The speech of the President-Elect at the recent annual banquet of theNorth Carolina Society, New York, found a warm response in the hearts ofthe Northern people, who have not failed to sympathize deeply with theirSouthern fellow citizens during their long years of affliction.
The orator expresses our feelings with rare felicity, and so keenly didhis sentiments touch our hearts, it was resolved to publish his addressand send it to our fellow citizens of the South as the messenger ofpeace and perfect reunion from their Northern countrymen.
Our Southern friends will note that no phase of the present unfortunatesituation is neglected by Mr. Taft; all are dealt with in a clear andmasterly manner. The North, as well as the South is enlightened as totheir respective duties toward bringing about the desirable return ofthe South to its normal condition politically, so that American citizensin all sections of our common country will again belong to both of thegreat political parties, thus proving to the world that both partiescommand the allegiance of good citizens in all parts of the country whoare desirous only for what they believe to be best for the good of thenation as a whole.
The future President of our common country, North, South, East, andWest, who appeals to us, is a man of large heart, warm sympathies, andcool brain, of sound judgment and lofty purpose, who has at heart as oneof the greatest possible triumphs of his administration the restorationof normal political conditions in the South. Under his wise andsympathetic leadership the writer is sanguine of success--certain of itif the influential people of all sections give him the support he sorichly deserves in this truly patriotic mission.
Andrew Carnegie.
Here, if nowhere else, we leave political parties and preferences alone.But here, as everywhere else, we are patriotic men; and we NorthCarolinians have as our background a community that from the firstshowed a singularly independent temper. A freedom of opinion is ourheritage. We once drove a Colonial Governor who disputed our freedom ofpolitical action to the safer shelter of the Colony of New York; andthroughout our history we have shown a sort of passion for independentaction, in spite of occasional eclipses; and that same temper showsitself now. We are, in fact, never sure that we are right till half ourneighbors have proved that we are wr