The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-08-04
HENDERSON, c., THURSDAY, AUGUST A.

present war with Spain are too we'll
known for any repetition in extended
paragraphs here. All readers of the
/ daily news events are familiar with
| the fact that ii was Lieutenant Victor
Blue, native OF North Carolina, who
was the first United States soldier
to hoist the American flag on Cuban
soil; and the first martyr to give up
| his life in the Cuban cause in this
war was Ensign Worth Bagley, a
native of Raleigh, n. c. Both Bagley
and Blue are descended from a long
| line of lllustrious ancestry.
| trust the reader will pardon a
! closing paragraph. with an entirely
| personal reference. am not ma
| tive Of the good Old North State. but
love for her and her sons is precious
inheritance. | am child of her
daughter, Tennessee. But the sacred
soil Of the dear mother State holds
the ashes Of my ancestors for two
generations, while the hallowed dust
Of the wife OF my youth and three of
our dear precious sons, is also en-
shrincd there. It is no wonder. there
L >
! of love and veneration for all that
| belongs to North Carolina history
no wonder that | claim an interest in
her glory and her honors.
Nj. V. MOORE.
Four years before the battle of Lex
ington, Mass, was fou~ht-this be-
ing commonly called the opening of
the struggle of the war against Brit
ish oppression by the American colo
nists-thc people of central North
Carolina. in an organized army of
nearly two thousand men, fought the
kings troops in the battle of Ala
mance-May 16, 177o. Twenty-eight
Of the Americans yielded up life there
on the altar of libcrty-the first
pitched battle of the revolution.
New Workers have recently erected a
monument to two noble patriots who
she'd their blood in defense of Ameri-
can liberty just a month earlier than
the battle Of Alamance, the claim be-
ing made that New York gave the
first blood to the revolution. But
the martyrs there were individual
heroes. The men who fell in North
Carolina were enlisted troops fight
inc under their officers in a regular
pitched battle with the foreign sol
diers under Governor Tryon, of that
State.
More than a year before the decla-
ration of Independence by the repre-
scntatives of the united colonies at
Philadelphia. July 6. 1916, the pa
triotS Of North Carolina assembled at
Charlotte and the famous Alecklen-
burg Declaration of Independence
was Hung into the face of the British
government May 20. 1915.
The friends of Thomas jefferson,
,kthsn Hancock and John Adams have
long endeavored to keep about this
Meclllenburg declaration the mantle
Of historic doubt and fiction, but
without success. There is no fact of
our revolutionary struggle now more
thoroughly authenticated and fixed
irrevocably in history than this act
of the North Carolinians.
These three honors achieved by
North Carolina in the first struggle
for American independence have
something of counterpart in that
States history in the long and fierce
| conflict over secession between the
Federal and Confederate forces. North
Carolina not only stands first at the
head Of the lists of States furnishing
soldiers to fight the battles of the
Confederacy-she having furnished
some 5000 more troops than any
one of her valiant sons who made the
first capture Of a prisoner of war, and
it was another noble son who was the
first soldier to give up his life in bat
tie in defense of the COnfederacy-
Henry Lawson Wyatt, who fell at the
battle of Big Bethel, Virginia, April.
1861.
Experience teaches the value of Hood S
Sarsaparilla. 1t is constantly accomplish
ing wonderful cures and people in all sec
tions take it, knowing it will do them good.
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed
for % cents by c. l. Hood & Co., Lowell,
Mass
Gen. John B. Gordon, commander
in-chief of the Confederate Veterans,
in his address at the Atlanta reunion
spoke of the blessings which have
already resulted from the war with
Spain, mentioning among them 1.-The
obliteration of all traces of distrust
among ourselves and the complete
and too long delayed unification Of
the American people, which shall be
| called in question no more forever.
Certainly the effect of the war at
home has been to make us "A more
perfect union Or. rather. to make
manifest the restored unity which
| already existed and only lacked oc
casion to display itself. 1t is i'm
possible for the American nature to
! harhor resentment. americans and
| Spaniards are fraterniZin@ freely in
Santiago to-day. If we can so quickly
| heal such a breach. surely we could
"a promptly mend a quarrel in our
| own household
A Strange Case.
/ IAN CURED OF CONSUMPTION.