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want, and with the latest styles of Type, and every
manner of Job Printing can now 1m done with
neatness, dispatch and cheapness. We can furn
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LAoerai ueaucnonaor Outfit,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.v THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1880.
NO. 3,430.
iflii,
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A BEAUTIFUL
LINE OF BLACK AND COLORED
All Wool Buntings.
Also, a nice lino of
Barred Nainsooks
VERY CHEAP
:o:-
WE WILL SELL
HOSIERY
and several otner lines of goods VERT CHEAP
FjR thb next
TWENTY DAYS.
call and see us.
ALEXANDER & HARRIS.
feb. 24.
gtfirts and Mxozb.
STOCK
COMPLETED!
OUR FALL STOCK OF
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS
AND
TRUNK
Is now Complete. We arejletermined to sustain
our former reputation for selling
THE BEST BRANDS
Of goods, which everyj sensible person,' knor; Is
the cheapest In the end. Please oall and see us
before buying. fW We will deal fairly and hon
estly with you.
PEGRAM & CO.
Oct. 10, 1879.
Democrat and Home copy. .
TAKE NOTICE ! !
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Havlng left a few days ago for the East and
North to purchase my
SPRING STOCK OF
BOOTS, QHOES, TTATS, rpRUNK.
OOTS, OHOE3, JtlATS, BUNKS,
VALISES, ETC.,
OF ALL BEST MAKES AND QUALITIES,
I therefore offer my
Heavy Goods on Hand
CHEAPER g3 EVER.
GIVE MS A CALL AND B CONVINCED.
Respectfully,
L.ABIEL.
oo&sf GlothiUQ, Set
FIRST OF THE
SEASON!
p- S. Having connected myself with the above
house, I am sure that my old friends and custom
ers can be better stilted and for less money than
at any other house In the city.
feb-7 S. FRANKENTHAL.
R. GEO. W. GRAHAM,
Charlottb, N. C,
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'if
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of this class, and we confidently expect the patron
age of all who desire only first-class work in our
line. v GEaA;AINSLIE&SONS.
an2-lm , i
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iTF NEWARK, N. J., well known to the people of
V Charlotte, will be in tne city asont tn loin 01
February,
RortriB' Wi
of work, and Vespectlully asks his friends to hpl
their orders for him. Feb. 18. dtt
orith a ria.nd.ioma line of eooda .lor-
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KING'S MOUNTAIN.
SPEECH OF COl,. XHO.TI AS HARDEMAN,
Delivered on the Occasion: of the Pre
liminary Celebration Held at King's
Mountain, February 21st, 1SSO.
"VVe stand to-day upon soil hallowed
by revolutionary memories, while the
history of the struggles and triumphs
of our patriot fathers, who struck here
a decisive blow for American indepen
dence, stirs our blood and fires our
bosoms. The same mountain rises be
fore us. The same valleys gladden us
with their beauty and their, freshness.
The same heavens circle us with their
curtains of blue. The same sun lights
the empyrean ; but all else hoW chang
ed. The forest has fallen under the
the stroke of the pioneer. The "aged
munificence of nature" has succumbed
to the power of "youthful civilization."
The wild beasts have abandoned their in
vaded homes for more undisturbed re
treats, and the harvest fields,- the smil
ing village, the school house,
the college and the churches of Zion,
evidence the pi-ogress' of civilization,
the diffusion of knowledge and the tri
umphs of the cross.
The brave men, actors in that bloody
drama, they, too, have passed away. One
after one, like forest trees, they fell ;
but the memory of their deeds, the re
sult of their conflicts, the effect of their
successful struggles, will flow on, like
the rivers, in ceaseless currents, as long
as gravity controls the waters and
heaven-born inspiration sways the soul.
To inaugurate the ceremony of celebra
ting their achievements and paying
some deserving tribute to their memory
is the object of this assemblage to-day.
Sacred spot! interesting duty ! hallowed
association ! Around the cradling place
of independence, on the anniversary of
the great apos'le of freedom the im
mortal Washington have the devotees
of liberty assembled to suggest some
suitable testimonial, worthy of the he
roes of 1780, who, on this memorable
spot, gave to valor a new song, to hero
ism fresh laurels, to patriotism a richer
offering, to liberty an inalienable birth
right. It is an interesting occasion.
The present has come with grateful of
ferings to the past, who, like tearful
.Niobe, pleads for her children. Come,
ye patriots of Watauga and Nolli
chucky from Burke and Cleaveland
and Rutherford ; come, ye noble de
C3ndants of Sumter and Marion and
Rutledge; corne, ye gallant Tennessee
ans fi'oin Washington and Sullivan ;
come, my fellow-citizens from the gate
city of the South come from beside
jewel-sprayed Toccoa or from the banks
of Tallulah, the terrible come maidens
fair, beauty blooming on your cheeks
and joy filling your hearts come, ye
matrons grave, your souls fired with a
patriotism pure as the breath of early
morn come one, come all, to these con
secrated grounds, and while eye speaks
to eye and heart responds to heart, re
solve to erect here an altar suitable for
the memorial offering that will be made
on the centennial anniversay of King's
Mountain battle. Standing on this
blood-bought soil, in the presence of
these sons of freedom, with freedom's
banner waving over me, I am awed
"by the genius of the place," and my
heart of hearts is stirred to its lowest
depths as 1 commune with the spirits
of Williams and McDowell, of Shelby
and Campbell, of Seveir and Cleveland,
of Chronicle and Winston and their
brave compatriots, enthused with the
consciousness of their presence and
sheltered with the " shadow of their
wings. History has recorded their
chivalric daring, orators have eulogized
their memories, poets have embalmed
their names in song, but that mountain
height will monument their deeds when
eloquence is mute in death and the
harp of the poet hangs tuneless arid un
strung on the willows of time. Pa
tiiots of 17S0 down the corridors
of a century comes the story of your
heroism, your conflict and your victory,
and for centuries more the muse of
history will fling across the burning
strings of her harp the stirring story of
your deeds, which will sound on and on
in unbroken harmony as long as free
dom has an altar or patriotism a vie
tory. It is not that you were sh-.iken
by the storms of revolt4on-Hit 4snot
that you bared your bosomsrto the rav
ages or war and oeatn; iris not mac
you snatched liberty as a brand from
the furnace of tyranny, thaklias'guveii
your deeds to history and your names
to fame. It was your devotion to prin
ciple, that gold could not corrupt, nor
power weaken; it was yo6'unswerv
ing fidelity t6 the cause of freedom and
representative government ; it was your
heroic resolution, amid disheartening
disasters, to maintain the institutions
you had founded, of Republican gov
ernment, o.f civil and religious liberty,
and transmit them as legacies to pos
terity, that has immortalized your deeds
and engraven your names upon the tab
let of a nation's heart. Appreciating
your hardships, grate! ul for'eurwac-
Tifices enjoying the lipyooysbe-
consecrated spot, so intimately associa
ted with your memories, to evidence.
our veneration for your deeds and our
devotion to those civil and religious
privileges your heroism secured for us.
And in the performance qf ,this-dty
there should be but one sentiment in
this assembly a sentiment of fraternal
union ; but one feeling that or Ameri
canism ; tor there is not an American
heart in this presence, that is true to its
patriotic instincts, that does jnoti fiirob
with delight in contemplating the char
acter of those who achieved our inde
pendence and laid the foundations of a
governmeht which should command
"the overflowings" of patriotic gratitude
and the fealty . of patriotic devotion.
Great results flow from great achieve
ments, but no event in the world's his
tory, since the days of the reformation,
has nad a more direct ana. contmmpg
influence in the advancement of .civil
ization, in !the development of science1,
in the enlargement of commerce, and;
in the encouragement of a passion for
civil liberty and religious tolerance,
than the successful termination of the
American revolution, and the. forma
tion of a government that relieved its
citizens from the oppressions of thrones
arid from the tyranny of religious-despotism
a government based upon the
bhsetotpt'oibebple, find! fdundd ip-
on the principles or an elevated civil
ization and a pure Christianity. In ac-'
comprishing these jfesults, : in securing '
these inestimable rights, history has ac
corded a prominent part to the heroei
of King's Mountain. They were not
numbered byr V3gipn8,TTas werathe arm
ies of .Napoledn lind iWfellington, not
was this afield of Austerlitz or Water
loo, but an humble spot-' in the wild
woods of America , whet? tew hun
dred uri&adpUned .troops ; strrrck for
home and country ;and never did the
old guard of Napoleon; or the ' reserves
of Wellington 'strike with; more hero
ism, with more daring and with more
successful results. At that time, the
country; a history' was glootny antf dis
couraging: .her . armies . had been van
q'uished, Tier States overrun, her jre-i
sources exhausted and the band of pa
triots that here and there supported
her sinking fortunes were almost pow
erless, for want of resources and muni
t'ons of war, to carry on their struggle
for independence ; but inured to dan
gers and baptized with the spirit of hb
erty they clung to that country's desti
ny with a tenacity that reverses could
not shake, inat promises conld not
weaken or dangers pervert The dust
of a hundred years has not obscured
their bright reeord ; the chilling f rosts
of century have not blighted the
green glory:of their deeds, nor has the
tide of forgetf ulaess obliterated their
footprints from "the sands of time."
The sun of their existence has set, but
his power ' is stiH ' felt in the
warmth of example, calling from the
wintry bed of self-satisfied indifference
the vegetation of a pure devotion. The
fountain from which flowed the waters
of their being is dried up. but the course
of the stream it supplied is still fringed
with the flowers of an exemplary pa
trotism and fragrant with the perfume
of an unparchasable loyalty. The light
of their lives has gone down in dark
ness and in blood, butitS'' ferlcCnuU
ance" is as soft and as cheering as , the
last jjlance of the day king as.he sinks
toyest in his 2ed of stars. . -heir. entire
kiry4oiiek)f roman&o interest. For
five years the 'States had been strug
gling for independence ; for five years
their altars . had been desecrated and
their temples deserted ; for five years
the -heavens of their nationality had
been darkened by tempest and cloud,
and at no previous time in their history
had hope sang a more cheerles song or
auticipation painted a gloomier picture.
Campbell had invested and captured Sa
vannah, Augusta and Sunbury had fall
en into the hands of the enemy. Ports
mouth and Gosport with all their ves
sels had been captured. Charleston after
an unsucessf til defence, had been surren
dered to Sif Henry Clinton. Gates had
been defeated at Camden;where fell the
brave German Baron DeKalb in mak
ing his last charge for the success of a
cause he had espoused. Sumter had
been surprised and his forces scattered
and captured by Tarleton, at Fishing
Creek. British gold aud promise of Brit
ish protection had rilled the country
with tories and deserters. Ferguson
was mustering into service the loya
lists of North Carolina, Cornwallis had
advanced to Charlotteville on his march
of subjugation. Clark, of Georgia, hav
ing failed to recapture Augusta, was
compelled to beat a hasty retreat. Fer
guson sought to intercept him, but the
mountaineers of Virginia and North
Carolina thwarted his design, and he
sought a junction with Cornwallis.
Camping at Gilbert town, he issued
his proclamation to the people of Wa
tauga and Nollichucky, threatening
them with the halter if they did not es
pouse the royal cause. Vain were his
boastings, harmless his threats. Liber
ty had peopled those mountains with
men, who defied power and ridiculed
menaces. Patriot refugees from Geor
gia and the Ca' olinas were there, The
descendants of;men were there, who like
Eneas and his father Anchises, with
their families, had fled from the dangers
of their countries, that they might wor
ship their God in a happier land ; and as
on their voyage, the star of Venus stood
over them shining by day or night, till
they came to the shores of the laud of
the West, so did thetar of religious lib
erty shine over the heads of those
Scotch-Irish and Huguenots, until they
landed on this Western world, where
fate had appointed them to dwell and
where tin i: descendants had resolved to
perpetuate that liberty or die in its de
fense. These were the men that laugh
ed at a tyrant's threat and scorned a
tyrant's rope. Shelby and Sevier were
stirred with patriotic indignation
And these "mountain chiefs their bugles blew,
And fie'd and forest, dingle, cliff and dell
And solitary heath, the signal knew.
And fast the faithful claa around them drew."
No thought of danger, no fear of the
hangsman tree assuaged the storm that
stirred their souls. In their rage, they
formed the fiery cross, and bearing it
aloft it was seen in the valleys of Wa
tauga and in the forests of Nollichucky.
Among the mountains of Burke and
Rutherford, McDowell.
"Sprang forth and seized the fatal sigh."
Campbell and his Virginians saw
"the cross of fire,"
"AmJ press ng forward like (he wind
Left home and altars far beblnV
And wherever the fiery symbol flew -
"The fisherman forsook the str-lnd.
Tie swarthy smith took dirk and brand,
Wit h changed cheer the mower blithe
Lei. in the half cut swath his scythe,
The herds w thout a keeper strayed,
The plough was 'nmldfunows staid;
Prompt at the signal of alarms
Each son of freedom rushed to arms."
And as hey 'eame the signal 'cry was
heard
"Tiie muster placs In Lanilc mead
, Speed forth the snalr Cumrades speed,1"
Sycamore; school was the m uster place
arid the 25th tif Septem bef the ti me for
the gathering, and t the appointed day
the clansmen were there ready for the
battle' charge, selecting from those that
had mustered the.best material. They
began their gearjehfpr him who had
threatened them with a traitor's doom.
After a few .davs they found. him at
King's Mountain, it is not necessary
tor my purpose to puoiisn tne detail or
that engagement. Suffice it to say; their
victory was complete. Ferguson and
three hundred of his men were slain
and wounded. The remaining eight
hundred with &11 their arms and muni
tions of war fell into the hands of the
victors. Here fell Chronicle and the
brave Williams, and twenty-six of their
patriot followers. Peace to their noble
ashes Gathered to their fathers ! They
live in the history of the country they
died to save. It was a day ot triumph
for the struggling States, and one of
terror to the loyalists. Cornwallis was
deprived here of tme-fourthof his army
and with communication, threatened by
Marion and Sumter and Pickens he
fell back to Camden and abandoned his
Droiectedii.conquest ef North Carolina.
It checked the invasion of Virginia by
Gen. J.eslie, who depended upon Corn
wallis s co-operauon, :ana'itftus two
States were rescued from British sub
jugation. The day of -disaster Jhad now
closed. cornwaMnmepietedinrorces
was unable afterward to strike a deci
sive blow. Defeated at Cpwpens, pro
fiting nothing by hisvrclory at Guilford
Court House, he retreated to Washing
ton;-, then to Virginia, whereV.at' York-
town he surrendered to our own- Wash-
inaton. The storm of revolution that
had swept in such fury over the' young
Republic had now spent its force ; iaint
T J J! J il i A-lJ . i i
er anu launtj giew us mucremigs ;
more distant and less f reauent weT'e.;the
of peace was dispelling the exhausted f
clouds, and tne dow ot. .promrsevyas
arching with its splendor' the; glowing
grandeur of the retiring storm. r Happy
realization of patriotic hope and pro
phetic promise I Revolution had brought
disaster and bankruptcy and death, yet
it. had brought liberty anor indepen
dence. As the star that rose over Ju-
dea's nlam guided the wise men of . the
east until it etood over lovely Bethle-
:hem, where lay the promised Sayiortr
k?u.l "Born to set his people free"
Or the, jstar of revolution that rose
i CONCLUDED ON FOURTn PAGE -
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FEBRUARY
DiL(ii)rirmnM(H ailies
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GREAT BARGAINS ARE IN STORE
FOR those who have delayed in making their Winter Clothing purchases. We prefer to turn our Stock into Cash,
open each season with the newest designs in fabrics, and increase the solid reputation we have already achieved for
keeping in every respect a first-class Stopk, . And we have decided to clear out all heavy Goods, they are to be sold, and
we know the-oury-way to make quick and rapid work is to make a price low enough and the public, will respond. We
have had a successf hi year's business and we intend to make a clear and thorough sweep of all Winter Goods on hand.
Remember the first comesseeures the best selWion, and such inducements as we will now offer happen but a few times
in any person's ex perience. Wre never make any promises that we do not fulfill, the verifications of these facts can be
settVbn our tables: Our prices are all marked in plain figures, and we repeat again the Goods are to be sold.
E. D. LATTA & BRO.
CLOSING SALE OF FALL AND WINTER
CTatfIhmnn
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GREAT ATTRACTIONS IN FINE SUITS.
WE WILL SELL TO-DAY A SUIT WORTH, $25.00 FOR $20.00
20.00 FOft 16.50
15.00 FOR 12.50
As our Stock consists mostly of fine Goods, and principally of our own manufacture, it is to the advantage of every
purchaser, and a satisfaction to know, that if he buys a suit now that it will look as well the next season as this. We
don't throw out any baits to the public with a mere small article, but fair treatment to all, and polite attention shown to
every customer.
WE SELL ONLY FIRST-CLASS GOODS,
Notwithstanding the great advance of all Goods we will sell now at REDUCED PRICES, as we don't intend to carry
our Stock over to the next season, but will keep fresh and new styles at all times and each season.
JEP" We solicit a call from everybody, and everybody is invited.
Respectfully,
1U.
N. B. We are in receipt of Spring Samples for Spring and Summer
Fine Clothiers and Tailors.
Clothing to be made to order.
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For oQDg Men, fonths, BIovs & (Children,
0"TJSO? EBCBIVBD.
-ALSO-
A LOT OF NEW SHETLAND SHAWLS,
February 22.
at WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH'S.
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FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS, BUT FACTS ARE FACTS.
-The Liveliest Place hi Town is
SJPRIjNrGrS' CORNEE !
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And when you want to save dollars in buying CLOTHING, come to Springs' Corner, where you will get most and bo.U
for your money.- We believe in -
LARGE SALES AND LITTLE PROFITS.
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY
Men's and Boy's Clothing, at Springs' Corner.
COME AND SEE
W. KAUFMAN & CO.
Nov. 14.
-Cheapest and Best Clothing House,
Comer ol Trade and Tryon Streets.
&& GrRIER,
ONE OF THE lMiGTST AND BEST ASSORTED STOCKS OF ' .j ,! ,
; ; STAPL1S AND FANCY GROCERIES IN THE STATE.
"fose anl Prompt Trade Specially Invited,
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