Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-27

gelists, this very difference Of detail as
to time Is a proof of intrinsic and es-
sential truthfulness, as tending to show
the absence Of preconcert In a fabri-
cation.
A copy of these immortal resolutions
"a forwarded by hand of Capt. James
Jack to the Continental Congress at
Philadelphia. Capt. Jack appears to
have been an enthusiastic gentleman,
with a good deal Of the propagandist
IN him. He magnifed his mission by
reading the resolutions to every crowd
he could gather along the entire route
of his long and otherwise tedious jour-
ney. They were read in open court at
Salisbury as he passed through that
town, amid the plaudits-of judges, law
yers and citizens. Their sentiments
were so congenial to the popular taste
and t~emperthat they everywhere found
willing listeners, and by this frequent
and ~persevering reading their spirit
and language became universally diff
fused. When the Captain got to Phila-
delphia the members Of the Congress-,
while individually approving the re-
solves, deemed it premature to take
action upon them as a body, and they
(the r~esOlves) went into a pigeon-hole.
The proceedings of the MEGA
lenburg meeting were at once
published In the Cape Fear Mer-
cUTy, and this attracted the
attention Of the royal Governors Of
both North Carolina and Georgia.
Gov. Wright, Of the latter province,
wrote as follows to the Earl of Dart
mouth, then Secretary Of State. This
letter is authentic, having been pro-
cured by George Bancroft from the
State Paper Office In London:
SAVANNAH, in Georgia, the 10Th June,
1775.-By the enclosed paper Your Lord
ship will see the extraordinary resolves by
the people in CharlottetoWn, in Mecklen-
burg county, and l should not be surprised
if the same should not be done everywhere
else. / have the honor to be, with perfect
obliged and Obedient servant.
"JAMEs WRIGHT.
ITO Earl of Dartmouth, etc. etc"
The following is an extract from a
mournful letter by Gov. Martin to the
Secretary Of State, dated at Fort John
son, N. c., 30th June, Tvs. The orig
inal can be found, or ought to be, IN
less somebody has borrowed" it, In
the State Paper Office, London Amer
lea and West Indies, Vol. 204):
"The resolves of the Committee Of
Mecklenburg, which Your LOrdship will
find in the enclosed newspaper, suTpass all
the horrid and reasonable publications that
the infiammatOry spirits Of the Continent
have yet produced. a copy of
these resolves was sent of, 1 am informed,
by express to the Congress at Philadelphia,
as soon as they were passed by the commit
tee"
Away with that malign Ic~onnoclasm
which would tear down the statues of
our departed great ones! May our
American Pantheon long be sacred
from the profane approach Of the dis
believers. Let the SUPERB figures of
u statesmen, sages and soldiers re-
main forever IN the historic inches
where the plous regard of their posteri-
ty has placed them. Is there no worth
In our traditions? Shall we be told
that our legends are our fables, and
our heroes only mythsP Shame upon
the hypocrites who would play the
Huxley and Tyndau with the peoples
patriotic faith! We need not Niebuhr
with his chilling disenchantments. If
the seven kings of Rome we're but Gre
atoms of the fancy, leave us our
Patrick Henry and our Washington.
Even an apocrypha is better than no
sacred books at all. No healthy heart
and brain can sympathize withthat fell
spirit of doubt which seeks not only to
demolish the affairs of religion, but to
rob the annals of our race of those
events and persOnages which constitute
its trpest greatness. Rather do we
need, in this too sordid and u~tilitarian
age of ours, to recur to those ilustrious
examples of self-denying patriotism
which embellish our early history and
to find IN them the impulses of a new
love Of country and the inspirations of
a lasting epoch of fraternity.
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