The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-23
BION BUTLER
SUNDAY LETTER
Interesting Story With Greensboro and Guiford
County as The e"oxt
County as The,
By BION III. BV :

Greensboro, Sept 20.-When I ar
rive in Greensboro, the first inclina-
ton is to glance around the corner at
the station to see If L can catch
glimpse of an officer in a cooked hat
and a periwig, leading a detachment
OF men in a queer uniform with spike
tail coats and knee buckles that mark
the day of Frederick North, prime
minister of England, or as Horace
1Nalpole said Of him "ostensible min
ister." In the days of George Ill.
North became Earl of Guilford on
the death Of his father, and the name
of Ghlford was bestowed upon the
North Carolina county created in
1870, the same year that that sturdy
young Rhode Island Quaker, Ma
Greene. was chosen member
of the assembly where he scandaliZed
the fellows of his faith by taking part
In military demonstrations that in the
course Of time brSught to him the
distinction of the second commander
OF the Revolutionary war, Washing
ton alone attaining to a greater
prominence.
Perhaps Lord North may have been
all right in intent, but ne was not
strong enough to prevail over George
Ill. or at least he was a couple Of
of the right to tax the American
colonies coming in 1878, came when
England had lost it's opportunity, and
lost likewise the greatest colony any
nation ever established. North S
eleventh hour repentance saved the
county for his name of Guilford, al
though it could not save the colonies
for Great Britain.
In marked contrast with North, OF
call him by his later name of the
Fart Of Guilford, is General Greene
The mild hammered Quaker became a
militant friend when the time arrived
to take the stand On the question OF
American liberty, and after he had
won fame and the unl>ounded cor;!-
dence Of Washington in the North
Greene came to the South to retrieve
the disasters Of Gates, and much OF
his success came to him here in Gull
ford county.
Greene Deserves Memorial
Greene deserves the memOria
which has been built to him in the
thrifty town Of Greensboro. a town iT
| which the various elements of pOpu
iation are SO agreeably mixed that
superior product results. Here were
a,h in the early days the ouakers ecnnsr' wht
vania and New England, the Bap
lists and the Presbyterians, includ
ing in the list David Caldwell, whose
classical and theological school IL
Gnilford marks a beginning OF edu
cation in the State. Governor MartiI
was Of the Irish Presbyterian stock
his father being a landowner from
Tyrone county. With this stock cam
later that substantial type Of eners,
and business ability, the Hebrew, ant
sprinkling Of other people, all O.
them serving to give homogeneity an'
diversity in proper form.
CHANGING around the corner t
catch a glimpse Of the continenta
troops, the next impulse is to lister
for the cannonading at the camp a
The Iron. Works" ten miles from
Guilford courthouse, where Greene
dates his official report Of the BATH
to Washington after it was ended II
the killed, wounded, and missing, n
reports eight ffes and drums. Corn
Wallis, in the battle, ION the edge o
the plantation beyond the woods
mile or more from the courthouse.
decided that he had won victory
~ was one OF that kind that is akl
TO defeat for CORVALLIS went bacl
To the coast and Greene pushed on t
the liberation of the CarOlinaS an
Georgia, settling the fate Of the colo
Mes of the South. GuilfOrd court
mousse is one of the decisive engage
rients OF arms on this continent. an
greensboro should be much more
conspicuous through it's historical i'm
Portance than it is.
might be explained, however
Snat Greensboro is not the GuilfOr
oourthuse where the battle wa
oouSht- That is some miles from tn
,y which is the present seat 90
Justice.
Greensboro's Quiet Youth.
don't know just how old Greens
''9 IS. It does not look so old a
ala when l saw it for the firs