The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-31
euE FROM ME-
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.r,posraphic Error i" 1888
Another in i775.

Film, of the Charlotte Observer ::
...-,ian is asked in an extract in
,.nfa day or two since, noticing
now pending between Miss.
u- sharon, as the case may be-
Zor,da Senator. | answer, yes,
Az me far from it as is the Humboldt
-s''it The Catawba. But-'her
rt q descendant of Robert Bre-
u'''.I .,uer OF the Mecklenburg De-
ward j ~ Independence Probably
ga.t..o f,ur other journals have now
d. hi, paragraph. If SO, we have
pruie' If tbe same number and char
va ,e.tiied to Mr. Bancroft's YER
ger rr which we ask a new trail that
tt rings in Mecklenburg eliminated
'." i.I,ration of independence May
ID d - say then, as many as five
have now borne witness that
t.1 I'd. chr stan name was Robert.
DR. h. together with his family and
".t. Ties. claimed a different name
t... nself. lEphralm,)
'. '5.r-rand the point, to which your
...,r accidentally furnished a strong
A'>.' Is made in Wheeler's Reminis-
aa'. \orth Carolina-a posthumous
.n now in press as a legacy to
>,..e from her most p,ous son, under
que --rsryl>ion of Major Woodbury.
r. of Washington, d. C. From
rlance therein given and pointedly
i1, r.. 50 a to be accessible % any
E'. will clearly appear that there
n.. III e.. papers produced in Mecklen-
Ns1 s.. Nav, 1875, asserting ''Indepen-
PM that the original document re-
~ a unanimous vote OF the w
e1.' p . a. H., May Goth. and has been
,o,.I down from father to son, as writ
L-' man of the highest character
... aid repeatedly hat he Knew It t be
~. That Oh the same day at II 10.
.- femmittee reported "a mere for
~s-..1ation.' which was signed by
delegate, aud that these papers,
her. with a long string ~ofgrievances.
r4ifary order aud bylaws for a county
.nIritfee. were read by Col. Polk from
\ cd court house steps, and adopted
a;,b Ereat enthusiasm, not N the name
" y committee. but of those who wrote
Yourselves we. the citizens of Meek
lenburg county.
s,,n were the transactions of the day
csiebrate-"the day of the throwing
-, ~ hats. - never forgotten In the fami-
II those who were then citizens of
H. .lpntv. and as indelibly impressed
I'm an eve witness, then over 10 years
g,s whose birthday is attested BY
g0rry in his fathers family bible, and
MI, q.rn4rlv survived to join In Its centen-
re ebration. and there gave a graphic
mn of the circumstances VIII Ich fixed
i in hi memory.
t~I then. said those who ought TO
p,ra .pouu. and whose character In
Irr,h. in State, and 10 the field, can
MI be imneached, } a copy-not copies
rfs whole proceeding was made out,
.,-..-.F. and sent to Congress, which ex-
ss,an was not left unexplained, and
.,ar to the North, Carolina delegates
n Canrress. who fJrreaSons now obvious.
III n.- present it. The original declara
r.o had acknowledged the control of tive
revarS above them: that of our Cos
and the general government Of the Con
cross" This committee, therefore, wa
l7ri hv the declaration of the conven
far which created it, and, after the dele
gate, had pronounced it good but pre-
,rq-ars. must draw up a fourth paper.
was done Sept. LIST, ITO or continue
Ii act III concert with their tardy allies,
Vla. i was evident. woald accept indie
prqaaace as Washington did IN Npy
In asa ieruier resort. Mecklenburg
di not expect to see 1.-The legislature
power of Great Britain resign its unjust
s-I arbitrary pretensions with respect to
America Her anticipation of the re
silt was shown at he next meeting af-
TT The return of Captain Jack, when
SIC sent her troops out of her W terri
--v 10 arrest two prominent lawyers at
Salisbury. who 1t seems had denounced
her Philadelphia cypress as the tool of a
r--cluit0us and unenlI htened mob.
Tley were brought from Rowan against
The protest of citizens of hat county,
STE Dunn's letter. and after trial by the
a-cers Of the committee at Charlotte,
.- without a trial betore the committee.
this letter compiains) were banished
under military escort from North Caro-
liza. 90 the lst OF June the Rowan
County Committee had sent over an ex-
pres, TO be 0f7ci1llg informed as to the
i-.a- status of the M~eckienburg Com
u..ree, which had been constituted or
TIT --h Of May. The convention was
1s. provided for by Provincial Law, but
The Committee was. Would this legal
a.-h0-H.d body-the manner OF whose
a--4l.zs-i5n Wa not prescribed-endorse
tl- bid step which had been taken IN
l-a rsrue of the ~citiz1ns?' What an
sTs- va. sent back. If any. the Commit
tse Book of Rowan, the oGly one now
sE-s1.. perhaps, does not disclose, but 1t
Dies snow a finding, by a regular vote,
,l4, nlaa aud Boothe were arrested:
that they were banished from North
ta- ina that /, was not to be admitted
a. d precedent in similar cases; but that
f1e parties making the arrest did, under
--a -.-.5m>taLccs. deserve the thanks OF
t1e-r country.
Bl- time pa-sed on, and when nearly
all the patriarch : h Il allen asleep, Ger
tain -4a.l bows began to deny the whole
r. ee ling, and to tease Gid Rip
about Biz ,r,t.ertui dre1m. They had
been e.. school, II was not in their his
tones. ra-ir teachers had never seen any
thing about It Ike newspapers. Adams
a-l ! -1-,-Dn-oue. If mol both. of whom
ve- opp sed to IT. sentiments-if per
-.r..t 'a see il at the time had certain
-r .afLotteu il. although they frank
admitted. NO STATE wa more fixed
9r %rTari But the old gentleman
persisted Ihat IT " uuaccounta5le thar
be- Should have had al least three d cams
" That kind III rapid succession; that al
though they We're Independent transac
TORS ger they were substantially the
same 90 lis prophetic vision, for he had
H --s them al realized ln the
.' .e -.. Meek cnburg free; in the
second the same. and the ways and
n-t- appear. aud IN the third ali com
u- rlvl aud military. heresof re
gram & 1s 1he crown to be exercised in
'.-.e .'lr~. are null and void
pie a.v r. uted the agno>tics bv ex-