The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-02-03

The following Is an outline OF Hon
Locke Craig's speech, delivered before
the mid-xintcr meeting OF the n. G.
Press association at winston-Salem on
Wednesday night, and reported In the
Sentinel Of the twin cities:
There are three distinct periods in
the life Of the state OF North Carolina:
0D The period OF slavery. extending
from the Revolution TO the Civil war;
ca the period OF war and reconstruc-
ton. extending from the Civil war to
the adoption OF the constitutional
amendment In 1900 ;t3) the present
period. which we hope Is the period OF
enlightenment and progress
"The controlling force Of the nine
teenth century was democracy--the
equality OF all before the law. The
French revolution had ushered In the
age with frenzy OF freedom. Its
emancipating spirit peryaded Europe.
The bondage OF absolutism was
broken. The distinctness OF feudalism
and privileges OF the arislocracy We're
swept away. Stems memorable edict
OF October .. 1907. abolishing seldom
In Prussia. Is not so much an achieve
ment OF individual genius as the COM
plete expression OF the difference be-
tween the old and the new social order.
Mexico liberated her slaves In 1927;
England In 1888. Even Russia could
not resist the force OF the century and
freed her serfs In 1861.
"The south was not enamored Of
slavery. She was not the pioneer IN
bringing the negro from Africa. II
was the enterprislng New Highlander
that had run down and caught the
black man on his native continent.
shipped him IN bondage TO America.
worked him 10 no advantage. and sold
him for a profit to the south. South
en- statesmen were the apostles OF
democracy. and sounded for all the
earth the note OF freedom. The Dec
laratlon OF Independence. conceived
and formulated by Thomas jefferson,
and the wars OF the Revolution won at
Kings Mountain. Gullford Courthouse
and Yorktown. we're the prelude to the
French revolution and the liberation
OF Europe.
an 1854. It was Jefferson swho
drafted the ordinance that excluded
slavery from the western territory.
why then did the sonih. that pro-
duced the men who conceived the
ideas that liberated the world and
brought forth from dcspotism the. In
stiiuiions OF freedom. determinedly
maintain the institution OF African
slavery Why did she set herself
against the destiny Of the age The
answer Is 10 BE- found IN a fact deter
INITIATIVE Of her past and prophetic o.
her future.
''The production Of cotton. IN i7si
an American ship landed 10 Liverpool
with elgh, bales 81 cotton. u wal
seized By he custom house officers OF
the ground that cotton vas not prod
uci Of the United Slae's. IL produc
ton had not been profitable because
4 manufacture into elcth was no
practicable about this time ,thef'
was 10 the neighborhood Of Blackb-rl
a poor weaver By the name Of 1ohI
IIafgrcayes. A. he returned home on
night aud entered his cottage his wife
Jenny. upset her spinning wheel. Tn
spindle. thrown into ala upright posi-
ilon. continued TO revolse aud 10 twis
the thread that Jenny held IN be
hand. The idea Immediately occurre
10 John Hargrcases 70 attach a nun
Der Of upright spindlef 10 one whce
This machine was named In honor O
his wife Jenny John Hargreaye
was mobbed and driven from home be
cause Il Was thought that his maohin
would deprive laborcrs u employ
ment From the spinning jenny Arh
wright evolved he water frame. an
III 1854 Cfompton combined ths "a
ceilencies Of Hafgreayes's Jenny an
Aflswright's frame into the mule y
this machine cotton could be spun ist
fine yarn. One pound Of cotton coul
be made Into thread one hundrc
and sixty miles long In iTs7 Car
wright Invented the power loom. an
IN 1898 Eli whitney made the colto
Gin The problem 81 making coiio
cloth was solved aud the primacy ,
cotton a. staple was established
Coal. iron. steam ana eotte
created a new earth. The south 20
eeGsed the undlsputed monopoly
the production Of this staple Slave
which was not profitable In Ne
England became Immensely prof
able III the south. on this accou
the south devoted her energies
agriculture. She Jld not engage
manufacture. and not In accord wi
the liberalism Of the age, she clui
10 slavery. Against the current
the time her genius. her yalor Al
her sacrifice could not prevail.
In the years that followed I
war the state was chained 10 /
rock by adversely and poverty. u
energies we're on the defensive.
AT the middle Of tbe eighteen
century England had never made
yard Of cotton cloth. In so years
: the manufacture of cotton she "
the wealthlcst country In the wor
aud the manufacture Of this sa
southern cotton made New Engla
the wealthles portion Of the Tint
States
III cotton be King. the scepter