The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-18
North Carolina.
Splendid Tributes to the Old
North State.

The grand old State of North
Carolina has a wonderful history.
Her first delegates to the Cont
uental Congress were instructed
for independence from the Brit
ish government. The first de-
claration for independent govern
ment was within her State
boundaries. She sent more vol
unteers in the Confederate Army
than she had voters, and lost
more in proportion to population
than any other Southern State in
the war between the 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 popu-
lation stands as an example to
the other States. The grand
Old North State, where the fire
of liberty and self-government is
never Quenched.
The State news editor of the
Dallas, Texas, News copies the
foregoing and remarks upon it
in his department of that paper,
adding: Nov you are talking, "
and says further that he
Knows something about the
Old North State, because he has
seen it with his own eveS-Saw
it before he ever saw any other
in fact. To have been born in
that State is a distinction all can
not boast of, but all who can, do.
From A. D. 1882, when RaleiGh's
colonists began their struggle
for a foothole in the new CONT
nent, the people Of North Caro-
lima have been strong, purpose
full, self-reliant and self-contain-
ed. They have titled the soil,
opened the mines, harnessed the
waters and slain the wolves at
their doors, generation after
generation, century after CEN
tury, and today the whole State
throbs with industry as no other
Southern State does.
These kindly splendid tributes
to the Old North State from two
men, both, evidently, natives
here, manifest loyalty to the
State of their birth which is.
creditable to them in the highest
degree is worthy of men "born
in North Carolina. -
In the same connection we are
copying an editorial from the
Washington Post of last week;
''The Greensboro, N. c., cen
tennial celebration marks a sig
nificant period in the history of
North Carolina. One hundred
years ago it was a Common
wealth of scattered settlements.
There were few cities of any
great commercial importance.
and other States in the newly
formed Union far excelled it in
wealth and population. The
aristocrats Of the neighboring
States of Virginia and South
Carolina looked down upon North
Carolinians with a certain con-
descension, a mental attitude
which has not altogether disap-
peored in some quarters. But
despite this, North Carolina
made good in the bitter struggle
of the War of independence, and
in the civil war it is still a moot
point whether Virginia or the
Old North State made the great
est sacrifice, achieved the highest
honors, and won the most endur-
ing fame in defense of the lost
cause.
Zone hundred years ago North
Carolina was almost a strictly
agricultural State; to-day it is
forging to the front as a manu-
featuring Commonwealth, and at
the present rate of progress it
will not be long before the value
of it's manufactured products will
rival those of its fertile fields,
Millions of dollars during the
past few years have been pour
ing into North Carolina in the
creation of cotton mills and pow
'er plants. All of it's industries
have felt the upward lift of pro-
gress, and it is doubtful, perhaps,
if any other State of the South
has made greater economic ad-
vances since reconstruction days
in the upbuilding of a great,
prosperous Commonwealth from
the wreck and ruin of war. The
Old North State, just awakening
to the marvellous natural resour-
ces, is entering a brilliant indus
trial expansion in generous
rivalry with it's sister States of
the Southland. !"
We seem to have heard that
some others States have in the
past regarded North Carolina in
spirit of 'condescension. T" Up
on this our people have always
smiled with amiable confidence
| in their potential selves. At this
time it has come to be known by
the country that which the
Washington Post plainly indi-
cafes. that It is the leader among