The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-03-09

dren make up for the patriotic I'M
pulse which inherited faith IN tne
Of May Declaration, MAXI
I'm for what is lost in the academic
discussion that viii be forever dis
puted?
In addition TO the fact that the
Declaration of May mas
been recognized in many ways the
state Of North Carolina has adopted
Hill s Young Peoples History Of
North Carolina which thus states
what has been settled as the truth
of history:
1.-The Mecklenbtirg Declaration.
ION May 10th a tired rider reached
Charlotte with the news OF the pioou-
shed at Lexington. He found the ut
tie town crowded with people VINO
were there to attend a meeting calico
by Thomas Polk, colonel Of the coun-
ty. On nearing OF the hllills :,
American citizens, those who
around the horseman !e' -
he independent,' The meeting IN the
log court house took up the cry OF the
people. and adopted a set OF resolu-
lions written by Doctor Ephralm Bfe-
ward. One of the resolutions was III
these words:
"Pesolved that we do hereby
declare ourselves q free ana III
dependent people: that we are
and of right ought to be, q soVer-
eign and self-goyerning people I'M
der the power Of God ana the
General Congress-: to mann
q Of which independence
we solemnly pledge to each other
our mutual cooperation, ournNtS'
our fortunes. and II most sa-
cred honor.
"On the next lay. MAY Goth, these
| resolutions were signed by the mem-
bers and read aloud from The door o.
the courthouse Thus, WIlte otiiels
were still talking OF making friends
with England, these MGcklehourS
arn,ers saw the folly of p2tching up
a short peace, and so declared them,
selves free men. and also prepared
for a government of their own
The North Carolina sentiment With
reference to this matter is REMOVE
! not the ancient landmarks which the
fathers have set"
1t is not only the M~ecklerburg Dec
laration hat is attacked. All along
| the line there is an attempt 10. unSetllt
the accepted truths of history which
have become a part OF N warp anu
woof Of the States belief. most OF
which If accepted would destroy the
claims of North Cardinals primacy in
important crises in our national lie.
No State was eevr cursed with a worse
tvrant than Tryon, and yet q talented
and popular gentleman has written a
hook that represented OUR ancestors as
traducing~ the great and good TryOn.
II Tryon was the paragon he is now
>rY ~ ,-al in the Twentieth Century
the patriots who knew hin and felt
his oppression were slanderefs. The
worst public tyrant hi ever lived was
gentle to his children, loving to his
wife, and had attractive qualities. Try
on was not detested in North Carolina
because he lacked private virtues but
for his public acts.
North Carolina had the first patriots
who took up arms against BRITISH
tyranny. Herman Husbands and the
Regulators were animated by as pa
triotic purposes as the patriots who
succeeded in securing American indie
pendence. And yet we are told in
these latter days that they were a
worthless crowd and North Cardinals
claim is spurious. What next? Where
will this historical icOnoclasn go? Is it
not time for our writers Of history to
believe that the men who made our
most glorious history and their CON
tempOraries who wrote it knew as
much as the latter-day skeptics?
), Preserve the ancient landmarks
which the fathers have set
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