The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-05

| whom it would seem that the great
| Creator has confided the secret and
the power of combining these two
necessary qualities of freedom and of
| law in their proper proportions.
The two fundamental ideas OF the
| Declaration are these:
| The best Law is secured by Liberty;
the best Liberty is secured by Law.
| Wherever floats our flag and these
| ideas are maintined, is liberty and
| freedom safe. But neither law nor lib
erty can exist unrestrained by the
! other That is the lesson that must
be taught to him who does not I'M
derstand the meaning of freedom
that is the lesson that the negro must
learn-he is not to be licensed-nct
free to be idle but free with the
right to work to make a living, to
work out his destiny-not to be either
drag or a barnacle. Our duty is
to train the humble, the ignorant to
make the most of liberty, of the des-
tiny that is possible for them to work
out, whether they exist in the Philip
pines, in Central or South America
or in Hawaii.
The highest liberty is the liberty to
serve, to be useful to all, to reorgan-
ize our country and the world that
its pattern. Franklin said: Where
liberty is there is my home
Paine more nobly said: where lib =
erty is not. there is my home.
After Chairman Thompson nad
gracefully introduced Governor Ay-
cock as the only man who was per-
mitted to speak to the convention at
Greensboro. as the great successor Oh
Vance and a man who in the aunllllIS-
tration Of his high office had ful-
filed every pledge made to the PEG
pie. Governor Aycock arose TO pe
greeted with a wild, enthusiastic anu
almost unanimous cheer. During ms
speech, he was applauded with
gusto that was fervid and spoh-
taneous. He was in fine platform con-
dition AS the Methodists would say
he had "lberty' to spare-too much
for the reporter who would ram nave
transcribed his eloquent phrases. Gov
ernor Aycock should never be al
lowed to speak unless he has written
it out; his sentences tumble over one
another in n torrent-and they are
beautiful When he speaks eXtempo-
raneously, the readers lose 1T all--of
nearly ALL For a reporter-eVen
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS only mt the
ground in hioh places when the GOV
ernor takes the reins. he is mag
nificent man when on his 1eet-this
governor of ours. 1T is aelSnt "
watch him. TO see the glitter OF ms
eve. TO catch the earnest sincerity OF
his ringing tones. to feel the con-
taeion of his rythmatic eloquence'
What | could get and carry OIL WAS
something like this. but you ought
to have heard it:
am profoundly moved by the gen
erous words of your chairman ana ny
vour greeting. When l was invited TO
sneak on this occasion, / did so, not
because I had aught to say that was
new. but because l wished 1t under-
stood that the South would participate
and feel a pride in such celepratiop
as this. c. q
Since the War Between the States /.
has not been customary TO any SIea.
extent for the South to celebrate
This day: we have felt it did not pc
long to us-though not thought OF
sectional feeling remained. But why
should we not celebrated 1t?
1T was the South who gave the DAY
who gave Patrick Henry from
whose burning lips leaped words OF
fire. il was the South who gave JeI-
ferson. the statesman and the apoStle
of liberty. and Washington, the great
est man who eyer stood in the front
of tvrannical power; it was the South,
North Carolina, in Mecklenburg, tnat
made the Declaration of independence
possible, and it was our own state lnaI
first instructed it's delegates TO the
Convention
of Independence! 1t we cannot cele-
brate. who shall? Not only because
of the birth of liberty in our section,
but because in the Southland will be
found freedom in it's fullest. its real
sense-where in it's best meaning II
abides.
outside of it's defiance of the King
ofBritain the great thing in the De-
claration is this:
1--WE hold these truths
that all men are created Tree anu
equal"
Created equal-did the men who
wrote if mean it? We know that 1t
means they are created equal in the
right of life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness-that it means that each
man shall have the opportunity 10
make of himself what God intended
him to be.
If did not mean to make the weak
strong. but that the weak should nave
tbe opportunity to grow. Not that
the strong should be dragged down,
hut that they should not be thrust
into power except by their own worth
and their own cXertions.
Heroes. God should make! 1t meant
that in this, our country. the most
glorious country in the world, every
one should have the chance to grow,
10 exnaud. TO work out his destiny to
be secured in his life and in the pur-
suit of liberty and of happiness.
1t made possible for men VINO nave
in them the making of men to be-
come men.
If he strive with truth, with mind.
with virtue, he may make of himself
what he can--bc that place the high
est in the land.
1t made it possible for a rail-split-
ter to become President, for any
man. however humble, to achieve that
which God gave him the power to DO
But we might lose it while we cell
citrate. Let us see that we give TO
each man what he is; let us keep the
ideal pure in practice! Let each man
work in this great land as he may,
let him do well the thing that he can;
let each man so labor that. even in
the doing of the low things of which
he is capable he may perform them
in such fashion that they shall! be-
come high things!
After the singing by the choir OF
the Old North State, in which the
large audience joined Justify in the
chorus. Rev. DR.. Vann's high, strong
tenor voice vying from the pit with
the best voices on the stage, the chair
man introduced Prof. Henry jerome
Stockard. who read with feeling and
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