The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-29

Here is the suggestive sequel to
those remarks. They were read BIZ a
scholarly citizen Of Cambridge, Mas
sacnusetts, the sea Of Harvard Uni
yersity, and he wrote me to learn
Gen. Doniphan's subsequent career. /
made a full aEsver a. possible. He
then wrote ne that the realm OF LIS
first letter was that he had Concluded
to prepare a paper On "Donophans
expedition" to read before some learn
ed society Of Boston and that when he
announced his subject many supposed
II % be an expedition to the North
| Pole- striking illustration, certainly
OF the way our great are being killed
by the rule Of exclusion"
| THE UNITED STATES IN THE 10Th
CENTURY.
I am always delighted I respond 10
| ;1he sentiment THE United States
| of America in the 20the Century" II
| makes a man a better citizen TO speak
| OF even think of his country. The
| sentence 81 am an American" has
| greater potency than the famous "Ro-
| manus sum" possessed when the Sew
| entitled City was in the plentitude
| Of her imperial power Rome dontI-
| mated the earth when nine-tenthS OF Its
population were untutored savages-
America leads the van in the worlds
age highest development. and IL
tensest activity.
When was a student at Kentucky
University, one CT my teachers was
Prof. Joseph Desha Pickett, a Vir-
ginia gentleman Of the Old school, Who
could have given pointers TO Lord
Chesterfield in ~politeless AMI made
him urn green with envy. He vas
cousin TO General Pickett who o
impertsnable nov at Gettysburg.
When a young man Prof Pickett
toured Europe. He was much IN com
panv with an English Duchess. she
was So charmed with his manners,
wit, and learning, that, when they
parted, she said: prof. Pickett, |
have been surprised at your extreme
elegance and politeness, remembering
that YOU come from a country Wnere
thev have no queen The courtly Viz
ginian. bowling almost to the ground
said: Your Grace, I beg your pardon
You live in a country where you V
one queen. | hive in a country where
every woman is a queen.
Once upon a time a party or Amer
clans were travelling i'll the Old Woc.o
Among other places they visited lhe
Pyramids of Egypt, where a BOY Wnt
was of the party fell asleep. InlnA-
ing to have some fun at his expense
rhev surrounded him with mum1ule:
and then one blew a bugle in lm'Ia
tion OF Gabriel's trumpet. me ooS
avoke somewhat dazed. He did no
remember what he was; but rubolnf
his ewes. he swung his cap 10 n:
head. and yelled: "Hurrah! IT'S tn
Resurrection morning and an AmeTl
can is he first one up" That boy AM
Prof. Pickett were genuine American
worthy to be cOuntrymen OF the Ill
mortal heroes of Kings Mountain ar;
Guilford Court House
i. A VAST THEME.
The United States Of America is
theme so vast chat to do Ut Juslc
!, would exhaust the powers,
and Imagination of b greatest OF ~
major prophets. Were [ oth VII
the mantle of Isaia1 and endowed wit
his wonreous gift of vaticination an
| should I set fourth in perfectly VERT
what this puisant republic Will o.
lone hundred years from now, ut Woul
, Iappear as wild as any tale out OF "
:, Arabian knights, and you-enthusias
, tic, patriotic, and credulous as 70
, are-would one and all be ouDtl
| | ThomaseS.
r An ADEQUATE discussion of this sue
ject would require the fire and genlu
lof the sublimest epic poet that eve
lived. If such a one were in nv Sfaa
l TODAY and were ne correctly read Tn
book of fate for our enlightenment
his production would rank with tn
T1iad. the Odessy and the Aencl,
l with Paradise Lost, Childe Harold, an
: the Pleasure of Hope. Being nelthe
l seer nor poet, l will in plalnest pros
express my opinion, my faith, my mop
: my prayer.
A view of our country, either pros
peetive or retrospective, causes u
- blood to leap, the heart to swell VIII
, pride and the soul to go out IN graf
E tude to Almighty God for the bou1
u teoa1s blessings He his shOwered III
. on us without stint. Such r1cn an
>, n11mberless benefactorS nave bee
L ~vouehsafed to no other nation sln'
God said Let there be light If N
His chosen people, We are certain
: His most favored people in all Il
conditions and means OF moral, lnIe
= lectual. material and religious groWt
e Truly does Emerson say: w II
s is a new and exceptional age. Amer
IS ca is another word Of opportunlt
l. Our whole history appears nike a Ia
d effort of Divine Providence in beha
g of the human race
h GROWTH OF OUR COUNTRY.
II In 1900 Our population numoer'
lle :. 3Os, 4S3 souls. Now it is over 81
: 600, 900, exclusive of h cltlzens
- Guam, Porto Rico and the Phlll
u mines. At this rate of increase by &
- end of the twentieth century we "
IL have about two billion citizens. unle
d | in the meantime we proceed to- ann
= the entire face Of b earth and
III simulate all creation-in which ca
g we will. of course, be the who
: thing.
;, During the nineteenth century o
~ wealth mas multiplied 125 fold and