The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-01-26
From the Raleigh Standard.
The McckIcnburg Declaration.

Il
A few days since, IN the Senate. Mr..
Shepard submitted Report from the Com.
W'''ee 10 whom was referred the communi.
ch'ion oil the Governor, 10 relation 10 the
Colonial and Revolutionary History of N.
oarol'na, accompanied by the following
highly Interesting letter from Mr. Bancroft,
ile American Minister of London, 10 the
lion. DAVID l.. Swain, Of this State. The
letter is as follows:
go EATON SQUARE, LONDON, 4 July, '4s.
MY DEAR SIR: hold il Of good augu.
! ~, hat your letter Of the I2th Of June
reached me by the Herman, jus, in time to
be answered this morning.
l on may be sure that have spared no
pains TO discover in the British Paper Office
copy oil the Resolves of the Committee
OF hecklenburg and with entire success.
lance a, the Map will show you that,
IN those days. The trafli of that part of N.
Carolina took southeriy direction, and
people 10 Charleston, and sometimes even
10 savannnh. knew what was going on IN
Charlotte Town." before Governor Mar.
tin The first account of "fhe e.rtracrai.
nary Resolpes By the people in Charlone
Torn. Msehienturg County" was sent over
20 England, BY SIR James Wright, ,hen
Governor Of Georgia. in . letter Of the
20ih Of June 1915. The newspaper thus
transmitted is still preserved. and IS The
number 4oS Of The South Carolina Gazette
and Country Journn', Tuesday June 49,
iHo. | read the Resolves you may be
sure, witt -rverence, and immediately oh
tanned copy Of them; tn hiking IN, self
The sole discore'er. do not send YOU the
copy, as il is ideniically the same with the
aper which you enclosed to me; Lu, for.
wardto you transcript, Of the entire letter of
SIR James Wright. The newspaper seems
10 have reached him after he had finished
ms despatch, for The paragraph relating 10
II is added 10 his own hand. writiny, the for.
mcr part Of the letter being written By a
Secretary or Clerk.
nave read great many papers relailn,
10 the Regulators and am havin. copies
made OF large number. Your own Safe
ought TO have them all, and the expense
would be Tor the State insignificant, If It
does not send an agent on purpos, A few
hundred dollars would copy all you need
from as ss,e PsPi5 4 gssssas,s;s AZ
on many accounts, important. Their com.
plants we're well founded, and were so
acknowledged. Though their oppressoi.
were on'y nominaly punished. They
orm the connecting Ink between rpsis.
anto TO the Stamp Act, aud the move
nen, Of 1919; and they also played glo.
ious par, 10 taking possession Of the Mis-.
isspPI valley, towards which they were
arrIed irresistibly by their love of indie
endence. IL is mistake, if any have
opposed. tina, the Regulators were cowe6 ,
own by their deica, at the Allemance.- ,
Ike the mlmmo,h, they shook the bolt
ON their brow and crossed the noun.
aims.
| shall always be elad TO hear from
gu, and TO be OF use to you or your State. +"
Very truly yours.
GEORGE BANCROFT. a
!. l.. SWAIN, Esq. i,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina" l.
The above letter establishes the fact be q
md all question, that Independence ras q
st proclaimed in Mecileabure, North st
droltna, in Nay, lii5. ST
The letter of SIR James Wright. refer e'
d to by MIR. Bancroft, closes as follows:
by the enclosed paper, your Lordship ia
II see the extraordinary Resolves of the hi
opIc of Charlotte Town, in Mecklenburg if
'un'y and ! should not be surprised if or
, same should be done every where eIse." tn
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