Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
INTERESTING LITERARY RESEARCH


INTERESTING LITERARY RESEARCH
ES OF MR. BANCROFT.-Th authenticity
of ",he Mecklenbutg Declaration If ladepen-
deuce. /" SAYS the Baltimore Amercan0 has ever
been a subject OF controversy among literary
men Mr. Jefferson regarded Inc document
spurious, and chafacteiiZ.d the pretence oil the
existence OF such paper as - very unJu>ti-
fable Quiz" In a leuer. dated July, 1918 adj
dressed 10 Mr.. John Adams, who had enclosed
TO him a copy OF the Essex Register, containing
the Meckenburg Declaration, he proceeds 10 give
his reasons Tor his incretui'y. lie says:
III this paper BE- really taken from The Raleigh
Register as quoted, wonder il should have Is.
capped Richie. who culS Whai is good from every
paper, as the bee IRON every flower; and the Ma
tional lntellisencer, 100, winch is ediled by a
North Carolinlan: and that The fire should baZ-
out IN al once 10 ESSEX, one thousand miles from
where the spark is SAID Ia have teien. Blu II
really taken from he Raleigh Register who Is
The narrator, and IS the name subscribed real, or
is il as fcticious as he raper ,isel3 II APP Gals
100. 10 an original book. winch il burft; 10
Mi Alexander, who is dead; Joint letter
from Casweil, Hughes and hoorrr, all dead; 10
a copy Sent 10 the dead caswsli, AMI another
sent TO Doctor Williamson, now probahl,
dead. whose memory did not recolIect, III the
gigantic step of its county OF Mecklenburg
IIory. too, is silent in his history Of Marion
whose scene of action the country border
ing on Meckenourg. Ramsay, Marshall
Jones. Girardin, Writ, historians of the ada
cent States, all silent. When MIR Henrys reso-
lu,ions, far short Of independence, flew like
lightning through every paper, and kin led both
sides of the Atlantic, this flaming declaration
OF The same date, 4 the Independence of Neck
lenburg county OF North Carolina, absolvlng i
from the British allegiance, and abjurng all
political connection wl,h that nation although
sent to Congress, too, Is never heard Of Ii Is
not known even a twelvemonih alter, when a
similar proposition is first made in that body.
Armed with this bold example, would not you
have addressed orr tmid brethren in peals oil
thunder, on their tardy fears: Would mol
every advocate cf independence have rung tie
gories OF Mecklenburg county, III North Caro-
lima, il the ears OF the doubling Dickinson and
others who hung 80 heavily upon Us? Yet the
example of independent Aiecklenburg county,
10 North Carolina, was never once quoted
II was, perhaps, owing 10 This array Of strong
presufpiye testimony against the autbcn,icii,
of the North Carolina Declaration, from 4
man, too, whose opinions on the subject were
entitled TO so great consideration, that The pub
lie mind had pretty generally determined
against its genuneness. But the researches o
Mr., Bancroft, IN The State Paper Office Of the
British Government have thrown new lisht o.
this interesting subject and viii we think have
the effect 10 .tapsn he claim Of inc old North
State, Of wing been The first to move in the
cause ot colonial lndci endencc
The following IS the letter of Mr. Bancroft.
WITH -. .ccn,o,,,,,o, rem,,ks ., III. EJ,,or
- D., s,I.
HE MttRLE"s@H" IECLAhaIioN'--A it"
days slncs, - re senate, Mr.. Sheppard sno
miued a repod - tie c'mnittee TO WHOM
was referred ire communication OF The Cover
nor, - reitton - tie co'6"iai ana revolution
AIRY history o. Mort. Carolina, accompanied o.,
the foi!oaiLs highly in'cfes'."s u Ter fro als
Bancroft, ne American :: MISTER al London, 10
the Hon. AVID l.. Swan of tbs State. Tie
lett as iol!ow-:
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