Setting of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (Classic Reprint)

Setting of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1333943202
ISBN-13
9781333943202
Category
History
Pages
28
Language
English
Published
2016-10-13
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Alfred J. Morrison

Description

Excerpt from Setting of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Warranted exertions of power.' On the other hand, he said, he had the satisfaction to find the people in the western parts of North Carolina were withstanding 'for the most part steadily all the efforts of the factions to seduce them from their duty.' Among those who were thus withstanding, the Governor (it is to be supposed), was not counting certain inhabitants of Orange and Granville, Richard Henderson Company, to Wit, whom he had on February l0th - 'ih his Majesty's name and also in behalf of the Earl Granville' strictly forbidden to prosecute the planting of the colony of Transylvania, 'on pain of his Majesty's highest displeasure and of suffering the most rigorous penalties of the law.' Those of the Centre and West held by the Governor to be yet steadfast in duty and loyalty were certain inhabitants of Dobbs, Guilford, Surry, Rowan, and Anson who had during February sent down to Newberne most emphatically Tory addresses, signing their names to the number of five or six hundred. During the spring of 1775 Governor Martin had been careful to distribute packets of Tory pamphlets in the ('entre and West. With regard to the loyal response he got from those quarters he remarked in his dispatch to the Earl of Dartmouth, 'i am hopeful the originality and imperfection of the stile will not extenuate the merit of the sentiments.' To the last the Governor was as cheerful as he could be in the hope that he might accomplish something solid, with the back ing of his Tory correspondents of the West and Centre strengthened by the Highlanders of the Cape Fear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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