"I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave."

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Republican Party (United States) politiciansGovernors of North Carolina
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Inaugural speech as Governor of North Carolina, delivered to a "vast audience" in Capitol Square, Raleigh (July 4, 1868). Memoirs of W. W. Holden (Durham, NC: The Seeman Printery, 1911) ch. 4, pp. 101–2, 105