The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-04
MR.. GOODLOE,S s.BIRTn OF THE
REPUBLIC.o
Especial Cor to STATE CHRoNICLE.]

Especial Cor. to STATE CHRoNICLE.]
Mr.. Daniel r Goodloe is well known
North Carollnian, long resident at the
federal capital where he has devoted
time and talent to literary and journals
tic pursuits. To the readers, especially of
Central Carolina. he needs no intrOduc-
non In politics he has ever been firm in
his conviction. having ut an early age
pOused the cause of abolition In opposi-
ton to nearly all of his friends and in
later lite br' ken with the Republican party
because it had become thoroughly corrupt
In le'ttrs Mr.. Goodloe has preferred the
safe pat h If accuracy III statement and
soberness OF style to the more brilliant
and iuyItiny field of sensational achieve
ment. Modest in both departments of
study, he will leave behind hun at death
which may heaven defer many years, some
proud monuments to the memory Of a
good and just man. 1t is not my purpose
in his article to lay before the public even
an incomplete photography of my friend
but simply to allude to the arena Of his
labors and to call attention to the latest
productions of his pen. For the greater
part of his lite close student of American
politics and practised writer upon every
period of A IN. rican history and AL branch
rs of that history. he had ri4 ht to think
thai he was a suitable person To under
take the comI I,iIation of a popular work on
the era of the formation Of our federal re
public. He also supposed, with equal
propriety, that he had the equipments tor
composing non partisan Legislative, or
rather governmental, history of the coun
try. The first of these undertakings has
just issued from the teeming press of
Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago, New York
and San Francisco. 1t is appropriately
and takingly entitled, The Birth of the
Republic" The second is prepared and
ready for the printer. 1t is book of ref
erence chiefly, and the intention is to
bring it out in style of types and binding
suitable for the library or table. 1t is to
be a comprehensive documentary and par
liamentary manual.
The first thing that strikes the eye of
the reader after a glance at the beautiful
blue cloth cover, handsomely gilt edged
top, and gilt lettering in two places (con-
tanning the title and name of the author)
is the admirable portrait of Mr.. Goodloe
in the front of the volume. This was the
suggestion of an intimate friend The
books full title is as follows: The Birth
of the Republic, Compiled from the Nat
ional and Colonial Histories and Histori-
cal Collections, from the American Arch
ives and from Memoirs, and from the
Journals and Proceedings of the British
Parliament by Daniel Il. GoOdlOe: Con-
tanning the Resolutions. Declarations and
Addresses adopted by the Continental
Congress, the Provincial Congresses, Con-
ventions and Assemblies, of the County
and Town Meetings and the Committees
of Safety in all the Colonies, from the
year 1865 to 1916; to which is added the
Articles of Confederation, History of
the Formation and Adoption of the Con
stitution. the Election of President Wash
lngton, his Inauguration, April 81. 1899,
a copy of the Co -ttution and Washing
tons Inaugural Speech "
The Introiuc ion is short, appropriate
and very tastefully written. The main
point is a complete refutation of Lord
Mansfi DIS C aim in his speech in the
House Of Lnus on the Duke of Grafton's
motion for an address to the King, Nov.
IS, 1875, that independence had been the
constant object of the New England colo
MES from the beginning. The first chap
ter treats of the Stamp Act and the Con-
tinental Congress of 1865. The matter is
discussed in detail, the proceedings in the
several colonies being given very fully;
the part relating to North Cardinals op-
position to the act is copied from Martin.
The sketch of the Regulation " ar and the
grievances leading thereto is favorable, as
most later accounts have been, to the