He was a pioneer in politics as he was in the practical concerns of life.

Though he was the son of slave-holding progenitors and even owned slaves himself, he was not a believer in slavery.

The country that he primarily loved was not Moore County or North Carolina, but the United States of America.

In politics he was a Whig, which meant that, in the years preceding the Civil War, he was opposed to the extension of slavery and did not regard the election of Abraham Lincoln as a sufficient provocation for the secession of the Southern States.

It is therefore not surprising that Walter Page, in the midst of the London turmoil of 1916, should have found his thoughts reverting to his father as he remembered him in Civil War days.