The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-17

| the community that gave to the pub.
| lie Nathaniel Macon was fruitful in
making great men. The part North
Carolina played in securing the
| amendment to the Constitution. guar.
anteeing religious liberty and freedom
| of the press, by It's act OF self a nv.
CATION In staying out or the Union
until all the good offices had been
given out, was due to Jefrerson's ad-
wee, whfch ne communicated in q
letter to Willie Jones, urging North
oarouna 10 serve the young Repub-
lie by an act OF self abnegation that
had not been parallslled.
Early Career Of Macon.
| Nathaniel Macon after being edu-
Gated at home in q country school,
py the country schooI teachers, was
IN college at Princeton when the
Revolutionary war began. He quit
MS books and served with a New
Jersey company for time, later
serving as a private in a North Caro-
| INA company taking part in Charles
| TON, at Fort Moultrie and on the Ca
tawDa in important engagements
| While in the army he was elected to
| me legislature and oecIIned to ac-
! cept until the colonel OF his company
| told him that he could serve the cause
| OF the colonies better IN the legis-
iature than in the ranks. He declin-
ed to accept any pay as a soldier as
later In life he declined to accept
any mileage money while a member
of congress, except his actual ex-
penses.
Lord Palnerston was regarded as
the typical Engiishman because he
embodied the prejudice as well as
virtues of John Bull. Nathaniel Macon
likewise was the spirit OF North Caro-
lima incarnate. He illustrated Its sim
pie dignity, its faith In the people and
| Its se,f-reliance and It's State maxim
that ut Is better to be than to seem"
1t was as true of him as the Master
said Of q Nathaniel OF old. Behold
an Israelite in whom there Is no
guile
The close relationship between Ma
con and Randolph which never ter
minated, although they did not al
ways agree, was toucned upon and
the fact that this college was named
for these two statesmen Emphasizes
the fact that this institution gave a
permanent and lasting significance 10
the oneness of the sentiment between
the people of North Carolina and Viz
ginia.
A number of incidents illustrating
the lie MI. MACON We're tOIQ. some
OF them being not without humor.
Though not so well educated and more
judicial than Mr.. Jefferson. Macon
was not unlike the sage of Monttcero
in MANY partic,,lars Their poltt,eal
faith was the Same and Mr.. Macon
really had more influence and was
more powerful in North Carolina in
organizing the people against the
alien and seditioE law and the ad-
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was three times speaker or the mousse
originated the previous question as
means OF stopping too much talking,
was president pro tenn or the senate,
chairman OF the committee OF foreign
relations and remained in the senate
until 1898, when fhoNEn he had three
more years to serve, he resigned be-
cause he had made up his mind that
when he reached the years OF three
score and ten. he would retire from
nnhyi ellie and put retween him and
etcrn,tv thnne remaining years of
o,,i.t which every good man ought
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