The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-22
Patriotic Services in the
City Schools.
OUR GREAT HISTORY
Splendid Addresses by Col. ]. Bryan
Grimes and MIR. R. D. W. Conner
at the High School. An In
spring Occasion to the
Children.


Yesterday was an inspiring occasion
To the several hundred children VINO
at.endel the celebration. The patri-
otisra OF these young people was hlgh-
pitched, and they entered into the eX-
ercises with the proper North Carolina
enirit They demonstrated their meas
ureicss love for their dear mother
state. and their earnest pride in the
great achievements of North Carolina
sons They exhibited a knowledge OF
the states history that surprised mony
visitors. who attended the State public
schools q long time ago. before some
of the most important and glorious
deeds of North Carolinians had been
resurected from forgotten records
There Sc still more history of what
men from this state have done, that
is unknown than many other states
have made and with the discoveries
which are inevitable if the feeling
manifested IN the public schools here
Yesterday is representative OF the
whole State. North Carolina Will soon
have a history that viii make it's name
immortal be an everlasting inspiration
to it's manhood and womanhood. and
light the souls of poets and painters
with = fire which will burn with
and be reflected from the hearts and
aspirations CT the citizenry OF the
State centuries to come.
The revolutionary history of proud
Massachusetts,, said speaker yes
terdav. "is far less beautiful. less ro-
mantle. and less glorious than that of
old North Carolina. and the dawning
of a new day greets us. Let us be up
with the morning. and receive full
lir,lNt f1eD1
sun"
The largest celebration was at the
High School. The principal speakers
were Col j Bran Grimes and MT
r. D. w. Common ard with them on
the platform We're MIR. w. j. Peele, who
has spent his life IN the work OF gain
ering and preserving the facts anu
data relating to North Carolina his
terry, and Prof. Hugh MarSon, Prlncl-
pal of the High School.
After the stirring hymn. Carolina
was sung by the pretty girls and hand
some boys Col. Grimes in behaT OF
The Daughters of the Revolution or
This city, presented to Master James III.
Watson a gold medal for having writ
ten the best essay on the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence.
Professor MorSon announced that
the Daughters CT the Revolution would
again award a medal next year, but the
terms are that the minner must be
girl. and it is probable that the Sons
of the Revolution Will offer medal
for the best essay on a revolutionary
period topic written by boy in the
city public schools.
Col. Grimes was listened to with rapt
attention by the boys and girls. FIRE.
Guently. as he alluded to the heroic
deeds of brave men and women of this
state he was louGlUy applauded ana
Justify cheeredn He deplored the
enormous amount of invaluable history
that this State had lost through neg
Iect, and said that only during the past
few years had a large amount OF at
tention and investigation been given
TO the heroic sacrifices and deeds or
patriot sons of Carolina. He was
glad of the awakening in the State, and
said the people will soon know what
t,ley are and what their immortal
fOrefGthers achieved. Col Grimes
said if the landing of Sir Walter Raj
eigh had occurred in New England
instead Of North Carolina an oil
painting would now be suspended
from the walls of nearly every school
in the country; but there is not even
a picture of it in any North Carolina
school he said. and declared, that it
was a shame painting of that memo
rable landing was not in the National
Capitol at Washington.
Col. Grimes uttered a magnificent
tribute 20 the women of the State.
who. through the Daughters of the
Revolution and other patriotic organi-
cations are powerfully effective in res
directing State history, and his tribute
glowed with words of the warm appre-
citation of the people of the entire
State. There is no history of the
revolution so far as North Carolina is
concerned" said Col. Grimes, and con-
tirrued, I'VE had 1000 soldiers in the
field, but the records show only 5000
Our fathers hare made a history, but
have not written it. They were patri-
OTIS for service but not for pelf. After
the war they returned home and their
names CID not appear on the pay
rolls"
The speaker said that the men of
Massachusetts in the guise of Red Men
went 10 the English ships at Boston
and throw overheard the tea with the
abominable tax. but the men of
North Carolina with their faces I'M
painted. and wearing the apparel of
citizens, went to the English ships on
the CaDe Fear, and hurled into the
stream their cargoes OF tea 'They
were men, he said. fearless, and UNI
daunted b. threats or retaliation.
North Carol;nians at KINGS Mountain
saved tho South. and the battle of
Guilford Court House forced Corn
wallis to surrender"
Col. Grimes pointed to the walls. on
which were the portraits of George
Washington and Robert E. Lee.
General Lee" he said, was the most
God-like man tho American people
have ecer seen, "but he regretted that
tlese walls We're not also adorned by
the portraits of eminent CarolinianS
Ii conclusion Col. Grimes placed in
grand array the mighty deeds of great
CarclnianS, most OF whom are OBJ
scura o. unknown in modern Ameri-
can history. The parade of these deeds
and the names of those noble men
who performed them. thrilled the
hearts of the young PEOPLE, and they
expressed their feelings in long APP
plause. Excepting Lee and Jackson
the speaker said there was not a
greater or an ADLER General in the Con-