The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-08

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more and more as our ministry to the
beauty and strength and Worll-"iJa
nonaicerce Of our republic. 1t $ ml+
idle boast or foolish pride to say thai
the south will grow great and straaE
- hers and in riches, and that The
men Of the South will yet take The
n1aces which they ought to taxi in
directing the course OF our national
eovernment and in preserv ng the life
IF orr republic. Let US prepare % -
calves for our ministry and our dg)r.
81 rs he full-panoplied and armed
u-.tb the sword of the spirit Of or
noon1a. and let it be stainless like the
evort Excalibur OF KING Arthur. aye,
lei i he stainless like the sWor4 of
Robert Z. Lee.
hat is the spirit of a pe0p-aE
Nav we not answer: the SPIRIT al a
raon,e Is the history Of a people inn
ersona in the life Of a people.
IF there is no history or a people,
there is no spirit Of a people.
r. has been asked: Can Africa be
civilized? Why not? Because, II ul
that vast. dark continent, with rlch SOIL
and teeming Millions, save along the
shores of h Mediterranean, there is
neither history, nor tradition, nor q
memorial stone to tell where some
great deed was done. There is no
n SIOTS vi II pSoPAS go
Of the people upon which to buiii
their social structure. All effort in
their behalf has beer IN vain. Thy
are still naked, and the hon OF tha
Jungle is the ruler Of their land. The
spirit Of England, carrying her drum
beat around the world, is the story and
the song, not of Briton only, but Of
adventurous Saxon ana Dane, ana
| Roman and Norman: the great COM
~oe;+o roon@ fitted To SWPaD over every
| sea. and to rule under every sky.
The So rit Of hin is the history Of
a people who have quilt about them~
| selves a wall, over which others must
climb to be their neighbors. The
spirit of our people is the history IT
a people from whose loins has sprung
our ever widening Confederacy Of
| States: who have instituted forms IT
| based upon the consent
Of the governed, kindly and gentle
| and easy to be entreated, but firm ana
| strong to provide for the common de-
Tense and to promote the genera! Wei
fare and fitted, as we believe. to be-
come the final form and pattern OF all
nations.
What saved Us in our dark era Of
reconstruction? 1t was the memory
Mountain, of Guilford Courthouse
and of later fields yet red with blood,
it was the m of those who had
subdued our forests n titled our
fields; of hose who had written ana
administered our laws; Of those
who had founded and fostered our
schools; of those who had built our
churches and kept alive our love Of
GOD and our neighbour; these memo
ries, reminding the spirit of our pe"-
pie, saved us. OUR history was sta
our own; its light was still upon our
pathway. After the din of arms had
ceased, our laws were no longer silent
the pillow moved in the burrows; We re
built our workshops n reopened OR
schools; we restored our fields ami
homes and our affairs of worship; we
took u emancipated slave by the
hand, and taught him his duty to t1e
state and how to share w tn us or
history and our spirit. And thus We
moved forward with our ministry ami
our duty, until the world wonder
now, from the ashes of war, we have
grown SO great We have won Our
victories Of peace with the sword "l
the splrlt of our people.
And Of such spirit was he wh0
m to his place in our cap toll to-
day., first Of his peers because h was
their most faWless type; because ne
was Of the best in the lie of or Oil .r
Union. and of our brave young Goa
federacy, and of our later and NOR
perfect union; because the history OE
our people was impersonated in his
4ull and rounded life. In all the
movement of hat full life there was
no false note to mar it's harmony
among all her sons there is no clearer
IDEAL Of our mother State than he
whom we now lift up before us that
We may follow where he leads.
ana tney, too, will come a..ace ana
Nlth cneefiul accord to their plac-9
at his side; his co-workers. who have
Kept the spirit of our people unb~okt1
ana u~nspoiled through bad fortune
n good fortune alike.
Let them gather to our capitol,
tnese good and faithful servants OF
our people, seeing whom, enrapIured
with the story Of their lives, our chill
orens children shall cry out:
we can make our lives sublime"