The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-04
Former Lieutenant Governor Who
spoke Last Night On "The NOrtf
Carolina Spirit"

States rights amendments to the Fed
eral Constitution: this same spirit
that refused TO suspend the right to
The writ OF hdbeaS corpus during the
great Civil War. and threatened to
withdraw the North Carolina soldiers
from the Confederate army of the
writ OF hibe!s corpus vas suspended
III Norta Carolina: this same shirt
impeacEcd and removed from his high
office Of Governor VIM. w. Holding,
for violating the-rioht Of habeas cor
DuS and the same SUiTit that would
have manifested itself IN some equally
striking way if the writ of habeas
corpus had been denied to JOsenhus
Daniels, when exercising his rights
ard Noicing the sentiments Of the
people he wrote in sharp criticism Of
an overwhelming Federal judge.
Steedfast devotion to liberty is the
first great factor in the North Carolina
spirit. And those who criticize the
old State for many Of its failures to
write into law new and unit ried
theories and ventures of government,
do sc in ignorance of the real North
Carolina spirit.
"Eut side by side with love Of
liberty has gone the common sense
that knows what liberty is; that dis
tinguishes between the substance and
~ SIIduOW, UClWCti CulpOldIy CX-
pedients and eternal principles. 1t is
this common sense, this hard horse
sense. that has ever marked the Saxon
race( and esDecialiy the Tar Heel
branch OF the race. They are
cautious and conservative and slow to
change. The tar on their heels en-
ables them to stand firm and not slip
back 1t keeps them from falling
One of the greatest tragedies in his
/ lry yx,oc n lt-a3 nv a cotahra+a1 how
not having tar on his heel. find the
first record Of a Tar Heel ia the life
Of Achilles. When a baby he was
held by the heel and dipped in the
river StyX to make him invulnerable
Styx is the Greek word for Tar. /
is an pen secret that our Tar river
is the ancient Styx. and this explain:
the location of LOuisburg and TarborO
Other towns tried to get on the Ia
but were blackballed by the earle,
senator's. If the mother Of Achille!
had let go his heels and had -droppe,
, him in. he could never bave beer
killed afterwards. He is the onl.
hero of antiquity famous for not be
ing a Tar Heel. OF course he go
killed as he deserved.
This conservative common sense o
North Carolina, this horse sense, thi
Tar Heel stick fast sense, has bee
justified many times 1t was JUST
fed when the eleven amendments t
the Federal Constitution which Mort
Carolina had demanded were adopte
for the guarantees of free religion
free speech. free meetings, and FIRE
: politics, free militia, free fire arms
freedom from soldiers and unjust i'm
~prisonment. and unfair trial and e1
: cessive bail and cruel and unusua
punishments: with guarantees of life
I liberty and property, all m%aintaine
by jury trial according to the rule
} of the common law, and finally III
e reservation to the States and to tn
people Of all rights not specificall
granted to the Federal government
We owe them all to the spacious OF
stinacy Of North Carolina would nay
remained out Of the Union. TT
wisdom OF North Carolina was Just
fed when she refused to leave til
Union, until the Union forced her I
% do SO by actual war. Had her cour
sells been followed, a million liz,
% would have been saved, a milo
hearts would hay been unbroke
slavery would have been abolished an
paid for. the South would have mail
tanned her ascendency In the Unio
reconstruction could never have O
Cured, the negro would never ha,
voted. and North Carolina would ha'