The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24

counties / have given a fuller account
Of these new corners. In a late article
as Well as in some previous one, j
have shown the Highlanders in the
wire grass. They came from North
Carolina, but could scarcely be called
North Carolinians. They were purely
Scotch without any admiXture of any
other blood. 1t only remains now FOR
me to give a glimpse of the colony OF
North Carolina, who were Scotch ana
Scotch-Irish, who settled in what was
Known as the Shoulder Bone settle
ment to give a final view of where the
North Carolinians fixed their homes
in Georgia.
On the Ogechee and thence west TO
the Oconee there was a splendid body
of land which attracted the scotch
Irish people who had fixed thelr
homes on the frontier of North caro-
lima fifty years before. Fortunately
found among the old records IN greene
a carefully prepared list OF these SCI
tiers which makes my work an easier
one. These North Carolinians were
Andrew Armour, John and James
Adams. Henry Allison, Charles ADer-
crombie, James Afford, Benjamin An
derson. Andrew Borland, Charles
Burke, Thomas Booker, Andrew and
James Baxter, John Buchannon, >.
Brazail, William, James and stephen
d
John Bankston Thomas Brantley. An
drew Burkhalter, Nathan and Samuel
Barron Thomas Baldwin, William
Barnard, Thomas Bonner, Samuel Bel
lab. William Curry, Nathaniel Cooke,
Abner Cochran, Charles Coleman,
Josiah Carter, John Cane, Duncan
Cameron, DANES Dawson, George
Dawson, Richard Ellace, James
Haughton, Hugh Jones, William Mad
Il Ia
Andrew Reed, Samuel Reed, Abraham
Reddick, John Reed, George Reed
Tharpe Symonton, William, John and
Archibald Smith, Thomas Trammell
James Thweatt John Tankersley
Etheldred Wood, James Ward, John
Wilson, William Wilson, George and
Joseph White, William Walker, James
Woods. Having SO recently written of
Washington county and the North
Carolinians who settled so largely that
section it is now needless to go over
| the same ground. Our state has been
very largely indebted to the Old North
State for her best citizenship. They
were far from being the plebeian set
that some of the historians would
make them.
They were the equals in every re-
spect of any other class of our settlers.
They were in many cases uncultured,
but men like Moses Waddell the
| prince among our teachers, and men
| like Duncan Campbell, and julius
| Afford, and Lovick Pierce and Jesse
Mercer, and great promoters like Lee
roy M. Wyley, and soldier like David
| Rlackshear and Charles Abercrombie,
and poets like Sidney Lanier and
great planters like Alexander Reid
| were people of no common stock. They
| were true to their clan, they stood by
John Clarke through thick and thin,
and when an innovation was made in
| the Baptist church by bringing in Sun
| day schools and putting peach brandy
AND honey, long orthodox. under the
| ban they formed new associations and
refused to admit they had made any
ned departure. They religiously
drank their morning teddy, and as re-
| ligiously paid their debts, and went to
Saturday conference. A grand old
race of conservatives.
| They were from the forests to the
| forests, but as they had won the land
| in North Carolina from the forests and
| from the Indians, so they dared the
perils of the Georgia frontier. They
| were sturdy Calvinists till the Metho-
| dists made an inroad on em,and
| stanch Republicans of the Nathaniel
/ Macon stripe. Let Atlanta take q CEN
sus of her leading people and she will
| find they came lergely from the Tar
Heel State. They have been so often
| disparaged that they can be pardoned
! for a little boaSting in which they are
apt to indulge. 'The Mecklenburg De-
| ctaration,' the first battle OF the War
Between the States "the largest
number of troops at AppomattOX,
etc, are some of the boasts. Well
SO be it, they are our kin.