Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-12-10
GwOLDsBORO'S GREAT.
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! EST GALA DAY

We are able to give today the open
ing of Judge F. A. Daniels address on
Monday at the opening of our ~county's
new Court House, which preceded his
historic sketch of the county, which,
too, we are concluding today.
g Judge Daniels opened as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Gentlemen of the
Board of County Commissioners, La
dies and Gentlemen:I appreciate the
very kind introduction of my friend
Judge Robinson. l cannot, of course,
endorse all he says about me. I at
tribute a large part of it to his good
ness of heart and the lifelong friend
ship that has existed between US. l
have to return my thanks to the Board
of Commissioners for their invitation
that l should preside at this term and
my Acknowledgements to my friend
Judge Connor, one of the finest and
most promising of our young judges,
and to our Governor that they have
consented to give me the pleasure of
being with you today, on an accession
consecrated by the highest patriotism
and purest religion upon which rest
all our laws and all our civilization.
1t is well that the Bible should be
presented. 1t is well that ministers
should invoke upon this court and
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mighty God. 1 do not know any men
anywhere who need more the inf1u-
ences of the gospel in their daily lives
than those men who are called upon
to take into their hands the lives, lib
critics and property of a great PEG
pie, the judges and jurors of our
courts.
1t is we'll that the flag of this State
should have been presented-the first
State in the Union to raise it's hand in
rebellion against tyranny, the first to
declare it's independence, and to win
the first victory in our Revolutionary
struggle, and it is we'll that there
should be- placed upon the walls of
this court house the flag of this great
nation, and that under it's ample folds
there should rest the flag of North
Carolina.
1 am glad to be present on this oc-
casion for another reason. 1 am al
ways glad to be at homeland / have
not been at home much lately.
When l was up in the mountains in
the fine county of Watauga, up close
to b sky, sitting as I sit now, looking
out upon one of the finest bodies of
men and women l eve saw in my
life, 1 was a little bit troubled as l
looked into their ruddy handsome
faces. l said, 81 am afraid they are
better looking folks than my people
down in Wayne" and l have been
afraid ever since until today when I
look into the faces of this splendid
gathering of Jul citizens; these men
of character, these men of courage,
and these home builders, these queens
who WELD the sceptre and train the
youth of this land, and upon this band
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OF future generations.
am not afraid any more.
When 1 think of these preachers, of
this man who sits here before me,
Jacob F. Hill, who has been so close
to me all these years, and of that other
minister of the gospel, Jno. w. Gard
ner, when I think how they have gone
through h length and breadth of this
c. unity and this section of the State
preaching a pure and simple gospel;
when I think of the lives of the
men and the neighborhoods in
my home county, which through their
ministry have been led into better and
purer lives, 1 feel like thanking God
and taking courage. This is their
place today. l have often thought that
OF all the meetings that ought to be
opened with prayer, the courts of the
land are those, in order that the laws
may be administered with high pur-
pose, in order that justice may be
tempered with mercy, and in order
that the intellect may be cleared and
the judgment strengthened by an ap-
peal to the highest thing that touches
the lives of men. | mean the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
Now, having said this much, Mr..
Chairman, l desire to congratulate
you, I desire to congratulate the good
people of this county upon the work
OF your own hands. / never came into
1t until this morning. l did not want
to see it as it grew step by step, but
] wanted all of it's loneliness to dawn
on me at one glance. l had that pleas
ure this morning. You have erected
here one Of the finest Court Houses in
the State. I have held Court in sixty
counties. I have not seen in any OF
them a finer one and if there is a
better arranged, more commodious and
handsome building than this in ou1
borders, I have yet to see it. But you
were In no hurry about it, gentlemen
/ remember that the citizens of this
county had to get after you and other
Boards of Commissioners that pre-.
ceeded you, and 1 expect if Mr. Hatch
would turn to his docket there he
would find on reading the report o.
the grand juries, that they had sale
in a dozen reports for a period of IL
years hat the Board of County Com
missioners ought to build a new cour
house here.
You were not to be stampeded.
don't know of any men in Wayne
county who can be stampeded ant
particularly the men who we put or
our County Board, u County Com
missioners. They of all men that
have known cannot and ought not tt
be hurried. You waited and in thu
fullness of time you took occasion b!
the hand, and last yea in an era o
our greatest prosperity you made you.
plans, deliberately and sensibly, a n
called to your assistance the best hell
you could get. You employed, in or
der to put your plans in proper con
dition, one of the best architects il
the country, Mr.. Milburn, of Washing
ten, D. G. After having done that, yol
let the contract to n of your Owl
capable builders, Mr.. w. P. Rose, ant
Won called IN assist fhe archifecf MT