The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-10-07
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Early History of North Carolina. ,. '
! Mr.. GsLEs - hsye ju.i arisen In ~
hssty yei grs'ifsd psrussi af The ly u
number Of tIe Literary Messenger. b. VI
tsing Chspsefs I6-7. OF Charles e. y
belts % Hwlory OF Ihe Anc,eai caly u
Of Virginia: and an pleased In zee p
they comprise mere definite snd rii. u
1 culsr Description Of The general nccsrln- q
css under thea.d Ifunda menisi Cnnssa. >
! lions, than rsmsasber 10 have seen - =
l where recorded. Aud in The fret pig.
I may remark, that j. h nos only sotfe I
4 Of Tsgrei. bal u Is indeed, an excee6s :
repraach 10 our State repuI dinn. tati
eoRpsralively, 50 little IL krosn nj he
early history OF North caroiins. Main
Williamson. Bancroft, and few oahaa.i
4 il is true, have written yolum,nous woH..
aud aided 10 an eminent degree III 'ii<I n
those mi'is oil uncertainty which yet h-i
seufe - The sncIeni dome nj our presh,
4 grestness." A shuef article. pieparedAy |
The Hon. ID. l.. Swan fnt The Ameridn
4 Almanac for 1898. will be iound 10 ctn-
tain more m.natc and accurate InturInaaAn
/ on the subject, thsn IL elsewhese 2isa.'
Yet nearly every writer on nut early cor
. dition, seems 10 have fattru INTO ire ~
ror oi misnomsring our FIRST executie.
|. 10 fact all historians, Bancroft and Camp
] bell excepted, have lsbo,ed under hs
imptession that his name was GeoRe
u Drummond--@ heTess, these two gente-
men have correctly ss,etiainsd Il 10 hate
!, been William. No stronger evidence .
required OF the great inaccufacy OF or
II information in regard 10 our history, ,hpn
the fact that so very huleis known con-
corning . man. whose career 10 intimately
!. identified with The States annals. As thea,
! the circumstances under which he assum.
ed his so,horiiy, and the general chsrscse'
of the man. are msuers SO impesfectiy
. communicated TO Us, perhaps IL may no
!, prove an object entirely devoid Of late
- rest. 10 give you desul,ory sketch d !
n NORTH CaRoLINA'sFTRsT GovERNoE
D.. WILLIAM DRuaMoSD was sppoinsEA Il
I'm o.. sss.a..-.. ssssSUtys u"sxaas.ssss&s 80
l. |. County Or Albemsrle. In the PROVING
rel Of Carollna," in The September lollosSp
ne the settlement q, Dursnts Neck, lthe oil
sci es, in The Sra,e1 which event took rlac
10 in April, 1868. lie was an emigfsnt
i'll Virginia lrom Scotland. and judging iro'
rn the scattering and vague, descriptions "
or have or him, seems event 10 that dark az
when The usprping disposition OF ID
~, Stuart family, infected even the GEM
n. cline ofthe new would with its fatal mali
ire ria, 10 have cherished within his bose
a. The sacred germ OF sn independent sp'r'
he Bancroft re marks OF him, that. lie was pr
ps, badly Presbyterian, : man OF prudenc
rs, and sagsci,y. and deeply lmbued viii y
oil passion for popular l,bet,y;;" and Can
ip. bell terms him. " sed.te Scotch GENT
lhe man, OF es,im able chsrsc,et: The Ct
ind curns,snces under which he entered y
,at,I on his administration are peculiarly w
,ou thy OF note. The Constitutions Of shais'
- bury and Locke had just been devise
r,h the people, that is the mass. were .
lies mersed, completely los. sight OF. an
Iers the pretoga,lves OF landed prapIiesar
,rd. and titled nobility; trial by Jury vas
the a nominal concession, and !" popular
and franchise ment was made an impossls
ugh w." How gloomy then The era-h'
,ep. utterly unpropi,ious The age 10 The dev
iced opment Of principles such as Drummc
YER entertained! And here, we may con
ere, der, ths, ii canno. Gail Of proving sou
pIks of curious wonder, Of philosophical s'u
ills. and Of pleasing recreation, 10 . ie'rosp
Is Of Of The frs, days Of any country. Ken
~ lion gtstefully springs from he con''
" a. pla,ion-man feel, his ict regarding
-orst capacity for self-government enlarged
g of ter The analysis and contrast. ti's,t
,,es. YOU know, has been defined 10 be .ph
oul,l .ophy teaching BY example; and the
The 6nition is a mos, cotrec, one, Tor
in A, per study of the past is the inisll'hle
EYER. cursor OF future Moderation. But We
gras- DEPRESSING from the thread Of our ~ ~
But tive. ..-.~.8 ~a
, the Nothing explici, is handed down
rake of the acts OF Gov. Drummond's autl
high ", and we are consequently comp'
\ do. 10 leave "a blank Of the interval 'ha. y
asiest pired between his installation as Cove
rs AZ and The period when we. again recos
.ould him, no longer As Governor. ou'ss q
oats. tive. ardent and enthusiastic par"c'l
!, ,he in Bscon's celebrated rebellion. >
hades causes had been long cooperating 10
With duce an explosion which was to
r. the with terific and unexpected violence
grain, on me heaos OF ne'Ne.y gu. ii
iarch, compeefs. u no ooaS"'o"o"s
! and vehemently rejected by The popuiac
III ner oneroas ia xa,ion imposed upon the
~ and nile resisted, the arrogance OF no
rowr acknowledgements were spproa
,sh,,. a crisis. Drum mond was one oil the
.cr,,ox> ~ hich directed every move