Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-10-15

toasts:
Here's to the land of the long leaf
pine,
The summer land where the sun doth
shine,
Where the weak grow strong and the
strong grow great,
Here's to down home, the Old North
State"
We hope we may be to you as a
breeze waited from our mountain
heights and foot hills of the West
and our doings and sayings be as
enervating and refreshing.
Here's to the land of the sky that
gave us birth,
Is the best old land on this green
earth,
Well drink her a toast where e'er we
To Gods own country, the land up
home"
Your part of the State was made
historic by the battle of Bentonsville,
and when your men and boys shoul-
dered their muskets and went out in
defense of their rights-State rights
and principle they knew to be right
and are at last being recognized as
such by all the civilized world. Your
town and county are conceded to be
one of the finest trucking sections in
the United States and all surround
ings show evidence of wealth and
prosperity. Your industries are varied
and that means much to town. In
looking over the trucking statistics I
find that Wayne County is second to
none and you should be very proud
of your people and county The edu-
cational Ex-Gov. Chas. B. Aycock, of
Goldsboro, n. c., is one of your fore
most men and is well beloved and
revered for the good he has done for
the cause of education in our State.
Jas. Y. Joyner, another of your prom
inent men has made a name for him
self on educational lines and is still
doing fine work for the good of the
State.
We, the women of the South, the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
meet every year to renew our vows
of loyalty to the sacred memories of
the past and as an association, whose
avowed purpose is to commemorate
the heroic deeds of our dead and
hand down true history to our chill
dren. And we propose to teach our
own children of our own Southland
our own truths, in our own way. The
political discussions of the present
day are eloquently vindicating the pa
trietic views of President Jefferson
1.ic Of Ctotn
Both political parties are sounding
solemn warnings against encroach
ments of Federal Authority. So you
see year by year day by day our ideas
Of right are being vindicated by oul
own country and the whole civilized
world.
Our organization is unique and there
is no record of such a one in the
world. In all by gone years never
have the women of any defeated peo
pie been banded together for the sub
lime purpose of proving the rightful
ness of the cause for which their me1
fought and women endured and cared
for the wounded and afflicted who sur
vived In all history of the past there
exists no movement by the Wome1
of the country to secure the records
of the truth in history about los
yet sacred cause. We have met here
now united in our work for a grant
purpose, grand in its origin, patriots
in it's undertaking and faithful in it.
) administration.
Time has no power to obliterat,
from our minds the memory of tn
deeds of herOiSm enacted during thos
, four years of conflict and death o
take from our hearts the devotion
/ they hold for the heroes of the South
from the immortal Lee and Jackson
3 to the youngest private in her SCI
t vice.
) 1t does not do any harm to repeat
often, the historic deeds and facts fo
! which North Carolina has become fs
nous. Situated between Virginia O.
one hand and South Carolina on tn
5 other, an always very modest State
: she has never proclaimed her deed
t of prowess as did the others.
3 The first settlement in America wa
: made in 1885 on Roanoke Island, N.
: The first white child born on Amer
r can soil, Virginia Dare, was on thi
Y Island North Carolina had the frs
4 'sTea Party at Edenton and Wilmin,
r ton, sometime before the noted on
. in Boston, Mass, and the actors wer
= not disguised as Indians as they wer,
j but boldly proclaimed they would nc
l be taxed unjust1y and threw the tie
) overheard. She was the first to d,