Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-07-01
From thsC Charleston Mercury.

DR. HAWKS HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA
The public, not simply Of the. Old North State, "
but of all the States of the South, have been, for
some time, eagerly anticipating the publication OF
this history They were told. long since, that Dr..
Hawks had the subject in hand, and they had every
dies, and general ability of the author that the work
would be one Of completeness, authority and value
1t is accordingly, welcomed in the first instalment
with degree of enthusiasm which exhausts the
first edition as soon as published, and renders Sec
ond an immediate necessity. The copy before us is
of this second edition, and it will soon in all proba
bity, be followed by third. So should it be. We
augur WE'LL from the general awakening of the South,
20 the necessity of providing histories,
good promise of which We should expect, in the
final assertion of independence as sovereign
States Next to the assertion of our mental and
moral character as people, must be the assertion
of our social and political equality as States
But this enthusiasm in regard to this publication
is not wholly due to the merits of its author There
is intrinsic value and interest in the history ITSELF
which our people feel, and which renders unques-
tionable its attractions. North Carolina the
original Virginia. North Carolina was the first re-
gion, in this Western World, which received Bri-
fish colony. 1t was, in BRIEF the maternal colony
OF the whole British empire in America. 1t is iden.
titled with Walter Raleigh, and that fearless man
woman.sovereign Elizabeth, of England. The first
child of British stock was born in North Carolina.
The first seed of American Independence were plan
ted in her virgin SOIL She, like Virginia and South
Carolina has been of the great national States,
from which has issued those fearless swarms by
which the Southwest was planted; and more, per-
haps, than any other State. She preserves with
the original simplicity, the original virtue of her
character. Her history, by the way, is especially
identified with that of South Carolina the t~ col
onies for long season, having slept in the same
bed, under the watchful eyes of the same govern
ment-not actually twins al birth, but growing to-
twipy for n IF for
other reason, this should be sufficient to commend
her history to the lovers of our own.
We should welcome her history for another rea.
son it is the work of one of her own sons-a son
of the South-full of enthusiastic admiration for his
native soil, and quite as well prepared by love and
patriotism, geniality and DEVOTION by intellect,
for the proper assertion of her character. Like
South North Carolina has been disparaged by selfish
and fraudulant historians naturally hostile to the
region whose histories they nevertheless presume to
write. They have mutiated and fouled her chron.
ices, as they have mutilated and misrepresented
ours She has been made the but OF small wits,
who have made the very magnifcence of her dimen-
sons matter Of dsparagement; and it has been
the favorc policy of politicians to appropriate her
craftsmanship, while infringing her wisdom and re-
sources; thus doing double wrong, at once to her
rights and reputation 1t had become as needful to
her as to us, to insist upon a native historian.
And DR.. Hawks has, thus far, been true to her
US, embraces, the period between the first voyage
to the colony in 1884, 10 the last in 1884, inclusive
f. j. Hale Son, Fayetteville, N. c., Publishers.
WASHINGTON NATIONAL McNuxESr.-Mr Atlee
the late secretary of the Monument Association, is
now engaged in public exposure of its transactions
No is better qualified for the task for to literary
ability he adds facts of which he has documentary
possession He shows conclusivey that the know
nothing board perverted the organization, whose
affairs they have been administering, to partisan and
sectarisn purposes and that they have grossly neg
ected the interests of the society He says in the
course Of his erpose "The funds were received by
no one in particular; the rule established by the
board that contributions should be sent TO the
treasurer and that the secretary should be informed
thereof by another letter written to that officer by
the contributor; and this was the only check upon
the treasurer's accounts. The correspondence was
wrapped up in bundles and slowed away in pigeon
holes, damp and thick with dust The blank books,
shut up in cupboards, were green and Shiny with
mldew. The monument was in opposite condition !;
the mortar crumbling from between the foundation
stones, and the internal structure of the base
posed to the deleterious intrusion of wind and rain
The memorial blocks were piled one upon the other
in two shanties, which afforded protection from
the weather, and ladders, ETC., lying unshel-
tered on the ground. The treasury was considered
in collapsed state, depending altogether the
contributions of the visitors at the Patent Office and
Monument grounds, and an occasional offering from
some eccentric patriot"
Such maadministration of affairs was calculated
to rdze the monument to the ground, and not raise
the capstone 10 the clouds
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