The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
BILKIxs WRITES OF NORTH CAR
oLISA HISTORY.
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early history ov this country.
Durin' the next few years many
peopIe cum from England an else
where an settled in North Carolina.
The different Governors ov the State
along about that time wuz appointed
an somehow here were many
changes.
About the year IT'S notorious
pirate. Edward Teach. commonly
called BLACK Beard" got busy in
North Carolina. He had fitted out a
ship armed with forty cannons and
had a desperate force aboard. Teach
wuz finally killed and hiz men were
killed an captured. He wuz not the
last pirate In the State, however.
At this time the population ov
North Carolina. leavin' out Indians.
only amounted to about ten thousand
people. The Legislature" met at va
rious points, New Bern. Edenton. an
sometimes at other places.
What wuz known az the 'proprie-
tary" government oy North Carolina
ended sixty-six years after the char
ter ov Charles H. was granted an
durin' that time many things hap
pened, some sad some amusin'.
In 1742 six ov our North Carolina
counties refused to pay taxes. Jurors
also refused to attend court ma num-
Der ov cases. You may now guess
that the pot wuZ beginnin' to bile.
In 1865 William Tryon became
Governor. He wuZ fierce one and
the Cherokee Indians called him the
Great Wolf OF North Carolina" He
ruled with a high hand for six years
and wuz then moved TO New York,
then a colony, not hayin' become a
State.
About this time the State became
excited over what wuZ known az the
Stamp Act, a form of taxation to
which the colonists seriously object
ed. Governor TryOn gave great din
ners and tried to make himself pop
ular so as to get the folks to become
satisfied with the stamp act. But it
wouldn't work. The people seized
James Houston, who wuZ appinted TO
enforce the stamp act, and forced
him to swear that he would not en-
force the act, before they released
him. Later the Governor gave
barbecue, consistin' of an OK and sew
eral barrels of beer The folks gath
cred and threw the beef and beer
into the river The stamp act wuZ
finally repealed.
Things continued to be somewhat
disturbed until 1875 when the Neck
lenburg declaration ov independence
wuz made at Charlotte. 1t was writ
ten by DR.. Ephriam Brevard and con-
tanned some real patriotism. Hit
awlso meant business. Then hit wuz
that the country began to exist an
go forward az fast az possible.
North Carolina existed without a
constitution until 1875. How hit
managed to do this I cannot under
stand. Constitutions air great things.
People, States and everything needs
them.
About this time a new State wuz
North Carolina an everything else in
site. The name ov this State wuz
Franklin, an hit extended from the
Virginia line to the river Matthias in
Florida and pretty much over the
balance ov the earth.
Printin' wiz introduced into North
Carolina in 1749 by James Davis, of
New Berne. He published a small
newspaper and later printed the first
attempt at book made in the State.
Hit only contained the proceedin's oy
the Legislature, however, and wuz
not very interestin' az literary
work.
One hundred years ergo about one.
seventh ov the white population in
North Carolina could not read mol
write, so they wuz not az much in.
terest in education az you will FIND
now. Still they IL a woeful lack o1
interest still existin' in certain quar-
ters.
Durin' the administration ov Gov
Caswell what wuZ known az the west
ern district ov North Carolina with
drew from the balance ov the Stat,
and formed a separate government
independent ov the State Strang,
ter say this fact IL not general,
known and but little hez bin sed err
bout hit. But that disease liz not en-
tirely dead even today, and there al
people in western North Carolina VIII,
would be glad to see the State divide.
and new State government set up
But hit il not likely that this will
be accomplished.
All in all the State ov North Caro-
lima does not change fast in senti
ment. No State liz az much like tn
original az North Carolina.
While the people ov the State he
anyways had a reputation for ster
lin honesty they have made som
serious side steps. One ov the frs
cases ov this kind occurred less thai
a hundred years ago. Raccoon hide