Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-11

/ cling expenses, it Is well known, ars
/ enormous in all this section. These
facts will keep many at home who
would gladly come. The exact reverse
/ Of the allegation made by the Replbf-
can is true. The Charlotte celebration
will be purely patriotic occasion, snd
patriotic not in Il sectional seuse, but iu
large, liberal, CathOlic-in one word,
AmeriCan-impOTG 1t Is the erection Of
a new memorial day. It is an abandon
| ment Of the narrow "reminiscences and
Observancas which tend only 70 per.
petuate the anim0sitiss OF the late
war between the sections; 1t is q re-
turn 10 the GG5leF recOlleCtions Of that
early end better era when the north
man ard the sOuthrOn stood side by
eits in common contest, aud when
tiB men Of Meckienburg answered
the heroes OF .Middiesex unenvyingly
and with glad acclaim. The Charlotte
declaration was sequel and response
to Lexington and Concord. The twen-
tieth OF May was 8 result OF the nine
teenth of April. These two dates, with
the great events they signalize, are in
dissolubiy connected in our history, and
form a part Of our JOINT national inher-
itanc9 Of renoTn. Permit me to insert
an historical item evidercing the patri-
otism OF the women Of North Carolina
a century ago. The South Carolina and
american General Gazette, OF February
8, lI76, contains the following paragraph:
"The young ladies of the best families
of Meckienburg, North Carolina, have
enteret into q voluntary association that
they will not receive the addresses Cf
any young gentleman Df that place ex-
cept the brave volunteers who served in
the expedition 70 South Carolina, and
assisted IN subduiDg the 5cOvalite insur-
gents. The ladies are OF opinion that
such persons as stay lettering at home
when the important calls of the country
demand their military services abroad,
must Certainly be destitute OF that NO
bleness Of sentiment, that brave, manly
spirit, which would qualify them to
be the defenders and guardians of the
fair sex. The ladies Of the adjoining
county Of Rowan have desired the plan
OF q similar association to be drawn up
aud prepared for signatures. 1t is also |
matter OF history that the Edenton ladies |
mad meeting and "destroyed their tea |
their favorite beversge), when taxed by
the English parliament" 1t is no Won |
der that the women Of North Carolina |
hated the British when the royal COVER
nor allowed the county court clerks to |
charge fifteen dollars for q marriage !
license. This heavy tax on matrimony |
amounted to a prohibition among the |
poorer classes and its moral influences |
were not at all salutary. Charlotte is q |
very thrifty city, with population of |
about six thousand-a little less than |
that Of Raleigh. 1t is situated on Tising |
ground. / sn told that the town con- |
sisted, in 1775, of about forty houses.
One side of the village was an open
common, the other was covered with
underwood, The two main streets
crossed each other at right angles, the
courthouse being in the center. This
courthouse, by the way, is immortal
memory, ilasmuch as it witnessed
the adoption of the Mecklen-
burg Declaration of Independence.
The upper part of the building
was occupied IS a courtroom; the IN.
der as a. markethOuse. This very spot
saw the defiant challenge to Great
Britain sent from its walls in May, 1775,
made good by one OF the most heroic ac-
ti0ns Of the revolution, when, on the
twenty~ffCh Of September, 1850, Gen
eral William 4. Davis (then 8 major
with three cavalry companies, one OF
which he dismOunIed and stationed Un-
der the courthouse, dared to attack ard
mold in check Lord CornwaIIis and his
whole army, flushed with their recent
victory al Camden over the American
forces under General Gates, and then
making triumphal progress. This was
deed equal in valCr to TheTmOpyl@.