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Typed card describing clip (date noted is incorrect) / Steamship "State of Maryland" carrying Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt sailing along / closer shot of steamship, name visible on prow, people on board waving at camera / EXT old chapel / people in colonial costumes walking in line during "Virginia Dare Celebration," commemorating the 39th anniversary of the first English child born on American soil (as part of Sir Walter Raleigh's third expedition, later known as "Raleigh's Lost Colony") / EXT old blockhouse / people in Native American costumes sitting outside old fort / sign on tree "Croatan" / girl pointing at stone which marks boundary of old fort / pile of ballast stones / car carrying Roosevelt driving through crowd / WS Roosevelt and others on platform, crowd watching, applauding / Roosevelt standing at podium, SOT: "I seek, you seek, no change in the form of American government. Majority rule must be preserved as the safeguard of both liberty and civilization. Under it, property can be secured; under it, abuses can end; under it, order can be maintained, and all of this for the simple cogent reason that to the average of our citizenship can be brought, and I believe will be brought, a life of greater opportunity, of greater security, and of greater happiness" / wide shot of platform and audience applauding