North Carolina Newspapers

; ?S a--it i ! I? t - hi - . der;a la -its ecct3 as was au. ' cci a in the movement of oi prc millions in Europe, who en co" .J by, our example, iose up er . . ,ook c.T their fetter3 as "the in . . hakes the dew, drop from his rr. 3.' The spirit of liberty in a fr or k3 force was r.t that time oad in the whole civiur: to doubt their ultimate triumph and and patient temper, universal prevalence, suezestittns of "envy. Temporary obstructions they have and alliuncbaritableness" already encountered, and others they bury foirever the irritating will hereafter encounter: but in the moral as in the physical system, there Is a law of accumulation of force. which exhibits its strength Justin discarding the house, from the ''Old North Stale," suggestions of "envy, hatred, malice I and baring spent several years or my .Let us j Doynooa unaer ner classic ohm in uiu recollec J Orange, my feelings kindle with more ViU-Ctl.worldl nronortion to thfl rmnnsit.inn itpn tour fathers were its Icrinchara- counters. - '' . on then, as their descendants ousht j be now. Our pioneer ancestors had earned from the trial of British pa triotism how oppressive power was , 3 be resisted, and they taught that I cn to their children, and accord- ir !y our immediate progenitor -no- ' . A 1111 . . c .. tins tne-. political maxims or the Currents are augmented by imped iments and the temporary detention of the mountain torrent, only serves to make more effectual its desolating bavs already quoted,' velocity. - oo wnen grea principles -where breathes the foe but fans before us, ure once ueveiopea ana put in acuon i with freedoms sou Deneaut our tees - , . : they increase In energy In proportion And freedoms banner waving o'er us.". , ... to the oDDOsition I thev 'meet, and! Fellow-citizens, elevated by the in- 1 .rocs of the Commonwealth and of their champions derive new ardor of spirations of this day and this place, I t .8 statesmen: oi me revolution oi devotion, new vigor or effort, from i seemio stana on an immence wnicn IGoS flew to arms to vindicate and every temporary check. Influences commands a-view of centuries. From maintain those-maxims whenever I aa wo believe iinnrnniftnns to. the I the mount of vision I look: back and this infringement occurred, when prevalence of the political doctrines see the spirit of Liberty in the dark, ever It was even inreatenea. tiona of the dead past "deep beneath than ordinary interest on this proud that oeein, on whose waves the Hal- occasion. Ihousands of hearts fa cyon rests her downy bosom in token miliar with the cradle songs of Oaro of tranquility and - peace." When lina far beyond the blue mountains in fraternity is thus restored, then in- the west, now pulsate in unison with deed we may all look "with pride and your own. Gladly have I come from nlpnnnrrt nnn'n the stars nnil strinaa of the Great Daughter. Tennessee to our national Oriflame," and say, in I bear ber kindly greetings, ancLto y,mln the words of the ode from which I gle ber voice in your rejoicing. fne ignoble triumph of tyranny over lib erty, the Governor, was applauded by the home government, ana ne was re warded by promotion to the. Gover norship of New Xorlt, borne oi Jne Regulators were executed, sonie were pardoned upon taking the oath, while others crossed the mountain, bearing . ,. ..! i j i tne mevances oi me coiomrannn mo i ii'i inn i umi. i.iit-'v niiuiii aia-TG j.r vjaa i a nath sliptery with blood to the gran deur of independence, yet their patriot- - ju w T t T " , -L.: i.ia v nroDermocieor rearega. josepnuewes, a Pauiw :rif of North Carolina, was one of the most ism and courage towered and expanded fot fgg danger, ana . numing ine htWrfk Jnlv. with them the unconquered love ofjlenburg Declaration of Independence ! hefore the KnVir.H thorn "thoir mmor T.nPir I II It 1 r - I III 1 1 1 1 L LL1V. X. . , . ii wuva . a. . i n w 1 1ib.4 - r.. rr nf thHS- But both the Assembly and Conven- Ui VJ WAV v"'w - - . voice of ber Lezislalure and Historical Society was but the voice of the State j defeated. : Success in tne ex pression oi a er i iereo v n tbia celebration Children of Carolina 1 Sons of Freedom f Patriots of a com mon country ! Tbis celebration is the festival of the heart upon the glorious memories of the past.,- a, .'That people have fsr sunk in degen eracy aud havebecqmeasthedry bnes liberty and the undying hatred of ty ranny, destined - to re appear - upon another neld ana exchange ine oumm of the oullaw for. the? glory of- the pa triot. Fortunate it was that they were then would nave drifted them, into the horrors of ,cirl war.! -Many good men and patriots, who did not comprehend the niagni IiiHa of their crievinces. foueht ntrainst I histrv s do "not sustain the- iKJsitioii- them, Besides, - the other colonies VV ashington "abhorred the idea of in- were nt)t then -ripeji ftfe' .revolution. dependence "when he took command of Nevertheless, tlie fact is ivworlal t,hat the Army; and he had rolled the tide of their' tM the, first battle-thtir't wag the war about one yeir before, he was Com- tion had risen to such a disorderly tern- ji i ' it i. fi , j xv ner. in ine rovai view, inut vtuvuuui eulogy cannon overon. tau urw i c f ;. n;ta .bis'amiabilitv. and nor adnuration surpass meir menw w v-ni, .rfl nv tronji- each name be consecrtea to freedom, "T ap-XJ, ' ' onthe8th of April,'l775, he dissolved " But Sne! would make- the dusparag- .ggiJS ing insinuation that their Declaration " S.STaft K& only the expression of a preiling f - SStS, Ki?SLi3 of our great fathers, have recently 1 deep forest of Saxony, many ages f of the valley, when they feel no stir of jirtl libatiqa of blood-thttr' $ t toas the nutted to the idea t 1 f. a .nr.n.nt! ix.' I :.. ln i ... 1HII Tt t whan iW "Roman care - wprfl linonimtmn an the imutrpa of tliftir illtlS-l Arst. WCOTIOUS BClCfthCe OUT&k QH tMOUarX - Mr. JenerSOQ, XU ft jetier. tUVvCU T.HU mother country was con t era d! a ted bv power has for a season been permit- i flying and screaming over the world. I trioua fathers are passing before their i of American MQertvlt not -hreaiBj A any of the colonies, the Parliament ted to destroy our pride and deprive From .thence I follow her to the sea eyes. The heart, not the head, of a of England infringed one of these us of our heritage of -.civil liberty, girt ;&le of, Britain and :behold her nation is the fountain of patriotism, maxims by seeking to tax us with- Great efforts have beea made to break influence a displayed in thet mstitu- bravery, and t virtue. . The .emotional out our consent, and this act of and crush the spirit of our people, tiona of Alfred.; Retiring from view nature of a people, like the sea, con threatened aggression ?called forth because it would not with suflicfent for centuries she. re-appears with the tains the saline virtues which , purify her in North Carolina a nromnt and tliancv&5ji to the deerradins behests Barons at, Eunymede, and with the and preserve the btate., The living an indignant resistance. - uur people oi tyranny, ana we are tauntea as i runvww ur ,)uiiuuu iuo .isu feoeit ior our uevouon 10 me w .vufs;miji uw nm, vj holiest cause" that the jeachery , of Monk, her . friends . .-a .foi I are defeated and persecuted ana, rorcea - EveXt Ztx?" ' to fly to the wilds! this ;new discov- tr. . .. 11. i... I ored hemisnhere: followine them in J. Fvii -i buvu Miuw . v& u, nuj J I . , . . . . r , f't ! I . . r-i i . . Amorma with AnvmenteA nttrAPtionn 1 nigm in ainerem iocaunea upuu ancient s ureeas erecieu mouuuieuw emerges wnn augmented attractions, ... . ., aVta .nvroA tu0 Mli D.t inatUniM tr,mM uid ana her votaries, testea in flaeiity, by -- nZ 7r their anvp.rsittps.tnons'h often rtimin-1 - ...w-, Ishfld in nnmhora ftrs pwr inrftisprt f the institutions whlctt our;tathers Pey heroes and; benefactors; a iier ; poets on the uape rear, anterior to any such action in the colonies elsewhere, tinder the lead of Cornelius Harnett, John Ashe, Hugh Waddell, and oth ers, threw a cargo of tea into the Cape Fear river, and refused to submit to the "Stamp Act," and compelled the officer who Jhad been appointed to enforce it to leave his sanctuary in the Governor's palace and to repair age is but a pensioner on the works ana wwaom, oi tae paoi . It has been the custom of all civil ized nations to celebrate the ancestral deeds and virtues to ; stimulate the rivalrv s of future s generations. w?The his Majesty's brig-of-war '"Cruiserj" the Governor gave vent to his rage by cailr nonadina his rebellious Provimef with paper denunciations. v The patriots of Mecklenburg.,were nov merged witn an the colonies in the common cause, i ne oolonv Pfedsred itself .to share rateably Autrust. 1775. said hei"wonkl rather be ! soft the:fameofuhe, patriots of Ala- in dependence on Great Britain, prop- "f mance. Their battle, stood upoa as erly limited, than anyxther nation upon high ground of merit as the battles of earth,'? bnt added, "ratlier than submit Lexington i and Bunker Hill, and all to the right of (legislating for; ui, as- the other battles before the4th of July, sumed by the British Parliament, would l77&renstanet ta oppression. .They lend, my hand to smk the whole islaud were the .Uaropdens and Mdneys oi pa the ocean. r America,- and they deserve a monu- Joseph Galloway, at one time Speaker raent heaven-high to their.; memory; of. the House, of Pennsylvania, on his Let no one despise the day of small examination before the House of Corn things.;, The pebble in the 'brook may mons, in a committee on American pa- rhancrn the course of the river wnicu I nere. on the slbtn -juneii aaiav anerwards nurses t harripr And floats merce, : do one ooia resoive may i tune me ume wueu uie ywyiv ncntal Congress called for 83 battallions to be enlisted for the war, and appor tioned nine to North Carolina, which were nromntlv furnished.1 The military record of North Carolina opened the 22d February. 1776, with a Bplendid and important victory at juoore s vrees. 1 Gov. Martin, burning with revenge, and Willing to regain his loste authority at anv cost, nroiected the plaii of-rous ing the Indians to masacre on the fron- oi tne river wnicn pers, on tne ioid. juneu-w 7 o. , r t inaurrpction the through mountain f Uot believe, from ew edge g&Sa'SSTS! 5??: ?vf. fcfifiSSS the royal ftandard, while mnforcemeU to the market place and there to pledge himself, under oath, to an as- semoiea muitituae, , mat ne would forego the discharge of his official functions. Such was the pervading temper of the Colony, even, while it remained in loyal allegiance to the Crown.1 The sentiment 1 of ; loyalty was never so potential with our an cestors as the love of liberty, and face, I sweDt . their country's lyre in then: ,. ook down the lone vista of the future, praise, and her most renowned orators wnrA pnosen io extoi tneir cieeas ai the national celebrations. . Pericles 1 shall not onena your .1 A. ll! . - s . 4. j i. and now I behold her progress. bhe SMS; SE3 bf. beVn cruelly wounded in tW house 1 - . - a J . 1 . J..l,. a I hAi fr anrla hut VthftafAnMl hV nri nMnnnnnod thA. AraMnn in, hfiflrtr f)f I P"Oinff lllLO L IB ireaeriii Ui wunaers tmaae ana committal rot .'(r'-:':nB X. ,n who fcu in J5rst American i EevalutionATbe, want 01 proper lorecast ana .conjnae- . rt n.,;nna tfiohintr h oea'ftbel pAlnAnMian war. and 'Demosthenes I them are consecrated ,byt song, un arms) that one-fifth of the people pad inaepenaence in view. . i In the nrovincial tJoneress. at vater- on the rushing tide of revolution, 1 1 loo, in Massachusetts," on the 26th ; of intelligence oy I April, i77o, seven uays aner ine oaiue tne jot: .Lexington, an "aaaress. to tne lnnap- change the course ; of empire. :. in a few years all the colonies were caught in the draught and were borne along were to be sent from New York by Sir HenryClinton, and. from, England un der Sir Peter Parker, and with this com bination he 'was to Isweep the colony with desolatioilandj'fettec the people with oaths of loyalty. Gen. McDonald, in execution of Jlie plan, had organized said, when defeated again and again, by the victorious legions of Sweden; that he was learning in the school of unnropiuous fortune, now to con- when by any combination of cfreum- loner the enemies of his country; stances these two great virtues of the . This is the spirit of the truly great true British subject came in conflict, our Fathers always subordinated the former to the latter. Loyalty was a virtue In their esteem only when it was rendered to agents of govern ment who themselves-respected lib erty and encouraged its sway in the measures of government and In the hearts of the people. :;a ;:-: fV A few years -subsequent " to - the events to which I have referred, the great American: family was aroused to action by other aggressions on the part of the mother country, and in the year 1773 the representative man of Massachusetts,: Josiah Qaincy, traveled on horse, back from Boston to Charleston, in South Qarolina, to confer with the leading characters in lesson .of self-restraint, the foundation of alt true virtue) and improving upon her true followers the restrictions of law, fundamental inviolable law ; warn ing them with an earnestness, inspired by her own bitter experience, to be ware of the seductive charms of licen tiousness and fanaticism two ; spirits bearing some resemblance, to herself but always found to be sooner or later ny, injustice and oppfession that now . hnnmrlnrlrlv hrnoflirKF nvpr th- fn-1 Works. ; And now .from ;thlS View .1 nangsoarKiy Drooaing over tne iu r . haMnAmnuHnn of h To th trnlv virtnons. tne trniv ." " v .r- r m OBt of 1 itants of Great Britain" was adopted, ai I UIU our-jvujwsweieisu , jjuv i - . ... . . . ,,A . ronia. r The wht.la line ofJewish his- ery Act, tbe.Tea.Dutyi and the Boston sess to be his loyal ana autrnu eupiect ; - , x. n'aU r, Tnlijlottll pronounced a similar oration in honor of those who fell in the battle of Cb- tion. and history. 'Passing over tne discussion of the Statu p Act. th e FiBh DBt OiiitantS OI ureat uniam " waa auopveu, i :i.UY,Sr indToinpi and toadU conteining the following passage t,They about l,oW Highlanders ana.iories, aiw T-l7;tii,-tJ, I attempted to form a junction with the wp ros-1 expected forces at Wilmington (the British Ministry) have not detdched -r. 1 .V 1 1 i us trom our Jtoyai sovereign j He of every- age, and to such alone the world may look with hope for final redemption, regeneration ana aisen thrallment from every form of tyran I Port Rill I nause onlv to remark that. I and so hardly dealt with as we j nave t . ... . .1 1 - i r T ft. It k ...... I I. ..a Bll MfllllT - with liVi an jubilees. mountains Gerezim, Bmai and Calvary,' Beth ie- rest, was tne yigauo. . TT marched to the assault witW claymores in- thu revolution, the colonial states the Provisional Congress signed a peti- ?. tT..m.ie S ?2 a auars, ana who,, sacrmces ;iu i nccwiuug w . uvivi, u. . .v v v", . " I txpnrhed on thp oti . i .l i.u I Tti,fnnAn,lflnAa li fa ths trroat. nvnra or I trrninA rrt npipnn ni neisoo. mnuiv. I . T. .,.,auw:nw,; "W)mW .r:iz: I rrjirZICIi,' v: creek, "uncovered tu , village, and cities tweame tbentryjaarpMy," edthi sleeera with a ,-:.t'i'ki...... vk.i .Bnii r.hA riAai cnrincr wnifn-cfiinretL mi buc i i)iiicu(duu auu - iiiwiui . vv uuiuuo . . . ana awaitea tne Creek by Cols. Caswell and". Lillihgton posite side oi the te briusre ana ereas soap, and, tallow " charge.' 5 .Thef ,nemjr ture. great, a fall is the cause of a high re- nouna, ana real elevation or cnarac ter is often obtained in consequence of what appears to be a total, irreme dable overthrow. There are recollec-. tions connected with the evil fortunes of our erlorious "Sunny South'? which assuredly in due time will illustrate the truth of what I now say. De feated in our efforts to maintain invi olate the principles of government in herited from our ratners, tnose pnn- the South as to the measures proper ciples precious in themselves do now to be adopted In view of' the ap-1 and will forever hereafter stand in- proachlng crisis." In the course , of dissolubly . associated in our hearts history , and , the hopes of our loved Southern land. Peopled, for the most part, by the descendants of the noblest classes of the Old World, the inhabi tants of the States once 6tyled . 'Con federate." have ever ?been character ized by the highest qualities, of -man. Honor with them is a deified imper sonation before which they : deyoutly bow ; its - - . , , . :; ''Slightest always give them pauses" - . ,. -. ' Ihey forbear all side pretences - . 1 , And resolutely keep its laws '- . u ncanng consequences," - hem and Jerusalem; all rise fresh be fore our memories. Even the floods of praise which dashed from the barp of David were but the memorial songs that journey, he stopped and so journed. for several days with Corne lius Harnett, at his beautiful resi dence t Hilton, on the Cape Fear river. In Harnett he found a man of soul congenial with his owna true and dauntless patriot, ready for ser with the sacred memory of our sons who fought and bled and died in their defence. - Though our armies were vastly outnumbered by those of Our foes, and by this disparity we were finally forced to yield, our gal lant soldiery won on so many fields ' Cultivated and refined, the Southern gentleman was ip days of our prospe manv ne aa .r. t. - 1:. - 1. i 1 . 1 " z r31Z"i -iIiZZ I venity ne is aa conspicuous lur u is vicem ui wumiuuiuelm auy P 01 giorv as to give tnem a just ciaim fortitude as he was. for the graces sition which , might - be assigned to the honors of triumph.; -And now, hich dignified andVdorned him when Wm;AV?A!l"?;??2-?' while thev sleep in graves bedewed Turrouned with all the luxuries and ?r")J' wilLlP!IW: ?I:leiiJSolJ,erevreir refined indulgences which wealth af- . . j3.r; rf ." - ( 1 wives, miw .wmhi- uu unuguitrrs, frtttl,-. Our afitmnn ; n t mi nut Mamh 1771 tha Knernn ln unrl nihlnh au' onnnolltf via44v4 anH I . - ----- - F - readornea by fresh token or unfailing her deeds, yet they have not been em- lilaKonprl to thA world, nor tha cp.np.rn- nty a prince of generous hospitality. tion8 imbued with their teaching.- Ai His home was the attractive resort of the nurseries of the land ought to be all who , deligkted in innocent, and made vocai with Carolina's songs, and rational enjoyment of social life, and jiaT0Qiie orators ought to make them bis entertainments were, equally em- in scholastic declamation in the lying vuuuuu auu oouy. u uw f u- one hundred and forty thousand tug ; wig. I fl! viuhm, M.v.yw.y M.-, , - C3 1 ,1 men und patriots were, too sagacious I tion to the King, stating that "they have to h Hppfii ved ? bv 1 the devices of the I not raised armies with- the ambitious of his nation. 1 Then this celebration British Parliament and the macbina- design of separating from Great Britain, has a far nobler aim 'than tne mere I sums oi tne iury.::-..uiwwy.w wuiB i mu raiwiioiuusujuuuvB.,, pastime of an hour. , . I . theThird. George the Third, with evidences might be multiplied to he And while we have gathered around these old altars of freedom, and hoist ed the flood-gates of our joys, we should not fail to be inspired with the anHHniA virtues of our fnthprs. J The "Old North SUte',' has, treasures of 1 George the Third his American, color hiatnrir which, to thvnnt.rwn rid. have i nies. - The eround texts of the Ameri- long been imbedded in her own bosom, can colonies were: ft"lfo taxation wttt like the ; rich ores of her moun- out representation." ' Resistance tqtyran tains - A nd whil hr hisloriana have Ml is obedience to God." AH the COlo- not been idle in earner ine up many of nies were now burning with resistance. an obstinacy tinea u&led bvhis-tvranny. I same effect. - Nono of these iiad the nersisted in a nolicv which, according Irinsr of the old Mecklenburg Declara- to James Otis,,'cost one King of Jing land his bead and another his throne, and the" bugle; but they soon recoiled from the eallinff fire which swept the bridge. In, turn, tlie v.patrioU charged across thereck,V-The work was- short and the most complete. The loss of the eiicnry was 60 killed, wounded and miss ing, 850 prisoners, including the Gene- ot theoia AiecKienourg yeciara- "'p'' . " kTiT i the fo lowing, m auauion touiepi but they show the fact tha P to raT- '(XXl m 'PfVhi e- J-,,' the brhtOnf rfeCdcraiHl th Julyfl776,theContin?talwas TOMmuSi tion. fee 4th July, t " 1 Jl J ; . l aW AMnr I r m Mnj-I tnii trxi wz-rl wi-ld rt- mniTflTA1 ana it roay ue jauueu, r uiw was wagwiw 1CU'CKI ;-.r ,;ut in.r ),..mnn;v. i ff1 . , .1. . i I 1 iL i: The news of. the battle of Lexington resounded from NovaScotia to Florida. It was borua by. relays of heralds, day and night, all along the coast of the Atlantic, and from the coast to the mountains. The Ailehganies shouted it to the Cumberland, awakening the settlers on the Watauga, and sending and not lorimdenendencermnus it-is clear that the morning star of American - Independence tirst rose upon the; field of Mecklenburg. But some have gone so far as to doubt the main fact of the Mecklenburg Declaration. .The origin! of this historical scepticism is perhaps traceable to the letter, of Mr. Jefferson of July 9th; 1819, in reply to the letter of Mr. jonn Aaams, m wnicn ne says : j "I believe it is spurious." Mr." Jefferson i did not denv the fact, but he did not believe it However great his fame for statesmanship and knowledge hie, ln- of that tuni la the" tide of' success tliat . terminated the re vol lionary war with. independence. v ' i - The campaign oi 101 opeueu un me 7. Januarv. with the splendid yietoryr . of Gen. Morgan over the insolent -Tarl- ton at the Cowpens. un tne ioui war, following Green and Cornwallis met" at , Guilford and fought one of the most important battles ,ot tno nevoiution , Green retired,, but Cornwallis ;went ' staggering from . the held puxsuexti by Green--rr.wU3U(tTefnaingi.'.fightir Green carnud the war into fcoutli. baro-j lina, to break up the enemy's posts in detachments,' while -Cornwallis contin uedhw retreat feiJViinangton. ft Findiner-the colony too hot for hnu. he was next seen bending hisway on a marcn or ami mpes iowm ji nuimn limping along-the- 'Coast like- Milton's fallen spirit "oyer tlie burninganarle" With his army flag ellated intoV shreds ; in his own language, '.'his cavalry want c4 everjT thing, and' hi-i "infantrpj eiyf thing but shoes." . Ly,Wc find herethat it Ua physical invf possibility to get the. conclusion of this eloquent address jih tj pe, m time for the mails and it necessarily postponed until to-morrow?" .-fik- ' :"v When.Mrt Bright had finislicn his ad dress, and after the band had discours ed: atheraif j lond and Repeated calls were made for Gov, Hendricks. This gentleman had retired from the stand, however, and it was only when this fact ' was iinnouhced by the presiding officer featthferowcilwas tsatisfiedov. Vance was tfien called for,: and no re fusal would be, taken. 'Jfq was fon-ed forward and inayeryi graceftd mannci djchned to make; 4t)lcii (ieo pfe croxdarpiiiibfiaiia ght of, produced an Enthusiasm which found vent in rapturous applause. Tlie : plat form "which had been erected for the Loccasion is a plain wooden structure, of gool size. It was adorned,' m, iryut, with S flowerSi wreaths" of everccus, jiioroetsiesl$; tcp ;Cji piotaWe orna ment was a wtipa)tliUbnip08ed bf Ikix wood and other evergreens, taken froiii theV'gravp'.bf. Washington -at Mount .Vernon. ' rUQMIN PEOPLCw, On the stand there were quite a num ber of prominent persomrges. Wo note the following, in addition ' to the presid- U-hicf In March, 1774, the Boston Post Bill was adopted by , Parliament, which interdicted all commercial in- schools and colleges in the land. It is too true that all our Southern States have indulged . in a literary atunefdtion whilp other Rtatoa havn fumiahpfl our ochool and nnntprv Htp-1 ine :citv. in memory of the battle- rntnrp in which, with nxriiaA.blp vftnitv I erouna wnicn nao., ueen uousecraieu fired the hopes and roused the indigna tion of the peoplebroke up the for midable : combination of Highlanders and Tories sent the expected reinforeet men ts - dejected and disconcerted .to another destination, But this was not all. Tlie people now wanted no reconciliation with- e King who had shown himself de8fitiief4iii--f manity by sanctioning a scheme to give their wdmen and children to the toma hawk of the Savage -their houses to the torch of the incendiary, nd ; who could wash his feet in the blood of his sub- ttleHrround of Alamance holy , ground, and the blood were sanctified in the affec- I . - Al i ' J . XI 1 1 .nM hTO maP. th Hafls of Contrress P.lon.8 lue ff1 1 "av empuasaeu 1 1 t.. tA.An r. fha' hnnf.M I .....hlir nV, ,niM nnf hA ai-Kc-fl1tAl fnil . -r.- . :s ivi...ii,.L. i;i.M I iects." ;xne Da 01 JSveniucay,-wao,sun,;vrw5ivuig- m bci.;-me suue icuuu. j ppiivuio - n, u -L,mA . " j ...:..nni i. r.--1 .nu ir. v,; r-f x I now ueMuiie news. DlWeUitueur UUiuuiK-Kiuuiiu hi iur. AUluua, i"k oniu ui uio w , . x . .u r d.;0v. I -c t- , uktuj i t I oi its neroes AueXUIITLUII. 11 U W lUfJ DUO V m uvuiiou-' I JJir. jruusuu. 11 X uou itvidootov. v, were ever in the lead in our national I hw hvp r.intd thA - thrilling inpU 1 bv the blocd of the patriots, councils. Our orators, from. the days funt. nf thir own hfatorv-: -. Tt tim I ; , Unon receiving the news, the 4" 1 1 V vwa tAH irr rvi flia'.i.! t . m . ... . .. I XT n 1 V. A A-wmra t r. n.fm. i xi " f . ? . r wuhui.. uui yiu, iiuui .um lonuinT incir own niatni'v. . it nma i . , uduu reucivuic un; ? ucno, uis ij wiuca xuiruicieu nn cuuiuiercuti in-1 iove, tney are exercising a constant, i f ,h fira..kn. r)pmnthnM buve " v " " : z " ' ry.T.ur u.Qm,i f-om thp tercoursewithBton the landing and shipping any goods at that place. ..This was a measure of countrymen. The glory of ourlances- tors is thus combined with that of our always borne away from air com peti tors the palm of true logic and soul stirring eloquence. Our poets have sung brows, and adorninsr them with the bavs and the laurels. We have deeds I vention on ; the and heroes that are worth v; ol . the their session 19th,- and continued into the 20th May, 1775; echo and re-echo with it fifteen months before your Declaration- of Indepen dence." ' - " ' .' But while Mr. Adams would thus have "sune the glories of Mecklenburg, his own .Provincial Congress, as shown I before, would have Keen singing loyalty; the battle of Moore's Creek, because it was fc pivot on Which the fate of North Carolina was poised, and probably with hers the fate of all the colonies. But to proceed. V The voice of . Meck lenburg now became the voice of the whole colony, and the voice of the colo- tyranny, and worked cruel oppression sons, and the light they iointly give "JZi r as everfiowed !from aD(I hKfl? rtr" wortbf 1 .OI SpVveto the worldthe SSh KinVith buTnoSi 1 y 8O0n became the voice of the.United to the neonle'Of that citv bnt it se to pnida ni4n the future i m nnima- , ralJ 8 'as . 8wee,taa, ever nowea rom tongue of a Demosthenes and theharp on which day they gave to tne woria tne to the BntisnKang. ,iitn out poor m- rU -.uu TYropliimpdhp'ITnitjd wi ine peopie oi mat uq , m n se-1 TO game USin .ineiaiare is as amma-1 the fountains of Helcion or Parnassus. r .fn..m. rl v4fahm ntLmtian of Tndtmendenee. I KHm far AonAcHnir and nreservine the I k0108! wmcn Tocuimea .we umtea cured them the; generous sympathy of all true Hearts in tne colonies. When the news of its passage was re ceived in Virginia, the House of Bur gesses of that Province was in sps sioni and in view of the offensive measure they proclaimed ; a general fast, and the first day of June, 1774, was .observed throughout the Old Dominion as ai day 6f fasting, humili-" ation and prayer- i& God Vthat he" would avert the evils that threatened our country, and especially that ,He would give them one heart and one I the fountains of Helcion or Parnassus. Our historians have written with the truthfulness and elegance of the lust of that class of, writers. Oar profes aional walks are adorned with many men of learning and" great social' ac complishments. Our women are as pore, as intelligent, as patriotic and as beautiful as ever won the hearts and sweeten the; homes of men.. Our ting in its effects as it is brilliant in its rays. ; Oh 1 who can "visit! one of the silent cities, where our heroic children sleep, and not feel his spirit Stirred within him. and all the ele ments of his better and higher nature called into action. Summoned - by their country, they obeyed the call, and for the cause of rightful govern- men, in seiiruevouon mey ie, ana veom.nr arft . Pna -s eve- at0od in hS?eihnVr 'H adamantfne strengh the bulwark -of holiest eeputehres of our land, to thele coUntry. in6loe past we have which patrijts will henceferth resort nothin to Jbe ashamed of. We lost to increase the ardor of patriotism. i:wr-.. :.u u. mind as a people firmlyto oppose by as pilgrims go to the shrfnes of the tattaV not bv any fault of ours J5lmer OTJa W- saints to .obtain aidmonalervor of gSSSSik w Serehl thS contest fn vou. iigutq. t, vur jpic ui uie vape i piety, joy uiunruiiruuieui, ui arms whiPh wp wprn Aefoa.eA I.'oflrl tohphpV! vith a MIta fooUr.tr nf I , Inct nanaa hnf Ihonlr Ciri t WHICU We Were UeieaieU, sympathy with their "oppressed I we preserved our honor. ; In consist- brethren of .Boston, chartered a ves- ency with the character of the truly sel and sent them a ship load of pro- brave, we respect our adversaries for vision, to meet their wants, In that the courage and skill they displayed their , great extremity. : So ; we see In the bloody conflict. . We cherish that In the mighty crisis of our great no cowardly feeling, or purposes of Revolutionand continuously, while malice against them. Having capitu that was in progress, Massachusetts, lated in good faith, our soldiers and Virginia", and . North Carolina were our citizens have ever been disposed united, by the strongest sympathies, to abide the honorable terms of ca- and heroically struggled together for j pitulation, with no wish to renew the "It was not In mortals to command success. We did more deserved it. w " - We came out of this, 'tis true, with exhausted energies, tattered banners and worn-out garments, but covered, nevertheless, with, glory,- and even now, with all j their prestige, our gal lant foes have no men to . wboni they can point with half the pride and sat- of a Homer. But I did not. come to chide you whose patriotism and gratitude have risen to ecstacy on this occasion. Your sympathies are now in electric com-: munication with the past, and your hearts are warm with its inspiration. You are yearning to hear, and will not be wearied with even a repetition of some of the deeds of your fathers. The news of the passaeeof' too' Stamp Act fell upon North Carolina like a spark into a powder magazine,. Tne explosion ot indignation, snook the colony to its centre, while John Ashe, then Speaker ot the General Assembly, rung the articulate echo into the ear of Governor Tryon "this law will be resisted to blood and death." ': t When the sloop of war Diligence, anchored in the s Cape -Fear with stamped paper for the use of the colony, the brave men if.-Hanover and Brunswick, headed by the ' heroic Ashe and Waddell, prohibited the terrified captain . from landing the cargo; from thence they marched to MesJclenbura Declaration of Independence. This Declaration was not the child of a patriotic frenzy, which was not ex pected to outlive the paroxysm which gave it birth. It was the result of pro fonnd wisdom, sagacity and statesman ship, i. Casting their reflections,, beyond the irritating ; causes of the hour we can imagine some of the grave ques tions which pressed upon their consid eratton For example: That the Ameri can. Colonies were formerly planted as pololitical governments in a territory as large as! the whole of Europe, and that England Could not fill up the ter ritorial vaccuum in 'ages with ber dis posable population:; that there was am cilities for collecting and preserving the treasures of our revolutionary nistory, no doubt many important facts did not come to the knowledge of either Mr. Jefferson or Mr. Adams. 'A. I ? Mr. Adams, being a witness himself, in a note dated Quincy, January 1 3rd, 1817. addressed to the Editor, of Nile 1 . . tlT t Jiemster, saia : Declaration: of Independence to the na tions of the earth. The Provincial Assembly of Nort uaroima, on tne xzia. Apru, io, the first to instruct her delegates in the Continental Congress "to concur with the other colonies in declaring indepen dence." . .nJl;."-Ki VKr, irar ; Innlain Enirhshandin aen-v ; . ; -O -.M.-V Virginia,' that grand old State, lhe- the common rights of man, against I contest with our late enemies in war. who 1D BO many hard fought battles, the greatest power in ; the world. i We have soucht bv everv meana I led our sons to victory. .; Our future They were In affectionate union then, compatible with proper self respect is cheered with hope. Time is work- they should be to now. ..Each claims to make them our friends in peace, ing for our vindication. . Its develop- the honor, of having taken the lead in We 1 have offered no resistance to aients will prove tbeo,no less than the great decisive movement which constitutional government. - Weiave the guilt, of our oppressors. Already isfaction we feel in contemplation of Wilmington, beseiged. the Governor's the characters of our great , captains Palace, and extorted Irom him a pledge, And heard Troy doubled ; time will doubt at If Mr. Jefieraon and Mr. Adams could have seen the mass of testimony which and swore his Stamp Master, not to attempt the - execution of the law. Here the king, parliament, and viceroy were all defied. Here we have an act far transcending in daring the Boston Tea Party, who were disguised as . In- led to. the Declaration of ' Indepen-1 complained of wrongs and oppres-1 tne cruel wrongs we'have suffered are dians to escape identity, while here dence. If History is nof, merely what Sir Kobert Waliole said he knew it was, a lie,", then North Carolina Jias the advantage of her rivals in the contest of pre-eminence. But, how should she bear herself in view . of the high distinction? Certainly not with sel- sion, hnd. should have been untrue to our ancestors and regardless of our birthrights if we had not done so. We desire a restoration of brotherly love between the people of the two great sections of our country. The Union we wish to see restored upon the basis -;of the recognition of th fishness, nor with a spirit of dispar- j sovereignty of; the States. As Ameri- attracting the attention and provoking .1 - I I i II m ... . ine inuigaant reouse oi an gooa men at home and abroad. Our injuries will reaonna to tne gooa ot our race, and the world will not much longer" hesi tate to .pronounce sentence . of con demnation on those who have sought to place the elevated and educated white mania subjection to the government agement or depreciation of others, not I can citizens we are proud of the great-1 of the ignorant debased slaveof recent National Capital. uw vi un xMjpuoiic, ana we are rea dy whenever the government shall be administered in wisdom and In referred.to are surely worthy of hereluityi to salute its honored and star respecand high admiration. Maspa- decked ensign as - v - cnusetts has an illustrious record in thn art waa norrArmoH in i.ruin : Aaxr the parties were without disguise and known, and it was because they were known that the Governor capitulated in his castle. And yet , the fact of tumbling the tea into Boston harbor is known to every school boy in the bind, and the last celebration of the event was held in the rotunda, of the Die room for all the tides of immigra tion pouring in from Fngland, Ireland, history Scotland, ranee ana uermany, tnat B . in tne face of evidence. they all would be needed tor 6Wengtnndoubt tho fasts of-history. Lord and protection, and such were their af-1 t nn - . - " ; - AUCL r m hot whor. ntn thrnrh I -"J TOn BaiU - . .-T;.. uxU .v-v, " i a i . rve stood npon Achilles' tomh. a common uopperi , tuej ' wuiuu wuie out Americans in ; the grist:" that the 8000 . miles of - Atlantic waves which rolled between them and . the mother country would prove ; an impassable gulf to their lequal ; riglita as English men: thatJEurope had been a battle field for a century,and these wars which turned Kingdoms upside down, dreneh ed them wifli blood, and .impoverished the people, frequently extended their j sweep to the distant Colonics of the contending parties and made them the obiects of plunder and , conquest : And fresh before their eyes was the bloody history of . the ppamsn and Austrian succession, tne war between reter tne Great and uharles mhr and the seven years war instigated by Maria Theresa oT the American Kevolution, and pf the nce by a-similar diabolical scheme of establishment of our present Constitu- & ; insurrection planned by tinna. w forpvpr." WhilP thirt was Governor Dunmore, next instructed her his opinion, it was also true that facte fyfJT -i l,epCn.denCe . ?n buried to one generation, may be disin- tne lotn-Aiay. '"r ' . . ' terred by another. Archteologists are As remarked by an impartial writer, ..!T---.r-M.vi..ua..JrAKs "No members of that body (the Conti- IIUW . .r 1IXUIC1U111 i 11V ! . M uiMim.vi I . , t kates from North Carolina. The war being fully opened, the Con tinental troops of 52forth Carolina fol lowed Washingtonf along the - Hudson, through the Jerseys into Pennsylvania, and suffered with their comrades on the frozen sod of Valley Forge, t They pour ed out their blood at Germ an town and Brandy wine. s A t Germantown fell the : i-.ii .1. -1 . -.F lay .vvJ brave General -Francis. Nash, who was ly a nail cciuui v, uui biucc :v;vu-iiuit .- f K t?,i t .- . . : . - i . , i. j ,1 r I .auwiii vx viivy .. AbctLuuiitia. .. auu 111 teu, iney never wuinti imve uuuuicu ui i - i ., th Mecklenbure Declaration. With out, going into elaborate details, it may be stated that any- doubt as to the fact of the Meckienbiirg;Leclaration,'f is Regulators," and honor of whose memory the capital pf lennessee was named.. .? Her troops also marched throueh the malarial swamps of South Carolina, and ot ; tne mecKienDiirg jjeciaranon , is f ht t Camden, Hobkirk's Hill Eu fullymet and overwhelmed bythe tea- nd the cblestom , They diUon of a century; bythe official tes-; j : mtjLin th thft Kr ' boastfully but modestly, and with generous .appreciation of the exalted merits or per sisters. , The two States the past-. She is rich at the present in the resources of national wealth, In intellect; aad in learning, a noble commonwealth to which the civilized world accords, the tribute of its high est respect. . : Virginia is .the august mother of ' Jhe Flag ot the feke hearts, hopes and homes." .Should that ensign hereafter be un folded at the head of the lesions of manumission ; prosperity, and having now learned many lessons of practical wisdom we never knew before, we will use our new acquirements for the im provement of. our .common country in au toe arts and the sons of North Carolina, whether All the histories of North Carolina concur in the fact that it suffered more from the oppressions of the 'govern ment officials than any other one of the American colonies. . With but few if Ar0SkrS Gten. Rutherford to chastise the savages Province of -Georgia, and of . Governor , frnntipr Tn than iar,OTirA W rft-wSrlS Gov, Graham, Witlrinradit the BrUish ArcW under 8 miles of thisTapital (Charlotte) a n ated the scenes of the battles of rt rr 11111 iiii -m.i.ii ti in i.im ijti'iic car jfir i a r t fortherecoveryofSUesfa,myolvingAus- ri :bv the testurionyof' Capt.rJack, flil xm h VAr a onv to tho fiontinPntAl i"1 "t?..1 tt8 uuuuiiii, lr:: wf' .JT Kamsours Mills, uowans Jford, and the rV"PJrf- i:r-r town of Charlotte itself was the theatre unguuu . J' x V- of a WeU contested action between Da- tria, Russia, France," Sweeden and Po land on the one sine, ana irrussia and England on the other, and: catching in the circle of - the vortex the Colonial dependencies on the ; coast of Africa, in the East and West Indies, and the i Colonies in North America. The fron tiers of the American Uolomes were departments of bor,Hhe exceptions, all the Governors from Sir 8ul Weeding with what , was known as N orth Carolina,!; who w the Sciences. 'We 'who are William Berkley to Josiah Martin, the : French and Indian vwa.t (being the reading of the Resolut i-i-i ... j .: : 1 1 .i ' nnrt of thp Knroiipan war! which rafifpfl .i. i..f ii.. .i IKS1 hf Al?Lva8-i lllng ?m- th'e attle and th breeze; pirws: tiers is a iertue soil of cpnln. a.i.i nr Ih Xfoiff8viwmn; '?are elated with that flag in the memories ins suciaiesqi xm or in Carolina in of Southern neonla mn i Ot I I... 1 :iU 1 ' ..ii the whole country, summoned to 1?'??': f,V3" maintain onr rio-hta k , li " lUJC "u ul "erjusv Claims lipor ZZ" ? riTtus. : We-wil not object to ---w-w . MW v " AAKf UVUlili will be as prompt in rallying under it, and as brave in bearing it aloft in the i ZWarf . that constitutes, when viowea.in reference to the cause of civil liberty, one of the brightest glo ries ever kindled in all the moral heavens , Xhe ; chief wealth of each consists . In her sons, and these are jetaela, of which the three are tenants in coparcenary. Massachusetts points with pride to her Hancock, herAd? nmses; her Quinceys and her Otises. Virginia, to her all peerless and Tnaicniess cnieitam in pre-eminent singularity uiyueA wonny oi an no miration Robert E. ron,i h Vn XZrZZ??? ixl E. -Johnston and Daniel H, ne th rtSn? li "t& fTi Pd; fought of Southern people many very many, recuuecuons, oii inspiring influence. It is the flag under whieh Truxton fought h and conquered i in the old French war it is the flag which De catur and Perry and Lawrence bore victoriously on the ocean in vindica tion of r"Free Trade and - Sailors' rights,"--it is the flag .whichj waved 0ver: Jackson's troops at .New Or- leans, it is the.flag that Taylor and au peerless and Rpott nnfnrlvi in Mavimi i.-T;j aiurB' me iame,oitne v .whoandl forth otL toweS.of S Leef";StonewaIi Jackson, seemed to regard the colony but as a royal plantation, the i people but as on sens, tne true oi.iect oi erovernment us. : We'wiU not object to revive her but a source of thrift to. its. officials, glorious annals and tbereby keep&live and the sword but a sceptre. ' the sense of our filial obligations, to The clerks of the interior courts her. We can but remember her great plundered ; the ' people by extortion, contributions . to the patriotism and while the tax-gatherers, in some in- Btatesmanship of the nation through stances, stripped the farms of the work all the course of its nast historv. Nor beasts and the neonle of their annarel. .will we fail to sustain the good reputa- Smarting under such misrule, ' the nop oi ner sons ior strict obeuiepce to people sougnt rearess irom tne courts; law in all its mghtful claims. ,; - but there they were met with5 mOck- Deeply impressed with a feeling of ery. They indicted Edmund Fanning reverence for our fathers, we will irai- for extortion, but he, being one of the fate their example by laboring to pro- minions of the Gvernorj and through mote the welfare of the whole conn- the Over-awing presence of the Gover try y and In no event, ; undefno? itfum- nor at the trial, was fined only surcents, stances. Can we be .induced .to disown though convicted 40ff the - iufamous the political doctrines, or become in-offence;: j The insult rolled like a burn- different to the fame, of the venerated ing wave over the people. - All part of the European war) which raged from the heights of Abraham to the Ohio. In the line of the same reflec tion, they saw as an outgrowth of this European policy, which ' required so much blood and treasure to support the royal felons m then diversions, "with" human heads and cannon balls," that it would recoil on theirj, respective governments, and culminate in oppres sive taxation. . - , . , r They saw that they were already pur sued with . the ; fierce ; avarice of the mother country, and that the fruits of all their labor . were subsidized to sup port the extravagance; of 5 the. home- ZiVSlZ imirS ve and Tarlton's cavalry." Indeed, a J'ol7iMrM fierce partisan warfare raged all along So2TJ5SS:- - to Southern border during the .wholl rw .'ii. ii.rT ii.x t war. JNeany every road, creek Arh rt,ri? - 4ho iont . Jr bridge, ana viUage, was the scene of a struggle, and nearly every- thicket on the line of march contained an am buscade; rere present at Resolutions and heard the shouts of the enthusiastic multitude; by the able Lectures of Dr. Hawkes and Governor Swain y by the endorsement of the Historians of N orth (irolma, Martin,' Jones, .Caruthers, Williamson, Foote, and Wheeler: by the Historians Holmes and Alexander H. Stephens in their Histories of the United States; by Dillon, the Historian of Indiana in his "Historical evidence-of the . Govern ment of the United States," copying HarsJhat'H& EXcbllencyGtovrttlgcii; of North Carolina,! Gov. Hcndrickf t' Indiana; Ex-governor,, Valker of, 'ii ginia Majl: Ficklirf JbJS'. Staff of Go v. Kemper, United BjtajtesSenator fn m Nofth CaroKna,Hon;R; F Armf d, JJeutnanV' Governor of : XorthJCnr( "v. lion II LTJayJdson,' delegate from the Historical Soceitty2 of Tennesao. Col. II M Polk, of Tennesse, Mayor Ki illy, Richmond,, f?Va..: a delegation trom the - Chamber Of Commerce of Bich mondamong ithese Gen, Robt Ransom, Gen Rradlv T Johnson, of Richmond, Col JohnJI Wheeler.ot North Caro hina, JIonTKos j' Clingmant nf N. (. Hon Thos Kettle, or tne supreme Court Bench of this State, Maj A (' Avery,- of 3Iorganton, Mayor of New Berne, .Mayor iVan,JOKteien, pi. Wil mington, Dr Chas'Phillips, of Davidson College Dr O L Hunter,-- of Lincoln cou n ty M j : Job n W : Graham, of HillsboroVHon if J Moses, , uniet Jus tice of South Carolina. Gen D H Hill, and Ex-Gov Vance, .of Charl otte, and others whose names are not now lit hand. THE , BAUBECTE. After the addresses tBe invited guests, dis- tingulbbed genUemen; Military, Fire, Musi cal organizations &c,v adjourned to Flo ral-Hall where : ' sumptuous repas; was prepared. Only -some twelve or fiftef n hundred could -be aocom'ruodated at or.e time bat two thousand 'persons 4b all wire lea, ana oq we ueani uu coiupiuiuio its pic iam, they: were filled. Toasts being in or der, the first announced by Mayor Johnston was.' The Tfnited" States of America; our common (pountry; c, to which Gov. Hend ricks of Indiana said is -response that be had not known until be entered the door (bat he was to tpeak, bat to that toast be wee ever readyc to reepond. v His resjwnse too, he knew, would be a well received in the good Old North State as in bis own State of Indi ana. , He felt sure that in the state, wttere tbe Mecklenburg Declaration was ma le there was as great a love ot liberty and th e equal rights of 'States as in any other ami that it, was besanse tbis equality between the States ht-d not been respected that there had' been differences between the States. GovUHendricks exensed himself from furthe speaking at this time. He was heartily and enthusiastically received. . The , Mayor an -nounceJ that owing to the crowded condi tion of the Hall the other toasts' would not be given ont. General Bradley T. Johnson of Richmond Va, was loudly called for and made a few. remarks in retponse. He alludtd to the fact that North Carolina, had urnish -ed the first rebels on the American conti nent, and said he believed that the North Carolina rebels of "1801 were as true friends to liberty and constitutional government as the North Carolina rebels of . 1775. . Gov. Brogden then dismisse 1 the Masters with a few felicitous remarks at the close of which three cheers were given for the Governor of North Carolina. -o if 'Xs ' '-y-- i ,-. .4 y'-,, - I And her heroic wbmeri! were hot be hind m the sacred cause. ; Thev. too. made a Declaration of Independence and pledged then sacred honor to spurn every; kneeler at the ?shrine of beauty who-- would . not defend his country Against the ravages of ;the Scovilite Tor nes. lrue to their devotion! in he darkest hours of the ' struggle, their hands were nourine oil-into the flicker- Chief Justice Nicholson of Tennessee in mg lamp of liberty. ; . his eulogy on the late President: Polk; I ln the first years of the war our arms hv thA Toislatiirfi of TfiimMsee! bv the had a gilding of success, but in the lat- great Historian - Washingfon , Irving in j ter year they were drooping with dis- government. They saw the home-gov- j his life of Washington; by the masterly aster narieston ana eavannah imd ernment with one hand reaching to ber I array 1 eCincontrotversble facts by -Gov-1 fallen:and Georgia, and iSouthlCarolina East India possession, and with the I ernor Wm A. Graham; by the Celebra- otner reacning io ner American Joio- tions of a half century, by the Uenten- 1 6tarsT in the crown of hi iJt"" 1?"? "u;.IOU8n' rejoicings , her Henry, her Lees, her ZZ w UzJl - V Jenerson, Madison. Monroe mid Mo. son. - While North Carolina exulting in her.maternal felicity, points with the complacency of Cornelia to her CasweU, her Johnston, her Nash, her inuvrca, utr orevara, ner liarnett, her Howe, her Polks, her Davidsons, , her Ashes, her Waddell, her Avery, her Alexanders and her Grahams, who, as 6he believes, in the great con test for our nationality, took the lead of the maj- Uc world. , Methinks that from the "tributions of these three great iltr-1 s i formed a constellated centre f i.j-ht sufficient to ll!min and I -'.' ? r rulatinn of tho triu attainment of the rights, 's and tho trnn -l of no.. i anhood. Who cn n. . the illustrious characters I ; '"'Liwunoi-t feelings of in- V. ' V tlon' --Their light ; c ut to all the one cen-J enons naa been oamea, an tneir! ex- wbiph Jnffprunn nrla 1 ueM tne piace we now ptsHieuues eiumuteu, save ine uoa p stonooit - TdoI5I occuppy, inscribed their names upon given right to defend themselves; the very front of the Temple of Im They were familiar with the beredi morU lity in the act of Signing them ary teachings that the king and par to the first declaration . of indepen liament -were the sources of power; dence. ' , t ' F but they now resolved to" begin tt the ' Hotioi and praise to the f 8onsrof other end, and assert that the people Mecklenburg, now and; forever! And were the true sources of power. To wee netiue the craven souls who mavf weet the aggressions of, the Governor their nies for revenues, and by her ;Naviga-1 nial celebration of this-.? day, ,' with; the tion Act asserting absolute control Over one hundred rounds of the- boommg of both sections of the Union U still loved by Southern people, in spite of o.u iMitu una ucuurrea io, oestrov. .our the commerce of the . Colonies. , And I cannon and the tens of thousands who when they looked into - the breast of five crediece to- the immortal fact. their own Colony, they saw it lacerated With the expiring moments of the pres and torn with the rugged harrow of ex- ent century let every whisper of incred tortionand taxation, and in Governor utily be hushed, and let ; the door of Tryon they-eaw a scourge and a tyrant controversy be forever shut on the sub- whohad his -counterpart in Warren Jject. . .' - . , ' ' ' Hastings, 61raj)aciCTMVGoyernor .1trfk; i5nti8h. Jjiaia. : Jjouowmg - the logical 1 -nrw o mni cni- n to the tho e- We are awaitine with aminni oii. citude for the restoration of such mu tual confidence and fraternity between ib aiienaiea sections or our country as will make that flag once more the emblem of our united, prosperous and nappy nawon. ,-nenaU.with ecttacy recent tokens of the snbsid hostility on the part of the northern people, and we honor with the sin; cerest tribute of gratitude and respect, those ffmong them' who, despite the Severe trials to which their constancy has been subjected, have ever been true to us and the priuciples of their ancestors v and: cur ancestors. .Such men are always needed - to rescue sinking nations, and to tbose heroic patriots oc the -North -.posterity -will fjvsiiirij i ...... . t i . . . ;-. i . . " w national sympathies let it staiM ..- - voruiuurarounai Heaven's uessiiiflniattAnii 'M'"'' i.u i -"j v,v... nvui Wi- , it otows ptpv witn tn rentnnpa Wh&aTetetnseherLih UnA ?llMAr; W1" ,Q AP"Vi 176 .remprovl --tebiitanes; to --The 'patriot! of Mecklenburg made formidable body of the people organ, the moAerntnr, doomed; topo- absolute and unconditional reuncia- After this address, which was listed m8f "c into ; an association liticaV slavery perhaps, like Sepoys tion of aUegiance to the King. - They eatoth teteT,i?fe restricted tfeir aftegiance to frod i ' u; .M i tei4Ai3-,m l I " t.u ,us U.IUS xu. . !"v',"r; I ueneraiz uovertmenf nI.II 1 - v -T w wm mm mr 1 17 u Y I w rm. r n n I f vert wuh theprofoundest reverence, i ' - .1 place them in the category of "X o0Vf- A'he darkness U PnS8- r Ativi; i mortal as y Just cause awnv : t- fcuoi r ) ntnl mU . t lustre. ,.: i(-.'r resentments wise, consiJcrr'D -View of i . peace and good i -patriots to rcstruuv t and. to cultivate a ham said ; re now citizens,, m mentioning a snort while ago; the different States and the prominent gentlemen here, I pur posely neglected to say that Tennessee is here. This is barely more our cell -bration than her's as she is a daughter of the old North State. She is here in tne person of her soils, and? I now in troduce to you Hon. Jhn Iif.-Rriht gentleman who has occupied many positions of honor in his own State and who is now unrepresentative in. the Congress of the United States. In the midst of enthusiastic wplcom- " of '-rVluse.' 3Tr. Br'iLl.V toot l, ?eecm CF tk i -J,.:;., r-...JT -I! Countrymen and Fclfow-CUUe,, Uein- a dcsccndeiH, one ide of tll0 was,, given to them of lietrulatora. 1 out . dissonmg then? : political ' bands. Clearly distinguishing between liberty they would be regarded by the nations and licentiousness, ti.ey resolved "to of the earth as in rebellion! against the pay only auch takes as were agreeable English Government, and while they to law, and to pay no officer more than might enlist ' their sympathies, they his, legal fees." hfr-MiKttzUh could not gain their alliance. Thus cut After three year pf. .aggressionbn off from f a national future--without the one side, aud f resistance on the other, Governor Tryon marched with l-.ioy men, with artillery and banners. to-tneet the Regulators, about 2,000 of um, nnu nasiny coiiectea on the banks of the Alamance. And horo was the rirst battle-shock on the soil of an American colony in resistance to British oppression. The Regulators beaten after exhaustine their nimn. nition. leaving twenty dead and several wounded on the field. Of the rovai troopa sixty one were killed: wounded I ana missing. The Governor marched 1 1. 13 viwcnous army. through the coun jtry conlisc-iitiri property, burning ; ii'-". -cs, and itdt.ii.i,. Bering forced oaths iu -.: ':" t ti,e people. For. this fuarantee for life; liberty, - property, or omestic happiness with ho assurance of foreign aid with no star of hope, with- ' no bow of promise pointed on the lowering -future, that turned their eyes from this picture of annalline Believing that there was divinity in suc cess, with sublime faith, they land hold of that God, who goes fortn with the armies of his people," and who raises up one nation and puts down: another. Without the alliance Of. any of the na tions of the earth; they Bought the alli ance of Heaven; - They knew that Hea ven had fought for the people bf the ancient covenant with the stars and the floods, the pestilence and the' tempest With pious hands the Ark of Heaven was borne with our. armies through all were looked upon as subjugated Not a flag of resistance waved from Florida to the Norton Carolina border except one which might have been displayed in the dash of a bold Partisan. Corn wallis had matured his plan for the sub jugation of North Carolina Mai Fur- guson's command formed the left wing of the extended line which was to en compass and crush the colony. . - While the patriots were yielding to despair, an unexpected deliverance was at hand. Hearing that Furgusson threatened to cross the mountain and swoop down upon the settlers of the Western waters. those heroes of the wilderness', "some Of whom were tugatives from Alamance, rallied to the standard of Cols. Shelby and Sevier, and nni tine With Col. Camt- Koll of Virtrinin. tVihv trmt ontr tn tnsct ri i nni ' I . i r . l - . 1 ... v.-r""!'"" meioe eamenns in ineir marcn tne n-lrtTv, w;rt. f:?u rt i Ar I "ao wlue uur. armies lurougu au Sl.'t5x5-falth IU the dark vicissitudes pf the Revolution. uj oiu w coikjjc cicepi. mat wnicn was illumined by the light which flash es from the patriot's sword, i They saw no sovereign remedy for their ; direful woes, except m absolute-and uncondi tional independence. And thev were the fieet to reach ' the lick-tit "of tins great conclusion, and the First to em body it in a high resolve upon the Ame rican Continent. In full view of the gibbets of Alamance, with a full con- j.nus, neaven-imoued, tne patriots pre pared to meet the coming storm. With active zeal they soon made the colony ring with martial sounds from the coast to the mountains., - :- ' -: - ;- ' y ; ; Tlie Colonial Assenilly and a conven tion of delegates of the people met at the same place on the 4th of April, 1S75. The Assembly, by resolution, approved the celebrated report made to the Con tinental Congress in 1774. setting forth detachmentdetachmcnt8ofCols.Cleave- land and McDowell .pf North, Carolina and Col. Williams from South Caroliua. uoi xurgusson, nearmg oi tneu ap- proacn, took posiuon on,wnat ne sup posed the impregnable heights of Kings luounutiu. . j.ne patriots quicKiy encir cled the mountain, and as thev ascend ed like a contracting girdle of fire, I can imagine that a battlejcry broke " from a part of the line, "Remembeb Alamakck" The brow of the old mountain was soon blazing with a comet of flame next followed the surrender then the shout of vietorv. Alamance was revenged ana American inaepenaence .was as sured '": - v ;:.c-,:.;,v;.;' ',;; -,;:- ; Here was the first' turn-' in the tide of disaster. Tlie patriots of the whole coiony were entnttsca, tne l on os par alyzed, tho invasion of North Carolina, for the time, abandoned, and Gen. Green had time to? recruit and re-organ- lze his army. Mr. Jefferson said of this battle "It was the joyful enunciation JUST AFTER DAKK a stand having been "erected in Indc pendence Sojrare, Ae "fJentennial pro ceedingsrere' concluded there. After the music addresses were delivered by Judge Davidson, of Tennessee, Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, Gov. Hendricks of Indiana, Gov. Arance, of fins: State and city, G$v Walker'of Vir ginia:: Col. Thos. ; Polk, of Tennessee, Gens. Cox and Clingman, of this State and Col. Wm.' Johnston, Mayor of Char lotte. ; ; During ' the v intervals between the Speeches was a magnificent display offire Vtvorks, and the Centennial cele bration ctbsedTaalfhad begun and con tinued, a f glorious success.. Reports of 8oine.X)f tlie speeches at sight, and sy nopses of the others will be presented in our Sunday edition, our mechanical force being so divided that we cannot publish them. all this morning. H 7. ? SCENES AXD IKCIDETtS. - . Among those on the speakers' stand was a .venerable centenarian,' Jamei Belk wh'j was borri ,4th "of-Feb. 1765 and is consequently one hundred and ten years old.' . Mr. BeVk lives in, Union County now but .was ; formerly, a citi zen of Mecklenburg. ; He kpew many of Jh pisghldeunary characters .bflufs., county IfamilTar'y and remembers many of the incidents of the Tarr'-lfev.fcas-? been i 'married t w ce;an 1 1 jhea titer of gTcshi Id ren , his oldest daughter now rilivyij being in 1ejr -eighty-eighth yearA II v seems to be quite, hearty though he has used tobacco, from, his youth up. " : Aniongj the ' curiosities on exhibi tion was the rprr,.n.ifsion:;of that itevoiutior.ary hero, ueneraf l AieJJlB der UIHngton .at! the pistol heT' at Ihe battle of M-iore'a Creek, f .ng!)' Feb, 27th: ,177; :The cominlssiM; Colonel' i'l' th'o Continental iomy" dated ApiiJ 15th 177(5 and, isnun.hr. "C" an d is ign el' by Job n 1 1 anc -cS ""VL Speaker of rthe Continental Cot gtefV so it will Le sicii ' lie was prbmVhedf sdonas. thuews of - the actiou moore's Creek reached Thiladelpof Atf A oWf I