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Revolutionary Days.
The home of Paul Revere In North
Muss, was built somes
1650 and 1650. It was
joston,
1800. The
the Paul Re-
assoclation, has been
original condition and
until house,
owned by
he lived in it
is now
Memorial
restored to Its
famous Episcopal clergymen,
and friends of Washington,
of relics of Washington's time,
The church has a number
CITIZENS OF NORTH
CAROLINA FIRST TO
DEFY KING GEORGE
Proclamation of Freedom
Made at Mecklenburg
More Than 152
Years Ago.
In spite of doubting Thomas Jeffer
gon and the reluctance of certain less
interested Virginians to admit that
anything good ever came out of North
Carolina, no sufficlent reason now
exists for questioning the proud boast
that the citizens of Mecklenburg
county, In the latter state, did fling
defiance in the face of Great Britain
in the form of a declaration of Inde-
pendence just thirteen months and
fifteen days before the Continental
congress in Philadelphia saw fit to
make the same decisive move. The
date was May 20, 1775, the place was
Charlotte, N. C., and the immediate
provocation of precipitate action was
the arrival of the express with the
pews of the shooting down of Capt.
John Parker's Minute men by British
regulars under Major Pitcairn on Lex-
ington common,
It was in 1819 that a newspaper re-
print of what was said to be the
declaration Itself-—a document con-
taining several of the phrases of his
own famous paper—was called to the
attention of Thomas Jefferson by John
Adams. Writing to Adams from Mon-
ticello, Jefferson sald he believed It
spurious, because up to that moment
he had never heard of it, though he
lived in the adjoining state of Vir
ginia. He called attention also to the
circumstance that the witnesses ap-
pealed to were, most of them, dead,
Jefferson's Mind Open,
However, Jefferson was careful to
add that he based his opinion on neg-
ative evidence which positive evidence
was perfectly competent to overthrow,
One of the most vallant collectors of
this evidence has been Archibald Hen-
derson, who Is otherwise known as the
American familiar of Bernard Shaw.
Another—furfously assailed when he
first collected the data-—was Dr.
George Washington Graham, who has
written a whole book on the subject,
The controversy was heated and acrl-
monious,
On the
to the insinuation that one of the Vir-
ginia champions of Jefferson's priority
this country to the Conrt of St,
archives a copy of the Cape Fear
Mercury, which was material evidence
because it contained the text of the
Mecklenburg declaration printed with-
in the month after it was issued. It
was known that such a copy had, In
fact, heen sent to Lord Dartmouth by
Josinh Martin, the royal governor of
North Carolina at the time, Martin
described it as “the late most treason-
able publication of a committee in the
county of Mecklenburg explicitly re-
nouncing obedience to his ma jesty's
government” and added that it “sur.
passed all horrid and treasonable pub.
Heations that the Inflammatory spirit
of the country has produced.” On the
negative side there were charges of
forgery and mendacity—the manu-
facture of history out of whole cloth.
Events Leading to Action.
Assuming the evidence as sufficient,
the story of what happened becomes
a part of a well-connected series of
events in the province whose position
between two ostentatiously aristo-
cratic neighbors has sometimes, It is
sald, deprived her of due considera-
tion. In March, 1774, Governor Martin
had dissolved an unruly assembly, In
August of that year a convention had
met under the governor's nose in New
Berne and sent delegates to the Con-
tinentanl congress. For the rest of
that year the separate counties had
been busy with meetings and prepara-
tions, snd in April, 1775, the assembly
which met by the authority of the
erown—the last one-—wasslsoa conven.
tion of the people. They “transformed
themselves from time to time” Into
one and then the other, so Governor
Martin, who was a soldier, sald, and
thus, as Doctor Morrison sees |(t,
strained the British constitution to the
utmost—or, in other words, the break-
ing point. At the a certain
Col. Richard Henderson and his asso-
ciates, all North Carolinians, had
formed a company, with Daniel Boone
for field leader, and set up a govern-
ment in a tract of land which they
had bought from the Cherokees with-
out royal warrant. That land, which
they named Transylvania and which
included a great part of Tennessee
and Kentucky, they had practically
proclaimed to be Independent not only
of Great Britain but of Noth Caro-
ina, and Virginia as well. They asked,
indeed, to have It acknowledged by
congress as the fourteenth province
of the Confederation
Denounced King George,
Obviously, the North Carolinlans
were not in subml when
the news of the first blogd shed In
the ‘North arrived. ‘What happened
at Anson county courthouse when
the
recorded In a certain familly Bible
to which Doctor Henderson has had
The writer Is a young man
named Morgan Brown, an eyewitness,
He says that the messenger found the
county court in sessfon and the magis-
trates, some of whom were tories, on
same time,
ssive mood
ACCeRs,
APPEAL TO HEAVEN
Washington's Fervent Pray-
er at Valley Forge.
This Is said to be word for word
the prayer that Washington sent up
to the Great White Throne of God in
that dark hour of the republic when
his barefoot army shivered In the
snows of Valley Forge:
“Almighty God, we make our earn-
est prayer that Thou wilt keep the
United States in Thy holy protection ;
that Thou wilt incline the hearts of
the citizens to cultivate a spirit of
subordination and gov-
ernment; and entertain a brotherly
affection and love for each other and
for thelr fellow citizens of the United
States at large; and finally, that Thou
obedience to
Washington's Headquarters During
the Agony at Valley Forge.
wilt most graclously be pleased to dis.
pose us all to do justice, to love
mercy, and to demean ourselves with
that charity, humility and pacific tem-
per of mind which were the character.
lsties of the Divine Author of our
blessed religion, and without a humble
imitation of whose example in these
things we can never hope to be a
happy nation. Grant our supplica-
tion, we beseech Thee, through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.”
So the prayer ran—so wonderful
then and still more wonderful now
when there are those in the land who
geek not only to sow the seeds of
hatred and dissension but who also
fn thelr blindness shake their fists in
the face of God—Los Angeles Times.
the
of
the bench. The people forced
court to adjourn without the form
doing it In the Then
they rushed out bearing sheriff
with them, leaving the tory magistrates
still sitting on the bench. Afterward:
“The people consented for them to
meet and close some busi
ness upon condition that it shou
called in the king's na or that
the words ‘God save the king’ should
ded by the for. 'sald
will
of a
king's
name,
the
unfinished
id not
be
be ade
‘we
crier,
nothing done In
who
they,
have the
king has his
slaughter our citizens." And
ed the royal authority, |
thelr record,
name troops
thus end
or the court,
pever sat
igain.”
Gathering of the Citizens,
At Cl fifty
the messenger apg t
iariotte, some
wars to
an assembly of the
of Mecklenburg summeo
various “companies”
county by the nel
Thomas Polk According
celvgd chronology, the
rived May 19 and threw the guther
into a fever, John )
Knitt Alexander, says “sat
the courthouse all
sleepy nor hungry nor fatig and
in the morning passed a set of resolu
tions prepared by Ephraim Brevard.
In the urred the fol
lowing declarations:
“Resolved * * * That dis.
solve us with the mother country and
es from aliegls to
and
we
free 81 d
that we are and
ought to be a sovereign
erning peopl
and the general
It should be noted that the
taken from Judge Francols X. Martin's
“History of North Carolina”™
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messengs
The secretary,
t jo ¥
eh y
nigh neither
ied,”
resolutions occ
we
absolve oursely nee
“Resolved, That hereby de
clare ourselves a depend
of right
and self
ent people:
a0V-
¢ under the er of God
congress.”
text is
sich
the lost C
the
not
was
Fear
ardent
deny that
destroyed
was
was printed In
Mercury, for even
North Carolinians do
the original document
in 1800 when Alexander's
burned,
Sought Only Their Rights.
These
people
ape
more
house
Returning again to the story:
resolutions were read to the
outside the courthouse by
Polk and received with “shouts and
huzzas” In accordance with a provi
sion In the resolutions themselves,
they were transmitted to the Cont
nental the
approached sald that the “subject
the resolutions was premature to
laid before the congress.”
At that time the cooler heads still
hoped to compose matters with the
mother country without an actual
breach. The strongest statements of
the determination not to
submit to coercion or what they
regarded as the abridgment of thelr
liberties as subjects of the British
crown were coupled with expressions
of loyalty to the crown itself. Indeed,
among Americans who were far from
being tories there were many who
of thelr own connection
Colonel
congress, where persons
of
he
Colonists’
fo
as Archibald Henderson re |
minds us, “wbhorred independence” |
which meant that he desired to be a
good Virginian and still remain a good |
Englishman,
Independence Not Sought.
As a matter of fact, even Jefferson |
at this date was not an open advo |
eate of independence, nor did Patrick |
Henry in bis “ringing resolutions” (as |
Jefferson called them), adopted in Vir
ginia after the Lexington bloodshed,
take so rash a stand.
The sum of the matter is that the
dectaration of Independence which
Mecklenburg, N. C, Issued one year
ahend of time and the revolution which
Virginia started a century ahead of
time had each to walt till the country
at large was ready for the real thing.
They were dramatic gestures, not
things accomplished. Nevertheless, the
Virginia affair cost many Hyves of
patriots and some of those who were
not so counted, and tons of Ink have
been spilled over the North Carolina
outbreak.~New York Times Magazine,
Once inside
one sees the flight
sharply to the
entry
doorway
the small paneled entry
of stairs that rise
gecond floor, From the
passes through a left-hand
I finds himself In a pine-
The walls on all but
covered quaint
one
inns
room
fireplace
sheathed
the
wall paper,
The other
old kitchen,
eled
place
ure with
the
pan
fire
downstairs room Is
This
red,
narrow shelf
sundry and
phernalla, of the
ing things in the entire kit
toddy shown In
panying which
Paul Hevere himself,
the straight fron rod
was removed from its resting place in
thie thimble like and after being
heated In the of the fireplace,
room Is both
Above the
are found
other para-
most Interess
chen Is the
the accom.
made by
When In use,
of utensil
and pls iste
on a
candlesticks
One
warner,
sketch, wins
this
Cap,
coals
The toddy stick or toddy warmer in
its holder (upper left) and the cradle
are two of the prized antiques in the
Paul Revere home (shown below).
o the cold wi
was thrust red hot Int
or ale, p
was much esteeme f hose
Nea red baby's
cradle fashion
filustration
scarred sides
gin and faithful
evere's 1
days
r the a batt
fireplace |
from a b (see
and
jent ord
irrel
worn rockers
testify to Its anc
service,
ride
ago,
worable
ner
undertaken over 100 years
low's immortal
Ride,” practi
knows the
to Longfe
“Paul
every ®e
Revere's
hool child
When
Willlam
Sexton
for
Dawes,
tohert
and
parts they
night, Long
that the
story well eriticl
tioning ne
uel 'rescott,
nor ( ins Pulling
the poem f«
zed men.
ither
apts
wr the
would soon |
show that he was wrong
he en
founded on
claimed that if it had
have
fact, It Is
been for the poem
have
~Pathfin
not
¢ would not
many ways
Hever
been honored In
Magazine,
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der
THE MINUTE ‘MAN
By ISAAC BASSETT CHOATE
Blithe speeds the plow this warm
sweet day of spring,
reign,
and plain;
wing;
bird sing.
chain
Which tyrant winter
forged in vain;
All fields and woods with songs of
freedom ring.
Now halts the plow in furrow, ready
hand
Grasps ready musket in defense of
right;
The plowboy is a soldier at command,
His country serving well; before the
night
Bhall sound of musketry assurance
bring
That now hath Minute man succeeded
king.
forged, but
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three vital questions you have asked
about used car allowances
1 “What is my present car worth?”
Answer: Your used car has only funda-
what the dealer
who accepts it in trade can get for it in the
one
mental basis of value: that is
used car market,
2 “Why should dealers in different
makes of cars offer me allowances
that differ materially 77
Answer: Your used car has seemingly dif-
ferent values because competitive dealers are
bidding to sell you a new car.
3 “Is it true that the largest allow-
ance offered means the best deal
for me?”
Answer: The! largest allowance is not neces-
sarily the best deal for you. Sometimes it is;
sometimes it is not. An excessive allowance
may mean that you are paying an excessive
price for the new car in comparison with its
real! value,
First judZe the merits of the new car in coraparison
with its price, including all delivery and finance
charges. Then weigh any difference in allowance
offered on your used car. Remember that after all
you are making a purchase, not a sale.
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