The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-16

re- ao where la Fayette hung them
me are TO be sold at public outcry
them Will be of small concern 70
mankind The fact of their coming
REMINDS US sharply that the nations
OF the earth are in "foment.-
DO you ask ITO what enc re-
Ply on the language of the Welchman. |
England democratic CharceUor al
the Exechequer: THE time has come
Tor a thorough overhauling of our
conditions. That time comes in every
enterprise, commercial, national and
rehglous, and woe be to te generation
mat ack the courage to undertake
the task.
No Cowardice Today.
mere is no cOwardice in the pres
ent generation of American public
men. They are girded for the task
North Carolina believes that the dom
lnant spirit of her people should be
the basis of the future adjustment
OF our conditions and of the condi-
lions of those with whom we have to
DO. | shall ask you for a M to
consider what we call down home tne
North Carolina Spirit
North Carolina Spirit.
No doubt you have sought a reason
why the sons of Carolina have so
strongly impressed themselves upen
the life Of other States-your own
great State included. If you know
the North Carolina spirit, YOU have
the reason. There is a North Caro-
lima spirit because the State is in
habited mainly by native born North
Caro1inians. Less than one-half Of
one per cent of the population of
North Carolina is foreign born. We
are the purest Anglo-Saxon commu-
nifty on the globe; and there one may
expect to find in the North Carolina
spirit the great spirit of the Anglo
Saxon race, strong, unchanged, virile
and fundamental. 1t is ever so.
From the grating OF the first English
keel upon the golden sands of our
coast, until this hour, and may it be
SO forever, the North Carolina spirit
has been love of Liberty, with com
mon sense to know it and courage to
maintain it. "Steadfast devotion to
liberty" has been the watchWord of
our people in all generations. 1t is
the key that unlocks every puzzle in
our history. 1t explains the Regula-
tors n the Kornets nest, the ku-
Klux Khan and the Red Shirts, the
first Declaration of Independence or
American soil and our refusal tt
5 adopt the Fedora Constitution unit
amendments were provided for guar
l anteeing personal liberty and State:
rights. In Colonial times it was the
rule with US, rather than the ex
Z " pawn ~ \hhc AAio N>A nv AAS
tons and expressions of our Colonia
governors. One Of these officials af
ter a hasty departure from our Dor
. ders, stopping for rest and refresh.
ment in the more loyal and hospitablt
S Colony of Virginia, wrote to tn
Colonial office in London that, 9TH
t people in North Carolina have ru1
f out SO many Colonial governors tina
V they now really believe they nave
s right tt run them OUT At one TIM
for a period of six years many @
t our eastern counties-my own Of tn
number-paid no taxes, attended n
q courts and recognized no Colonial Of
fcials, but their lives and industrie
went on peacefully and they grey
and prospered. If they could no
nave free government, they woul'
have none, but would govern them
e selves in each community a%ccordin:
n to the fundamental rules of horS
q sense and fair play. The Mecklen
h burg Declaration of independence, tn
Battle of A%lanlance, the Edenton TIE
v Party, III Cape Fear Stamp Resist
+ ance. were but necessary and natura
IS EXAMINATIONS of the North Carolin
# spirit. working and formentin
through a century Of resistance t
oppression and finally exploding.
20 philosophic student Of history follow
a ing the events in North Carolina fror
q 100 to 1910 would have said with
the next five years these people VIII
r have defied and resisted and drive
If out so many governors, who nave re
At fused to pay unjust taxes, who hav
70 driven judges from the court nous
"a and held courts themselves, thes
people within five years will DEF
as Great Britain, will refuse to pay an
m tax levied by the Parliament and WI
&. proclaim to the WoriG theIr aoSolu'
ce independence"
s Nothing Wonderful In 1t.
s There is nothing wonderful, nor II
Nv creditable, nor impossible about an
of these events. The only wonder
that they did not happen sooner.
truth they did happen sooner. Inc
xe had been happening for fifty years
in other forms, shapes and Sulses- IT
it. spirit that produced them, the Mort
Carolina spirit, was there all alon
te and was manifesting itself all along
"a wbatever was most effective. 1t w
tho same spirit that refused to ent'