The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-03
Something TO File Away.

I'm y & Labatt 5fNce Orcaus. a
aatl,e NccNlsnbars N9r Car9iua
recently Nrote 4 - column letter Is the
7.ues of thai city. .fea vii ch "a cy
track
list be regretted that tic minis
>iontr> = North tarH1n4 e thc t't-
ron E~.xIa~ufln, bmr ~ exhla tthg ORG
mai 5r py Of the au>t II 4l lee.afa
tl0u Il Iniepeuience whi.h en- 4uatcd
from Neck'cubure counts ia Ma
fourteen months lore the nsrt7 l's
claratl8u If Independents, WfttJts ty
Thomas Jefferson ID j4NF. \H-
~wlth>tandlug it, authenticity has been
doubled. its iniubtahie ycrity has besn
subsequently established. In the fourth
volume OF Jeferson's correspondence,
page 81, on July q 1870. he writes 10
Mr.. Adams a follows on that celebrated
paper
But what has attracted uy peculiar
notice j. the paper from N~ecAlcnburg
county, IF North Carolina. published ln
the Essex Register, which you were 81
kind u TO ~inclo>e ia your last y June 32
And sou seem to think IL genuine. be
lieve il spurious. | deem II \ very uuius
tihab'e quiz, Ike that Of the volcano, 80
infinitely related 10 Us .ayIag broken cut
10 North Carolina some halt a dozen
years ago, in that part 81 the country,
and perhaps in that very county OF Meek
lenburg. for ! don't remember its precise
locality. Ii this paper t. rtal.5 taken
from the Raleigh Rsga>t.r, a. l%uotri,
wonder ii should have escaped H1tehic,
who cuiI~ what j. good from cye'y paper,
as the bee from every flower, aud the
Ntt50u4t Ia'sitIsHesr. too, which II ell
ted 10y North CAroliniau aud tht, the
fire should blaze out all at once IN Essex,
lOOo miles from whore the spark IS sad TO
have fallen. But II really taken from the
Raleigh ReqiSter, who i the narrator,
and is the name subscribed real ,r Is i
as fictitious as the pap r ITSELF II an
peal~, too, TO an original book, which i
burnt; to Mr.. Alexander, woo is dead 70
a Joint letter from CaSwcli. Hughes and
Hooper. all dead, To a copy sent 70 the
dead Caswcll, and another sent TO Dr.
Williamson, now probably dead, whose
memory did not recollect, ~ the history
he has written Of North Carolina, this
gigantic step Of the county Of Mccklcn-
burg. Horny, too, i silent in hi history
Of Marion, whose scene Ut action Wl~ the
country bordering on Merk,puhurg
Ramsay, Marshall, Jones. Getarieu
were historians of the adjacent States. a.
silent. When Mr.. lIcnry~ resolutions,
far short of independence, flew Ike light
ning through every paper aud kIndlcI
both sides Of the Atlantic, tins lcc'ara
ton Of II same date. OF the juIeprul
cnce vt M,ckIcuburs county Of \ortt
caro- ina, absJiviug II from the Brll
- a,t ~ ,.yr VIII ... FL. 4,.
nottles with thai tt s-A uI
20 Congress too. Is never beard of. Iii.
not known even a Nv I've month ailcr.
when u
SIMILAR PROPOSITION Is FIRST MADE IL
HAT BODY.
Armed with this bold example, woulC
not You have addressed our timid brcth
rem in peals of thunder on their tardy
fears? Would not every advocate 81 iu
dependence have sung the gIorie> %
M~ecklenburg county IN North Carolina il
the ears of the doubling Dickinson ana
others, who hung so heavily on as vi
the example Of Mccklcnburg county IL
North Carolina was never once quO-ci.
The paper speak, too, Of the coutin
ued excrtions Of their delegation Gas
well, Hooper and Hughes in the cause
of liberty and independence.
Nov, YOU remember as well a. | il
that We had not a greater Tony III Con
gress than Hooper; that Hughes wa,
very waverlng, sometimes firm, some
times feeble, according as the day wa.
cloudy OF clear; that Caswell, indeed wa.
a good Wing, and kept these gcutlrmer
to the notch while he was present, bu.
that he left US soon, and their Inc Of con
duct became then uncertain until Penn
came who fxej Hughes and the vote o
the State ! must not be understood >.
suggesting any doubttulness IN tie State
OF North Carolina.
no STATE WAS MORE FINED OR FORWARD
Nor do | affirm positively that TIN, papcI
Il fabrication. because proof of a uceativ,
San only be ~prc~umutivc. But ! shall
believe 1t such until positive aud so.cmr
proof Of it, Authenticity shall be produce.
and if the name Of Mcknltt be rea, ana
not a part OF the fabrication, it needs a
vindication by the production Of sucl
proof For the present | must be an un.
believer III the ap0cryphal gospel
La the face OF the overwhelming mega
tive testimony and statement by such I
fairminded man as Jefferson, it l. Nc
wonder that It's verify should be que,
toned, until lie i~ndisputable proof de
manded by him had been secured. Thi.
has been done and published to the won,
over the signature Of the great historian
Bancroft, unfortunately, however, OF
tanned after Mr.. JetIerson's death.