The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-08

Go tharafo.e / submit that the
cause for every ~relorn1atlon, me -
that they manlfestly emOoo3, Hiuot ~
lol ed for earlier than Aooo' ho-o
remotely than 1l16; further even llan
landing of the Pilgrim fathers IN lo-o'
back and beyond jamestown and Low.
Yes, lack to the drafting ana slShiH7
of the Magma ChaTta Dy the uisco1
tented barons in l-l5, Wnen the poo
pie made a hght lor Ale0-
com and liberty, securing the Erolec-
ton OF life, liberty and property from
arbitrary spoilation. This spirit OF
~ndependence was brought OYER to inns
country when the first iano-
ed at Roanoke Island, JameSto"il
Plymouth Rock, Amsterdam ana boS-
ton. 1t has surged ever since III LIZ
life blood Of every founders son anu
daughter, and from III to LOO II
was smouldel ing and At last bufSF
forth, giving this country q pure dc.
mocracy of freedom and indlVidlal
liberty.
In my former address I ave you a
succinct account OF the early settie-
ment Of the Colony of North Carolina,
reciting the hardships, prosecutions
expressions, eXtOrtiOns and tyranny
suffered by the Colonists at the hands
Of all officers Of the Crown; which LED
to the organization Of the people,
under the name Of "RegulatoTs,' to
concertedly ppo British tyranny
which eventually led to the "ReVolu-
ton of the Regulators" when they met
and were the first to defy British
arms, on May Is, III, at the battle or
| AlamanCe-Here on the banks of the
! great Alamance,' says Bancroft, the
historian, was shed the first blood LOT
| American liberty and independence.
The British flag was victorious, but
the defeat Of the Regulators at the
Battle Of Alanance' did not quench
their desire for liberty, nor their de-
termination to be free and inuepedd-
mt; on the other hand, it produced
still greater dissatisfaction with the
existing regime OF eXtortlOnate perse-
cution and Illegal fees demanded by
Crown officers and their deputies.
| More than eight thousand OF them
shook off the yoke Of British oppreS-
sion" sold their lands, gathered To-
gether their families and household
goods into WaSOnS and crossed over
the mountains into the Cherokee Coun-
try (some neglected history OF North
Cardinal. There they traded with
and bought from the Cherokee chiefs.
all Of the eastern half OF their country
bordering on the western bOundary or
the Province Of the Colony Of North
Carolina, which now comprises the
eastern portion of the present State OF
Tennessee, where they set to work to
ere1t for themselves homes under a
free government.
TIL Cherokees were the noun
taineers Of aboriginal America and like
all other sons Of the forest adored
their ountry which they deified and
defended with a heroic devotion, pa
triotic constancy and an unyiclding
tenacity. which cannot be too much
admired. The land Of the Cherokee,
in later years called the Land Of the
| Sky" was the most beautiful secLIon
of the new world. (Ramsey's History
Of Tennessee.) 1t comprised a great
plateau lying along the sources OF the
Yadkin and Catawba and the keeo-
wee, Tugaloo, I1towah and Coosa on
the east and south, along the Holston,
ClinCh and II aWaSsee on the west n
north. This tribe Of Indians lived in
rude hutS. and were agricuitural1y in
clined, planting crops Of corn, beans
and pumpkins and ~cultivating orch
ards Of apples. peaches and plums.
According to Adair, the historian,
writing in 1775, they were not rovers.
but occupied Ga %pOpulous towns and
numbered about 5000 warriors.
After establishing the Cherokee
boundary line, tNorth Carolina Rev
dictionary and State Records), be-
tween the Colony of North Carolina
and the Cherokee Nation, peace reign
ed between the whites, Indians ana
hunters. Pioneers from the east be-
gan to cross over the mountains into
the Cherokee country The greatest
tide of emigration from the Colony Of
North Carolina was from the source Of
the Yadki and CataWba rivers. Early
in 1870, Daniel Boone, who had previ-
ously crossed the left the
vicinity Of the Little Yadkin' river,
in the Colony of North Carolina, act
ing as pilot for a new settlement in
the mountains. A little later, Boone
was joined by James Robertson, OF
Wake county, in the Colony Of North
; Carolina, who plotted a band Of set
t tiers to the Cherokee country. They
were soon followed by Jacob Brown,
, who. hearing Of the settlements led
!, nv Boone and Robertson, piloted a
party of several families to the
8 NoIachucky.