Wilmington journal., 1876-03-03
FRUITS OF THE VICTORY,

Just about this tima Sir Henry
Cnnton and Lord William Campbell
wern entering Cape Fear river with
C rnsidtrable force. Sir Peter Parker,
with ten or twelve ships and Lo,d
COruwaltl9 with seven regiments wore
expected every hour, and i'll two or
three lays the grand c'mbi atiou
would havs, been c"mplet-, but inst; ad
of that the battle of MoOr,s Greek Was
fought. Clinton aud Campbell aud
Parker aud CORVALLIS quietly went
their ways elsewhere, AMI the British
[ .vasion OF North Carolina in 1776 Was
at an end.
(FRoM THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL
CHARLES LEE.)
WILLIAMSBURG, -, 1776.
[ am exactly in the same situation [
expected, puzzled where to go, or fix
myself from an uncertainty Of the enc
ms s designs. I Can, therefore, act
nnv 10y surmise The general opinion
!. that thy will AIM At this part of
Virginia, or that thcY will fix their
headquarters in North Crroiina. 1t
has been already ass~rl.Ad that Mr.
Clinton WAS landed with one Thousand
five hupdr red men at Wilmington A
ier ter from Brig. Gen Howe, dated
from Edenton, says it is believed out
1ot ascartained. I wait for further
Intelligence.
WILL1AMsBURGH, April s, 1875.
suppose to my self that the enemy
will make this province their I'M mediate
object and since the defeat of their
scGem~s in North Carolina, by G Dlonel
10 tho al raI
ton.
WILLIAMsBURGH, April II, 1776.
It is evident that their original inten-
ton was against North Carolina, but
the apparently total overthrow of their
whole scheme by Colonel C,swol's
victory, makes it more probable that
they will bend their course to some
ether quarter.
And 'hus it was that more than four
months before the National Declara-
ton of Independence at Philadelphia
Non th Caroiiuians, upon North Carolina
soil. under North Carolina officers and
with North Carolina troops brought to
naught as great danger as ever inn
panded over the American c,lcnles at
any time during their long struggle
tor lnuependeHc3.
But how thoroughly aroused the
people must have been, and how we'll
organiz-d the government must have
been in North Carolina to hav,. con-
ductod such campaign in midwinter
aImo<5 as that which eliminated in
victory at Moore's Greek! On the 9'h
Of February the first Intelligence of
the assembling of hostile troops at
Fayetteville is had in Wilmington. On
the 10Th, in less than a week, an ac-
complished officer with infantry and
| artillery is in strong position in their
immediate trout And from every
direction reinforcements are pouring
IN upon him, reiuforcements too con !
ssting not of unprganized mobs but
| of organized troops armed and equip
ped aud led by brave, COMPETENT Off
! GERS The men who did these thugs
we're North Carnlinians, and yet certain
| people affect to be lncre, III !ous about
| the Mecklenburg Declaration, anot her
ri ce of the band,work of North Caro-
Iinianst The people who repelled the
| British Invasion in February, 1776
were certainly capable of the Mecklen-
burg Declaration in May, 1775.
All honor then let US give to the
memories of the gallant men who, one
hundred years ago this morning. saved
from the hand of the enemy as an
heritage for us the country We love so
well.