Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

Vance's sons has secured a huge hornets
nest for the occasion. This is intended by
way of a remembrance of the Hornets
Nest, a doughty little patriotic paper,
claimed to have been published in Char
lotte a hundred years ago. Its name has a
twofold origin; First an allusion to the
buzZing and singing Of the formidable in
sect after which it was called, and second,
from the remarkably close resemblance in
the grayish hue Of its printed pages to the
peculiar neutral tint of the hornets nest.
The first reyisal Of the colonial laws Of
North Carolina, made in 1852, was a small
lolio volume with a yellow binding, and
was, for a similar reason, popularity called
the "yellow jacket"
REPUTATION OF RADICAL ISLANDERS.
/ neither see nor hear anything here
which gives any color whatever to the
charge recently made by the Washington
Republican, aud echoed by other admins
tration journals, that 'the Mecklenburg
celebration promises 10 be a close commu-
Mon, hidebOBnd and conceitedly select az
fair" whose conductors have been chosen
with regard solely to their State rights,
Southern, Democratic and Confederate an
tecedents, and that the object is "tO make
treason respectable" / know that the Re
pUblicdn'S statement, that Gail ex-Confed-
crate military companies of North Carolina
and the adjoining States will be on hand"
and that there will be "about forty Exon
federate Generals as assistant marshals,n is
a mOnstrously absurd exaggeratiOn. The
idea that the whole Confederate army
what there is left of it's to assemble in
Charlotte on the 10th Of Mayor on any
other days ridiculous in its very face. The
celebration will be no such ebig thing as
all that. 1t wouldn't pay. The Southern peo-
pie are poor, and travelling expenses, it is
well known, are 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 Re
publican is true. The Charlotte celebTa-
ton will be purely a patriotic occasion,
and patriotic not in a sectional sense, but
in a large,i liberal, eatholic-in One word,
American-import, 1t is the erection Of a
new memorial day. Ii is an abandonment
of the narrow "reminiscences and OBJ
servances which tend only to ~perpetuate
the animOsities of the late war between
the sections; it is a return to the nObler re-
collections of that early and better era
v AAG -NGAAAAAA4L eL1 IN Do1AAAoAA
stood side by side in a common contest,
and when the men Of Mecklenburg answer
ed the heroes of Middlesex unenvyingly
and with glad acclaim. The Charlotte
declaration was a sequel and a response to
Lexington and Concord. The 10Th of
May was a result Of the 10Th Of April.
These two dates, with the great events
they signalize, are in~dissOlubly connected
in our history and form a part of our joint
national inheritance of renOWn.
THE GIRLS OF MRCKLENBURG.
Permit me to insert an historical item
e~videncing the patriotism Of the women of
North Carolina a century ago. The South
Carolina and american General Gazette
of Feb. 8, l776, contains the following par
agraph: "The young ladies Of the best fam
lilies Of Mecklenburg, North Carolina, have
entered into a voluntary association that
they will not receive the addresses of any
young gentleman Of that place except the
brave volunteers who served in the expedi-
tion to South Carolina and assisted in sub
DUNG the ScOvalite insurgents. The ladies
being Of opinion that such persons as stay
lettering at home when the important calls
of the country demand their military ser
vices abroad must certainly be destitute Of
that nobleness 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 cOUn-
ty of Rowan have desired the plan Of a sim
liar association to be drawn up and pre-
pared for signatures
1t is also matter of history that the
EdentOn ladies had a meeting and "de-
stroyed their tea (their favOrite b~everage),
when taxed by the English Parliament
1t is no wonder that the wOmen ofNOTth
Carolina hated the british when
the royal Governors allowed the county
court clerks to charge S15 for a marriage
license. This heavy tax on matrimOny
amounted to a prohibition among the poor
er classes, and its moral influences were not
at all salutaTy.
Charlotte is a very thrifty city, with q
population Of about six thOusand-a little
less than that of Rdeigh. 1t is situated on
rising ground. l am told That the town
consisted, in I775, Of about 40 hOUrses.
One side Of the village was an open COM
mon, the other was covered with uuder-
wood. The two main streets crossed each
other at right angles, the Courthouse be-
ing in the centre. This Courthouse, by
~ way .
OF IMMORTAL MEMORY,
inasmuch as it witnessed the adoption Of
the M~ecklenburg Declaration Of Independ-
ence. The upper part Of the building was
occupied as a courtroom; the under as a
market-hOUse. This very spot saw the
defiant challenge TO Great Britain sent
from its walls in May, 1715, made good by
one Of the mOst heroic actions Of the ReyO-
luton, when, on the 25th Of September,
1880, Gen. William r. Davis (hen a major
with three cavalry companies, one Of which
he dismounted and stationed under the
courthouse, dared to attack and hold in
check Lord CORVALLIS and his whole army,
flushed with their recent victory at Cam
den over the American forces under Gen.
Gates, and then making a tTiumphal prog
ress. This was a deed equal in valOr to
ThermOpyl8.