc
gifts are found united with knowledge
of affairs and practical ability.
II now, in the name of the SenatuS,
offer Dr. Hannis Taylor a cordial well
come to the home of his forefathcrs-
for / am glad to say that he is of
Scottish descent-and J hasten to as
sure him that it is with pleasure and
pride that we add the name of one
so distinguished in the science ana
the practice of law to the list of our
honorary graduates in law. Cloud
applause"
/ give this long extract because 1t
is very interesting, and shows how
decided how conspicuous is the fame
of our learned, able and accomplished
North Carolinian in that land-Scot-
Iand-so full of glorious memories and
conflicts. so Illustrated ana made great
by the genius of her sons so as to
warrant me almost for quoting Alex
ander Pope's line
above all Greek. above all Roman
fame.
With such sons, loyal and faithful to
the South it's traditions, it's ancestral
faiths. it's unbending manhood, its un-
NlcIuIn$g QeNOIlOn TO the great lull id
mental doctrines of soul and civil
liberty, as w. w. Moore ana Hannis
Taylor, there can be no decline, no
treachery to principles. no prostitution
of knee before wealth and CONNER
cialism. no debauchery of the con-
science no abandoning of the great
foundations of what constitutes u
State" In one OF his orations Arts
tides. the wise Greek, declared that
neither walls, theatres. porches, nor
senseless equipage, make States, but
men who are able to rely upon them.
selves" A greater than any Grecian
or Roman nearly two thousand years
later in his marvellous Hamlet
wrote:
'"To thine own self be true.
And it must follow. as the night the
day
Thou canst not then be false 10 any
man..
Up in New England IL used to be
thought that the education of the
mind was such an uplifter and trans
former that all that was necessary IN
order TO be saved was to secure an