The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-09-14
OF K OWN STATE.
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Quality OF Endurance
Special Cor. STATE ClIEnNIcIE

ishne>*- Dut Strength and the Manly
Quality OF Endurance
Especial Cor. STATE CIIHoNiCLE.i
CAMBRIDGE, MASS Sept 3, 'SS-Some
thing over a year ago. in company of
Young men here. me one objected to my
claim for North Carolina that the first
blood OF the American Re, oIution was
she'd on her soil, on the ground that the
So CALLED Boston Massacre antedated the
battle of Alamance by sever al years, when
my friend and club mate, Mr.. George ".
Brown, of the Harvard Law School, came
to my rescue with the statement that Girls
puS Attucks was far from being hero,
and that be WAS a disreput ,ble negro
rovdv whom the British soldiers did well
to sho. t.
Attu ks, he I'D belonged TO his great
yrandfai her and had been sent to the
house of a neighbor on an errand. He
did not return that night, and it was over
a wetk before his master heard anything
Of him, when the news came that he had
been shot down in Boston town while lead
ing a set of drunken rowdies in most dis
graceful riot, and that while some few of
the Bostonians in their fury against the
King, for having troops in Boston did try
to make a martyr Of the fellow, his mas
ter and the neghbors around Concord
looked upon his death as happy riddance
to the community.
short time ago it was proposed to
EJECT a monument to Crispus Attucks,
The people of Boston like to get at
the truth about what relates to themselves,
and this proposition has called forth many
protests and has caused the publication,
at club dinners and elsewhere, of many
facts about Boston mobs before the kevo-
luton. A short time ago the Rev. DR..
nd of W h,i.: ,l-l
on this subject before the Bostonian Soci
ely. Among other things he said that
1.-The first arrival Of the stamps, and the
inaugural on Of the stamp office, led to
ri It, the Ii tiers meeting at Essex street
with two stuffed figures and marching to
kilby street where they destroyed the
stamp office and then went to Fort Hill
aud burned the etfigies The next night
they attacked Lieut. Coy Hutchinsons
house on Garden Court street broke the
windows, and. but for being misled by a
n+ighbor III Hutchinson'S, would have done
far more damage, if not killed him
August Goth 1.65), just ten days af
terwarsl, another most disgracefui riot oc
Cured 4 hontre was built on King street,
now State street, aud Il body IF disguised
men gathered, and, getting possession OF
the register and the comptroller Of Gus
toms beat them numerically, and then
proceeded to Lieut. Gov Iiutchlnson's
house and demolished it, with & 900 in
money. Il large quantity of silver plate,
all his valuable papers, and al the furni
turc. Hutchinson received warning from
friends Just IN time TO escape The au
thofitits had timely notice of this riot,
but they were unable to do anything to
prevent il. although the next day meet
ing was held, at which the action Of he
N b was Denounced, and some were ar
r, sted. Bat their comrades Went TO The
jail, demanded the keys, got them, and
released the prisoners, which WAS the end
of the matter" Tie only thing the IA
thorties could do after these ourrages WAS
to import troops, for the militia could not
be depended on
Or. Peabody showed that the riot re
sulting in the Boston massacre, so-called,
was Predetermined on the part Of the mob,
a at eight O'Clock bell was sounded and
a mob gathered on King street. A solita
ry sentinel was on his post, and they at
toeked him with bricks and stones Find
ing himself powerleSs ne gave the al -rln,
and squad Of troops under Captain Pres
ton came to his assistance. The mob, un
der the leadership of Attucks continued
the attack. The negro brute knocked the
soldier down and got his gun from him.
nut Del ore he idu tune 10 use 1t. tftt CtItl
soldiers fired and killed Attucks.
In 111.3 the destruction of tea Whch took
place in the harbor, was dore by men dis
guISeu, and those names were not dlvulg
ed until the Revolution had become a de
cided success.
Vow these are the men whom our chll
dren are taught, in their school books, 10
worship as heroes, What sirlkl L.. con
trast the history of the same period n our
own State presents, and yet how little
does the world know of our heroes site.
we have never had a man to tell the story
properly.
When the news Of the pass ige Of the
Stamp Act reached North Carolina John
AShe who was Speaker of the House. bold
" told the Governor that he would resist
its execution to the death and that his
people would stand by him; and the peo-
pie of Wilmington took James Ioust on
| who had been appointed Stamp Agent,
| before Mayor Moses John DeRosset, and
| forced him to resign his Office, swearing
| that he would never perform its duties. A
| few days later when the sloop DILIGENCE
| crossed the bar below Wilmington, MessrS.
| Ashe aud Waddell boarded her and made
| her commander swear not to land the
| stamps.
| And how much more worthy of fame
are the fifty six ladies of Edenton, who
on the 25th OF October, 1174, passed reso
lutions of resistance, and openly destroyed
the tea when it was taxed by the Er gial
Parliament, than are the Boston rougt.s
who did their work at night and in dis
guise.
l sent this letter, and the remarks tha
| follow, to the editor Of the CHRONICLE il
the latter part of May, but upon secon(
thought wrote him postal card askins
him not to print 1t just at the season o
college commencementS of teachers as
semb'ies and normal schools. of soda KAT e
oratory; for we have rather overdone tn
praise of our dear old State in the las
few years, and have overlooked some 0
her best qualities and those most deserv
ing Of praise. | know that am as guilt
of this as any one else and am ready t
confess my sins, 'both of omission and 0
commission" Ii you attend the closin
exercises tf any of our schools you sr
struck by the amount of gush and Fourth
of-Julyishness with which the merits o
North Carolina are discussed. This woul
do very we'll in the school-room if it di
not so pervade everything in the State
If you attend a teachers meeting and tn
subject for discussion geography, NOR
than three fonrit;s of the time for the dis
| cussiou is devoted 10 North Carolina
The same is true Of the history hour. A
very we'll But North Carolina is dragge
/ into the discussion of how to teach aritt