"Early Times in Raleigh", addresses delivered by the Hon. David L. Swain, 1867

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Title	"Early Times in Raleigh", addresses delivered by the Hon. David L. Swain, 1867
Date	1867
Creator	Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868.
Subject	Raleigh (N.C.)--History Raleigh (N.C.)--Biography Governors--North Carolina Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Index Terms	Swain, David L. (David Lowery), 1801-1868; Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875; Johnson, Jacob;
Place	Raleigh (Wake County, N.C.)
Description	Speeches by former governor David Swain on the early history of Raleigh, North Carolina. Under former legislator and governor, David L. Swain, the University of North Carolina entered a new era in 1835. As college president, Swain popularized the institution and substantially increased its enrollment, attracting for the first time a number of students from other states. In 1844 he founded at Chapel Hill the N.C. Historical Society, which began the collection of documents relating to the history of the state. In the spring of 1867, President Andrew Johnson attended commencement exercises at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Swain welcomed Johnson, a native North Carolinian, born in Raleigh in 1808. During his visit, President Johnson and Swain both traveled to Raleigh for a service dedicating a long-delayed monument to the deceased father of the president. Jacob Johnson, a humble man, had died following the ordeal of saving two prominent men from drowning in Walnut Creek during the winter of 1810 or 1811. Swain delivered a lengthy historical address, ending with a tribute to Jacob Johnson and expressing his own hopes for the Reconstruction Era. Declaring that the president’s late father “had many friends in every walk of life, and no enemies,” Swain spoke of the “crossed swords, surmounted by the stripes and stars” on top of the monument. He urged that these symbols “form an appropriate ‘Memorial Association’ for the Confederate and Union dead…to promote harmony and restore ‘the more perfect Union’ designed by the Constitution of our common country.” Less than a year later Johnson was impeached. Swain delivered a second address during the summer of 1867 at the dedication of Tucker Hall—thereafter a site for plays, lectures, musical events, and other entertainments. Both addresses reflected Swain’s interest in the early history of the state and North Carolina’s capital city. Rufus S. Tucker then assembled the two speeches and published them locally under the title Early Times in Raleigh. The volume includes maps of the City of Raleigh for the years 1792, 1834, and 1847.
Time Period	(1860-1876) Civil War and Reconstruction
Publisher	Walter, Hughs & Company
Format	books
Call Number	V.C. 9
Collection	Vault Collection. State Archives of North Carolina
Physical Characteristics	5X7 book; 89 pages; 3 foldout maps
Language	English
Copyright	May be protected by copyright law (Title 17 US Code). Obtain proper release forms prior to reproducing this material.
Digital Format	image/jpeg
Digital Collection	Treasures
Audience	All

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