Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-05-27

feeling has 50 largely disappeared
Political divisions have continued in
such a way as to seem to perpetuate
the lines which were made during the
war. but even those lines are disap-
pearing and 1t Ia the duty OF all OF
us with respect to political partisan
ship to wipe out those lines and to
see that In each state tolerance Of
opinion shall continue until there
shall be respectable parties on both
sides OF the line. 1t is as essential to
have good opposition to have a
good government and II there Is any
thing that can do in my administra-
ton to make that feeling Of union
more close. I shall do II.
II am anxious that the Republican
party Of North Carolina should he
strengthened. merely To have good
hsht every election. Some Of my repuh-
Iran friends think that 7 have lost sight
of the Republican party in putting into
cffce In North Carolina a gentleman
now upon the supreme bench of the
State. a lawyer of the highest eminence
ai,d learning and integrity but demo-
crat."
He explained that he had promised to
the South that he would do the best
he could TO wipe out the feeling that the
central government was a government
alien to the Southland. and had pointed
out that the only way by which the ex-
etutive could cure that feeling was to
PIT into Office men in whom the com
n,unity at large, without regard to party,
would have the highest confidence.
Now. am trying to do that" he
said. and am going to appoint both
| republicans and democrats striving in
each case TO get a man who will COM
| mend himself to the community in which
he lives"
FEDERAL JUDICIARY.
He pleaded as a justification for his
course that Benjamin Harrison put
one democrat on the supreme bench
| and two on circuit courts of appeal.
| The federal judiciary" he continued.
"is the strongest bulwark that we
have to protect ultimately our inst,-
tutions of civil liberty and those
things in the federal constitution that
we must love and must hug to our
bosom II we are to continue this civil
sacred duty than the selection OF men
whose appointment and service on tho
bench will strengthen 1t with all the
people at large.
| II do not think that we are at a
point where there is to be political
| revolution In the South. but believe
we are on the eve of such condition
that there shall be complete toleran ce
OF opinion and that there shall grow
into respectable power an opposition
in each state which shall tend to the
| betterment of the government 1t
exists in the state which shall give
us occasionally a republican in a crowd
of democrats in order that We may
have represented in Congress your
views without regard to the ghost ~
an issue that really ought not to In
fuence YOU in enforcing these partic
ular economic views that you really
entertain"
THE PRESIDENT TO NEGROES.
| To the colored students the President
said in part:
II thank God that those troublou.
| times through which your fathers ane
mothers lived are passing away and thu
proper place for YOU to look is forward
| and not backward. There is growing Over
| the entire South feeling. due to eco
| non1ic conditions that you will be
necessity for the prosperity Of the South
| II YOU will only do what you ought to dc
to make your race happy. You can de
| monstrate to the white men Of the South
by making yourselves members OF thu
| community. that il is as much to theii
| int crest to treat YOU we'll as it Is 10 your
interest TO have them treat you we'll
THE MECKLENBrRG DISPUTE.
The Mecklenburg declaration has Ions
| teen subject Of stubborn controversy
1t is declared by his supporters to have
ante-lated the famous declaration OF
| July 4, 1915. an on the other hand it has
| teen denounced as myth.
| The difference between its defenders
and its critics long have been considered
i,reconciiable. 1t as with great elation
therefore. that the people OF North Caro-
| ira received the acceptance OF Presiden
Taft to attend the festivities Of the clos
| ing day OF the celebration Of 1909.
1t is claimed tina, the Mecklenburs dec
| laration was signed on May %, li15. 4
body OF colonists met at Mecklenburg
| rear Cnarlotte, ana resolving 'htii'seiNc 90
| into a committee OF safety and II is de
clared that they drew up declaration o
Independence. Unfortunately for the dis
| cussion which has followed. the origina
copy of the declaration was said to have
| been lost in a fire but 1t is related tina
a copy signed by the clerk OF the con
vention was found Moreover. com
rpittee appointed by the Legislature II
1870 TO consider all the evidence obtain
| able concerning the affair affirmed tn
gcnuineness Of the Mecklenburg rcsolu
tons. To-day. consequently the dat
May %. is emblazoned on the great sea
Of North Carolina. the declaration APP
pears In the statute book OF the Stat
and each year OF the anniversary is OBJ
served.