New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-23
Mecklenberg Set Right.

The county Of Mecklenberg, North Cal
oiina, has had her little celebration. and i
happy. Hendricks. Of Indiana, and othe-
spoke TO ''acres of people" Centennially
Mecklenberg claims to have declared inde
pendence from the English Parliamen
government as early AS May. l77J anti
cipating by more than one year the actor
of the congress of colonies. The bali of IN
dependence had long before been set rolling
in March ITO. when the citizens of Bostor
denied the right Of a king to take offender.
out OF the country for trial. and when cc
CURED in the streets what was known az
the Boston massacre; it gained by the
| action OF the people of Charleston, South
Carolina, who compromised By storing
the taxed tea in damp sellers where it
rotted, in l'75, and by the more avowed
| rebellion of throwing tea into Boston har
| Dor by tea part.@ whose Intentions could
not be mistaken, b. George. Virginia was
more religious and less cebellious in those
| days. She expressed sympathy for Massa-
chusetts, and by vote of the colonial
Legislature appointed day Of tasting and
prayer. Governor Dunmore was royal
Governor, and done more than he ought 10
have done; he dissolved the Assembly for
treason. The members of the Assembly,
however. could not be suppressed. They
adjourned to tavern. and there passed
a resolution that an attack on ore colony
was an attack on all and with
the same spirit old Virginia never tired IN
standing squarely by Massachusetts in the
struggle for American independence. There
is nc disposition on the part of any TO rob
North Carolina of her early efforts in the
same cause. The declaration Of Mecklen.
burg had signers in 1875, and was a fact;
but It was confined to a single county, and
may be called sporadic case of patriotism
similar to that which had broken out in
other places in the thirteen colonies Char
lotte, IN particular. made itsef SO warm
for the royaists that she was called
by Lord Cornwails ''the hornets nest
of America Coming to the ce.ebra-
ton OF the twentieth instant. the
numbskull who scrapes up words for the
Associated Press telegraphed the following
remarkable sentence, which should sentence
him for life:
Whatever doubts may havs existed as to
the authenticity of the Mecklen berg decla-
ration, the speeches of this occasion. the
grand illuminations III honor of the tradi
tions sacredly guarded among an intelli
gent people have dispelled.
This sets Mecklenberg right by alluilng
to history as tradition. The telegraph man
says "miles OF people" formed the process
sion. "acres of people listened to the
apeeches. and "aitogethel the celebration
has been the grandest event which has
everoccurred in Charlotte. except the orig
inal declaration
In l775 Charlotte was q town of forty-tive
houses, and probably not more than one
of an acre OF people listened to |
the reading of the original declaration, after |
\ procession of about two rods of people |
had been formed. The grandeur of the |
event celebrated and Of the celebration can |
readily be seen in the smile pictured by |
5he Pres, agent, while We wait for the next
own to come forward as . revolutionary |
starter,