The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-07-01

OF the crown, thus vacating all civil
and military commissions granted by
the crown.
Fifth.-That all military officers of
the county are retained In their former
commands and that every member OF
the convention be hereafter a civil Of
flcer with power to issue process. hear
and determine oil matters of contro-
versy, preserve peace and harmony and
endeavor to spread the love Of country
until a more generally organized gov
eminent be maintained In the province.
Although the precise words Of this
much disputed document may never be
known, and even though a formal dec
laration was never made, nothing can
sumed by the Old North State during
the period ~antecedent to the breaking
out Of the Revolution and the part TAX
en- by her In that never to be forgotten
struggle. For nearl, 200 years before
the severance Of the ties which bound
her to the mother country Carolina had
been developing into a freedom loving
lAS SACSpOt uallAlS SOlOuS. al I'LL carly
day an elaborate scheme Of govern
ment had been formulated by the phi
losopher John Locke. 1t provided for
three orders of nobility and four houses
Of parliament. It was altogether too
comprehensive for the Carolina plant
ers. and they declined to accept 1t. Not
to bubble, the population was sturdy
orH calf rn13o~% n~l t~AI;D~I - ~
critical of any system Of government
which interfered too markedly with It's
OWL ways and wishes. When they
We're given a governor who attempted
to be more loyal to the mother country
than to their interests these undaunted
colonists were In the habit of sending
him home. Many of the early settlers
We're ~Scotch-Irish and Germans from
the Palatinate. After the battle of
Culloden Q746) many Scotch families
made homes for themselves on both
sides Of the Cape Fear river, and they
were sturdy, independent folk with
Ideas Of their WI and strong wills to
back them.
Many of the royal governors found
1t no easy task to keep these free
pioneers to their allegiance.
Many of them came into direct con-
with the Inhabitants. The first
provincial congress of North Carolina
met In defiance of Governor Josiah
Martin in 1774 and sent delegates to
the Continental congress. The state
was the first to authorize her delegates
IN congress to vote for independence. !
When the Revolution broke out North
went into the struggle with
her might. Her troops were In all
the Important battles Of the early
campaigns, and in 17so-S1 the state
invaded by the British. /
The Old North State was decidedly
to leaving the Union at the out
Freak OF the civil war and opposed se-
session as a matter of expediency.
When her position seemed no longer
be tenable, she reconsidered and
passed the separating ordinance. Once
committed, she threw herself into the
cause with all the energy she could
command. She furnished over 10000
to the Confederacy, more than
vice her proportion. She also lost
more men than any other southern
state, and during the last year OF the
val practically fed General Lees army.
There ought not to be a patriotic soul
n all America 80 ungenerous and SO
1nmindful of the past as to refuse to
|oin with this dignifed old
wealth in the veneration which she
for those intrepid militia
men who went boldly into Charlotte
40 matter when, less matter how-and
themselves absolved forever
rom further allegiance to the foreign
oppressor. Peace be to their spirits!