The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-08

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IVA, Congress we're elected
" by the General Assem-
blies of the several
- colonies. North Caro-
lima did not send delegates because the
rovar Governor, William fryon, re-
+-.ad to convene the Assembly until
after the Congress had convened and
adjourned.
First Continental Congress.
In IVA, the dispute between the
colonips and the Mother Country had
hacone so acute that another Con-
tfpentaI Congress was deemed ad-
yjeabIa. Joseph Martin, who had sue
ceeded Tryon as Governor of North
Carolina, thought to repeat Iryons
trick and by refusing to the
Assembly prevent North Carollna $ pc
ing represented. But Martin lacked
a good deal of Tryon's shrewdness
and popularity, and the men who
were leading the fight in North Caro-
lima gains the British ministry were
not the kind to be caught twice in
the same trap. When the Governors
secretary communicated this purpose
to John Harvey, Speaker Of h As
sembIy. Harvey exclaimed IN great
II 1lS So%cS
convene an assembly Independent Of
the Governor.' Following Harvey's
suggestion a mass meeting, held at
Wilmington July Il, 1874, issued the
call for a provincial Congress, and
on August %. s~eventy-one delegates
from thirty-SiX counties and towns, in
defiance of the Governors prOclaR1a-
ton, met in convention at New Bern.
This convention, among other things,
t1actp9 William Homer ,JOSPnh H0WpS
and Richard CaSWell delegates to the
Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
Hooper and Hewes took their seats
on September Il, 1874, and CaSWell
on September II. This Congress re-
manned in session from September 5
to October %. It's principal work
consisted in drawing up addresses Of
protest to the king and people of
England and in adopting measures
for peaceable resistance to the min-
istry's colonial policy.
The Second Continental Congress.
The Second Continental Congress
met at Philadelphia on May 1, 1915.
it remained in session until 1888,
when it was superseded by the Con-
Sress Of the United States Under the
new Constitution. To this Second
Continental Congress North Carolina
sent t~wenty-four different delegates.
Among them were the following who
We're afterwards elected Governors of
North Carolina: Richard Caswell,
Thomas Burke, Samuel Johnston, Alb
ner Nash, Richard Dobbs Spaight and
John 3. Ashe. The following later
became United States Senators: Sam
uel Johnston, Benjamin Hawkins n
Timothy BlOOdwOrth. John b. Ashe,
Timothy Bloodworth. Hugh William
son and Richard Dobbs Spaight served
IN the House of Representatives under
the Constitution. Joseph HeWes served
in the Continental Congress from
1774 to 1777 and again in 1873; John
Penn from 1875 to 1876, ard again
from 1177 to 1880; Benjamin Hawkins
from 1871 to 1884. and again from
17S6 to 1887: William Blount from
11s3 to 1888. and again from 1856 to
11H1; Abner Nash from 1872 to 1884,
and again from 1855 to 1886: Hugh
Williamson from 1882 to 1885, and
again from 1877 to 1888.
The two most important acts of the
Second Continental Congress were
the Declaration of independence and
the Articles of Confederation. The
Declaration of Independence was
Si&ncd on behalf of North Carolina
ny William Hooper. a native Of Mas
S0ehusetts; Joseph Hewes, a native of
New Jersey, and JOIN Penn. a native
o. Virginia. Hewes died December
Nv LAP, Wn1Ie a emp OF con-
8teSs, and was buried in Philadelphia
win great honor by the Continental
congress; the Whereabouts of his
grave is now unknown. The bodies
VI Hooper and Penn We're removed
rom their original resting places to
the Guilford Battle Ground. where
Z monument has been erected in their
honor.
The Articles of Confederation. the
Uriglnal Constitution of the United
II3tes' We're adopted by the Continent
'"i congress November Is. 1777, and
sent to the several States for ratifica.
r'h. The General Assembly of North
roma ratified them April "a. IT'S.
I'Fhehus Harnett, John Penn and
1'hh Williams, the North Carolina
'tlegateS in Congress-. signed the