Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-21
HILL At CHARLOTTE.
oeArlON ON THE MsckLsNsuaG
DECLARATION.
.ui.s Hornets Neat" in Festival
Aure-N Great 'oiebrHfso" OF N'r'"
earolina's Indcpsndcnce-Day'


lr. grning Of the Mccklenburg De
... of independence, arrived here
r..ht accompanied by Senators
r... ari Gray, Representative Alex
.- aai others Of prominence.
ninc Of this declaration has al
...a celebrated in Charlotte. May
Thomas J. Hendricks was the
..-.f lho day. Amos J. Cummings
.s.c then. as were also the Gov
-..l cicht or ten southern States.
.,t largest celebration was May %,
u.s.. ...n Thomas +. Bayard was the
. sai Senators Hampton, Vance.
ana other distinguished men
.. .l .re.scs May 20, 1854, Hon
n. pondleton was the orator,
.... era.ion Of prominent men ac-
c- hm.
.r.r-r ATTENDANCE KNOWN.
lration of 1875 attracted the
,.... .t.rlauee ever known in the
...ftlc town. but the assemblagc
a here today IS considerably
tl that one. The city is pro
l...7. rated and a stately arch that
....I. fotr corners of the principal
.l t.o town is particularly
.ncct Thirty thousand yisi-
.... .ae streets.
was opened with the firing
A sham battle was the iea-
t. morning exercises and was
.tl 10 hy 1000 troops. Sena-
.. .rI party reviewed the military
ru the Central-Hotel balcony
,-.
IIL's GRAFTON.
.. .a senator Hill delivered his
.. tae auditorium, a building
,ag capacity Of 5000.
-l. .a part:
his 2lth day of May, in the
,....r .i American independence,
celebrate the ll7th year of
XII Cro.uion independence. We
....l historic ground A birth
.eE,y The birthplace of
-t.rans narrate that here the
.-.. urou oi Independence was
r.i.I
SIMPLE story, and is briefly told.
tr..c citizens OF this county Of
r.... .tar-. ln tins grand old State OF
N.-.. I....Iua, restless under the yoke
a.n. impatient of the injustice
ru.o under which they had
. .ai. and imbued with the
..t st government, assembled to-
---.-at tne courthouse over thirteen
..s before the memorable action of
.. Continental Congress, with the start
.-- ,.us ot the battle of Lexington
.,r.. tLeir ears. renewing their de
On the inherent aud inalienable
--. fua1. brayely and solemnly re-
...I u substance that they were q
Hi independent people, and that
.. aea bands which had bound
80 tie mother country were dis
. uasa sublime and heroic action.
- ua. without an example in the his
..-r of tie word. What q page in the
-v o., these United States Of
l-l.a
BATTLE or ALANAsCE.
rt...r was North Carolina the first
.-.y a which Independence was de-
.... I.t il is confidently claimed
GIL. history seems TO confirm the state
here in your State the first
v.s spilled in the United States
..-....-ce to the exactions Of English
% au engagement between the
-... ..-.-- and The North Carolina mi
nu as Regulators, - so early
r tM Of May, III, at the battle
-l.e.
l....t denied that these facts have
.s.onel.
-. Swiss are told that no such per
ar lived among their mount lus as
N - Tell
t-lr.e tie historians are not con-
'.te- -- saying that Christopher Co.
sought a westward passage TO
g. .l of Japan and the Aslatlc
was interrupted by the little
.--0 of Florida, made ms crew
.t. iayit that one could march
--om Cuba across Asia to spain,
tl.ter landed upon North America
led the existence OF the Ia
N+sl.
terrible historicrl critics 60
s.
- lythng survive in ell this
Fs.o famous equations ?
aYIA SYLLABLE OF SHANE.
It There is a tomb at Mt. Vernon
We, ono of tho mighty dead lies in
at. honor.
j.. historians have now done theil
t their worst Thank God We
a- last that the Father Of his Coun-
-r ..tt 90 the children and the chill
Children OF this great nation
aA generations the priceless
~ % pure, uusullied name.
.s Washington. John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson. James Madi-
-. '.l..e no more) all these among
founders Of a mighty State, all
fist leaders OF our still con-
political parties, retain their title
r.F0reuce as % our pride, TO oui
CD our admiration. The whole
z iatir long. labOrious lives has
opposed upturned, published
a.' ono syllable Of shame.
g.. SANDER Of elyious or am
rival which the record has ex
-o min shame. IL is the
rryiIugs, the ceaseless calum
some partisan newspapers on
which have been shrlyellec
.". burned away in the glare o.
- t0sngatiOn.
t.e rrellhty Of opposing parti
s car.lus bigots, which the muse
.ry now mocss with her wls'
.w.rtizeus Of North Carolina
citizens Of Mecklenburg, con
ii-. 500 yon especially that there II
-ng else which the tooth Of time
.. "ol.v spared.
.0'rra'u'ate YOU that after oil the
".'.aes Oithcir contemporaries, their
....-ns, and their critics here, too,
0r hold fast and keep forever un-
.-'e1 Your yeDeration for the "gray
.. .HeIs Of the State" and all youl
20 the authentic precursors o.
neaa independence.
.itr JEwEL or AMERICAN LIBERTY