Philadelphia to the continental congress
there, a delegation to declare indepen
dence from Great Britain when North
Carolina had effected its independence
nearly two years before the declaration
of independence was issued. Moreover,
over at Fayetteville these restless folks
had issued a declaration of independence
from British rule several months before
action was taken at Philadelphia, and at
Charlotte the Knockers' Club had also
gone on record as throwing ofl British
authority.
This colony was always a pretty early
lot when anything was stirring. When
the British vessel came over with its
consignment of stamped paper, it was
met in the Cape Fear, the stamp-officer
instructed to save his paper, and the
governor and the stamp-officer were no
tified that the governor's palace would
be burned along with its inmates unless
the stamp-officer should be delivered to
the people to be sworn not to offer any
stamps for sale. The man was delivered
to the mob, taken to the market-house
and sworn. They were decisive in those
days, that gang was. A little ahead of
the A. L A.'s of a few years ago, they
insisted on America for the Americans,
and they managed to hold what they
asked for. Sandy Creek was the home
of Husbands and a lot of the rest of the
Regulators, but the bunch was pretty
well scattered through this section. The
battle fought by the Itegulators and the
royal troops was on Alamance creek,
east of Sandy creek. The Revolutionary
disturbances, prior to the battle, were all
through the county to the north of us
to the state line. The general sense of
raising a fuss with the British govern
ment was pretty well distributed over
the entire colony.
Husbands was expelled from the as
sembly. He managed to escape from
Tryon's efforts to apprehend him. He
was outlawed, and for a time he lived in
Pennsylvania until it became safer to
come back to North Carolina, but it was
apparent until the war was ended that
to come to the colony meant likely to
invite a close acquaintance with the roots
of the daisies, and Husbands, being a
Quaker and a man of peace and calm
ness, stayed up in Pennsylvania. Mem
bers of the family settled on Deep river
on the Randolph county side of the line,
a few miles north of Pinehurst. You
can't help a liking for the old chaps who
were operating the colony in those days.
In April, 1776, three months before the
rest of the country had declared its in
dependence of England, these enthusi
astic patriots had assembled at Halifax
to draft a constitution. That constitu
tion served the state for much more than
half a century.
While this country was. the scene of
the beginning of the War of the Revolu
tion, it also had a speaking acquaintance
with the man who, you may say, told
them goodnight that was Cornwallis.
Oornwallis deserved better luck. He
seems to have been a right decent sort of
person, and the misfortune that he was
cast for the villian in the play did not
make him as bad as the character had to
appear. No, Cornwallis was no personal
friend of mine. I just speak from what
they say about him.
Any way, he came up into these coun
ties from Charleston and played tag with
General Gates and General Greene, and
after he had concluded his argument
with Greene up around Greensboro, it is
said he passed down through this section
to stop a while under a big tree over at
Carthage which was to be pointed out to
the curious iti the days which have come
since then. It is also said that over at
Manley he sunk some of his cannons in
the creek to hide them from the shifty
gun artists over there who might grab
them up and follow him if he left the
guns where they could be observed.
Cornwallis did not make a hit up through
this country. He did a grand right and
left from King's Mountain to Guilford,
and at last, after looking at the thing
from both sides, concluded that the med
dlesome continentals were no friends
of his, and he said farewell to them at
Greensboro, or where Greensboro was to
be in proper time, and he left to see
how the fish were biting down around
Wilmington.
That is where Cornwallis entered from
the wrong side of the stage, for the chief
conspirator down at Wilmington told
him to take a clean shirt and some extra
men and go up to the mouth of the James
river in Virginia and give that section a
good cleaning out. Cornwallis went up
there, but he got in wrong. Instead of
backing up to the North Carolina line,
which he could cross easily when the
time arrived to back track, he picked out a
location between the James and the York
rivers, apparently having a river on either
side to keep off the colonial troops. He
forgot that a river that keeps the other
fellow away is hard to wade when you
are in a hurry to get away from the other
fellow.
That is where Cornwallis played the
wrong system. He could not cross two
rivers, nor either one of them, for the
French had the bad taste to have war
ships in the rivers, and the Virginia
colonel, Mr. Washington, had a lot of
rude soldiers out on the peninsula, and
all Cornwallis could do was to surrender,
and stop the war. When Cornwallis
laid down, King George concluded to
take the count, and immediately the
British foreign-affairs man sent for the
insurance adjusters. I am not just sure
which way Cornwallis went when he was
up in the country above Pinehurst, and I
have a small bet that he did not know
himself half the time. But most of the
small towns insist that they are on the
line of route, and as we all get more or
less comfort from looking with pride at
our hand which John L. Sullivan shook
one time, why I say let Cornwallis have
a path on every road that leads through
every county oetween weens Doro ana
Wilmington if the people say so. Like
enough he hit most of them in one dodge
or another. Bion H. Butler
N. B. This is the sixth of Mr. Butler's
stories. Ed.
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