Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-02
from the Norfolk Landmark
Sketches Of North Carolina.
NENT WAS MADE.
English from Nansemond and
Barbados.
The Ratio Of Native and Foreign
Population-Scotc Scotch
Irish and German.
The Genealogical Tree OF the
OLD North State.

The Genealogical Tree OF the
Old North State.
BY GOV. z. 3. VANCE.
One cannot fail to be struck with
the remarkable length of time which
intervened between the discovery and
the colonization of North America
proper. Mexico, the Spanish Main,
and the West India Islands, engrossed
almost entirely the enterprise of the
Spaniards in the early part of the 10th
century; whilst the English and the
French did little in the direction of
the great lands they were destined to
occupy. Full ninety years-almost
century-after the discovery of the
continent it lay without notice, OF at
tempt to settle it until Raleighs ships
came in 1884. Several expeditions to
Florida had been made prior to that
time, but they were mainly for explo-
ration aud pluuder. From 1854, to
the settlement on the James, twenty
years more elapsed. From that settle
ment to the first permanent lodgment
in North Carolina, forty-fve years
SCuCu, uAb X "tbo dtAACC oLO
hundred years after that, before the
sight of the Blue Ridge. At that pc
riod, 1850, they had got westward as
far as Fort Dobbs, which stood near
the Yadkin river, some twenty miles
west of Salisbury; and fifty years after
this, in 100, there was not white
man in that portion Of North Carolina
which is now Tennessee, if we except
few scattered French traders and
emissaries to the Indian tribes. Thus
TWO HUNDRED YEARS.
after its discovery, beyond the sea-
board snd its vicinity the greater
part of our country was still an unpeo-
pied wilderness; for the tide of popula-
ton in North Carolina and Virginia
kept nearly side by side in the march
westward.
These States show not only the dan
gers and difficulties of subduing
wild land and planting civilization
within its recesses, and the weakness
poverty of our pioneer forefathers but
they show also the comparative power
ty of the English people at that time.
present day could, with ease, have
of this colony with all their goods,
including cattle, in 1910, seventeen
years after the settlement began. The
| immie rants landing at Castle Garden
every two years now, would people the
whole State of North Carolina as
thickly as it was peopled in 1670.-
Such has been the growth of western
| civilization, with all its wealth and ap-
pliances.
The character Of the people who set
! tied and continue to inherit the State
| is worthy of the students considera-
| ton. North Carolina owes less to
foreign immigration than any OF her
sisters. Hers is almost a homogeni-
Gus people. Her population is more
nearly composed of those born in her
borders, descendants of her original
settlers, than that Of any other State
| in the American Union. The census
of 1870 shows that her total population
is 1.O71 1861 and of this number only
3, ,029 were of foreign birth Not only
relatively but absolutely less than the
same class of any other State. 10
| prove that this is not an accidental
enumeration, the census shows the
number of persons born of one or both
foreign parents to be but {, 6,464; and
of persons born of both foreign parents,
to be 4, 4,32S-the same proportion APP
pearing in the census of 1860 and 1850.
We are, emphatically.
ONE PEOPLE, OF UNMIxED BLOOD.
In the many political canvasses which
1 have made, from east to west, [ have
never, to my best recollection, visited
county, however distant, without
| oSlol hu ohn11t his
kinsmen living in my country. If the
bloody revenge of the old Scotch clans
were practiced nowadays, it would
fare Ill with the man-slayer who
should attempt to conceal himself
from his enemy's clansmen in this
State. They would spring from the
earth around him in every direction
as the men of Roderic Dhu did abou,
the path of James Fitz James. Where
did these people come from? Who are
they, and of what blood? These are
questions always worth asking an6
, answering, though an excess of De
mocracy has begot an unworthy in
, difference to the subject of the peo
ple's ancestry. The aristOcratic feel
, ing is almost entirely confined to the
/ beasts in this age of physical progress
It is thought to be important to then
to have great progenitors, but not 81
: with men and women. A plain, Dem
ocratic farmer will descant by th
, hour on the noble sire and dams o
his horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs
i and even his game chickens; but /
3 you should, in his presence, under
Q take to show forth the glories of hi
l blood, he would shake his head an
/ tell you it was aristocracy, that ther
was nothing in blood for people, an
j, advise you to stand on your ow
2 merits. Most excellent advice, bu
founded on bad philosophy, ntverthe
: less.
q THERE Is MUCH IN THE RACE
e we spring from affecting both the ind
|, viduel and the community. The phys
: ical and the mental traits we deriy
= from our ancestors are not more mari
g ed and important in directing OF
"a destines than are the prejudices, a
+ pirations and traditions We drink
d from childhood. No profound obse
l. yer of human nature will ever est
t. mate the capacities or conduct of
people without first looking at the