THE PIN E HURST OUTLOOK.
2
Enos Johnson, (Ka re-wah da-we) Warming
tone Voice.
Ill contrast with these Indian descen
dants of the North Carolina native popu
lation, I throw upon the screen a few
pictures of some of the Indians of the
Northwest, as they appeared at their
homes upon a recent visit.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
NOKTHWEKTKKN IN MANS.
Xez I'erces Chief, Hig Heart, on a visit.
Chief Vandenburg, (Flathead) on a visit.
Vandenburg and his family; visit returned.
Delaware Jim, on visit.
Delaware Jim at home; visit returned.
Ugly Joe, the gambler, caught.
A gambling group at sunrise.
Visitors in full dress.
"Take our picture, too."
Hunting party, on visit.
Changing quarters; a family group.
Indian girls, on a visit. .
Passing from the period of the original
owners of this country, 1 glance at that
of the Revolutionary struggle. 1 wish 1
had an hour for this review, instead of
but a few minutes. In 1847, while resid
ing at Tarrytown, New York, Mr. Wash
ington Irving, then completing his life
of Washington, called my attention to
the gallantry of the First and Second
North Carolina Continental troops, and
his suggestion imparted special interest
to my examination of their battlefields,
and their ante-Uevolutionary history.
The contest between Governor Tyron,
afterwards Governor of New York, with
the North Carolina regulators who
fought him at Alamance on the Kith day
of May, 1771, in resistance to oppressive
taxation and monstrous perversions of
his authority, four years before blood
was shed in resistance to Gage, near
Boston, was a small part of the antago
nism with which the people of the Old
North State were prepared to resist Brit
ish control. As early as 17G5, at the pas
sage of the famous Stamp Act, by Parli
ment, Governor Tyron asked Colonel
Ash, (afterwards General Ash) then
speaker of the North Carolina Assembly,
what the North Carolina House would
do with the Stamp Act. lie replied,
"We will resist its execution to the
death.' This was the year when the
great evangelist Whitefleld preached to
this people the everlasting Gospel, and
when tens of thousands, electrilied by
his eloquence, imbibed new spirit with
which to assert their manhood and con
tend for national independence. It was
not until May 19th, 1775, that news of
the Lexington tragedy reached Mecklen
burg county. The entire night was
spent in a people's conference, and the
immortal "Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence"' was the result, not a
voice protesting. Fourteen months later,
followed the action of the Continental
Congress on the 4th day of July, 1770.
Meanwhile, on the 12th day of April,
177G, the North Carolina Congress, as
sembled at Halifax, unanimously adopted
instructions to their delegates in the Con
tinental Congress, to "concur with the
delegates of the other colonies, in declar
ing independence, and forming foreign
alliances." Even Patrick Henry, in Vir
ginia, had not at that time brought Vir
ginia to the same climax of resistance to
the British crown. The organization of
the Continental army found such heroic
men as Ashe, Casewell, Howe, Moore,
Xash, and others quick to respond to the
call "to arms."
Time will not permit the record of the
gallant action at Moore's Creek Bridge,
King's Mountain, and other spirited en
gagements. Washington selected two of
the North Carolina companies for the
hazardous storming of Stony Point, and
when Clinton sailed southward in 1779
the North Carolina regulars were dis
patched to face the veterans of the Brit
ish invasion.
Two battles 1 wish to illustrate by
maps, and the use of the blackboard and
camera. The maps were derived from
personal examination, and compared be
fore completion with every record or
manuscript in the British archives. The
Battle of Cowpens is first noticed because
it was the ante-type and precursor of
the succeeding Battle of Guilford Court
House. I will give the outline, and then
with you follow the movements, regi
ment by regiment, on the map.
General Morgan, of Morgan's IMHes,
distinguished at Quebec and ever after
wards, was pursued by Tarleton and his
"Invincible Legion of Horse and Foot."
"Tarleton's quarter," as it was termed,
meant, "take no wounded." This no
torious proverb was unjust to a brave
soldier; but it had its terrors. He had,
with his legion, the gallant 71st High
land British regiment, in part, which
for nearly two centuries has competed
for the highest honors in the British
army. Morgan placed his militia in two
advance lines, with orders to reserve
their lire until the enemy came within
thirty yards, and after delivering two
volleys, to feign retreat and scamper oil'
to his left and re-form behind a hill upon
which he rested his regulars. Still be
hind him, out of view, wereMcCall's and
Washington's dragoons. Tarleton vigor
ously and confidently attacked. The
militia lied, only to re-form in Morgan's
rear and advance within reach of orders.
Tarleton dashed madly after the counter
feit fugitives. Suddenly the American
horse, following the bank of the deep,
impassable, Broad river, and under cover
of woods and river's bank, swooped upon
Tarleton's scattered troopers, and the
battle was soon over. Few escaped.
Tarleton was wounded by Colonel Wash
ington. The British loss was 129, be
sides six hundred prisoners, and the
American loss was seventy-two. When
General Greene wrote to Morgan, criti
cising his placing his men in the angle
of the Broad river, he simply answered
"1 was determined that my men should
light or drown."
The battle of Guilford Court House,
near the present city of Greensboro, has
been fully described by -Judge Schenck
in his admirable volume. I wish that he
were present this evening, that I might
extend to him my appreciation of his
courtesy when I somewhat recently
visited under his guidance the beautiful
park which honors the gallantry of
Greene in that battle. 1 will not antici
pate the elucidation of this battle by the
charts. Although called a British vic
tory, it was well said in British councils
that "one more such victory would end the
war.' Corn wa His hastened to Wilming
ton; soon chased by Greene, and then
marched to Yorktown and his surrender.
A single vindication is due to the North
Carolina militia who have been charged
with Greene's defeat. More than six
hundred of his militia, gathered in haste,
enlisted for six weeks, including the
time of their return home. Others, sus
pected of tory predilections, were
forced into the service as a sort of pun
ishment. Neither had time for disci
pline anil drill ; but they faced, gallantly,
for a time, the flower of the British regu
lars. In closing, I wish to add, that the peo
ple of North C'arolina, before the war,
during the war, and in settling the sub
sequent terms of peace, like the people
of every other section, were invariably
in advance of the Continental Congress.
Gmnd leaders in debate, great civil cap
tains, and far-seeing statesmen largely
directed public sentiment; but the fer
ment of the American blood was pulsed
under wise control of the great Washing
ton. As the war advanced, jealousies,
partisanship, and selfish aspirations be
came so rife and virulent, that Washing
ton himself, who read men as he read a
book, was compelled to say, "An as
sembly, a concert, a dinner, a supper,
will not only lake men oft' from acting in
this business; but even from thinking of
it." To ihe people came the divine in
spiration for liberty. From the people
eminated the courage of their representa
tives in Congress, and the whole nation
owes to this grand Old North State a
debt of gratitude for the nobility of its
people, the wisdom of its statesmen, and
the gallantry of its soldiers who bore,
part in securing American Independence.
And now, yes, on this 10th day of
March, while this great Bepublic en
joys as never before the full import of
its recognized title before the world,
"The United States of America;" while
muttering thunders, the world around,
seem to vibrate a warning of contests
for human liberty, the greatest in human
history; while it may be the will of the
Almighty Father to make us the respon
sible and sullicient example for all strug
gling peoples ; and while it may be in
store for us to contend for humanity at
large, as we struggled for independence
here more than a century earlier, i will
cast upon the screen one more picture.
We did not light against, but for British
Magna Charta and the people's rights
in 1770. Today, mother and child, in
language, in civilization, in Christianity,
and in all that makes nations truly great
before God, are one in essence, and to
gether can command the peace of the
world. How mysterious was the mere
incident, undesigned, by which the
young theological student was led to ac
cept for his patriotic apostrophe to coun
try and liberty, the same musical air, so
that wherever, on sea or land, the flag of
mother country and of this, its child, are
saluted in song, each bears part in trib
ute to the other. On the morning of
the death of the author, it .was my privil
ege to catch his features as he was
seated in his study. So let us part, with
his face in mind, and unite our voices
with a spirit never more intense, anil
sing :
"My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee, I sing."
She was from the cit', but she wished
her country friends to understand that
she was not so green as they might
imagine. When the honey was brought
on to the table, she smiled in a gracious
manner as she remarked carelessly, "Ah,
I see you keep a bee.''
She (on the bicycle) : "I'm so afraid
I'll fall." He: "Oh, well, its an old
wheel, anyway; and I don't believe
you'll hurt it much." Esrhuiuje.
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