The North-Carolina standard., 1844-11-06
For the NORTH carolina Stand
October 2s, 1914.


Mr.. EDITOR: You will oblige subscriber, by
giving this place in your useful columns. Co
riolanus."a a correspondent Of Of The Independent,
abors TO bring John Kerr, Esq the Coon candidate
for Elector in our Districi, into notice wihout
knowing much about the maa or his birth place.
He writes as follows: CasweIl pre-eminent for
the fertility Of your SOIL the salubrity of climate
and adherence 10 modern Democracy Proud as
YOU are Of all these pre-eminenees, your greatest
boast, and one Of the first Acknowledgements of
your people TO the Supreme Being, ought to be
the giving birth TO such man as John Kerr, one
of North Cardinals bright intellectual umnaries''
Mr.. Coriolanus,'' Casxei is proud of the pre-
eminences you allude TO, in part and while she
regrets that she did not give birth TO Mr. Kerr in
order that he like his venerable father, might have
inhaled The pure principles of Democracy that
pervade the fertility of her soil and give delight
fu odor TO the saubrty OF her climate, she is truly
proud, and her greatest boast and "one of the first
Acknowledgements of Ler people to the Supreme
Being" is, the giving birth, not TO John Kerr, of
whom she is proud as an adopted son, but TO other
bright intellectual luminaries !" that adorn the
brilliant pages of her history. Proud old Caswel
that never produced Federalst Of any distinction
(those within her borders being mostly emigrants
from other regions,) has the unfading honor Of
giving birth to the following distinguished gentle
men, all of whom have been and some now are
members Of Congress. Can any other county on
ly twenty miles square (Which is the size of Cas-
WE'LL with an equal population, boost of having
furnished Congress with eight members and Civ
ing birth to seven, six of them younger than the
writer of this 2 Here follow their names, to wit:
Hon. Marmaduke Williams, an adopted son Hon.
James COCHRAN Hon. Bartlett Yancey Hon. John
Kerr, formerly of Virginia, and father of the pres
ent John Hon. Romuius M. Saunders Hon. Bed
ford Brown Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mi sissip-
pi and Hon. Anderson Mitchell of Wilkes.
The foregoing distinguished sons of Caswell,
Mr. Editor, inhaled in their infancy the spirit and
principles of Revolutionary sires, and forth
the able and willing champions and advocates of
the pure and unadulterated democracy taught them
by noble and patriotic ancestry. 1t is now my
PRIDE Mr. Editor, inform you and the public that
during the trying scenes through which the coun-
try has passed, and Notwithstanding the powerful
and crafty exertions made by the willy enemy, fed
erasts and coons combined. to mislead them, only
two have apostatized and joined the enemy-Hon.
John Kerr and Hon. Anderson Mitchell. Exalted,
then, be the name and county of Caswell, and
proud be her sons Of her great distinction
Let not the county OF Pittsylyania, in the Old
Dominion, be deprived Of her laurels. To her be-
longs the credit of giving birth to Mr.. John Kerr
She too and the same peighborhood, has the honor
of giving birth to " hitmell P. TunsralI, Esq. the
gentleman that, in his speech 10 the public, near
Milton, wished the Constitution altered and The
word PRESIDENT stricken OUT wherever it occurs in
that instrument, and the word KING inserted in It's
nlace II might have been well for MIR. Kerr, and
his country too, for him to have been born in Cas-
well SO that he would have inherited portion of
those democratic principles for the support of
which thousands have been greatly distine ulshed
and highly honored. AMOS.