The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-07

he said this of the troops from south
ward Of the Hudson: They have TO
a man behaved well and borne the
whole brunt on Long Island, and that
for which the Eastern troops must be
damned 10 eternal fame-they have
~plundered friends and foes without
dlscrimination'-N. c. Colonial Rec
ords.
s. In american Military Biogra-
ply" printed in Cincinnati in 1929.
some of John a Jones's experiences
With New E~nglanderS appear. Giving
an account, for example. of a prOpOs-
ed descent on the coast of England, he
says: 4 determined a second time to
attempt a descent; this project, how
ever, alarmed by l~ieutenanJs: they
We're poor. they said. and their object
was gain. not honor. They accordingly
excited diSobedience among the ships
company. persuading them that they
had a right TO detrmine whether the
measures adopted by me were Well
concerted or not.
9. After the memorable repulse of
Sir Henry Clinten's troops and Sir
Peter Parker's force at Charleston by
regular troops and militia from Viz
einia and North Carolina and South
Carolina, General Charles Lee sent an
account Of the battle to President
Pendleton. of Virginia, in which he
expressed his surprise at the bravery
and skill of these Southerners.
10. At the Cowpens General Nor
gan. with six hundred regulars and
militia. defeated Colonel Tarlton's
"near a thousand" horse and foot.
Eight hundred stand of arms. two
field pieces. and thirty-five baggage
wagons fell to the victors," two
thirds Of whom, according to Frost.
! were militia"
: II. About nine hundred Southern
ers, as -Alden's Manifold C~yclopspdia
J informs us, made an attack on Major
| Ferguson with his body of tories and
regulars. amounting to about twelve
. hundred. who were occupying the top
of Kings Mountain. They killed two
. hundred and twenty-five of them, and
$ captured eight hundred.
= And these SOutherners. it is worth
9 recording. were not regular soldiers:
they belonged to what We're called
: partisan bands"
d The Congress Of the Confederation.
When the articles Of Confederation
6 were adopted, they conferred nc
d power upon the Congress to lay and
h collect taxes, and there was no prop
a erty which it possessed the right tc
J. dispose Of. Hence the records Of the
Congress occupy an insignificant
space in the history Of this country
d but after Virginia gave UP her title t.
the lands lying W the Ohio ant
IS the Mississippi rivers, 'the keen bust
ness Instincts of some people. a:
e General Dom Piatt called them. nan
aged to frame a bargain" which i
explained in the following paragraph
= When in 1880 Virginia was appeal
ed to by the Continental Congress t.
n grant. for the benefit of all the States
lie her title to the lands lying between
lie these rivers, it was expressly prom
d Used that none of it should be dispose
s. Of without the consent OF "nine o
a more States" But in 1887 the Con
n gress Of the Confederation-only eigh
States being represented-sold t
K, some New York and New Englan
er gentlemen five millions Of acres Q
he these lands, and accepted in pay
ment three and one-half million
n of dollars of Revolutionary Wa
ne bonds which these lucky s%peculator
I'd had bought up at about one eighth {
It. their face value. In other words, tn
a price they paid was less than min
lie cents per acre; and this body Of Ian
ny was as large as the State of New Jel
Id sey. excluding her islands.
ii II First Congress OF ''The Nor
e. Perfect Union"
Id Turning now from the Confedera
n ton, which our historians have us,
ally passed over in silence becaus
perhaps. in it each State retained i
'e- sovereignty &c, and they could NJ
n explain how a State could retain
lis what it did not possess. let us ents
w upon the study of the proceeding
,e: which, beginning in the first Congress
I'D revealed sectional differences whic
Id inflicted on this country a long ira
ps of evils. Our records of the procee,
ings in the early days are few. f
as when the foundation of our long Sc
m tiOnal quarrel was laid. it was dor
so behind closed doors, outsiders not b
IN ing permitted to know anything abol
the and plans of the plO
e; ters. This was in the first Congress
IN 1.-The more perfect Union" and a
i'm though this secrecy was opposed
patriotic citizens and the Virgin
nel Legislature sent a request for II
N opening of the doors they were n
la opened. and many years passed befo
he the people Of the United States had {