Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1908-11-05
NORTH CAROLINA.
Charlotte Observer:

Carolina has q wonderful histo-
ry. Her first Delegates to t h
Continental Congress were in
structed for independence from
the British government. The first
declaration for independent gov
ernment was within her State
boundaries. She sent more vol
unteers in the Confederate Army
than she had voters, and lost
more in proportion to popula-
tion than any other Southern
State in the war between t h e
States. She is now prosperous
and happy and forging to the
front with her great industries.
Her history is a great one and
the sterling worth OF her liberty
loving population stands as an
example to the other States. The
grand Old North State, where the
fire of liberty and self-govern-
ment is never qupnched."
The State news editor of the
Dallas, Texas, News copies the
foregoing and remarks upon it
in his department of that paper,
adding. "Now you are talking"
and says further that he
"Knows something about the
Old North State, because he has
seen it with his own eyes saw it
before he ever saw any other
in fact. To have been born in That
State is q distinction all cannot
boast of, but Ill who can, do.
From'A. D., 1852 when Raleigh s
colonists began their struggle for
a fOothold IN the new continent,
the people of North Carolina have
been strong. purposeful, self-reli-
ant and self-contained. They
have titled the soil, opened the
mines, harnessed the waters and
slain the wolves at their doors,
generation after generation, cen:
tury after century, and today
the whole State throbs with in
| dustry as no other Southern
State doas."
These kindly, splendid tributes
to the Old North State from two
men, both, evidently, natives
here, manifest loyalty to t h G
State of their birth which is cred
liable to them in the highest de-
dree-is worthy OF men ''born in
North Carolina.
In the same connection we are
copying an editorial from t h e
Washington Post OF last week:
"The Greensboro, N. c., GEN.
4 tennial celebration marks a sig
nifcant period in the history of
North Carolina. One hundred
years ago it was a Common.
wealth of scattered sediments.
There were few cities ofany great
commercial Importance, and 9th.
er States OF the newly formed
; Union farexcelled itin wealth and
population. The aristocrats OF
the neighboring States ofVirgin.
ia and South Carolina looked
down upon North Carollnlans
I with certain condescensiOn, a
mental attitude which has not al
together disappeared in some
quarters. But despite this, North
Carolina made good in the better
struggle OF the War of IndepPn.
dence, and in the civil war it is
still a moot point whether Vir
ginia or the Old North State
made the greatest sacrifice, ACHE
we'd the highest honors, and wor
the most enduring fame in de.
fense of the lost cause. The stur
DIV manhood of its hills q n d
plains has been proved on many
a desperate battlefield.
Zone hundred years ago Nortf
lCarolina was almLst a strictly
. agricultural State; to-day it is
! forging to the front as a manu-
| featuring Commonwealth, anu al
, the present rate of progress il
will not be long before the value
5 of it's manufactured products
: will rival those OF its fertile fields