The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-09
TWO INTERFERING NORTH CARO-
LIMA SUBJECTS.

On July oath. a monument Is to be
erected in Beaufort cemetery, N C., In
memoir Of Captain Otway Burns, VINO
commanded the ship Snap Dragon
in the war OF 1872. with Great Britain.
This event will be interesting to patri-
otto North Carolinians. and particular
" so to the people of Onslow, Carteret
and Craven counties. where Captain
Burns and the Snap Dragon are still
remembered by the very old residents
and the traditions Of the brave old
sailor of the war Of 1872 and the meri-
torious services OF the good ship Snap
Dragon and her valiant crew are known
of all men. Our friend, Justice Walter
Clark, of the supreme court, has been
selected wisely to deliver the address.
He will be quite sure to give them a
satisfactory and agreeable account of
the deeds of Captain Burns. n it will
be an interesting contribution to the
sketches of North Carolina heroes. We
learn from Mr.. Romuius A. Num-, the
chairman of the committee in charge,
that the late President David L. Swain,
of the University of North Carolina,
devoted his time and remarkable tall
ents to perpetuating the memory OF
Otway Burns and his services to his
country, in an address delivered prior
to the war between the states. This
monument has been erected by the sons
of Captain owen Burns. of the United
States navy, they being grandsons of
of Captain Otway Burns. It would be
interesting occasion.
1t is announced that in the
July number of what is known as
the North Carolina Booklet" an &C
count Of the Stamp Act Proceedings
on the Cape Fear will be furnished
by our accomplished townsman and
mayor, Hon. A. NJ. Waddell. This sub
ject was interestingly presented quite
forty-fve years ago, We take it to have
been, by the late eloquent Hon. George
Davis, of this city, in his address at
the University of North Carolina. 1t
is a particularly interesting subject to
informed natives and others of this
section. The boldness, conspicuousness
OF the act in open day and without dis
guises vas in peculiarly striking, COM
guised FIndians'" performance in the
harbor OF Boston, paraded in all Amer
lean histories and taught to all of the
children of our land and to southern
childrens while hey are left in COM
plete ignorance as to the determina-
ton and bravery of the men of the Cape
in those testing days when men
had to show their colors and stand forth
for the right, the true, the patriotic
and country loving. The deeds wrought
in the time referred to in this section
were every way creditable and ad-
mirable. The following is sent to The
Messenger by two ladies at Raleigh
by WaddelI:
"a. will be remembered that when
DR.. Houston, the stamp master, came
to Wilmington, the people with drums
beating and colors flying took him to
n court house and made him resign,
and with a mournful cortege burned
the efflgy of liberty; and later seven
hundred men with arms in their hands
their chosen leaders, Ashe and
,Waddell, marched to Old Brunswick
and took the crown officers from the
governors residence and made them
swear not to issue any stamps, and
forced the British sloops of war to re-
lease two merchant vessels they a
seized because their papers were not
stamped. This hostile demonstration
against the royal ships Of war was far
holder than any other proceeding at
a time elsewhere in America. In
deed. the whole affair was unique and
picturesque no less than bold and reso-
lutte"
That the speaker will handle the SUBJ
1ect engagingly and impressively, goes
without saying.