The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-07

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charge was fired is the one crowned
/ by this monument. The last battery
| captured from the Federals was cap
| tured by a cavalry charge led by
Brigadier-G General Roberts, who, with
General Cox, still survives.
AS to the battle of Bethel, in V1r-
ginia, newspaper dailies in that State
| gave the chief credit to North Caro-
| lima soon after. That is well known.
! North Carolina had q large regiment
under that bravest of the brave SOL
der, Colonel d. II. Hill, in that fight,
and within eleven days of the action
! of North Carolina injoining the Con-
| federate movement of adopting the or
| dinance of Secession. That was quick
work and gallant Here are clippings
| from two city Virginia dailies soon
! aftehr Bethel:
"AIl hail to the brave sons of the
! Old North State whom Providence
seems to have thrust forward in the
! first pitched battle on Virginia soil. -
! Petersburg Express. Honor to whom
/ honor is due. All our troops appear
| to have behaved nobly at Bethel, but
! the honors of the day are clearly due
to the splendid regiment of North
| Carolina, whose charge of hayonets
decided Richmond Examiner.
There are two important works
very much needed for people are both
! ignorant and forgetful. They are a
| History of North Carolina in the
| Great War for Second Independence
and second, "A Carefully Prepared
| History of Reconstruction" The
| second work would of necessity fully
vindicate able Tom Dixon's presenta-
| ton of the Ku-I<lux Khan. Will they
| ever be written? There are some well
| known historic events that will pass
I away forever unless a faithful, accur-
ate history of the great war is writ
| ten. 1t would astonish even the read
ers of Henderson's two most enjoy
| able volumes to know of the greatly
praised Jackson's Division and
| Wise's Brigade and Picketts Division
| before and after the Third Day at Get
! tysburg There are many striking
events, not knowing generals, and
much unwritten history as yet. 1t is
good time while many participants
in the great war are living to attend
! to the gathering of facts. statistics
| events. ETC., and to fairly and frankly
| give them to the world.
Thanks to the gracious humanizinG
influence of the Christian Religion,
the attitude of men towards women
| is very eff cert from Whay it w:lS IL
the time of Greece or Rome or later
| even among the nations that have
succeeded. Women have been treated
more as mans equal than his slave for
hundreds of years. Among the adj
! vances made since the Dark Ages is
that of the women who have become
highly educated, and the patrons of
! literature Two or three hundred
years ago there were women in Eng
land who were of wider range Of
scholarship perhaps than you could
find in that or any other country at
this time. But be that as it may, my
purpose here is to refer to the fact
that hundreds of years ago royal and
noble women were earnest patrons Of
literature, and devoted also to the Gull
tivation of the best that was accessible.
AS far back as the reign of Henry
WITH of England, who was an uSurper,
the women of his royal household were
particularly given to the cultivation
of the very best literature, and were
devoted to the study of the first great
original poet of their country, Jeoffrey
ChaUcer, the now famous author of
the Canterbury Tales''-in verse
one of the great literary legacies of
the English people of this age. Sew
eral of the royal women were the in
spirerS of books and the promoters of
learning. Among these noble patrons
of education and letters were Lady
Jane Beaufort, a granddaughter of
that very renowned hero in English
history, John of Gaunt. Her niece.
the Countess of Pembroke, was an
enthusiast for learning. She was the
mother of Henry VII, who overthrow
and killed that most Infamous of
Kings, the brutal Richard Ill. Mar
garet, the Duchess of Burgundy, and
sister of Edward ". encouraged
Caxton in the literary enterprise which
led to the introduction of printing into
England" daughter of Henry VII,
was another Margaret, married James
". of Scotland, and we are informed
that her residence in that land gave
new tone to the poetry of the
Scottish Court" So long before
his imperial and splendid genius the
courtly women were patrons of lit
erature and friends of authors. The
women have done a vast deal of good
in the matter of letters from that
time until this time of Astounding pro-
duction. In the last hundred years,
or more, some richly endowed and
most successful women have been ia
nous in literature. The list is for
midable. A few of the greatest may
be mentioned here:-Miss Burney
(tMme D'Arblay'O Miss Maria Edge
north Miss Milford, Hannah Moore,
Mary Austen, Mrs Elizabeth 3.
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs.
Hemans, Mrs Gaskell Mrs. Ward,
Anne Thackeray (Mrs. Ritchie). Miss
Muloch and others of ability and dis
tinction.
In 1.-THE North Carolina Booklet
for April there is a paper of some
nineteen pages by my good friend
Judge Oliver II. Allen, of Kinston. on
THE German Palatnes in North
Carolina" 1t will interest many per-
sons to know of these early settlers in
the Province of North Carolina, who
were so cruelty treated and were SUD-
jected to so many privations and suf-
ferings of a most calamitous and
brutal kind. 1t is a most sad account
and of all emigrants these few hun
bred Palatine emigrants had the most
awful and pitiable experiences They
came in 1909, and settled between the
Neuse and Trent rivers. For years
they had wars with the Indians. and
were pillaged and prosecuted by
whites also. They were from Ger
many and ''were industrious, frugal
punctual and just. The sketch will
afford information to most readers as
this Colony is not so well known as
the Scotch and Irish who came over.
1t is pathetic and even startling.
Judge A Hen has pprfornnpd we'll a