The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-15

use of Schools
Not being a teacher, / have not
kept up as l might have done in RE-
Sard to the standing and use of the
two eramlnars Of Col. Bingham for
the last quarter OF a century, but they
are. ] must believe. still used in the
best schools. for they are both OF high
learning and excellence. \ brother
Of the author. Robert Bingham, who
served in the great war With the
rank Of major. is now the principal Of
the great Bingham SchoO at -AShc-
Vile. and has come to the front as
an able contributors to the literature
Of North Carolina. He delivered the
annual address at Raleigh on OctO-
her 18th, sos. before the State Lit
erary and Historical Association Of
North Carolina. 1t has been PUBLISH
ed and makes b pages, octave, and
IS an able and instructive address. He
discusses three points or phases of
Secession. showing. /. The theory as
the trainers of the Constitution view
ed it. ,. Secession as pointed and SuS-
tanned III the United states. ,, As at
tempted 10y the Confederate States.
1t is an address of really unusual in
terest and Importance. The North
needs to be informed and ignoranluses
up there" may learn something to
their better understanding Of a ques-
ton SO much misunderstood and per
Verted. 1t Will throw real light upon
a subject Ions darkened by ignorance
and grossly misinterpreted through
the decades. l have spact for but one
extract which may be read With in
terest and profit. On page u Col.
Bingham says:
And yet Webster has been canon
lied as the great apostle and saint Of
N~ationalism, and as the great eN-
FOUNDER Of the Constitution as para
mount law, and as abrogating the
rights OF the States. as the fathers of
the Republic described and reVered
them. The people Of New England
says Col. Benton (page los of A No
table Libel Case) yielded slowly and
with extreme reluctance TO the power
Of the national government under the
Constitution. The Federal Union was
good enough as long as it worked
good to their local interests; but when
it did not. they deemed it entirely pa
triotic to consider the question of its
dissolution. Hence, the Northern
Confederacy scheme of 1904. the VIC
lent and almost forcible opposition
to the embargo of 1909 and the de-
termined opposition to the War Of
1872. eliminating in the proceedings
of the Hartford Convention OF 1S14.'
Of course when I edited | made
who del ghted to defame and
damn my name and memory. Male
dictiOn and ~OhjurSatOrN things We're
expected and common. ! recall that
my almost lifelong friend Of blessed
the late Rev. DR.. Charles +.
Deems, once wrote of having enemies.
He thought the man was d rather
poor stick of a fellow whose life WAS
the deadest of failures VIII had never
Inyon n, r h i'm O. 70 ma Ea - 2rninS And
it is probably true. No man may
coVet enemies. but no man need to
fear them when they are made by
duty braVely done and serV1ces Ia tn
fully, rightly performed.
Better so down in the stormy strife,
strand on the reefs OF a useless
life"
Dare to do what is right. as You see
it and leave results With Cod. Let q
mans heart be AS far from fraud as
from earth Never desert &
friend under unjust obloquN or aban-
don a cause that is righteous because
the assault grows ana ciamof with 1t.
III yet follow
The wounded chance of Antony,thoush
Sits in the wind against me-
I wish to explain. In my recent
on Rev. +. CT. Low | said what
I sent was not taken from my ora
ton upon him. Both that production
and what | said Of it in the New YORK
paper. I had not read for many year.
am inclined to think now that some
of the New York article was q part
the Grafton. Not having read
either in a score or more of wears
I do not know, how much OF the
article | wrote was Dor
rowed from the grafton. like to be
accurate.
Wilmington May Goth. 1909.