The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-14

but ali time and eternity cannot get
North Carolina out Of him" This
love Of State and home, which bour-
! geons into State pride, but is some
thing supremacy better, is a force thar
Sweetens life for the quarter of a mil
lion expatriate North Carolinians, as
| well as for those of US who have re-
! manned under the Toof-tree.
Natural Our Strong Point.
| Do you ask me to give the North
Carolina spirit a name? l give IT TO
you as il is given to me 10 see II
| It is n~aturafness.
| 1t is emblazoned on the folds Of our
| flag. -Esse Guam videri. 1t compels
to do what is right AT the call to
| arms, what is the natural thing to do?
people ever did this more completely
| than North Carolina did?
What sea- Of learning ever gave SO
largely OF its son to war? Can any
finger point to a recreant? No, be-
cause It was natural FOR them to do
what h State and the University
! expected of them.
In the paths OF fair. delightful peace
it is natural for them to contest for
J the mastery in the same spirit of fair
ness that governs their games OF
sport. 1t is natural for them to be
honorable, because it is expected Of
them.
The intense hamogeneity of our
people makes OF us a large family.
In almost all large families harmony
at times ceases to rage, so 1t Is n2tu-
raj for acrimonious contention to
spring up amOng us. fundamentally,
we think alike. In these rudiments
NJ are sometimes intolerant Of tolera-
ton. Why? Because it is natural.
A spirit that is good in stress and
in calm is worth keeping. It may be
softened OF it may be hettered, but
it is worth keeping
But if I cannot define the North
|Carolina spirit to my own satisfaction
OF meet your idea of what that spirit
is, may we not catch a Aue glimpse
OF 1t by finding it i~ncarnate? It is not
easy to explain the fruits Of religion,
but when they blossom and shed fra
tChristian. the youngest child knows
the product Of Christianity.
There has not lived in North Caro-
lima a more polished gentleman. more
superb soldier, scholar and gentleman
than William r. Davie. In an ad-
dress here some years ago Mr.. BOu-
telle, an accomplished member of
Congress from Chicago, who had stu
died h men of all the original thir-
teen states, CAV 1t as his judgment
that William r. Davie was the great
lest man North Carolina had produced.
He helped to found the University
and served his State with conspicu-
GUS ability. And yet, he did not in
tcarnate the North Carolina spirit.
; Davie might have lived and wrought
equally as well In Virginia or South
Carolina. Indeed. when this State
. went Overwhelmingly into the Jeffer-
: son camp in 1890, and Davie was de.
feated for Congress by a man who
!, had more patriotism than learning
D ~ 0hO41 %h@ - =,
. made his home in South Carolina
. which was not as radically Jefferson.
!. ian as h section Of North Carolins
: in which Davie resided.
Z The North OaroHne Type.
When o think OF that trfumvi
rate Of sun-crowned men-Davie
" Castor and Ransom-you rejoice tina
o they gave lustre to this good com
monwea1th but you do not feel tina
they were ~racy of the SOIL" or incar
e mated in its essence the North Caro-
: nnA spirit They were American
l. first INK North Carolinians after
wards, and their habits Of mind an.
1, | life would have made them edualf
at home in any Of our States. The
l. and the prejudices Of the North Car
e olina character. There are plenty @
(. others who incarnated North Caro-
" lima Ays but the three men in tn
l. three great crises in the life Of on
t, State. who could not nave lived an
h wrought SO well under any othe
skies. were Nathaniel Macon, Zebulo
ii Baird Vance and Charles Brautle
r. Aycock. They We're as indigenous
he the soil as the ~scupherncng crap
e and you cannot think Of their bein
OF transplanted to any other cline. Yo
wonder whether Macon could hSy
t. rendered distinguished service in Mas
n ~sachusetts, whether Vance would NJ
If have been. out of place in New Yor
X and Aycock unable to accommodate
n himself to q Pennsylvania environ
ment. And yet it is easy to imagir
re Davie in the libraries Of the b
IN State, CASTOR a header in the nation;
In capital, or Ransom being sent fro1
n New YoFk to command listening Sci
atofS- HAvie, CASTOR md Ransel
r were in a sense cosmopolitan, cit
OF Gems Of the world. at home anywher
TT It Was not so with Macon or Van,
an or AVCcCk They Uaro IN tho he