The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-28
4 TEXAS OPINION OF THE HEELS
I'm psac and War They Have IIlus-
trated fise Ioftiess Virtues Of Hu-
man Civilization

Vice President Fairbanks made a
flying trip TO North Carolina a few
days ago on a mission involving his
presidential aspirations. He was ban
Quoted ut Greensboro. visited the Gull.
ford battlefield where General Greene
h anded Lord CORVALLIS a jolt thar
prepared him for the Yorktown affair.
and incidentally visited several of the
educational institutions in that vicin-
lity.
The Washington Post informs us
that the vice president was greatly
surprised at the c~ordiality. culture and
enterprise Of the people of North Caro-
lima.
Ii is not stated just why the distin-
lguished Indianian was surprised. but
Iit is inferred that he did not expect II
find North Carolina so advanced in civ
|iliZation.
Distinguished politicians from the
North frequently express surprise upon
Visiting the South, but just why they
expect anything but hospitality
land kindness is hard To understand.
North Carolina possessed an exaltAt
civilization and was producing great
statesmen when Indiana was a wilder
ness. In peace and war her people
have illustrated the loftiest virtues OF
human civilization. Ii is Il fact. at
tested by official records, that North
Carolina boasts the greatest percentage
of native American stock of any state
in the union. Her ecord in the revc.
|lutionary war and in the civil war is
romantic with the highest phases OF
patriotic. self-sacrifice.
She was the first colony To throw off
British rule. Her patriots issued a
declaration of independence at Meek
|lenburg fourteen months before the
Philadelphia assembly adopted Jeffcr-
sons great declaration, and in the
struggle that followed the Tar Heels
Sustained their part with a devotion
and valor eve surpassed in any or
|liberty's wars. Kings Mountain and
|Guilford will be remembered forever as
|battlefields where the sturdy Tar
Heels illustrated those great qualities
which have ever characterized he cit
|iZenship of North Carolina.
DulIh IHC lol tocSS VA tAN
republic the statesmen of North Caro-
lima We're among the foremost of a
group of men whose names have be-
come immortal. Durin gthe civil war
she performed her part to the full, and
her best blood drenched all the battle
fields of the war.
Her progress since the war has been
second only to that of imperial Texas,
and at the present time in all the ave
nues of a high civilization in North
Carolina or in any Southern State:
Fairbanks should become &C
quainted with the country whose presi-
dent he is so anxious to be.
Unfortunately, Mr.. Fairbanks is not
an exception to the average run OF
Northern men who have not had occa-
sion to come in direct contact with the
Southern people. 1t is amazing that
there should be such ignorance about
large a section of the country, and
it is irritating beyond expression to
hear such surprised and patronizing
enconiums from a lot of o~pinionated
ignoramuses who betray their lack of
of the country's history
and their tardy discernment Of the
genuine culture that has characterized
the South from the earliest colonial
days.
The Vice President is a fair type OF
the bumptious class that ~unhappily
dominates American affairs. He is an
exponent, not of studiouS statesman
ship and intellectual achievement, but
of fQrtuitous circumstances of wealth
and machine-made political power. To
his dense mind the genius of u instl-
buttons is the craft of gain, and all It's
glory lies in tawdry display and physi'
cal bigness. He is an utter stranger
alike to the Puritan culture and sturdi-
ness of Northern men like the late Sen
.ator Hoar, and to the cavalier grace
and refinement of Southern men k
Senator Daniel, who, at wide extremes
of thought and action nevertheless
upon the common ground of exalted
and sterling integrity have
heretofore represented h ever-clash-
ing but ever-merging standards OF
american craftsmanship, and public
Virtue.
Let us hope that the day is not far
distant when there will be a reaction
from the present riot Of wealth and
|power. and at least that it may 10 De
delayed by the preferment of the sor-
Ibid and soggy Fairbanks to the seat OIL
Washington. Jefferson, Lincoln and
lMcKinley.-Fort Worth, Texas, Rec