The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19

Carolinian, pleasure in hailing the
President of the Union as a fellow
citizen of the same old member of
the Confederacy.'
Buchanan came to the Presidency
after a long public career as Congress
man and diplomat trained states
man and legislator whose judgment
and wisdom were long relied upon
by the majority party of his coun-
try When he visited North Caro-
lima, his party was in power and he
was welcomed by State that had re-
Gently left the Wing fold to forever
Except in Reconstruction and like pc
riods) become a Democratic State.
The honors shown him were such as
were due the head Of the Republic
and the man who had wisely led his
party through perilous events to a re-
markable victory. He was devoted to
constitutional government and the
Union and in a brief speech at Frank
linton on his way to Raleigh voiced
his convictions by saying
LET us swear by the memory of
our fathers that we will resist any at
tempt to tear a star from the constel-
lation of States of which this Union
is composed and let the man be exc
Grated for all time who shall attempt
to break up this glorious Confederacy.
To the same effect spoke Secretary
of the Interior Hon. Jacob Thompson,
native of North Carolina, (kinsman
nf
President of the Fair) who made a
notable speech, saying:
'In the North we have the leading
spirit in a great party urging that IL
is impossible for the Union and the
institutions of the South to exist to-
gether. In the South new light has
risen which is to urge the abolition
of slave trade laws and the introduce
ton of barbaric Africans into our
midst, endangering the very safety of
orr neculiar institutions When
they tell us that the inhabitants of
this country can no longer live toSeth-
er peaceaby in the Union. | wish to
run up the stars and stripes and de-
clare that for one | am really to battle
against these agitators.
But the fires of disunion, North
and South. We're blazing too bright for
the conservative and Union-loVIng
men like Buchanan and Thompson
to have any effect, and the black cloud
of war broke in it's fury-'the newt
able conflict" as the world has come
to regard it.
President Andrew Johnson, the only
President of the United States who
was born in Raleigh, visited this city,
reaching here on Monday June Bird,
1867. Like Polk and Buchanan he
was en- route to Chapel Hill to attend
the commencement of the University
of North Carolina His stay in Raj
eigh had also the pious purpose of wit
Messing the unwilling of a monument
to his father. Jacob Johnson, who had
lost his life in rescuing from a watery
grave Editor Henderson and Merchant
Callum in pond near Raleigh. The
president was accompanied by Seward,
the Postmaster General. and a distin-
guiShed company, and the city ana
State authorities received him in
manner fitting his exalted station
him that Raleigh was proud to well
come him to the home of his nativity.
With all pomD and ceremony he was
escorted TO Raleigh from Weldon and
given a reception that lacked nothing
to make il complete, four eX-GoVern-
ors being on the Reception Committee.
Mr.. Johnson's staunch devotion to the
Federal Government in 1S61-65 had
lost him the friendship OF North Caro-
lima it's people believing that he owed
his first allegiance to the South. But
when he came to Raleigh he had
broken with the Thaddeus stevens
extremists in Congress and was seek
ing to restore a constitutional union
receiving the several States that had
been in the Confederacy back in the
Union as sovereign states and not as
military provinces or districts. In
pursuing that conservative course, Mr.
Johnson had the support of the con
sentative element of the whole coun-
try.
In Introducing President Johnson to
the people Governor Worth. who be-
lieved until Lincon's call for troops
that the South ought to fight its bat
ties inside the Union, said:
Il have the honor to introduce to
YOU Andrew Johnson President of the
United States He visits the city of
his nativity, upon the invitation of its
citizens, to be present at the erection
OF a monument commemOra tive of the
worth of his deceased father. Jacob
Johnson.
AS the representative of the people
of North Carolina. / offer him Il cor
dial welcome from her whole people.
We desire this occasion to be one of
universal harmony. l shall, therefore, |
make no alluson to any political sub
iect now dividing public opinion.
'There is one matter as to which we
all now agree. to which it seems fit