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- j 4 i i it . Sri H f mi is 11.1 rrrsr ill I- 4 .. .(luii-t;-1 - r -"IIS 1 3 " W4M 7Ji .1 in DAVIS & ROBINSON "Editors and Proprietors VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE, THAT GIVES IT 'Alii. ITS TXAVQR. TERM! per Annum, in Advance. f ii ii hi ' ii ii ii ii ni w r--n i v j j. ii ni i t ni i 1 1 ti 1 1 i -X -"-" I 1 ' ' ' i -0 :;V-i;f !i:.i-'l(i ;:; "h " 4,1 riuJr ' i ) i i i ,f . - ' j t o . Neve?;Pro7e Falsetto a' Friend. . . ; , ..; Never prove; false to a rienL In love aa'd in friendaolpSq true ; Noyer prove false tQ a friend, : : . So-long as he's faithful to you. , Z, i.i-i. :. ,'; ' "' 'lie Bis v be dishonest : a knave In other opihiona : but then Tq you he Is generous and kind, And one )t the noblest of :men. ' Is an v man freo from each fault, All righteous and good in his ways? ' ' Jve A .wonlau. aOj'peifept on earth !.:ThsM cltn he'nained but in praise ? .KeVer speak ill of a friend' , .. ' To gossipers keep closed your ear ; - j Ail excelleiit rule. hi the mai; . Is to credit one. tentl JhatKyt hear. Stand bra friend in distress' n ; K . i)Thcii j ou kubVv lid is ' reallykln need ;. . :,"Vhat matter if even he fails, ; There is honor for you in the deed. That one may deceive you 'tis o ;.:Then his, not your's, the disgrace ; , - Because we find one man untrue, -: Shall wrong or distrust a ;whole race ? . Censure a man for his faults, -jive hini honor when hono isdue ; - lint never prove false to a friend, So long as he is faithful to youi; . - - . . . . . r v , j From ihc Norfolk Landmark. SKETCHES OF A'ORTU CAROUXA. The Era of Discovery The Clarendon C3rrant A Wild Rataance and Bloody . Retribution "Not as Spaniads, , but Assassins'' Ten Different ' ' ; Forms nof;, Government from j , tha, Colony to the 'Pre- . ; , , . - sent Date, &c; &c. .in -"BY -EX-GOY.-iZ.-'-'fi: VANCE.- Xnmber 1 Tn the" Icafv'month of June, is the Year of gt-ace, 1667, that mer rv monarch - aiifl sojHe what 'disso lute' man,- Charles the Second, by thd grace of Qodj of Great I France and Ireland, King, Britam, Defen der of the Faith, &c. &c, was gra ciously pleased to grant unto his 'rlht ', trust v and well beloved cousin and counsellor, Edward, Earl of Clarendori;bur high Clian cellor of England r;6ur rigrit'trusty aud entirely belovei ? cousin and courisejlor, George, Duke of Alfce marie, master of our horse," and, with like expressions of courtesy and msincere regardto the Earl of Craven, Lord Berkley, Lord Ashley, Sir Qeorge, . Carteret, Sir i John Collston, and Sir William Berkley, the most magnificent do main eVer conferred .bv a sovereign upon subjects m modern times, or perhaps in .all time. - Little did Charles know' what 'he Vas giving aiul as little did .these' subjects kuqw what t he v were receiving. Even now but few - consider the ! lmpcnal charateroftlie territory ; ; . granted. , ' It embraced 'all thatprovince, territory, or tract of hmd, situate,' lying and being within oiir do minions of America extending north and eastward as far as the north end of Currituck. river or in let, upon a straight-westerly line to;AVyonqak creek,; which lies ; ' "'within or about the degrees of thiiitv-six and thirtT-six minutes, northern latitude ; and so west in a direct 'Y&c as far as'the South 1 Seal I 'and south and westward as . . far .'as the degrees of .twerityj-niuo, inclusive, or ; northern latitude ;; : : and so west in a direct liiie hk far i afjthe South. Sras; together i with , all and siugnjthe portsrharbors, bays, rivers and inlets' belonging' i tinto the "proiince pr territory . aforesaid;' ah'dudIso all: ; tHe soils A lands, fields, woods, ' mountains, ' farms? lakes rivers, bays ati(l in lets, c, &c, to be found therein; - -:.i.:u TnE'VAST KXPA3jSE; : : stretches across the' entire! conti nent, from ocean to ocean ; five " liundred ;miles in, breadth a'ncl V two tousan-d e'f emhupe miles . in-length,-, antt "embraces - an aVca 'a ' - ; 1 OXEORD, ? GKAlTYiiLIiE ' 'COTJNTTt!- 1ST. of more than one million square miles. 'The "South Seas," meant the Pacific Ocean, whose' Uvaters were still little known to Europe ans, though eighty-nine j-ears be fore old Francis Drake's keels had ploughed around the bleak and naked rocks of Cape Horn for the first time. Within these bounda ries now lie the S tates of North and South Carolina : Georgia, . a large - part of FJorida, Alabam, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ipuisianay Arkansas a nd Texas ; the Indian Territory, New Mexico Arizona, a part of California, and a consid erable jjortion of :Mexico. ! ; i It is more than eight times as large:as, reat$ritainand Ireland' five times larger thanJFrauce,-four tiie - larger, than fh'e ':Austrian Emrjire, eight times greater than Prussia, and larger, by many thousand square miles, than all these together with , Spain, Portu gal a'riff Ita'y combined. Almost equal to one-third of Europe ! True, it may - be said, that; - this doughtv defender of the Faith and Nell Gwin, was about as much entitled , to a large part of this domain as he was to be called King of France by ithe grace of God ; but, nevertheless, as right was in those days, his title was about as good as that of any Euro pean prince to Arrerican soilj Per hapsjt was even better than that acquired, to all the , shores washed by the Pacific Ocean" by the erec tion of a s'tahdard on its sands and wading into its water i:with':aJ drawn sword by Balboa, for. the Spanish sovereign. 'A ;, l-uu With this grant .of laud was al so conferred upon fhe Lords Pror prietors, jurisdiction as ample as the:temtory to establish govern ment, convene . legislative assem blies, make laws to- pass upon lib erty, property and life; to grant pardons, regulate commerce, col lect icustoms, wage war, grant titles of honor, and many other things pertaining to a vice regal government that w'as.iu substance absolute ; theonly proviso being "That said -laws be consonant to reason, and as near as may be cbn yemcntjy agreeable to the laws and customs of this our . realm of Ensrlaud." : v , ; There seems to be no doubt that THE NAME CAROLINA V '' was fiist applied to this whole At lantic coast, and" in this s respect Virginia isthejhild of her xlaurh- i patched thetexpeditidn' of two ships under,. Kibaud ou a vovage; the real puruusy ui wjiiuu, uuutjr pr, tense of discoverv,. was to select? V home fdr himself ahdJi"S persecut ed iellow Hugeuots in the wihls of the new world, should they he un ble ; to maintain themselves by arms at home. Riband landed near the present site of St Augus tine, on the northern border of Florida, explored t. the country, and returned with glowing des criptions of the land and climate. The admiral was so charmed with the report returned thai .bp, deter mined to found a : colony ;pf his Protestant countrymen theire' and accordingly,, in i 564, he dispatch-; ed six ships with' about 500 souls, under the charge of Rene Laiid ouidnji Thy laleipn the same spot as liibauq -s. part, upiuj a tort wmcn 1 1 ney canea htjl sjaronn a j or Fort Charles, aud'riamed the uritry. Caroline "or"Carolina, af ter the' wretched .bigot, s Charles IX' of tartholpmew; piemory. Tweritv" vears aVtefwards, when Waiter Raleigh's, colony, under Ilaiph.Lane was first established ter, the child being christined; first. In 1662 Gaspard de ColignyJ the great 'Admirarof France, dis-' ; on Koanokb Island, and Amidas lot 4jaroima,t' preparea toe e aridirlpwf hadl.carried? back tof Proprietors i :j; by the -'celebrated Queenilizabeth, their enchanting I Jjohn " Locke;- author ' . of ' l the stories ofthe country;' itsinbabi-! "Ev" on-VihIIuman'-V L'n- tants . arid products, : she wa sd pleased that she ordered i the land to be called Virginia in honor ,of her virgin ; self. - .Thus:the name of Virginia ; superceded that of Carolina,. J until ; subsequently re vived by the patents of Elizabeth's successor and applied to, the terri tory south of 36 degrees, ; thirty minutes: i Theifa'te of. this-colony srave rise to onoiof . -r ' TB MOST R6MANTiei: ( ana neroic inciaenx even oi xnose chivalrous and adve5 ntiirpud times. The : Spaniards, tyho claimed, the whole cohtin'h t, iresen ted this jm-j tr'asion.of the' Fre'richProtjestanits, and sent a force u'ride'r 'command, of Admiral Meriendoz srainsV. theiri;1 1 TheV Bdrrendered to pveVi of safety, but with a pertidity! Which' no Modern ' .Mrogean'ex-, cept a Spaniard' cotiid ever equal,' they were immediately slaughterr ed: " AJfew: whrj ; escaped toJ the: jLuicsL were uuptuieu uuu, uuug ubii the trees wit' the' crjieV but characteristic ! ; 'inscription J upon their.bodies'Nbt as Freiichmen, hut as: Heretics j" 4 ; M.ll ' V,i, ! f f The blood ' of these 1 miirdjrred Frenchmen cried iii vain toJ the corrupt and bigoted French' court The gratification of ' 'intolerant hatred to Protestants,1 in hearing of their slaughter, was so, great as to drowrn even the voice of "nation al' pride'; ' and ho ' redress for tbe cruel outrage .was aemanaea y. the Government: '''' But it was riot so with their brave1 cbuntrymer AjGascon gentleman, jpdhHiriIctie del'Goureties, a 'bold; patribtic. and glory loving soldier arid nav igator, after ' ! exhausting all other enorts to avenge; tne muraervor nis countrymen, resoivea to ap it himself. Sellihs: his entire estate he built a few small ships, fitted them out at his own expense, and with a band of chosen companions into whom he had infused his gal- lam spirit, Dpiaiy set nis prows to wards a coast 3,000 miles distant across an ocean1 swarmine: with the ships of the mightiest power in Europe, in search pf the mur derers of his countfymeri I In due time; lie.'tbund them, and; with his I Gallic blood all' on fire, came down upon the "Spanish colony llKe tne avenger or Diooa. ine woods 'of the coast of Carolina re sounded with the desperate con flict as he drove them ' from fort to fort, slaying as he went. The few that escaped the swOrd were hung to the- Yvvide-peading branches' of f the -great" live1.' oaks' bri the shore: "and to their 1 bodies were afiixed inscriptions which so wui illustrate ,ine reiriDuuons oi history-' "jKbt as1 Spaniards hut assassins xionoreu dc. ;ine, memory of that brave 'and chival rous French - gentleman, through out all Carolina ! THE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT TO WHICH THE PEOPLE OF. NORTH CAROLINA II AVE BEEN SUBJECTED, if 'V' y First, we .have ,the Royal gov ernment of thef Province of Caro- una, uuuer iuc uraicuarier oi xnp tibrds1 Propnetors; ' ? This' charter was dated thef- 24th of - March, 1663,- but the government: lirider itprpperly began . inL Septniber following, . ( wen-v, jGeorge ,. Prumf nibnd was' appointed first Govern or This lastedritiiurieVieao; when by the second v charter1 of King Charles the i ppwers ; of: the LOTdSirpprietOrs were; enlarged and governmental authority Vas conierrea upon .,tnem,;.!and;tiyi thehi the' first ' General AssemBly was convened. a '1 x ni0 'VJ x Next were4ntroduced in 1669, the ' Furidamehtal -Constitutions C TTjjgi)! QKNiNGj , derstaudin? ttnder which rthey governed or , professedj Oo.goyerti the prvicer,. until IbOd, WjAGf!, theyv. wereJ abrogated, ' arid the" resumed,-"v and' '-continued' UqHh uireci ruie oi ine' irrooneiora vvas 1729. 'y:r ,U"f-r '.jln.Jthat year.jthe pharjter -.was. emment waa resumedch con tinned until jthe" beginning oi? the11 Revolution-: 1 , r j ment and the'Centfar 'Cehtennial Congress until 1778:'-m ) i Then-' binder he' Ooristitutiqn, (pf the tJriited StateW.iintil86L? m : r . Ilk I f 4 J 'Then', through the "mixed ani mingled liiaze9!bf Ibaydriets; m'HP tary satraps'; 'dxtra1 andMiiheoTnfsti- til the' readmissiotibf i ou'r j defe gateatbrthe 'N'atiorjaVi Legislatu' and4he downfall of the carpet-bag ajnasty.M'3' j T make 'noless than" 1 thanii Radical 'changedin ' thef form.; ,pf tW powers by -'wmeh we havA ueen ruieu m our -nisiory irom 1663 to mo,1' a4ehod' of i6f years. irinese enanges nave aver aged ahdut one' for every - twenty years If lA-striking4 Commentary, dri thel'stability of overnirie, bryf North Carolina- is usually charact6riKed' 1 i & comparatively5 unevemfuf r oj iui v j , ,& bpBhall close this paper 'with s&W'V bfeERVAiioNk'r Tok'V" THESE ;;C0NSTWIQNS OR.LOfKE,. .!iAUfi9UgQney.;WftYea .en 1 111 t ll ' 1 A 1? vice, Tp.ttne!i: wise,; statesman, as proy jng conclusively the rr worth lessriess; ptgoyernmental ; theories concocted in . . the;, clcet,.of the 4cholary If j i ntiject , and , study abstracted from all,' contact with actual life,, ;,cpiild under; any.;eirT cumstances iouna a government adapted to the'.wants of a"; distarit people, iit would .sgen,: .that j tins great ngljshmarr rAyvJbp ihad Spqhdeol thGp;ept)i3 .vdhahows of the hunian mind,r;rWould have dqneiti.Yftt hkwprfeV)Prfipared vvith the utmost care. ja.nd tried wijfchj patient v firpes, prpyed an, utter failure. ; . .Thei,mple concept tionsr of the( rup;pipneer, squat ting ;iu: the :forestriithout; ihooks,1 papers or learning jtcn read,' therii' in regard v .o the 4aw' he -:vanted, were , worth all jthe: . ne oBaedita- tions of the deciples. ; pf ;Anstotle and Plato., w Laws ? are , fiucerested by; thq daily ;0recrring, wants' 'of actuairiiieanartneser wants areas varying as the conditions aqd duc- Ipumstances by which; mep,fe surrj rqundea. 4 A !:jgpvermeqt so framed as to, be nromDtlVi. resron- sive i tq-fthese ,. wants will consti- tute t.periectmn pt nuinan rule. If ecesirily. such nr one; ? must he made neace-meal. , , r-j : : ; i "... GOVERNMENTS , GROW. A iui rai, anULuepenaent, iiKe;iPtner -1 3 i J J i 11 . il proaucts-'unon . soil, climate; and iy oi inp, MiTay roIievvp. ;P ' em ploying ametapytaiqtp.dratta constitution, tor i their.-, i colony scarcely ye; born,, 3,00, mi)es dis tant, in. -a lana.tnat fne . naa ?M never Oil ?faVp haby varmjents araneveriremarJyije-ias jits, ana 1 1 i 'fancv the; crude- i .redrfaced. squalling colony t Jpfr Gatplin'd,) wrappeoJLnan& nowing ana court-, lyPPnPi nejiQiiaaTneutal CJonstitutipnsV. j , resembled -.aveir; muchairie infant :(Xthougl?hprri tq bq: al rmserJf4.T dpnp i fp. inj r brie corner of a" suit 6f lone clothes. Practicle people could see ana bundance. pf government hut very little ;haby,aud 8urey?if a;mah of fipmmon. sensp, ; wilh ookpver the 1 20 sectionaof that - instrument and compare its ' absrirditics nc surreoperedjbv seven ojtjthe eigt Proririetbrs and the Royal ; Gfov- impracticable,, andofvrer SPQn.a brogatod, they rar? jot iqnite'sfer- OCTOBER S..l&il -, . r , - - j ' iivu'vrrJ -11-.., III 1 I I ' . .1 sentimental refinements' ivith: the rude bnt; ;homely land!: vigorous coder.tbe colonists built rup. for tnemseives, piece. py piece, . eacu born pftf want arid tested J by 'the fireOT experience.Ke7 'atlriot fail (6 see where 'the firiergpld of igov- ernmental . policy is j djug;up, r And he .will feel that ' thus great ! folly of making a c Utopian constitution u uiuci outi tjuippiijt: it ij tige people ' like ; ' : a ' cargo' 1 of shoes regardless ofsizes and nutor 1 t , I "1 1 1 t ... ?L oers, l&PUjy axonea Dy j a ; grim ioke of pious Kine Gharles ex- presBedi in tlje first charjte'r to these LprdSfc: i wherein fhelaays. they h'ave squsrht, the, grants being excited with a laudable ana zoms tar :;vA ' ; ' birl M Christian Jam- No'dbubtofitSalli 1 'One oi.tnesei zeaious ipropagarorswas ajKvemljex of he injTaniousi Caball and , several , pf. the , j others stood high In the wicked fannalS; of that licentious Court But ( such1 were the beginnings' of' 'great events. Kesujts&rein.the hands :of God"; and .no ;niattr (yvhat jtljej-l motives wa3l. these chanters I were the sen isls'6f riilghty things in America; ;ov v!horWerei;Tlx JClreai illen.1-" ' - 3 : ' lit! 0'! fO'. H ranklm was a printer. - uu - D-U.ut lot: oi,Tu!. : '.. J361iyar.waa a druggist , ; ixuuaiucL was uarucr.- ; 774 Virgil was the, son pf a potterv U' FmU' in I'liijuy ? nu i J fi i jn was iuo,son oi a scaveu :. ' . . T i i f 1 r ( ' - 1 hnCt Horace was5 the: lg6ti pf shop- keeper, .nui yu- 1 j Dettiosthenea-.wasTtl e. on! of a cutler. :f piiiJ ...if f1 Robert Burns was a-rploughniau ' 1 w, xv. j i e&iin e- I i i Shakesbearc was the son of a woolstapler.- f;;CbrdmlWoolsey' was the 'son q a. porkbutcheTjK fj t L: -1 , Oliver Cromwell iwas; the, Bon -of ,v .Whitfield, was.the son of an inn eon of a weaver, and aMverJhinlself , John JacohAstorj once soldap-1 PlOO Kill tUU DUCCUJ Ul HCtV IVl&i - - 1 ill : . . f r7 1 . ' ' f 't1'i'i irfcA- I iness ia ;TJi0 cottage. on j .ii:;: Alitor ;;;!S -ji;- ; nr.fH'V., ,;. Mg if virtuous manhow j jsounq he sieepsj'h6w;;uiet his breast how composed hia ' mind how 1 freei trom care, how easy his provisiop how Wealthy - his imprnrng, how. ' "ll-? I luu. nr?.im - y3 sojoulner among us! . How swells mouth, how loyfuf this hQartvffta1 they ' woiild xieve'rJ1 admiral the - wtiuiu never H.uiiiire me noise, tne : aiBease, tn jvinrong.oi passions, and the violence-of un natural -appetites,- that fill the house of; the luxuriousand I the hearts.-pf . thet ambitipus-t Jeremy ijAiviTlage shopkeehe on'ehter- iner liis ahon one momimr ) I foun d Bobby, attempting tp f throw j ia, sbrts,of sonierests an4f, kicking, up as great a rumpus as a.eeai in. a, tubl7' 'Whaare yotfaobute he lutions p the boy.4HObigiIl, ?Mai tha, ir!;; replied? the almost ex hausted, youths i '3he' f has; writ! me a letter, and saysat the bottom of theopageituni over and 6bie7 jahd T.ve been going it for Mi"; - Grpuprpaae cured in: one min ute, and. the remedy, r is simDlv J - r. afum and sugar.; I, Thewaj to ac comppsh'the, jleea is to s take a knite!6r crjater and tb ahave bffiri small particles about ateaspoonful of alum; thenimis it about its quau possible! "Almost instantaneous nty,ot snjto.make, palrtable, land administerf4ita9.qmckly as T NO. 19. A Seyenty Fairs of - H&sd& "' Mil ' The variety , and number of nel'dles made " iu these days are wouderful :j the surgeon,' harness mmex, ,bookrhinder, felt-worker,-sa(diei glover, embroiderer, and hbwife,each,wanttng needles" of (dl shapes, and sizes and lengths. Aildi wheti ) you think that each uef?dle has to pass through seven--ty Igalrs of hands before it is fin ishwand ready: for use, you see taken to reach ex-- nesary to make the needle per fec,,If only one pair refused' tot dopleir part, the, whole would be righj;51- .--; ;J " " ..--.r.vlpu f see ! it is painstaking in? little . thiugs and in small part whh. leads to excellence and suc4s. We are apt to slight bits of 'rk, thinking it is no matter an( pf noaccount 1 ' But it is not sb;liiThe' details of a plan must be I folthfully u carried out tin order to.met the-plan a M success, ii ;tharte of ithe work are all well dei8f the- wjiole wilt be complete, aWjVtiiy then. : 1 : ' - Aid it is just so iu making the nic(b jidi ng character. . It must be xyfaqiiQ iri parts, faithfully fin-- in'eYir(. uits, hi order to. make a. ffiiblefc l and heautifu I whole. ';7'itFways be ; sure! that r all the smixll atid common - work which yoiiary tado is thoroughly done. It -ii faithfulness in tliltle - things which makes you reliable, iu great thiijcrs. - . I . . -fl:: id rUttle Graves. ; MHl... ' iiyjrci piacea iur pure muuuia audlBbty meditations are the littlo: grafjsin the churchyardi They are?:ier depositories of the moth" er'aweetest joy, half- unfolded .budpf innocence, humanity nip- -4i'?CnI ? titne,. ere yet ahkerlorm of corruption hasivestlo'd ' amoiig its embryo pe- talsl Callous indeed, must be the hea5pf .himi who1 can: stand by a 1 jttlegraveside and not I have the- holicfH c erabtioW awakened to thrihVfhta'Wf nnritv anil inv whirl , r ' J' J J belojilone to God and heaven,. )for:tfermnte preacher. "as hU feet M life begun and ended with- utjfcain ; , and, surely if ; this be vouchsafe to jinortality, how much puT- and 3 holier must be the spiritual land, elightened by the suulpf infinite goodness, whence eniatited ; ;the soul, of 1 that brief ...rL ;it -1 mpurpiuijoy; wniie -Bianumg uy ; the'brth-hed of lost little ones?; Moiiml, ajsw'eet treasure has beetakenawayr-joyful, because ' thatj)reciousj jewel glitters in the daid cm' of the Rede'eme'r. I y-. : i il' Defiaitlca" cf i Peol' : ' " ' r A sopl is a tool, who fools . with another fbql. ; 'None but a foolish fool ould fool with - a foolr and a foot that ;is fooled is a fool for be- infooled. i ; oFools i foot hone but fooI The fpolishest fool vyho ev- erjCot'ned, a. fool; lajthe fool who fooM?4 fool who ! was i already fool- uu. .mere uuw. - Achctilboyfs I composition on1 wua;co;f -u ms npxipus weed was lhveiited by a distinguished man namfd Walker ' Raleigh: When thejople first saw him smoking they;thpught he was a keamhoat, anvils they had never heard of' sucii, thing! a3 a steamboat they weip very. much frightened." Iam glidis cotiee don't owe: apything,H4aidia boarder at a breakfast: table. : 1Wh v." asked Bimth., "Because l don't f think: pftlild ever -'settle.?' V.- S .'i whaft rai ns 'is cerice in very small things. k Btfs'enty i pair of hands is to 'mafe anieedle ! and each pair Mi-. pf I. JII- IB
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