The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-13
Spirit of the Press
Essc Guam Videri.
leans Times-Democrat.

New orleans Times-Democrat.
ITO be rather than to SEEM. That
;S the motto of one of the original
States of the American Cnion--a
State which first of all the American
States declared its independence or
Great Britain, In the confines OF
which the first ''tea party" on TINS
hemisphere was held Ii was the col
ony n flich afterward adopted this mot
to, which first instructed it's delegates
To vote for independence in the Con-
gresS of the colonies after the royal
LET forces had been defeated in a bat
tie at Moore's Creek.
It is not the purpose OF the article
to attempt to adjudicate the contro-
versy which has arisen between this
State and that which proudly and
justly claims to be the mother of
Presidents. The facts alone may be
given that the public may judge for
itself of the difference which has
arisen between two sister states.
Some years ago there was erected on
the west front of the Capitol at Ra-
! leigh monument to commemorate
the fidelity OF those sons of the Tar
Heel State who went TO the front be-
tween 1861 end 1865, on which was
inscribed the legend: First at
Rethel-Last at Appomattox. Later
there was published, mainly through
the pious patriotism of Walter Clark
who entered the Confederate service
boy at the beginning of the conflict
and came out of that fateful struggle
after Johnston's surrender still with
no trace of down upon his lip--a
record of the North Carolina Regi-
ments in that Hateful struggle, which
bore on it's title page the inscription
on the monument with the insertion
OF the proud statement between the
two statemens, "Farthest to the front
at Gettysburg and at Chickamauga. "
No other State in the South has It's
Walter Clark, more's the pity, and the
lack of such a man has resulted in
less accurate recordS Of the achieve
ments of the sons of those States in
the greatest war of modern times.
The inscription of the title page of the
books published by the Tar Heel state
excited some feeling in Virginia, and
the United Confederate Veterans Of
that State issued a pamphlet written
| by Judge Christian of Rich nond In
which the statements in the books
were controverted. The result has
| been the publication of a pamphlet
| by the North Carolina Literary and
| Historical Society, under the auspices
| of the interchangeable Clark, now chief
| justice of the State, in which eye
witnesses and participants in the
| fights in controversy cite facts bear
| ing out the boast OF the Tar Heel
| State. It is not denied that there was
| a battery of Virginia artillery at
| Bethel the first field battle of the war
| and the first battle in which blood
| was shed. but the fact remains thar
! the regiment of Colonel. afterWard
Lieutenant General Hill furnished
| SEQ of the 200 Confederates engaged
! in that hattie. and that without these
| infantryrlen the battle would not have
| been fought. 1t was Henry l.. Wyatt
a Tar Heel, who first gave UP his life
| as an Offering to the cause of the
! South, and it was the promDtness OF
| the Tar Heel State in placing these
| troops in the field that resulted in the
| first repulse of the enemy.
| There have been reams of paper
| wasted on the Gettysburg controversy