The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11
MEN AND EVENTS OF THE
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
The North Carolina Booklet of the Battle of Moores
Creek Bridge, The War Against
the Trusts.
the Trusts.

except Pettigrew. heard this long
ago, and reported it, but give it
again. Major Joseph Englehardt told
me at Raleigh in June, 1876, at the
was in General Ambrose P. Hills tent
one night. We were having a free
talk. l asked: General, which is
the best Brigade in your command"
The reply was: Cookies North Caro-
lima" Which is next. The answer
came promptly cRae's North
Carolina Which next. L queried. He
moment and then said: 1T lies be-
tween Lanes North Carolina and Ma
homes Virginia. That throws light
upoJ What the venerable Petersburg
lawyer, Mr.. Wallace, said to Rev. Dr..
Thomas II. Pritchard and myself in
his porch after dinner in 1867, for we
had been dining with him. lie said
Sitting here after dinner in the war
I once asked General a. +. Hill, 81
cousin of Mrs. Wallace's, which troops
he would rather commando" He
replied: North Carolinians.' That
astonished me. L was Il ViTginian and
he was a Nireinian. / sad: How is
that His reply was: North Caro-
unians are as brave as any sold. erS
and they are more submissive to au-
thority, so they are better soldiers. ;"
They would do just what they were
brave and brilliant fighter, General y.
II. Hill, q native South Carolin!an, had
a high opinion Ct the North Carolina
troops which he commanded through
the war. L could easily cite others.
Last March / received n copy of
1.-THE North Carolina Booklet" for that
month, containing an interesting and
clear account OF "The Battle of
Moore's Creek Bridge" fought 27th
February. 177G. by Prof. M. G. $.
Noble of the University of North
Carolina. / wrote then of this Valu
able contribution TO the series that
have been in course of publication for
some three years-under the common
title OF Great Events in North Caro-
lima History" The editors are Miss
NJ. H. Hinton and Mrs. f. e. Mohitt,
of Raleigh. | have just received an
other copy from the editors. In the
battle well written up by Prof Noble,
the Patriots lost but one man, Private
John Grady, of Duplin county. who, il
is claimed, was the first martyr in the
cause of freedom in North Carolina.
would put the men who We're killed
at Alamance in April, 1I71, by Gov
ernor Tryon's forces as the first mar
tyrs'' for they were resisting British
expressions. But this is not for con-
troyersy 1t is the view l have held
for nearly a half century. Colonc.
William J.. Saunders confirmed my
opinion by his valuable contributions
to the Colonial Records" There
were brave men before Epaminodas
and martrys for their country and
human rights long ago. The real hero
at Moore'S Creek was doubtless Col
John Alexander Ellington, who com
manded the Americans, while, as
Prof. Noble contends. the great and
.undisputed hero of the campaign was
James Moore. of Brunswick county,
Colonel of the First North Carolina
Regiment in the Continental Army"
He it was who really planned the
whole campaign, provided for every
contingency, and drove the enemy into
the hands of the two brave Colonies
who had taken their stand at Moore's
Creek Bridge IN faithful obedience t
his orders" (Prof. Noble.) On the
monument erected to Ellington six
miles from Rocky Point, it is stated
he commanded the American forces
at the Battle of Moore's Creek.
A work is soon to be published that
rect thrust at the giant, greedy-grab-
bing gorged Trusts, the curse of
Americans, the enemy of the People
1t is to be issued by Macmillan, and is
a volume of lectures delivered in
Cooper Union New York City, by John
Bates Clark, LIZ D., on THE Problem
OF Monopoly: A Study of q Grave
Danger and of the Natural Mode of
Averting it, Prof. Clark treats OF
nf q
sources of the corporations power for
evil" great corporations and the law.
organized labor and monopoly, ayr
culture and monopolies and Govern
ment monopolies. 1t is monopolies in
general that he deals with. 1t seems
TO be in some sense a plea for the
continuance of the Trusts. l judge
from a quoted paragraph from the
author, l find in the New York Sat
urday Review" In his Preface he
says:
"The industrial system which devel-
oped under a regime of freedom and
competition has become perverted by
the presence of monopoly; and the
thing to be accomplished is not to re-
| volutionize the system by the method
| IF State Socialism, nor yet to cause il
| 20 reverse it's natural development by
| resolving the great corporations which
now dominate it into the constituent
elements, as crude antitrust legisla-
| ton would try to do, but rather to
| retain the corporations for their eff
ciency while taking from them theil
| power of oppression.
He is not for killing the snake but
| 10 scotch it, The people have beer
90 long deyoured in their substance by
| he Unsuitable Trust serpent, they
| would prefer killing to fostering u
saving. The Professor evidently thinks
| hat the Trust monster is manageable.
| and can be tanned. Very doubtful.
| When a reptile fastens its fangs and
| begins to enjoy the feast of blood, the
| ,nlv way to suppress and remove il
| is to crush it's head. The Trusts arc
| "nlany-headed monster" after all
| Nothing but grim death" can deter
| Or stop them. 1t is according to the
| visest, greatest of men, sometimes
| necessary to "be cruel. only to be
| Kind" The Trusts are indeed mon
! ,ters, of habits devil" to quote tins
| .aner unapproached writer. In the
llgreat drama, Hamlet he says:
II Diseases desperate grown
li8y desperate appliance are relieved
II Or not ALL"
II And that wise precautionary view
It's a repetition of an aphorism of 2
/ 700 IL