The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-05-20

Lewis, the leader of the backwoods
host in their first victory over the
Northwestern Indians, and Campbell.
their commander in the first great
victory over the British. The other
pioneers who stand beside the above
were such men as Sewer, Shenan-
doah Huguenot; Shelby, of Welsh
blood; and Boone and Clark, both of
English stock, the former from
Pennsylvania, the latter from Vir-
ginia.
They did not begin to come to
America in any numbers till after the
opening OF the eighteeth century; 10y
1870 they were fairly swarming
across the ocean, for the most part
in two streams, the larger going to
the port of Philadelphia, the smaller
to the port of Charleston. Pushing
through the long settled lowlands of
the sea coast. at once made their
abode at the foot of the mountains,
and became the OutpOsts of civilian
ton.
"'From Pennsylvania, whittier the
great majority had come, they drift
ed South along the foothills, and
down the long valleys, till they met
their brethren from Charleston, who
had pushed up into the Carolina back
country. LII this land of hills, cover
ed by unbrOken forest. they took
root and fourished, stretching in a
broad belt from North to South a
shield of snew men thrust in between
the people OF the seaboard and the
red warriors of the wilderness. All
through this region they were alike;
they had as little kinship with the
Cavalier as with the Quaker; the
West was won by those who have
been rightly called the Roundheads
of the South, the same men who, be-
fore any others, declared for American
Independence.
Witness the Mecklenburg Decla-
ration, Roosevelt's "Winning of the
West" PIP. 134-135-136-147.'
''Let the reader observe the man
ner of the President s reference to the
Mecklenburg Declaration. He cites
it incidentally and as a matter of
course-an historical fact no longer
to be argued, but simply to be ac-
cepted as proved"
There isreason for Presbyterianism
to feel proud. not only of this initial
resolve, the Mecklenburg Declaration,
but of the part their sires played in
the revolutionary struggle. 1t was
called in England the "Presbyterian
Rebellion" A devotee OF King George
at the time wrote him: 81 fix all the
blame OF these extraordinary pro-
ceedings on the Presbyterians. They
have been the chief and principal in
struments in all these infaming meas
urps. They always do and ever will
act~against government from that
restless and turbulent and anti
monarchical spirit which has always
distinguished them everywhere"
Says the American Church History:
1.-The members of that church bore
the brunt of the struggle for indie
pendence from the Hudson to the
Savannah" The six cOmmandants
of the forces in the decisive battle of
Kings Mountain were elders in the
Presbyterian church, and led forces
mustered into service from Presby-
terian settlements. But let this suf-
flee.
These Presbyterian forefathers we're
acting in accord with the principles
of John Calvin, promulgated in Scot
land and Ireland through his most
distinguished pupil, John Knox, and
brought with them from the father
land. Verify, the Presbyterians have
the legacy, howevery, dearly bought,
of goodly heritage now shared and
enjoyed and appreciated throughout
the Republic.
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