Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-01-24
From the Charleston M.rsuru.


TlON OF INDEPENDENCE. -.
The Wilmington Chronicle gives the
following interesting letter from Mr.. Ban-
croft. our Mission to Great Britain, au,hen-
lica,ng the poriorily of The Mecklenburg
Declaration of independence. The alu.
sons 10 the letter lc the proceedings Of the !.
"Regulalors, have interest for the pcoplei
of this State as we'll as of North Carolins
They refer to period in,be history Off
Of which there are bul few recor'
of which many OF the incider'
both evenIful and important.
served in the traditions of Il r.',
localities. Nowhere on the ~.
opposition to the exariions. a v,.,..
of The British Government
menceI, or continued more as"s-
and systematically. than in
North and Soulh Carolian."
go EAToN 6
London,
Ny DEAR Sir: hold it, ~.
that your letter of the l2thc
ed me by the Hermann, ju
nnsNarel! this morning -
pains to discover in the Br L..
pet Office copy Of the
Committee of Mecklenburs
lire success. a glance
show you iba, in lhuse da
that par, OF North Carolis
crnIy direction, and peopl
aud sometimes even in Sa,
what was going on in Char.
bclare Governor Marin I'll
count of .'ihe extraordinary Resm
people Of Charlotte 1o'cn. MeeA
Couaiv," was sen, over 10 England
James Wright, then Governor Of Nc.
gia. in a letter OF The 20lh of Jyn:.
l775. The newspaper thus iransmin
is still preserved, and is The number 49,
of the South Carolina Gazeuc aud Coun-
try Journal, Tuesday. June, Is, l775. I
read the Resolves. you may be sure. with
reverence. and Immediately obtained a
copy orlhem, thinking myself the sole dis"
coverer. send you The copy, as ilis
idenrically The same with the paper which,
you enclosed to me; but forward 10
you a transcript Of the entire leiIcr Of Sir
James Wright. The newspaper seems to
have reached him aGer he had finished his
dispatch for the paragraph relating to it
is added in his own hand writing. the for
; rer part Of The letter being written by a
Secretary or Clerk.
have read great many papers rela-
ling to tire Regulators, and am having
copies made Of larger number. Your
own Stalo ought to have all. and, the
expense woukl be for The Slate insignif-
-
A few hundred dollars would copy all you
need from The Stale Paper Office OH all
North Carolina topics. The Regulators
are. en- many accounts. Important. Their
complaints were well founded, and are SO
acknowledged. though their oppressors
were only nominally punished. They
form the cornecrng link between resis-
tance to the Stamp Act, and the move
ment Of IT'S; and they also played elorf-
ons part in taken possession of,hc Misss-
sippi valley, towards which they were car
ried irresisrably by their love Of !ndepen-
dence. Ii is mistake, if any have sup.
posed, thai the Regulators were co~ea
down bv their defeat at the Allemancc.
Like the mammoth. they shook the ho[s
from their brow aud crossed The noun
tains.
| shall awaysbe glad to hear from your
and to he of use TO you or your State.
Very truly yours. GEORGE BANCROFT.
d.. Swain, Esq. Chapel Hill, NJ c."
INTERESTING SURGICAL OpERA7roN.-
DR. Paul F. Eve, Of this city, performed
ed rhc operation Of lithotomy last Sa,ur-
day at the Hospital, and removed from the
bladder Of Mr.. O'Brannon one hundred
and Sevenfscn stones. The largest Of
which weighed two drachms, seventeen
grains. We have seen the pebbles. They
are lelrahedons Qour sided) and have all
The shape Of nngles rounded OF by friction
one against another. Their aggregate
weight is four ounces, three drachms,
,hirIy-eigh. grains. They have been ac-
cumulafing twenty years.
Prof. Eve, performed the operation with
much skill, and without pain 10 the snb-
iccr, he being under the anodyne influence
Of the Chloroform Augusta Chronical s
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