The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-09
For tie +. & NJ. Household
a Portrait, ana a History.

There hangs on the wall before me
the portrait, in half length, of a small
elegant looking man. clad in the fashion
OF century ago, q high collared dark
blue coat, high white lawn stock, and
rutlled bosom shirt, the dark ches tnut
hair is al drawn away from the high
broad full forehead, and tied IN queue;
the keen vivid fascinating face is instinct
with intellect and power, the deep pen
etratlng dark hazel eyes, are half mirth-
ful, half mastertul in their clear direct
gaze; the mouth is firm, satirical, yet
good-humOred and pleasant; the chin
well shaped and resolute, the lower jaw
absolutely relentless, the whole, the
face OF an-aristocrat,a a scholar, and mas
ter among men. 1t seems impossible
to realize that that face, so alive and
vivid does it seem, has been dust for
nearly three quarters OF a century-that
those half smiling eyes have flashed with
the red light of battle till men shranll
back from their fiery splendor, that
those satirical, yet good-tempered lips
have ever parted TO utter death sem
tencc, or plead with resistless eloquence
in behalf of justice and right that a
price was once set upon that sllken
haired head. which in later years men
delighted to honor, for the portrait IS OF
Alfred Moore, Captain in the war OF the
| Revolution, Attorney-General of the
Commonwealth Of North Carolina. and
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the
| United States. \ man whose lie was
part OF the history Of his country, and
into whose 1ifty-five years were crowded
all the vicisSitudeS OF fortune. all the
elements of heroism, tragedy and ro-
nance.
Judge Alfred Moore was third i'll dis
! cent from Gov. James Moore, of South
Carolina. and Anue 0eamans, his wife.
His father, Judge Maurice Moore was
the author of the famous ''AtticuS' let
ters, which won for him the title OF
1.-The American Junius.' lie was twice
married, his first wife was Anne Grange,
/ BY whom he had two children. Sallie.
who married Gen. Francis Nash. and
Alfred, the subject of this sketch.
i Judge Maurice MoOre's second wife was
i Mary Paris, and two sons were born to
/ them. James. who. while d minor,a mere
1 lad enlisted as a sailor on a privateer
while was lost at sea with all on board
and Julius Cesar, who died as minor
during the war. Both boys were mere
children at the time of their father :
death in 1777, a disastrous year. BY the
way. for the Moores, for in it died on the
same day and hour, Judge Maurice and
| his brother, Gen. James Moore, and
| later at Germantown, his son-in-law
/ Gen. Francis Nash. Gen. Nash left
two little girls. Sallic, who married
! John Waddell. Esq. and was the grand.
mother OF Capt .iames lredell Waddell,
+ of The Shenandoah and Anne who
/ died in childhood. Judge Alfred Moore
was educated at Boston, where he form
4 ed close intimacy with some of the
officers OF the British garrison stationed
i there, and evincing hereditary taste
i for the profession of arms was offered a
commission in the royal forces. which
I however, at the desire of his father he
refused.
He graduated with distinction IN his
seventeenth year, and returning to the
i Cape Fear. two years later, married susan
| Elizabeth. only daughter Of Col Richard
! Eagles, and Marguerite Henriette dc
/ Bouyan, his wife. Miss Eagles had
/ been educated in England at the resi-
dence Of her uncle. SIR John. and was
a very handsome, high spirited and cour-
ageous woman. Judge Moore was Just
twenty when tue State Congress at Hills
boro in ITS organized two regiments
Tor the continental service, and he was
commissioned as Captain in the First
Regiment of which his uncle james
| Moore was Colonel He marched Will
his command to Charleston. and was or
duty there during the brilliant affair a
y IL
ter that ranked him as one of the frs
Captains of the day"
i5ut his field service was destined K
be short disasters crowded thick upor
him. On January II, Iii. ,Judse Mau
rice Moore, his father. and his uncle Gen
James Moore both died at the same hou
in the house of the former, their dealt
being marked as their lives had been b,
singular unity. A little later his broth
er-iu-law Gen. Francis Nash was kille,
at Germantown. and these misfortune
leaving the care of several helpless fam
lilies upon his hands compelled him t
resign.
His patriotic and martial spirit how
ever did not suffer to remain inactive
and he raised troop Of volunteers an,
so greatly annoyed the British tina
Major Craig afterwards Sir Jane
Craig, Gov. Gen'l Of Canada) offered
reward of a thousand pounds, $4,000
tor his capture, dead or alive, and al
agent was sent to him to offer as a brib
the restoration of the family titles an
estates which had been forteiicd in tn
j Rebellion OF lG4l,'' if he would agree t
: join the English forces. or even renal
neutral
> Captain Moore bent a glauce of witt
J erin- contempt upon him. and replle,
f go. sir. and tell those who sent yot
d that the honor of an American gentle
0 man is neither for sale nor hire. Will