New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-01

snder. Clerk. The Rev Hezckiah James Bach Presby-
terrain clergyman DR. Ephraim Brevard' a graduate OF
Princeton and William Kennon, esq, lawyer Addressed
the meeting. Tho resolutions from tho pen or Dr. Be
ward debated the whole night. section by section
were unanimously adopted the morning Of the 2oih OF
May 1873 and proclaimed from the Court house by
the herald, Cob Thomas Polk The resolutions were as
follows:
l. That whoever directly or indirectly. abeted or In
any way. form o. oounien need inc uuchaTi req
ana daugero OF orr rights H. claimed 10y Great
Bita H. ~ an enemy the country. 10 America ana 10
tho interests aud mnlicnabe rights o, mSn County 40
. That the citizens Of Mcckl,lhurE 'Oully uI
hereby dissolve tine political bands which have conectn
70 Win thc mot her c"an ahu nT,ll I , an
from al at glance the British Crown, ana 40 q.
political conn cror. contract and ASSOCIATION WIN na
nation Wp lave wantnnly tihlnpmn on ON Lu,S ai'
hbli.,S. and mAunani! shed the Do"u oI AAoi'0A"
q r.,i We 4, hereby drclsre ourselves free and In
dcpondent people gre and Of rs Ought t. he . sole,
e. l9d sr governing assoc aiion undcf ,lr 'oniIoio
power. o.h.I tbu Tat OF our cod ana th' ehv a.
9oyc'nmsnt ot t"e tJnsg,s 10 We i1in.o " ofbr
mutual co6p'raf"n our lives our fortunes ana our
most sacred honor.
They tel the whole story. Tho names Of the principal
actols-Ac>andcr. Bion Breyar'l Acnn,n Poik-'d
testify 10 tho Dow 81 the ooyennt, and t Tough breed
which never bowed TIE Buce 10 any Baal ahj Where
cienburg County. which took ths stand covered "a"
ta western country extending over the fertile valley
II the Appalachian oiain, which ttOuod WIN '-e
Homes who Afterwards stung Ferguson to deaih at
the hattIcof Kings Mountain, and Whence tic
,wains tew on Tie TANKS and Of CoTnwalis In his
pnrsu. OF Greene ThDir resolutions were sent OIL by
.Xprcsj 10 tie Continental Con srco, al IhddcPm1 ana
tho Provincial CONGRESS 1t HlllsbOro, but were not
l,prt a. tie general policy until the passage OF Rich
ard II nfy lees tuition, In June. l716 Sach Tue
simple siofy OF Tie L. ators and the FIRST Declaration
OF Iultn.ndcurc ly tno mountain % North Carolina
IEa,c only shadoTci family those stirring scenes ana
not Gwen named the patriot lenders who I'u ITO fooo
hearts and directed fhe in those ddys-ioE IN tie
war which swiftly followed. every cro'sroa1 became q
Battle-Ground and every ivcr ford pas. held at arms
The r,n,lnce of the Revolution ia North ana solih
c. rolinq. The homo .cn,0us democratic population oi
New-I1H gland allowed i,e difference oi opinion lVr mere
The rms Of an ari,toratc society had never existed
Euf tie foundation oil South Carolnu based on a
landed nobility aad gentry and John LOchos Institutes oil
Government for North Carolina attempted IA organize
hereditary rank as tie Foundation Of society there
Agin after the rthrlon~ OF 17l5 ana lGi5, many O he
Highland adhercuts OF tie House stuart found refuge
near cape Fear. Neal MncNoa purchased lands near
Cross Creek now Faycft vile, aud settled 500 or Geo
coonists there Flora NED nali who saved the Chcvaller
Charles Edward after Culodcn. settled here. ana be
tween the Hglandrr5 OF tine Cumberland AMI the Cove
uantrs Of Meek CnoUre there 10 hc bad blood
Tao isaud sock appears 10 have been the backbone
Of loyalty the other Of rcbt Hon. ana Their cud
vAgcd not and bloody during the ensuing yrH7~ The
hardest d-utg the most destructive encounters. tne
biz rest most fatal contests Of TIE ReyOuilOn were Nc
w. L. he Why's ami Tories Of North Carolina. 1t was a
cruel and a ruthless war. civil war always is. AMI
oven now loytlty ms no very fine any very
r., Ir,.u- 1850, .ti, Us n he Old Nurh state. have
written fis Srirh an uup., that IL may excite some III
0llgy and interest," Revolutionary traditions out
side e. the diate locality IN wuich We plsiFt .du
cherish them bHADALi J. JOlN5oN'
EichnDud Va, April -. 1870.