The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
UNION OF HEARTS
AND LOVING HANDS
Address of Col. J. Bryan
Grimes.
AT BETHEL UNWILLING
From Bethel to Appomatiox North
Carolina Wrote the Brightest Page in
Americas History Double the
Number of Graves Were Made
For Tar Heels.

Hampton, Va, June 10-Col. j.
Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, who
delivered an address at the exercises
attending the unwilling of the Bethel
monument today In the place Of Gov
ernor Glenn, who was unable to be
his eloquence, and ably represented
North Carolina. He spoke as fol-
lows:
Your Excellency, Veterans Of Virginia
and North Carolina, Ladies and
Gentlemen:
In the absence of the Governor of
North Carolina. who deeply regrets his
inability to be present on this occasion,
/ am here to express the great salts.
faction and qualification of all true
North Carolinians at this union OF
hearts and hands of the people of the
two States which is expressed in the
erection of these memorials of the
first battle of the War Between the
States and to the first martyr sac
rificed on the bloody altar of South
ern Independence.
This is historic ground; within the
radius of a few miles are jamestown,
old Williamsburg, your Colonial capt.
tai, Yorktown. Newport News, with it's
great shipRbuilding interests, and
Hampton Roads, where in the great
gea battle between the Monitor and
Merrimac naval warfare was revolu
tionized. TO the south of US is Nor
folk where a little more than hun
dred years ago floated the ships and
flags of all nations. At that time
Norfolk had greater shipping than
New York. May We soon hail the day
when she is again the metropolis of
the New World.
This is not an unknown land to our
people, Between Virginia and North
Carolina the ties of propinquity, SYM
pathy. common interest and blood re-
lationship are greater perhaps than
between any other two States of the
Union. The stranger may ask the
reason why. To us it is a familiar
story.
In the latter part of the sixteenth
century the conquering spirits of Eu
rope were seeking empires in the New
World. Daring Adventures were
building England's sea power and her
hardy mariners were spreading the
white wings of her birds of victory I'm
every cline. At that time the VirgiD
Queens favorite and most gallant
courtier. to be worthy of his Royal
Mistress smile. founded for her an
empire In the most favored region OF
the Western Hemisphere and named
1t in her honor. Virginia
Walter Raleigh, the knightliest figure
of that heroic age settled and built Fort
Raleigh, on Roanoke Island "in Vir-
ginia. lie was assisted in his enter
priSes by Sir Francis Drake Sir Rich
ard Granville and Sir Humphrey Gill
bert, but after spending his fortune
and the best years of his life, his eff
forts were unsuccessful and the fate
of his last and Lost Colony is one of
the mysteries of history.
The next attempt of the English
people under the same influences was
more fortunate and a permanent set
Element was made at jamestown in
1907 on the old site of the Spanish adj
~venturer, D'Ayllon's Colony. To this
new colony came the "adventurer" Of
every type. TideWater Virginia was
soon filed with some of England's
bravest and best, the stately lord, the
sturdy planter and the bold pioneer
of every class
For fifty years the earliest settlers
on the AIbemarle and Pamlicn Sounds
i'm North Carolina were almost exclu-
sively from Virginia. The ancestors
of thousands OF Cardinals sons came
from this peninsular. On the shores
of the York lie buried the bones of
of our earliest governors and for long
years after the Southern Colony was
set apart even the boundary lines were
undetermined. Tt was difficult to tell
the Carolinian from his brother in
Virginia. Each claimed as his interest
lay.
North Carolina has always acted
the part of a loving sister to Virginia.
Our fathers helped make your set
nla
in driving the foe and the red man
from your borders. In your first ex-
petition to the Ohio against the
French and Indians. North Carolina
rent YOU troops and Governor Din
widdie, of Virginia, commissioned Col.
James Innes or North Carolina your
Communicated Later it was this
gallant Carolinian who as Governor
of Fort Cumberland, received and pro-
tected the broken and fugitive forces
of Braddock after his disastrous de-
feat. Again when you went forth to
do battle on the Ohio, Colonel Hugh
Waddell, of North Carolina. command
ed your vanguard and information
secured from an Indian, taken by
John Forbes. North Carolinian, en-
abled you to capture Fort Du Quesne.
In the revolt of the American
Colonies when your great orator. Pat
his cry for Liberty or Death North
Carolinians under Colonel Robert
Howe hurried to Great Bridge, joined
Colonel Woodford, of Virginia and
drove the British Governor, Lord
Dunmore, to the protection of his
ships. Colonel Woodford. the Virginia
commander at Great Bridge. yielded
to Colonel Howe, who held the senior
commission. For his gallantry at Nor
folk Colonel Howe was commissioned
Brigadier General by the Continental
Congress.
For eight long years during the
great struggle for American indie
pendence the soldiers of. Carolina
fought by your side. In the first year
or two of that struggle North Caro-
lima put ten thousand men into the
field and i'm all enlisted more than
twenty-five thousand men to fight UNI
der the leadership of your great Wash
ington. Our State became the chief
recruiting ground in the South for the
Continental Armies
Thirteen months before the Declar-
alton at Philadelphia our people. at