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BOOKS AND MAGAZINES ,' J3EFEX6E OF - THIS MECKLEN , BCRO DECLARATION OF" INDE PKNDKXCE. An exhaustive review ; of and answer to all attack oa th .-v Declaration. J37 Jamas H. Moor. . 6tone ud . Barringer Company, Charlotte. (All booksellers or from th publisher $1.50). Tb approaching celebration of th 114th anniversary of the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration, and th intention of President Taft to be pres ent on that occasion have revived lntereat in the country at large In the spirited document which fur nishes the reason for the exercises. The book before us was noticed Id this column last spring, but the occa sion seemn opportune for calling at tention to it again; and it Is the more proper so to do as several of our cop temporaries to the north and east (we are used to Palmetto sneers and Jibes) have seen fit to allude to the inci dent as a "myth." This attitude of th editorial mind finds a climax in the utterance of "The Youth's Com panion" when it speaks of the "ex ploded myth." Now, a myth In order to be classed as "exploded." must be groundless; It must have no reasonable basis of probability to rest upon. Mr. Moore In his review of all the questions connected with the paper shows at least that there Is strong reason to believe that on the 20th of May. 1775. the citizens of Meckfenburg declared themselves absolved from all allegl- il. r?"I "12 32J.. Tv . , .v. .1 V, , " In that same year, a duly authorized committee framed a form of govern ment for the county which is ex pressed In such language as to fur .1.1. . .....,, r.nn anma previous and more definite statement. , branch, and they have probably caus Spacs forbids the abstracting of Mr. ; ed many Investigators to oee their Moore's line of argument. Only some (labors and rest content with the tes f the more salient features of It can timony of the Sage of Montlcello. A be brought out in this article. The ! very brief consideration, however, of hook Is clear, impartial and quite ! the state of th colonies In that fam brlef. All who are interested In the ! ous June of 'T5 when th paper reach matter will bf well repaid for their ed Philadelphia, will show absolut treabls by a perusal of th volum. I ly and beyond possible cavil, as things First, let us run briefly over what were. It was a matter of impossibil Mr. Moore believes to hart been th ' Ity for any such paper to see the course of vnt In Mcklnburg snd light on th table of the Congress of elsewhere during that eventful spring the United Colonies. A brief dlgres and summer. Th aggression of the I slon Is necessary to stabllsh this fact. British ministry had worked the J The people of the colonies had for American colonies to a pitch of fren- some fifteen years been restless 1 un it such as the fiercest Indian bar- der the government aocorded them . . . .... 1 nil-u " kl. TViaw nan barities had failed to produce. Th seven province of the ancient Per sian empire. The colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia possessed suf ficient political aoumen to under stand that th cause of one was the cause of them all, and In every com munity men wer resolving that such things should not and would not be put .up. with. Col. Thomas Polk, commander of th Mecklenburg militia, believing that the Urn had come when it was ivmu-v tn tslia r-minnsl whit In An I culminating act of a succession of P. . jg j lit Is hard for th said opponent, to tyrannies came In the -pam: of the ( wr Itten n "an Jft.t around the fact that their paper Boston port bill, which practically re- Otis ' of the list nowhere declares ind. Issued a call, summoning each of his The news of the bloodshed at Lex companies to send rtwo delegates to , ington awaited the assembling of the meeting In Charlotte on the 19th of May. This gathering came togeth er, and while they were calmly discussing- th constitutional rights of free-born Englishmen, there cam from the North most direful news. At Lexington. Just one month before their meeting, American farmers had contested a stricken field with regular British Infantry and In the end, driven them In rout to their headquarters. , Instantly all was. confusion. There was no mor discussion of constitu tional rights. The ancestors of these men had won with Bruce at Bannock burn, and had followed the fortunes of Montrose to defeat. They were careful to observe the forms of the law while it Was time; but the "shot heard round the world" was a signal to them that the twne for action hsd arrived. A committee was appointed, declaration of their absolution from their erstwhile allegiance framed and ,' eaoptea. in order that the fabric of society should not fall In ruins, they , declared that the officers holding au thority from the Crown should con- tlnu to exercise their functions until superseded by subsequent arrange "ment; they furthermore appointed an- . other committee to frame a scheme of government for the county until such a time as this should be arranged for by th Philadelphia Congress. This committee met on the 31st and framed a set of twenty resolutions with a preamble, establishing the 'forma of English government as they . were then understood, but without de - rlvlnr their authority from the Crown. The significance of the re- lation of these two papers, that of the 10th and that of the Slst, to each . ether will be noted later. Th authors of the bold step of the 10th desired to place their action be- vam VMM 1 nn rrnii mr ni ignftin hi. and for this purpose engaged Csp- tain James Jack, of Charlotte, to ride express to that city with the docu ment and deliver It to the North Caro- . una oeiegmuon. mis uapiain jsck did, and returned later bearing a re ply to the Mecklenburgers from ; Messrs. Caswell, Hooper and Hewes, ' the aforesaid delegates. , ' Such In brief Is Mr. Moore's account of the proceedings. For each step ; ho cites his authorities whether It be . a matter of fact, or of what seems to him necessary Inference. His style is absolutely impartial; like a Judge in Ms char; to a Jury, the author - dispassionately reviews the evidence and leaves th decision to th reader. We do not believe that Messrs. Hovt, Bailey, st J.. win be convinced by his ..... TO.. ' A. nA K,,l In... jl M 1 asw -V w . v . 1 1 . u on the other hand that any sane man. after reading the passages referred to Hewes, delegates from the loyal col could possibly declare that the matter ony of North Carolina, suppressed the was settled beyond the peradventure document, and furthermore, sent ' of doubt; that there Is no evidence ' back to th turbulent Scotch-Irish of whatever In support of the genuine- Mecklenburg- a letter In which they ness Of the paper of the 20th; in a bade them "look to the reigning word, that ths City of Charlotte Is monarch of Britain as your rightful In a few days solemnly to commemo-.and lawful sovereign; dare every dan rate anxploded pnyth." ger and difficulty In support of his It Is a difficult proceeding to cull 'person, crown and dignity, and con . from the mass of evidence which Mr. ; sider every man a traitor to his King Moor has collected In support of the 'who, infringing the rights of his genuineness) of the fine old paper and American subjects attempts to Invade In refutation of attacks upon it. just those glorious principles which plac wbat It will be best to mention tn the ed him on the throne and must pre lim! ted space which can be allowed serve him there." , here. The points that may be men- This, we submit, furnishes ample tioned below are 10 no sense intended reason why th proposition never be to form a" complete wall of defense, came known to the other members of They are selected rather with the that Congress. This was the reason hope that their perusal may lead to a that John Adams could not be armed deeper study of the subject, and a with this bold example for the pur more ecu rat, appreciation of the pose of addressing his timid brethren truth of history. jin peals of thunder This was the ' First, let ns Jook into an attack, 'reason that the advocates of indepen WhJch, because .of Its exalted source, dence could not rin the glories of has caused many to accept tits view- Mecklenburg county in North Care ' pome withOst further lrtvestigation. Una tn the ears of the doubting Dick InlS19 a conUoverey arose over the inson and others. Great man Mr. Oedaratloa and United State Sena- Jefferson undoubtedly was; but the tor Nathaniel Macon, of North. Caro- lapse of forty-odd years had dimmed Una, took ths pains to delve Into the his perspective until he was utterly matter and to have the result of his oblivious to th fact that the very labors published, This article fell an- body which declared independence In der th eye. of John-Adam who. had '76 had. the summer before, mad never heard of the event before, every effort possible to prove beyond .What he thought of ft Is best told In; question their unshaken loyalty, his own words. Carefully clipping ths In this connection another charge m article, he forwards Jt to his former enemy but now good friend, Thomas Jefferson, with a letter In which oc curs the following paragraph: "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short sighted, crapulous mass is Tom Paine' 'Common Sense' la compari son with this paper? Had I known It, I would have commented Upon It from the day you entered Congress till the 4th of July, 177. The gen uine sense of America at that moment was never so well expressed before nor since." At least the stout de fender of the movement for Inde pendence was pleased with the docu ment Not so, the author of the National Declaration. We quote from his re ply to Adams: "You seem to think It genuine. I believe It spurious. When Mr. Henry's resolutions, far sh6rt of independence, flew like light ning through every paper this flam ing declaration of the same d-'e. of independent North Carolina, absolv ing It from British allegiance and ab juring ail political connection with that nation, although sent to Con gress too. is never heard of. It Is not known even a twelve-month af ter, whm a similar proposition is first made In that body. Armed with this bold example, would not you have ad dressed our timid brethren In peals of thunder, on their tardy fears? Would not every advocate of Inde pendence have rung the glories of Mecklenburg county In North Caroline in the ears of the doubting UlCKin -on and others who hung so heavily upon us? Yet the example of inde- pendent Mecklenburg county in North Carolina was never once quoted." At a superficial glance these re marks of Jefferson would seem to dis- Dose of our document root and "y various om .u.i.ct.. thuslaatlc applause as Patrick Henry voiced their views in burning worcm. The Stamp Act a little later, incited them to riot and pillage, to banding together for mutual defense and the forswearing of tea-drinking. The Boston Massacre still later shocked and. distressed tbem. But no one of these nor all of them put together, had brought their minds to the point ! of calmly accepting a separation from the mother country, mriucn ies 01 nahtina' to obtain it. Second Continental Congress a few days before the Mecklenburg meet ings; and that fight started men to thinking in the direction of indepen dence; who had never a conception In that direction before. But thingB were in an unsettled condition. Even had all the colonies at that time desired independence it would have required a great while, 6wlng to the then means of communication to have se cured the co-operation so rssentlally necceseary to the successful achieve ment of the enterprise. Consequent ly the earliest efforts of the Ameri can leaders In their second great assemblage were directed towards a reconciliation with Great Britain. The wisest of them were determined that the actions of the British ministry should never be tamely submitted to. But the ancient British constitution laid the blame for all mistakes made by the British authorities upon the shoulders of the King's ministers and held Inviolate the principle that "the King can do no wrong." It was on this principle that the colonists based their appeal to George III.; their lan guage at this time was couched in the most loyal terms toward his majes ty, and was filled with bitter com plaint against his servants In the Cab inet. It was not until the Americans discovered that George the Third was the soul of the British aggressions, that even when the most bitterly ty rannical of his advisers counseled him to give way, he held to his course, that they decided to take the Irrev ocable step and make themselves In dependent In the early days of that fair June when Captain Jack reached Philadel phia with the document entrusted to his care, the Congress was engaged In framing the famous "Olive Branch" petition. In which they Indignantly denied that they were aiming at in dependence, and declared In most un equlvocable terms that they were ab solutely loyal. No members of. Con gress were more deeply imbued with the sentiment of peace and reconcil iation than were the North Carolina delegates. Imagine their horror. If you can, when their eyes lighted up on the firebrand sent them by their constituents. Just when there seem ed to be a fair prospect of the storm's blowing over, this very treasonable document came to give the lie to all their protestations. Congress declar ing its loyalty; the people declaring their Independence; a fine Idea of I American consistency the world would gather from all this! Lay such a document on the table of Congress? Not If they knew themselves! so Messrs.1 Hooper, uasweu ana may be mentioned; via., . that th Mecklenburg Declaration p'.xg'arlies from JefTerson'a, - In sv most earsfttl and scholarly analyel sot th two, oar author demonstrate th fact that th nhraaes common 'to both Wr ! certainly original with neither, but wer the common phraseology ox me common people. These last wer loud in their cries for Independence long before their leaders put a thought upon the matter. This arose doubt less from th fact that ths responsi bility for the mov must rest upon the shoulders of the Congress and that If it proved to be a wrong step the humbler folk would not suffer there for. This part of th Iittl volum before us is extremely able and con vincing. Take, furthermore, the language of the two papers, adopted by the Meckienburgers In May, '75. The sec ond nowhere distinctly declares Inde pendence, but In every paragraph as sumes It is an accomplished fact. What more natural than to explain thi otherwise Inexplicable omission from the later paper, on th ground that every one knew that indepor oence nad been declared eleven days before, and that It was therefor out of place to repeat such a declaration? It seems that the opponents of genuineness -of the paper of the JOth have here a somewhat difficult nut to crack. Among the many Interesting fee tures as 1 yet unmentloned, lack of space compels us to mention but a single one. In 104 there was dis covered In the archives of the Mora vian church at Bethanla. a most In teresting bit of evidence. This rec ord was kept by Traujott Bagge. and purported t ocover public events of In terest to the Moravians down to 177t. In It we read under the year 177S a paragraph the translation of which is as follows: "I cannot leave unmentloned at the end of the 175th year that already In the summer of this year, that Is In May. June or July, th County of Mecklenburg In North Carolina de clared Itself free and Independent of England, and made such arrange ments for the administration of the laws among themselves, as later the Continental Congress made for all. This C.. Agress considered these pro ceedings Immature." Attention should hare be given to th fact that the contemporary an nalist states that the Mecklenburgeri both declared themselves free and framed for themselves an arrange ment for the administration of gov ernment. The opponents of the Dec laration tell us that these phrases both refer to the document of the J 1st ot May and offer no support to th pa per of the 29th. Apart from th un natural Interpretation of plain, sim ple language necessitated by this view, what Bagge tells us was done. Obvt ously Bagg had In mind both papers, describing the earlier In his first clause and the later In the second. On of th most Interesting sec tions of the "Defense" Is devoted to John MoKnltt Alexander's rough notes descriptive of the event. These are given, verbatim, Interlineations, mistakes in grammar, errors In names and all; together with an ex haustive and scholarly analysis of the evidence they furnish. The Davt copy and various charges of forgery are dealt with In another chapter con clusively, while both the famous documents are given In full and their contents examined minutely. To the 20th century citizens of Charlotte these revolutionary days seem scarcely closer than those of Nero or Alexander. And yet when they see the enormous stand In front of the court house, when they walk under the beautiful arches that will shortly span our streets, when they hear the President of the most wealthy and powerful nation on the planet speak from the spot on which this deed was done generations ago, It will be Strang If a sensation of ennobling warmth does not creep about their hearts, a proud flush mount to their brows; when In days to come, the little ones gather around the fireside it will be strange Indeed If this old story, which is true. Is not related to the generation follow ing, by them in turn to be handed down to those yet to come. For It Is by examples such as that of those Mecklenburg farmers on that far away day, that each succeeding gen eration Is Inspired "to strive, to seek, to -And, and not to yield." 54-40 OR FIGHT. By Emerson Hough, author of "The Mississippi Bubble." With Illustrations by Arthur L. Keller. The Bobbs-Merrlll Co. In dianapolis. (Stone & Barrlnger Co., $1.60). The title of this novel Is taken from the Democratic slogan In the cam paign of 1844, which resulted In th election of James K. Polk to the pres idency of the United States. Its signi ficance was that the Unitel States would make good Its claim to the Ore gon country as far North as 54 de grees and 40 minutes or wage a third war with Great Britain, which claim ed the same territory. After the elec tion had been carried, it was discov ered that Uncle Sam was so Involved with his Mexican neighbor on the southwest as not to be able to spare any troops for fighting on the Cana dian border; consequently a compro- dary established at te forty-ninth noise was made and the Oregon boun for it he deserves the thanks of hli" Whoa-Haw Trail" and "Oregon." and around the means by which this com promise was effecteJ. Ta the mind of this reviewer, th present volume Is a distinct advance upon 'xne Mississippi Bubble." Its characters appear more life-like, its parallel or lauiuae wnere 11 is at tnis erly constructed romance woven plot is very much better constructed and most Important of all. the author has found a subject which excites his deepest enthusiasm. The conquest of the Far West by the American pion eer Is a matter to inspire the most stolid soul, and while we cannot go so far as th author does when he declare that it surpasses the march of th Ten Thousand, and. equals the migration of the Germans In historic Importance, none the less his enthus iasm in describing it is quite under standable. In the middle of his story he digresses to paint the most vivid picture we have met with of the car avans crossing the plains and enter ing into possession of the Oregon country. Jt cannot be gainsaid that this breaks the continuity of th story most palpably, but with what a resul tant a-ain! The reader has hi atten tion distracted -from the Intrtgu of cabinets and diplomats for a moment to haveit fixed on one of th mvst significant and thrilling movements of the nineteenth century. It is the very philosophy of history that Mr. Hough gives us in the chapters entitled The readers no leas than for his charm ing story. . The loye story ta the hook Is rather uncsual. The heroin is sn European adventuress who Is a diplomatic spy In the pay of Great Britain. The here Is John C Calhoun's private secretary. He Is on the eve of being married She, ea the contrary, conceives for him one of those passions as rare as oeau tiful, which befflnnlns; with a fierce jealousy of bis finances, ends with ris ing to each a height of noble unsel fishness as to become her salvation. Sueb a theme could feardlr fail to ai ferd scope for genuine romance, and genuine romance It is which Wit. Hough presents. Two things on ths political sia of ths work merit attsation. Ths first Is the powerful picture drawn of John C Calhoun. Scant justice has poster ity done the Great Nulllfler, and w believe that work such as this will aid in rehabilitating his reputation with the people at large; with ths stu dent of American history It has sever suffered. Ths other Is ih very un flattering account given of President Polk. It is evident that the author ha taken a leaf from the book of a certain august personage at present hunting big game, in his view of this statesman. It Is quit as unjust as on historical. ' Ons point remains to be mentioned. At the head of the chapters, th au thor has run a series of quotations, all dealing with th powerful, though obscure Influence of the gentler sex upon the making; of history. Th thought Is far from original, but It is profoundly true, and not unlikely to be underestimated In one's view of any particular period. ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL. Cloor Brother Make Good Use of a JF1I. Statesvllle "Landmark. " The Cloer brothers made another attempt to saw out of their cell this week. Wednesday afternoon a fellow-prisoner reported to Mrs Con nelly, th Jailer, that the Cloers had a small saw with which they were trying to saw out and Sheriff Deaton was notified. The sheriff found that the prisoners had succeeded In saw ing in two th chain which has held them to th floor since they have been shackled, and had also sawed one of the bars of the cell. The cell was searched thoroughly but the saw could not be found and the Cloers refused to tell where it Is. Heavier shackles hav been placed on them snd Mr. Bruce Lelnster will guard their cell until after court. The River Hudson. Puck. The Hudson river consists of two strips of advertisements as far as the eye can reach. Inclosing a body of water filled with tugboats, microbes, and floating folks , of other descrip tions. Henry Hudson first discovered this famous river on his wsy to Troy to leave his collars and cuffs to be laun dered after a long sea voyage. Stepping ashore at the foot of Twenty-third street he gave orders to put up a city that for magnificence and corruption should never be equal ed, and then he passed to West Point, started a parade ground, and then rested at Albany, where he opened the bureau of franchises, otherwise known as the State Legislature. No doubt In the near futur the Hudson will be used as a race course for aeroplanes. At present It 1 oc cupied with the duty of keeping New Jersey apart from New York. Presume the Hisher Motive. Warrenton Record. If the President has In mind the elevation of the Federal Judiciary of the State, and the removal of It as far as possible from partisan politics he is to be commended for the Demo cratic appointments he Is making to these positions, but If he is doing it In order to try and build up a strong Republican party In the South, why his actions are liable to severe criti cism and will be resented by the true men of the Southland. Depends on Who's Boss. 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