The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-20
PERsoNs REPREsENTED.


 PERSONS REPREsENTED. Mir. Thomas Brown, North Carolfnisn. Mir. John Jones, . south csroiinian- SCENE: Exchange Hotel. Montgom-
 Enter Brown and Jones.
 Brown-Heilo, Jonesi Glad to'see you. When did you arriyef
 Jones-Have just come in from Charleston, and am compelled to re- main in this stu8y old town Tor couple of days. Cant breathe freely, you know. outside of Charleston. where we get the sea breeze every night, but may ask what wind blew you this way?
 Brown--I am right now from Mob.ee, where I have been for my Charlotte house. and have but just arrived
 Jones-Mobilei Mobilel have cer- tainly seen that name somewhere at sometime. but not in the Charleston papers. Let me see. let me see. Oh! yes, I remember now, having heard my father say many years ago, that he had once seen man, who said he was from Mobile.
 Brown We'll, as you may not know 1t, will tell you, that Mobile Is . large and beautiful City, situated on Mobile Bay in the Southern part of Alabama It has many large live oaks growing on its streets.
 Jnes-Yes, but then you know they are not as large as those we have in Charleston. / Broyn-I saw while there many yards filled with magnolia trees, which were covered with great white blooms, A very pretty sight.
 Jones-Oh! we have thousands of them in Charleston and the blooms are said to be winter than they are any where else in the world.
 Brown-Poor old Mobile! Poor old aristocratic lady! She feels hurt and humiliated. They have taken away from her, her old time mint Juleps, and given her "near beer" to drink. but she said, No! before I would drink that decoctien. I would drink salt water" so she sits there with her feet in the Bay and weeps the live long day.
 Jones--I don't suppose the water In the Bay there Is as wet-I mean as salty--as 1t is in the harbor at Charles ton, because if it was. they couldn't drink it.
 Brown-weli, while in North Caro- lima. we have no Charleston. we have a Charlotte and boast of her. as the birthplace of American Independence.
 Jones-I have heard something of this old claim made by the North Caro- linians, but never attacned any impor- tance to it. and supposed 1t was a myth.
 Brown-well, I would advise. you not to express that opinion anywhere in North Carolina. It would be safer. I expect, to go through Texas and advise the division of that State. than go into North Carolina, and ex- press any doubt about the Meckienburg Declaration of Independence.
 Jones-I have noticed recently in the papers that President Taft went dawn to Charlotte and made you North Caro- linians a speech at the 134th anniver- sary of the supposed, Declaration. and as he didn't repudiate 1t. but gave it his indorsement. hope you are satis- fed
 Brown-Repudiate the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence! It never has been repudiated except by those who refuse to believe the truth of history, and are interested in having 1t repudiated, besides, Mir. Taft, being a man of intelligence was we'll satisned of the genuineness of the "Resolutions''
 Jones--Yes, but then, you know. they have been questioned by many men of intelligencef
 Brown--Never, except by some South Carolinian. and then only, because his State did not share in the honors dis tributed to the States after the Re-
 Jones-DIstribution of honors after the RevoIution. It don't know that l understand you.
 Brown--Well. as the story goes 1t was about this way: Massachusetts had the honor of Bunker Hill, Virginia as the mother of Washington, Pennsyl- Rania the Congress, North Carolina the Mecklenburg. or First. Declaration of Independence, while South Caro- lima, at that time. thought 1t enough honor for her to touch, or border on, the State of North Carolina.
 Jones-Shades of m ancestors! What a islander.
 Brown-Not at all. Why you know it was just as natural, soon after the Revolution for a South Carolinian to look up to a North Carolinian, as fl was for Kentuckian to look up to a Virginian.
 Jones-I deny it. There was never any such thing.
 Brown-Way down south, like here in Alabama. who has not heard conver- sations like this: Where did your peo- pie come from?" My father was born in South Carolina" "what" Oh! wait minute. wait a minute-ny grand father was born in North Carolina. T Oh! well that's all right"
 Jones-No, never heard any such