The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-02-25
How to Study History

During the past week Hon. Kemp r.
Battle. OF the University, delivered IN
address before several OF the clubs IN
Raleigh that delighted all who heand it
At our request. Or. Battle has furnished
the following gisU OF his talk that Siil be
read with interest by all:
To the Editor: The lecture was totally
( eAtempore and informal and | ransack
my memory for the substance or part OF
my talk, at your request.
! started by saying that in my opinion
the most interesting way OF studying his
tory is 10 regard every past fact as a
problem to De solved, q riddle to be ex-
planned. We should endeavor 10 look
through the eyes of the people OF that
day and study their conduct in the
light OF what was going on in the old
country as we'll as the new. I then pro-
ceeded TO give examples.
I. The "Culpepper Rebellion" as it was
called. Chalmers, g strong Tory, has
blackened his name, and Hawks followed
Chalmers blindly. The truth is that Gull
t pepper never acted as Governor. he was
collector OF duties. The navigation laws
Of England bore lard on our people. the
General Assembly refused TO obey them
and Culpepper Obyed the Assembly. The
drunken Miller, without authority. as
stunned TO act as Governor and TO oppose
the Assembly, and was imprisoned. Gull
pepper was not accused of embeZzling
funds. but OF treason. and was acquitted
because there was no government 90 rebel
against.
North Carolinians have been charged
with having been a turbulent people.
II we investigate the circumstances we
will find that her people were justified in
their action. They ought to have re-
sisted.
?. Examine how our State was settled.
The charge that it was by people fleeing
from crime and by the rifraff OF other
lands is totally untrue.
Investigate and we find that the settlers
We're AS good as any in America--from
England direct, and through Virginia and
South Carolina. from Switzerland. the
Palatinate, Moravia, the Highlands and
Lowlands of Scotland. North Ireland and
other places.
T 3 The settlements were at first made
at the mouth Of rivers and gradually
journeyel up the valleys. After some
years the inhabitants OF Pennsylvania
and Virginia, unable to cross the noun
tains for fear of the French and Indians.
sought the cheap lands OF our State.
Take FOR example the Neuse river valley.
Counties are created for the inhabitants
and naturally we find one at an early
period in the country around the mouth OF
the NeuSe. But why was it called Ora
ven? Because he was q Lord proprietor:
that Is one of the owners OF Carolina.
Why was he a proprietor? Why did
Charles II reward him so literally? Study
his history. The aunt Of Charles, the
beautiful Elizabeth, married the elector
OF the Palatinate. The Protestauts OF
Bohemia did not wish that the Roman
Catholic Emperor OF Austria should rule
over them. They elected Elizabeth's
husband. Frederick, King OF Bohemia.
The Emperor was too strong for him. He
lost both Bohemia and the Palatinate.
Many Englishmen fought for him and his
Queen. Among them was William, Lord
Craven. SO we'll did Elizabeth like him
hat, after her husbands death, she is
thought to have married him. And, as
he always adhered TO the Stuart cause,
Charles II gave him high ot1ice and one
eighth part of the lands from the Virginia
line to the middle of Florida, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. In fact, however,
| Spain cut of part of the land al tile south
and France that beyond the Mississippi
river.
Then the people travelled up the Eeuse
river and in about forty years another
county was created. It's name is John
ston, after Governor Gabriel Johnston,
who died in 1852. And then, after Tryon
came in, the settlers higher up the Neuse
needed another county and Wake en-
, erged.
Wake was the maiden name of Tryon's