The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-31

present board of trustees and having
served for nearly fifty years as a trus-
tee, this occasion being the Centennial
Anniversary of the opening of the
first brick building for school pur-
poses is a great pleasure to me. BY
an act of the Legislature, passed in
1864, n following: Richard CaSWell,
Abner Nash, John Right Stanly. Will
liam Blount. John Sitgraves. Spyer
Singleton. William Bryan, Richard
Dobbs Speight, were appointed trustees
of the academy. The first school build
ing erected by them was a framed
building, his was burned and h
school was kept in the Colonial Pal
ace, it was in one of these buildings
but under the auspices of the trus-
tees of the academy that Judge Gas
ton. job Stanly. Rev. Francis L.
Hawks, Bishop Cicero Hawks, Geo. e.
Badger and Richard Dobbs Speight re-
ceived their early education.
In 1906 the first brick building
was opened for school purposes. In
this building Mr.. Taylor received his
early education But few men have
risen more rapidly, on ccount of his
legal ability he achieved not only a
national but an international reputa-
ton. He was ent by the United states
Government as United States Minister
10 Spain. he is now one of h Spanish
Treaty Claim Commissioners.
Mr.. Taylor was born n raised in
our midst, he is of u kith and KIN.
In doing honor to him we honor our
selves. 1t is a great pleasure to me to
introduce the Hon. Hannis Taylor.
Mr.. TayIor's Address,.
There is much of local interest in
the address of Mr.. Taylor and also
much Of general interest and many
wise nhCarXatiOnS which every
thoughtful reader of this paper VIII
be glad to read. Therefore we give
1T in full as follows:
My Dear Friends: After an absence
of more han thirty-six years IL seems
very TRANCE to stand again IN inns
place. Upon my arrival this
! went with our honored felloW-cltlzeh'
William II. oliver, Esq, with Wholu
I am proud to claim kinshlp, 10 WISH
many a spot still vivid in the memory
OF my childhood. The house IN WhlcIl
j was born is not altered at all diat
ID" great silent river at the Iool "
the street looks as familiar as II l ndd
parted from it but yesterday. VIII
the march of progress has ans ahd
improved many things, the Creates
changes | find are those written py
75.8nCing years upon the races 81 NY
friends. And yet, it is charming 70
in.ognize. under the changes iino
tf' nus ina can never po
After cIasping hands with the IVihs
! found my way into the DC GENE
terry where | communed for d unle
with the dead. Next to the SldVo,
stones of my own kin l was lnlPlI9sou
most by the monuments that nave
been erected to my two preceptors "a
the law-John n. Washington anu
John Hughes-known to many anpnS
YOU as honorable and distinguished
lawyers whose virtues wore req cap'
ana took their places among ~ :"
olnaIs. To their counsel ana llo'l -
TON I was indebted for gulddnIe
the beginning of nv professional ca
roer- But there was another cuan,
S'iIor at tina critical time TO W.
my obligations are deeper sun. "nht
as 4 youth of a little more tndh ,ob
cen, | was licensed to praclice laa1v
A the Alabama laW), | was eharn
called upon to enter upon the So 49,
pattle of life less than half prepdie
1t was at that time that 1 was en-
Outraged and directed by the lu1lii-