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f PAGE Z!B0ISSM THE "T OUTLOOK Bflf , "j S . . fii GLINTS OF COLONIAL HISTORY PAGE BROTHERS - REAL ESTATE - GENERAL OFFICE BUILDING Farm and Plantation Lands including 2400 acres adjoining Pinehurst, suitable for gentlemen's estates, at prices ranging from $12.00 to $25.00 an acre. Write them or call; their story is one of human interest "Liberty and Living" this Twentieth Century Pioneering. The Loan Committee Approves The Loan Committee of the Sand Hill Farmers' Association have investigated a number of properties in this vicinity on which the owners want to borrow some money, and this committee recommends several of these as being conservative. Those interested in loaning may apply to Mr. L. M. Smith, Secretary of the Asso ciation, or in his absence, Mr. R. W. Page or Mr. A. S. Newcomb, all of whom may be found on the ground floor of the General Office Building, Pinehurst, N. C. THE COMMITTEE Mr. II. A. Page Mr. F. C. Page Mr. Leonard Tufts Mr. John. w. Graham Mr. John R. 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JUDK1NS, Manager linehurt the Vicinity of the Ileal Cradle of American JLiUerty LIBERTY lias had as many cradles as the oil spring of a plutocrat, but I reckon the trav eler who happens to drift along in his auto mobile between Greens boro and Pinehurst will get pretty close to one of the real pieces of historic furniture if he happens to wander into the Sandy Creek country. That is where Herman Husbands lived before the Revolutionary war days, and if Herman U not falsely accused he rocked the cradle of liberty several times. Husbands was a Penn sylvania Quaker, a relative of Benjamin Franklin, and if you know anything about Quakers you have observed that they are pretty hard to get started into a fight, but reasonably hard to get out of a row when they once have it properly mixed up. He seems to have been a pretty good sort of a Quaker, and he found himself in the colonial General Assembly about 17G8. Evidently the spirit had moved Husbands to some ac tion, for he was arrested for disturbing the animals and taken to court at Ilills boro for trial. The people looked upon him as their David, come to toss a rock or two at the British Goliath, and they protested the ruling. The court told the people to run along home and be good. The people went home, but one of them, who had evidently been reading from '"Standard Selections by the Best Authors," said he would return and make Pome howl They served notice on the governor, as next friend, t take care of his minions at court, or the British lion would have to sit close on hi tail to keep it from get ting twisted, and the governor retorted by pardoning a lot of those who were not guilty, and excepting Husbands and a dozen or so others who knew it would be useless to try an alibi. Husbands in sisted that the government robbed the people in taxes and fees, and he seemed to have his men with the goods on them. The government hated like a snake to be caught in the act, and ordered the Reg ulators to stop their kidding. Husbands continued to be elected to the legislature, and when he went down to Newbern to the meeting, Governor Tryon acted for all the world like the Clan-na-Gael when the Orangemen's lodge comes up the other side of the street, the band playing the Boyne Water. So Tryon had the assembly re district the state, and Husband's county was sliced into piece0, making at that time Chatham, Rowan and Guilford. Still Husbands and the Regulators said the taxes were robbery, and the govern ment was no better than a sheep-killing dog, and this line of talk was peddled back and forth until Tryon saw that he had to start something if he wanted to hold his job with King George. He also wanted to square himself with the eoun- i try vote, so one day in April when he should have been at home getting the ground ready for the cotton, he gathered up seven or eight colonels with their commands, some captains, some artillery and the various other things that a gov ernor took in those days when he went out to war with his constituents, and they began to tramp down the path towards Sandy Creek, up in the county above us. Husbands and about two thousand other Regulators were on hand to do their turn, and when Governor Tryon rode up on his milk white horse and told the bunch to scatter and get ready to pay their taxes when the collector made his ,luue collecting trip, they told the governor that he had a bass wood head. They defied the governor and he told them if they did not disperse he would fire. The profane and impolite Regulators told him to fire and be d d, which he proceeded to do. At least, I suppose he did, for the history chronicles the first, while the character of the man makes it a passably safe guess as to the second. I only give this as opinion, however, for I have no real knowledge of the subject such as would satisfy a critical lawyer in coutt. That is where liberty roused up in the cradle. Tryon ordered his troops to lire, but they hesitated. Seeing that the game must go on, he insisted that they should fire on the enemy or on their commander, and the troops showed the questionable taste of firing on the Regulators. Might as well make a note of that date, Mxy 1C, 1771. That is about the original battle of the Revolutionary war, although some folks who have not gone clear back to the beginning of the argu ment have fixed on later dates for the start. The Regulators had twenty men killed besides several wounded. One officer slain, one seriously wounded, and over sixty men killed and wouuded marked the loss of the royal troops. For a starter it was a right interesting mill. A number of prisoners were taken by the royal troops. These were turned over to the courts for trial, and several of them were executed. Nowv it may be supposed that this thing did not settle the matter of royal imposition on the people of the colony of North Carolina. A couple of weeks later Tryon was trans ferred to New York, where he was ap pointed governor, and a new man, Josiah Martin, came over from England to gov ern the refractory colony. Martin found trouble in plenty lined up for him when he came, and he tried to introduce a lot of ceremony among a people who wanted some straight an swers to some direct talk. Martin told the folks they could not hold meetings to discuss a free government, and the people established a regular congress. Martin tried to suppress it, and in the fall of 1774 Governor Martin went aboard a ship-of-war in the Cape Fear river, and from there set sail to more pacific scenes, and from that day to this North Carolina has been free from Brit ish rule. It looks like a sort of grim joke that North Carolina should send to A
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