
But there is another tie that binds us together just as firmly - and that is the Democratic Party.

The pioneering of America's first settlers - from Roanoke Island in North Carolina to Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts - forms a historic link between your State and mine - between North and South. And I come here today to summon those same qualities of courage and strength and determination to the conquest of America's new frontier - the frontier of the sixties. But the daring of those men - the spirit which conquered America's first frontier - has never disappeared from North Carolina or from America. When the next settlers arrived that colony had disappeared.


Here in North Carolina - in 1585 - 108 brave men established the first English-speaking colony of the New World.
