North Carolina
Led Colonies in
nnounced the
itd the freedom of
In 1765 the British
stat ip act. Wi
arrived « off C
nd earrvis wt
ple t
afr
captured the
the
pariiament
hen the fir
ape Fear {ror
amped paper
rize d the captain until
land his stuff
colonies,
war
and ther
gtamp officer from
governor fn
made the office
take onth
would not
tempt to enfe
the nse
stamps. A yea
Inter the stam
net was repean
Int North Caro
lina had found
that she had n
power when the
people arose, and
t he English
crown was never
again sure of its
ony.
The people as
gerted the right
of free fsseme
blage after that,
and the assump-
tion led to numer
clashes with
the governor uns
<< til in May, 1771,
he governor, with soldiers,
against a bana of men calling theme
sedves Regulators; aod a few miles
morth of Southern Pines a battle
fought in which more than 100 easunl-
few occurred on both sides, nearly two
score being Killed, This was the first
Maoodshed In the Revolution, The in-
Mdicisns governor, whose force was
sictorious, aroused further hatred on
the part of the people by hanging n
womber of his prisoners, Herman
Besbands, the leader of the Reguln-
gars. escaped and went to Pittsburgh,
where he settled,
weiphin,
The feeling was fanned Ly
Ereine acts of each gle,
Ons
the ox-
¢ occasion,
before the Declara 1 of Inde
Ph il lad: Iphi
{ that —
{ Ringing Declaration,
“We
| independer
tleclare ourselves
people * Are
to he an soverelg:
gn
dent self-governing association,
than int of our Ged and
of congress
rovernment
18 Nes
depen
solemnly
mutual
tion our lives,
our fortunes and
onr most sacred
honor.”
The convention
that aflopted such
startling
tions of indepen-
resolu-
dence
to lay the founda-
ment for
Carolina
suitable
provided by con-
gress, and from
that day the au-
thority of the British erown was exhib-
ited only during those few times when
made his ventures with
more or less varying success on the
territory of the colony,
colonies to have nan English settlement,
the first to shed blood in the war for
and the first to give ut-
thrance in explicit form to that inde-
| pendence, Nor was the declaration of
| the people of Mecklenburg the sole
manifestation of the sentiment in the
matter. At Fayetteville, on Cape Fear
river below Southern Pines, another
Declaration of Independence ante
| dated that of Philadelphia, The peo-
ple in Cumberland county, of which
Fayetteville is the capital, Issued thelr
tatement In June of 17705. insisting
that resort to arms was fastified, and
| pledging ench other to sacrifice life
{ and fortune to the freedom and safety
of an oppressed people, In April, 1776,
| #til before the Philadelphia Declara-
tion of Independence, the provineinl
ongress of North Carolina appointed
.
tind
Some Tory Sentiment.
All of this section of North Caroling
4 not enthusiastic in the Declaration
of Tadependencs A portion of the set
tlergs were arden To
wries—s0 ardent,
in fact, that |
as not until the war
Scotch of Cape Fear
absolutely
that the
red away
royal standard.
story
The Caps
from the
The
tune
is one of singular misfor
Fear valley wa
tled Inrge
the adhere
the Stuart
which me
| set
by
zs of
milly
with
at
ly
n
¢
if
+
such dizaster
Culloden that
many of the fol
lowers of the Pre.
tender were han
ished to America
for taking up
arma agninet the
British crown, Be-
fore these people
were permitted to
gall they were
sworn on a bind
ing oath to be
loyal henceforth
to the English
king. When the
settlers around
them in North
Carolina were ris
ing against the
governor, declaring indepen
refusing to pay stamp taxes,
royal
agninst the king, the Scotch settlers
were in arms under the British flag.
Their onth and their bitter experience
rebellious acts.
*
Greene's Memory Worthy of Honer.
|
Next to Washington, Nathanael |
Greene was the most potent force in |
our struggle for national independence |
He was born on May 27, 1742, in a lit |
tle farmhouse in Rhode Island. His |
boyhood was spent like that of the
other youth of the neighborhood. Prob
ably It was a little less exelting, for
his father was a strict Quaker and
pastor of a church at East Greenwich
He was also a “captain of Industry” at
that period. With his five brothers, he |
owned a forge, n grist mill, a sawmill,
as well as a store for the sale of gen:
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