The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-03-20
NJ SiBER 2l.

| N w eoieulnly engage 10
take up arms and risk our lives and our for
tunes, IA maintaining the freedom of our
country, Whenever the wisdom and counsel
OF the Continental Congress or our Proyin-
cial COM entIon shall declare II necessary
and this engagement we will continue in
aud hold sacred" tIll reconciliation shall
take place between Great Britain and A
mefca on constitutional principles, which
we most ardently desire, aud do firmly
agree TO hold all such persons os inlmcel
20 the Liberties Of America, who shall re.
fuse TO sign this association"
Let i! be remembered that tins associa.
ton was formed nearly twelve months be.
fore that important step IN Congress Of 4lh
July, l776, our Declaration of Indepen.
deuce. If this latter was signed as was
said at the time, with a halter threatened
abou. lie necks Of the signers, what firm.
ness and patriotism animated the citizens
OF the county Of Tryon Nobly Gid their
subsequent couduct prove the Haih and sin.
ceEity Of this assoeiatioul
II vas on the heights Of Kings Noun.
tam, IN this County, N September, 1850,
Carolina, Under Campbell, Cleaveland,
Shelby, Sewer and Mcdowell attacked the
British troops and Torres under Colonel
Patrick Ferguson, aud after q hard strug.
gle, IN which Ferguson was killed, com.
pIetely routed them. This was most sue.
cesslul blow, aud turned lie tide of war
from This quarter, for learning the defeat
/ Ct /.
fourth OF his army, Lord CORVALLIS be.
/ gau retreat from Charlotte, which at the
tune was The head quarters Of the British
troops.
II Yves on the banks Of the Ca,aH bu, in
this county, in the cold and gloomy month
OF February, (l75l) that the Fabius OF A.
merlca, Gen. Nathaniel Green, who was
here joined Ly the ardent General Morgan,
covered with laurels gained from TatIton,
disputed the passage Of This riyef with Lord
CORVALLIS, who, burning to retrieve the
disasters OF the Cowpens, pursued with bis
whole force its victor, General Morgan,
aud It's banks were watefed on this occa-
sion with the life blood Of General William
Davidson, oil the North Carolina line, one
II the braves, spirits Of the revolution.
These events are part Of the records Of
the nation; their actors are we'll known,
aud their descendants may read thelr bis.
tory IN a nations eyes, But there was
another aA4ir in the Revolutionary history
Of this County, unknown to many Of our
own inhabitants, uuheard Of by many in
our OWL State, and uHiecorded 10 the pages
OF history, except IN the life Of Greene, by
DR., Charles Caldwell. Neither American
regular troops or British forces were enga.
ged, but more spirited bloody and aui.
mated battle did not occur during the Rev.
dictionary war. On the 22d of June, 1850,
(says Caldwell IN his life Of Greene, p. l23)
at Ramsour's Mil, near Lircolnlon, twelve
hundred Tories, under Col. Moore, were
attacked by Col. Locke aud Captain Falls
abou. day break, end after most murder.
Gus cot tllct the Tories were completely
routed. Upwards Of 600 Tories were
killed, wounded aud prisoners, while Col,
Locke lost nearly one half Of his men. and
among them the brave and heroic Captain
Falls. "On that fatal day some of the
best blood Of the South" says Caldwell,
" was offered on the altar of freedom"
hat they were not regular troops, that
they were all citizen soldiers, and fought
and tell IN their citizen clothes, that they
had none OF 1.-THE pomp and circumstance
OF glorious war" and that no history has
bIazoned their deeds TO poslerity, does not
delract from the glc-y Of their achieve.
menls' 1t is to be hoped that there are
some alive who can detail some incidents Of
the glorious affair, beyond the meagre &C.
coun. OF DR.. Caldwell. The spot is well
known: The writer of these pages has walk.
ed over the graves where alike were bu.
rled friend and foe; he has seen the rude
ramparts that she tered one party from "the
Ieaden tempest of the other, and regretted
tina. SO little has been known TO the world
Of so glorious an affair.
Bu; 10 write all the events of historical
character tina! the pages of history and ira.
dlton presents Of this section of our State,
would far exceed the limits prescribed in
this sketch. The writer has briefly allu-
ded TO some Of the mos, prominent in q We.
ry bret and hurried manner, as events &C.
curing IN period which "ued mems
souls" by "mcn who knew their rights,
and knowing dared maintain" and in a con-
fdent belief that if occasion again required,
the spirit Of hiug's Mountain has not de-
parted from this region, but would again
burn as bright as ever
The population of Lincoln and Ca,awbs,
according TO the census Of ls40, contains
p G25 inhabitants. There are furnaces,
$40 tons of Iron annually Gold
nlnes producing annually more than $40.
700. This county produces 50, s73 bush
is OF wheat-7e7 225 bushels If corn
,479,396 lbs. cotlon-24. 494 lbs wool,
According to the last report of
he Adjutant General Of North Carolina, it
nus'ers 1878 Of infantry troops and Ga ri.
lemen and according to the ComptroIler's
export, paws into the States Treasury So.
Isl 30--of which Lincoln County pays
sl,l2s Is, and Catawba pays 81 ,023 "a.
They send one Senator md lCnr members