The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-21
Port the Farmer and Mechanic,
The Meckienburg eciafatio
Few Additional Remarks.

Thanking you for your ailusion TO my
last ..of hand article, allow me TO say
that your confidence has been, aud very
nalurally, imposed upon by the persls-
ten, efforts Of a few gentlemen TO strain
ont"-cr if they prefer the nrlnt agaiL
- the manuscript, to strain at =
gnat in the figure -" and 's"allo" a
camel" without a pedigree, 10 the hgure
- The fact i. neither Mr.. Bancroft,
or any other historian, has ever u
at the 2Dth May convention The ne
orr that one paper lis glory enough ior
MeckleDburg, Is not endorsed by nun ~
he distinctly says that there were meet
icgs. on this subject, prior 10 the 3is' OF
May. Then why not on the lsth ana
2Oth7 1t was, perhaps, apparent RON
facts stated 10 my last communlcation;
that the Rowan County Committee dlu
not recognize the revolutionary action "a
ken 10 the name Of THE citizens OF Meek,
Ien5urg county, but sought for ofhclai
information from the newly constituted
boly polite, which. when Inaugurated
was OF eq Ial dignity With their avn.
Every county had been recommended
TO ~orgapize its congress-fur such 1t real
" was;-and proceeded to the task, sooner
er alter. in It's owu way. In >ome We ind
tyo delegates from each militia company,
and in the old county OF Butte ("arrenl
OIL. from each kan.
When the Committee Of Mecklenburg
acted as a committee-Ihls day the
committee Of this county met, &c -
then il is that Mr.. Bancroft says Thus
was Mecklenburg county in North Caro-
lima seoarated from the British Empire
Perhaps some future historian. when
passion shall have subsidized, mentioning
the ordinance of secession by North Car
DINA on May 10Th, 1851, may write ::
Thus was North Carolina separated, tor
a time, % from the United States; blu
it is to be hoped, for the truths sake,
that it will never be confidently relied
upon to disprove the fact that Gov. Ellis
really first made the separation, when he
voiced the sentiments OF his people IN
his famous reply by telegram to the Sec
Rotary Of War, informing him that he
could get no troops from North Carolina
for a wal of coercion. 1t is a matter OF
history that this telegram was endorsed
.'for better or for worse" by the people
at the polls-where the delegates elect
were instructed. The convention, oH
c,dHy, only did what the Governor and
people had already done, and that, too,
without any mention of previous trans
actions" If all the records were lost,
this ordinance, duly lone up in red tape,
would hardly be accepted as conclusive
proof, that it is the first act of the bloody
drama.
But my object in thee articles, hastily
thrown off in the intervals OF business,
has not been to discusss the authenticity
of q transaction long since as clearly es-
tablished as the given name of any cltl
zen then living in M~ecklenburg county
provedlby parental, family and individu-
al testimony, as well as local contemporary
reputation. Without such confirmation
history, which is necessarily but a compi-
lation of biographies, becomes simply a
digest of the caprtc'ous distortions OF
romance.
No issue is raised with the historian
who says that North Carolina was set
tied by the heest of the free" but my
intention has been, in a pleasant way, to
call his attention to the fact that he has
placed too implicit confidence in this PRINT
ed''3"-the story of little orphan picked
up by him 5000 miles from home, claim
ing a birthday unknown in its family.
But neither he, or this lost child, as
serts that it was the frst-born. Next
week, if you think your readers would
be interested in the subject, | may give
you my proof- reading of the CHOWAN
COUNTY DECLARATION.
r. d. g.