Speech to be Delivered by Vice President Harry S. Truman at Raleigh, North Carolina
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OCR Page 1 of 7For Raleigh, North Garolina
April 17, 1945
DEMOCRACY ON THE MARCH
KRUMAN
NARA
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Guests and Fellow Democrats:
We Democrats are meeting tonight here in Raleigh, capital of the
Old Forth State, to honor a good neighbor from Virginia, the founder of
our Party, Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson is probably best known for his famous Declaration of
Independence, which stated so eloquently the rights of free man. Hovever,
it is interesting to recall that in Charlotte, Morth Garolina, your Democratic
ancestors signed the first Declaration of Independence in America, many
monthe before the Philadelphie version was proclaimed.
It is quite evident that, even before our country was officially
formed, political pioneers from the Tar Heel State vere in the vanguard of
the fight for freedom. From that time on, statesmen from North Carolina
have remained among the leadere in the endless struggle for real democracy.
Even after the Constitutional Convention agreed upon the basic lav
of our new Republic, North Carolina constantly insisted upon the inclusion
of our Bill of Rights to protect every individual against any undemocratic
abuses. It vas the strong insistence of a few States, like North Carolina,
which insured all Americans that our Constitution would guarantee freedom
of speech, freedom of religionx, and the various other basic prerogatives
of freemen, which today we consider so essentially American!
Recently our hard-won rights were challenged by the most poverful
array of despotic force this world has ever seen. We are still engaged in
that bitter var to decide, once and for all, if our great democratic
principles will live and grow.
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