A Century of Law in North Carolina (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Century of Law in North Carolina<br><br>A fair test of the worth of a government is the affection in which it is held by the citizen. It is by this standard we love to measure our brave State. Wherever a North Carolina man may go, his heart remains with his people; the sylvan Toe wanderer through the woods; Mount Mitchell, standing forth without a peer; the bleak sand-dunes of Nags Head - every foot of ground is dear to us. As the wintry winds blow through her forests of pine, or the sounding waves beat against the shores, where Virginia Dare was born, or the Cape Fear majestically sweeps to the deeper sea, it is of Moore's Creek, Guilford, King's Mountain, and of freedom, they tell - it is of unyielding resistance to unjust authority, of undying devotion to free government, based upon law. This is our heritage, this our birthright.<br><br>How has it come about, that there is still one spot on this mad and frantic globe, one spot where no red flag has ever waved, where the people are confiding and contented, where the God of our fathers is still enthroned<br><br>Constitution - Ark of Covenant.<br><br>One who loves his State as a true son should love her will try to make true answer. We are a people, one in race, one in language, one in religion, and one in ideals; a people without itching ears. We have no great cities; our per capita wealth is evenly distributed; eighty percent of our population are tillers of the soil; more than fifty percent of the white adults are landowners; less than one-half of one percent are foreign born - great auxiliaries, no doubt, to a stable and conservative government - but greater, far greater, than these are our just and equal laws, administered without fear, favor or affection, reward, or the hope of reward. If our sister States of the South have had such statesmen as Jefferson, Calhoun, and Clay, they have had no such jurist as Ruffin. Morley, I think, rightly contends that the great magistrate has as least as good a title to the front place in the Temple of Fame as the highest political servants or leaders of the State.<br><br>The distinguishing feature of our American Commonwealths is their constitutions.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.