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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, October 15, 1971
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CHANGING HIS SPOTS
Senator Ed Muskie, with high hopes of winning
your endorsement in North Carolina’s Presidential
Primary, is attempting to do what no leopard has
ever been able to accomplish.
Warning fellow Democratic brethren that at this
point in political history it ain’t advisable to be hailed
as a liberal, Muskie wants to be pictured as a middle
of the reader.
The idea isn’t new, of course. A candidate, /e he
Democrat, Republican, or what have you, would like
nothing more than to be all things to all people.
Straddling sufficiently to lure Conservatives and hold
Liberals in his aim.
With all due respects to Governor Bob Scott, who
climbed on the Muskie bandwagon even before the
wheels were on good. The Minor detects nothing
really new about the ’’new” Muskie.
It is certainly Muskie’s business if he wants to be a
Liberal. He has plenty of company, such as Edward
Kennedy, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, and that most
recent convert from Republican sinning, John Lind
say.
Where we find fault with the Senator from Maine is
in his insulting assumption that Tar Heels will be
stupid enough to buy his bill of goods. Something that
quacks, and has web feet, ain’t necessarily a goose or
a duck, but don’t expect it to be a chicken or a turkey.
Whatever Mr. Muskie may parade as, in his middle
of the road posture, he in no way resembles us
misguided souls in the Conservative region below the
Mason-Dixon Line. He simply ain’t our kind of folks.
And judging by the tide of things in sections of the
nation far removed from Dixie, a lot of non-
Southemers ain’t ready to welcome him with open
arms either.
The problem facing Democrats when they hold
their National Convention at Miami will be finding
what Muskie frankly admits they need, an honest to
goodness middle of the reader. A flimsy imitation
won’t suffice.
Truth of the matter is that the Democratic Party on
the national level is, and has been for a long time, so
completely enmeshed in liberalism that it is unable to
convincingly loosen the fetters for the sake of
political expendiency.
The average North Carolina Democrat, on the
outside looking in, has had about as much in common
with thinking of the National Party as a mouse has in
common with a hungry tomcat.
Let us never forget that the South, untu other
sections of the country had to come face to face with
problems similar to ours, was the one and only
whipping boy of Democrats in high office.
Bobby Kennedy, as long as he was among the
living, seemed to take sadistic delight in abusing and
humiliating the South, as it struggled to adjust to
momentous racial transition.
Although Kennedy was the Chief Apostle, other
Democrats on liie National level weren’t hesitant
about following his lead. Hubert Horatio Humphrey,
as citizens in troubled Greenville well know, is still at
it.
No, Mr. Muskie, you don’t look like a middle of the
reader. Down this way you could almost pass for
Edward Kennedy, or Lindsay or McGovern. Having
settled that, let’s go from there.
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Historical
Gleanings
ELIZABETH MOORE
PETITION OF WILLIAM
BRYAN AND OTHERS
1817
state of North Carolina, Cra
ven County - Court: of pleas
and Quarter Sessions -
To the worshipful the Jus
tices of Craven County Court
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions:
The petition of William
Bryan, John B. Dawson, Anne
Grimes, Jennett Dawson, Eliz
abeth Grist, John Bryan and
Joseph Bryan, an Infant by the
said William Bryan, his next
friend, humbly shewettK That
John Bryan, late of Craven
County died sometime In the
year , seized, and pos-
sessed of certain tracts of land
situate In the County of Craven,
Viz.
One tract on the North side
of Neuse River and North side
of Swift’s Creek, and West side
of Maul’s Run. containing
eighty live acres, part of a pat
ent to Samuel Smith, dated 20
Dec. 1771.
One tract on the South side
of Swift’s Creek, adjoining Gar
ret Johnson andBeid. Williams’
line, containing one hundred
and fifty seven acres, granted
to John Williams, 14 July 1774.
One tract containing sixty
acres on the North side poplar
branch and on Swift Creek, and
said branch, granted to Stephen
Windham 1 Jan. 1793,
One tract on the South side
of Swift's Creek, adjoining
Spires and Hays land and the
creek, containing fourteen
acres, granted to Stephen Wind
ham the 15 May 1787.
One other tract on the South
sldeof Swift Creek, adjoin
ing the creek, containing eighty
acres, part of a patent to John
Hollingsworth, 21 Nov. 1739.
One other tract on Swift
Creek, containing one hundred
and sixty five acres, granted to
WllUam WllUams, 23 Jan. 1772.
One other tract lying on both
sides of Swift Creek, contain
ing eighty one acres, granted to
Stephen Worseley 10 July 1788.
One other tract on Poplar
Branch, containing one hundred
acres part of a patent of three
hundred acres to John Fon-
vielle, 30 June 1758.
One other tract on Poplar
B ranch containing seven and one
half acres, part of the patent
to John Fonvlelle, before men
tioned, which said tracts of
land being purchased by the
said John Bryan after the date
and execution of his last will
did pass under his said will,
but descended to the brothers
and sisters of the said John
B ryan his heirs at law as tenants
in common In fee simple.
The said John Byran left
the following brothers and sis
ters: William Bryan, Lewis
Bryan, Sally Bryan, Mary
Bryan, Elizabeth Grist, and
George Bryan, who inherited
each one lilnth part of said
lands.
The said Sally Bryan has
since died Intestate and with
out Issue, and her share of
lands descended to her eight
brothers and sisters herein
named, her heirs at law, whose
interests Is thereby severally
increased to one eighth part
each of said lands,
Edward Bryan, by deed has
sold and conveyed his share
of said lands to Lewis Bryan,
who has since died, leaving a
last will duly executed, whereby
he devised to your petitioner
Joseph Bryan, all his lands
on the South sldeofSwlftCreek,
which includes his share of the
lands herein described.
Mary Bryan by deed has
conveyed her share of said
lands to your petitioner John
Village Verses
'TWILIGHT
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A blaze of red and gold
Brings us a promise
Of smiles after tears;
God’s sunset clouds,
They renew dreams of old,
and paint the hopes
Of faded yesteryears.
Each broken heart
Finds sincere sympathy.
As twilight draws the curtain
For its play;
Beneath a scene
Of bright hued majesty.
The night comes down
To softly kiss the day.
-JGMcD.
B. Dawson.
George Bryan has died leav
ing a last will whereby he
devises his interest In said
lands to your petitioner John
Bryan.
So that your petitioner Joseph
Bryan, devisee of Lewis Bryan
now holds one fourth part of
said lands, and your petition
ers William Bryan, Ann
Grimes, John B. Dawson, Eliz
abeth Grist and John Bryan
hold each one eighth part there
of. Your petitioners desire that
partition'of said lands should
be made and the share of each
thereof allotted In severalty,'
and pray that five Commission
ers may be appointed for that
purpose agreeable to law.
J. Stanly, Atty. for petition
ers.
Summons to Craven County
for Abner CampbeU, Charles
Anderson, Moses Nelson, John
Chapman and Alderson Ellison
to meet and divide the lands
set out In the petition for
partition between Joseph Bryan,
who owns one fourth part of
said lands, WUllam Bryan, Anne
Grimes, John B. Dawson, Eliz
abeth Grist and John Bryan
and Jennett Dawson, one owns
one eighth part each, heirs at
law of John Bryan, deceased.
Witness James G. Stanly Clerk
of Court at New Bern, the
second Monday of June in the
year 1917.
Partition had not been made
as late as 1831 though Com
missioners had been summoned
regularly through the years
1817-1831.
(Plots and Divisions Book,
Craven County, North Carolina)
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