Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-02-13

beyond what their incomes could sup
port Labor was prescribed as fit only
for the degraded vulgar; and every
man in the country, of any standing
We'd with his neighbor in the splendol
OF his appearance, in the expenditures
of his family, and in the frivolous
amusements with which he passed his
time. These traders were taken for a
superior class of beings, their dress was
initiated, their manners, their amuse.
ments, even their hobling gait, and
broad accent. The very women of the
country believed that there was no dig.
nifty but in a connection with him.
The Governors of the province were al.
ternately Scotch, or English, who favor
ed their pretentions.. The members of
the Council were chiefly Scotch, and
the members of Assembly also. To
supply the means of the expensive liv
ing which was then fashionable, clerks
OF courts and lawyers, demanded exor-
bitant fees for their services. The great
excellency of clerk, insisted in max.
ing out the highest bill of costs, and
yet keeping within the pale of the law.
All sums over forty shillings were
sued for, and recovered in courts of
record. The business was immense,
and the extortions of clerks, lawyers
and tax gatherers, fell with intolerable
weight upon the people. Sheriffs in
the collection of taxes, exacted more
than was due, and appropriated the
surplus to their own use. The offenders
were the men in power, who were ap
pointed by the law to redress the wrongs
of the people. Those who were injured
met and petitioned the Legislature for
relief, and made representations of the
malpractices. which they had suffered.
Their petitions were rejected, and treat.
ed with disdain. Driven by oppression
to desperation and madness, the people
rose in bodies, under the little of Regu-
lators. The Royal forces under the
command of Governor Tryon, met the
Regulators near the Great Alamance,
on the 10Th of May, 177l, and defeated
them, killing above two hundred of
them ON the field of battle: some of
them were taken by the victors and
hanged; Others took the oath of alleg-
lance and returned home; others fled
to Holston, where the dread of British
power, at a subsequent period, made
them tories. In these affecting
circumstances, it became necessary for
men of property to come to the west
ward in quest of the means to repair
the dilapidations of their broken for
tunes, and for the poor, to go somewhere
in search of independence, and a share
of respectability absolutely unattaina-
BILE in the country of their nativity. In
the wilderness, beyond the mountains,
they were promised at least exemption,
from the supercilious annoyance of
those who claimed pre- eminence above
them. Under these incentives, full
streams of emigration began to flow in
various directions from the misgoyern-
ed province of North Carolina. The
day of retribution was not far behind,
and when it came in the dawn of the
revolution, the enraged populace, ever
prone to extremes, exhibited many of
those models of excellence, in match
coats of tar and feathers, which fire.
quently they were hardly restrained
from decorating with the illumination
OF liquid flame. Is it meant TO applaud
such violence? No, but to hold it in
adherence. Yet candor is obliged to
confess, that as in every other misfor.
tune, there is some speck of consola-
ton, 30, also, there was one in this,
that if the rude fury of the people must
fall somewhere, it did not upon this oc-
casion miss the most deserving candi-
dates for popular distinction. When
the oath of allegiance to the new State
Government was offered to the people
of North Carolina as test of distinc.
tion between the friends of the new
State, who would take it, and its enc
mics who would not, this whole body
of men, with very few exceptions, who
had so lately been the tyrants of the
country, refused to take the oath and
left the United States. Amongst others,
who had withdrawn from the oppres-
sion which they had made fashionable,
was Daniel Boone from the Yadkin,
who removed in 1869, or ITO, and JAS
Robertson, from Wake County, in North
Carolina, early in ITO. He is the same
person who will appear hereafter by
his actions, to have meritad all the eu-
logium, esteem and affection, which
the most ardent of his countrymen have
ever bestowed upon him. Like almost
all those in America, who have ascend.
ed to eminent celebrity, he had not a
noble lineage to boast Of, nor the es-
cutcheoned armorials of splendid an
cestry. But he had " hat was far more
valuable. sound mind, healthy con.
stitution, a robust frame, a love of vir-
tue, and intrepid soul, and an emulous
desire for honest fame. He visited the
delightful country on the waters of the
Holston, to view the new settlements
which then began to be formed on the
Watauga. When he came to Watauga
in ITO, he found one Honeycut living
in a hut, who furnished him with food
for his enkc;etapna Ha Io a 1-ox