The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-20
NEGRO DAY At
THE EXPOSITION
Governor Glenn the Orator
of the Day
NANYWHlTESPRESENT


rsxhibit-TouchingI Incident OF the
old Slaves Devotion to His
Master In the War.
NorRolk, Va, August 17.-Not the |
least interesting Of the many events !
If North Carolina week at the expo |
sftio1 was the negro day celebration,
,cl,ich Was held yesterday in the ne
gro building on the exposition grounds.
Governor Glenn delivered an address
that was heard by a large number OF
negroes and many white people.
The Governor arrived at the Negro
building a half hour before he was ex-
uected. He was met by a committee
composed of Commissioner General
Williamson of the North Carolina ne
gro exhibit, A. L. McBeth and several
others During the exercise the ia
nous Fisk Jubilee Singers, who nave
been here for some time, sang several
OLD plantation songs, much to the de-
light Of the Governor and his party.
North Carolina is the only State
which made an appropriation for
negro exhibit. This is installed in the
Negro building and cost five thousand
dollars Governor Glenn referred to
lily appiapded.
The Governor told his hearers that
in North Carolina the black man was
given the same pr election as the White,
but that both colored and white were
punished, If they were criminals. He
said that If the black man deserved
respect and aid. both were given him
In the Old North State just freely
as to a white man.
The Governor was introduced by
Commissioner Williamson. He said
in part:
The Governors Address.
My Friends, White and Colored:
~ call you all my friends. Since I
have been Governor Of North Caro-
lima, having taken the sacred oath to
do my duty by all classes, high and
low rich and poor, white and colored,
I have always tried to treat the col
0red people as citizens of North Caro-
lima. and make each and every one
of them feel that 1 have just as much
respect for them as / have for the
white people and tried to encourage
them to do everything they could for
the State of North Carolina, just as 1
have tried to teach the white people
20 do. and ] want to say here. that
in my administration, through our
laws. we have tried to treat them
equally.
IF a white man deserves respect and
help we give it to hin. If the white
man is not worthy of it, if a white
man does things he ought not to do,
we put him on chain-gang and
make him work for other people. We
treat the colored people the same
way. If the cOlored man or woman
deserves our respect and our aid in
building himself up, we assist him. if
they do not do their full duty, we
treat them as we do the white neonle
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II want to tell you all that T feel
very close in many respects to the
colored people of my State was
raised on plantation My father
never owned any slaves but after NV
fathers death. l lived with nv uncle
who owned three or four hundred
slaves who were my companions NV
playrates. my friends. Whenever 7
meet them, we meet and greet each
other as friends. There is a story that
I have told to my own State. and I
find no timidity in telling it here, that
makes me feel especially kind to the
colored race when they are trying-to
do their duty.
a Faithful Servants Devotion.
There was a Confederate captain
Who went to the war in 1851. and car
Tied with him his faithful servant.
Mack. On the 14th of September,
1862, at the beginning of the battle
Of South Mountain, this Confederate
captain called to his side his faithful
servant, gave him his watch, some
tTinkets and s397 and a letter to his
mistress telling him to watch him dur
ing the battle, saying: IF you see me
fall, see me decently buried and give
fhese to my wife
"On the day of the battle. behind
rags and cliffs the faithful servant
#atched his master, and just as the
IN, with all it's SplendOr and gran
RESTING
.tTizon, he saw him fall He imme-
lately hastened to his side, and pill
wing his head on his arm, saw the
Ute slowly leave his body Calling to
mind the last wishes Of his master he
buried him With the aid of three other
tElFates of his regiment. not in a cof-
nm. but only with his soldiers garb as
7 Il shroud and a grave dug with SOL
gers bayonets. FOOtsore and weary,
mar colored man walked five hun
Lea miles, fOrdipg rivers and creeks.
zen begging hP bread to the home
-1eh, trinkets and letter and s3S7,
."i having spent one single dime, and
zen he carried out his sacred nrop,-
.@ TO look after his three little bovs
He cared for them for two wears
"en his Master called him home to
Ill. place in heaven, where he met the
@ester he so dearly loved. That can
was my father I am one of the
.-e boys that Mack used to nurse
.-a watch over. Could I be unl<ind
he race that Mack belongs to ?
hid II, Almighty God;
True to Her People
North Carolina has been true to
yer people, white and black. can
1--we IL by Commissioners Williamson
w. huhter. It is in our State there
H@fe relations are most pleasant.
IN Name to Florida, from the At
'io 70 the Pacific coast, as well as