The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-01
A BROAD GUAGEDa MAN OF THE
NORTH.

The utterances at Chapel Hill of
the Hon. Henry Sherman Boutell
mark him as a man of refreshing
breadth of spirit and kindness of
soul. Son of the North and living
during the period of sectional hatred
and bitterness as we'll as internecine
strife, he has come through such q
training and out of such a theatre
with heart unspoiled and eyes and
brain ready to see and learn unham-
pered by prejudice and with warm
sympathies prove to quick expression.
Both the extemporaneous speech
made at the Alumni banquet and the
set grafton delivered yesterday
breathed the spirit of trust in South
ern institutions and Southern hon
esty of purpose which the misrepre-
sensations of smaller men have
caused to be the more appreciated
by a people faced with problems
which their inherent strength alone
sufficed to overcome.
In yesterdays speech he showed a
careful study of North Carolina his
tory and tradition and an under
standing of their value in the forma-
ton of the Union and its subsequent
preservation. Moores Creek, he de-
clared. scarcely known as far as Mas
sachusetts, was of really more mill
tary importance than Bunker Hill.
~, Of hA h nI-Il
character, the bravery of her men and
the patient patriotism of her women,
was an old tale to him, who had
heard the story from the letters of
his father written from New Bern
when that city was held by Federal
troops.
In his Tuesdays speech Hon. Bou-
tell said:
Il wish to say to you soberly and
deliberately that there is no more
prospect that any influential man of
the North in or out of Congress, will
seriously consider, much less act, to
reduce the representation of the
Southern States in Congress on ac-
count of your wise and necessary suf-
frage laws. than there is of reducing
nois IN Congress-
He was again literally applauded
when he said: CAS- / read the names
in your memorial hall of the Uni
versity graduates who had won i'm
perishable glory, 1 had this feeling,
that | hope to see the day when we
will no more talk of re-uniting the
North and the South than we will
talk of whether we will drink i'm
ported tea or the other matters that
agitated the men of 1875
I'VE have common right to the
fame of Washington,Sthe Adams and
Jefferson. Madison and Franklin
And then he said with feeling:
You cannot take away my property
in the fame and patriotism of Lee
and Jackson and Pettigrew. And
then the boys almost gave the rebel
yell. And continuing he said: Il want
you to feel that you have a part IN
the patriotism and fame of Grant and
Sheridan and Thomas And that
sentiment was warmly applauded
He prefaced these declarations by
saying he was son of Federal vet
eran. Continuing, Mr.. Boutell said:
Let us from this hour feel that the
man who is the better North Caro-
linian is the better American"
He referred to the fact that his
ancestor, Roger Sherman, sat with
Hooper and Howe when he signed the
Declaration of Independence.
Those sentiments indicate the man
and his thought. He is a big man in
the best sense, successful, patriotic
and unprovincial. Like the deeper
thinkers everywhere, he is positive in
his own opinions without being dog
matte in their expression. He stands
truly for the larger Union, for the
spirit that recognizes men for what
they are worth, wherever they live.
For young men on the threshold of
life his example might well be an
inspiration of self-culture in an I'M
selfish helpfulness.
ly as brothers who will see and UNI
derstand and, returning, make good
report. The hardest fate is to be mis-
understood. Forty years after the
war the most hopeful sign of the
times lies in the increase of such
men as this from the North-men
with brotherhood in their hearts and
brains in their heads who have gotten
rid of that most narrow of all pro-
vincialism, the sectional blindness that
will not see.