{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3632", "width": "2348", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ".y\\n0^\\n0", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "S\\nr\\n\\\\V\\nxO\\n^V\\nO\\n0^ L\\nV\\nv^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0v", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nREYERglBIiECOPY BQeKg.\\nRECOMMENDED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR USE IN ALL\\nTHE PUBLIC SOHOOLS OF THE STATE.\\nThe North Carolina Reversible Copy Books are\\nspecially adapted to our schools. The essential system is com-\\njilete in four books, and the books are so arranged by a patent\\nmethod that but a single page is necessarily exposed at one\\ntime. A full page Blotter is hinged to the cover, and it can\\nbe used on every page of the book.\\nSome of the special points of merit in the North Carolina\\nReversible Copy Books are:\\nTHE REVERSIBLE FORM IS THE BEST.\\nOccupies less desk roon).\\n2. Pnges lie flat.\\n0. One page only is exposed.\\n4. Each page is removable.\\n5. Contains extra Practice Leaves.\\n2. THE GRADING IS BETTER.\\n1. Each book contains both Alphabets.\\n2. The copies are more progressive.\\n3. The books advance in harmony with other school grades.\\n4. Letters are arranged in order of similarity and simplicity of formation.\\n5. Monotonous repetition is avoided.\\n3. THE SERIES IS MORE COMPACT.\\n1. It is complete in Six Books.\\n2. Obtainable in Parts.\\n3. Bn*^ V ne series of Copies.\\n4. No superfluous lines, si)aces or numbers.\\n5. The copy lines are all contained in P\\\\)ur Books.\\n4. THE SYSTEM IS MORE SIMPLE.\\n1. Three principles to each Alfihabet.\\n2. Less complicated and objectionable ruling-,\\n3. No abstract marks, unmeaning words or confusing directions.\\n4. Analysis is omitted from the books.\\n5. The ruling corresponds with ordinary Note, Letter send Cap in spacing.\\nALFRED WILLIAMS CO.,\\nBOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS,\\nRALEIGH, N. C.", "height": "3494", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "SCHOOL HISTORY\\nNORTH CAROLINA,\\nFROM 1584 TO THE PRESENT TIME.\\nJOHN ^A^. MOORE.\\nTHIRD EDITION-REVISED SND ENLARGED.\\nSCHOOLS OF THE STATE.\\nK A LEIGH:\\nALFRED WILLIAMS CO., Publishers.\\nUZZELL GATLING, PRINTERS.\\n1882.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 18S2, by\\nALFRED WILLIAMS CO.,\\nIn the office of the Librarian of Congress, at tVashington.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nIn the publication of a tliird edition it seems proper that something\\nshould be said as to changes made in this work. At a session of the North\\nCarolina Board of Education, held November 22d, 1881, it was resolved\\nthat the Board expressly reserve to itself the right to require further\\nrevisions in Moore s School History of North Carolina, the second edition\\nof which was then adopted for use in the public schools.\\nConforming to this requirement of the State Board of Education, the\\nauthor has diligently sought aid and counsel in the effort to perfect this\\nwork. To Mrs. C. P. Spencer, E. J, Hale, Esq., of New York, and Hon,\\nMontford McGehee, Commissioner of Agriculture, the work is indebted for\\nmany valuable suggestions, but still more largely to Col. W. L. Saunders,\\nSecretary of State, who has aided assiduously not only in its revision, but\\nin its progress through the press.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER. PAGE.\\nI. Pliysical Description of North Carolina 1\\nII. Piiysical Description Continued 5\\nIII. Geological Characteristics 9\\nIV. The Indians 13\\nV. Sir Walter Raleigh 18\\nVI. Discovery of North Carolina 22\\nVII. Governor Lane s Colony 27\\nVIII. Governor White s Colony 32\\nIX. The Fate of Raleigh 37\\nX. Charles II. and the Lords Proprietors 42\\nXL Governor Drumniond and Sir John Yeamans 46\\nXII. Governor Stephens and the Fundamental Constitutions... 51\\nXIII. Early Governors and their Troubles 55\\nXIV. Lord Carteret Adds a New Trouble 59\\nXV. Thomas Carey and the Tuscarora War 63\\nXVL Governor Eden and Black-Beard 69\\nXVII. Governor Gabriel Johnston 73\\nXVIII. The Pirates and Other Enemies 78\\nXIX. Governor Arthur Dobbs 82\\nXX. Governor Tryon and the Stamp Act 86\\nXXI. Governor Tryon and the Regulators 93\\nXXri. Governor Martin and the Revolution 98\\nXXIII. First Provincial Congress 102\\nXXIV. Second Provincial Congress 106\\nXXV. The Congress at Ilillsboro Ill\\nXXVI. Battle of Moore s Creek Bridge 116\\nXXVII. Fourth Provincial Congress Declares Independence 120\\nXXVIII. A(loi)tion of a State Constitution 125\\nXXIX. The War Continued 129\\nXXX. Stony Point and Charleston 132\\nXXXI. Ramsour s Mill and Canideii Coint-IIoiise 136", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. V\\nCHAPTER. PAGE.\\nXXXir. Battle of King s Mountain 140\\nXXXIII. Cornwallis Last Invasion 145\\nXXXIV. Battle of Gnilford Court-Honse 150\\nXXXV. Fanning and his Brutalities 154\\nXXXVI. Peace and Independence 160\\nXXXVII. The State of Franklin 164\\nXXXVIII. Formation of the Union 169\\nXXXIX. France and America 173\\nXL. The Federalists and the Republicans 177\\nXLI. Closing of the Eighteenth Century 182\\nXLII. Growth and Expansion 186\\nXLIII. Second War with Great Britain 190\\nXLIV. After the Storm 194\\nXLV. The Whigs and the Democrats 198\\nXLVL The Condition of the State 202\\nXLVIL The Courts and the Bar 206\\nXLVIIL Origin of the Public Schools 210\\nXLIX. Slavery and Social Development 215\\nL. The Mexican War 219\\nLI. The North Carolina Railway ?nd the Asylums 223\\nLII. A Spectre of the Past Re-appears 227\\nLIIL The Social and Political Status 231\\nLIV. President Lincoln and the War 236\\nLV. The War Between the States 242\\nLVI. The Combat Deepens 246\\nLVIL The War Continues 251\\nLVIII. War and its Horrors 255\\nLIX. The Death Wound at Gettysburg 259\\nLX. General Grant and his Campaign 263\\nLXI. North Carolina and Peace-Making 269\\nLXIL The War Draws to a Close 274\\nLXIII. Concluding Scenes of the War 277\\nLXIV. Refitting the Wreck 283\\nLXV. Governor Worth and President Johnson 287\\nLXVI. Results of Reconstruction 292\\nLXVII. Results of Reconstruction Continued 298\\nLXVIII. Impeachment of Governor Holden 303", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "VI CONTENTS.\\nCIIAI TKR. PAGE.\\nLXIX. Resumption of, Self-Government 307\\nLXX. Tlie Cotton Tnide and Factories .311\\nLXXI. Progress of Material Development 315\\nLXXII. The Railroads and New Towns 321\\nLXXIII. Literature and Authors 326\\nLXXIV. The Colleges and Schools 332\\nLXXV. Conclusion 337\\nAPPENDIX.\\nConstitution of North Carolina.. 345\\nQuestions on the Constitution 373", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HINTS TO TEACHERS.\\nIt is well known that any subject can be more tliorouglily taught when\\nboth the eye and the mind of the pupil are used as mediums for imparting\\nthe knowledge; and the teacher of North Carolina History will find a\\nvaluable help in a wall map of the State hung in convenient position for\\nreference while the Jiistory class is reciting.\\nRequire the pupils to go to the map and point out localities when men-\\ntioned, also places adjoining; trace the courses of the rivers whicii have a\\nhistorical interest, and name important towns upon their banks. A good,\\nreliable wall map of North Carolina can be procured at a moderate price\\nfrom the publishers of this work.\\nIt has been deemed proper to make the chapters short, that each may\\nform one lesson. At the close of each chapter will be found questions upon\\nthe main points of the lesson. These will furnish thought for many other\\nquestions whicli will suggest themselves to the teacher.\\nThere are many small matters of local State history which can be given\\nwith interest to the class, from time to time, as appropriate periods are\\nreached. These minor facts could not be included in tiie compass of a\\nschool book, but a teacher will be helped by referring occasionally to\\nMoore s Library History of North Carolina.\\nInspire your pupils with a spirit of patriotism and love for their native\\nState. A little effort in this direction will show you how easily it can be\\ndone. In every boy and girl is a latent feeling of pride in whatever per-\\ntains to tiie welfare of their native State, and this feeling should be culti-\\nvated and enlarged, and thus the children make better citizens when grown.\\nThe history of our State is filled with events which, told to the young, will", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "VIII HI^ T.S TO TEACHERS.\\nfix their attention, and awaken a desire to know more of the troubles and\\nnoble deeds of the people who laid the foundation of this Commonwealth.\\nThe Appendix contains the present Constitution of North Carolina.\\nThen follows a series of Questions on the onstitution, prepared expressly\\nfor this work by Hon. Kemp P. Battle, LL. I)., President of the University\\nof North Carolina. This is an entirely new and valuable feature in a school\\nbook, and contains an analysis of our State government. This is just the\\ninformation that every citizen of North Carolina ought to possess, and\\nteachers should require all their students of this history to read and study\\nthe Constitution and endeavor to answer the .questions thereon.\\nNo State in the Union possesses a i-ecord of nobler achievements than\\nNorth Carolina. Her people liave always loved liberty for themselves, and\\nthey offered the same priceless boon to all who came within her borders;\\nand it was a full knowledge of this trait of our people which made Ban-\\ncroft sav North Carolina was settled bv the freest of the free.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTEK 1.\\nPHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nThe State of North Carolina is iiichided between the parallels\\n34\u00c2\u00b0 and 3()J\u00c2\u00b0 north latitude, and between tlie meridians 75 J\u00c2\u00b0\\nand 84 J\u00c2\u00b0 west longitude. Its western boundary is the crest of\\nthe Smoky Mountains, which, with the Blue Ridge, forms a\\npart of the great Appalachian system, extending almost frorii\\nthe mouth of the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico; its\\neastern is the Atlantic Ocean. Its mean breadth from north\\nto south is about one hundral miles; its extreme breadth is\\none hundred and eighty -eight miles. The extreme length of\\nthe State from east to west is tive hundred miles. The area\\nend^raced within its boundaries is fifty-two thousand two hun-\\ndred and eighty-six square miles.\\n2. The climate of North Carolina is mild and equable. This\\nis due in })art to its geographical j)osition midway, a,^ it were,\\nbetween the northern and southern limits of the Union. Two\\nother causes concur to modify it: the one, the lofty Appalachian\\nchain, which forms, to sc^me extent, a shield from the bleak\\n\\\\vinds of the north-west; the other, the softening influence of\\nthe Gulf Stream, the current of which swee])s along near its\\nshores.\\nThe result of these coml)ined causes is shown in the\\ncharacter of the seasons. Foii s are almost unknown; frosts", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "2 HtSTORV OF XORTir AIIolJXA,\\noccur not until the uiiddle of October; ice rarely forms of a\\nsufficient thicknc^i^ to be gathered; snows are light, seldom\\nremaining on the ground more than two or three days. The\\naverage min-fall is about fifty-three inches, which is pretty\\nunif(\u00c2\u00bbrmly distributed throughout the year. The climate is\\neminently favorable to health and longevity.\\n4. The State falls naturally into three divisions or sections\\nthe Western or Mountain section, the Middle or Piedmont\\nsection, and the Eastern or Tide-water section. The first con-\\nsists of mountains^ many of them rising to towering heights,\\nthe highest, indeed, east of the Rocky Mountains, It is\\nbounded on the east by the Blue Ridge and on the west by the\\nSmoky Mountains. The section enclosed within these limits\\nis in shape somewhat like an elli])se. Its length, is about one\\nhundred and ei\u00c2\u00abj:htv miles its averao:e breadth from twentv to\\nfifty miles. It is a high j)lateau, from the plane of Avhich\\nmany lofty mountains everywhere rise, and on its border the\\nculminating ]K)ints of the Appalachian system the Roan, the\\nGrandfather and the Black lift their heads to the sky.\\nBetween the mountains are fertile valleys, plentifully watered\\nby streams, many of them remarkable for their beauty. The\\nmount iins themselves are wooded, except a few which have\\nprairies on their summits, locally distinguished a.s balds.\\nThis section ha.s long been one of the favorite resorts of the\\ntourist and the painter.\\n5. The Middle st^ction lies between the Blue Ridge and the\\nfalls where the rivers make their descent into the greiit plain\\nwhich forms the Eastern section of the State. Its area comprises\\nnearly one-half of the territory of the State. Throughout the\\ngreater part it presents an endless succession of hills and dales,\\nthouu h the sui-face near the mountains is of a bolder and some-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION. 6\\ntimes of a rugged cast. The scenery of this section is as\\nremarkable for qniet, picturesque beauty, a.s that of the Western\\nis for subHmity and grandeur.\\n6. The Eastern section is a champaign country; relie^ ed,\\nhowever, by gentle undulations. Its breadth is about one\\nhundred miles. Its principal beauty lies in its river scenery\\nand extensive water prospects.\\n7. The cultivated ^productions of the Mountain section are\\ncorn, wheat, oats, barley, hay, tobacco, fruits and vegetables.\\nCattle are also reared quite extensively for market. In the\\nMiddle section are found all the productions of tlie former,\\nand over the southern half, cotton appears as the staple product.\\nIn the Tide-water section cotton, corn, oats and rice are staple\\ncrops, and the trucking business (growing fruits and vege-\\ntables for the Northern markets), constitutes a flourishing\\nindustry. The lumber business, and the various industries to\\nwhich the long-leaf pine gives rise, tar, pitch and turpentine,\\nliave long been, and still continue to be, great resources of\\nwealth for this section. Of the crops produced in the United\\nStates all are grown in North Carolina except sugar and some\\nsemi-tropical fruits, as the orange, the lemon and the banana.\\nThe wine grapes of America may be said to have their home\\nin North Carolina; four of them, the Catawba, Isabella,\\nLincoln and Scuppernong, originated here.\\n8. The physical characteristics of the State will be better\\nunderstood by picturing to the mind its surface as spread out\\nupon a vast declivity, sloping down from the summits of the\\nSmoky Mountains, an altitude of near seven thousand feet, to\\nthe ocean level. Through the range of elevation thus afforded,\\nthe plants and trees (or what is comprehended under the term\\nflora) vary from those peculiar to Alpine regions to those\\npeculiar to semi-tro]: ical regions.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "4 IIISTOIJY OF XOKTII ARoLfXA.\\n9. Tlic variety of trees is most mnrkcd, iiicliulinir nil those\\nwhich yield timber emphyed in the useful, and uiauy of\\nthose employed in the ornamental arts. Indeed, nearly all the\\ns])e(Mes found in the Ignited States, eixt^t of the Rocky Mountains,\\nare found in Xorth Carolina. Her wealtli in this rtVpect\\nwill be appreciated when the strikin fact is mentioned that\\nthere are more s])ecies of oaks in North Carolina than in all\\nthe States north of us, tuid only one less than in all the Southern\\nStates east of the Mis issi[)pi. This ran )i:e of elevation affords\\nalso a p cat variety of medicinal herbs. In fact, the mountains\\nof North Carolina are the store-hoiu^e of the ITnited States for\\nplants of this description.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Of what does- this chajHer treat? Give the latitude and h)ngitiide of\\nNortI) Carolina. What are its eastern and western boundaries? Give its\\ndimensions,\\ni2. What is said of the climate of North Carolina? Name the canses\\n(jf this n)ildnes.s of climate.\\n3. What is said of the seasons? Of fogs, snow and ice? Of the rain-\\nfall\\n4. Into liow many natural divisions is the State formed Name them.\\nI)escribe the Mountain section. Point it out on the map,\\n5. Give a description of the Middle or Piedmont section. Locate this\\nsection on the map.\\nWhat is said of the Eastern or Tide-water section? Point it out on\\nthe map.\\n7. What are some of the j)rodnctions of the Mountain section Of the\\nPiedmont? Of the Tide-water? What is said of the grapes of North\\nCarolina?\\n8. How may the physical characteristics of the State be easily under-\\nstood\\n1). What is said of the plants .and trees? What further is said of this\\nparticidar l)ranch of Noith ramliiKi s wealth?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PHYSICAL DESC IUPTIOX. O\\nCHAPTER II.\\nPHYSICAL DESCRTPTION-ContinnaL\\n1. The mountains of North Carolina may be eonvenientlv\\nclassed as four se])arate chains: the Smoky, forniin^i; the western\\nboundary of the State; the Blue Ridge, running across the\\nState in a very tortuous course, {\\\\nd shooting out spurs of great\\nelevation; the Brushy (which divides, for the greater j)art of its\\ncourse, the waters of the Catawba and Yadkin), beginning at a\\n})oint near Lenoir, and termina.ting in the Pilot and Saurat(jwn\\nMountains; and an inferior range of much lower elevation,\\nwhich may be termed, from its local name at different points,\\nthe Uwharrie or Oconeechee Mountains beginning in Mont-\\ngomery county and terminating in the heights about Roxboro,\\nin Person county.\\n2. E lch of these mountain ranges is m-u ked by distinct\\ncharacteristics. The Smoky chain, as contrasted with the next\\nhighest the Blue Ridge is more continuous, more elevated,\\nmore regular in its direction and height, a.nd rises very\\nuniforndy from five thousand to nearly six thousand seven\\nhundred feet. The Blue Ridge is coni])osed of many fragments\\nscarcely connected into a continuous and regular chain. Its\\nloftier summits range from five thousand to five thousand nine\\nhundred feet. The Brushy range pi csents, throughout the\\ngreater ])art of its course, a remarkjd)le uniformity in direction\\nand elevation, miuiy of its jjeaks rising above two thousand\\nfeet. The last, the Oconeechee or Uwharrie range, sometimes\\npresents a succession of elevated ridges, then a number of bold\\nand isolated knol)s, whose heights are one thousand i (}i^i above\\nthe sea level.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "6 IIISTOin OF XUUTII CAKOLJXA.\\nThere arc tliree distinct systeni.s of rivers in tlie State:\\nthose that find their way to the Gulf of Mexico through the\\nMississipj)i, those that flow through Soutli Carolina to the sea\\nand those that reach the sea along our own coa,st. The divide\\nbetween the first and the second is the Blue Ridge chain of\\nmountains; that between the second and third systems is found\\nin an elevation extending from the Blue Ridge, near the\\nVirginia line, just between the sources of the Yadkin and tlie\\nRoanoke, in a south-easterly direction some two hundred miles,\\nalmost to the sea-coast below Wilmington. In the divide\\nbetween the first and second systems, which is also the great\\nwater-shed between the Atlantic sIojdc and the Mississippi\\nValley, a singular anomaly is presented, for it is formed not by\\nthe lofty Smoky range, but by the Blue Ridge not, therefore,\\nat the crest of the great slope which the surface of the State\\npresents, but on a line lower down. On the western flank of\\nthis lower range the beautiful French Broad and the other\\nrivers of the first section, including the head waters of the\\nGreat Kanawha, have their rise. In their course through the\\nSmoky Mountains to the Mississii)pi they pass along chasms\\nor gaps from three thousand to four thousand feet in depth.\\nThese chasms or gaps are more than a thousand feet lower\\nthan those of the corresponding parts of the Blue Ridge.\\n4. The rivers of the second system rise on the eastern flank\\nof the Blue Ridge. These rivers the Catawba and the Yad-\\nkin, with their tributaries stretching from the Broad River,\\nnear the mountains in the west, to the I^umber, near the seii-\\ncoast water some thirty counties in the State, a fiin-shaped\\nterritory, embracing much the greater portion of the Piedmont\\nsection of the State.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION. 7\\n0. Tlie rivers of the third system are the Chowan, the\\nKoanoke, the Tar, the Neiise and the Cape Fear, usually navi-\\ngable some for fifty and others to near one hundred mile,s for\\nboats of light draught. Of these the three last have their rise\\nnear the northern boundary of the State, in a comparatively\\nsmall area, near the eastern source of the Yadkin. The Chowan\\nhas its rise in Virginia, below Appomattox Court House. The\\nprincipal sources of the Roanoke, also, are in Virginia, in the\\nBlue Ridge, though some of its head streanxs are in North\\nCarolina, and very near those of the Yadkin. Only one of\\nthese rivers, the Cape Fear, flows directly into the ocean in\\nthis State the others, after reaching the low countr}^, move on\\nwith diminished current and empty into large bodies of Avater\\nknown as sounds.\\n6. The great rivers of these three systems, with their net-\\nwork of countless tributaries, great and small, afford a truly\\nmagnificent water supply. Flat lands border tlie streanxs in\\nevery section they are everywhere exceptionally riei, and in\\nthe Tide- water section, of great breadth. In their course from\\nthe high plateaus to the low country all the rivers of the State\\nhave a descent of many hundred feet, made by frequent falls\\nand rapids. These falls and rapids afford an unlimited motive\\npower for machinery of every description; and here many\\ncotton mills and other factories have been established, and are\\nmultiplying every year.\\n7. The sounds, and the rivei^s which empty into them, consti-\\ntute a net-work of Avater^vay for steam and sailing vessels of\\neleven hundred miles. They are separated from the ocean by\\na line of sand banks, varying in })rcadth from one hundred\\nyards to two miles, and in height from a few feet above the tide\\nlevel to twenty-five or thirty feet, oji which horses of a small", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "8 iTiSToRV OF Noirnr CAIfOr.INA.\\nbreed, called Bank Ponies, are reared in o-reat iuHnl)ers, and\\nin 51 half wild st-ate. These banks extend alon^ the entire\\nshore a distance of three hundred miles. Thr()ut!:h them there\\nare a number of inlets from the sea to the sounds, but they\\n;ire usually too shallow except for vessels of lijrht burden.\\nAlong its northern coast the commerce of the State has, in\\nconsequence, been restricted; it has, however^ aai extensive\\ncommerce through Beaufort Harbor and the C-dpe Fear River.\\n8. The simnds, and the rivers in their lower courses, abound\\nwith iish and water-fowl. Hunting* the canvas-back duck\\nand other fowls for the Northern cities is a regular and ])rofit-\\nable branch of industry; while herring, shad and rock fishing\\nis pursued, especially along Albemarle Sound, with spirit, skill\\nand energy, and a large outlay of capital.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1, liat is tlie subject of this chapter? IIow may the inoiintains of\\nNorth arolina be chissed Descril)e each chain. I oint out these\\nmountains on the map.\\n2. Describe the Smoky Mountains. The Bhie Kidge. Tlie Brushy.\\nTlie Oconeecliee.\\nii. Describe the river systems of the State. Give the dividing lines\\nbetween the systems. Describe the How of the rivers of Western North\\nCarolina. Trace the courses of these rivers on the map. What is said of\\nthe mountain gaps?\\n4. Where are the Catawba and Yadkin Rivers? What portion of the\\nState do they water? Point them ont on the map.\\n5. Describe the rivers of the third system. Where do they empty?\\nO. What do our rivers aflbid? What is said of our water-power?\\n7. What mention is made of the sounds? Describe the banks. l\\\\)int\\nout on the ma|) the sounds and the banks.\\nH. With what do the sounds and rivers abound? hat impoilant\\nbranches of induslrv are mentioned?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "(iEOLOC^K AL CllAKACTElflSTR S. J\\nCHAPTER III.\\nGEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS.\\nA knowledge of tlie geology of a State atfordf^ the key to\\nits soils, siiK 3 the soils are formed by the disintegration of the\\nunderlying rocks, more or less mixed with animal or vegetable\\nmatter. The peculiar geological structure of the State fur-\\nnishes the material for every possible variety of soil. In fact,\\nthere is no description or combination unrepresented. There\\nare, first, the black and deep peaty soils of Hyde county and\\nthe great swamp tracts along the eastern border of the Tide-\\nwater section; then come the alluvions, marls and light sandy\\nsoils of the more elevated portions of the same section; then\\nthe clayey, sandy and gravelly soils of the Piedmont and\\nMountain section, the result of the decomposition of every\\nvariety of rock.\\n2. From its western boundary to the last falls of its rivers,\\nthe rocks generally belong to that formation known as primi-\\ntive. These are easily distinguished; they are crystalline\\nin structure, and have no animal (n^ vegetable remains (called\\nfossils) imbedded or preserved in them. The soils of this for-\\nmation are not very fertile, nor yet are they sterile; they are of\\nmedium (piality, and susce])tible, under skillful culture, of the\\nhighest improvement. The primitive rocks are cliiefly repre-\\nsented by granite and gneiss.\\n8. The rocks of the secondaiy formation aj)pear in certain\\ncounties of the Piedmont section, and here the coal fields occur,\\nembracing many hundred square miles. This formation con-\\nsists of the ])rimitive rocks, broken down by natural agents,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "10 iiisTonv OF xoirni cArvOLiXA.\\nand siil)S( (|iieiitly deposited in beds of a thickness from a few\\nfeet to many hundred, and abounds in organic remains. The\\nsoils of this formation vary more tlian the former, as the one\\nor the other of the materials of wliich they are made up,\\nhappens to predominate.\\n4. The Tide-water section belongs to that which is known\\nas the quaternary formation. Here no rocks like those\\nmentioned above are found; indeed, rocks, in the ordinary\\nsense of that term, are unknown. This formation will be best\\nunderstood by regarding it as an ocean bed laid bare by\\nu])heaval through some convulsion of nature, and thus made\\ndry land. Sandy soils predominate somewhat in this section,\\nthough there are tracts in which clay is in great excess, and\\nother tracts in Avhich vegetable matter is in great excess.\\nBetween these extremes there exist, also, the usual mixtures in\\nvarious proportions.\\n5. Geology also affords a key to the mineral resources of a\\nState. Those of the Tide-water section are summed up in its\\nmarls. That ^vhole section is underlaid Avith marl at a depth\\nof a few feet, and in quantity sufficient to raise and keep it,\\nwhen regularly applied to the surface, for all time to come\\nat the highest point of })roductiveness. Of all resources for\\nwealth this is the most durable; and, on account of the industry\\nto which it is subservient the agricultural is best calculated\\nto promote the happiness of man.\\nC). It is in the primitive rocks, however, that minerals\\nabound. Those of North Carolina sur])ass any in the Union.\\nIn the last Report on the Geology of the State one hundred and\\nseventy-eight are numbered and described. Among these are\\ngold, silver, copper, lead, iron, mica, corundum, graphite, man-\\nganese, kaolin, niill-stonc ^rits, iii:u l)le, l)arvtcs, oil shale.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGICAL CHAKACTElilSTlCVS. 11\\nbuhr-stones, roofing slate, etc. The most of these are the\\nsubjects of great mining industries, which are daily developing\\nto greater proportions.\\n7. Of some of these minerals, as corundum and mica, North\\nCarolina has already become the chief source of supply.\\nAmong the principal sources of the future mineral wealth of\\nthe State copper, gold and iron are clearly indicated. The\\nores of these metals are found in abundance over extensive\\ntracts of country. Lastly, in North Carolina many beautiful\\nspecimens of the precious stones have been found, and a large\\ncapital has been raised to carry on mining as a regular business\\nfor one of these the hiddenite gem.\\n8. North Carolina Avill thus be seen to be a State of vast\\nresources, whether we regard the variety and value of her\\nnatural or cultivated productions, the immense range of her\\nminerals or her facilities for manufacturing industries. It\\nwould, perhaps, be safe to say that no equal portion of the\\nearth s surface will, in half a century, be the scene of industries\\nso various and of such value.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Of what does tliis chapter treat? What does the knowledge of the\\ngeology of a State afford Mention the variety of soils found in North\\nCarolina.\\n2. Where are the primitive rocks found? Describe them. How are\\nthey chiefly represented What are the soils of this division?\\n3. Where do the rocks of the secondary formation appear? Describe\\nthis formation. What is said of the soils of the secondary formation?\\n4. To what class do the rocks of the Tide-water section belong? What\\nis said of this section? Describe the quaternary forniation? What is\\nsaid of the soil\\n5. What else is aflbrded by geology? Wiicre is marl found, and what\\nis said of it?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "2 inSTOKV OF NOKTir CAROLINA.\\nO. Wlu-re (1() the minerals abound? How many kinds of minerals are\\nlocated in this State? Can you name the jtrincipal ones? Wliat is said\\nof mining?\\n7. What is said of corundum and mica? Of gold and iron? Of\\n[jrccious gems?\\nH\u00c2\u00bb What great resources does North Carolina possess?\\nJf. J i :;X~", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE INDTAXS. 13\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nTHE INDIANS.\\nThat portion of America now known as the State of North\\nCarolina was once inhabited bv Indians. For many ao;es\\nbefc^re Columbus came across the seas in the year 1492, they\\nhad held undisputed })ossession of all the Western Continent,\\nexcept those Arctic regions where tlie Esquimaux dwelt.\\n2. Nearly a century had gone by since the Spaniards had\\nbegun their settlements, and yet, north of St. Augustine, in\\nFlorida, not a white man was to be found. Cortez and Pizarro\\nhad founded great States in Mexico and Peru, but the vast\\nregion stretching from the Rio Grande to the St. Lawrence\\nwas still the home of only red men and the wild beasts of the\\nforest.\\n3. There w^ere many different tribes and languages to be\\nfound among the Indians. In North Carolina, the Tuscaroras\\nlived in the east, the Catawbas in the middle, and the Chero-\\nkees in the western portion of the territory as now defined.\\nThere w^ere Corees, Melierrins, Chowanokes, and other small\\ntribes in the east, but they were w^eak in numbers and occupied\\nbut a small portion of our present State limits.\\n4. The treacherous Tuscaroras were a portion of a powerful\\nrace known as the Irocpiois. The other five nations of this\\nfamily dwelt in the lake country of New York, and were the\\nmost daring and dangerous confederation among all Indians\\nthen known to the w^hite people. These Iroquois of the N(n th\\nwere generally friendly to the English, but Avaged almost\\nceaseless war upon the French and a tril)e of Indians called\\nthe Alg(^n(|uius.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "14 HlftTOPvV OF NORTH CAROIJXA.\\n5. Tlie Tu.scaroras ^ve^e jj^enerally to be found in the country\\nwatered by the Roanoke and Neuse Rivers, and ^vere the terror\\nof all other tribes. It is not known when they had se})arated\\nfrom their northern relatives. They kept up amicable relations\\nwith them, and messengers and embassies occasionally passed\\nbetween the banks of the Roanoke and the settlements on the\\nnorthern lakes.\\n6. The Catawbas roamed over the fair region throuy^h which\\nflow the Catawba and Yadkin Rivers. Westward of them\\nwere to be found, in the mountains, the numerous bands of the\\nCherokees. Amid the towering peaks, and along the beautiful\\nFrench Broad and other rivers, lived and hunted these simj)lc\\nchildren of the hills. They were generally disposed to peace,\\nand were averse to leaving the |)ara(lise they inhabited for the\\ndangerous honor of the war-path.\\n7. The Indians were, in many respects, a peculiar ])eo])le.\\nThough ignorant and savage, they were not idolaters. They\\nbelieved in one God, whom they called the Great Spirit.\\nThey were not shejjherds or farmers, for they had no domestic\\nanimals except dogs, and their corn fields were but insignificant\\n])atches, cleared and cultivated by their women. They cleared\\nthese little ])atches of laml by burning doAvn the trees, and\\ntheir ])low was a crooked sti(;k, with which they scratched over\\nthe ground for planting the corn. The men hunted, and\\nfought with other tribes, but disdained to be found engaged in\\nany useful labor.\\n8. Such habits made large areas of land necessary for the\\nsubsistence of the ])eo])le. Thus all of the tribas were jealous\\nof the intrusion of others upon their hunting grounds, and\\nwhenever one found another getting closer than usual war was\\nbegun. Their lives were filled with terror and a])prehension;", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE INDIANS. 15\\nnot knowing when some enemy would kill and scalp every\\nperson in the tribe.\\n9. The Meherrins lived in the fork of Meherrin and Chowan\\nRivers. They were long at war with the Nottoways, who\\nlived in Virginia, south of James River. The Meherrins at\\nlast left their old men, women and children, and went on the\\n^var-J:)ath against th^ir enemies, who happened to be approaching\\nthem on a similar errand. They chanced to miss each other,\\nand the Nottoways therefore found the lodges of their foes\\ncompletely undefended, and they slew every human being in\\nthe captured village. The Meherrins left their old homes in\\ndespair and disappeared in the west. This occurred after,\\nmany white people had settled in the Albemarle country.\\n10. Such a state of society necessitated the control of one\\nleader; so the Indian tribes were governed by chiefs, who led\\nthem to battle and in pursuit of game. Some of these chiefs,\\nlike Powhatan and King Philip, were men of marked ability,\\nand extended their power over other tribes. When a chief\\ndied his son succeeded to his office only when fitted for the\\nplace; if weak or cowardly, some other brave was chosen. In\\nthis way the honor was not strictly hereditary.\\n11. The Indians had no knowledge as to the working of\\niron. They had only bows, arrows, stone tomahawks and such\\nweapons for war. They lived in small communities, embracing\\nfrom ten to thirty cabins, for protection, but had no large\\ntowns, because of the impossibility of feeding great numbers\\nat one point. They held it a part of their religion to seek\\nvengeance for all injuries, real and imaginary, and their general\\ntraits of character were as savage as their habits. In war they\\nhad no pity on captives, no reverence for helpless age, and were\\nstrangers to the sentiments of honor and justice. They ^-ere", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "IB HISTOKV OF NOKTir (AIJOLINA.\\nbravo, yet niucli o-jwii to cunnino; and ti oachci v, Tlicv i-arcly\\nforjrot benefits or for ):ave injuries,\\n12. Many relics of the.-^e savages are yet to be found in\\nalmost every county throughout the Steite. Broken pieces of\\n])ottery, arrowheads and tomahawks are often plowed up in\\nthe fields; and mounds of various sizes, made by tlie Indians,\\nare still seen in some sections. There had long been a tradi-\\ntion among the Indians that, in the course of time, pale-faced\\nstrangers from beyond the seas would possess their land; and\\nso, after ages of petty warfare among themselves, as the\\nsixteenth century drew to \\\\t close, they were confronted by\\nmen who built ships that withstood the ocean s storms, and\\nshook the solid earth with the roar of their artillery.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Who were the original inhabitants of the country now known as\\nNortii Carolina?\\n2. Who had made setllenients on the American continent a century\\nbefore the English? Wiiat two great men were leaders in making those\\nsettlements?\\n3. Give the location of the various tribes of Indians in North Carolina.\\n4r. Who were t!ie Tuscaroras? Wiiat was the feeling of the Indians\\ntoward tlie white people?\\n5. In what part of North Carolina were the Tuscaroras found? What\\nwere their habits?\\nO. What tribes were found in the western portion of the State? What\\nwere their Iwbits?\\n7. What kind of people were the Indians? How did they cultivate\\nthe soil\\n8. Give further description of their babbits.\\nO. Where was the iiome of the Meherrin Indians? The Nottovvays?\\nWiiat were the relations existing between these two tribes?\\n10. Describe the government of the Indians?\\n11. How did tJK V live? What were some of their traits in war?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE INDIANS. 17\\n12. Wliat relics of the Indians are still to be found in the State? What\\ntradition existed among the Indians? Plow was that tradition beginning\\nto be fulfilled?\\nPoint out on the map the ancient homes of the Tuscarora Indians.\\nThe Catawbas. The Cherokees. The Corees. The Meherrins. The\\nChowanokes, Trace the course of the Koanoke River. The Neuse. The\\nMeherrin. The CJiowan. The Catawba. The Yadkin. The French\\nBroad.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "18 HISTOEV OF XOKTII CAKOLiy.^.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nSIR WALTER RALEIGH.\\nA. D. 1570 TO 1583.\\n1570. The sixteenth century of the Clirl.stian em was one\\nof the most Avouderful periods in the world s history. The\\nrecent invention of the printing prass had scattered books and\\nknowledw over Christendom, a larwr liberty in relijjrious\\nmattei*s had been achieved by the Reformation, and darino;\\nnavigators sailed with their shi} into many regions never\\nl:)efore visited by civilized men.\\n2. The Portuguese and Spaniards sent expeditions to many\\nlands. In America, thousands of men and women were living\\nwho had come from Europe, or had been born of white parents\\nsince the first settlements in the AYest Indies, Mexico and\\nPeru. As Columbus had discovered the new world with\\nSpanish ships, the kings of Spain laid claim to all the continent.\\nEngland, in that time, was ruled by Queen Elizabeth,\\nwho began her reign in 1558. Ireland and the small islands\\nin the British Channel were the only de}?endencies of the\\nCrown. Scotland was still an independent monarchy. With a\\nfew nu llions of subjects, and this small territory as her realm,\\nthis queen was in great danger of dethi onement anel death.\\nThe Pope, the Catholic kings and her own people belonging to\\nthe Church of Rome denied her title to he queen and sought\\nher overthrow and that of the Protestant religion she upheld.\\n4. Amid so many dangers and difficnhies, (^ueen KlizalK tli,\\nl)y wisdom and |)ni(l( iic( not only nianage l to defend herself,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 19\\nbut became one of the greatest rulers of any age. She devoted\\nher energies to the government of her people, and, though\\ncourted by many princes, would never marry, for fear such a\\nrelation would impair her usefulness as a queen.\\n5. Among her greatest gifts as a ruler, was her clear insight\\ninto the characters of men. She kne\\\\v whom to employ as her\\nagents, and was rarely deceived as to how far she could trust\\nthem in a season so full of treason and danger. But this great\\nqueen, who humbled the most powerful monarchs, and in whose\\npresence the sternest men vrould sometimes tremble, was, after\\nall, a very vain woman. Nothing pleased her more, even in\\nher old age, than praise of her personal appearance.\\n6. One evening she was walking at the head of a procession\\ncomposed of ladies and gentlemen of her Court, when she\\nencountered a nuiddy place in her pathway. The stately queen\\npaused a moment, seeming in doubt as to whether she should\\nstep in the mud or pass around. A handsome young man,\\nwho was standing near by, snatched a velvet cloak from his\\nshoulders, and, throwing it in the mud for Her Majesty to step\\nupon, she passed over with dry feet.\\n7. Queen Elizabeth Avas charmed with the ready gallantry\\nof the youth. She made inquiries concerning him, and found\\nthat it was young Walter Raleigh, who had just come to\\nLondon from his home in the country. It was the beginning\\nof his fortunes at Court, and he soon won the queen s confi-\\ndence and respect.\\n8. Walter Raleigh had many noble and generous qualities.\\nHe was, by nature, brave, ambitious and enterprising, and\\nsoon became a great and learned man. He was a gallant\\nsoldier, a skillful navigator and the statesman who first con-\\nceived the ])lan for extending the British Em])ire. While", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "20 HTSTOKV OK XORTir CAROLIXA.\\nserving as a soldier in behalf of the Frencli Protestants, on tlie\\ncontinent of Europe, he heard and read so much of the\\nondrous lands across the Atlantic Ocean that he resolved\\nthat England should share in the glory and profit of future\\ndiscoveries.\\n1578\u00e2\u0080\u009483. 9. When Raleigh went back to England he\\ncomnnmicated his desires and feelings to his half-brother, Sir\\nHiunphrev Gilbert, who had niixde reputation as a commander\\nof ships. In the year 1578, the queen granted leave to these\\ntwo men to sail in search of lands yet undiscovered by civilized\\nnations. In 1583 they sent out a large vessel called the\\nRaleigh, which was compelled to return in a few days, on\\naccount of disease among the cre^v\\n10. English sailors, at that time, were easily discouraged in\\nefforts to navigate the Atlantic Ocean, They had never crossed\\nit, and were full of superstition concerning that unknown and\\nmysterious sea.\\n11. Again, in 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, with three\\nships, ventured out upon the waste of waters that lay to the\\nwest of their island homes. He discovered the Island of\\nNewfoundland, and thence sailed southward. Off the coast of\\nMaine he was overtaken by a storm which sunk one of his\\nships. This disaster induced him to turn his prows for the\\nvoyage homeward but the storm continued, and the darkness\\nand horrors of the sea gre^v tenfold worse when they found\\nthemselves amid drifting icebergs. Brave Sir Humphrey,\\nfrom the deck of his ship, the Squirrel, to the last cheered the\\n*XoTE. It is said that the vessel was commanded by Sir Walter Raleigh\\nin person, and this was the only attempt ever made by him to visit the\\nshores of North Ameriea.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 21\\nmen of her consort, crying ont: Cheer up, my lads! We\\nare as near heaven at sea as on land.\\n12. When the terrible night had passed, it was found that\\nSir Humphrey Gilbert and his crew had perished, and only\\nthe Hind was left to carry back the disheartening tidings to\\nRaleigh and the English Queen. The vessel which carried Sir\\nHumphrey Gilbert and his crew was of only ten tons burden,\\nand very poorly able to stand the gales along the American\\ncoast. The Delight, another one of the fleet, had gone down a\\nfew days before the loss of the Squirrel.\\nNote. In the 3 ear 1520 a Spanish vessel, commanded by Vasques d\\nAy lion, was driven by a violent storm upon the coast of Carolina. The\\ncommander was kindly treated by the natives, and, in return, he enticed a.\\nnumber of them on board his ship and tried to carry them to Hispaniola.\\nBut the Indians preferred death to captivity; they all refused to partake\\nof any food, and thus died of voluntary starvation. Tlie scene of this\\noccurrence is within the present borders of South Carolina.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What is said of the sixteenth century of the world s history\\n2. What was the condition of the new world What people laid\\nclaim to the American continent, and why?\\n3. Who was Queen of England, and what was the condition of her\\nkingdom? What was Queen Elizabeth s trouble witii the Pope of Rome?\\n4. What is said of Queen Elizabetii as a ruler?\\n5. What other traits of character did she possess?\\n6. What interesting circumstance is related of the queen\\n7. Who was the young man, and what did the queen think of him?\\n8. What was the character of Walter Raleigh\\n9. To whom did he communicate his plans? Wliat did the queen\\ngrant to these two men? Wlien was the first expedition started, and with\\nwhat result?\\n10. How did sailors of that period regard the Atlantic Ocean\\n11. What occurred in 1583? What island was discovered? What\\ndisaster befell the expediti\\non\\n12. What did daylight reveal Give the names of the three ships.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF NOJITH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nDISCOVERY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nA. D. 1584 TO 1585.\\n1584. When the little ship Hind retiched England, and it\\nwas known how Sir Humphrey Gilbert and so many of his\\nmen had gone down into the depths of that mysterious ocean\\nwhich was so much dreaded, there was great grief; and, possibly\\nmany bitter speeches were made by the people AA^ho stayed at\\nhome and predicted disaster to the daring enterprise. Raleigh\\nAvas sorely afflicted at the loss of his brother and men, and had\\nhe been Aveak or selfish this disaster Avould have unmanned\\nliim, and he Avould have ventured on no more such projects.\\n2. He had lost many thousands of dollars in the foundered\\nships; and many a gallant friend that had trusted him and\\ncheered him in his mighty schemes, had perished. But the\\nhearts of heroes are not cast in common moulds. Instead of\\nabandoning his enterprise, he obtained, on March 25, 1584,\\nletters-patent from the queen favoring another expedition, and\\nhe at once began to fit out another fleet. This consisted of\\ntwo A^essels, and they Avere put imder the command of Philip\\nAmadas and Arthur BarloAve.\\n3. This fleet sailed from England on the 27th day of April,\\n1584, and, avoiding the dangers of drift-ice in tlie northern\\nwjiters, steered for the Canary Islands and the AW st Indies.\\nNoTK. The queen s Letters-Patent to Raleigh gaveJiini Free liberty\\nto discover such remote heathen and barbarous lands not actually possessed\\nby any Christian prince, nor inhabited by Christian pei ple.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 23\\nThey liad the good fortune to escape the Spanish cruisers,\\nwhich were so dangerous to English vessels sailing at that day\\nupon this course. On the 14th day of July they first saw the\\ncoast of North Carolina, probably at a point just below Old\\nTopsail Inlet. They continued northward along the low,\\nbarren barriers of sand ^^^hich divide the Abaters of the ocean\\nfrom those of Pamlico and Croatan Sounds, and, two davs\\nlater, came to anchor off an island called Wocoken, in what\\nwas an inlet at that day.\\n4. They called this place Trinity Harbor. Across the\\ndesolate saiid ridges were fair landlocked waters, and great\\nforests that sent far out to sea the odors of countless flowers.\\nThe weary toilers who had sailed so far, with nothing to look\\nupon but the sky and the great stretches of the sea, were\\ncharmed with the richness of the vegetation, the balmy air,\\nand the ceaseless songs of the mocking-birds.\\n5. For two whole days it seemed that the country was\\nuninhabited, for no one had been seen by the Englishmen.\\nAt the expiration of that period they saw a canoe approaching\\nfrom the north, in which were three Indians. One of them\\nlanded and came down the beach toward the ships. By signs\\nhe was invited aboard the vessels, aiid went with the white\\nmen to survey some of the wonders of civilization found in\\nvarious parts of the vessel.\\n6. It must have been a notable day in this Indian s life,\\nwhen, for the first time he, who had seen nothing of the kind\\nlarger than his canoe, beheld the tall poops, the towering masts\\nand the great sails of vessels that had come from such distant\\nlands beyond the seas. Nothing so astonished the Indians of\\nthat day as the roar of artillery. It was something entirely\\nbeyond their comprehension, and filled them with terror.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "24 niSTOKY OF XORTir C AROIJXA.\\nThey had no guns or knowledge of their use. So, when a\\ncannon was fired they were ready to believe that men who\\ncould do such things were possessed of supernatural powers.\\n7. The officers of the vessel gave to the Indian a hat, shirt\\nand several other articles, besides treating him to wine and\\nmeat, Avhich he seemed to greatly relish. As a return for their\\nkindness, the Indian took his canoe and showed the white men\\nhow to catch fish. In a half hour he had nearly filled his\\nboat with those delicious fish which have always so remarkably\\nabounded in all the waters of that portion of North Carolina.\\nBy signs he made known his wish that they should be divided\\nbetween the men of the two ships, and then he took his\\ndeparture.\\n8. The next day many Indians, with much ceremony, visited\\nthe ships. Among them was Granganimeo, a brother of the\\nchief who ruled in that portion of the country. He was an\\nhonest and kindly Indian, faithful to his promises, and afford-\\ning a strong contrast to Wingina, the Indian king, who was\\nfull of suspicion and duplicity. The Indians Avere clothed in\\nmantles and aprons of deer-skins. They Avere gentle, unsus-\\npicious and hospitable. A few days later Amadas, with eight\\nof his men in a boat, visited the home of Granganimeo, about\\ntwenty miles distant, on the shore of Roanoke Island. The\\nchief was not at home, but his wife gave them a cordial and\\nhospitable reception. She prepared a feast for them of fruits,\\nmelons, fish and venison, and showed them every kindness.\\nNote. The Indians were greatly amazed at the sight of gunpowder,\\nthe cause of all the noise in tlie artilleiy. On one of their expeditions\\nthey captured a quantity of powder from the colonists, and, to increase the\\nsupply, tliey made rows in the ground and carefully planted the black\\ngrains of powder, expecting to reap a full harvest of it in season.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERY OF ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ORTH CAROLINA. 25\\n9. Aniadas and Barlowe proceeded, in the presence of many\\nIndians, to lay claim to the country for their queen. This\\nwhole pageant was probably a dumb show to the astonished\\nand ignorant natives. They neither knew nor cared what the\\nwhite men were celebrating with beating drums, flaunting\\nbanners and salvoes of artillery.\\n10. This expedition had not been sent with any purpose of\\nsettlement; so, in a few weeks after the ceremony of taking\\npossession, the fleet weighed anchor and sailed back to England.\\nThey carried with them a large cargo of skins and valuable\\nwoods, which they had obtained in trading with the Indians.\\nFor a bright tin dish the Indians gave twenty skins, worth\\nabout thirty-five dollars, and fifty valuable skins were given\\nfor an old copper kettle. Amadas and Barlowe also carried\\nto England the first knowledge of the potato and tobacco.\\n11. With their own consent, two Indians, named Manteo\\nand Wanchese, were taken aboard and carried to England, that\\nthey might see something of the world across the sea. They\\nafforded a singular test of human nature. They were of equal\\nabilities, and yet, by the visit to England, Manteo became the\\nfriend, and Wanchese the implacable enemy of the white men.\\n12. Queen Elizabeth was greatly pleased by the glowing\\ndescriptions of the new countiy as given by the returned\\nmariners, especially by the accounts of the abundance of\\nfruits, vines hanging with luscious grapes, great forests, rich\\nshrubbery and bright flowers, and she gave the country the\\nname of Virginia, in honor of herself, the Virgin Queen.^\\n15851 13. Walter Raleigh was, soon after, elected a mem-\\nber of Parliament in the House of Commons, of which body\\nhe became a leader. The queen, in recognition of his services,\\nconfirmed his patent for prosecuting discoveries in foreign", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nlands, and, in eonf erring upon him the honor of knighthood,\\nmade him Sir Walter lialeigh.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. How did the people of En;;Iand receive the news of Sir Plurnplirey\\nGilbert s death How did it affect Raleigh\\n2. What had the expeditions cost him Who did he next send out to\\nthe new world\\n3. When did this fleet leave England Describe their course and\\ntrace it on the map. When did they reach the coast of North Carolina i*\\nWhere did they land Can you point out this place on the map?\\nWocoken Croatan Pamlico Sound\\n4. What did they name this place? What is said of the new land\\n5. What occurred on the second day after their arrival\\n6. How did this visit impress the Indian How were the Indians\\naffected by the roar of the. artillery\\n7. What return did the Indian make for the kindness of the white men\\n8. Who next visited the siiips? What kind of man was he? How\\ndid this Indian s wife treat the white men? Locate Roanoke Island on\\nthe map.\\n9. What formal ceremony did Amadas and Barlowe conduct?\\n10. What did the ships carry back to Europe?\\n11. What two Indians were taken on a visit to England How was\\neach of them affected by the visit?\\n12. What account did the mariners give of the new country? What\\ndid Queen Elizabeth think of the description? What name did she give\\nto tiie new country, and why?\\n13. Of what body did Raleigh soon become a member? What title\\nwas then conferred upon him, and why", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR lane s COLONY. 27\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nGOVERNOR LANE S COLONY.\\nA. D. 1585 TO 1586.\\nWe cannot easily realize, in our day, what excitement and\\nenthusiasm were felt in England when the two ships returned\\nand exhibited the Indians, the potatoes, the tobacco and other\\nnew and strange productions that had been gathered by Amadas\\nand Barlowe, to prove the value and fertility of the newly-\\ndiscovered land. It is strange, but true, that moi-e value was\\nset upon the discovery of the sassafras tree than upon anything\\nelse, and wonderful things were expected of its virtue as a tea,\\na medicine and for the manufacture of perfume.\\n2. Sir Walter Raleigh hastened to send over a colony of\\nmen to take possession of Roanoke. Ralph Lane, a gentleman\\nof courage and experience, was appointed Governor. The\\nseven ships, conveying one hundred and eight emigrants and\\nthe two Indians who had visited England, sailed on the 9tli\\nof April; they were commanded by Sir Richard Grenville,\\nwho was a cousin of Raleigh, and famous as a seaman.\\nNote. Sir Walter Raleigh planted some of the potatoes upon his own\\nestate, and found them very palatable. Other people afterwards obtained\\nseed from him, and now the potato forms a principal part of the food of\\nIreland. Kaleigh was also the first Englishman who ever used tobacco.\\nAn amusing incident is related of his using it. His servant entered the\\nroom one day, bringing a mug of ale, while Kaleigli was enjoying his pipe\\nand tobacco, and the smoke was issuing from iiis mouth and tilling the\\nroom. The servant, thinking that his master was on fire, immediately\\ndashed the ale in his face and ran out, crying for help, for his master\\nwould be burnt to asiies.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n3. This fleet also eanie over by the southern route, and was\\nin considerable danger off Cape Fear during a great storm,\\nbut the ships all safely rode out the gale, and, on the 26th of\\nJune, 1585, they dropped their anchors in Trinity Harbor, off\\nthe coast where the fleet had lain during the visit of the pre-\\nvious year. News of their arrival was at once sent to Wingina,\\nat Roanoke Island.\\n4. Governor Lane had one hundred and eight men to remain\\nAvith him, among wdiom was Thomas Hariot, the celebrated\\nmathematician and historian. AVith these colonists he landed\\nupon Roanoke Island, and began to build and fortify a town\\nupon the northern part of the island, which he named the\\nCity of Raleigh. The island is tAvelve miles long and about\\nfour broad, and is to this day fertile and pleasant as a place of\\nresidence. It then abounded in game, and countless and choice\\nvarieties of fish were to be caught in the sounds and sea at all\\nseasons of the year.\\n5. Admiral Grenville was active during his stay at Roanoke\\nin visiting many Indian towns and in exploring the many\\nbroad waters that are found connected with one another in that\\nportion of North Carolina. On one of his expeditions he hist\\na silver cup, w^hich was stolen from him during his stay at an\\nIndian town. The passionate seaman, in a rage, demanded\\nits return by the Indians, whom he charged with stealing it.\\nThey did not comply, and he, wath great imprudence and\\ninjustice, burned the whole village and destroyed all the corn.\\n6. This was the first taste afforded the Indians of how\\nharshly they might expect to be treated, and, though no war\\nfollowed inunediatelv, thev neither f()ri\u00c2\u00bb:ot nor forgave (xren-\\nville s punishment, and many unexpected injuries were inflicted", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "29\\nupon the poor settle]\\\\s by the Indians on account of tliis rash\\nand cruel act.\\n7. Governor Lane, after the admiraFs departure, continued\\nhis explorations, in order to learn the geography and nature of\\nthe countiy. He ascended the Chowan River to near the\\nmouth of the Nottoway and joenetrated the interior as far as\\nthe Indian villao;e of Chowanoke. Instead of clearino; fields and\\nmaking provisions for his people, he was laboriously searching\\nfor gold mines and jewels. He was told by the chief of the\\nChowanoke Indians, whom he held as prisoner for two days,\\nthat such things abounded along the upper reaches of Roanoke\\nRiver (then called the Moratock and that the head- waters\\nof that stream extended to within an arrow s flight of a great\\nocean to the west, and along the banks of the river lived a very\\ngreat and wealthy race of people, whose walled cities glittered\\nwith pearls and gold.\\n8. Fired in imagination by this false and wicked Indian\\nstory, preparations were made for a journey in boats, longer\\nthan had yet been attempted. They found the swift current\\nof the Roanoke difficult to ascend, and their small store of\\nprovisions were exhausted by the time they had reached where\\nthe town of Williamston now stands. They could procure\\nnone from the Tuscaroras, who dwelt upon the banks, and,\\nwhile in this dilemma, the savages made a night attack upon\\ntheir camp, and with great difficulty the adventurers succeeded\\nin escaping destruction.\\n9. Thus perished Governor Lane s dreams of gold. He\\nhurried back to Roanoke and soon found the hostility of the\\nTuscaroras extending to the tribe under Wingina. Gran-\\nganimeo was dead, and Manteo was the only Indian of any\\ninfluence who manifested friendshi]) for the colonists. They", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF NORTH CAIJOJ.IXA.\\nliad previously brought an abundance of fish, game and fruits\\nbut tliese supplies now ceased, and Governor Lane realized that\\nhe was surrounded by. a peo])le who had become his enemies.\\n1580. 10. By some means, he discovered that Wingina\\nwas concerting with the Tuscaroras for an attack upon Roanoke\\nIsland. Concealing this knowledge, he invited the unsuspect-\\ning plotter to come, with certain of his people, to a feast at the\\nCity of Raleigh. They accepted the invitation, and Wingina,\\nwith eight of his head-men, was put to death. This occurred\\non the first of June, 1586.\\n11. This was a stern and bloody punishment of their foes,\\nbut it gave the white men deliverance from attack until Sir\\nFrancis Drake came, with a large fleet, and anchored in Trinity\\nHarbor, finding the colony almost in a perishing condition.\\n12. Ralph Lane was not a hero, but Francis Drake was.\\nIf the Governor lacked resolution, no man ever supposed the\\ngreat admiral deficient in this respect. After long consultation,\\nDrake approved the resolution of the colonists to abandon the\\nsettlement, and, on the 19th of June, 1586, taking them\\naboard his ships, he steered for England, leaving the City of\\nRaleigh untenanted. Thus failed the first attempt at forming\\na permanent settlement u])on this great territory forming the\\npresent limits of the L^nited States.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What occurred in Juigland on the return of tlie ships? Mention\\nsome things exiiibited by the niiiriners.\\n2. What did Sir Walter Kaleigh next do Who was apixiinted Gov-\\nernor? Who commanded the expedition?\\n3. What was the route of the fleet? When and where did they hind\\n4. How many men were hmded upon Roanoke Ishmd What did they\\nname their citv? Describe Roanoke Ishmd", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "(lOVERNOR lane s COLONY. 31\\n5, Mention some of Grenville s exploits during his stay.\\nO. What did the Indians think of this treatment How did the settlers\\nsuffer in consecjuence?\\n7. How did Governor Lane occupy hijnself? Wiiat wonderful story\\nwas told Lane by the Indians?\\n8. How did Lane regard this story Give an account of liis expedition\\nup tiie Koanoke River. Point out Williamston.\\n9. What did Governor Lane find to be the condition of affairs upon his\\nreturn to the settlement?\\n10. What plot was discovered How did Governor Lane prevent it?\\n11. What was the effect of tliis treatment? Wiiat help arrived from\\nEngland\\n12. What did the colonists resolve to do? What is said of this attempt\\nto found a colonv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "HisToiiv OF xoirni cauolina.\\nCHAPTER YIII.\\nGOVERNOR WHITE S COLONY.\\nA. D. 1586 TO 1590.\\nIt must have boon a sore trial to Sir AValtcr Ralclo;!! wlien\\n]ie leai iicd that his colonists had returiKxl to England. He\\nliad sent over a ship with abundant supplies, which reached\\nRoanoke only a few days after Sir Francis Drake sailed away\\nwith his fleet. Finding no wliite people upon tlie island, the\\nsliips returned to England. Sir Richard Grenville also touched\\nat the same point, with three other ships, about fifteen days\\nlater. The folly, avarice and timidity of agents, such as Ralph\\nLane, have, in all ages, crippled the noblest efforts for liuman\\nadvancement.\\n2. Sir Richard Grenville left fifteen men in the fort built at\\nRoanoke by Lane, lest the English claim to the country should\\nbe lost through want of its being occupied. They soon fell\\nvictims to Indian vengeance after Grenville liad hoisted liis\\nsails and gone in search of -Spanish treasure ships.\\n1587. 3. Once again, in 1587, Raleigh collected a fleet of\\ntransports, and, with John -White as Governor, sent about one\\nhundred and fifty men, women and children to Roanoke for\\n)ermanent settlement. They brought over farming implements,\\nAvisely determining to give up the useless search for gold, and\\nU) look to husbandry as a means of livelihood in their new\\nhome. On arriving at Roanoke, on the 22d of July, Governor\\nW liite, with forty of his best men, went ashore for the purpose\\nof finding the men who had been left there l)y Grenville. The\\nfort was destroyed, thejiouses were in a dila})idated condition", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "(iovKiJNoij WHrn: s colony. V^\\nand no trace of tlie colonists was found, except a single skele-\\nton which lay bleaching in the sun in front of one of the\\ncabins, indicating that some fearful tragedy had been enacted.\\n4. Sir Walter Raleigh had ordered White to go to Hampton\\nRoads, in the region of C^hesapeake Bay, instead of Roanoke,\\nbut this command was disregarded under the ]3lea that their\\n})ilot, a Spaniard, would not show the way. But as Governor\\nLane had sent a party there the year before, the locati(jn must\\nhave been known to others of the expedition besides Fernando,\\nthe pilot. It was like everything else done by John White\\nAvhile connected with the effort of colonization very foolish\\nand culpable.\\n5. Manteo was still the warm friend of the English, and,\\nwith his mother, welcomed them to his home on Croatan. He\\nwas, on the 13th of August, as a reward for his faithful services,\\nbaptized by order of Sir Walter Raleigh, and created a noble-\\nman, with the title of Lord of Roanoke, which was the iirst\\ntitle of nobility ever conferred by the English in America.\\n6. Governor White had, among the colonists, a daughter\\nnamed Eleanor, wife of Ananias Dare, one of his assistants.\\nOn August 18th, a few days after their arrival, she gave birth\\nto a little girl, who, in honor of the land of her birth, was\\nnamed Virginia Dare. This i^ about all we know of the\\nlittle girl who will ever be famous as the first of all the children\\nborn to English speaking people within the borders of the\\nUnited States. One of the counties of this State bears the\\nname of Dare in honor of this little girl, and includes in its\\narea the scene of her birth.\\n7. Governor White had been at Roanoke only a few weeks,\\nwhen he became convinced that he should at once return to\\nEngland in the interest of the people he had been sent over", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "U PIT8T()KY OF XORTTI CAROT.IXA.\\nhere to govern. He .said they would need provisions and\\nadditions to their numbers, and a larger supply of implements\\nof civilized life; therefore, after a stay of l)ut thirty-six days\\nwith the colony, he set sail for England.\\n8. He should have manifested even more haste to return to\\nAmerica, as members of his own family were included among\\nthe settlers who were at Roanoke looking to him for guidance\\nand safety amid so many dangers. But when he reached\\nEngland, and Raleigh had furnished him with two ships and\\nmen and stores for his speedy return, John White found excuse\\nfoi long delay before revisiting the stormy neighborhood of\\nC ap(^ Hatteras.\\n9. AVhen he was ready to sail for America a great Spanish\\nfleet, called the Invincible Armada, was drawing near the\\nEnglish coast, with the avoAved purpose of dethroning the\\nqueen and subjugating the people. John White preferred to\\ntake the chances of plunder in the coming engagement to ful-\\nfilling his duty to the poor people at Roanoke, who were waiting\\nso anxiously for his return.\\n10. British heroism, aided by a severe storm, drove off and\\ndestroyed the great Spanish fleet, and Governor White, with\\nliis tAvo ships which Raleigh had with great difficulty fitted\\nout for him with stores for the colony, joined in pursuit of the\\nfugitives. He gained neither gold nor glory, and his ships were\\nso battered that they had to be carried into port and repaired\\nbefore they were fit to venture on a voyage across the Atlantic\\nOcean. Sir Walter Raleigh expressed very great displeiusure\\nat the conduct of Governor White.\\n15J) 1 1 Three years had elai sed before Gcn^ernor AVhite\\ncame l)ack to Roanoke. He found the City of Raleigh as\\ndesolate as upon Ids first arrival. There was no trace of the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "(K)A^ERN(^R white s COLONY. 35\\ncolonists left, except the Avord Croatan, carved upon a tree.\\nIt had been agreed that if the colonists should find it necessary\\nto remove before his return, they would thus designate the\\nplace to which they had gone. Governor White, in his search,\\nfound three of hLs chasts which had been buried by the colo-\\nnists and afterwards dug up and partly l^roken open. They\\ncontained books, maps and pictures, all of which were badly\\ntorn and spoiled.\\n12. Croatan was a peninsula about fiftv^ miles from Koanoke\\nIsland, and Govenor White had good reason to believe that\\ntlie people whom he left had gone there but he sailed down\\nthe coast in sight of the place, and went back to England with\\nno furtlier efforts to discover the nature of their fate. ThiLS\\nagain, Roanoke ^vas left to the savage and the ^vild l3east. It\\nwill never be known what became of the colonists. Sir Walter\\nRaleigh for a long time did not despair of finding them, and\\nsent out five expeditions for this purpose, but all were unsuc-\\ncessful. Their fate is one of those sealed secrets which will\\nonly be known when all our ignorance shall be enlightened,\\nand the sea gives up its dead.\\nNote. Tliere was a tradition among the Indians that these peoj^le, after\\ngreat suffering for food, were adojjted by the Hatteras tribe of Indians, and\\nbecame mingled witli them and, it is said that later generations of these\\nIndians possessed many physical characteristics which indicated a niixtuie\\nof the European and Indian races but this may be, after all, fanciful\\nsurmises of the earh historian.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What ships had been sent over to relieve the colony\\n2. How did Grenville continue English claims to Roanoke? What\\nwas the fate of his settlers", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "HisTonv OF xoinn cak omxa.\\n3. What was Raleigh s next attempt at settlement*? Who was appointed\\n(rovernor? How many people composed the colony? How was this\\ncolony better prepared for permanent settlement than any of its piede-\\neessors What became of this colony?\\n4. Where had White been ordered to make settlement? Point out\\nHampton Roads on the map. Why did he land at Roanoke Island?\\nWi)at is said of Manteo?\\nWhat is said of little Virginia Dare? How is her name still honored\\nin this State? Point out Dare county on the map.\\n7. What did Governor White do in a few weeks after his arrival at\\nRoanoke\\nH. What was furnished to him on his arrival in England? Did he at\\nonce go back to relieve the colonists?\\nO. Why did not Governor Wiiite immediately return to his suffering\\npeople\\n10. What became of the Spanish Armada How did Governor\\nWhite become engaged in tliis conflict?\\n11. How long was Governor White away from Roanoke? What did\\nhe find on his return What is supposed to have been the meaning of the\\nword Croatan? What did Governor White find\\n12. Where is Croatan Can you locate it on the map? Did Gov-\\nernor White go to this place to seek his people? Was any settlement on\\nRoanoke at this time What effort did Raleigh make to find these people?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE FATE OF RAI.EIGH. 37\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nTHE FATE OF RALEIGH.\\nA. D. 1590 TO 1653.\\nThe story of the attempted settlement on Roanoke Island\\nis the story of one of the world s tragedies. Misfortune\\nseemed to be the doom, not only of the colonists, but of many\\ngallant men who sought to aid Sir Walter Raleigh in his\\nenterprise. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, with two of his ships, was\\nthe first to perish at sea; Sir Francis Drake and his compeer.\\nSir John Hawkins, both died of pestilence in the West Indies\\nand, to the baffled and broken-hearted originator of the scheme,\\nthe coming years were black with disaster and death.\\n2. With the loss of Governor White s colony, Raleigh found\\nthat his expenditures had greatly impaired his wealth. He\\nhad lost more than two hundred thousand dollars (\u00c2\u00a340,000\\nsterling), and, no longer able to lit out costly and fruitless expe-\\nditions, was forced to solicit aid from others, joining them\\nin the rights and privileges granted him by the queen in his\\ncharter.\\n1603. 3. But Raleigh found his greatest disaster in the death\\nof Elizabeth. After ruling England so wisely and well for\\nmore than fifty years, she died on March 24th, 1603. This\\nNote.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 It nuist also be remembered that money in the sixteenth century\\nwas worth at least five times more than at present. Forty thousand pounds\\nexpended by Sir Walter Kaleigh would, at that time, purchase about wliat\\none million dollars would now command in England or the United\\nStates.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "38 HISTORY OF XORTU CAROIvINA.\\ngreat queen left her throne to one of the most paltry and\\ncontemptible of men.\\n4. King James I. was an ungainly Scotch pedant^ who was\\ninca[)al)le of appreciating heroism and manliness in others,\\nbeciULse of his o^vn deficiency in all su(;h qualities. He lavished\\nfavors and titles on unworthy favorites, and incurred the con-\\ntempt of wise men for his follies and vices.\\n1( 18. 5. Sir Walter Raleigh had long treated the Span-\\niards as the enemies of his country. The King of Spain hated\\nhim on that account, and King James, to please His Catholic\\njMajesty and secure the marriage of Prince Charles to a Spanish\\nprincess, cruised the great laA\\\\yer, Sir Edward Coke, to procure\\nthe wrongful conviction of Raleigh, his greatest subject. After\\nlying in prison for twelve years under this conviction, Raleigh\\nwas released by King James, and although not pardoned, was\\nput in c ommand of an expedition to the coast of Guiana. The\\nexpedition ^vas unsuccessful, and on his return, to satisfy the\\nKing of S])ain, eJames signed the warrant for Raleigh s execu-\\ntion u])on his former sentence. Accordingly, Raleigh was\\nbeheaded, at the age of sixt}\u00e2\u0080\u0094 five, as a traitor to the land for\\nwhose good he liad accom])lished more than any one else in*\\nall it limits.\\nThus suffered and died the man who first sent ships and\\nmen to the soil of North Carolina. That he failed in what he\\nNote. 8ir Walter Raleigh uccnpied tlie twelve years of his imprison-\\nment in writing a History of the World. This work gave great ofl ence to\\nKing James, who endeavored to suppress its circulation. Wlien Ealeigh\\nwas carried to execution, while on the scaffold, he asked to see the axe.\\nJle cldsely examined its l)right, keen edge, and said, with a smile: This\\nis a sharp medicine, but a sound cure for all diseases. He then laid his\\nhead composedly on the block, moved his lips ;is if in prayiT. and gave the\\nsignal for the blow.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE FATE OF IIA LEIGH. 39\\ndesired to accomplish should not detract from the gratitude\\nand reverence due to his memory. If incompetent and un-\\nworthy agents, and the accidents of fortune, thivarted him in\\nhis designs, the fault was not his. He was the greatest and\\nmost illustrious man connected with our annals as a State, and\\nshould ever receive the applause and remembrance of our\\npeople.\\n7. After the death of Sir Walter Ealeigh no more efforts\\nwere made to plant a colony at Roanoke. The spot was never\\nfavorable for such a purpose. No coast in the world is nnich\\nmore dangerous to ships than that of North Carolina. Cape\\nHatteras is even now the dread of all mariners. It is visited\\nby many storms, and sends its deadly sand bars for fifteen miles\\nout into the ocean, to surprise and wreck the ill fated vessel that\\nhas approached too near the coast.\\n8. Gqvernor Lane, while at Roanoke, discovered the broad,\\ndeep inlet and safe anchorage at Hampton Roads, within the\\npresent limits of Virginia. This port lies but little to the\\nnorth of that inlet which Amadas and Barlowe entered on the\\nfirst English visit to Carolina. Into Hampton Roads, in 1607,\\nwent another colony, sent over by men who had succeeded the\\nunfortunate Raleigh in the royal permission to plant settlements\\nin America. To the genius and bravery of the leader, Captain\\nJohn Smith, was due the permanence of the settlement at\\nJamestown. The name of Virginia, which had been applied\\nto all the territory claimed by England under the discoveries\\nof Gilbert and Raleig:h, was then confined to the colonv on\\nJames River.\\n9. In the course of a few years many places on the Atlantic\\ncoast were occupied by expeditions sent out from England and\\nother countries of Europe. Those of England, at Plymouth,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLIXA.\\nof the JJuteli, at New Amsterdam, and of the Swedes, in New\\nJersey, were speedily seen, while yet roamed the Tuscarora in\\nundisturbed possession of North Carolina.\\n10. As A^irgiiiia grew more populous there were hardships\\nand troubles concerning religion. Men and women were per-\\nsecuted on account of their religious practices. If people did\\nnot conform to the English or Episcopal Church they were\\npunished by fine and imprisonment. Sometimes cruel whip-\\npings became the portion of men who were found preaching\\nQuaker and Baptist doctrines.\\n11. Sir William Berkeley, who was Governor of Virginia,\\nhad no authority over men who dwelt in the region south of a\\nline a few miles below wdiere the ships approached the inland\\nwaters of Virginia. When this became knoAvn many people\\naround the Nansemond River and adjacent localities went south-\\nward, towards the Albemarle Sound, seeking homes where the\\ntyrant of A irginia had no jurisdiction.\\n165\u00c2\u00bb5. 1^. For this cause Roger Green, a clergyman, in\\n1653, led a considerable colony to the banks of the Chowan\\nand, Roanoke Rivers but, even before this, there were probably\\nscattered settlements over most all the region nortli of the\\n^Vlbeniarle Sound, of Avhicii we have no reliable account.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wliat is said of the attempted settlement upon lloauoke Island\\nti. What had the expedition cost Raleigh?\\n3. What was Raleigli s greatest loss?\\n4. Who succeeded Qneen Elizabeth? What kind of a man was King\\n.James I.?\\nWhat new trouble caino u})()n Raleigh? l escril)e his convirtion\\nand death?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE FATE OF KALEIGH. 41\\n6. How sliould the people of North Carolina ever think of Sir Walter\\nRaleigh?\\n7. Were any further efforts made to plant a colony at Roanoke? What\\nis said of the place?\\n8. What safe anchorage had (Governor Lane discovered What colony\\nentered Hampton Roads in 1607 What town was settled in Virginia, and\\nby whom? To what locality was the name Virginia then confined?\\n9. Mention some settlements made on the Atlantic coast about this time.\\n10. What persecutions were common in Virginia?\\n11. Over what section of country did Governor Berkeley have no\\nauthority? When this became known to the people what did many of\\nthem do?\\n12. What settlement was made by Roger Green, and when? Were\\nthere any settlements in North Carolina before this time?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROJ.IN ^A.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nKING CHARLES II. AND THE LORDS PROPRIETORS.\\nA. D. 1663.\\nAfter the discovery of North CaroHua, in 1584, by Amadas\\nand Barlowe, many years had gone by l^efore the period noAV\\nreached in this narrative. Xot only had James succeeded\\nEhzabeth, but Charles had succeeded James and had been\\nbeheaded as a traitor to the land he pretended to rule. Crom-\\nwell had lived, ruled and died, and Charles II. was on the\\nthrone of his fathers, and thus again royal bounties became\\npossible and fashionable.\\n2. Many men in England had heard of the goodly land which\\nwas being peopled around Albemarle Sound, beyond the juris-\\ndiction of Governor Berkeley. He, too, with his bitter and\\nenvenomed soul, took part in a scheme which was to give him\\nsome authority over the refugees who had imagined themselves\\nbeyond the rejich of his cruel rule.\\n1C( 3. 3. In the year 1663, His Majesty Charles II., King\\nof England, Scotland and Ireland, granted to George, Duke of\\n^V.lbemarle; Edward, Earl of Clarendon; AV illiam, Earl of\\nCraven; John, Lord Berkeley; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir\\nGeorge Carteret, Sir John Colleton and Sir AYilliam Berkeley,\\nas I^ords Proprietors, all the territory south of the lands\\nnot idready granted to the province of Virginia, down to the\\nSj^anish line of Floridji.\\n4. There were some remarkable men among these titular\\nowners of the land we now inhabit. The Duke of Albe-\\nmarle had been General George Monk before the restoration of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "KING CHARLES II. AND THE LORDS PROPRIETORS. 43\\nKing Charles, and was made a nobleman on account of his\\npart in that transaction. He was not possessed of very great\\nability, and only became famous by the accidents of fortune.\\n5. Veiy different was the astute lav yer, Edward Hyde,\\nwho, for his abilities, was made the Earl of Clarendon and\\nLord High Chancellor of England. He was a selfish and\\ncrafty man, and lost his offices in his old age, but had two\\ngranddaughters who became queens of Great Britain.\\n6. Lord Ashley, afterward the Earl of Shaftsbury, will ever\\nbe remembered for the part he l^ore in establishing the writ of\\nhabeas corpus as a part of the British constitution. He was\\na bold, able and profligate man, who marred great abilities by\\ngreater vices. He combined within himself all that is danger-\\nous and detestable in a demagogue.\\n7. Sir William Berkeley, then Governor of the province of\\nVirginia, Avas another of these Lords Proprietors. He was\\nthe embodiment of the cruelty and religious prejudice of that\\nage. He whipped and imprisoned people who worshipped\\nGod in a way not pleasing to himself, and was immortalized\\n})y the remark of King Charles IL, who said of him That\\nold fool has taken more lives without offence in that naked\\ncountry than I, in all England, for the murder of my father.\\n8. To these men, as Lords Proprietors, a great territory was\\ngranted, which they called Carolina, in compliment to King\\nCharles IL* All of them except Governor Berkeley lived in\\nNote. Governor Berkeley exhibited some traits of his character by\\nsaying, while Governor of Virginia: I thank God there are no free\\nschools nor printing here, and I hope we shall have none of them these\\nhundred years.\\n*Many years before this time the name of Carolina had been applied\\nto the territory between Virginia and Florida, in honor of King Charles\\nIX. of France.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nEngland, but they ruled the new country and sold the lands\\nat the highest rate of money they could get, with a tax of\\nseventy-five cents on each hundred acres, to be paid every year.\\n9. Many fine promises were made to the English and other\\npeople to induce them to go to Carolina and settle. Freedom\\nto worship God in the way that seemed best to each individual\\nwas especially held out to poor suiferers like John Bunyan,\\nwho, in those days, were too often kept for long years in loath-\\nsome prisons because of their diifering with the civil magistrates\\nas to certain matters of faith and practice in the churches.\\n10. Religious persecution w^as practiced in most of the\\nAmerican colonies. It had been decreed in some of the New\\nEngland colonies that Quakers, upon coming into the province,\\nshould have then tongues bored with a hot iron and be banished.\\nAny person bringing a Quaker into the province was fined one\\nhundred 230unds sterling (about five hundred dollai s), and the\\nQuaker was given twenty lashes and imprisoned at hard labor.\\nIn Virginia the persecutions were equally as bad, if not worse,\\nand some of the punishments were almost as severe as Indian\\ntortures. The Assembly of this colony (Virginia) levied u])on\\nall Quakers a monthly tax of one hundred dollars.\\n11. To escape persecution, many men avIio were Quakers\\nand Baptists, had already gone to the region around the Albe-\\nmarle Sound; and others followed from various inducements.\\nTheir settlements were known as the Albemarle -Colony.\\nThe whole country was still roamed over by Indians, and even\\nin Albemarle the rude fai in^houses were widely scattered.\\n12. There was not even a village in tlie new province. No\\n,churches, court-houses or public schools were to be seen; but\\nthe men and women of that day loved liberty. They preferred\\nit} undergo danger from the Indians and the privations of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "KING CHARLES IF. AND THE EORDS PROPRIETORS. 4-\\nlonely homes in the forest to the persecution which they found\\nin England and in many portions of America.\\n13. It can hardly be realized, amid the present luxuries and\\nenjoyments of the American people, what dangers and riva-\\ntions were encountered by the white settlers in North Carolina\\ntwo hundred years ago for while no\\\\v tli rouging cities, teeming\\nfields and busy higliways of a people numbering many millions\\ncover the land, then cruel and crafty Indians, always hostile at\\nheart to the tread of the white man, surrounded the defenceless\\nhomes of the scattered colonists and filled the great forest\\nstretching three thousand miles toward the setting sun.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wliat period have we now reached in onr history? What elianges\\nliad taken place in tlie English government?\\n2. In what new scheme do we find Governor Berkeley taking part?\\n3. What new grant of this territory was made in 1663? W^hat was the\\nnew government called\\n4. What kind of man was George, Dnke of Albemarle?\\n5. Who was Edward, Earl of Clarendon\\n6. Who was Lord Ashley? What was his character?\\n7. What was Governor Berkeley s character? What was said of liim\\nby King Charles II.?\\n8. What name was given to the territory now granted In whose honor\\nwas Carolina named? Where did the Lords Proprietors live? WMiattax\\nwas to be paid to them\\n9. What inducements were oflered to the English to go to Carolina\\nand settle? Why was religions freedom an inducement for them to\\nleave their cotnfortable homes and settle in a savage country?\\n10. What religions {)ersecutions were seen in most of the American\\ncolonies\\n11. What two religious sects had emigrated to this section? What did\\nthey call their colony?\\n12. What was the condition of the colony? What sacrifices had the\\ncolonists made, and why?\\n13. How did the condition of the colonists differ from ours", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "46 HlJ^TOPwY OF XORTTT CAROTJXA.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nGOVERNOR DRUMMOND AND SIR JOHN YEA MANS.\\nA. D. 1663 TO 1667.\\nKing Charles II., who thus bestowed tliis vast dominion\\nupon a few of his friends, was in marked contrast, as a\\nsovereign, to Queen Elizabeth. He was a gay, dissolute,\\nshameless libertine, who despised all that is valuable in human\\nduties, and spent his life in the paltriest amusements. He\\ncould be polite and entertaining in conversation, but abundantly\\njustified Lord Rochester s remark that he never did a wise\\ntiling or said a foolish one.\\n2. Under instructions from the other Lords Proprietors, Sir\\nWilliam Berkeley, in 1663, appointed William Drummond the\\nfirst Governor of Albemarle. He was a Scotch settler in\\nVirginia, and ^vas a man who deserved the respect and confi-\\ndence of the people whom he governed. He was plain and\\nprudent in his style of life, and seems to have given satisfaction\\nto the people, who had been previously uncontrolled by law or\\nmagistrate.\\n3. After a stay of three years, Governor Drummond returned\\nto Virginia. A great trouble arose in Virginia at this period,\\nknown as Bacon s Rebellion. A brave young man, Nath-\\naniel Bacon, was at the head of a force resisting the presumption\\nand illegal authority of Governor Berkeley. William Drum-\\nmond, seeing the justness of the resistance, warndy supported\\nBacon s cause. Mrs. Sarah Drummond, wife of the Governor,\\nnoblv sustained her husband. a( on died l)efore the close of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "GOVERXOR DRITMMOXD AND SIR JOHN YEAMANS. 4/\\nthe Rebellion/ and a large number of the leaders were put\\nto death. Governor Drunnnond Avas, by order of Berkeley,\\nhanged within two hours after his capture. The entire property\\nof Mrs. Drummond was confiscated and herself and five\\nchildren were turned out to starve.\\n4. This tragic culmination of Berkeley s ruthless cruelties\\nwas the occasion of the bitter censure bv the King;, alreadv\\nrecorded. After the death of Berkeley, Mrs. Drummond\\nbl^ought suit against his wife, Lady Francis Berkeley, for\\nrecovery of her property, and a verdict in her favor was given\\nby a Virginia jury. Governor Drummond is commemorated\\nby the lake in the Dismal Swam]3 which still bears his name.\\n5. It Avas discovered soon after the king s grant to the Lords\\nProprietors, that a belt of land extending southward from the\\npresent Virginia boundary to a point on a line with the mouth\\nof Chowan River, and extending indefinitely west, Avas not\\nincluded in that charter; so, in 1665 another charter AA^as\\ngranted joining this strip of territory to North Carolina.\\n6. In 1663 there Avas an expedition formed in the island of\\nBarbadoes, Avhich came to the shores of Carolina and explored\\nto the distance of about one hundred and fifty miles the courses\\nof the north-east branch of the Cape Fear River. This expe-\\ndition Avas under command of an experienced navigator named\\nHilton, who Av^as assisted by Long and Fabian, and returned\\nto Barbadoes in February, 1664.\\n7. Among the planters who had fitted out this expedition\\nAvas John Yeamans. He Avas a young man of good connections\\nin England. His father had been Sheriff of the City of Bristol\\nduring the Avar of King Charles I. Avith Parliament, and was\\nput to death by the order of Fairfax on account of his stubborn\\ndefense of his citA in the kind s behalf.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "4(S IIISTOnV OF NORTH CAIIOUNA.\\n1605. 8, Ycainans had emigrated to Barbadoes hoping to\\nmend his broken fortunes, and being pleased with the report\\nof Captain Hilton s expedition, he determined to remove to\\nCarolina. He Avent to England to negotiate with the Ijords\\nProprietors and received from them a grant of large tracts of\\nland, and at the same time he was knighted by the king in\\nreward for the loyalty and misfortunes of his family. Return-\\ning from England in the autumn of 1665, he led a band of\\ncolonists from Barbadoes to the Cape Fear, and purchasing\\nfrom the Indians a tract of land thirty-two miles square, settled\\nat Old Town, in the present county of Brunswick. The settle-\\nment Avas afterAvards knoAvn as the Clarendon Colony. This\\nA^llage, Avhich Avas called CharlestoAvn, soon came to number\\neight hundred inhabitants, and they occupied their time in\\nclearing the land for cultivation and preparing lumber, staves,\\nhoops and shingles for shipment to Barbadoes. The colony\\ngreatly prospered under the excellent and prudent management\\nof Sir John Yeamans, but Avas afterAAards deserted, Avhen\\nYeamans Avas ordered by the Lords Proprietors to the goA^ern-\\nment of a colony on Coo])er and Ashley RiA^ers, in South\\nCarolina.\\n9. There had been, as early as 1660, a Ncav England settle-\\nment, for the purpose of raising cattle, on the Cape Fear; but\\nthis colony in(;urred tlie resentment of the Indians, it is said,\\nby kidnapi^ing their children under the pretense of sending\\nthem to Boston to be educated and the colonists Avere all gone\\nAvhen the men from Barbadoes Ansited the Cape Feiu\\\\ Whether\\nthe XcAV Englanders Avere driven from the settlement by the\\nIndians, or left because their enterprise Avas unprofitable, is not\\nknown with certainty. These men left attached to a post a", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR DRUMMOND AND SIR JOHN YEAMANS. 49\\nwriting dLscouragiiig all such as should hereafter come into\\nthese parts to settle.\\n1667. 10. During Governor Drunimond\\\\s stay in Albe-\\nmarle there was entire satisfaction manifested by the people\\nwith his rule, and also with that of the Lords Proprietors.\\nHe exerted himself to arrange matters so as not to disturb the\\ntitles acquired in the time previous to the king s grant; and\\nthere was full sympathy between him and the class represented\\nl)y George Durant.\\n11. This sturdy Quaker had, some years before, bought\\nfrom the Yeoppim Indians the place knoAvn as Durant s\\nNeck, on Perquimans River; and he was a leader in wealth\\nand influence among the settlers. He was prosperous in his\\naffairs, and largely controlled the views of the people belonging\\nto his religious sect.\\n12. The rivers were full of fish every spring, and with little\\ntrouble large supplies were caught in the nets and weirs.\\nIndian corn, tobacco and lumbei were sent in vessels to New\\nEngland and the West Indies. In return, sugar, coffee and\\nrum were brought to Albemarle, and an active trade grew up,\\nwhich was almost wholly conducted by the New England\\nvessels.\\n13. These vessels all passed through the inlet at Nag s\\nHead, where, as late as 1729, twenty-five feet of water was\\nfound upon the bar. This afibrded entrance to ships of con-\\nsiderable size. Cape Hatteras w^as then, as now, a place of\\ngreat peril to ships, and many were wrecked upon the terrible\\noutlying sand bars but this did not deter the brave mariners\\nfrom the trade which they found was growing each year more\\nprofitable.\\n4", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "50 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. \\\\Vli;it was the character of King Charles II.? What was said of liiin\\nby Lord Rochester?\\n2. Who was appointed the first (Governor of Albemarle? What kind\\nof man was lie\\n3. How long did Governor Drummond stay in North Carolina? Can\\nyon tell something of Bacon s Rebellion Wliat part did Governor\\nDrummond take, and what was the result? What can you tell of Mrs.\\nSarah Drummond?\\n4. What further is said of Mrs. Drummond How is Governor\\nDrummond s name commemorated in the State? Point out this lake.\\n5. What additional piece of land was given to the Lords Proprietors\\nin 1665?\\nG, What expedition came to Carolina in 1663?\\n7. What is said of Sir John Yearaans\\n8. What was the object of Yeamans visit? What colony did he form\\nin 1665? Where was it located? What is the history of this colony?\\n9. Wiiat previous settlement had been made in this same vicinity?\\nWhy was it deserted\\n10. How had the people of Albemarle been pleased with the adminis-\\ntration of Governor Drummond\\n11. Who was George Durant? Point out Durant s Neck on the map.\\n12. Give some account of the prosperity of Albemarle? What vessels\\nconducted the trade?\\n13. Through what inlet did vessels enter the sound? Describe the\\nneighborhood of Cape Hatteras.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITITTIONS. 51\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nGOVERNOR STEPHENS AND THE FUNDAMENTAL\\nCONSTITUTIONS.\\nA. D. 1667 TO 1674.\\nAfter Sir William Berkeley had put Governor Driimmond\\nto death in the manner described, Governor Stephens was sent\\nin 1667 to take his place. Stephens was a ruler of ordinary\\nabilities, and probably did his best for the interests of the\\nprovince, so far as was consistent with a keen regard for instruc-\\ntions from the Lords Proprietors.\\n1668. 2. The government, in his day, consisted of the\\nGovernor, his council of twelve, and twelve members of the\\nHouse of Assembly, elected by the freeholders. Every white\\nman having an estate of inheritance, or for life, in fifty acres\\nof land, was a freeholder. Perfect religious liberty was\\nallowed, and there was no check at that day upon the govern-\\nment, provided it preserved its feiilty to the King and the\\nLords Proprietoi s.\\n3. A wide margin was left to the Grand Assembly of\\nAlbemarle for the display of its power. Neither the Legisla-\\nture nor the Governor had any capital city for the transaction\\nof business. The Governor lived on any farm he pleased, and\\nthe General Assembly met at such place as it deemed most\\nconvenient.\\n1669. Their earliest known legislation allowed no\\nsettlers to be disturbed for the collection of debts contracted\\nbefore coming to live in Albemarle. Another law exempted\\nall new comers from taxes for one year; and j^rohibited tlie", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "OZ IIISTOIiV OF NORTH AIIOLIXA.\\ntransfer of any land by a settler during the first two years of\\nhis residence. These laws were evidently passed to encourage\\nimmigration.\\n5. As there were no Church of England preachers then in\\nthe colony, another statute allowed people to get married by\\nsimply going before the Governor, or any of his CH)nncil, and\\ndeclaring a purpose to become man and wife.\\n1( 70. 6. Albemarle at that time was divided into the\\n])rc( incts of Carteret, Berkeley and Shaftsbury. The settle-\\nments extended rapidly down the sea-coast, and soon reached\\nas far south as the ])rcsent town of Beaufort, on Old Topsail\\ninlet.\\n7. Governor Stephens soon reached the conclusion of his\\nadministration and the term of his natural life. The closing\\nmonths of his rule were embittered by the nature of the\\ninstructions he received from the Lords Proprietors and the\\nBoard of Trade in London.\\n8. One of these instructions, materially changing the simple\\ngovernment previously existing in the province, was concern-\\ning the colonial trade. English merchants saw that New\\nEngland vessels were visiting the scattered settlements on the\\n^vater-courses and establishing a lucrative exchange of manu-\\nfactured goods for the tobacco, corn and lumber of Carolina.\\n9. It was determined in London to stop this, and appro-\\nriate to English factors whatever of profit might be realized.\\nThe old English Navigation Act, passed under Cromwell to\\nbrcalv down the Dutch trade, was revived as against the Boston\\nskippei s. Governor Stephens accordingly told the colonists\\nthey imist exchange the products of their farms with none but\\nEnglisli traders, but he quickly found that the peo])le were\\nresolute in refusing ol)edience to auv such reirulations.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS. 53\\n10. It was further annouiiced that a new scheme of rule\\nhad been prepared in England. This was the work of Lord\\nShaftsbury and a distinguished philosopher named John\\nLocke. This, fiiniiliarly known as Locke s Grand Model/\\nwas called by the Proprietors The Fundamental Constitutions\\nof Carolina, and was a cumbrous and elaborate system, full of\\ntitles and dignities. It involved a large expenditure, and was\\nas unsuited to the Carolina wilderness, as St. Paul s Cathedral\\nin London was for a meeting-house for the Quakers of\\nPasquotank\\nIL The people who were constantly enduring danger and\\nprivations in Albemarle at once resolved that they would have\\nno part in the titles and pageants concocted by these wise men\\nof England. They had been promised freedom if they would\\ncome to America, both by the king in the Great Deed of Gi^ant\\nand by the Lords Proprietors, and nothing less than the privi-\\nleges of Englishmen would satisfy them.\\n12. The Navigation Act was intended to destroy their\\ncommerce and manufactures, and the Fundamental Constitu-\\ntions, if submitted to, would have put an end to their home\\nrule. They waged a long opposition to these two things, and\\na century went by before, in the blood of the Revolution,\\nAmerican commerce became free. They were denounced as\\nunruly subjects, but they were, in all truth, wise and resolute\\npatriots. They were protecting not only themselves, but the\\ngenerations of the future.\\n(QUESTIONS.\\n1. Who succeeded Governor Druimiiond :is Governor of Albemarle?\\nWhat kind of man was Governor Stephens?\\n2. In what did the government consist at that time?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "04 HISTORY OF NORTH AROLIXA.\\n3. What is said of the Grand Assembly? Where did ihe (Jrajid\\nAssembly usually meet?\\n4. Mention some of tiie earliest laws?\\n5. What law was enacted concerning marriage?\\nG. How was Albemarle divided? How far had the settlement extended?\\n7. What trouble came to Governor Stephens?\\n8. What kind of trade was carried on between Carolina and New\\nEngland\\nO. What was determined by the Lords Proprietors? What old law was\\nrevived How did the people receive the orders from Governor Stephens\\n10. What two celebrated Englishmen prepared a form of government\\nfor Carolina? What was this system called? State its nature?\\n11. What was resolved by the colonists concerning the Grand Model\\n12. What was the intent of the Navigation Act? Of the Fundamental\\nConstitutions?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "EAKLY UOVEKNOES AND TPIEIK TllOUBLEH. 55\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nEARLY GOVERNORS AND THEIR TROUBLES.\\nA. D. 1674 TO 1680.\\n1674. Samuel Stephens, upon his death in 1674, was\\nsucceeded by George Carteret as Governor of Albemarle. The\\noldest member of the council was entitled by law to the\\nplace, but the members of the House of Assembly succeeded\\nin obtaining the position for their speaker. Governor Car-\\nteret found many difficulties in the office he had assumed and\\nbecoming disgusted with the continued opposition of the people\\nto the Fundamental Constitutions and the navigation laws of\\n1670, he went over to London and resigned his place as\\nGovernor.\\n1676. 2- When he reached England he found Eastchurch,\\nwho, as Speaker of the House of Assembly, had been sent\\nover to remonstrate with the Proprietors against the innova-\\ntions they were proposing. His friend Miller, who was accused\\nof indulging in rebellious language, had been carried out of\\nthe province for trial at Williamsburg, in Virginia, and was\\nalso in London at this time seeking redress for his alleged\\ngrievances.\\n3. Eastchurch was in London as the agent for Albemarle.\\nThe people were paying him to procure the assent of the\\nProprietors to some remission in tlie hard measure of the navi-\\ngation laws; also for the abrogation of the Fundamental\\nConstitutions. He and Miller betrayed their trusts, and became\\ntlie willing tools of Lord Shaftsbury and the Board of Trade.\\n4. As the price of their subservience, Eastchurch was", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "o(y PILSTORY OP NORTPI CAROLINA.\\nappointed Governor of .Vlbeniarle and Miller was made Sec-\\nretary of State. Tlie authorities in London were fully resolved\\nthat the New England vessels should be excluded from Caro-\\nlina waters and that the Fundamental Constitutions should be\\na jcepted as the system of government.\\n5. This betrayal of a high trust was to bring its own punish-\\nment on the heads of both Eastchurch and Miller. On their\\nway to America they stopped at the Island of Nevis, where\\nthe new Governor of Albemarle met a Creole lady. His con-\\nduct in London liad been weak enough, but complete insanity\\nseemed to have fallen upon him at Nevis. For two years he\\nwas oblivious to all the disorders and distresses of the people\\nconunitted to his government; and he sui;rendered everything\\nelse to liis love-making.\\n1677. C. Miller went on to Albemarle, and in Jidy, 1677,\\nassumed control of public affairs. There were then in the\\ncolony two thousand tax-payers. Besides Indian corn, which\\nAvas the staple production, eight hundred thousand pounds of\\ntobacco were made that year. The whole colony was enjoying\\nsuch prosj^erity as a fertile soil and good climate always give.\\n7. Tlie new Governor conducted matters in an outrageous\\nmanner. He imposed taxes upon all goods sent to other\\ncolonies, and in this way soon realized five thousand dollars on\\nthe tobacco which was sent to Virginia and Boston.\\n8. He was particularly emphatic in his orders forbidding\\ntrade with New England vessels. George Durant, with a\\nlarg(! majority of the ])eople, was determined to thwart liim in\\nthis matter. Governor Miller, on the other hand, Avas so\\ndctci mined in enforcing liis orders that lie in person boarded\\na Boston vessel and arrested the ski])])er.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "EARLY GOVERNORS AND THEIR TROUBLES. .3 Y\\n1678. 9. Thereupon, John Culpepper, with his followers,\\nseized Miller, and having put him in prison, assumed the\\ngovernment himself. He imprisoned all the deputies of the\\nLords Proprietors. The king s revenue, also, amounting to\\nfifteen thousand dollars, was appropriated by him. Cul-\\npepper, like Gillam, the skipper who had caused the outbreak,\\nwas from New England.\\n1680. 10. At last, after two years delay upon his journey,\\nEastchurch made his appearance in Albemarle. He had won\\nhis bride, but lost everything else. Culpepper scouted his\\nclaims to the government. He went to Williamsburg, in\\nVirginia, to beg the Governor of that province to aid him in\\nregaining the place he had lost by his folly but so slow and\\nceremonious was his lordship that Eastchurch died of vexa-\\ntion before anything substantial had been accomplished in his\\nbehalf.\\n11. Miller escaped from the confinement to which he had\\nbeen subjected by Culpepper, and again went to England to\\nutter his complaints. Culpepper followed him there, and\\nthough indicted and tried for treason, was acquitted by aid\\nof Lord Shaftsbury.\\n12. Thus it was, in the earliest days of our history as a\\npeople, that the men of North Carolina found means to resist\\nthe execution of laws enacted abroad for their oppression, and\\ncommenced a struggle which was to continue for a century.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Who succeeded Samuel Stephens as Governor? How did lie obtain\\nthe phice? Why did Governor Carteret go to England?\\n2, What two men from Carolina did he find in England, and what was\\ntheir mission?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "08 HISTORY OF NOUTM CAKOLINA.\\n3. What duty had the colonists entrusted to Eastchiircli How did he\\nfulfill the trust?\\n4. How were Eastchurch and Miller rewarded for their betrayal?\\nWhat was the determination of the London authorities?\\n5. What was the conduct of Eastchurch while on his way to Carolina?\\n0. What did Miller do in the meantime? What was the condition of\\nthe colony at this period?\\n7. How did the new Governor manage affairs?\\n8. What trade did he forbid? By whom was his command thwarted?\\nWhat violent act was done by Miller?\\n9. What was done to Miller? Who assumed the government?\\n10. When did Eastchurch arrive at Carolina How did he find mat-\\nters? To whom did he go for aid, and with what success?\\n11. What became of Miller and Culpepper?\\n12. What do the events of this lesson teach us?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "LOKD CARTERET ADD8 A NEW TROUBLE. 59\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nLORD CARTERET ADDS A NEW TROUBLE.\\nA. D. 1680 TO 1704.\\nWhen John Culpepper had ended his administration the\\nauthorities in England sent over John Harvey as Governor.\\nLittle is know of him or of his successors, John Jenkins and\\nHenry Wilkinson. There were still misrule and confusion in\\nAlbemarle. A few men of wealth, who acted as deputies in\\nthe Council for the absent Lords Proprietors, were their advo-\\ncates and defenders in everything they proposed but the people\\nstill traded with New England vessels and vented their scorn\\nupon the Fundamental Constitutions.\\n1681. 2. At last, in 1681, the authorities in England con-\\ncluded that if one of their own number went over he might\\nexert more influence upon the people than a hired agent.\\nTherefore, they induced Seth Sothel, who had bought the\\ninterest first granted to the Earl of Clarendon, to venture on\\nthe doubtful expedient.\\n1683-88. 3. To the great good fortune of the province, this\\nabandoned man was captured at sea by Algerine pirates. Thus\\nhe became the slave of these corsairs for two years. When he\\narrived it was soon seen what a beastly and detestable monster\\nhad been sent as a reformer of the morals of the people of\\nAlbemarle. He was the most shameless reprobate ever seen\\nas a Governor in America. He took bribes, stole property\\nand appropriated the Indian trade to his own uses, growing\\nworse and worse until the people, in 1688, could no longer\\nendure his iniquities, and drove him from the jilace he disgraced.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nHe went to South Carolina, and after his sentence of twelve\\nmonths exile had expired, returned to North Carolina and\\ndied in 1692.\\n1089-93. 4. Philip Ludwell and Alexander Lillington\\nwere the next rulers in Nortli Carolina, and the administration\\nof the latter witnessed the triuni])h of the colonists in the\\nconsent of the Lords Proprietors to the abolition of the Fun-\\ndamental Constitutions. This event occurred in 1693, and\\nbrought no little joy to the men who had so long and success-\\nfully opposed it as the Constitution of Nortli Carolina.\\n1695-96. 5. Thomas Harvey ruled next in Albemarle,\\nwhile John Archdale, a wise and benevolent Quaker, was put\\nin charge of all tlie settlements in Avhat ^vas North Carolina,\\nand also those on Cooper and Ashley Rivers, in South Caro-\\nlina. In the year 1696 a severe pestilential fever visited all\\nthe tribes of Indians along Pamlico Sound and destroyed\\nnearly all of them. The colonists, soon after this, feeling\\nsomewhat safer from Indian attacks, began to form settlements\\nsouthward.\\n1704. 6. Henderson Walker succeeded to the rule by virtue\\nof his place as President of the Council. After him Colonel\\nRobert Daniel, Avho had made reputation in an expedition\\nagainst the Spaniards in Florida, became, in 1704, the Gov-\\nernor of tlie |)r()vinc(\\n7. Governor Daniel was probably the mistaken and ignorant\\nagent of Ijovd Carteret, who happened then to be the Palatine,\\nor chief of the I^rords J*ro])rietors, in a foolish effort at reform.\\nCarteret, like James 11., was by no means a pattern in moral-\\nity, but became impressed with his duty to cause the Assembly\\nto pass a law making the Episcopal Church the State Church\\nin the province, as it was in England.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "LORD ARTEIJET ADDS A NEW TROUBEE. (jl\\n8. The Baptists and Quakers were numerous, and both of\\nthese sects were sternly opposed to any such regulation. The\\nlaw was passed in spite of their votes to the contrary, and\\nprovided for building churches, buying glebe lands, and\\npublic taxation to pay the rectors salaries, but did not visit\\nany disqualification or punishment upon non-conformists.\\nThe first Episcopal preacher arrived at Albemarle in 1703, and\\nthe first church was built in 1705, in Chowan county.\\n9. These persons, who were not members of the Episcopal\\nChurch, said they were already paying for the support of their\\npastors, and at once declared that they would not submit to\\nthe injustice of paying money to -men who were the leaders in\\nthe persecutions of Baptists and Quakers in England and\\nAmerica.\\n10. The Presbyterians of South Carolina sent John Ashe,\\nof that section, to London to resist the confirmation of the\\nlaw, and Edmund Porter was sent, for the same purpose, by\\nthe people of Albemarle. Ashe died in London before he\\nknew of his success. Both Queen Anne and the House of\\nLords denounced the innovation as unjust and impolitfc, and\\nthe law was therefore annulled by Her Majesty in her privy\\ncouncil.\\n11. It was thus, year by year, that the Carolinians kept up\\ntheir struggle for freedom and equality before the law. The\\nocean stretched between them and the men who sought their\\noppression, and large expenditures, both in money and heart-\\nw^earing efforts were undergone, as the dangerous and alarm-\\ning years went by, but these men of the woods never wavered\\nin their determination to be free.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "62 lirSTOIlY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\nI, Wiio was sent from England to sncceed John Culpepper as Governor\\nof Carolina? Wlio followed Governor Harvey in office? Wliat was the\\ncondition of afiairs in the colony under these Governors?\\nti. Who became Governor in 1681 Who was Seth Sothel, and why\\nwas he selected\\n3. What befel Sothel on his way to Carolina? What kind of man was\\nGovernor Sothel What did the people do?\\n4. Who next took charge of Carolina? What important thing was\\naccomplished under this administration?\\n5. Who was Governor in 1696? Who had charge of all the settle-\\nments?\\nO. Wliat two Governors are next mentioned?\\n7. Whose agent was Governor -Daniel? What law was i)assed by the\\nAssembly\\n8. What two religious sects were strongest opposers of the act? What\\nwas provided for in the statute?\\n9. What complaint was made by the Baptists and Quakers?\\n10. VV^ho was sent to London in the interest of the Presbyterians?\\nW^hat man from Albemarle? Wliat was the success of the mission to\\nLondon?\\nII. What was the almost constant struggle of the people of Carolina?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THOMAS CAREY AND THE TUSCARORA WAR. 63\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nTHOMAS CAREY AND THE TUSCARORA WAR.\\nA. D. 1704 TO 1712.\\nThomas Carey, who had ah*eady reached the positions of\\nSpeaker of the House of Assembly and Lieutenant-Governor,\\nwas promoted, to be Governor In 1705. He had been a leader\\nin opposition to Governor Daniel s church scheme, and for that\\nreason John Archdale and the Quakers had procured his\\nelevation to the latter position. It may be imagined what was\\ntheir disgust and surprise when it ^vas found that Carey had\\nchanged sides and become the Willing tool of Lord Carteret.\\n1705. 2. In 1705 the town of Bath, in Beaufort county,\\nwas settled, and this was the first incorporated town In North\\nCarolina. One of the oldest churches In the State Is at Bath.\\nThe brick used in the building w^ere brought from England.\\nThe edifice Is still in a good condition, and Is regularly used\\nfor public w^orshlp.\\n3. When the General Assembly niet, Governor Carey\\nannounced that, under English laws, none but members of tlie\\nEnglish or Episcopal Church could be allowed to take the\\noaths necessary to qualification for a seat in either House.\\nJohn Porter Avas thereupon sent to London to malvc known\\nthis fresh outrage and betrayal of the people.\\n4. He was soon back with orders for Carey s removal and\\nthe General Assembly elected William Glover by the votes of\\nJohn Porter and the men he influenced. It Is sickening to\\nadd that Glover also immediately deceived the men who were\\nhis supporters, and was found acting and talking exactly as", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "i)4 HISTORY OF NORTH AROLINA.\\nCaivv had done. The next thing seen was tlie ])aeifi( ati()n of\\nCarey and the (^nakers, and tlieir re-eleetion of him as Gov-\\nernor.\\n5. Two rival governments were thus at open ru})ture, each\\nclaiming to be the lawful government in Albemarle. They\\nboth took up arms, and it seemed that bloodshed must ensue.\\nA General Assembly was called to decide the question of\\nauthority. Members were present with certificates of election\\nsigned by Glover, and another set whose certificates were issued\\nby Carey. Glover and Carey, Avith their adherents, occupied\\nseparate rooms in the same building, and great confusion and\\nbitterness prevailed. Finally the members of Glover s council\\nAvere compelled to seek refuge in Virginia.\\n6. In such a state of affairs, Edward Hyde arrived from\\nEngland Avith papers directing Ed^vard Tynte, the Governor\\nof both South and North Carolina, to commission him as\\nGovernor of North Carolina. In the meantime Carey, hav-\\ning heard of Governor Tynte s death, refused to acknowledge\\nHyde s claims, and proceeded to arm and equip his folloAvers.\\n1711. 7. The cruel luid crafty Tuscaroras now resolved to\\navail themselves of the divisions among the white peo])le.\\nThey procured the Meherrins, Corees, Mattanuiskeets and\\nother tribes to unite with them in an eft ort to nuuxler all they\\ncould of the settlers. They kept the secret so well that on the\\nnight of the 11th of September, 1711, according to the calendar\\nof that day, more than two hundred whites were butchered.\\nThe Tuscaroras mustered in their ranks a stronp; force, which\\nwas increased by their allies to sixteen hundred warriors. The\\nIndians continued this terrible slaughter for three days, and\\nonly ceased when fatigue and drunkenness rendered them\\ninca])ab]e of further continuance.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THOxMAS CAREY AND THE TTTSCARORA WAR. i)~)\\n8. The Baron de Graffeiireid, a nobleman from Bern, had\\njust established (in 1710) a flourishing colony, comprising\\nabout six hundred persons, Germans and Swedes, at New Bern,\\nat the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers. De Graifen-\\nreid and John I^awson, the surveyor-general, while on an\\nexploring voyage up the Neuse River, a feA\\\\ days before the\\nmassacre of September 11th, were seized by the Indians. The\\nwar council decided that both the men should be put to death.\\nDe Graifenreid made claim that he was king of the Swiss set-\\ntlement just established, and escaped death by promising that\\nno more land should be taken from the Indians without their\\nconsent. The unfortunate Lawson and a negro servant were\\nl)ut to death by the most horrible cruelties.\\n9. Baron de GrafPenreid was held a captive for several\\n^veeks, and Avas set at lil)erty upon applit^ation of Governor\\nSpottswood. On his return to his settlement he found it in a\\ncondition of almost desolation. He became so disheartened\\nat the prospect that he soon sold his interest in Carolina and\\nI cturned to Switzerland.\\n1712. 10. The South Carolina militia and near a thousand\\nYemassee Indians, under Colonel Jolni Barnwell, came as\\nswiftly as they could to the rescue, and inflicted a stunning\\nblow upon the savages. They ^veve attacked in a fort near\\nNew Bern, and more than three hundred of the Indians were\\nkilled and a hundred made prisoners. Thinking the league\\ncrushed. Colonel Barnwell went hc^nie with his forces, after\\nmaking a treaty with the Indians, Avhich was quickly broken.\\n11. In this terrible emergency, which threatened the destruc-\\ntion of so many settlers, Governor S])ottswood, (^f Virginia,\\ndid nothing to aid the colony except keep the Five Nations\\nand Tom Blount s Tuscaroras neutral in the war. The great", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "(j(j HLSTOUV OF NORTir CAFJOr.INA.\\ndanger was in the j^ossiblc adhesion of the New York Irocjuols\\nto the savaue league. A\\\\ itli ^Vlbeniarle divided, and eonse-\\n(juently in a measure helpless, it wa.s seen that it would he\\nimpossible to meet the Five Nations in battle.\\n12. When the next spring had op3ned, some hundreds of\\nmen in North Carolina were j(Mned bv Colonel James Moore,\\nfrom S(nith Carolina, with another foree of a hundred and fifty\\nof his white neighbors and the Yemas^ees, who again were\\nwilling to make war upon their hated enemies, the Tusearoras.\\nl Another bloody attack upon a fort made of earth- works\\nand palisades resulted in such slaughter of the Indians that\\nHandcoek, their chief, who had boldly led them before, w^as so\\ndisheartened at the loss of his braves that; with his tribe, he\\nabandfined Carolina and rejoined his brethren in the lake\\ncountry of New York, who were from that time known as the\\nSix Nations. They ventured no more among the men who\\nhad so fearfully broken their strength and power as belligerents.\\nThe fort occupied by Handcoek and his force Avas situated\\nwhere the village of Snow Hill, Greene county, now stands,\\nand WHS called by the Indians Nahucke. The siege began\\nMarch 20th, and in a fe^y days the fort, with eight hundred\\nprisoners, was taken by storm. Colonel ^loore s loss was\\ntwenty white men and thirty-six Indians killed and alwut one\\nhundred wounded.\\n14. In the midst of the danger, in this .^cond year of the\\nwar, yellow fever was seen for the first time in Albemarle.\\nGovernor Hyde fell a victim to its virulence. He died Sep-\\ntember 8, 1712, and was succeeded by Thomas Pollock, who\\nhad long l)een known as one of the richest and most influential\\nof the settlers. Pollock and Edward Moseley, who Avas the\\nleading la\\\\A^^er and ablest man in Albemarle, were in deadlv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THOMAS (\\\\\\\\11P:Y ANT) THE TUSrARORA WAR. (i7\\nenmity concerning the quarrels between the contending Gov-\\nernors.\\n15. During this turbulent period among their rulers the\\npeople of Albemarle were giving their principal attention to\\ngrowing corn and other farm products. They were improving\\ntheir settlements and reaping the full reward of industry and\\nperseverance. In 1704 the manufacture of tar began, and it\\nwas soon discovered that thi s native article ^v^as destined to\\nbecome a very valuable commodity, both at home and in\\nforeign countries.\\n16. During tht years just considered North Carolina received\\nlarge accessions to her population. As early as 1690 French\\nProtestant refugees purchased lands and began to form settle-,\\nments in Pamlico. In 1 707 another body of French emigrants,\\nunder the guidance of their clergyman, Phillipe de Riche-\\nbourg, located in the same section. A good number of French\\nHuguenots, also, had formed thrifty settlements in the Pamlico\\nregion and along the banks of the Neuse and Trent Rivers.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. How did Thomas Carey become Governor of Albemarle? How did\\nhe disa[)point the people wlio elected him\\n2. Wliere was the first town incorporated in the State?\\n3. What announcement was made by Carey at the meetins; of the\\nAssembly? How was this received by the people?\\n4. What orders were brought by Porter? Who was elected as Carey s\\nsuccessor? How were the people disappointed in Governor Glover?\\n5. What was the condition of affairs?\\nO. Who arrived from England, and for what purpose y How did Carey\\nreceive Governor Hyde s demand?\\n7. How were the Tuscaroras acting during this public trouble? What\\ncalamity befell the colony\\n8, What befell Baron de Graffenreid and John Lawson", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "()S msToiiY OF xoirnr caroi.ixa.\\n1). What further is said of de Grafienreid?\\n10. Wliat aid came from South Carolina? Desciibe tlie battle.\\n11. How did Governor S{K)ttswood, of Virginia, act (hiring this trouble?\\nAVhat was specially feared by the people?\\n12. How was tlie colony preparing for war?\\n13. Describe the second battle and the result,\\n14. What terrible sickness visited Carolina in 1712? Wiio was one of\\nthe victims? Who succeeded Governor Hyde? What is said of (iovernor\\nPollock?\\nlo. How were the peojde of Albemarle occupying themselves during\\nthese troublesome times?\\n10. Give some account of the growth of the settlements in North\\nCar(.)rma.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "(lOVEKXOJ; EDEX AND liLACR-KEAKl). ()J)\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nGOVERNOR EDEN AND BLACK-BEARD.\\nA. D. 1712 TO 1722.\\nWith the conquest of the Tuscaroras and their aUies, a great\\ndanger was removed from the settlements in Carolina. Tom\\nBlount and his people were assigned a tract of land as a token\\nof the gratitude of the whites for their refusal to join in the\\nwar. This reservation was first located south of Albemarle\\nSound, but was afterwards changed to the region still kno^^^n\\nas the Indian Woods, in Bertie county.\\n1713. 2. In 1713, Colonel Pollock was relieved of his\\noffice as Governor by the arrival of Charles Eden, w^ith full\\npowers from the Duke of Beaufort, who was then Palatine.\\nGovernor Eden was instructed by the Proprietors to discourage\\nmuch expansion of the settlements. He became popular with\\na large portion of the people. He lived some years at Queen\\nAnne s Creek, which town was called Edenton, as a compli-\\nment to him. He afterwards bought a place on Salmon Creek,\\nin Bertie county, and dwelt there. This place is still Ivuown\\nas Eden House.\\n1715. 3. In 1715 the same Yemassee Indians who had so\\nsignally aided in the overthrow of the Tuscaroras, repeated,\\nin South Carolina, the bloody work of their old enemies in\\nAlbemarle. They were aided by other tribes, and murdered\\nmany white people. Tlie Indians in the Bath j)recinct also,\\nttdviuir advantaire of the alarm caused l)v this outbreak in the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "70 HISTORY OF XOKTH CAIKHJNA.\\nsouthern ])r(\u00c2\u00bbvinco raised tlie war crv and murdered several\\nwliite people on the Panilieo plantations before they eoiild be\\nehecked.\\n4. At the request of the Governor of South Carolina, Gov-\\nernor P]den immediately sent a strong foree of both cavalry\\nand infantry to aid the South Carolinians. Colonel Maurice\\njMoore, who was the brother of Colonel James Moore, the late\\nconnnander against the Tuscaroras, and had become a resident\\nof Albemarle, was in command.\\n5. The oldest statutes of which we have co]:)ies were enacted\\nin 1715, at the house of Captain Richard Sanderson, in\\nPenjuimans. Edward Moseley w^as Speaker of the House of\\nAssembly, and differed with Governor Eden in many matters\\nof provincial policy. Through all his life as a public man he\\nwas intensely devoted to the interest of the colony and though\\nwarmly attached to the English or Episcopal Church, was\\nresolute in his advocacy of complete religious liberty. He\\nformed a strong party of men, who regarded the Governor as\\nsimply the agent of the Lords Proprietors; and therefore, to\\nbe vigilantly watched and checked in any innovation upon\\nestablished jirivi leges.\\n6. There had been, for years, many crimes connnitted l)y\\n])irates upon the oceim just along the North Carolina coast.\\nThey sometimes extended their inflimous practices to the sounds\\nand rivers. One Edward Teach, who was also called Black-\\nBeard, was the chief of these bloody robbers. He had a fleet\\nof armed vessels, the largest of Avhich was called Queen Anne^s\\nRevenge. This formidable craft carried a cre^^ of one hundred\\nmen, and forty cannon.\\n7. Edward Moseley and othci-s were clamorous for the arrest\\nand ])unishnient of such horrid offenders against the law, and", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR EDEN AND BLACK-BEARD. 71\\ndenounced Governor Eden as their accomplice. It was brought\\nto the knowledge of Captain Ellis Brand, who came in com-\\nmand of a British squadron in Hampton Roads, that Teach\\nw^as to be found near Ocracoke.\\n8. Lieutenant Robert Maynard was ordered to go to that\\npoint and capture the outlaws. He found the pirates, who\\nsaluted him with so deadly a broadside that a large portion of\\nthe royal men were slain. Maynard unfortunately got his\\nship aground in the action, and his deck was terribly raked b}\\nhis antagonists fire. His case seemed well-nigh hopeless, w^hen\\nhe resorted to a stratagem. All of his men were ordered to\\ngo below, and soon the pirates saw nothing but dead men upon\\nthe deck. They hastened to board what they thought was\\nanother pHze.\\n9. But Maynard and his men met them as they crowded\\nupon the deck, and after a bloody struggle, captured nine men,\\nwho were the survivors of the prolonged and desperate conflict.\\nAmong these was a gigantic negro, who was on the point of\\nblowing up the pirate vessel when arrested in his desperate\\npurpose.\\n10. Black-Beard was slain during the battle, and Maynard\\nsailed away from the scene of his victory with the corsair s\\nhead fixed upon his bowsprit. The captured offenders were\\ncarried to Williamsburg, Virginia, and there tried and executed,\\nas they deserved to be.\\n11. In the early portion of the eighteenth century the whole\\nAtlantic coast of America was more or less infested by these\\nbuccaneers. In some quarters they congregated in great num-\\nbers and made expeditions in which they laid cities under\\ncontribution, and endangered all legitimate conunerce in the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "72 iiisToiiv OF xoirrii carolixa.\\niK w world. They were as cruel desperadoes as have been seen\\nin any age of the world s history. After long and costly eifort\\nby the English and other governments, they Avere driven from\\nthe seas.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What reservation was given to the Indians?\\n2. Who became Governor in 1713? How had Governor Kden been\\ninstructed by the Lords Proi rietors? Where did he live?\\n3. What occtj red in 1715?\\n4. Wiio was sent to aid the people of South Carolina?\\n5. At whose house did the Legislature meet? What noted man was\\nSpeaker of the House? Give some description of Edward Moseley.\\n6. Wiiat famous pirate was ravaging the coast about this time?\\n7. Of what had Governor Eden been charged?\\n8. Who was sent to capture the pirate? Describe the battle.\\n9. How did the engagement result?\\n10. What disposition was made of the captives?\\n11. What is said of the Atlantic coast during this period?\\n-==^i^m^^t", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "G0VP:1IN()J{ (rABlllEI. JOHNSTON. 73\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nGOVERNOR GABRIEL JOHNSTON.\\nA. D. 1722 TO 1748.\\nUpon the death of Governor Eden in 1722, Colonel Thomas\\nPollock, as President of Plis Majesty s Council for North\\nCarolina, assumed the place of Governor, but he died in a\\nshort while and was succeeded by William Reed. That year\\nBertie precinct was erected west of Chowan River, and court-\\nhouses were, for the first time, ordered to be buih. Not only\\nthe General Assembly, but courts and all public affairs, up to\\nthis time, had been held in private houses.\\n2. North Carolina then comprised three counties. These\\nwere Albemarle, Bath and Clarendon. Albemarle contained\\nCurrituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan and Bertie pre-\\ncincts. Bath and Clarendon, though counties, were not sub-\\ndivided at this time.\\n1724. 3. The Lords Proprietors, as the last evidence of\\ntheir lack of wisdom and interest in the province they had so\\nlong cursed with their misrule, sent over George Burrington.\\nAfter the creation of the counties of Bath and Clarendon the\\nrepresentative of the Lords Proprietors was called Governor\\nof North Carolina.\\n4. Governor Burriny-ton s character was verv bad he had\\nbeen indicted and punished in the Old Bailey, in I^ondon, for\\nbeating an old woman, and was, all his life, drunken and\\n(piarrelsome. Yet such a man came over to be the guardian\\nof a people who kne^v not when they were to be tomalunvked", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "74 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nby the savages or driven into fiirtlier exile by the zeah)ts who\\nAvere disturbed at the nature of their religious belief.\\n1725. This weak and wieked ruler only remained one\\nyeai- in ehargc, when Sir Riehard Everhard came to replace\\nhim. They were brothers in iniquity, and before Burrington\\nleft Edenton these two men disgraced themselves bv fio-htino-\\nin the streets of that village. The General Assembly met at\\nEdenton, and by enactment of law the dividing line between\\nNorth Carolina and Virginia was run in November of this\\nyear.\\n1729. 3. Such rulers as have just been mentioned so\\nutterly disgusted every one in the colony that the King and\\nParliament were petitioned to buy the province and abolish the\\nrule of those who had only hindered its growth. So, in 1729,\\nfor the sum of forty-five thousand dollars, all of the proprietors\\nexcept Lord Carteret, sold to the Crown their interest in Caro-\\nlina. Thus, after sixty-six years of unbounded misrule, these\\nmen in London who had so greatly cursed North Carolina by\\ntheir ignorance and mistakes, surrendered their title to property\\nwhich had never paid them more than about one hundred\\ndollars apiece in any one year.\\n7. They had never really cared for the people whom they\\nAvere so anxious to disturb with their crude notions of religion.\\nThe schemes of London merchants were of far more moment\\nthan the welfare of Albemarle, and the folly of the Funda-\\nmental Constitutions was to be upheld even at the ruin of the\\n])r()vince.\\n(S. As an earnest of the want of ctu*e King George I. was\\nto exhibit toward the colony, Governor Burrington Avas sent\\nback to the people who were already so well acquainted with\\nhis faults of tem[)er and characier. lie soon got ijito trouble", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOU GABRIEL JOHNSTON. YD\\nwith the leading men of the province, and pretending to go to\\nSouth Carohna, returned to England, where he was soon after\\nkilled in a night-brawl in the city of London.\\n1734. 9. Nathaniel Rice was Governor until the arrival\\nand qualification of Gabriel Johnston, who took the oaths of\\noffice at Brunswick, on the Cape Fear River. Governor John-\\nston was a Scotchman, who had lived for several years in\\nLondon, and was to prove the wisest and best of all the men\\nsent over to rule the people in Carolina. He married Penelope\\nEden, daughter of the late Governor, and dwelt at her home\\non the Chowan River.\\n10. There were no troubles between the Governor and people\\nin the time of Governor Johnston s administration. Some-\\ntimes Edward Moseley, always a stickler for the rights of the\\ncolonists, would carry some dispute into the General Assembly,\\n})ut the measures of Governor Johnston, as a general thing,\\nwere pleasing to all classes of the people and received their\\nsupport.\\n11. At this period. Dr. John Brickell, with a party of white\\nmen and Indians, was sent by the General Assembly to explore\\nthe mountain region of Western North Carolina. He went\\ninto East Tennessee in his travels among the Cherokees. He\\nbrought back wondrous accounts of the beauty of the region\\nand of the simplicity and kindness of the natives. Dr.\\nBrickell practiced medicine in Edenton and wrote an interest-\\ning book about the North Carolina of that day.\\n1740. 12. During the Spanish war Governor Johnston\\nenlisted four hundred North Carolina troops for the expedition\\nthat was led by Governor Oglethorpe against the Spaniards at\\nSt. Augustine, in Florida. They formed a battalion of the\\nregiment commanded l)y Colonel Vanderdussen. They were", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "IIIS IOUV OF NOiriH CAROI.INA.\\ncarried iiiulci Admiral X^eriion to the sieof of artJiagena and\\n])articipated in tlie dangers and liorrors of that expedition.\\nIhit few returned to tell the storv of their disasters.\\n1 740. 1 3. I n eonse(|uenee of the great defeat of the Seoteh\\nby tlie English at the battle of Cnlloden, many Seoteh emi-\\ngrants began to settle in North .Vmeriea. The ea])tives in the\\nstruggle mentioned had been offered choice between death and\\nexile to America. The emig-rants landed at Wilmington in\\nlarge numbers and formed settlements along the Cape Fear\\nRiver. One of their principal towns was at Cross Creek, now\\nknoAvn as Fayetteville. These Scotch people were brave,\\nindustrious and frugal, and North Carolina has alwa} s esteemed\\nthem as a part of her best population.\\n1748. 14. The province had never grown so rapidly, or\\nbeen so ])rosperous, as in the rule of the wise and excellent\\nman Avho now conducted public affairs. The provinces of\\nNorth and South Carolina were fornudly separated in Gov-\\nernor Burrington s time, and u])on the death of Governor\\nJohnston, in 1 7. 32, it was found that the population had been\\nmultiplied several times over what it had Ikvu twenty years\\nbefore, and it now^ numbered nearly fifty thousand peoi)le.\\nGreat quantities of tar, ])itch and turpentine, also staves, corn,\\ntobac(?o and other ])roducts of the farm, besides i)ork, beei\\nbacon and lai d, were exported.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Who became (xovenior on the de;ilh ul (ictvernor Juleii i What\\nchaniijes were noticed in the coh)ny?\\n2. Into what precincts and counties was North Carolina divided\\nJ5. Who was sent over by the Lords Proprietors in 1724 as Governor?\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a04. (Jan y(\u00c2\u00bbu lell st)nietiung (jf Governor Binrington s past life?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOIl (JABRII^.L JOHNSTON. I\\n5. Mow long wns Governor Burrington in office, and who succeeded\\nJiini? How did tliese officers conduct themselves in Edenton\\nO. What large purchase was made in 1729? Which of the Lords Pro-\\nprietors reserved iiis right? Wliat had been the annual i)rofit to the\\nProprietors from the colony\\n7. How had these men always felt towards their province?\\n8. What was the first act of George I. in the government of North\\nCarolina? How did Burrington s administration terminate?\\nO. Who was Burrington s successor? Who followed Governor Rice?\\nTell something of Governor Johnstcjn.\\n10. How did Governor Johnston conduct affairs?\\n11. What expedition was sent out at this time? What account of the\\nwestern country was given by Dr. Brickell on Iiis return?\\n12. What occurred in 1740?\\n13. How and by whom was the Cape Fear region now being settled\\n14. Give an account of the [)rosperity of the province during this\\nperiod.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "7 S JIISTOIJV OK NORTJI CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER XYITI.\\nTHE PIRATES AND OTHER ENEMIES.\\nA. D. 1748 TO 1754.\\nDuring the government of North Carolina by Gabriel\\nJohnston, there was still much trouble from the bu(;caneers.\\nThese were i)irates who chiefly infested the West Indies, where\\nthey were sometimes congregated by thousands at a single\\nplace. They were daring enough to invade cities and countries,\\nand caused great terror and danger to all honest people within\\ntheii reach.\\n2. In 1748 a fleet of the pirates, under the jn^text of a\\nAvar between England and Spain, sailed into the mouth of the\\nCape Fear Kiver. Instead of the plunder they expected to\\nobtain from farms and towns, they were bravely met by the\\npeople, as the fleet lay off the village of Brunswick, and after\\na bloody fight, were driven back to sea with the loss of one of\\ntheir ships. From this demolished craft were taken a number\\nof negroes and valuables. These spoils which rewarded the\\ngallant defense of the men of Cape Fear were, by act of\\nAssembly, given to the churches in Wilmington and Brunswick.\\nNote. Tlie pirate cliief left his vessel and crew off Brunswick, and in\\na small boat with a few men, ascended the Cape Fear River to ravage the\\nfarm of Maurice Moore. Col. Moore learned of the coming of the robbers\\nand boldly met them on the shore with gun in hand, and compelled them\\nto return without even landing. While the chief was up the river the\\nfight occurred off Brunswick, his vessel was captured, and forty men, com-\\nprising the crew, were sold l)y the victors at public auction.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE PniATES A XI) OTHER ENEMIES. 79\\n1749. The year 1749 is memorable because then, for\\nthe first time, a printing press was erected in North CaroHna.\\nJames Davis brought this press to New Bern from Virginia,\\nand began, years later, the publication of a weekly newspaper,\\ncalled The North Carolina Magazine or Universal Intelligencer.\\nThis occurred in 1765, and the press was used until that time\\nin printing the laws and proceedings of the General Assem})ly.\\n4. The first movements toward peopling the western sections\\nof the province were seen this year in the purchase, by the\\nMoravians, of a large tract of land from Earl Granville. They\\ncalled it Wachovia, in compliment to Count Zinzendorf s estate\\nin Germany. The same region was peopled rapidly by other\\nGerman settlers, with a large addition of Scotch-Irish emigrants.\\nTheir town was named Salem, and is now the county seat of\\nForsyth.\\n1752-3. 5. Upon the death of Governor Johnston, Presi-\\ndent Rice was in charge until the next year, when, upon his\\ndeath. Colonel Matthew Rowan succeeded to the place thus\\nmade vacant. Colonel Rowan lived in Bladen, and was a\\nplanter of large means. He was greatly valued, and his name\\nis perpetuated in a county which has long been important in\\nNorth Carolina.\\n1754. 6. At this time thei-e was great rivalry between\\nFrance and England for supremacy in America. Large as was\\nthe area of unoccupied territory for division between them,\\nthey were fast maturing schemes for each other s expulsion\\nfrom the Western Continent.\\n7. All around the English settlements, from New England\\nalong the great lakes, and down the Mississippi River, a chain\\nof forts was being constructed by the French, and the aid of\\nall the Indian tribes had already been secured except in the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "0 lIISTonV OK NOUTII CAROLINA.\\ninstance of the Iroquois or Six Nations in Xew York. I^ord\\nDinAN iddie, then Governor of Virginia, sent a messenger to\\nsay that these enemies were even encroaching upon the Old\\nDominion and erecting a fort at the junction of the two streams\\nwliich form the Oliio River.\\n8. Pittsburg stands upon the spot where this famous Fort\\nI)u Quesne was constructed. His lordship applied for aid\\ni rom North Carolina in an expedition which he proposed to\\nsend against these intruders. Governor Rowan and the\\nGeneral Assembly responded nobly and promptly to the call.\\n9. Colonel James Innes, who had served gallantly under\\nLord Vernon at Carthagena, in South America, was put in\\n(command of a regiment mustering more than nine hundred\\nmen. Two hundred thousand dollars was voted for their\\n(Mpiipment and supplies, and with high h()])es, the long march\\nfor the (Jhio River was begun.\\n10. When the army reached Winchester, in Virginia,\\nV)l()nel Joshua Fry, who was in command of all the forces,\\ndied, and Governor Dinwiddle appointed Colonel Innes his\\nsuccessor. But this appointment gave offence to the Virginians,\\nwho wished Colonel George Washington, already a favorite of\\nthe peoj)le, to take command. The Virginia Legislature, under\\nthe circumstances, Avould make no provision for the support of\\nolonel Innes^ regiment, and it was forced to return home.\\nIn this way the genei ous pur]K)se of North Carolina was com-\\n])letely thwarted.\\n11. Colonel Innes died at Winchester soon after. The\\nl i ncli occupied their fort and perfected those arrangements\\n^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hich resulted, shortly afterwards, in the teri ible defeat of tlic\\naiMiiv commanded bv (jtcneral I^raddock.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE PIRATES AND OTHER ENEMIES. 81\\n12. Another army of Virginians and North Carolinians,\\nabout thirty years after these occurrences, was assembled to\\nattack Colonel Patrick Ferguson s British and Tories at King s\\nMountain. A very diiferent spirit prevailed there. The North\\nCarolina officers, who greatly outnumbered those of the Old\\nDominion, insisted that as tliey were at home, Colonel Camp-\\nbell, of the latter State, should assume command, and tlieir\\nJvuightly courtesy was followed by a glorious victory.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Who infested the coast during Governor Johnston s term?\\n2. How was :i fleet of pirates received by the Cape Fear men in 1748?\\nWliat was done with the spoils? Point out Brunswick and Wilmington on\\nthe map.\\n3. What memorable event occurred in 1749?\\n4. Give an accoimt of the settlement of Wachovia. In what {)art of the\\nState is this settlement?\\n5. Who became Governor after the death of Governor Rice? What\\nkind of man was Governor Rowan?\\n6. What were the English and French trying to accomi)lisli in America\\nat this period?\\n7. How were the French pre[)aring for hostilities? What was stated by\\nGovernor Dinwiddle s messenger?\\n8. Of whom did Governor Dinwiddie ask aid? How did North Caio-\\nlina respond to the call?\\nO. To what extent did the province prepare assistance?\\n10. What occurred at Winchester? How did this ai)p()intment allect\\nthe Virginians, and why? How did the efibrt of North Carolina to aid\\nthe Virginians terminate?\\n11. What was the result of the expedition against Fort Du Quesne?\\n12. \\\\Vhat other occurrence is mentioned?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "82 HISTORY OF NOirril CAIfOLIXA.\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nGOVERNOR ARTHUR DOBBS.\\nA. D. 1754 TO 1765.\\nKino; George selected Major Arthur Dobbs as Governor of\\nXortli t^aroliiia; and at New Bern, on November 1, 1754, he\\nentered upon the discharge of his duties. He was a man of\\nhigli temper and very obstinate in support of his views, but\\ndevoted to whatever lie believed his duty demanded His\\ngreatest fault was filling public offices with members of his\\nown family and a disposition to make jobs for his own benetit.\\n2. Governor Dobbs soon visited the new county of RoAvan,\\nwhich was established in 1 753, and included in its area most\\nof the western portion of North Carolina and a part of Ten-\\nnessee. He found Presbyterians under Rev. Hugh McAden,\\nand Baptists under Rev. Shubal Stearns, establishing churches\\nand laying the foundations of towns in a region where, but a\\nfew years before, no white people were to be seen.\\n1757. 3. Colonel Hugh Waddell, of Brunswick, was put\\nin command of troops raised in North Carolina for the French\\nand Indian war. He had started to join General Braddock s\\ncolunui, but just previous to the fatal battle on Monongahela\\nRiver was recalled by Governor Dobbs to repel the attack of\\nthe Cherokees on Old Fort. This stronghold was built lunid\\nthe western mountains to o\\\\ (M^aNve the Indians and as a refuge\\nfor the settlers.\\n4. Governor Lyttelton, of South Carolina, by Jiis bad man-\\nagement, had most wantonly provoked the Over-hill Indians\\ninto this condition of liostilitv. His foolish and umiecessarv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR ARTHUR DOBBS. 83\\ninterference and cruelty had converted these usually peaceful\\nneighbors into sufftcient hostility to make it easy for French\\nemissaries to obtain their active aid against the Eno-lish settlers.\\n5. Captain Dennie, with his company, was also besieged at\\nFort Tellico. Colonel Waddell made haste Avith his battalion\\nand drove off the Cherol^ees, burning their lodges and destroy-\\ning all the corn he could hud. Another battalion remained\\nwith General Forbes, as North Carolina s contingent in the\\nexpedition against Fort Du Quesne. These things occurred\\nin 1757.\\n6. In England the administration of the Duke of Newcastle\\nover American and foreign affairs terminated, and the first\\nWilliam Pitt succeeded to his place. In every portion of the\\nworld mighty consequences residted from this arrangement.\\nThe fleets and armies of Great Britain were animated with the\\nzeal and patriotism of that great statesman.\\n1759. 7. Of all the victories of the year, none Nvas so\\nimportant to America as that of General Wolfe over the\\nFrench at Quebec. It broke the power of France in the\\nWestern Continent, and stopped, in a great measure, the wai\\nwaged by Indians upon the frontier settlements.\\n8. At no period has the population of North C^arolina\\nincreased relatively so fast as during these years no^V under\\nconsideration. Up to the death of Governor Johnston it had\\namounted to no more than thirty thousand souls, but since that\\ntime had more than double l. In 1754 the exports amounted\\nto sixty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight barrels of\\ntai twelve thousand and fifty-five barrels of turpentine, se^-en\\nhundred and sixty-two thousand staves, sixty-one thousand\\nfive hundred and eighty bushels of corn, besides nnich tobacc(^,\\npork, beef and other commodities.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OF XOIITH CAROLINA.\\n9. The most discreditable thing iu Governor Dobb s admin-\\nistration was his effort to jn ocui*e the General Assembly to\\nlocate the provincial capital on his farm, called Tower Hill.\\nHiis was the place where the Indians had been defeated by\\nColonel James Moore in 1712. He failed in his scheme, and\\nSnow Hill, as the place is now called, never became the capital\\nof North Carolina.\\n10. He was often at variance with the I^egislature, or more\\n])roperly, the House of Assembly, concerning the courts and\\njudges. He wished things arranged to suit certain men in\\nLondon, and the House resolved that this should not be done,\\n{UkI Xorth Carolina was left, in the end, Avith no judges but\\nthe justices of the peace.\\n1 1 Even before this there was much complaint concerning\\ntlie extortions of public officers. Although the i^eople were\\nN cry ])oor, the agents of the king and Earl Granville made\\nthem jiay enormous license and poll taxes. Francis Corbin,\\none of the Iving s agents, was dragged from his home in Chowan\\nto Enfield, then in Edgecombe county, to compel him to repay\\nthe sums which he had unlawfully exacted. He gave bail and\\n])romised to return the illegal tribute, but instead of complying\\nhe brought suit against the men who had seized him. The\\nmatter terminated in a riot, in which some of the chief friends\\nof (jovernor Dobbs were concerned.\\n1765. 12. The Governor, being old, and weary of contests\\nwith the House of Assembly, at length asked for leave of\\nabsence; but died, at his place on Town Creek, in Brunswick\\ncounty, before sailing for England. He Avas devoted to his\\nsense of duty to the king, and was in many wavs deserving\\nof public resi)ect.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "GOVERXOR ARTHUR DOBBS. 85\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wlio took the oatli of office as Governor in 1754? Can you give\\nsome traits of his character?\\n2. What visit was made by Governor Dobbs? How was the new county\\nof Rowan becoming settled?\\n3. Wlio was put in command of the North Carolina troops? How was\\nlie prevented from joining General Braddock Find Old Fort on the map.\\n4. Who iiad incited the Indians to the proposed attack on Old Fort?\\n5. Give an account of Colonel Waddell s expedition against the Indians.\\n6. What noted man in England had charge of American aflfairs?\\nWhat effect liad his administration upon every portion of the world?\\n7. What great victory was gainer! in America at this period? What\\ngood resulted to the whole country from this victory?\\n8. What had been the increase of population in North Carolina? Can\\nyon name some of the exports?\\n9. Where did Governor Dobbs endeavor to have the capital of North\\nCarolina located\\n10. What trouble did the Governor have with the Legislature? With\\nwhat result?\\n11. Of what extortions did the people complain? How was Francis\\nCorbin treated, and why\\n12. What is said of the close of Governor Dobbs life?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "8() HISTOKY OF XOKTH CAKOJ.INA,\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nGOVERNOR TRYOy AND THE FIRST RESISTANCE TO\\nTHE STAMP ACT.\\nA. D. 1765 TO 1766.\\n801110 iiioiitli.s before the death of Governor Dobbs there\\nhad eoiue over from Engkmd a handsome, polished and genial\\nofficer who wore the uniform of the Queen s Guards. This\\n\\\\vas Lieutenant-Colonel William Tiyon, re(!ently appointed\\nJjieuteiiant-Governor of North Carolina. He succeeded Gov-\\nernor I)obl)s, and left a name that will never be forgotten\\nin North Carolina.\\n2. Governor Try on ^vas accompanied by his wife and her\\nsister, Miss Esther Wake. They were ladies of great attrac-\\ntiveness and were destined to l)ecome so much valued by the\\npeople that their family name is still preserved in our midst,\\nas the name of our metroi)olitan county.\\n3. There was much gaiety seen at that time in the eastern\\ncounties. The Indians Avere all gone beyond the Blue Ridge\\nMountains, and the rude huts of old had, in many instances,\\nbeen replaced by large and costly buildings of brick. Wed-\\ndings Avere generally celebrated by balls tliat lasted for a week.\\nHospitality was unstinted, and most men of means thought\\ntheir establishments im])erfect until provided with a private\\nrace course. With hound and horn, there was great diversion,\\nfor game was abundant and the sport open to all who could\\nget a horse to ride.\\n4. In such society the bi-illiant I amily of the (Governor wjis\\nof course at once sure of unbounded influence. Perhaps no", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOU TKYOA AND THE STAMP ACT. S V\\nman was ever more warmly esteemed than Governor Tryon\\nduring the first years of his rule in North Carolina. He wiis\\ngracious and wary at the same time. He knew whom to cul-\\ntivate, and while smiling on all he was fast making friends\\nw^ho were almost ready to die in his behalf.\\n5. The great preacher, George Whitefield, came to the State\\nin 1765, and moved thousands with his eloquence. His new\\nsect, the Methodists, had until then made no progress in North\\nCarolina, and his converts went to swell the numbers of the\\nBaptists, who were more numerous than any other denomina-\\ntion.\\n6. There was tliQ utmost kindness of feeling between the\\nnew Governor and the people, when the news came that the\\nEnglish Parliament had passed a law called the Stamp Act.^\\nIt had been nuich talked of and denounced in many portions\\nof America, and now, with a unanimity that is still one of the\\nstrangest things recorded in history, the men of all conditions\\nin every colony arose in frenzy and swore that this law should\\nnot be executed in America.\\n7. The Stamp Act required that all colonial legal instru-\\nments, such as deeds, bonds and notes, should be written only\\nupon stamped 2^CLpe^% otherwise they were not binding or of\\nany eifect. The paper was prepared in England, to be sold to\\nthe colonists at the heavy tax of one and two dollars upon each\\nsheet. In addition to this, the act contained a great variety of\\nother ruinous exactions. Newspapers and pamphlets were\\ntaxed more than such publications at present would cost. An\\nadvertisement in a newspaper paid the government fifty\\ncents; almanacs, eight cents; college diplomas, i^^w dollars;\\nand the fee charged for a marriage license was sometimes as", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "88 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROI.IXA.\\nhi^li as liftceii dollars. Tho act reccMved royal assent on 22d\\nMarch, 1765.\\nS. The law was oppressive \\\\i\\\\)(m the ])e( ])lc because of the\\naiuoiiiit exacted, but was considered constitutional in England\\nby many great laA\\\\yers who were warm friends of the Ameri-\\ncan people. But in America it had been held for some time\\nthat no tax levied by Great Britain, \\\\vithout the consent of\\nAmerica^ was just; and thus every man resolved that the\\nStamp Act should not be enforced.\\n9. When the news reached Governor Tryon at New Bern\\nthe General Assembly was in session at that place. A\\nvery bold and fearless man, Colonel John Ashe, was then\\nSpeaker of the House of Assembly, (jovernor Tryon asked\\nof Ashe, in private conversation, what the House would do as\\nto the neAv law. We will resist its execution to the death/\\nsaid he, and that very day Governor Tryon sent them all home\\nby proroguing* the session. Nor did he permit them to assend:)le\\nagain until late in the next year, after the repeal of the Stamp\\nAct. By this means he prevented the election of delegates\\nfrom North Carolina to the Continental Congress which met\\nin New York in 1765 to organize the opposition to that\\noppressive measure.\\n10. The first step of the people in their resistance to the\\nStamp Act was to carry James Houston, who had been\\nappointed stamp agent, before Moses John DeRosset, who\\nwas then Mayor of Wilmington. There, in the presence of\\nmany distinguished men of the Cape Fear country, on the\\nl()th of November, 1765, he was obliged publicly to resign\\nProroyne is to conliime f)r adjonni a legislative body iVoni one session\\nto another l v Koval or State antlioritv.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "(GOVERNOR TRYOX AND THE STAMP ACT. 89\\nhis office in the Court House of Wihiiington, and make oath\\nthat he would have no further connection with it.\\n11. Twelve days later, on the 28th November, 1765, the\\nship of war Diligence arrived with stamps. The commander\\nwas told by armed men, under Colonels Ashe and Waddell,\\nthat they must not be landed and no effort was made to do so.\\nOn the 21st December, 1765, the Governor issued his procla-\\nmation dissolving the General Assembly, and on the same day\\ntook the opinion of his c(nuicil and the Attorney-General\\nwhether writs can issue for the election of a nev; Assembly,\\nas the circulation of the stamps is obstructed. The council\\nand Attorney -General advised that the writs could go without\\nstamps.\\n1766. 12. On the 6th January, 1766, Governor Try on\\ntaking fresh courage from some source, went so far as to issue a\\nproclamation announcing that the stamps were on board the\\nDiligence and ready for distribution. It did no good, however,\\nfor no one woidd use them. Comparative quiet now ensued\\nfor some ^veeks, but it was (^nly the calm befjre the storm.\\n13. On the 14th February, two vessels that had come up\\nto the port of Brunswick without stamps upon their clearance\\npapers were promptly seized by the Custom House officers,\\nand then the storm arose. On the 19th, armed men broke open\\nthe desk of the Collector of the Port, and forcibly carried off the\\nunstamped clearance papers of the two vessels. On the 20th,\\na committee of armed men appeared on board the Viper and\\ndemanded of Captain Lobb the two sloops he was guarding.\\nMeanwhile armed men were continually coming into Bruns-\\nwick from different counties.\\n14. On the evening of the 20th, Mr. Pennington, another\\nstamp distributor, took refuge in Governor Tryon s house.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OF XOKTJI (AKOLIXA.\\nShortly after ciglit o clock on the luorniiig of the 21st, anned\\nmen appeared before the Governor s house and sent him a note\\ndesiring liim to permit Mr. Pemiington to ap])ear before them,\\nand informing him that it would not be in the power of the\\nDirectors appointed to prevent the ill consequences that may\\nattend a refusal. The Governor replied that any gentleman\\nAvho had business with Mr. Pennington might see him at tlie\\nGovernor s house. This, however, was by no means satisfac-\\ntory, and in a short time, according to the Governor s statement,\\na body of some five hundred men in arms moved toward his\\nhouse. A detachment of sixty men came down the avenue\\nand the main body drew up in sight and within three hundred\\nyards of the house.\\n1 5. Mr. Cornelius Harnett, a representative in the Assembly\\nfor Wilmington, came at the head of the detachment and sent\\na message asking to speak with Mr. Pennington when he came\\ninto the house he told Mr. Pennington the gentlemen wanted\\nhim. The Governor replied that Mr. Pennington was in his\\nhouse for refuge and that he would })rotect him to the utmost.\\nMr. Harnett thereupon said he hoped the Governor Avould let\\nMr. Pennington go, as the people were determined to take him\\nout of the house if he should be longer detained, an insult, Mr.\\nHarnett said, they Avished to avoid giving to the Governor.\\n16. The Governor protested it mattered not about that insult\\nafter they had already offered him eveiy insult they could\\noffer by investing his house and virtually making him a\\nprisoner before any grievance had ])een made known to him.\\n17. Mr. Pennington growing a})prehensive and showing a\\ndisposition to go with ^Ir. Harnett, the Governor suggested to\\nhim that he resign before he left. To this he agreed, and\\nthereupon the (Jovernor let him go. He was afterward com-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOli TIJYOX AXD THE STAMP ACT. 1)1\\npelled to take an oath that he would never issue any stamped\\npaper in tlie provinee, as were all the elerks of the eountv\\ncourts and other public officers. The inhabitants, in the\\nlanguage of the Governor, having redressed, after the manner\\ndescribed, their grievances complained of, left the town of\\nBrunswick about one o clock on the 21st. These things were\\ndone, it must be borne in mind, in the broad daylight, and by\\nmen perfectly w^ell known, and without a particle of disguise.\\nAfter this, vessels entered and left the ports of North Carolina\\nas if no Stamp Act had ever been passed.\\n18. On June 13, 1766, came news from England of the\\nrepeal of the law that had so terribly excited and aroused\\nAmerica. Governor Tryon announced the fact in a proclama-\\ntion, but he had been humiliated by the resistance at Wilming-\\nton, and from that hour, probably, determined on the revenge\\nwhich he afterwards exacted at Alamance.\\nNotp:. Governor Tryon desired to regain his influence, ibr political pur-\\nposes, over the people whom he had so greatly offended; and he ordered\\na general muster at Wilmington. He prepared a feast for the militia, of\\nwhole oxen roasted, and barrels of beer. When the feast was ready the\\npeople rushed to the tables and threw the oxen into the river and emptied\\nthe beer upon the ground. A general fight ensued between the militia and\\nthe men of the English vessels, and perfect quiet was not restored for\\nseveral days.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What distinguished person have we now under consideration? How\\ndid he become Governor of North Carolina?\\n2. Who accompanied Governor Tryon? What is said of the two ladies?\\n3. Tell something of life in the eastern counties at this time.\\n4. How did the Tryon family become very influential?\\n5. Wliat great preacher came to North Carolina in 17Go? How were\\nhis labors i-ewarded", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "92 HISTORY OF Noirnr Carolina.\\nO. What rDoniorable law was passed by Parliament? How was the\\nnews received in North Carolina?\\n7. What can you tell of the Stamp Act?\\n8. What is said of the law?\\nO. Under what circumstances did the news reach the (rovernor Wiuit\\ndid the Governor do concerning the assembly?\\n10. Mention the first act of resistance to this law.\\n11. Wiien did the Diligence arrive? What occurred on her arrival?\\n12. What did the Governor do on January 6th? With what result?\\n13. What trouble befell the Viper f\\n14. What occurred on February 20th?\\n15. What further is said of this afihir?\\n16. What did the Governor say of these things?\\n17. What was the conclusion of this afKiir?\\n18. What joyful news was received on June 18th, 176(3? How had\\n(xovernor Tryon been affected by the resistance of the people to the\\nStamp Act.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR TRYON AND THE REGULATORS. 93\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nGOVERNOR TRYON AND THE REGULATORS.\\nA. D. 1766 TO 1771.\\nIll the middle and western connties of North C arohna in tlie\\nperiod referred to, there was eolleeted a hirge increase of popu-\\nlation. Immigrants had come in large companies from\\nScotland, Ireland, England and Germfany. Fully two hun-\\ndred thousand inhabitants were by this time to be found east\\nof the Blue Ridge Mountains. They were separated by that\\ngreat barrier from the Cherokees, who latterly had well\\nrespected this line of separation.\\n2. A great j)ortion of the western settlers had recently come\\nto tlieir new liomes, and ^v ere very poorly provided with the\\nmeans of living. They were hundreds of miles from market,\\nand made nothing on their farms to sell, but wheat. These\\nfarmers were taxed about twelve dollars apiece on the poll,\\nand paid an annual rent of seyentv-fiye cents on each one hun-\\ndred acres of their land.\\n3. When they hauled wheat to Cross C^reek, now Fayette-\\nville, it realized but little more than enough to pay for the salt\\nneeded in the family. Sugar and coifee were luxuries in which\\nthey rarely indulged. It can thus be seen how cruel would\\nhave been even an honest collection of what the laws demanded\\nof these recent settlers as taxes. When these sums were\\nenormously increased by dishonest sheriffs the farmers were in\\ndespair, for it was beyond their power to pay.\\n4. The farmers knew they were being cheated, and resolved\\nto ])ut an end to such practices. Colonel Edmund Fanning,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "1 Ilis r ol N(Hri II (Ai. OIJNA.\\nof I lillshni-o, ill Orange comitv, was nrowinu; rich as RcjrisU r\\nn\\\\ I)( (ls, and was tlic ringleader in lliis ()j)|)r( ssi n of tlic\\nj)( |c.\\nIn tins same coinily li\\\\( l Herman llnsltands, \\\\vln\u00c2\u00bb was\\na (^n:d e? jHTaeliei and (Immi^Ii of limited edneation, was a\\nman of considei aMi^ mrtni al abilities. lie |)re\\\\;iiled on liis\\nnciii ldxtfs at Sandv Vcek to form an association foi- mntnal\\nr t etion against the \\\\\\\\r \u00c2\u00bbn^s of tlie pnblic ollieers. His\\norn ani/atiou was known as the Jlet^idators, and thev wei e l(\u00c2\u00bb\\nhelp a li other in the law suits and indictments irrowiniL!, ont\\nof a iH I nsal to |)ay nnlawi id demands.\\nThis was wise and proju i as these men were not rchell-\\nions, hnt only desii-ed relief from o|)])ression, hut Hnshands\\nslioidd have joined the leati iK lie was thns ci-eatin^ and\\ntlici chy shared the liahilities of the mend)ei-s. This he wonld\\nnot do, hut pi cached and haraniiued nntil the jx ople wer in a\\nrVi V of excitement.\\n17 \u00c2\u00bbS. T. I he fii st trouble ^^ew out of the sei/,ni e of a\\nhoi se fi om one of two men sent to Ilillshoro on a mission to\\nthe shei ilf. The Re 2:ulat()rs retook the liorse by force, and\\ntired into the I oof of Colonel Faniiiujz; s house. That nimht\\nilusbands was aiTest d and carried to Hillsboro, and ua\\\\ e bail\\nibi his Jippearanee at the next Superior (MU t. 1 le had hardly\\nleft Hillsboi o before seven hun lred men came to his rescue;\\nthey went away with promises made by Isaac I^dwards, who\\nwas Ti yon s Secretai-y, that the {oNcrnor would redress their\\nH. (lovci uoi- Ti y(\u00c2\u00bbn went to IIillsboi-o in a few weeks, but\\neondenuied oidy tlic people who had asked his aid, and, after\\nli oinii fnrthei west, came back to the Suj)eri(U ourt with an\\nainiv of cleNcn lunxlred men, which he had raised in Meek-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR TRYOX AND TliK IJEOrLATORS. 95\\nlenburg and Rowan conntics. Hu.s])ands was acquitted on\\ntrial, l)ut tliree other Regulators were heavi.lv fined and\\nimprisoned. Colonel Fanning ^vas convicted in five rases of\\nextortion in office, and the judges, to their shame, imposed a\\nfine of only one penny in each case.\\n9. This marching of troops, and the failure of the court to\\ndo its dut\\\\ only made matters worse. The Regulators grew\\nin numljers and violence until the courts could not be held in\\nsome counties. Husbands was expelled from his place in the\\nHouse of Assembly and thrown into ])rison for a libel on\\nJudge ^laurice ^loore. His release wius effected in time to\\nstop a crowd of several hundred men from going to Xew\\nBern, where they had declared they would release him and\\n])urn the splendid palace the Governor had just built.\\n1771. 10. Matters continued to grow worse until, in 1771,\\nGovernor Tryon raised an army in the eastern counties, under\\na law of the Asseml)ly, and marched to Orange to put doAvn\\nwhat he called the relK Hion of the Regulators. Colonel\\nWaddell, with another bfxly of troops, marched from Salisbuiy\\nto join him, l ut was met by the Regulators and driven back.\\n11. On the 16th of May, 1771, the force of Governor\\nTryon, numljcring eleven hundred men, met about two thou-\\nsand of the Regulators at a place called Alamance, in\\nOrange county. In the battle that ensued there was stubborn\\nfigliting until the anununition of the Regulators wiis exhausted,\\nand they were driven from the field. Many men lost their lives,\\nand all that was gained by North Carolina, after a noble resLst-\\nance to oppression, was that Edmund Fanning and others, who\\nwere largely responsible for all its disorders, left the province.\\n12. The brutal malice and cruelty in Governor Tr^ on^s\\nchai acter was exhil)ited soon after the battle. Several ]:)risoners", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "96 IIISTOIIY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nwere taken by liiiii, and one of them, a poor half-witted out]i\\nnamed flames Few, was, by Tryon s ()rder, hnn*^ on the spot,\\nwithout trial. Twelve other prisoners were soon eonvieted of\\nhigh treason and sentenced to death. Six of them were\\nhanged almost immediately; the execution of the others was\\ndelayed for a few days in order that a grand military display\\nmight be made on the occasion, the details of whicli the (tov-\\nernor superintended in person.\\n13. Governor Tryon left the province a montli after tlie\\nbattle of Alamance to become, by the king s ap})ointment,\\nGovernor of New York. He had signally failed to do his\\nduty in compelling his subordinates to deal honestly with the\\n})eople, but yet he retained the confidence of many able and\\nl)atriotic men. Richard Caswell and many other leaders in\\nthe ])rovince were distressed that he had ceased to l)e the Ghief-\\nMaii^istrate of North G^arolina.\\nNote. It lias been said that the battle of Alamance was begun by Gov-\\nernor Tryon, who fired the first gun at a prisoner named Robert Thompson,\\nkilling him instantly. The men seemed to hesitate about beginning the\\nfight, and Governor Tryon, rising in his stirrups, exclaimed: Fire! fire\\non theui, or on me\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. How were tiie middle and western counties of North Carolina being\\npeopled at this period?\\n2. Give some description of these people. How were tiiey taxed?\\n3. What return did the sale of their crops bring them? How was\\ntheirs a hard lot?\\n4. By whom were the poor farmers being oppressed?\\n5. What noted man is now mentioned? Can you tell something of the\\nacts of Herman Husbands in the province?\\nC How did he shrink from becoming a member of his league?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR TR YON AND THE REGUJ.ATODS. 97\\n7. AV liat was the first trouble? How did. they settle the matter? Men-\\ntion some circnnistances of the trial of Husbands.\\n8. What was the result of Governor Tryon s visit to Hillsboro? How\\ndid the trials at court terminate?\\n9. How were the Regulators effected by this mock judgment Into\\nwhat trouble did Husbands next fall?\\n10. What ste{)S were taken by Governor Tryon towards crushing the\\nRegulators? By whom was his array re-inforced?\\n11. Can you describe the memorable Battle of Alamance What\\nbenefit was derived from it? Point out on the maf) the scene of the battle.\\n12. What was Governor Tryon s conduct after the battle?\\n13. When did Governoi Tryon leave North C arolina, and for what\\npurpose?\\n,jrii,\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\njiiip ill W 111 1 1;- iiii", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "98 HISTORY OF NORTH TAROUXA.\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nGOVERNOR MARTIN AND THE REVOLUTION\\nA. D. 1771 TO 1774.\\nJames Hasell, as President of the Council, assumed the con-\\nduet of affairs until the arrival of the new Governor. This\\nne^v Governor, Josiah Martin, was born 23d April, 1737, and\\nhad been a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British army, which posi-\\ntion he was oblio^ed to resiii^n on account of his health. He then\\nsought civil employment and was appointed Governor of North\\nCarolina. He was a far more honorable man than Tryon. He\\nhad no unworthy favorites, as Tryon had, and concocted no\\nselfish schemes for his own benefit or that of his family, but\\nwas exceedingly obstinate and strict in the observance of\\nroyal prerogatives. Unattractive in his manners, and very\\npositive in his opinions, he sometimes failed to withhold the\\nmanifestations of his displeasure toward those who might\\nhappen to differ with him, no matter how honestly. Perhaps,\\nhowever, in the fierce antagonisms of the times in which he\\nruled in Xorth Carolina, his real virtues were not appreciated\\nas they deserved.\\n1771. 2. Governor Martin met the Assembly, for the first\\ntime, in New Bern, on the 19th of November, 1771. At his\\nsuggestion, the Ijcgislature passed an act of amnesty toward\\nall persons engaged in the war of the Regulation except Hus-\\nbands and a few other leaders. Such wise and merciful action,\\nhowever, was not to be the rule of his life.\\n3. It had long been felt that the tjixes were exceedingly\\nnui-dciisonic and, from n statement made to the liCOfislature at", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR MARTIX AND THE REVOLUTION. 99\\nthis time, by one of the public treasurers, of the reiil condition\\nof the pubhc funds, it was seen that these taxes had been, for\\na time at least, unnecessarily imposed. The treasurer showed\\nthat a full collection of the amounts in arrear, for which\\nsecurity had been given, would discharge the entire public debt\\nand leave in the public treasury the sum of t^v^enty thousand\\ndollars. A bill was at once passed in both houses of the Legis-\\nlature, and without opposition in either, discontinuing the\\nspecial taxes that had been devoted to the extinguishment of\\nthe public debt. Governor Martin, however, vetoed the bill,\\nand thus began a series of conflicts with the Legislature that\\nlasted until his expulsion from the province.\\n4. The repeal of the Stamp Act had been gratefully received,\\nbut Parliament still excited great apprehension by an express\\nand formal assertion of its powers to tax America. It had\\ncost immense sums to the Crown to drive out the French,\\nand much money was still needed to pay British exj^enses\\nin America. It was insisted that the colonies ought to pay\\ntheir fair share in these burdens. The great question was,\\nhow this was to be done. If Parliament could levy what it\\npleased, then Americans were no longer free, in that they\\nwere not masters of their own purses. Many propositions\\nwere made to arrange the difficulty, but none were satisfactory\\nto both sides.\\n1773. 5. So dissatisfied was Governor Martin with his first\\nLegislature that he speedily dissolved it, and did not permit a\\nnew one to meet until the last of January, 1773. The new\\nLegislature met in New Bern, and the House gave notice of its\\ntemper by electing as its Speaker, John Harvey, of Perquimans,\\nadmitted on all hands to be the most earnest supporter of\\ncolonial rights in all the province. Upon every important", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "100 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nsubject of legislation the Governor and the new Assembly were\\nat variance, and he accordingly dissolved it on the 9th of !March,\\ndeclaring that it had deserted its duty and flagrantly insulted\\nthe dignity and authorit}^ of the government.\\n6. The next Assembly met in New Bern, on the 4th of\\nDecember, 1773, and continued in session seventeen days, when\\nit shared the fate of its predecessor, and was sent home with\\ntlie injunction to consult w^ith the people and learn their will.\\n7. Short as was the session, however, its action was most\\nimportant. On the day after the session began, letters were\\nreceived from the Legislature of Virginia and other colonies,\\nproi: osing that each province should appoint a Committee of\\nCorres])ondence. The proposition was speedily agreed to by the\\nHouse of Assembly, and a committee of nine appointed, with\\ninstructions to obtain the most early and authentic intelligence\\nof all such acts and resolutions of the British Parliament, or\\n])i occeding,s of administration, as may relate to or aifect the\\nJ^ritish colonies in America, and to keep and maintain a cor-\\nrespondence and communication with all sister colonies respect-\\ning these important considerations, and the result of such, their\\n])roceedings, from hour to hour, to lay before the House.\\n8. John Harvey, Richard Caswell, Samuel Johnston, Joseph\\nHewes, Edward Vail, Cornelius Harnett, John Ashe, William\\nHooper and Robert Howe constituted the committee, and\\ncertainly, in Xorth Carolina at least, it may be said there was\\nnever an abler one. By this action the province took position\\nAvith its sister colonies on the great question of the day. That\\nthe question was regarded as one of great importance and\\ngreat gravity, if not of great difficulty, we need no other assur-\\nance than that afforded by the character of the men into whose\\nhands it was committed.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "GOVEliNOE MARTIN AND THE EE VOLUTION. 101\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. On whom did the government next devolve? Wlio succeeded James\\nHasell? How is Governor Martin compared with some of liis prede-\\ncessors\\n2. Where did Governor Martin first meet the Assembly? What law\\nwas passed\\n3. What was tlie financial condition of the government at this period?\\nWhat act was passed concerning taxes?\\n4. How were the people excited by the English Parliament? What\\nwas the trouble?\\n5. How did Governor Martin act concerning the Legislature? What\\ndeclaration was made by him\\n6. Where did the next Assembly meet, and what was done with it?\\n7. What letters were received during the session What was done with\\nthe proposition?\\n8. Who composed the Committee of Correspondence? What is said of\\nthese men?\\n^C-f3)C^", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "102 HISTOHY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nFIRST PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.\\nA. D. 1774.\\n1774. By this time the propriety of holding a general or\\nContinental Congress, composed of delegates or representatives\\nduly chosen by the several colonies, had suggested itself to men\\nof sagacity in every portion of the country. Wherever made, the\\nsuggestion at once found a lodgment in public favor, and by the\\ntime summer had come it was a generally accepted fact that such\\na congress would be held, and the time and place of its session\\n})retty well agreed upon. During the month of June, 1774,\\neach colony, through its Committee of Correspondence, was\\ninvited to send delegates to a Continental Congress to be held\\nin Philadelphia during the coming September.\\n2. From its first agitation, the project of a Continental\\nCongress, to consider the best ways and means of redressing\\nthe grievances of the colonists, was exceedingly distasteful to\\nGovernor Martin, for he regarded it as a most efficient way to\\norganize rebellion. He resolved that he Avould prevent North\\nCarolina from participating in such a Congress, as Governor\\nTryon had prevented her from participating in a similar one in\\n1765. To this end he determined that during the continuance\\nof the existing disturbed condition of the colonies no Legis-\\nlature should meet in North Caroliuji, thinkino: therebv to\\n])rcvent the due election of delegates from the province.\\n8. To this fixed pur})ose on the part of Governor Martin,\\nmade known to John Harvev throui :h Mr. Bio:iJ:leston, the\\nGovernor s J^rivate Secretary, the Congress held at New Bern", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "FIRST PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 103\\nin August, 1774, owed its existence. When Mr. Biggle-\\nston told him the Governor did not intend to call another\\nLegislature until he saw a chance to get a better one/\\nHarvey replied then the people will convene one themselves.\\nAccordingly, about the first of July, in accordance with a plan\\nagreed upon three months before between Willie Jones of\\nHalifax, Samuel Johnston of Chowan and Edward Buncombe\\nof Tyrrell, Harvey, the Speaker of the House of Assemljly,\\nissued hand-bills calling uj^on the people to elect delegates to a\\nProvincial Congress, as it was called, to assemble in New Bern\\non the 25th of August, to express the sentiments of the people\\non the acts lately passed by the Parliament of Great Britain,\\nand to appoint delegates to represent the province in a Conti-\\nnental Congress. The hand-bills of this bold Speaker also\\ninvited the people to invest the deputies whom they might send\\nto New Bern with powers obligatory on the future conduct\\nof the inhabitants.\\n4. The elections for deputies were duly held about the first\\nof August, and the Governor, finding himself thus completely\\ncheckmated, was furious. The calm audacity of the Speaker\\nin summoning such a body to meet at New Bern, in the very\\npresence of the King s representatives, as the Governor said,\\nto concert treasonable schemes against the Crown, astounded\\nhim.\\n5. Up to this time Governor Martin had not at all realized\\nhow weak had become the ties that bound the people of the\\ncolony of North Carolina to the mother country. Nor did he\\nbelieve they would, with any degree of unanimity whatever,\\ntake so bold and defiant a step in the direction of open rebellion\\nas that involved in the election of a Congress with powers\\nobligatory on the people, but owing no obedience to the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "104 HlSTOJiY OF ()KTH CAKOLINA.\\nauthority of the Crown. Yet, at the appointed times and\\nplaces, with few exceptions, the people throughout the pro-\\nvinces openly assembled and elected delegates to tlie proposed\\nCongress, clothing them with most extraordinary powers.\\n6. This evidence of the condition of popular sentiment in\\nthe province could neither be doubted nor disregarded. Accord-\\ningly, on the 12th of August, 1774, the Governor asked his\\ncouncil to advise him what to do in a state of affairs so incon-\\nsistent with the peace and good order of the government and so\\ninjurious to the maintenance of the authority of the Crown.\\nAfter deliberating for a day on the matter, the council advised\\nhim to issue a proclamation, and he did so, condemning the elec-\\ntions just held as highly illegal, and warning all officers of the\\nKing, both civil and military, to do all in their power to pre-\\nvent such assemblages of the people, and especially the meeting\\nof the deputies or delegates at New Bern on the 25th instant.\\n7. In spite of all this, the first Provincial Congress of North\\nCarolina met at New Bern, August 25th, 1774, and elected\\nJohn Harvey as Moderator or President. Richard Caswell,\\nJoseph Hewes and William Hooper were chosen as delegates\\nto the Continental Congress. Protesting their loyalty to the\\nCrown, but expressing a full determination to defend their\\nrights as freemen, the members entered into an agreement that\\nunless their grievances were redressed they would discontinue\\nall trade Avith English merchants.\\n8. This Congress was the first great step in the Revolution,\\nAvhich was to deliver North Carolina and America from tlie\\ndominion of a distant King and Parliament. The men of\\nAmerica were soon to be free from all foreign interference in\\ntheir government. It was a bold and liazardous step in", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "FIRST PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 105\\nColonel Harvey and the men over Avlioni he presided as\\nModerator, but safety in the end was the reward of those who\\nthus dared to be free.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What important stej) was suggesting itself to the people? How was\\nthe suggestion received? Wliat was done in June, 1774?\\n2. How did Governor Martin regard this matter? What did he\\ndetermine to do?\\n3. What was the result of the Governor s plan? What was done by\\nJohn Harvey\\n4. How was Governor Martin eflected by Harvey s success\\n5. What had the Governor began to realize? What was done by the.\\npeople?\\n6. What advice did the Governor seek? What was given?\\n7. When and where did the first Provincial Congress of North Can)lina\\nmeet? Who was Moderator? Who were chosen as delegates to the Conti-\\nnental Congress?\\n8. What is said of this Piovincial Congress?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "106 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\\nTHE SECOND PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.\\nA. D. 1775.\\nAfter the meeting of the firt^t Provincial Congress, at New\\nBern, there were, to all observers of intelligence throughout the\\n^Norkl, evident signs of an approaching rupture between the\\nRoyal Government and the people in Xorth Carolina. Each\\n(lay Nvidened the breach bet^veen them and rendered more\\ndifficult an arrangement of the troubles.\\n2. In the regular course of events, if Xorth Carolina Avould\\ncontinue to keep abreast of her sister colonies in the movement\\nfor the preservation of the inherent rights of British subjects,\\nit was necessary that she should formally ratify and jipprove\\ntlie action recently taken by the Continental Congress, and to\\nelect delegates to that Congress for a ne\\\\v term. Accordingly,\\non the 11th of February, 1775, after the Governor had ordered\\nan election to be held for a new Legislature to meet in Xe^v\\nBern, on the 3d of April, Colonel Harvey also, issued hand-\\nbills for the election of another Congress to meet at the same\\ntime and place.\\n3. Both elections were held and l)oth bodies niet at the\\napjx)inted time and place. Indeed the same individuals were\\nmembers of both the House of Assembly and of the Congress.\\nThe records show that every member of the House of Assembly\\nwho was present was also present as a meml)er of the Congress,\\nwith only three exceptions. (Jolonel Harvey Avas chosen to\\npreside over both bodies. When sitting as the Honse of\\nAssembly the members called him Mr. Speaker, but when\\nsitting ae a Congress they cidled him Mr. Moderator. Accord-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE SECOND PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 107\\ning to the journals of their proceedings the Congress met at\\nnine o clock and the Assembly at ten o clock in the morning.\\nUpon the face of the journals of the two bodies their proceed-\\nings seem to have been entirely separate and distinct it is said,\\nhowever, to have been otherwise in fact, and that at one moment\\nthe members would be sitting with Mr. Speaker Harvey as a\\nHouse of Assembly under the authority of the Crown, and at\\nanother with Mr. Moderator Harvey, as a Congress in defiance\\nof the Crown.\\n4. As the two Houses of the Ijegislature met Governor\\nMartin in the palace, according to the custom of that day, at the\\nbeginning of a session, he saluted them with indignant remon-\\nstrances, which were, the next day, most ably answered in an\\naddress prepared by Captain Robert Howe, of Brunswick. A\\nchief ground of his complaint was that the Assembly would\\ntake no action against the Congress. He was aptly reminded,\\nhowever, in reply, that as the Assembly had no control over its\\nsessions, holding them at his will and pleasure only, and\\nremembering how that will and pleasure had been exercised, a\\nCongress that did have control over itself was absolutely\\nnecessary for the protection of the people. The result was a\\n2)roclamation dissolving the Assembly on the 8th of April, that\\nbeing the fourth day of its session.\\n5. The Congress, however, could neither be dissolved nor\\ndispersed, and proceeded in its work with much deliberation.\\nThe same delegation was returned to Philadelphia and articles\\nof association, pledging the members to abstain from all com-\\nmerce with British marts, were signed by ^11 except Thomas\\nMcKnight, of Currituck.\\n6. It was seen that a crisis was near at hand. Boston had\\nbeen held, for months past, in a state of siege. At length, on", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "108 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nApril 19tli, came the encounter at Lexington. Accidents are\\nconstantly heard of wherein more lives are lost, but this little\\nskirmish, small as it was, ^vas enough, witli its tidings, to fire\\nthe hearts of a continent.\\n7. The tidings of such an occurrence in our day outstrips\\nthe Ayinds. In less than an hour it is knoAxn all over the\\nMississippi Valley, across the Rocky Mountains and along the\\nshores of the Pacific Ocean. But our ancestors of that day\\nhad no railways or telegrajihs so, it was fully two weeks after\\nthe militia-men slain at Lexington had stiffened in their blood\\ntliat Richard Caswell heard of it in Petersburg, Virginia.\\n8. A courier was hurrying southward with the tidings, but\\nit wa^ not luitil May 1 9th that the eople of Mecklenburg,\\nin North Carolina, became aware of ^vliat had occurred. At\\nthe village of Charlotte upon that day a large concourse of the\\nleading men of that county had assembled. Fired at the\\nnature of the startling intelligence, they held a convention,\\nand after remaining in session all night, on the morning of the\\n2()tli passed resolutions of independence that will immortalize\\ntheir names.\\n9. All America, while arming for the Ayar, was still protest-\\ning loyalty to the King, but these men of Mecklenburg Icitped\\nto a conclusion, the exj^ediency of Avhich more than a year of\\nblood was re(iuired to impress on the minds of their country-\\nmen. Abraham Alexander presided in the meeting, and the\\nfamous Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was\\ndrawn by Dr. Ephraim Brevard.\\nNote. The men of Mecklenburg held another meeting on May olst,\\nand adopted a system of government and military commissions. These peo-\\nple publicly declared themselves free from English iiile nearly fourteen\\nmonths before the Declaralion of Inde|ieiiden(e at riiiiadeiphia.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE SECOND PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 109\\n10. The news from Boston was speedily followed, in N^orth\\nCarolina, by nionrnful tidings from Perquimans county\\\\\\nColonel John Harvey, after so many strenuous efforts to put\\nNorth Carolina in readiness for the storm, sank under disease,\\nand died at his place in Harvey s Neck, on the Albemarle\\nSound. No braver or wiser man has ever borne a part in the\\nconduct of affairs in North CaroHna.\\n11. Apprehensive for his own safety and that of his family.\\nGovernor Martin at once made preparations for leaving New\\nBern. He sent his family to New York by sea, but went\\nhimself by land to Fort Johnston, at the mouth of the Cape\\nFear.* But even Fort Johnston proved unsafe as a place of\\nrefuge, and in July the Governor left it and went on board the\\nwar-sloop Cruiser, then lying in the river before the fort. On\\nthe same day Colonel Ashe, with five hundred men, burned the\\nfort to the ground.\\nGovernor Martin took advantage of this journey to visit the Scotcli\\nsettlements on the upper C;ipe Fear, and set on foot the insurrection that\\ncidininated in the battle of Moore s Creek Bridge.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What signs were observed after tiie first Provincial Congress?\\n2. What was necessary for North Carolina to do? Wliat was done on\\nFebruary 11, 1775?\\n3. What is said of .this election? Describe the Legislature and\\nCongress?\\n4. How was the Legislature received by the Governor? How did Captain\\nHowe answer him?\\n5. What was done by the Congress?\\n6. What startling news was received on April 19th?\\n7. How did the circulation of news in 1775 differ from the present?\\nWho was first to receive the news of Lexington?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "nc\\nHISTOIIY OF XDRTH CAROT.IXA.\\n8. Wlieii did the tidings reach Mecklenburg? What great event\\noccurred at Charlotte? Find this city on the map?\\nO. What was the attitude of the American people at this time? By\\nwhat name have the Charlotte resolutions always been known?\\n10. What sad news next thrilled North Carolina?\\n11. What was done by Governor Martin? What occurred at Fort\\nJohnston?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE ONGRESS AT HIELSBOEO. Ill\\nCHAPTER XXV.\\nTHE CONGRESS AT HILLSBORO.\\nA. D. 1775.\\nIt had been seen at New Bern tliat Colonel Harvey s days\\nwere nnnibered, and Sanmel Johnston had been empowered,\\nin case of the Moderator s death, to order an election for\\nanother Congress to meet at Hillsboro whenever he should\\ndeem it necessary. Accordingly (Colonel Harvey having died),\\nthe Congress met, at the call of Mr. Johnston, in Hillsboro,\\non the 20th of August, 1775, and a memorable Congress it\\nwas. Samuel Johnston was its President.\\n2. When Governor Martin left New Bern royal authority\\nwas virtually at an end in North Carolina, but it was at Hills-\\nboro, and by the Congress there assembled, that its last vestige\\nwas swept away. The time had come when, if North Caro-\\nlina intended to stand with her sister colonies, she must take\\nup arms and appeal to the God of battles. This she was ready\\nto do without any hesitation, and this she did do at Hillsboro,\\ngiving publicly to the world her reasons for so doing.\\n3. The Governor sent to Samuel Johnston a copy of\\nhis proclamation, dated on board His Majesty s ship Cruiser,\\nat Cape Fear, on the 8th of August, 1775, in which he warned\\nthe people against the Hillsboro Congress as a dangerous and\\nunconstitutional assembly, and of baneful influence; and\\nfurther, that to assemble men in arms in the province, without\\nauthority from the King, was a violation of law for which they\\nwould be held answerable. In reply to this proclamation,\\nwhich was duly laid before the Congress by the Moderator,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nj\\\\Ir. Joliiiston, it was formally resolved that the proclamation\\nwas a false, scandalous, scurrilous and seditious libel, tending to\\ndisunite the good people of the province; ^and further, that\\nthe said paper be burnt bv the common liangma-n.\\n4. Accepting the recent flight of Governor Martin to the\\nBritish ^var-sk)op Crimer as an abdication of the government\\nof tlie Crown, the Congress proceeded to put in its place a gov-\\nernment of tlie people and established what in this day would\\nbe called a provisional government. Cornelius Harnett* was\\nat its head.\\n5. On the tiiird Tuesday in October in each year delegates\\nto a Congress were to be elected, which Congress was to meet\\non tlie 10th of November following, unless otherwise directed.\\nWhen in session Congress was, of course, supreme when not\\nin session, ample authority was vested in a general or provisional\\ncouncil and subordinate or district committees of safety. The\\nprovince was divided into six military districts, and as for as\\npossible, put on a war footing.\\n6. The ordinary militia organization was perfected and\\nmonthly drills ordered a special organization of minute-men,\\nas that class of troops was called, was provided for each\\ndistrict, and in addition, tsvo regiments of regulars were ordered\\nas the contingent of the province for the Continental army.\\nProvision was also made for the purchase, anywhere and every-\\nwhere, of arms, powder, lead, salt and saltpetre; for the\\nmanufacture at home of salt, saltpetre, powder, and for the\\nThis man was tlie second of the name. His father came to Clarendon\\nin Governor J urrington s time, and was all his life afterwards a member\\nof the council. This Cornelius Harnett was well educated, and was so\\nintensely devoted to the American cause that he was called in that day\\nthe Samuel Adams of North Carolina.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE CONGRESS AT HIELSBOPJ). 113\\nrefilling of .sulpliiir; for the maiiiifacture of })rowii and writing\\npaper, cotton and woolen cards, linen and woolen cloths, pins\\nand needles, and for the erection of furnaces for making iron\\nand steel and iron hollow-ware, and of rolling mills for making\\nnails, large premiums were offered. A census, too, was ordered\\nto be taken without delay.\\n7. An issfte of money to meet expenses was also provided\\nfor. In a word, every function of government was from that\\ntime exercised in the name and by the authority of the people\\nof North Carolina. A^ irtually the province was under martial\\nlaw, but it was under martial law self-imposed.\\n8. It is evident that the men who constituted the Hillsboro,\\nor third Provincial Congress, knew perfectly well what they\\nwere doing, and had fully counted the cost. Success meant\\nfreedom, and would make them patriots; failure meant abject\\nsubmission to a foreign government, and would make them\\ntraitors. Knowing this, they deliberately put a government\\nof the people in the place of the government of the King;\\nthey put an army in the field and provided it with arms and\\nammunition and, as if looking ahead to a long and protracted\\nstruggle, during which their ports would be doubtless block-\\naded, they sought at once, by the offer of large bounties to\\nencourage the manufacture at home of such articles as were of\\ncommon use and prime necessity. They were indeed both\\nbold and far-seeing, those men of the Hillsboro Congress, and\\nwell they might be, for they were the best and bravest of\\nthe province men whose names are now household words\\ntliroughout the State.\\n9. The HilLsboro Congress had not called out troops any too\\nsoon, for it was discovered that both Governor Martin, in\\nNorth Carolina, and Lord Dunmore, in Virginia, were engaged", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "114 HISTORY OP NORTH CAROLINA.\\niu schemes to excite insurrections aiiiouo; the ne^-ro slaves.\\nColonel Robert Howe, with the Second North Carolina Regi-\\nment, was sent to Norfolk, in Virginia, where the British\\ntroops, being beaten at Great Bridge, were soon driven from\\nthe soil of the Old Dominion.\\n1 0. This occurred in December, 1775. About tlie same time\\nColonels Griffith Rutherford, Thomas Polk and James Martin\\nembodied their militia regiments and went to South Carolina,\\nwhere they speedily crushed a Tory insurrection of certain\\nmen called the Scovilites. The militia were, of course,\\naided by Whig troops of that province. The readiness Avith\\nwhich North Carolina marched troops both to Virginia and to\\nSouth Carolina caused her to stand very high in the estimation\\nof the Continental Congress.\\n11. The term Tory was applied to men who upheld the\\nroyal authority and were opposed to any movement to defend\\nthe colonies against tlie exactions of the Crown and Parlia-\\nment. The Whigs, on the contrary, were at that day\\ndemanding that American commerce should be free, and that\\nno taxes should be imposed by Great Britain upon the colonies.\\nThey were not enemies to the King, and only opposed to that\\nwhicli they considered o])])ressive in the designs of his ministers.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Who had been selected to take Coh neI Harvey s place? When and\\nwhere did the third Provincial Congress meet?\\n2. In what condition were public affairs when the Congress met?\\n3. What proclamation did the Governor send to Samuel Johnston?\\nWhat reply was returned\\n4. What view was taken of the Governor s flight? Who was placed at\\nthe head of the provisional government?\\n\u00c2\u00abS. Mention some laws which were passed concerning the Congress.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE CONGRESS AT HILLSBORO. 15\\nC Mention some further acts of the Hilisboro Congress.\\n7. What about the issue of money?\\n8. What is said of the men who composed the Congress?\\n9. In what scheme was Governor Martin found engaged? What f(\u00c2\u00bbrce\\nwas sent to Virginia?\\n10. Who were sent to South Carolina?\\n11. Detine tiie terms T irv and Wiiiff.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "116 HISTORY OF XOIITIT CAROLIXA.\\nCHA PTER XXVI.\\nTHE BATTLE OE MOORE S CREEK BRIDGE.\\nA. D. 1776.\\n1770, Tlio new year, 1776, foiuid Governor Martin\\nstill lingering on board the Cruiser in the Cape Fear River.\\nHe was closely atched by Colonel James Moore, who kept\\nhis command (the First North Carolina Regiment) in that\\nvicinity. In February came the news that the Scotch High-\\nlanders and Regulators were gathering at a place called, at\\nthat day, Cross Creek, and now the town of Fayetteville.\\nThis place and in this connection will be remembered as the\\nhome of the beautiful heroine. Flora McDonald, and her\\nhusband. Like her husband, she was a staunch Tory, and did\\nall she could to promote the insurrection.*\\n2. A large fleet and army were said to be on their way from\\nEngland to take the town of Wilmington. These Scotchmen,\\nassembling at Cross Creek by Governor Martin s orders, were\\nin arms to force their way across the country and join the\\nexpected British army. Colonel Moore at once met them at\\nRockfish Creek, where he fortified his camp and awaited an\\nattack. But he soon found this would not occur, so he sent\\nColonel Lillington and Captain Ashe with two hundred and\\nTliis i arnous woman liad won the world s admiration by Iier lieroic\\nefforts to aid the unfortunate Prince Charles Edward after liis defeat at\\nCiiUoden. He was being hunted like a wild beast by the troops of the\\nKing, but Flora McDonald bravely left her home and went off with the\\ndisguised Prince, until, after many perils, he reached a vessel on the coast,\\nand fhu s esiCMPPd to hiw friends in Frnnce.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "117\\nfifty men to occupy a bridge over Moore s Creek that he\\nsupposed would intercept General Donald McDonald, who\\ncommanded the Tories.\\n3. Whigs in arms were assembling from different directions,\\nand the Tories soon saw that unless they passed Colonel Moore\\nthey would be surrounded and captured. McDonald was an\\nold and skillful officer, and he moved across the Cape Fear\\nRiver to meet Colonel Caswell, who was coming up from New\\nBern with a command of eight hundred men which had been\\nraised in that section.\\n4. Caswell made haste to join Lillington on Moore s Creek,\\nand artfully led the enemy to believe that he was camping, on\\nthe evening of February 26, 1776, on the same side of the\\nstream with him. He left his fires burning, and in the dark-\\nness crossed the bridge, removed the timbers except two log-\\ngirders, and took up a position supporting Lillington and\\nAshe, Avho had already put themselves in the best place to\\nprevent the passage of the Tories.\\n5. In the darkness of early dawn, on the 27th, Colonel\\nDonald McLeod took the place of his sick commander, General\\nMcDonald, and fell upon what he had been led to believe was\\nColonel Caswell s camp but his spies had been misled, and\\nhis foes were to be reached only by crossing the bridge before\\nhim. The prospect was appalling, but McLeod was brave,\\nand putting himself at the head of a picked band of broad-\\nswordsmen, he charged across the remaining two logs of the\\nbridge. It was a terrible moment when the Whigs saw these\\ndauntless Highlanders, who had so often broken the strongest\\nlines of troops in Europe, rushing furiously upon them. But\\nthey ^vere cool, and plied the deadly rifles upon the Scotchmen\\nas fast as thev came.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "11^ HISTOJIV OF NORTH (AliOI.INA.\\n(i. Colonel McLood fell dead in his headlong eluirge, heiiig\\npierced by twenty-six balls. The carnage was so frightfnl\\nthat the onset was stayed, and then, as the assailants wavered,\\nCaptiiin Ezekiel Slociinib, having tjrossed the creek with his\\ncompany, rnshed from the woods and charged their tlank.\\nA Avild panic ensued, and the Tories fled in disorder from the\\nfatal bridge.\\n7. The AVhigs followed in hot pursuit, and the victory was\\noverwhelming. Nearly two thousand loyalists were thus\\ndefeated by eleven hundred undisciplined Whigs. Eight\\nhundred prisoners, including General McDonald, with all the\\ncamp stores, were taken.\\n8. There was not a more complete victory during the war.\\nGeneral Moore s strategy was brilliant in conception and daring\\nin execution; but no strategy, however brilliant, and no\\ncourage, however daring, would hiive availed anything had not\\nNorth Carolina been prepared to put promptly in the field\\ntroops with the necessary munitions of war. These troops that\\ntook part in the campaign came some from above Greensboro\\nin the west and others l)elow New Bern in the east. Infantry,\\nartillery and mounted troops were all engaged, and everything\\nwent on as smoothly as if the province had never known any-\\nthing but war.\\n9. The successful conduct of the campaign, requiring as it\\ndid the rapid concentration of troops without railroad, steam-\\nboat or telegraph, and the readiness with which, ninety days\\nprevious, we had sent troops both to South Carolina and to\\nVirginia, demonstrated beycjud question the wisdom of the\\nCongress in its work at Ilillslxn-o during the siunmer and\\nautunni before.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE BATTLE OF MOORE s CREEK BRIDGE. 119\\n10. The defeat of the Tories thwarted the sehenies of\\nGovernor Martin, and .so dispirited tlie Scotch and Regulators\\nthat years elapsed before they gave further trouble. Lord\\nCornwallis came into the Cape Fear River with his army, but\\nhearing of the disaster, sailed away, having effected nothing\\nbut an inglorions descent upon the farm of General Robert\\nHowe.\\n11. Thus began and ended the first British invasion of\\nNorth Carolina. Colonel Moore was made a General for his\\nskill in planning the campaign, and Caswell, Lillington and\\nAshe, with their gallant commands, were everywhere honored\\nfor their bravery and success.\\nNote. A proclamation was issued soon after this, giving pardon to all\\nwho would submit to the government of the King, except General Kobert\\nHowe and Cornelius Harnett.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the situation in Wilmington in 1776? What important\\nnews was received?\\n2. What expedition Avas coming to Wilmington? How was it to be\\nre-inforced? How was Colonel Moore preparing to meet these men from\\nCross Creek\\n3. Mention other preparations for a fight.\\n4. Give an account of Colonel Caswell s position on Moore s Creek.\\n5. Who commanded the Tories? Describe his charge upon the Whigs.\\n6. Give an account of the battle of Moore s Creek. When did this\\noccur? Locate the scene of this battle on the map.\\n7. What was the result?\\n8. What is said of the victory at Moore s Creek? What was promptly\\ndone by North Carolina?\\nO. What is said of this campaign\\n10. What distinguished British officer entered the Cape Fear?\\n11. How did the peo[)le feel towards Colonel Moore and other com-\\nmanding officers?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "120 HiSTOliY OF .NOKTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER XXA^I.\\nFOURTH PROVINCIAL CONGRESS DECLARES\\nINDEPENDENCE.\\nA. D. 1776.\\nThe Hillsboro Congress of August, 1775, formerly inaugu-\\nrated a war of resistance to British oppressions, but to the Hali-\\nfax Congress of April, 1776, was left the crowning gloiy of\\nbeing the first in all the colonies to declare for absolute indepen-\\ndence of the mother country and for foreign alliances.\\n2. It was quickly seen Nyhen the new Congress met at\\nHalifax, on the 4th of April, 177G, that great progress had\\nbeen made in public sentiment. At Hillsboro professions of\\nloyalty and of a desire for continued connection with Great\\nBritain, some honest, but many of questionable smcerity\\ndoubtless, Avere still to be heard. At Halifax there was neither\\nhalting nor hesitation in ayoAving that absolute independence\\nfrom the mother country was the real aim of the people of the\\nprovince.\\n3. The time for the final ])lunge had come, and North\\nCarolina was quite ready for it. Accordingly, on the fourth\\nday of the session a committee was appointed to take into\\nconsideration the usurj^ations and violences attem})ted and com-\\nmitted l)y the King and Parliament of J))-itain against .Vmerica,\\nand the further measures to be taken for frustrating the same,\\nand for the better defence of the province. Foiu* days later,\\nthat is to say, on the 12th day of .Vpril, 1776, a day ever to be\\nremembered in the annals of America, the conuaittee reported\\nas follows:", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "INDEPENDENCE DECLARED. 121\\nIt appears to your committee that pursuant to the plan\\nconcerted by the British Ministry for subjugating America, the\\nKing and Parhament of Great Britain have usurped a power\\nover the persons and properties of the people unlimited and\\nuncontrolled, and disregarding their humble petitions for peace,\\nliberty and safety, have made divers legislative acts denouncing\\nwar, famine and every species of calamity against the continent\\nin general. That British fleets and armies have been, and still\\nare, daily employed in destroying the people and committing\\nthe most horrid devastations on the country. That Gov-\\nernors in dilferent colonies have declared protection to slaves\\nwho should imbrue their hands in the blood of their masters\\nthat the ships belonging to America are declared prizes of war,\\nand many of them have been violently seized and confiscated,\\nin consequence of which multitudes of the people have been\\ndestroyed or from easy circumstances reduced to the most\\nlamentable distress.\\nAnd whereas, the moderation hitherto manifested by\\ntlie united colonies and their sincere desire to be reconciled to\\nthe mother country on constitutional principles have procured\\nno mitigation of the aforesaid wrongs and usurpations, and no\\nhopes remain of obtaining redress by those means alone, which\\nhave been hitherto tried your conmiittee are of opinion that\\nthe house should enter into the following resolve, to-wit\\nResolved, That the delegates for this colony in the Conti-\\nnental Congress be empc^wered to concur with the delegates of\\nthe other colonies in declaring independency and forming\\nforeign alliances, reserving to this colony the sole and exclusive\\nright of forming a constitution and laws for this colony, and\\nof appointing delegates from time to time (under direction of a\\ngeneral representation thereof) to meet the delegates of the\\nother colonies for such piu poses as shall be hereafter pointed\\nout.\\nAnd thereupon the Congress did so resolve unanimously.\\n4. With the exception of the Mecklenl^urg Declaration of\\nthe year before, there had been, up to that time, nowhere in\\nall America a single organized l)ody to venture on such a pro-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "122 IIISTOliV OF XOIITII CAROLINA.\\n])()siti()n. Iiulivicluals like Samuel AdaiuH, William Hoojkt\\nand Christopher Gadsden had been heard advoeating it; but\\nevery other assembly was yet ])rotesting its loyalty to the\\nKing. It was more than a month before A^irginia consented\\nto I^atriek Henry s demands, and the other colonies were to\\nfollow at intervals after her endorsement.\\no. In the annals of the world there is no prouder record\\nthan the entry made on the journals of the Halifax Congress,\\non the 12th day of April, 1776. A great fleet and army\\nwere yet upon the soil and ^vithin the waters of North Caro-\\nlina, but this could not deter these resolute ])atriots from thus\\ntaking the lead in a doubtful and perilous departure from all\\nthe ties and obligations of the past.\\n6. It can then be understood how joyously the news was\\nreceived at this same town of Halifax, on July 22d, that the\\nC\\\\)ntinental Congress, at .Philadelphia, had acceded to the\\nwishes of North Carolina, and had, on the 4th day of the\\nsame month, declared the Independence of America.\\n7. The Council of Safety was at that time in session at\\nHalifax, and by it Thursday, the 1st of August, was set as a\\nday for proclaiming the declaration, at the coiu t-house in\\nHalifax, and the people were invited to attend. On the day\\nappointed, according to the vivid description of an eye-witness,\\na vast concourse of people assembled iii front of the court-\\nhouse. The provincial troops and the militia were all drawn\\nup in full array. At mid-day, Cornelius Harnett ascended a\\nrostrum that had been erected in front of the court-house, and\\neven as he ojK ned the scroll upon whicli was written the im-\\nmortal words of the declaration, the enthusiasm of the immens(\\ncrowd broke fortli in one loud swell oi rejoicing ajid ])rayei\\nN\\\\ licn lie had linishcd, all the pco])lc shouted with joy, and the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "INDEPENDENCE DECEARED. 1 2o\\ncannon sounding from fort to fort, proclaimed the glorious\\ntidinp s that all the thirteen colonies were now free and inde-\\npendent states. The soldiers seized Mr. Harnett and bore him\\non their shoulders through the town. The declaration was\\nordered to be read in all portions of North Carolina, and\\nexcept in one county, the mandate was everywhere obeyed.\\n8. All the North Carolina troops then in arms, including\\nthe two Continental regiments and the militia under General\\nAshe, were in Charleston. They were spectators of the combat\\nin which the gallant Moultrie, within his fort of palmetto logs,\\nsignally defeated the same British fleet under Sir Peter Parker\\nthat had l een so recently in Cape Fear Elver.\\n9. General James Moore marched northward from Charles-\\nton with his brigade, but died in Wilmington. His death was\\na serious loss to North Carolina and the cause of liberty, for\\nin military genius, as in patriotic devotion, he had few equals\\nand no superior in America. Colonel Francis Nash succeeded\\nto his place. General Howe was sent to Savannah, having\\nwith him his old command, the Second North Carolina Regi-\\nmen t. Four new reo:iments were ordered bv the Provincial\\nCongress and were soon put in the field.\\n10. On the same day with the battle in Charleston Harbor,\\nJune 28th, 1776, the Cherokee Indians descended from their\\nmountain homes and murdered two hundred western settlers.\\nGeneral Griffith Rutherford collected two thousand men of the\\nmilitia regiments in his command, and took such swift and\\nample vengeance that from that time these Indians ceased to\\ntrouble the frontier. They had been incited by British agents\\nto their disastrous work.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "124 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What is said of the fourth Provincial Congress? Where was it iield?\\nti. In what condition was public sentiment when the Congress met?\\n3. What was done on the fourth day of the session? Why should the\\n12th day of April, 1776, ever be remembered Can you state the substace\\nof this memorable declaration of independence?\\n4. What is said of the Halifax declaration?\\n5. Tell something of the boldness of this declaration?\\nG. What was done by the Continental Congress on May 4th?\\n7. Describe the reading of the declaration of independence.\\n8. Where were the North Carolina soldiers at that time?\\nO. What other military movements were mentioned?\\nlO. Wliat occurred on .January 2Sth, 1776?\\ni4 i iAimil/fmni/ i/ ll,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "ADOPTION OF A STATE CONSTITUTION. 125\\nCHAPTER XXYIII.\\nADOPTION OF A STATE CONSTITUTION.\\nA. D. 1776.\\nAfter the pii})Iie avowal by the people of North Carolina,\\nthrough their newly organized Congress at Halifax, in April,\\n1776, of a fixed purpose to secure, by force of arms, absolute\\nindependence from the mother country, and of her desire to\\nenter into foreign alliances to accomplish that end, there was no\\nreason for any longer delay in establishing a permanent form\\nof government for the colony. Hitherto, pride of consistency,\\nin form at least, to say nothing of a considerate regard for\\ntender consciences, if not for weak nerves, might well have\\nheld them back. After the action of the Congress on the 12th\\nof April, however, it was manifest that the day of provisional\\ngovernment was nigh its close, and that the people of North\\nCarolina must abide the arbitrament of war to which they had\\nappealed, whether in future they should be free, self-governing\\ncitizens or dependent subjects of a foreign government. The\\nhalf-way ground and the time for temporary expedients were\\nboth left behind in North Carolina on the 12th of April, 1776.\\nThere was great division, however, among the wisest and best\\nmen in the province as to the true nature of the new system\\nof government which had thus become necessary.\\n2. Samuel Johnston was a wise and patriotic leader. He\\nwas a man of wealth and experience in public affairs and was\\ndevoted to his country, but he thought that new experiments in\\ngovernment were dangerous, and withal was long very much\\naverse to a final separation from Great Britain. He wished to", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "126 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nkeep up the old system of rule as far as possible; among other\\nreasons, because he doubted the ability of the people to govern\\nthemselves. These views were also held by Genei-al Allen\\nJones, of Northam] ton, and other prominent ni\u00c2\u00abn.\\n3. On the other hand Willie Jones, of Halifax, brother of\\nGeneral Allen Jones, was the leader of a majority of the leg-\\nislators ar.d the people. He held as the fundamental article of\\nhis political creed, that the American people were capable of\\ngoverning themselves, and that all political power belonged to\\nand proceeded from them. Like Jeiferson, of Virginia, he\\nadvocated religious freedom, separation of Church and State,\\nliberty of the press and choice of rulers by the masses at the\\nballot-box.\\n4. Between these two champions of opposing theories stood\\nKichard Caswell, a man of excellent discretion and great\\n])ractical common sense, who, haj^pily tempering the fierce\\ndemocracy of Jones with the more cautious conservatism of\\nJohnston, possessed, in a rare degree, the confidence of the\\njx ople of North Carolina of every faction. A ^larylander by\\n1)irth, he came to Xorth Carolina when quite a youth, without\\nfortune or friends, and won his unbounded poj)ularity by long-\\nyears of unselfish, unstinted devotion to her service.\\n5. Men of strong convictions, especially when accustonKnl\\nto shape ])ublic sentiment, do not readily yield to op])osing\\nviews, and it was a happy thing for Xorth Carolina that she\\npossessed such a man as Caswell, whose commanding influence\\nenabled him to control and finally to compose the fierce\\ndifferences that prevailed in regard to the character of the pro-\\n])osed new government. At his suggestion, the matter was\\npostponed until the winter, when a new Congress would be in\\nsession, fresh frcjm the ])eo])l( and in full possession of their", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "ADOPTION OF A STATE CONSTITUTION. 127\\nvieM^s ill the premises; and in this way the question at issue\\nas to the character of the new government was remitted\\ndirectly to the decision of the people.\\n6. By formal resolution, adopted on the 9tli of August,\\n1776, the Council of Safety called the attention of the people\\nto the fact that the next Congress would frame a constitution\\nfor the State, and urged, for that reason, that the greatest care\\nbe taken in the selection of delegates at the ensuing election.\\n7. The election was held on the 15th day of October, and\\nthe Congress met at Halifax on the 12th day of November,\\nand, on motion of Allen Jones, made Richard Caswell its\\nPresident. Samuel Johnston, after a hot contest, had failed to\\nbe elected, and was consequently not a member. He was in\\nHalifax, however, during the sitting of the Congress, and\\ndoubtless exercised but little less influence than he would have\\ndone had he been a delegate.\\n8. On the 17th of December, that most admiral)! e enuncia-\\ntion of human rights, the bill of rights so-called, was adopted,\\nand the next day the constitution was adopted.\\n9. The new constitution went into operation at once, witli\\nCaswell as the flrst Governor, and tlie great work of supplying\\nthe State with judges, sheriffs, magistrates and other officers\\nbegan. Fc^r several years there had been no courts to admin-\\nister justice, either civil or criminal, except military tribunals\\nand the various committees of safety. Fortunately, while\\nGovernor Caswell, aided by the legislative authorities, was\\nputting in motion the untried machinery of a new government,\\nand evoking civil order from military disorder, our British\\nfoes were far away to the northward. At last. North Caro-\\nlinians lived under a government of their own making,\\nadministered bv officers of theii- own choosino:.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "128 IIISTOIIV OF xoiiTir carotjna.\\nQTHSTIONS.\\n1. What was seen to be the next necessary step after the action of the\\nHalifax Congress? Can you tell what difficulties had [)ieviously existed?\\n2. Wiiat views were held by Covernor Johnston?\\n3. What did Willie Jones consider necessary for the peoi)le? ^Vhat\\nwas advocated by him?\\n4. How did Caswell consider these things?.\\n5. What good influence was exerted by his opinion?\\n6. What did the Council of Safety do?\\n7. When did the Congress meet? Who was chosen to preside?\\n8. What was done on December 17th?\\nO. Who was the first Governor of North Carolina under the constitu-\\ntion? Describe the condition of affairs.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE WAIJ ONTTNUED. 129\\nCHAPTER XXIX.\\nTHE WAR. CONTINUED.\\nA. D. 1777 TO 1779.\\nAll of the North Carolina Continentals were with General\\nWashington early in the new year, 1777. They reached him\\nin a great emergency. His army had just been driyen from\\nXew York across the State of New Jersey, and such had been\\nhis losses by battle and otherwise, that when he reached the\\nDelaware Riyer he could hardly muster tiye thousand men.\\n2. Sir William Howe, the British Commander-in-Chief,\\nhad twenty-nine thousaiiid trained soldiers available, and when\\nT^oiil Cornwallis, who had been pursuing the Americans, was\\nlialted by him, it was the salvation of the force left with\\nGeneral Washington. Had Sir William forborne to stop the\\npursuit of Cornwallis the struggle might have soon ended in\\nthe capture of Washington. After a week of delay, Corn-\\nwallis was permitted to advance, and even then came up in\\ntime to see the last boat-loads of the American troops crossing\\ntlie great river which so effectually stopped all further pursuit.\\n1777, When General Nash arrived at the American\\ncamp, after his long march from the south, he brought six full\\nregiments of North Carolina \u00e2\u0096\u00a0ontinentals, nearly doubling the\\nforce upon which the hopes of America mainly depended. By\\ntliis means General Washington was soon aftei* able to confront\\nthe advancing enemy in the battle of Brandy wine, on Septem-\\nber 11th. At this and other engagements the North Carolina\\nti oops displayed both courage and discipline.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "];^0 HISTOnV OF XOHTH CAROLINA.\\n4. It was on the bloody occasion of the attack upon the\\nBritish force at Gerniantown, October 4th, that their most\\nglorious record was made. General Washington entrusted the\\npost of honor on the extreme right flank of his line of attack\\nto General Francis Xash. The British were driven bv the\\nNorth Carolinians a long distance on the right of the village,\\nbut the American divisions which had been sent in on the left\\nfailed to dislodge the enemy, and in this way left (general\\nXash s force exposed both on his left and rear.\\nIt was a glorious but bloody day for North Carolina.\\nThe brigade suffered heavy loss in advancing, but greater\\nwhen com])elled to fjvll back for want of support. General\\nNash and Colonel Edward Buncond)e were mortally wounded.\\nLieutenant-Colonel Irwin and many other gallant officers\\nwere slain upon the field.\\n1778. At length the British forces were directed again\\ntoward the south. On December 29th, General Robert Howe\\nwas driven from Savannah by General Prevost, on which\\noccasion the Second Kcgiment of Continentals was confronted\\nby a regiment of North (^ar lina Tories under Colonel John\\nHamilton. Howe and his command were transferred to West\\nPoint, on the Hudson River, of which important ])ost he was\\nsoon (unmander, with the rank of Major-General.\\n1779. T- After 1 778 the courts were fully established, and\\nJudges Ashe, Iredell and Spencer held terms at Wilmington\\nand at five other towns twice a year. Waightstill Avery, as\\nAttorney-General, was busy in trials for treason against the\\nState. There ^\\\\\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ere many men who yet labored to restore the\\nKing s authority, and against them was needed all the vigilance\\npossible, both in the courts and at military hea(l(|uai*ters.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE WAR CONTINUED. 131\\n8. More than three years of the war had passed away without\\nserious disaster to North CaroKna. No invaders disturbed her\\nborders, and beyond the grief for friends slain in battle, there\\nwas cause for gratitude to God that so few evils of the war\\nliad yet visited the State.\\n9. General Washington had evinced such nobility of soul\\nand great military capacity that all American hearts were soon\\ntilled with love and admiration. With far-seeing wisdom, he\\nwas patiently biding his time to strike his enemies, and in\\nforeign lands other great soldiers were applauding the mingled\\ncaution and boldness of his military movements.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Where were the North Carolina troops at this time? What was the\\ncondition of Wusliington s army?\\n2. How were the Continental troops henefited hy an order of Sir\\nWilliam Howe?\\n(3. What battle was fought on September 11th, 1777?\\n4. On wiiat battle field did the North Carolina troops specially distin-\\nguish themselves on October 4th? Relate the circumstances.\\nt5. How did General Nash and his troops sufTer on this occasion?\\nO. What occurred at Savannah on December 29th, 1778? To what\\nplace was General Howe then transferred\\n7. When wei-e the courts of North Carolina fully established Can you\\ntell something of the judicial system in that period?\\n8. For what had North Carolina cause to be grateful\\n9. What is said of General W\\\\ashington?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "132 irmToiiv of xohth cahoijxa.\\nCHAPTER XXX.\\nSTOXY POINT AND CHARLESTON.\\nA. D. 1779 TO 1780.\\nThe capture of Savannah caused uneasiness in all the South-\\nern States. It was seen at once that Georgia was but a starting^\\npoint in a general scheme of transferring hostilities from i\\\\w\\nnorth. Early in 1779, General John Ashe reached Charleston\\nAvith two or more brigades of militia. These were hurried oif\\nat the importunate demand of the Governor of South Carolina,\\nto attack the British at Augusta.\\n2. General Ashe remonstrated, saying his men were not yet\\nready for active service in the field he obeyed orders, how-\\never, and took the field as directed. On his approach the\\nenemy retired down the Savannah River, and Ashe, dividing\\nhis force, was so unfortunate as to fall into an ambush on\\nBrier Creek, where his men, who were raw, undisciplined\\ntroops, were taken by surprise and routed.\\n3. A little later, and elsewhere, there was better fortune. At\\nStony Point, on the Hudson River, a stn^ng American fortifi-\\ncation had been recently ca})tured by the British. General\\nWayne found that it was garrisoned by six hundred Scotch\\nHighlanders, constituting one of the regular Royal regiments.\\nThe work was nearly surrounded by the river and by morasses,\\nand the single approach was so swept by the guns of the work,\\nand also by those of several ships-of-war lying close by for the\\npurpose of aiding in its defense, that it seemed well-nigh hope-\\nless to attempt its capture.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "sr()N\\\\ POINT \\\\M) (11 AK I.IXroN,\\ni;is\\nI. lint li()|H l( ss MS il s(H m( (l, (uMU ral W aviuMlcttM-mincd to\\nuvaUc {\\\\\\\\v nitcmpl. lie drew near at mi(lniij:,lil, and with\\nunloaded innsUcts, and conraiic dial lias ncsiM- Ihmmi snr|)ass( d,\\ncaptnrcd die slronoliold a( [\\\\\\\\v point of the haNoncl.\\nf). Two (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2olimins of assault wnv sent in on tlie ri^lit and\\nleft; l)nt to Major llafdy MnrlVcc s two conipanit s of the\\nSecond North arolina ontinental l\\\\ei;inient as a forlorn\\nhope, was the post ol i-eal honor ;nid dani;-ei assigned. TIk N\\neharo-ed full in front, np the sleep hill-side, throniih S( eral\\nlines of ahattis, and in this wa\\\\ reeeixcd the hotl(\\\\st of the\\neiiemv s lii( The capture of the lort was lari^ cK due to the\\noallantry ol the North Carolina troops.\\nI7SO. h ernoi- aswcll heini;- ineli^ihlc for the next\\nterm, was snececded, at the hcoinniiio- of iUv year, l y Al)ner\\nNash as (1iief-Ma,oislrate of North arolina. Tlie constilii-\\ntion proxided that after three years ser\\\\ice the bi\\\\eciiti\\\\ e\\nhecaine inelit;il)le lor the next leian, and aswcll had ser\\\\ e l\\nthree lerins. (Jos crnor Nash, like his predcec ssor, was a man\\nof ability and patriotism, hut did not e(pial him in the ersa-\\ntility of his powers or his consmnmate skill in the manaL^cment\\nof men.\\n7. In h ehrnary, ITSO, all of th( North (arolina troops of\\nthe (Continental Line had heen ordered tothesonth. I1ie\\\\\\nwere at liarleston with (Jeiieral Lincoln, heino l)esico( d there\\nhy an o\\\\ erw helmino force under Sir lIcnrN linton. in\\nsiddition to the army, the l ritish commander had come dnw n\\nfrom New ork with a ;reat licet.\\n(S. The defense was a hi MN e one, hut iiiiaA ailini;, and on Mav\\nI itli (Jeneral liincohi was forced to surrender. It was a\\nlirefiil day for Noitli (arolina. All of her rci^nlar troops\\nHid a inll ihon.and of her militia hecame pri,--onei,. of w.ir.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "l. U HISTORY OF NOirni CAROLINA.\\nIt was a fatal rashness in GeiUTal Lincoln to allow himself to\\nbe eoojH d u]) in a city. Thns, while no real benefit resnlted\\nto the Amerioan cause, or to the State of South Carolina,\\nNorth Carolina was, at one fell blow, stn])})e l of all her\\ndefenders.\\n9. Sir Henrv Clinton sailed l)ack to New York after the\\ncapitulation, but he left a man of far superior abilit}^, Avith an\\narmy, to continue the con([nest of South Carolina. This was\\nI^ord Cornwallis, who was the braA^est and most skillful British\\nsoldier then in the world. He was to remain this time lon^-\\nenouo;h to be forever remembered and to take bloody engeance\\nfor his inglorious experience with Sir Peter Parker four years\\nbefore.\\n10. The first movement of Cornwallis, after a})turing\\nCharleston, was to send Lieutenant-C^)lonel Tarleton, Avitli his\\ndragoons, to interce|)t a column of infantry which was apju oach-\\ning from Virginia, under the command of Colonel Buford.\\nThese were surprised and cut to pieces. Among others, the\\nNorth Carolina company of Captain John Stokes lost heavily\\nin the sudden and bloody attack.\\n1 1 This disaster occurred in the AVaxhaw^ settlement, on\\nthe State line, not far from Charlotte, in North Carolina.\\nThus, at a time when everything indicated another invasion,\\nJiot a single troop of disciplined soldiers was left for the\\ndefense of this State, except the tw^o companies of mounted\\ninfantry Avhich were commanded by the gallant Major AVilliam\\nR. Davie. This little band hovered continually in the neigh-\\nborhood of the scene of Colonel Buford s defetit.\\n12. Governor Rutledge, of South Carolina, upon the fall of\\nCharleston, offered to cease fighting the Britisl; if they would\\nallow his State to remain neutral for the remainder of the war;", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "STONY POINT AND CHARLESTON. 135\\nbut a very different feeling actuated GoN^ernoi Nash and his\\npeople when apprised of the great disaster. If her Continental\\nveterans were all prisoners, there were still brave hearts and\\ndeadly rifles left with Avhieh to continue the struggle, and\\nNorth Carolina had no thought of quailing.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. WJiat was appreliended in North Carolina after the fall of Savannah,\\nand why? Wiio was put in command of the brigades under General John\\nAshe? Where were these troops carried\\n2. What befell the command on the route?\\n3. What victory was gained by the Americans on the Hudson River?\\nWlio was in command? Describe the situation of Stony Point?\\n4. Give an account of the attack on this stronghold?\\n5. What troops occupied the post of special danger? How did they\\nperform their duty?\\n6. Who succeeded Governor Caswell? Why was Governor Caswell\\nnot re-elected\\n7. Where were the North Carolina soldiers in 1780? AVhat enemy\\nwas besieging them\\n8. How did the siege terminate? Why was this surrender disastrous\\nto North Carolina?\\n9. What did Clinton do after the capitulation Who was left in com-\\nmand of the British? What is said of Lord Cornwallis?\\n10. What was his first military movement? Describe the engagement\\nbetween Tarleton and Buford.\\n11. Where did this action occur? What was the condition of North\\nCarolina s defenses\\n12. What proposition was made to the British by the Governor of\\nSouth Carolina? What was the sentiment in North Carolina?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "136 HISTORY OF NOKTII CAKOI.IXA.\\nCHAPTER XXXI.\\ntup: battles of RAMSOURS mill and CAMDEN\\nCOURT-HOUSE.\\nA. D. 1780.\\nWhen the jiTcat disaster at Charleston became known to the\\nNorth Carohna Tories, and they fnlly realized that Britisli\\ntroops were close at hand, the spirit that had seemed crushed\\nat Moore s Creek began to revive. They had suffered indigni-\\nties from the Whigs on account of their support of the King,\\nand they now^ determined on swift and bloody revenge.\\n2. John Moore, who was Lieutenant-Colonel in Hamilton s\\nRegiment, returned to his former residence in Lincoln county\\nand assembled, early in June, thirteen hundred Royalists at\\nRamsour s Mill. General Rutherford, hearing of this in his\\ncamj) near the Waxhaws, thought it impolitic to leave that\\nposition because of a threatened movement of the British then\\nin his front. He therefore sent orders to Colonel Francis\\nLocke, of Rowan, to assemble his militia and at once attack\\nthe Tories.\\n3. No connuand was ever more promptly or bravely obeyed.\\nLocke mustered four hundred of his neighbors and went\\nthrough the darkness of the night in search of foes outnum-\\nbering him threefold. At early dawn on the 20th, with\\nmounted men in front, he charged boldly upon the Tory camp\\nthat was pitched near Ramsour s Mill, in sight of the present\\nvillage of IJncolnton. The Royalists fled at the first charge,\\nbut rallied on a hill and checked the horsemen in pursuit. The\\nWhigs on foot came to the rescue and drove the Royalists,\\nrouted, from the field.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "KAMSOUli s MILL AND CAMDEN COUKT-HOUSL. 137\\n4. This brilliant victory was all-important at that fearful\\njuncture. Jt was a, bloody and heroic affair^ and w^as a timely\\nforetaste of the spirit of the brave men of the west. It was\\na struggle between neighbors and old friends, and carried bitter-\\nness and sorrow^ to many North Carolina fire-sides.\\n5. Major Davie, with his small command, connnenc^ed a\\nseries of daring adventures, which gave him great reputation\\nfor bravery and military skill. At Flat Rock, and also at\\nHanging Rock, in South Carolina, he inflicted such stunning\\nblows that Tarleton s Legion learned to be very cautious of a\\nfoe so daring and so wary. Colonel Isaac Shelby also distin-\\nguished himself at Musgrove s Mill.\\n6. Thus the militia of North Carolina assumed the defense of\\ntheir homes and inflicted such frequent and telling blows upon\\nthe enemy that Lord Cornwallis halted at Camden to receive\\nfurther re-inforcements before venturing to enter a State ^vhose\\nundrilled citizen soldiers had shown themselves so formidable.\\n7. Upon the fall of Charleston, General Horatio Gates had\\nbeen put in command in the South, in place of General\\nLincoln. His success at Saratoga had given him great popu-\\nlarity, and some .misguided men were advocating his advance-\\nment even to the place of General Washington. A short time\\nexposed the folly of all such views. He was, at best, but a\\nmartinet, who had learned something of military routine in\\nthe camps, but was as devoid of real ability as he was vain\\nand rash.\\n8. He came to Deep River on July 25th, where in camp he\\nfound one Delaware and two Maryland battalions of Conti-\\nnentals, Colonel Armand s light-horse and three companies of\\nartillery, under the command of the Baron DeKalb. Learn-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "l. S lllSTOKV OF NOiiTH AltOLlXA.\\ning tliat (xeneral Caswell had a considcTablc militia force at\\nCIieraM in South Carolina, he started, two days later^ for the\\nneighborhood of Ijord Cornwallis and his army at Camden.\\n9. He reached Cheraw with some additional troops that had\\njoined him on the march. On August 15th, taking a large\\nportion of CaswelFs militia, he set out with the purpose of\\nsurprising Cornwallis. Colonel Armand was marching in front\\nwhen, at midnight, his dragoons recoiled from an unexpected\\nmeeting with the British vanguard. The collision was unex-\\npected on both sides, and threw General Gates column into\\ndisorder.\\n10. His officers vainly besought him to retreat, as the veteran\\nforces of the enemy had not been surprised. Both sides halted\\nand prej)ared for battle. At dawn Lord Cornwallis sent his\\nregulars with lixed bayonets to attack the militia on the right,\\nand tliese untrained troops unable to Avithstand so fierce an\\nonset from regular veteran soldiers, abandoned the field.\\n11. C^olonel Henry Dickson held his regiment of North\\nCarolina militia firmly to the front, and with the Continental,\\nor regular troops, they offered a stubborn and gallant defense.\\nBut the flight of so many made it necessary to withdraw the\\nfew^ wdio thus gallantly stood their ground.\\n12. The American defeat w^as complete. Two thousand\\nmen were killed, wounded and captured. All the stores and\\ntransportation were utterly lost. General Gates fled early in\\nthe action, and spurred on, without sto])ping, to Hillsboro, in\\nthis State. His defeat nearly ruined the American cause in\\nthe south, and his reputation as a military leader received a\\nsevere l)low.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "130\\nNote. The capture of Creneral Cirriffitli Ktithertord at Camden was one\\nof the most deplorable incidents of the disaster. His courage, military\\nability and influence among his people made him invaluable to the Ameri-\\ncan cause.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the feeling of the Tories in North (Jarolina after the dis-\\naster at Charleston?\\n2. Where were the Tories assembling? Who was sent to attack them?\\n3. Describe the attack. What was the result?\\n4. In what respect was this an important victory?\\n5. Mention some of Major Davie s exploits.\\nO. How did these engagements affect Cornwallis?\\n7. Who was put in command of the southern forces? What kind of\\nman was General Gates?\\n8. What was his first military movement?\\n9. What occurred on August 15th, 1780?\\n10. How did the engagement result\\n11. What is said of Colonel Dickson and his regiment?\\n12. What was the termination of this affair? How did General Gates\\nact?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "140 lusToiiY OF Noirni caiujj.ina.\\n(CHAPTER XXXII.\\nSECOXD INVASION OF THE STATE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 BATTLE OF\\nKING S MO TINT A IN.\\nA. D. 1780.\\nTlu (liwister at Camden left North Carolina without defense\\nagainst invasion by the British nnder I^ord Cornwallis. But\\nthe spirit of Governor Nash and his people was high, and they\\ndid not for a moment relax their efforts for the support of the\\nwar. In a short time five thousand Continental and militia\\ntr(.)ops were in motion for the neighborhood of Charlotte.\\n2. Generals Jethro Sumner and William I^. Davidson were\\n})ut in ^mmau(l of two eamps, where the raw levies were\\ndrilled and equipped for the field. Colonel Davie was still\\ncontinually in the enemy s front, to watch and report every\\nmovement. Since the route and dispersion of General Sum-\\nter s connnand by Tarleton, on August 19th, Davie s battalion\\nAvas the only mounted fonx left in the South.\\n3. In Se})tend)er, Lord CoruAv^allis at last moved forward\\nIrom his camp at Camden. He sent Colonel Patrick Ferguson\\ntoward the scene of the late Tory defeat at Ramsonr s Mill.\\nThis Colonel Ferguson was one of the ablest officers in the\\nBritish army. He was cool, daring and Avell skilled in every-\\nthing relating to the conduct of military affairs. He could\\ncommand men in camp and in battle, and excelled all others\\nin arousing the spirit of the Tories. He induced hundreds of\\nmen to take sides the King whcu nuothci would lia\\\\ c\\nfailed.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "141\\n4. As Lord Coriiwallis marched upon North Carolina,\\nColonel Davie hung upon his front and fell back only as com-\\npelled by the advance of the British. He made but one dash\\nagainst his pursuers before reaching Charlotte; but on arriving\\nthere he and Major Joseph Graham halted under the court-\\nhonse, in the middle of the village, and surprised Cornwallis\\nand the whole British army by a resistance so bloody and\\nstubborn as to prove the right of that place to the name of\\nHornet s Nest, which Cornwallis bestowed upon it.\\n5. The English commander was so harassed by the daring\\nattacks of the militia upon his men at Mclntyre s Farm and\\nelsewhere in that neighborhood that he concluded to remain at\\nCharlotte until he could hear from Colonel Ferguson. That\\nofficer had halted at a place called Gilberttown, where his one\\nhundred and fifty British Regulars were soon re-inforced by\\nlarge numbers of native Royalists, who came to the English\\nflag to take service in its behalf.\\n6. Colonel Charles McDowell and others, hearing that Fer-\\nguson was enrolling the Tories, met at Watauga and took\\ncounsel against him. No General was present, and McDowell\\nwas so old they feared he would be unable to endure the\\nprobable hard marching necessary to overtake their wiley foe.\\nColonel Campbell, of A irginia, as a courtesy, to one belonging\\noutside of the State, was put in command by the North Car(^-\\nNoTE, Davie s whole force did not number more than two hundred men,\\nand yet so cool and bravely did they meet the British assault, that the\\nenemy was several times driven back. Major Graham was, at that time,\\njust twenty-one years old, and he exhibited such courage and conduct as\\nhave never been excelled. In one attack upon him he received nine\\nwounds and was left for dead on the field, but made his escape.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "142 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nliiia officer;^, and thev set out witli about eleven lunulred men\\nto look for tlie enemy.\\n7. Colonels Shelby, Sevier, Cleveland, and Major Jioseph\\n]\\\\f( D()well, of Xorth Carolina, toj^ether Avith Colonel AVilliams,\\nof South CaroUna, selected nine liundred picked men from\\ntheir mounted force, and through the stormy thirty hours of\\ntheir march kept their saddles until, on the morning of the 7tli\\nof October, they found the foe with eleven hundred and twenty-\\nfive men on the summit of King s Mountain. It wtis a strong\\nposition, luit the heroic mountaineers at once surrounded it and\\nbegan the attack.\\n8. Ferguson fought like a lion at bay, l)ut the deadly rifles\\nof the assailants were plied upon his ranks as the Royalists\\nwere ])ushed back step by step. Time and again the British\\ncommander headed the regulars, and by desperate charges\\ndown the mountain side, drove back a portion of the advancing\\n\\\\Miig lines. At last Ferguson was slain, after being many\\ntimes wounded, and soon the British fire slackened, and then\\nto the nine Juuidred militiamen of the hills the renniant of\\nthe Royalists laid down their arms. Six hundred men became\\nprisoners of war.\\n9. This was a blootly but a glorious victory. The nund)er\\nof British dead was unusually great. Hieir proportk)n of\\nwounded was perhaps smaller than was ever seen in a nuKlern\\nbattle. The Whigs lost three Held fHcers, one ca])tain and\\nhfty-three privates.\\n1(J. It was a most opportune success, and apprised Lord\\nCornwallis of what dangers might await his further advance.\\nHe became so disheai tencd upon learning of the disaster that\\nhe at once fell back to W innsboro, in South Carolina. Xorth\\naroliiKi was auaiu iVcc from invaders, and the Tories of everv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "143\\nsection felt their hopes .sink as they realized the SAviftness and\\ncompleteness of this overthrow. Every patriot heart, however,\\nonce more beat with hope and joy.\\n11. The victory of King s Monntain was the tnrning point\\nof the war in the sonth, and foreshadowed tlie tinal success of\\nthe American Armies in the following year. The arrival of\\nGeneral ^Nathaniel Greene, who now took command of the\\nSouthern Army, in place of General Gates, secured every\\nadvantage of the situation. He was from Rhode Island, and\\nhad been a blacksmith, but was a man of rare military genius,\\nand as such had been singled out by General Washington to\\noccupy an important place.\\n12. General Greene soon proved himself a great com-\\nmander. He was gentle, unselfish and true, and loved the\\ncause for which he fought l^etter than his own life. He was\\nbrave, cautious and quick to seize upon all the faults of his\\nopponent. He could patiently wait until battle was proper,\\nand even in apparent defeat was really more dangerous than\\nless competent commanders Avith a foe beaten and in full flight.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What number ol troops did (leiieral Nasli raise toward the defense\\nof North Carolina\\n2. What Generals were put in command Where was Colonel Davie?\\n3. What move did Cortnvallis make? To what place was Colonel Fer-\\nguson sent? What is said of him as a commander?\\n4. Where was Colonel Davie? Relate the exploit of Colonel Davie\\nand Major Joseph Graham at Charlotte.\\n5. What were the movements of Cornwallis and Ferguson?\\n6. What preparations were made towards attacking Ferguson? Who\\nwas put in command of tfie troops, and why?\\n7. What was the strength of the command? W^here did tiiey find the\\nenemy? When did the battle begin?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "144 HISTORY OF NO I rn I cakolina.\\nS. Describe the battle of King s Mountain.\\n9. Mention some of the losses.\\n10. Mow did the victory affect Cornwallis\\n11. What officer was sent to take the ])hice of (leneral (iates in the\\nSouth?\\n12. What was General Green s niilitarv ability?\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0liii; .11* iliii.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "rORNWALI.IS T.AST INVASION. 145\\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\\nCORNWALLIS LAST INVASION,\\nA. D. 1781.\\nGeneral Greene soon became aware that his great trouble\\nwould be in obtaining food in sufficient quantities to feed an\\narmy large enough to meet the British in open field. Generals\\nGregory and Jones were ordered back to their homes, and their\\nbrigades were disbanded because of this poverty of resources\\nin that section of the country. General Morgan was sent wTst\\nof the Catawba River; another camp was established at\\nCheraw, and the militia of Rowan and Mecklenburg, Under\\nGeneral Davidson, were allowed to await at their homes for\\nanv call tliat misrht become necessary.\\n1781. 2. Such was the state of affairs in General Greene s\\ncommand when Lord Cornwallis was re-inforced by the arrival\\nof another division of troops under the command of Major-\\nGeneral Leslie. On January 17th, Lieutenant-Colonel Tarle-\\nt ^n, with his famous legion and the first battalion of the\\nSeventy-first Regiment, assailed General Morgan at Cowpens.\\nThese men had so often cut to pieces such American forces that\\nthey expected an easy victory on this occasion.\\no. They were received by the Americans v, itli the utmost\\ncoolness and self-possession. Their deadly fire emptied so\\nmany British saddles that the boldest riders were thrown into\\nconfusion. Like a thunderbolt, then came a charge of the\\nAmerican light-horse, under Lieutenant-Colonel William\\n10", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "14H HisToKY ov Noirrn Carolina.\\nAViishiiigtoii. Thev rode down and sabred the terrified Britons,\\nchasing them many miles from the held.\\n4. In less than an hour the eleven hundred British were so\\nthoroughly routed that tliey lost five hundred and tAVO prisoners,\\nthree hundred killed and wounded, with all their artillery and\\nstores. General Morgan had but eight hundred men, and though\\nflushed with victory, he remembered that the main army of the\\nenemy was at Turkey Creek, only twenty-five miles away.\\nHe therefore prudently burned his captured stores, and leaving\\nhis and the enemy^s wounded under protection of a flag, at once\\nbegan his retreat through North Carolina.\\n5. He well knew that Lord Cornwallis would be enraged at\\nTarleton s disaster and would seek the recapture of his pris-\\noners. During twelve days the ^^ictors fled from the scene of\\ntheir glory, while the British were ])ushing on close behind\\nthem. At the expiration of that time, as the day Avas closing\\nin, and General Morgan had just safely crossed the Catawba\\nRiver, at the Island Ford, he looked back and saw the British\\nA anguard on the other bank of the stream.\\n6. The exultant pursuers had overcome the twenty-five miles\\nof start, and feeling sure of their jjrev, they encamped that\\nnight with the utmost confidence that on the next day they\\ncould easily oA ertake thv fugitives. But they were doomed to\\ndisappointment. Soon a heavy rain began falling, and Avhen\\nthe night was ])ast tlie river had become a gr(\\\\at and impassable\\nflood.\\n7. The baffled foe was comjx lled to halt, for the passage of\\nthe stream was im])()ssib]e. The high water remained in the\\nriver for forty-eight hours, during Avhich time the British Avere\\nunable to effect a crossing. General Morgan sent his militia\\nwitli tlie pi-isoners on to Virginia, and AA^th his Continentals", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "CORNWAI.LIS LAST IXTA.SIOX. 147\\nkept down the left bank of the river and joined General\\nGreene at SherrilFs Ford. There they unhappily disagreed as\\nto future operations/ and General Morgan left the service.\\n8. During the two days that Lord Cornwallis was stopped\\nby the rise in the Catawba River, General Greene made\\narrangements to dispute its passage. This was attempted at\\nCowan s Ford, and the British, after some loss, forced a\\npassage. Unfortunately, brave General Davidson, who was in\\ncommand of the militia, was killed, and upon his fall his men\\nretreated from the field. They were surprised by Tarleton at\\nTorrence s Tavern, six miles away in the direction of Salis-\\nbury.\\n9. The chase was now renewed and General Greene was\\nagain in great danger. When he reached Salisbury he was so\\ndejected at the condition of affairs that a good woman named\\nMrs. Elizabeth Steele sought to cheer him by words of hope.\\nHe explained to her his almost desperate condition, and that\\nthough in command of the Southern army, he was wholly\\nwithout friends and without money. She generously pressed\\nupon him a purse of gold, and, with hope revived by such an\\nexhibition of womanly sympathy and generous patriotism, he\\nresumed his i-etreat.\\n10. A rise in the waters of the Yadkin River, after the\\nAmericans had crossed, repeated the scenes witnesssed on the\\nNote. While General Greene was in the house of Mrs. Steele, at Salis-\\nUury, he caught sight of a picture of King George III. hanging upon the\\nwall. The picture recalled many unpleasant memories and hardships to\\nthe General. He -took it from the wall, and, with a piece of chalk, wrote\\nupon the back: O, George, hide thy face and mourn. He then replaced\\n5he picture with its face to the wall and rode away. This picture, with the\\nwriting on the back still visible, is now thought to be in the possession of\\nMrs. Governor Swain. [Rvmple^s History of Rowan County.]", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "148 IIISTOItV OF NORTH CAIJOLIXA.\\nC atawba and thus, while (xeiicral Greene was enabled to reaeh\\nthe forces from Cheraw that had been ordered to meet him at\\nGuilford Court House, Lord CornwalHs was compelled to make\\na wide detour up the river to get across.\\n11. Again, in a few days, the Americans, still retreating,\\nfound their enemies once more close up in their rear. For\\nseveral days, on long stretches in the road, the two armies\\ncould see each other.\\n12. General Greene was so hotly pursued that he found it\\nnecessary to check the enemy in some way, and the gallant\\nColonel Otho H. Williams, of Maryland, with a corps of light\\ntroops numbering seven hundred men, was detailed to cover\\nthe retreat. This detachment most faithfully performed its\\nduty. Taking but one meal each day, and six hours sleep in\\nforty-eight, they retarded the progress of the enemy so much,\\nby frequent collisions, that Greene was enabled to considerably\\nincrease the distance between the two armies.\\n13. At last, on February 13th, Dan River was reached, and\\nIjord Cornwallis came up only in time to see the last boat-loads\\nof the Americans safely landing on the other side of the\\nwide stream which was too deep for the British to ford.\\nThus ended this famous retreat, extending more than two\\nhundred miles. It gave General Greene great reputation,\\nand the struggling Americans took fresh heart, for they knew\\nthey had at last a General in command who could provide\\nwisely and well amid all the dangers so thickly environing him.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What great trouble (iid (iener;il (xreene foresee? How did he dis-\\npose of the forces\\n2. At what place were the Americans attacked\\nli. Describe the l)attle of Camden. Where is Camden?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "cornwallih last invasion. 149\\n4. Wluit were the British losses? What was done by General Morgan?\\n5. Describe the events of the next twelve days.\\n6. What occurred during the night while the two armies were camped\\non opposite sides of the river?\\n7. How did the rise in the river benefit the Americans? Find the\\nCatawba River on the map. What occurred at Sherrill s Ford\\n8. Give an account of the engagement at Cowan s Ford.\\nO. What hajtpened to General Greene at Salisbury?\\n10. What rivei- was next crossed?\\n11. Describe the retreat further,\\n12. What did General Greene find it necessary to do to cover his\\nretreat? Who commanded this detachment?\\n13. What river was crossed on February 13th, 1781 How many miles\\nhad Greene been pursued by Cornwallis? Can you go to the map and\\ntrace the course of this famous retreat?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "150 HISTORY OF NOKTII CAKOLLXA.\\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\\nBATTLE OF GUILFORD COURT HOUSE.\\nA. D. 1781.\\nAVheii the British comniauder fouiKl that General Greene\\nAva8 completely beyond his reach, he marched to Hillsboro and\\nthere erected the royal standard. In consequence of his\\nproclamations and the retreat of General Greene across Dan\\nRiver, several hundred Tories collected under Colonel John\\nPvle and started to join Lord Cornwallis. General Greene\\nsent Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lee across Dan River to observe\\nthem.\\n2. Pyle and his Tories supposing Lee s force to be British\\ntroops, drew near, uttering cheers for King George. Suddenly\\nthe bugles of the light-horse sounded a charge, and Pyle and\\nhis men were furiously assailed. In five minutes ninety lay\\ndejid upon the ground, and nearly all the others were prisoners\\nof war. This bloody aifair has been called Pyle s Hacking\\nMatch.\\n3. Major Joseph Graham, with his mounted force, had just\\nbefore captured a picket of twenty-five men a mile and a half\\naway from Hillsboro. General Polk s militia were also in the\\nsame vicinity, and soon General Greene, having received\\nre-inforcements, recrossed the Dan and assumed a position (^n\\nthe Reedy Fork, a confluent of Haw River.\\n4. Cornwallis hearing of Pyle s disaster, left Hillsboro and\\nmoved westwju d to ])rotect any Tories that nu ght seek to\\nreach him. The first time the two armies again saw anything\\nof each otiici- wMs at Wliitsell s Mill. At that plsicc CoIoik^I", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "BATTLE OF GUII.FOKD COURT HOUSE. 151\\nOtho H. Williams was posted with a Ixxly of light troops,\\nwhich Xford Cornwallis attempted to cut off from the main\\nbody. He failed in so doing, but both armies were filled with\\nadmiration at a display of personal gallantry.\\n5. Colonel Williams had posted sharp-shooters in and\\naround the mill-house. These discovered a British officer\\napproaching a ford below them, and saw that he was leading\\nmen and trying to cross the stream. Many deadly rifles were\\nsoon hurling their missiles around him, but slowly, and as if\\nunconscious of being under fire, he crossed in safety. This\\nintrepid man was Lieutenant-Colonel William Webster, then a\\nbrigade commander under Cornwallis.\\n6. On March 15th, 1781, General Greene being at the court-\\nhouse of Guilford county, learned that the British army was\\napproaching on the Salisbury road. He posted his men in\\nthree lines and awaited the enemy^s arrival, who came on in\\nfine style, but the first American line, composed of militia,\\ngiving ground, only the men of the gallant Captain Forbis,\\nof the Hawfields, gained credit for their conduct. The\\nBritish found stubborn resistance in the second and third lines,\\nwhere the Continentals were posted.\\n7. It was a furious and bloody conflict, and such havoc was\\nwrought in the British ranks by a charge of Colonels Howard\\nand Washington, that Lord Cornwallis opened fire with his\\nartillery upon his friends and foes alike, and thus checked\\nthis dangerous American movement. General Greene at\\nlength gave orders for retreat, and the field was left in the\\npossession of the British.\\n8. British valor was never more splendidly exhibited than\\nupon tills hard-fought field. With less than half of Greene s\\nforce, they woji the field, but the \\\\-)ctoJT was too costly. Al", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "loli HI8T()]{V OF XOliTlI CAROLINA.\\nleast oiie-l oiirtli of the British force was dead and disabled,\\nincluding the gallant A\\\\^ebster, the hero of AVhitscllj^ Mill.\\n(General Greene, liaving halted close by the scene of conflict,\\nreturned three days later to again offer battle, but Lord Corn-\\nwallis was flying towards Wilmington for safet}^ He who\\nhad so long sought to bring on an engagement was now the\\nfugitive.\\n9. General Greene followed in pursuit, but failing to over-\\ntake his foe, he tiu ued his course and marched against Lord\\nIlawdon, in South Carolina. He had redeemed North Caro-\\nlina from the grasp of her foes, and went to confer upon the\\ntwo other Southern commonwealths a similar blessing. No\\nmore British armies were to bring ruin and terror to any\\nportion of North Carolina.\\n10. I^ord CornwTillis hurried to Wilmington. His stay was\\nshort there, for turning north, in the mcmth of April, 1781,\\nhe marched his army, by w^ay of Halifax, to Virginia. There,\\nere long, this great soldier was to close his career in America.\\nPie had, with a small portion of the British force under the\\nconuiiand of Sir Henry Clinton, accomplished more than all\\nhis compatriots.\\n11. On SeptemlxT the 8th a brilliant battle took place at\\nEutaw Springs, in South Carolina, between General Greene s\\narmy and the British under Colonel Stewart. It was the\\nhardest fought and best conducted action of the war. The\\ntliree North Carolina Continental regiments, led by General\\nSumner, bore the bi unt of the conflict, and were greatly\\npraised tor their gallantly. Al)out two thousand men each\\nwas the strength of the armies, and they lost twelve hundred\\nin killed and wounded. This battle resulted in the retreat of\\nthe British lo Charleston.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURT HOUSE. lOo\\n12. Governor Nash s term of office having expired, Thomas\\nBurke, of Orange, became his successor. Burke was an\\nIrishman bv birth, of good family, Avell educated and with\\nfine abilities. He had been conspicuous in public affairs and\\nhad shown a warm devotion to the American cause. His\\nhome Avas in Hillsboro, which was then the capital of the\\nState.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wliere did Cornwallis next go? What recruits were raised, and who\\nwas put in command? Who iiad General Greene appointed to watch the\\nenemy\\n2. Describe the surprise and defeat of Colonel Pyle and iiis men.\\n3. Mention the movements of Major Joseph Graham. Of General\\nGreene.\\n4. Give an account of the affair at Whitsell s Mill.\\n5. What special act of bravery is related\\n6. What occurred on March 15th, 1781? Give some account of the\\nbattle of Guilford C\\\\)urt House?\\n7. How did tiie engagement terminate?\\n8. W^hat is said of the British victory? What did General Greene do\\nthree days later?\\nO. Where did he then go?\\n10. Where did Cornwallis carry his army\\n11. Give an account of the battle of Eutaw Springs.\\n12. Who succeeded Governor Nash, and what is said of him?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "154 III.STOKV OF NORTH CAHOMXA.\\nCHA PTER XXXY.\\nFANNIiXG AND HIS BRUTALITIES-CAPTrRE OF\\nGOVERNOR BURKE.\\nA. D. 1781.\\nWhen Lord ConnvallLs left W^iliningtoii, on his way to\\nVirginia, there were no Britisli troops left in North Carolina\\nexcept abont four hundred regulars and some Tory recruits,\\nwhich constituted the garrison of Wilmington. Major James\\nH. Craig was in command there, having captured the place in\\nthe preceding January.\\n2. He had been trained to arms, and when General Burgoyne\\nsurrendered at Saratoga, was his Adjutant-General. He w^as\\nskillful as a soldier, but utterly unscrupulous as to the means\\nhe used to carry out his objects. Seeing the British driven\\nfrom almost all the State, he determined to ruin a people he\\ncould not subdue, and began to stir up a warfare of neigh-\\nborhoods.\\n3. He found in David Fanning, of Chatham county, a\\npowerful aid in liis inhuman scheme. Fanning was a man of\\nlow l)irt]i, ignorant and unscrupulous. He was a good |)artisan\\nguerrilla leader, l)eing brave, enterprising and swift to execute.\\nAssociating with himself a small band of Tories, Avhose sole\\nobjects were ])lunder and revenge, he was for a time tlie terroi-\\nof Chatham and Orange counties. Well mounted and well\\narmed, and continually on the alert, these marauders made\\nhavoc of the Whig settlements, murdering, burning and\\nl( sti-o\\\\iiiu, nnrcsti niiK d b\\\\- :inv nutJioritx mid with no s(misc of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "FANNING ANJ HIS BKUTALITIE.S. 155\\nhunianitv. They did not spare even their own neigh h( rs,\\nmany of whom they shot down or hanged at their own doors.\\n4. Many stories are told of Fanning s ex]: loits, of his\\naudacity, his cruelty, his arrogance, and his wonderful successes\\nand hairbreadth escapes. Such a state of affairs existed at one\\ntime in the counties ravaged by his band that even the pitiless\\nC Olonel Tarleton deplored its continuanc^e. Fanning was born\\nin Johnston county about the year 1754, and was the vilest\\nand bloodiest wretch ever seen in our limits, most richly\\ndeserving the punishment of the gallows. He continued his\\ncriminal courses as long as he lived, and was pardoned for a\\ncapital felony committed on the Island of Cape Breton not\\nlong before his departure from this world.\\n5. Fanning began his military operations by surprising a\\ncourt-martial in Chatham. His prisoners were disposed of by\\nparole or sent to Wilmington, This was in July, 1781. His\\nattack upon the house of Colonel Philip Alston, a few days\\nlater, was a more serious matter, for he encountered stubborn\\nresistance and some loss before compelling the surrender of a\\nforce almost as large as his own, and protected by the walls of\\na large house. Four of the Whigs were killed, and those who\\nremained alive were spared from butchery by Fanning only at\\nthe earnest appeals of Mrs. Alston.\\n6. Fanning s movements called for resistance, and Colonel\\nThomas Wade collected a force of more than three hundred\\nmen at McFall s Mill, in Cumberland county. These were\\nspeedily attacked and utterly driven from that portion of the\\ncountry. It was afterwards learned by the victors that Colonel\\nDudley s Chatham regiment of cavalry w^as disbanded, and\\nFanning innuediately ])uslied on to Hillsboro. On the morn-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "15( IIISTOIJY OF NOUTH CAKOLINA.\\niii^ of September 12th, his force entered the town, and\\nsnceeeded in captnring Governor Burke and several other\\nprominent persons.\\n7. The bold marauders who had thus seized the (xovernor\\nand capital of the State, at once started Avith their prisoners for\\nAV ilmington but tidings of this exploit had reached a body of\\nmen who hastened to Lindley s Mill, on Cane Creek, to\\nreceive them. The Whigs, nominally commanded by General\\nJolui Butler, were really directed by Major Robert Mebane in\\ntheir brave and bloody reception of the Tories.\\n8. The Tory Colonel, Hector McXeil, leading the attack,\\nwas slain, and his followers driven back in confusion. It\\nseemed that Governor Burke would be rescued and the Avhole\\nTory column captured, when Fanning, ever fertile in expe-\\ndients, discovered a ford in Cane Creek, and having crossed\\nAvith a portion of his command, attacked the Whigs in the\\nrear. This soon ended the battle, Avhich Avas a bloody one to\\nboth sides.\\n9. About the same time with the capture of Hillsboro, a\\nmost gallant and successful attack Avas made upon the Tory\\nstronghold at ElizabethtoA\\\\^n, in Bladen county. There sixty\\nWhigs, in the faA oring darkness of night, fell upon and drove\\nout a largely superior force conunanded l)y Colonel John\\nDavid Fanning gives the accomU of this affair as follows: We\\nreceived several shots from different houses; however, we lost none and\\nsnflered no dan)age, excei)t one man woiuided. We killed fifteen of the\\nrebels and wounded twenty, and took ui)wai(ls of two hundred prisoners;\\namongst them was the Governor, his council, and part of the Continental\\ncolonels, several captains and subalterns, and seventy-one Continental sol-\\ndiers out of a church. We proceeded to the gaol and released ihiity\\nJ^(tvalisls and 15rilish scddiers.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "FANNING AND HIS BRUTALITIES. 157\\nSliiJgsby. He and many of liis men were slain, and Major\\nCraig was thus confined in his fortitieations in Wilmington.\\n10. When Fanning captured Governor Burke at Hillsboro,\\nthe Chief-INIagistracy of the State devolved upon Colonel\\nAlexander Martin, of Guilford. This latter gentleman liad\\nseen some service in the field as an officer of the Continentals.\\nGovernor Burke was treated, from the hour of his capture,\\nwith extraordinary harshness. He was compelled to march all\\nthe way to Wilmington, and after some delay was sent thence\\nby ship to Charleston.\\n11. General Leslie, who commanded the British army in\\nSouth Carolina, placed the captive Governor upon an island\\nnear Charleston, where the deadly malaria was supplemented\\nby danger of assassination from certain Tories, Avho were loud\\nin their threats of executing such a purpose. Burke made\\nrepeated applications for a cliange of quarters, or for exchange\\nas a prisoner, but was told that lie was kept as a hostage to be\\nexecuted in case of the capture and punishment of David\\nFanning.\\n12. After months of torture from such treatment. Governor\\nBurke, feeling that he was justified in disregarding his parole,\\neffected his escape and returned to North Carolina. He resumed\\nhis office for the short interval between his return and the\\nmeeting of the Legislature. To his great discomfiture, he\\nwas defeated at the next ek^ction for Governor by Alexander\\nMartin. The members of the General Assembly could not\\nforgive his breach of his parole, and he regarded their act as\\nevidence of public condemnation. His sensitive spirit brooded\\nover this. His domestic relations were not such as to soothe\\nand sustain his wounded mind, and the life that opened witli\\nsuch brilliant ]H omise soon closed in gloom. Governor Burke", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 S HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n(lied and was buried on his farm near Hillsboro. Xo stone\\nhas ever marked the spot. He left one child, a daughter, who\\ndied unmarried.\\n13. General Griffith Rutherford had been a prisoner since\\nthe battle of Camden. Upon his exchange, he at once renewed\\nhis efforts to deliver North Carolina from her foes. He soon\\ncollected a body of Mecklenburg and Rowan militia and\\nmarched for Wilmington.\\n14. On neariug the city he received news of Lord Corn-\\nwallis surrender at Yorktown, on October 19, 1781. He\\npushed on his lines, and arriving in Wilmington he found that\\nMajor Craig had taken ship and was flying from the land he\\nhad so scoured by his presence.\\n15. The number of men enlisted from North Carolina in the\\nContinental army during the Revolutionary war Avas In 1 775,\\n2,000; 1776,4,134; 1777,1,281; 1778, 1,287; 1779, 4,930;\\n1780, 3,000; 1781, 3,545; 1782, 1,105; 1783, 697. The\\nState furnished, in Continental troops and militia, 22,910 men.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What British forces were in North Carolina after tlie depai tnre of\\nCornwallis? Who was in command at Wilmington?\\n2. Can you tell something of Major Craig?\\n3. Tell something of the character of David Fanning?\\n4. (rive further description of his traits. Mention the horrible condi-\\ntion of the State under Fanning s exploits.\\n5. Relate Fanning s attack on the Chatham court-martial. What\\noccurred at Colonel Alston s house?\\nO. What officer went to attack Fanning? What was the memorable\\nexploit of Fanning on September 12, 1781\\n7. What preparations were made for a fight at Lindley s Mill\\n8. Describe the engagement.\\n9. What occurred at Elizabethtown?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "FANNING AND HIS BRUTAIJTIES. 159\\n10. Who became Governor after Governor Burke s capture? How was\\nGovernor Burke treated?\\n11. What further account is given of his treatment?\\n12. Mention the concluding events of his life.\\n13. What was done by General Kutherford upon his exchange?\\n14. What did he find upon his arrival at Wilmington?\\n15. State the number of men enlisted in North Carolina during the\\nRevolution.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "iiisroijv OF Noirrii cainh.ina.\\n(MI APTEK XXXVI.\\nPEA CE A XI) I XI) EPEXDEXC E.\\nA. D. I78I TO 1784.\\nOn the IJItli of October, 1781, as has been previously\\nstated, T^ord Cornwallis surrendered himself and his army to\\nGeneral AYashington, at Yorktown, in Virginia. The timely\\narrival of the friendly French fleet under Count Rochambeau,\\nenabled Washington to lay siege to Cornwallis and force him\\nto surrender.\\n2. The English commander, who was a skillful soldier,\\ncomj)lained that he had been forced, by the orders of his\\nsuperior officer and against his own judgment, into a position\\nfrom Avhich he could not escape. General La Fayette, however,\\ndoubtless had at least an equal share in bringing about the\\nresult, for it was his skillful manoeuvering of an inferior force\\nthat held Cornwallis checked so that AVashington was enabled\\nto bring his troops to their apj)ointed i)laces at the a])])ointe l\\ntimes, and cut off all ho])e of esca])e.\\n3. But a glorious day it was for the colonies, for it virtually\\n])ut an end to the wiir, and everybody knew it. The only\\nreal (piestions henceforth were as to the terms of the ])eacc.\\n]ndei)endence and ])eace were now assured.\\n4. 1782. When the news reached England of C(n nwa]lis\\nsurrender, Lord Xorth, the l^ritish Prime Alinister, exclaimed\\n)li Jod I It is all over. He well knew that the stubborn King\\nhad exhausted the patience of the English jieople. They, and\\nnot the King and his ministers, at last ])ut a stoj) to the blood-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "PEACE AND INDEPENDEXf!E. IGl\\nshed between the two countries. On November 30th, 1782,\\na treaty \\\\\\\\%s signed in Paris by which American independence\\nwas acknowledged.\\n5. The war was over at last. The seven years of deadly\\nconflict were ended. Thanks to their patient endurance, their\\nundaunted courage and their untiring perseverance, the Ameri-\\ncan colonies had at last achieved their independence. North\\nCarolina was at last a free and independent state, owing neither\\nallegiance nor fealty to any prince or power in the world.\\n6. Of course there was great joy at the coming of peace,\\nwith the full recognition of the colonies as independent States.\\nBut there were still more difficulties to be overcome before the\\nfull tide of peace and prosperity could set in.\\n7. The agricultural interest of the State was doubtless\\naffected by the war less tlian any other, owing to the employ-\\nment of slave labor. But the soldiers had returned and\\nwanted homes. Homes were not to be provided in a day, nor\\ntlie implements of husbandry, rude though they were at that\\ntime. Cattle and horses, too, were to hv obtained before the\\nsoklier l)ecame a farmer.\\n8. The finances of the country were in a wretched condition.\\nThere was no money to pay the current expenses of the govern-\\nment, and none even to pay the troops. In educational matters\\ntlie condition was no l)etter. There were only two chartered\\nschools in the State, one at New Bern and one at Charlotte,\\nThe Constitution had, indeed, enjoined the establishment of\\nschools and colleges, Ijut with North Carolinians of tliat day\\nit was freedom first and education afterwards.\\n9. The population, however, had increased steadily during\\nthe war, so that in spite of its casualties, the State was stronger\\nin num})ers in 1782 than in 177-5. The Legislature met at\\n5?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "162 jiisToiJV OF xoirni caijolixa.\\nits a[)j)ointe(l times and places, and so did tlie courts, and civil\\nla^^ had resumed its swav. But swords are not turned into\\npruning-hooks in a moment, nor are the feuds of a long, bitter\\ncivil war to be settled or forgotten in an hour.\\n10. Naturally, the Whigs bitterly remembered how much\\nthey had suffered at the hands of the Tories during the long\\niind deadly struggle. Many of these latter had fled from the\\nprovince, but now desired to return and l)e restored to citizen-\\nship, or at least to receive possession of their former homes.\\nBut the people resolved that this should not be so, for they\\nwanted no Tories among them. Accordingly, when Tories\\nwho had left their homes desired to return to them after the\\n])eace, permission was refused.\\n11. But it was necessary to reward the Whigs as well as to\\npunish the Tories. A broad, fertile land, watered by great\\nnavigable rivers, and abounding in every possible resource for\\npleasure, wealth and prosperity was secured to us by their\\ncourage and endurance. But if our I) rave soldiers desirecl\\nreward, how much more did they deserve their ]jay, which was\\nstill largely in arrears.\\n12. Commissioners, therefore, were appointed to sell the\\nlands of refugee Tories, and from that and other sources to pay\\nup the arrears due the North Carolina soldiers. Furthermore,\\nthe land now known as Tennessee, then a part of our State,\\nwas also to be largely devoted to the same patriotic purpose.\\nGeneral Greene was given twenty-five thousand acres; one-half\\nthat quantity to Brigadier-Generals, and so on in a descending\\nscale, to the ])rivate soldiers.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "l^EACE AN1 INDEPENl^ENCE. 163\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. VVliat is said of the surrender of Cornwallis\\n2. Of what did the English commander complain? What credit is\\ndue La Eayette?\\n3. How were the colonies considering the qnestion of peace and inde-\\npendence?\\n4. What was the effect, in England, of the news of Cornwallis surren-\\nler? When and where was the treaty of peace signed\\n5. What had North Carolina gained by the war?\\nO. How did our people enjoy peace?\\n7. What is said of the agricultural interest of the State?\\n8. What was the financial condition? The educational?\\n9. What is said of the population\\n10. What party was victor in the great struggle? What is said of the\\nTories\\n11. What was deemed necessary?\\n12. What plan was adopted towards paying off the soldiers? Mention\\nsome payments that were made to commanding officers.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "I(j4 HISTORY OF NORTH AROTJXA.\\nCHAPTER XXXYII.\\nTHE STATE OE EUAN KLIN.\\nA. D. 1784 TO 1787.\\nDuring the years that followed u])()n the close of the Revo-\\nlution the people of North Carolina were busied with the\\nrestoration of their ravaged fields and the development of the\\nnew system of self-rule inaugurated hy the Convention of\\nHalifax in 1776. There were many good and wise men in\\nAmei iea, who had no confidence in the perpetuity or effective-\\nness of a polity Avhich rested upon the wisdom and virtue of\\nthe* masses for its enforcement.\\n2. Sanniel Johnston and the leading lawyers of that day\\nwere full of [ipprehension as to the result, where the protection\\nof life, liberty and property i*ested upon the ballots of men\\nwho were, as a general thing, poor and unlettered. The\\nHalifax Constitution sought to provide for the education of the\\n])eoj)le, and had recommended the establishment of a university,\\nbut no ste])s had been taken by the Ijcgislature to caiTy out\\nthis wise and beneficent ordinance.\\n3. The Rev. Di-s. David Caldwell and Sanniel E. McCorkle\\nwere conducting schools on their own responsibility in Cuil-\\nford and Mecklenburg, in which many young men were\\n.receiving sound and useful ])re])a ration for life; and there were\\nsimilar academies in Wilmington, Xew Bern, Edenton and\\nCharlotte; but as a general thing, education was almost entirely\\nneo;le( te l.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "THE STATE OF FKANKLIN. KJO\\n4. Under the terms of tlie Articles of Confederation the\\nGeneral Congress continned to assemble, but its sessions resulted\\nin little good to America. The government was continually\\nembarrassed by the public debt contracted in the Revolution.\\nIt could only pay such liabilities by calling upon the several\\nStates for their proportions. These were regulated by the\\nvalue of real estate.\\n5. North Carolina, thus witnessing the helplessness of the\\ngeneral government to meet its pecuniary liabilities, was moved\\nto the noble resolution of ceding the great body of land then\\nbelonging to the State west of the Alleghany INIountains.\\nThis princely domain, now constituting the great State of Ten-\\nnessee, was at that period only settled in part by white people,\\nand many millions of acres of fertile lands could be sold to\\nsettlers.\\n6. Such a resource would have brought a great fund to the\\nState for education and other useful purposes but, with unex-\\nampled devotion to the general good, it was determined by the\\nLegislature of 1784 that the Governor should tender to the\\nFederal government, as a free gift, all the lands not already\\ngranted to soldiers and actual settlers.\\n178e5. 7. To an embarrassed government, unable to meet\\nits most solemn engagements, such a boon, it seems, would\\nhave been gladly received; but so great was the selfishness of\\ncertain States which were then struggling to secure for them-\\nselves such bodies of western lands, that the intended bounty\\nof North Carolina proved a failure. The General CV)ngress\\nhaving failed to accept the offer, the act authorizing the cession\\nwas repealed.\\n8. The story of this ])atriotic munificence on the j^art of\\nNorth Carolina ends not here. When it became known among", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "1 III.STOKV OF NOirni CAKOLjy.N.\\nthe western settlers that tlieir cuimtrv had thus been oiiered\\nto the general government niueli excitement followed. Col-\\nonel John Sevier, of King s Mountain fame, was a leader\\najiiong the people of the territory in (piestion. He had been\\na gallant soldier in the Revolution, and was trusted and\\nbeloved by his neighbors. He persuaded them that North\\nCarolina, in thus offering to surrender her claims to their\\nallegiance, had forfeited all right to further control their des-\\ntinies.\\n9. He procured the sup])ort of many others, who elected\\nmembers to a convention. This body met at Greenville, in\\nNovember, 1785, and framed a government of a state which\\nthey called ^Franklin, in honor of the illustrious statesman,\\nBenjamin Franklin. C Olonel kSevier was elected Governoi\\nand judges and other officers were also chosen.\\n10. Richard Caswell had again been made Governor of\\nNorth Carolina, when it became known that such things were\\nbeing done in the west. He issued a proclamation forbidding\\nthe whole movement and denouncing it as revolutionary and\\nunlawful. He was supported by a party there headed by\\nColonel John Tij^ton.\\nNote. Tliere was no money in circulation in the State of Franklin,\\nand the following cnrious statement, taken from the old records, shows how\\npayment was to be made to the public officers: Be it enacted by the Gen-\\neral Assembly of the State of Franklin, and it is hereby enacted by the\\nauthority of the same, that the salaries of the officers of this commonwealth\\nshall be as folhnvs: His Excellency the Governor, per annum, one thousand\\ndeer skins; His Honor the Chief-Justice, five hundred deer skins, or live\\nhundred raccoon skins; the Treasurer of the State, four hundred and fifty\\nraccoon skins; Clerk of the House of Commons, two hundred raccoon\\nskins; members of Assembly, per diem, three raccoon skins.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE STATE OF FKANKLIN. 167\\n1787. 11- It often seemed that bloody civil war would\\nensue between the men who sided respectively with Sevier\\nand Tipton, but happily there was little bloodshed amid so\\nmuch brawling. There were many arrests and complaints,\\nuntil finally, in October, 1788, Colonel Sevier was captured\\nby the forces of Tipton, and brought to jail at Mors:anton, in\\nBurke county. He was allowed to escape, and, in memory of\\nhis services as a soldier, his offenses were forgiven. That there\\nwere no more serious results w^as greatly due to the influence of\\nRichard Caswell. Sevier was afterwards in the Senate of\\nNorth Carolina, and, after Tennessee became a State, received\\nall the honors a grateful people could confer.\\n12. It was thus that the abortive State of Franklin arose\\nand disappeared. The State of Vermont originated in the\\nsame way; and it is fortunate that such precedents have long\\nsince ceased in America. There is some limit to the doctrine\\nof the people s right to self-government, just as liberty is not\\nto be found in mere license.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What matters occupied the attention of the people in North Carolina\\nafter the Kevolution How were some men disposed to view the new plan\\nof government\\n2. What was the opinion of Samuel Johnston What had been pro-\\nvided for in the Halifax Constitution\\n3. What private schools were in operation, and where were they\\n4. How was the General Congress greatly embarrassed\\n5. To what extent did North Carolina sympathize with the general\\ngovernment? W^hat is the present name of that great territory?\\n6. What was done by the Legislature of 1784?\\n7. Why was this a very valuable and timely gift to the government\\nHow did the offer succeed?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "16H HISTORY OF NOKTH CAROLINA.\\n8. AVliat excitement was created in the west by this donation? Who\\nwas the leader of the people? What was Colonel Sevier s opinion of the\\nmatter?\\nO. What was done in 1785? Wiiat name was given to tlie new State,\\nand why\\n10. What proclamation was issued by (Tovernor Caswell? Who was\\nthe western leader of Governor Caswell s cause?\\n11. How did the whole matter end? What position did Colonel Sevier\\nafterwards occupy?\\nlii. What other vState in the Union originated in this way y", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "FORxMATION OF THE UNION. 169\\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\\nFORMATION OF THE UNION.\\nA. D. 1787 TO 1790.\\nThe new State of Xorth Carolina now became dividetl and\\nexcited as to her position in the confederation of States. Each\\nday was demonstrating more clearly the failure of the con-\\nfederation. Its poverty and weakness were exciting the con-\\ntempt of all civilized nations, and the General Congress\\namounted to little more than an arena for the display of\\njealousy and selfishness on the part of the individual States.\\n2. In North Carolina, as elsewhere, the people were divided\\nas to what should be done to remedy this great need of a cen-\\ntral and general government. Many were opposed to any\\nchange. Others were for creating a strong and overpo^vering\\ncentral government that should overawe and control all of the\\nStates. These latter men were called the Federalists.\\n3. Another, and the larger portion of the people of the\\nState, were in favor of adding to the powers of the general\\ngovernment; but at the same time, for going no further in\\nthat direction than Avas necessary for the general safety as\\nagainst foreign nations, and for the execution of such regula-\\ntions as pertained to all the States. These Republicans, or\\nDemocrats, were willing to empower the ucav government\\nto carry the mails, control connnerce, carry on war, make\\ntreaties, and coin money; but they insisted that all other\\npowers should be retained by the States themselves.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "170 iiisToiiv OF Noirrii cakolixa.\\n4. Ill 17S7, ill c oii.seqiieiK e of the action of the General\\nCongress, a convention of all the States was ordered to meet\\nin Philadelphia to prepare a new Constitution.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a23. The JA^gislature of North Carolina selected Governor\\nRichard Caswell, Colonel W. R. Davie, ex-Governor Alex-\\nander Martin, Willie Jones and Richard Dobbs Spaight as\\ndelegates to that body. Governor Caswell and Willie Jones\\ndeclined the hoiKu-, and Dr. Hugh Williamson and William\\nBlount were appointed in their places.\\n1788. General Washington was chosen as President of\\nthe Convention, and in 1788 the result of their deliberations\\nwas submitted for the ratification of the several States. It\\nwas provided by the Convention framing the Constitution, that\\nnine States should ratifv the new Constitution before it should\\ngo into operation, and that it should then be binding only upon\\nthose thus acceding to it.\\n7. A convention for North Carolina was called and met at\\nHillsboro, July 21st, 1788, to consider the proposed Constitu-\\ntion. Samuel Johnston, who had been Moderator of several\\nProvincial Congresses, and who had also succeeded Governor\\nC^aswell as Chief-Magistrate of the State, was chosen to pre-\\nside. He and Judge James Iredell, Colonel Davie and\\n.\\\\rcliii)ald Maclaine were eiu nest advocates of instant and\\nunconditional ratification on the part of North Carolina.\\n8. Willie Jones, of Halifax, who had so long controlled\\nmuch of the legislation and government of the State, was the\\nleader of those who opposed sucli action. They favored the\\naddition of numerous amendments before committing the for-\\ntunes of North Carolina to such control. They insisted that\\nwithout further specification, the powers reserved to. the several\\nStates would not \\\\)v sullicicullv uunrdcd; and the Convention,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "FORMATION OF THE UNION. 171\\n1)}^ a great inajority, took the .same view of the matter. The\\nresult was that while declining to ratify absolutely the Consti-\\ntution as it then stood, the hope was held out that upon the\\nadoption of proper amendments it would be ratified.\\n9. There was great excitement in the State upon North Caro-\\nlina s thus failing to join the new government. Political ani-\\nUK^sities ran high, and renewed efforts were made to overcome\\nthe popular objections. The people became restless at the\\nposition they were occupying, being thus, with New York and\\nRhode Island, strangers to the great compact of their sister\\nStates.\\n1789. 10. The new government of the United States went\\ninto operation in the spring of 1789, and General Washington\\ntook the oaths of office on Mt\u00c2\u00ab:4ik~44b, as the first President of\\nthe Republic. In November the Legislature and a new\\nC onvention both met at Fayetteville, and on the 21st the\\nConstitution of the United States was speedily ratified, and\\nNorth Carolina was enrolled as a member of the new confed-\\neracy, which was to astonish all nations by the vigor of its rule\\nand the splendor and rapidity of its growth as a nation.\\nBefore this, however, the first ten amendments to the Consti-\\ntution had been proposed to the Legislatures of the several\\nStates for ratification, there})y allaying the apprehensions that\\nhad been felt at Hillsboro the year before.\\n1790. IL Two important matters were also settled at this\\nperiod. The convention at Hillsboro limited the seat of the\\nNote. The .State Convention ol 1788 was commissioned to select a place\\nfor the seat of goverment, which had been migratory since the earliest days\\nof the Carolina colony. The place selected for the capital was the farm of\\nIsaac Hunter, at Wake Conrt House, or some other place within ten miles\\nof that locality, to be determined l)V the General Assembly.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "172 IIISTOIIY OF XOKTII CAROLINA.\\nState goveriiinent to sonic point in Wake county. Tlicca])ital\\nliad l)ccn migrating from town to town for nearly the Avhole\\nperiod of North CaroHna s existence. The Legishiture also\\npassed a l)ill creating the University of Xorth Carolina, and\\nthe terms of the Halifax Constitution, as to popular education,\\nAvere thus first put in to some shape of accomplishment. Both\\nof these measures were highly needed.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What (juestion was excitini;: the people of North Carolina at this\\nperiod? What was thought of the Confederation\\n2. How were the people of the State divided upon this great (piestion\\n3. What other party was formed What were they called, and what\\npowers-did they pro[)ose to give to the general government?\\n4. What convention was to meet in 1787\\n5. WMu) were chosen to represent North Carolin;i in that body?\\nO. Who was chosen President of the Convention? How was the new\\nConstitution to be submitted to the people?\\n7. What convention met in Hillsboio in 1788? How did some of the\\nprominent members view the question\\n8. What (lifTerent opinion was held by other leading men? What did\\nthe Convention do with the onstitution\\n9. What was the effect upon the State? What other States also failed\\nto ratify\\n10. When did the new government go into operation Who was\\nchosen Hrst President of the ITnited States? When and wliere did North\\nCarolina ratify the Constitution and become a member of the united\\ngovernment?\\n11. \\\\Vhat two impoi tant matters were settled at this period", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "FEANrE AND AMERICA. 1 V\\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\\nFRANCE AND AMERICA.\\nA. D. 1790 TO 1794.\\nWlien North Carolina had thus taken her place in the\\nFederal ITnion, and the whole system of State and National\\npolity became perfected in America, many hearts beat with\\ngratitnde to God for the promises of a ii;lorions fnture. The\\nmagnificent realm won by the blood of heroes was at last\\nguarded by a system of laws so wise and eifective that peace\\nand prosperity were soon to make it one of the greatest of\\ncivilized lands.\\n2* This example of freedom achieved in the wilds of\\nAmerica was speedily felt in Europe. General Washington\\nhad been in the discharge of his duties as President about a\\nmonth, when the States-General of France met in the famous\\nconvention which was to pull down the ancient French\\nmonarchy and engulf all Europe in seas of blood. The over-\\ntaxed and excitable Frenchmen were maddened by the contrast\\nafforded in their sufferings and the blessings achieved by their\\nlate allies on the other side of the Atlantic.\\n3. Governor Caswell, while in the discharge of his duties as\\na member of the State Senate, died at Fayetteville, in the\\nmonth of December, 1789. He was shortly followed in death\\nby William Hooper and Archibald Maclaine. Willie Jones\\nhad retired from public life and thus, four most consjjicuous\\nleaders almost simultaneously disappeared from public life.\\n4. Colonel William R. Davie, of Halifax, John Haywood,\\nof the same county, and Alfred Moore, of Brunswick, were", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "74 irisToRY OF Noirnr caholina.\\ngreatly infiiiential, and wore w(\u00c2\u00bbrtliy succes.sors of the older\\nservants of tlie })iil)lie who had been thn.s removed from the\\narena of their former usefuhiess. Governor Johnston having\\nbeen elected United States Senator, was sneeeeded as Governor\\nby Alexander Martin.\\n1792. It Avas during this second term of Governor\\nMartin s rule that Raleigh was selected for the State capital.\\nA large tract of land at Wake Court House had been bought\\nof Colonel Joel Lane, and upon it a city was laid oif and the\\npublic buildings erected. Before that time, since Governor\\nTryon s palace at New Bern had been burned, the main ques-\\ntion to be determined by every General Assembly was what\\ntown should be selected for holding the next session.\\n6. Fayetteville, Hillsboro, New Bern and Tarboro were sure\\nto get up an excitement and contest as to which of them should\\nbe next favored with the presence of the State officers and the\\nGeneral Assembly. The Governor and his assistants had been\\ndwelling wherever it best suited them, and the public records\\nhad thus been (\u00e2\u0096\u00bantinually migrating over the State.\\n7. Thei c was little churcli organization in .Vmerica until\\nafter the Revolution. There was not a single Bishop of the\\nEpiscopal Church in all America before the Revolution, and\\nnot until 1 789 was an effoi-t made to suj)ply such a prelate for\\nthe Cliurch in Xorth Carolina. Tlie Rev. Charles Pettigrew\\nwas then elected IJisho]) of the Diocese by a convention at\\nTarboro, but he died before consecration.\\nS. The Ba])tists had united their chui ches in this State and\\nsouthern Virginia, in 1 7G in a body which was called the\\nKehukee Association. In 1770 the Presbyterians had\\nformed the Presb3 tery of Orange; and in 1788 they set off the\\nSvnods of the Carol inas. The Quakers and Moravians were", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "F RAXOE AND AMERICA. 175\\nflourishing in certain .sections, but as yet the Methodist mis-\\nsionaries had effected but little in the way of planting churches\\nin North Carolina.\\n9. Richard Dobbs Spaight, in 1792, became Governor, and\\nwas the first native North Carolinian to fill that distinguished\\noffice. He possessed much ability and was familiar with the\\nconduct of public affairs. He found that great excitement and\\ndivision existed among the people as to the French Revolu-\\ntion. Because aid had been sent from that country to the\\nstruggling American colonists, many men insisted that it was\\nthe duty of America to take sides with France in the war then\\nraging in Europe.\\n1794. 10. General Washington, and other wise men,\\nresisted this dangerous opinion, and held that America should\\ntake no part in the affairs of foreign nations. The great\\nstruggle went on, with Napoleon Bonaparte rapidly growing-\\nmore formidable to the allied kings.\\n11. The French had acquired a thirst for freedom from\\nAmerica, but they in turn exerted an influence u])on the\\nreligious creeds of our people. French books and modes of\\nthought and French fashions became popular, and the country\\ndebating clubs were heard repeating the doubts and sneers of\\nVoltaire, I)iderot and other Frencli infidels.\\n12. The world s creeds were on trial. Kings and priests\\nwere as keenly criticised as in the sixteenth century, but out of\\nall the turmoil and bloodshed a larger measure of liberty was\\nto be won. Constitutional kings and purified churches were\\nthe outgrowth and result of the most prodigious uproar yet\\nwitnessed among civilized nations.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "17() HISTORY OF XOIITH (AROUXA.\\n(QUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the tVi lin. in North (nrolina alter the State had joined\\nthe Union?\\n2. How were the eHeets of Anietican freedom felt in Enrope?\\n3. What great leaders disappeared from Noi tli Carolina s coniicils at\\nthis time?\\n4. What men were fast rising to infiiience? Who became Governor?\\n5. When was Kaleigh selected as the capital? Wiiy was locating the\\ncapital of great good to the State? Go to the map and point ont the city\\nof Kaleigli.\\nG. What contest would generally ai-ise at meetings of the Assembly?\\n7. What mention is made of religions matteis?\\n8. How were the Baptists, Presbyterians and other Christian bodies\\nextending their fields of usefnlness?\\n9. Who became Governor in 1792? What is said of him? What\\ncpiestions did Governor Spaight fmd agitating the people when he came\\ninto office?\\n10. How was this matter considered by General Washington and others?\\n11. How were the works of celebrated French writers atlecting the peo-\\nple of America?\\n12. What was to be the conclusion of alt these tronbles?\\nlliiii ml", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "THE FEDEUALISTS AND THE REIHTRLICANS. 177\\nCHAPTER XL.\\nTHE FEDERALTSTS AND THE REPUBLTCANS.\\nA. D. 1794 TO 1800.\\nIn the last days of the eighteenth century men became more\\nand more plainly divided into two political parties. Thomas\\nJefferson, of Virginia, a man of decided genius and consum-\\nmate ability, was the leader of those who maintained that the\\ngovernment of the United States should be strictly limited to\\nthe powers expressly granted in the Federal Constitution and\\nprohibited from the use of juiy of those reserved to the indi-\\nvidual States.\\n2. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, another very able\\nand patriotic statesman, took an entirely different view. He\\ndid not consider the peojile capable of ruling the country,\\nand wished t(} subordinate the State governments to Federal\\nauthority. The Federalists were those who followed his\\nviews, while the Republicans were no less strenuous in\\nupholding Mr. Jefferson and his policy.\\n3. The Superior Courts of this State, after the resignation\\nof Judge Iredell, were held, as in old provincial times, at the\\nsix favored villages, by Judges Samuel Ashe, Samuel Spencer\\nand John Taylor. In the year 1794, Judge Spencer came to\\nhis death in a singular manner. He was in extreme old age,\\nand had suffered with a long and wasting illness. One warm\\nevening he was carried out and laid upon the grass, beneath a\\ntree in his yard. While lying there the red flannel of his\\nshirt infuriated a large turkev-gr bbler, which attacked him", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "178 nisToiiv OF Noirnr caholixa.\\nwith great violence. When Judge Spencer s fee])le cries\\niittracted attention, he had been so injured that he soon after\\ndied of nervous exhaustion.\\n4. In accordance with the law of 1 790, the provisions of\\nthe Constitution of 177G were first seen in process of fulfill-\\nment when the trustees, after mature deliberation, selected\\nChapel Hill, in Orange countv, as the site of the State Uni-\\nversity. Here, upon one of a long range of great hills\\ntraversing that region, they secured several hundred acres on\\nthe crest of a noble elevation that overlooks the surrounding\\ncountry.\\n5. In 1793 the corner-stone of the East Buildino: was laid\\nfor the University at Chapel Hill. Colonel Davie, as Grand\\nMaster of the Masons in the State, officiated; as did also\\nRev. Dr. McCorkle, who delivered an eloquent address to the\\ncitizens who had assembled from all parts of the State to do\\nhonor to the occasion.\\n1795. 6. In 1795, the buildings and faculty having been\\nmade ready, the institution Avas regularly opened for the recep-\\ntion of students. The Rev. David Kerr and Samuel A.\\nHolmes constituted the faculty, and Hinton James, of AVilming-\\nton, was the first student to arrive. Thus began an institution\\nof le^u ning in which distinguished men were to be 2)repared\\nfor usefulness in almost every honorable employment among\\ncivilized men.\\n7. Tennessee had been conveyed to the general government\\nsoon after the ratification of the United States Constitution,\\nNorth Carolina reservino; to herself the ri Iit to locate land\\nwarrants in a certain portion. During the administration of\\nGovernor Ashe, A\\\\ho had succeeded Alexander Martin, manv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "THE FEDERALISTS AND THE REPUBLICANS. 179\\nand extensive frauds in land warrants were concocted by James\\nGlasgow, Secretary of State, Martin Armstrong, John Arm-\\nstrong and Stokeley Donnelson.\\n1797. 8. Immense tracts of land were located under\\nfictitious boundaries, and not only the Continental soldiers, but\\nalso the States and the United States were thus swindled by\\nthese officers, who had been long honored and trusted in North\\nCarolina.\\n9. Courts were ordered to be held by the General Assend)ly\\nfor the trial of these distinguished culprits; and in 1799 they\\nwere convicted and punished by heavy fines and the loss of\\ntheir offices. Judge John Haywood resigned his plac\u00c2\u00ab on the\\nbench, and instead of trying, defended the malefactors, one of\\nwhom paid him one thousand dollars as a fee for his services.*\\nA few years before a similar scene had occurred, when Benja-\\nmin JMcCulloh M d^ convicted at Warrenton and punished for\\nlike offi^nses.\\n10. The excitement between Republicans and Federalists\\ngrew in intensity. John Adams had succeeded General Wash-\\nington as President, and he -was one of the most violent of the\\nFederal party. French agents and apologists became more\\noffi^nsive in their demands for American aid. President\\nAdams procured the passage of laws by Congress that startled\\nand confounded many good citizens,\\n11. These Alien and Sedition Acts armed Federal author-\\nities with the power to seize and send out of the country,\\nwithout trial, any foreigner who might become offensive to\\n^Nnrth Carolina had honored James Glasgow by giving his name to one\\nof the counties of the State, but in consetinencx^ of his disgrace the name\\nof CJlasgow county was stricken from the list, and the county named in\\nhonor of (jenoral Nathaniel Greene.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "180 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nthem; also to indict in the District or Circuit Courts of the\\nUnited States any writer or publisher whom the grand juries\\nmight charge with Hbel.\\n1798-99. 12. Virginia and Kentucky thereupon hastened\\nto pass the famous resolutions of 179 S- 99, according to which\\nthe Federal Constitution is simply a covenant between the\\nStates as States^ and each party has an equal right to judge\\nfor itself, as well of infraction as of the mode and measure of\\nredress/ and to put the battle in array for another great\\nstruggle as to the respective powers of the States and the\\nUnion. President Adams and the Federalists were over-\\nwhelmingly beaten in the contest of 1800, and the Republican\\n])arty went into possession of all the offices by which State and\\nFederal powers were to be defined.\\n13. A much greater portion of the wisest and most expe-\\nrienced statesmen had been ranked, until this time, with the\\nFederalists, but that creed soon grew into such disfavor that\\nfew politicians could be found to do it reverence. And\\nthis, it may be safely asserted, has been the experience of the\\nAmerican people whenever the majority of them has differed\\nfrom the learned few. The masses have been, in almost every\\nInstance, Aviser than those who thus sought to control their\\nviews.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wliat was observed towards the latter days of tlie eigliteenth cen-\\ntury? Who was one of the political leaders? What views did Mr.\\nJefferson hold\\n2. Who was the leader of the other great political party? What was\\nMr. Hamilton s policy?\\n3. What is said of the Superior Courts and the Judges? Describe the\\nsingulai- manner of .Judge Spencer s death.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "THE FEDERALISTS AND THE REPUBLICANS. 181\\n4. What is said of tlie University? Wiien was its seat selected, and\\nwhere\\n5. When was the corner-stone of the East Building laid? Who offi-\\nciated W^ho delivered the address?\\n6. When was the University regularly opened Who constituted the\\nFaculty? Who was the first student to enter What has been the labors\\nof this institution?\\n7. What land frauds were perpetrated in 1795? Who were the guilty\\npersons?\\n8. What was the nature of these frauds?\\nO. Give some account of the trial of these offenders?\\n10. What was the condition of affairs throughout the United States at\\nthis period\\n11. What was the effect of the Alien and Sedition Laws\\n12. What was done by Virginia and Kentucky? What were the reso-\\nlutions of 1798-99? What party came into power in 1800?\\n13. What is said of the Federalists", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "182 HISTOPvY OF NOliTJI CAllOLINA.\\nCHAPTER XLI.\\nCLOSING OF THE EIGHT EP:NTH CENTURY.\\nA. D. 1800 TO 1802.\\nGeneral Davie ceased to be Governor to become one of three\\nCommissioners to Paris. He had been appointed JNIajor-Gen-\\neral to command North Carolina s contingent, Avhen it seemed\\nthat Avar with France Avas inevitable; bnt that danger liad\\nhai)})ily passed, and he Avas sent oA^er to arrange the A exed\\nqnestions growing out of the Berlin and Milan decrees.*\\n2. Among the members sent from Xortli Carolina to Con-\\ngress, Nathaniel Macon, of Warren, soon became conspicuous\\nfor his A^irtues and Aveight of character. Perhaps no other\\nmember of Congress ever AA ielded so lasting and powerful an\\ninfluence. Plis unquestioned sagacity, integrity and inflexible\\nadhesion to Avhat he believed to be right, and his unselflsh\\ndevotion to the public good, made his o])positi()n to any measure\\nahnost necessarily fatal to its passage in the House to AV^hich\\nhe belonged.\\n3. There Avas grief in the last hours of the century, wiien\\nit became knoAvn that (jeneral Washington had died in his\\nretirement at Mt. Vernon. Judge James Iredell had also died\\nabout the same time. He had been one of the Associate Jus-\\ntices of the Supreme Court of the United States by the ai)point-\\nment of (jcneral AVashiiigton, and fell a victini to the enormous\\nlabors incurred in riding the great distances iuA^olVed in attend-\\nin ii; his different Circuit Courts.\\nTil ese decrees were Xaiiolion s e(li)rts to relaliiite for British hloekade\\nmeasures a ainst Franee. The great comiueror ibrbade all iMirojJe from\\ncuminereial iiilercoiii-.se with liis Kn^ li.sh enemies.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "CLOSING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. l8o\\n1800. 4. This was, perhaps, the golden age of social enjoy-\\nments in North Carolina. The Quakers were Abolitionists, as\\nwere also many other good people; but the question had not\\nbeen agitated and thei^e was nothing to give uneasiness to\\nmasters or false hopes to the slaves. These lattei* shared largely\\nin the festivities of the white people, and were free for many\\nyears to come to conduct their religious services in any way\\nthat seemed best to their wild and fantastic notions.\\n5. The President had appointed Alfred Moore as the suc-\\ncessor of Judge Iredell on the Supreme Court Bench. He\\nwas also a great lawyer. Judge Haywood had left North\\nCarolina and was a citizen of Tennessee, but from William\\nGaston, Archil^ald Henderson and Archibald D. INIurphy the\\nBar received fresh lionors; while John Stanly, David Stone,\\nJoshua G. Wright and Peter Browne had begun attendance\\nupon the courts, in which they v/ere to win great reputations.\\n6. There had been considerable change effected in the courts.\\nBy the statute of 1799 four ridings were established. The\\nJudges, after riding- these circuits, were retpiircd to meet in\\nBaleigh to try appeals. The sheriffs Avere no longer obliged\\nto march with drawn swords befjre the Judges as they went\\nto and from the court-houses, nor were the lawyers compelled\\nto appear arrayed in gowns in the trial of cases.\\n1802. 7. Governor Benjamin Williams had succeeded\\nGeneral Davie. Among Williams last official acts was the\\npardoning of John Stanly for killing ex-Governor Spaight in\\na duel. This had occurred on Sunday, September 5th, 1802,\\nand was the outgrowth of a bitter political controversy.\\nSpaight was a Republican, aud liad warmly ()])posed the elec-\\ntion of the able and impulsive young leader of the Federalists.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "184 HISTORY OF NORTH C^SROLINi^.\\n8. Ill the same year oceiirred the exodus of the remnant of\\ntlie Tusearoras from Bertie county. Tlie reservation on\\nJtoanoke River, which had been granted them for good con-\\n(hict in the Indian war of 1711, was sold by them to private\\nl)arties, and they emigrated to New York, where the other\\nl)arts of the tribe had long been located.\\n9. Among the laws of the Legislature of 1802 was a statute\\n})roviding for the payment, to the patentees of the cotton-gin\\nof a given sum for every saw used in each machine. This\\nimplement had been recently invented by Eli Whitney, who\\nwas a young man from New England, engaged in teaching\\nschool in Georgia.\\n10. Before this time only small patches of cotton had been\\nseen in the Southern States. The lint was picked from the\\nseed only by hand, and so slow Avas the process that a shoe full\\nof the seed cotton was a task usually given to l)e done between\\nsupper and bed-time. Whitney s invention was soon to affect the\\nagriculture and commerce of the world. The cotton-gin has\\ngreatly aided the development of all civilized nations. It has\\nbuilt cities, freighted mighty* fleets, and given employment to\\nmany millions of the human race.\\n1 1 Attention has already been called to the effects of French\\natheism upon the United States. The tide of unbelief rolled\\non until many religious people trembled for the creed and\\nmorals of American people. Its terrible influence was seen\\nand felt in almost every department and employment of life.\\n12. In 1802 a mighty religious movement began in Ken-\\ntucky, and spread over a large portion of the Republic. Vast\\nassemblages of the people were seen at the camp-meetings. For\\nweeks together the ordinary avocations of life were abandoned", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "CLOSING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 185\\nby multitudes in order to engage in religious worship; and, in\\nthe end, the ehurehes were re-inforeed by many thousands of\\nnew members.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What lionors were conferred upon (Jovenior Davie?\\n2. Wlio was North Carolina s lucst able re^jresentalive in Congrc^-s?\\nTell something of the character of Nathaniel Macon.\\n3. What great grief came upon the nation at this period? What\\nprominent man died in North Carolina at this time? Can you state some-\\nthing of his life?\\n4. What is this period called in the history of North Carolina? What\\nwas the condition of the slaves?\\n5. What is said of prominent lawyers?\\n6. Mention some changes which were made in the court system.\\n7. Who had succeeded Governor Davie as Chief-Magistrate? What\\nwas one of his last official acts? Give an account of the duel.\\n8. To what |)lace did the Tuscaroras emigrate in 1802?\\nO. What law was passed by the Legislature in favor of the inventor of\\nthe cotton-gin? Who was the inventor?\\n10. Give an account of the preparation of the cotton for use both before\\nand after this great invention.\\n11. What was the religious condition of the country?\\nlii. Give an account of the iri eat religious revival of 1802.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "18G HlSTOPwY OF XOIITII CAPJJLINA.\\nCHAPTER XLII.\\nGR WTII A NI) EX PA ySION.\\nA. D. 1802 TO 1812.\\nThe R( public of Auierlca wa; wi^^ely ruled during the eight\\nyears of i\\\\[r. Jeflersoii s aduiiiiistratioii as l*resident. He was\\nnot only the greatest of political philosophers^ but a consuni-\\nniate party leader. Under his management the Federalists\\nwere so completely won over that even ex-President John\\nAdams was found among the electors who voted for Jefferson s\\nre-election.\\n2. Vermont, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee were added to\\nthe list of States, and the vast territory known as Louisiana\\nwas purchased from France and made a portion of the Ameri-\\ncan Union. For this magnificent territory the United States\\npaid fifteen million dollars. But with all this evidence of\\ninternal advancement, there was unnecessary and ever-growing\\ntroul)le with foreign powers.\\n1804-. 3. Great Britain had not only failed to carry out\\nthe conditions of the treaty of Paris, but continual trouble\\nand war with the western Indians were traced to the plotting\\nof British agents. In Europe, on the high seas, American\\nships were frequently subjected to wrong and indignity by\\nBritish cruisers, which seized their cargoes or crews on various\\n])retexts. These maddening interferences were fast bringing\\nthe people of the ITnited States to a determination to vindicate,\\nby arms, their claims as a free and independent ])eo])le.\\nEnro])e was still cnnNul.-cd by war. Napoleon Bonaparte had", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "GliOWTH AND EXPANSION. 187\\nbeen crowned Emperor, and in the mighty struggle the\\nclaims of the aggrieved Republic were overlooked or despised.\\n4. The people of North Carolina were still in great want\\nof general education. The University, at Chapel Hill, was\\nsending out graduates who had already conferred honor upon\\nthat seat of learning; but the preparatory schools, so neces-\\nsary as feeders to such an establishment, were few and far\\nbetween.\\n5. Rev. William Bingham had begun a school in the eastern\\npart of the State. He removed temporarily to Pittsboro, but\\nfinally settled at Hillsboro and established the academy which\\nis even at this day continued near by, at Mebaneville, under\\nthe management of one of his descendants. This school,\\ndating from 1793, was, even in its infancy, of marked excel-\\nlence, and has won more reputation than any similar institution\\nin the Southern States. Rev. Dr. David Caldwell s school\\nin Guilford, Rev. J. O. Freeman s in Murfreesboro, and a few\\nacademies in the villages, however meritorious, produced but\\nslight effect upon the great mass of the people.\\n6. There had not been opened a single free school in all the\\nState. Occasionally there could be found neighborhoods\\nwhere a few citizens joined in employing a man to teach the\\nelementary branches of English education, but these were\\ngenerally attended for only a few months, and were not very\\nadmirable either for discipline or in the matters taught.\\n1805. 7. The people of the interior and west were becom-\\ning anxious for some means of conveyance and travel to the\\nouter world. The crops raised were generally too bulky to\\npay for expensive transportation over long distances, and for this\\nreason were available to feed only the community in which they\\nAvere o;rown. Tobacco from all the c(junties in the northern", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "188 HISTORY OF XORTH CAROLINA.\\nportion of the State was t)iiveyed to iiuirket by rolling the\\nhogsheads containing it alono; tlie roads^ to markets at Peters-\\nburg in Virginia, and Fayetteville.\\n8. In the regions of the long-leaf pine much attention was\\ngiven to the preparation of turpentine and tar. Indeed, so\\nlarge a trade grew up in these articles, that some people abroad\\ncame to think that North Carolina produced little else. There\\nwere no turpentine distilleries to be found, at this time, in\\nNorth Carolina and the crude product of the tree was shipped\\nfrom our ])orts to be manufactured in other States.\\n6. In 1805, during the sessions of the Legislature, General\\nJames Wellborn, of Wilkes, introduced a proposition to build,\\nat the State s expense, a turnpike from Beaufort Harbor to the\\nmountains but this and all other such improvements were\\nneglected for some; time to come.\\n1810. 10. The canal through the Dismal Swamp was to\\nprove very beneficial to eastern counties but this work, though\\nauthorized long l)efbre, was yet unfinished. Vessels to Ne^v\\nYork or Baltimore still passed out to sea by the dangers of\\nCape Hatteras, and not unfre(|uentl} both cargo and crew\\nAV cre engulfed amid its cruel sands.\\n11. There was, at this period of our histoiy, a brisk tvadv\\nbetween the West Indies and several of the eastern towns.\\nWilmington, New Bern, Washington and Edenton were all\\nlargely engaged in the shipment of staves and provisions;\\nimporting salt and tro])ical stores in return. This, and all\\nother foreign tra le, was ruthlessly st(\u00c2\u00bb])])c(l l)y the embargo\\nlaid by Congress.\\n12. Tliis embargo was the result of an act of Congress\\nwhidi forbade the exportation of all goods from the United\\nStates to Great Britain or her dependencies. It was very", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "GKOWTir AND EXPANSION. 18J)\\nsimilar to the expedient resorted to by the Second Continental\\nCongress for a like purpose, but was not enforced by any\\nvoluntary associations of the people, as it Avas in 1775.\\n1812. 13. This extreme measure failed to bring Great\\nBritain to a surrender of her claim to search American ships;\\nand on the 19th of June, for this and other just causes war\\nwas declared against her. Mr. Madison would have temporized\\nand still deferred the dreadful expedient, but the American\\npeople were resolved upon indemnity for the past and security\\nfor the future; and thus two kindred nations were to waste\\nblood and treasure in an unnecessary quarrel.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Who was President of tlie United States at this period? What is\\nsaid of Jefferson s rule?\\n2. What States were added to the Union? What great territory was\\npurchased\\n3. How had Great Britain kept the treaty of Paris? What indignities\\nwere offered to the American people? How were these things affecting\\nthe people\\n4. What is said of educational matters?\\n5. WHiat mention is made of the Bingham School? What other schools\\nare mentioned?\\n6. What was the condition of free education?\\n7. In what things were ti e people of the interior and west becoming\\nspecially interested\\n8. What is said of the })roduction of turpentine and tar?\\n9. What was proposed by General James Wellborn to the Legislature\\nof 1805?\\n10. Give a general description of coast navigation at this time.\\n11. Give some particulars concerning trade.\\n12. Explain the embargo act.\\n13. What war was declared in 1812?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "190 ITISTOUY OF NORTH (VVP.OLIXA.\\nCHAPTER XLIII.\\nSECOND WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN.\\nA. D. 1812 TO 1815.\\nJames Turiierj of WaiTcn Nathaniel Alexander, of Meek-\\nlenburg; David Stone, of Bertie, and Benjamin Smith, of\\nBriinswiek, had served in tnrn as Governors of North Caro-\\nlina during the years of growth and expansion described in\\nthe last chapters. William Hawkins, of Granville, was chosen\\nto the same high office in 1812, and, as Commander-in-Chief\\nof all the State s forces, felt lunisnal responsibilit}^ in prospect\\nof war even then begun between Great Britain and the [Tnited\\nStates.\\n1813. 2. It was the pur})ose of the ^Vmerican government\\nto seize Canada and carry on hostilities, as nuich as possible,\\nin that portion of America. As no great army was assembled\\nat any one point, no call was made upon North Carolina for\\ntroops to be sent outside of her borders, except to Norfolk, in\\nA ^irginia. .At that ])lace Major-General Thomas Brown, of\\nBladen, was in coimnand of a division sent from North (Wo-\\nlina.\\n3. General Brown was a veteran of the Revolution, and had\\nrendered heroic service at Elizabethtown and elsewhere during\\nthat lon and arduous struo^a^le. His brio^ade conunanders\\nwere General Thomas Davis, of Fayetteville, and General\\nJames F. Dickhison, of Murfreesboro.\\n4. Camps were also established and troops held for action at\\nother points. The western levies were collected at Wadesbon^,\\nunder dfcneral Alexander (iri ay, and were drilled and ke])t in", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "SF.COND WAR WITH (lUEAT BPJTAIX. 11)1\\nreadiness to be marched to the relief of either Wilmington or\\nCharleston. Colonel Maurice Moore at Wilmington^ and\\nLieutenant-Colonel John Roberts at Beaufort, commanded\\ngarrisons for the defense of these sea-ports.\\n1814. 5. In the American army on the northern frontier,\\nwhere Winfield Scott, of Virginia, was winning laurels, were\\ntwo North Carolina officers who were also rising to distinction.\\nThese were William Gibbs McNeill, of Bladen, and William\\nMcRee, of Wilmington. Both became Colonels in the corps\\nof engineers. Amid the frequent disasters and exhibitions of\\nincompetency on the part of other officers in that department,\\nthese gallant men were of great credit to America and to\\nNorth Carolina.\\n(3. On the sea, where the mighty fleets of Great Britain had\\nat such fearful disadvantage the few cruisers of their opponents,\\nwere also to be found brilliant representatives of this Common-\\nwealth. Captain Johnson Blakeley, of Wilmington, had been\\nreared by Colonel Edward Jones, the Solicitor-General of\\nNorth Carolina. He had already made reputation in the\\nMediterranean Sea under Commodore Preble.\\n7. Early in 1814 he went to sea in the United States sloop-\\nof-war Wasjo, and captured, with great eclat, the British sloop-\\nof-war Reindeer. Having burned this prize for fear of its\\nrecapture, he refitted in a Erench port, and in August encoun-\\ntered another British ship, the Avon. The British vessel had\\nstruck her colors, when a fleet of the enemy came upon the\\nscene and the victorious Wasj) was forced to fly. In a few\\ndays Blakeley, thus cruising over the crowded seas surroiuid-\\ning England, captured fifteen merchant vessels. On one of\\nthese, the brig Atcdanta, he put a prize crew and sent her to\\nthe United States.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "H)2 HLSTOPvY OF XORTII CAROT.TXA.\\n8. This is the hist that is known of tliis galhnit and ill-\\nfated officer. He perished in some unknown manner at sea,\\nbut has left an imperishable name to our keeping.\\n9. Captain Otway l^urns, of Beaufort, was the eonunander\\nof a cruiser known as the Smip-JDrar/on. With this privateer\\nhe h)ng roamed the seas, and was victorious in many well-\\nfought actions. He survived the war and was afterwards a\\nmember of the Legislature. The village of Burnsville was\\nnamed in his honor.\\n10. In addition to the troops already mentioned, a regiment\\nconnnanded by Colonel Joseph Graham, so highly distin-\\nguished in the Revolution, was sent against Billy Weathersford\\nand his Cr^^ek warriors, who had massacred nearly three hun-\\ndred white people in Fort Minims, on the Alabama River.\\nAnother North Carolinian by birth. General Andrew Jackson,\\nof Tennessee, was in command of the force sent to aveuire\\nthis outrage of the red men.*\\n11. So swiftly and completely had Jackson done his work,\\nthat ^vhen the Korth Carolina regiment arrived there was\\nnothing left to do; for, as Weathersford declared, his braves\\nwere all dead, and the war ended. The Indians were required,\\nas a preliminary to peace, to bring in their fugitive chief,\\nWeathersford. That bold and able half-breed did not Avait for\\narrest ujion hearing these terms, but rode into General Jack-\\nson s camp, and in surrendering himself, boldly announced that\\nhe did so because he no longer had warriors to continue the\\nstruggle. I have nothing to ask for myself, said he, but\\nI want ])eace for my ])eo])le.\\n*General Andrew Jackson was horn in MocUK nl)iir ,i,M()un1y, (ui the Mtli\\n(lav of March, 17(i7.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "SECOND WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 193\\n1815. 12. Peace was soon made between the United States\\nand Great Britain, and the two nations, after struggling for\\neach other s injury for three years, agreed to stop without\\nsettling a single one of the causes of the war. England did\\nnot even agree to cease impressing men from the United States\\nnavy, but this teas no moi^e prctdiced. The treaty of peace was\\nratified by the United States Senate Fe})ruary 7th, 1815.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What Governoi s had served in North Carolina (hiring the years just\\nconsidered Who was Governor at the beginning of the year of 1812?\\n2. How had the United States proposed to conduct tiie campaign? What\\ntroops did North Carolina furnish? AVho was in command?\\n3. What is said of (xeneral Krovvn s past record Who were his brigade\\nconmianders?\\n4. What military preparations were made in North Carolina?\\ne5. What two Nortli Carolina officers were winning distinction under\\nGeneral Winfield Scott? In what branch of the army were they serving?\\nO. What is said of affairs on the seas? What North Carolina naval\\nofficer was distinguishing himself?\\n7. Give an account of some of his bold and heroic exploits. How many\\nEnglish vessels did he capture?\\n8. What is known of him after this?\\nO. What oilier seaman was distinguishing himself for his bravery?\\nHow is his name commemorated in the State?\\n10. Who was sent against the Indians? What great (general was in\\nconunand of all this force?\\n11. WHiat was the success of General Jackson s expedition?\\n12. What is said of the end of the war of 1812?\\n13", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "194 HISTORY OF XORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER XLIY.\\nAFTER THE STORM.\\nA. D. 1815 TO 1821.\\nWlien hostilities ceased it seemed a great thing to the people\\nof North Carolina once more to enjoy the full benefits of trade\\nand commerce. British cruisers had made all foreign com-\\nmodities very scarce and costly. Salt had been made on the\\nsea-coast in limited quantities, but of inferior quality. It was,\\ntherefore, gratifying to the people to see the stores again filled\\nwith goods of every description.\\n2. When this period of its history had been reached, the\\nState Ayas divided into sixty-two counties. Each of these sent\\nannually to the General Assembly one Senator and two mem-\\nbers of the House of Commons. Edenton, New Bern, Wil-\\nniington, Fayetteville, Hillsboro, Halifax and Salisbury were\\ncalled borough towns and, by virtue of this superior dig-\\nnity, each sent, in addition to the county members, a represen-\\ntative to the lower House of Assembly.\\n8. The Moravian settlement at Salem had prospered, and\\ntliough no great numbers of that sect had come over from\\nEurope, yet much wisdom and thrift were seen in the affairs\\nof Wachovia. A female seminary of real excellence and great\\n])opularity had been founded in 1804, and young ladies from\\nall the Southern States were receivino^ a o;ood education in this\\nretired and healthful region.\\n4. Raleigh then contained about eight hundred people;\\nFayetteville tvyice as many. Wilmington and New Bern were\\nthe largest and most important towns in the State, but were\\nstill limited in ]K\u00c2\u00bb])ulnti()n and trade. Edenton and Halifax", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "APTER THE STORM. 19o\\nliad eacli lost importance, and many villages were surpassing\\nthem both in number of inhabitants and in extent of trade.\\n1819. ^3. Dr. Joseph Caldwell had been, for many years,\\nPresident of the University. He came from New Jersey\\nto make North Carolina his future home, and gave the\\nState of his adoption so laborious and useful a* devotion that\\nhis name will be cherished in its limits so long as learning and\\npatriotism are valued. He was not only making the college\\nfamous for the excellence of its appointments, but internal\\nimprovement was advocated by him so intelligently and zealously\\nthat the general apathy on the two great subjects of education\\nand inter-comnuinication was passing away.\\n6. The churches Vvcre likewise providing for increased effect\\namong the people. The Methodist Conference was each year\\nadding to the number of its churches and itinerant preachers.\\nThe Baptists had added the Chowan^ as a coadjutor to\\nsimilar bodies known as Sandy Creek and Kehukee^^\\nAssociations.\\n7. The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, in 1816, per-\\nfected its oi-ganization by the election and consecration of\\nBishop John Stark Ravenscroft. He was a man of strong\\ncharacter and eminent piety and usefulness. As a preacher he\\nwas held in equal reverence with another distinguished divine\\nof that day, the Rev. John Kerr, of Caswell, a leader among\\nthe Baptists.\\nNote. In 1827, Dr. Caldwell delivered an exceedingly able address before\\nthe Legislature, on the subject of railways, and a considerable interest was\\nawakened. The first railway in the United States was built in 1826. This\\nwas in Massachusetts, and was only two miles long. It was known as the\\nQuincey Railroad. The first passenger railway was the Baltimore and\\nOhio road, fifteen miles long, and was regularly opened in 1830. The cars\\nwere drawn bv horses until the next vear, when a locomotive was used.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "19(j HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n8. The Presbyterian Synod also contained many able and\\nexcellent ministers. Rey. Drs. Samuel E. McCorkle, David\\nC al(h\\\\ ell and James Hall ^yere greatly esteemed for their learn-\\ning and deyotion. This church was especially active and\\nefficient in refutino; the teachino^s of the French atheists.\\n9. William Gaston and Bartlett Yancey Avere leaders among\\nthe statesmen of North Carolina at this period. They were\\nboth greatly distinguished for eloquence and ability. For\\npurity (\u00e2\u0096\u00baf character they have not been surpassed in all our\\naimals. Another James Iredell had arisen in Chowan county,\\nand in Craven were John Stanly and young George E. Badger.\\nIn Caswell appeared Romulus M. Saunders, another young\\nlawyer of tine abilities, who became a distinguished citizen of\\nthe State.\\n10. The establishment of the Supreme Court, in 1818, on\\nits present basis, was largely the work of Bartlett Yancey.\\nJohn Louis Taylor, the Chief-Justice, with Leonard Henderson\\nand John Hall as Associates, constituted a tribunal whieh was\\nsoon to win the veneration of American lawyers.\\n1820. 1 1 This has been called the era of Good Feeling\\nin .\\\\merican politics. But the question of slavery in the\\nterritoi ies was fast assuming a dangerous importance.\\n12. The Northern States objected to the admission of any\\nmore slave States. The Southern would consent to no such\\nj)rohibition. The storm gr)e\\\\y louder, until it Avas temporarily\\nsettled by the Missouri Compromise of March 3d, 1820,\\nwhich ])rovided that henceforward slavery should be forever\\nforbidden north of the parallel of 36\u00c2\u00b0 60 The news of\\nwhich, however, Mr. Jefferson declared fell on his ears like\\na iirc-l)( ll at night.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "AFTER THE STORM. 197\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the condition of North Carolina after the war of LSI 2?\\n2. How many counties were in North Carolina in 1815? What is said\\nof the representation in tiie General Assembly? What towns had special\\nprivileges?\\n3. Give some account of the growth of the Moravian settlement at\\nSalem.\\n4. Give some description of various towns and villages.\\n\u00c2\u00ab5. What eflorts were Dr. Joseph CaldAvell putting forth i or the advance-\\nment of the State?\\n6. What growth was seen among the Methodist churches?\\n7. Who was at the head oi the Episcopal Churchy Wiiat is said of\\nBishop Ravenscroft?\\n8. Who were the most eminent Presbyterian divines? What benetit\\nwas derived from their labors?\\nO. Mention the political leaders.\\n10. Through Avhose eflorts was the Supreme Court establised? Who\\nwere the Justices?\\n11. What was this [leriod called\\n12. What question was greatly agitating the people?\\nmi", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "198 HLSTOIIV OF NOUTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTEK XLV.\\nTHE WHIGS AND THE DEMOCRATS.\\nA. D. 1821 TO 1827.\\n1821. Ill the dwade following the enactment of the Mis-\\nsonri Compromise there was prodigious material growth in\\nevery section of the American Union. In North Carolina the\\nreal prosperity of the people was imperceptible, by reason of\\nthe heavy emigration to the South and West. Not only popu-\\nlation, but wealth, was continually withdrawing to more\\npro ii table fields of labor and speculation.\\n2. While the Northern and Western sections of the Union\\n^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ere receiving the thousands who came every year from Europe\\nand elsewhere, there was no such accession to our mimbers.\\nFor a century past there has been little or no innnigration to\\nNorth Carolina. The stream of settlers that once poured so\\nsteadily into the hill country had ceased even before the Revo-\\nlution.\\n3. After the overthrow of the Federalists by Mr. Jefferson,\\nin the year 1800, there was no national party struggle on the\\nold issues, l)ut in every portion of the country were individuals\\nwho adhered to the views of Alexander Hamilton as to the\\nj)roper construction of the Constitution of the United States.\\nMany of these were men of great social and professional\\neminence.\\n4. Under Mr. Madison and his successors there was, in\\nfact, no party but the Democratic-Republicans. Every one\\nwho hoped for ])olitical i)r(nn()tion professed the i aith of that", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "THE WHIGS AND THE DEMOCRATS. 199\\norganization. There was no party division as to the Bank of\\nthe United States, or the tarilF of dnties on foreign imports.\\n5. In the year 1825 the State was graced by the visit of\\nGeneral La Fayette. A half centnry before he had left his\\nwife and all the charms of life in Paris to do battle in behalf\\nof the strnggling American colonies. After acting a distin-\\ngnished part in the French Revolntion, he had returned as the\\nNation s guest, to receive the thanks of another generation for\\nthe great services he had rendered in the past. He went from\\nState to State, every^vhere greeted with the utmost love and\\nveneration. He soon returned to France in the United States\\nship Brandywine, after receiving princely recognition and\\nrewards from Congress.\\n6. In this year, also, a considerable excitement Avas created\\non account of an extraordinary advance in the price of cotton.\\nIn a few weeks the price went from twelve to thirty-two cents\\nper pound. This great rise was only temporary, and many\\npeople were ruined by the sudden and unexpected fall.\\n7. In 1825 the election of John Quincy Adams, by the\\nHouse of Representatives to the Presidency, resulted in giving\\na new aspect to political matters. General Andrew Jackson,\\nwho had received the largest popular vote, and was then a\\nSenator from Tennessee, became the leader of those who were\\ncalled Democrats. Those who were opposed to him assumed\\nthe name of Whigs.\\n8. Mr. Adams, though elected as a Democratic- Republican,\\nsoon found that party arrayed against his administration.\\nHenry Clay, and all of those who had been Federalists, sup-\\nported the President. In North Carolina many prominent\\nmen arrayed themselves Avith the new [)arty. These Whigs,\\nas thev were called, advocated a continuance of the United", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "2(10 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nStates Bank, a tariff for ])rotcoti()ii on importations, and a\\ndistribution to the several States of the money realized oy the\\nsale of public lands.\\n9. General Jackson and the Democrats favored a tariff for\\nrevenue. They contended that the National Bank Avas not\\nonly unauthorized by the Constitution, but also dangerous to\\nthe liberties of t\\\\y/ people. They were likewise unfriendly to\\nthe plan of making the States peusioners of the general govern-\\nment, as proposed in the policy of distribution.\\n10. Soon great rancor developed between the two })arties,\\nboth of which had lately been included in the Rejnibli^an\\nranks. Henry Clay and John Randolph inaugurated ani-\\nmosities by a duel and soon, in North Carolina, as elsewhere,\\nsocial amenities were l)ut little regarded between the Whigs\\nand Democrats.\\n11. This Avas very absurd. All were citizens of a free\\ncountry, and w^re entitled to hold and express opinions as to\\nwhat was the best policy for the government to })ursue. God\\nhas so constituted men that, of necessity, they must differ in\\nopinion on all subjects. How weak and wicked then, is the\\nman who hates his brother because of the failure to agree on\\nmatters that are, after all, involved in doubt.\\n12. It was not always so, however, for when the Constitu-\\ntion was framed at Philadelphia, in 1787, all the States but\\nMassachusetts recognized the legality of slave property, ^ery\\nsoon afterwards, however, the Society for African Emanci-\\npation was formed, with Dr. Benjamin Franklin as its\\npresident. This body petitioned Congress to abolish slav(u-y\\nin the States and Territories, but was answered that the\\nConstitution left this matter, to the States, and that the Federal\\nauthorities had no powers.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "THE WHIGS AND THE DEMOCRATS. 201\\n13. The Northern States finding slave labor unprofitable,\\nhad all abolished this institution in their midst, and their slaves\\nhad been sent to the South and sold. Southern men, also,\\nhad been divided as to the policy of continuing a state of society\\nso opposed to the general liberties of mankind but this liberal\\nspirit in the South was checked by the violent and unreason-\\nable criticisms and denunciations of the Northern reformers.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wluit growth was noticed in the Union (hiring the years jnst con-\\nsidered\\n2. Wliat is said of iinniigration to Noi th Carolina?\\n3. In wiiat condition were the political parties of the country?\\n4. What is said of Pix sident Madison s administration?\\n5. What distingiiisiied Fienchrnan visited North Carolina in the year\\n1825? Plow was he everywhere received by tiie people? How did Con-\\ngress treat him?\\n6. What is said of the extraordinary rise in the pi-ice of cotton? How\\ndid it affect many people?\\n7. What was the efiect of the election of John Qiiincy Atlams? What\\ntwo political i)arties then existed\\n8. What troubles did Mr. Adams find? What [)arty was led by Henry\\nClay? What were some of the Whig principles?\\n1). What did General Jackson and his jiarty advocate?\\n10. What results were produced by the violent assertions of these\\nopinions?\\n11. What is said of [xditical animosities?\\n12. How was the question of slavery viewed What State refused to\\nrecognize the legality of slave property? What society was organized?\\n13. How had the Northern States acted in regard to slavery? What\\nchecked the liberal spirit of the South concerning slavery?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "202 HISTOIIY OF NORTH CAPvOI.lNA.\\nCHAPTER XLVI.\\nTHE CONDITION OF THE STATE.\\nA. D. 1827 TO 1836.\\nWhile the Republic of the United States was so divided\\nand agitated as to matters of policy touching the interests of\\nall the Union, there were, at the same time, many issues of\\nlocal importance confined to North Carolina.\\n2. The old habit of annually changing the place for hold-\\ning the sessions of the Legislature had first brought about a\\nfeeling of sectionalism between the eastern and w^estern coun-\\nties. Western men had first learned to combine in securing\\nHillsboro rather than New Bern for this purpose. It was\\nnatural and right for them to seek to lessen as much as possible\\nthe distance that separated the State capital from their homes.\\n1829. 3. The western counties were also anxious to change\\nthe system of representation, so that their weight in popula-\\ntion should be felt in legislation. As it was, the east held\\ncontrol of both Houses of the General Assembly. Hertford,\\nAvith five hundred voters, had exactly the weight of Buncombe\\nor Orange, with its thousands. Eastern men would not\\nconsent to modify tliis hardship. They insisted that the Hali-\\nfax Constitution was still to be adhered to, and refused to go\\ninto a constitutional convention for fear of changes that might\\nsubject eastern wealth to taxation in order to secure the construc-\\ntion of higliways in the west.\\n1831. 4. On tlie morning of the 21st of June the ca])itol\\nat Raleigli was burned. The fire was caused by the careless-\\nness of a workman who was covering the roof. Tlie building", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "THE CONDITION OF THE STATE. 203\\nwas a total loss, as was also the beautiful statue of Wasliing-\\ntou, which stood iu the rotunda. A new capitol was erected\\nupon the site of the old building, by act of the Legislature- of\\n1832. It is an elegant structure, and was built of native granite,\\nat a cost of over a half million of dollars.\\n5. The burning of the Capitol, or State-House, as it was\\ncalled, was a calamity and inconvenience, but the chief regret\\nwas over the loss of the marble statue of Washington. This\\nfine work had been recently received from the famous sculptor,\\nCanova, in Italy, and was said to be one of his finest produc-\\ntions.\\n1834. 6. On the 4th of June, 1823, a political conven-\\ntion, composed of gentlemen from the western portion of the\\nState, met in Raleigh. It was presided over by Bartlett\\nYancey. The object of the convention was to divise measures\\nto secure greater weight iu the I^egislature to their great and\\ngrowing popular majorities. Many wise and desirable changes\\nin the Constitution of 1776 were suggested, and the result Avas\\nthat sectional feeling ran very high. So much so, that in time\\nthe people of the west might have proceeded to extreme\\nmeasures had not the Legislature of 1834 come to the rescue\\nin the passage of the Convention Bill.\\nNote. By a freak of liberality, unusual in those good old days, when\\nthe State never spent over ninety thousand dollars a year for all purposes;\\nwhen taxes were six cents on the one hundred dollars value of real estate\\nonly, and personal property was entirely exempt, the General Assembly\\nhad placed in the rotunda a magnificent statue of Washington, of Carrara\\nmarble, by the great Canova. It was the pride and boast of the State.\\nOur people remembered with peculiar pleasure that La Fayette had stood at\\nits base and commended the beauty of the carving and fitness of the\\nlionor to the great man, under whom he had served in our war of inde-\\npendence, and whom he regarded with a passionate and reverential love.\\n~i 11071. Kemp P. Bank, LL. I).)", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "204 IIISTOiJY OF XOKTH CAKOLIXA.\\n7. On a close vote, aided by the votes of eastern borongli\\nmembers, the bill was ])assed whieh provided that, in case the\\ncall for a convention therein contained shonld be endorsed bv\\na majority of the voters in the State, then a convention should\\nbe held; and each member chosen, before taking his seat,\\nshould take oath that he would not be a party to any further\\nalterations of the Constitution than those specified in the\\nenabling act.\\n1835. 8. The Convention met in Raleigh on June 4th,\\n1835, and Nathaniel Macon was made President. Many of\\nthe ablest men in the State were members. Judge Gaston,\\nGovernor David L. Swain and Judge J. J. Daniel were\\nleaders in the debates. Borough representation and free negro\\nsuffrage Avere abolished. The election of Governor Avas taken\\nfrom the Asseml)ly and committed to the people. The legis-\\nlative sessions Avere made biennial instead of annual, as of old.\\nEach county was to send one member to the House of Com-\\nmons, and more if its population justified so doing. One\\nhundred and twenty members constituted this body, while the\\nSenators were limited to fifty. The upper House was to rep-\\nresent taxation and the lower, population.\\n9. These organic changes were ratified by a })Opidar majority\\nof more than five thousand votes. This change of Constitu-\\ntion was soon followed by the first })opular election for Gov-\\nernor. Governors Miller, Burton, Owen and Swain had succes-\\nsively occupied the Executive Office in North Carolina, until\\nthe Legislature, in 1835, for the hist time, selected a Governor\\nin the person of Richai d Dobbs Spaight, of Craven.\\n10. This gentleman did not equal his father in the brilliance\\nof his endowments, but he was well fitted for the exigencies of\\na contest before the people. He w^as nominated for re-election", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "THE CONDITION OF THE 8TATE. 205\\nby the Democrats tlie next year, but was beaten by the Whig\\nnominee, Edward B. Dudley, of Wihnington. Mr. Dudley\\nwas not only a very able lawyer, but proved himself a states-\\nman of enduring worth.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What is said of these troublesome years\\n2. What troubles were seen in North Carolina? What divisions had\\nsprung up between the eastern and western men of the State?\\n3. How did the men of the two sections view tiie question of represen-\\ntation?\\n4. Wiiat i)ublic l)uilding was burned on June 21st, 1831? What was\\nthe cause of the fire? What was lost Avith the building? Where was the\\nnew Capitol built? Of what was it built?\\n5. What was the chief regret? Who was this work by?\\nO. What is said of the Western Convention of 1823?\\n7. W^hat law was enacted concerning a convention?\\n8. What is said of the memorable Convention of 1835? What changes\\nwere made in the Constitution?\\n9. What was the majority of votes given to tlie amendments? Who\\nwas the last Governor selected by the Legislature?\\n10. What two candidates were before the people in 183G? Who was\\nthe first Governor elected by the people?\\n,\u00e2\u0080\u009e,,..iiiii;i iiii\\niiiiii :::ir", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "206 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER XLVII.\\nINTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS -THE COURTS AND THE BAR.\\nA. D. 1836.\\nThere had been many changes effected among the people of\\nNorth Carolina by the lapse of time when the year 1836 came\\nin. Bartlett Yancey, the two Drs. Caldwell and Archibald\\nHendei son were all dead, and their places filled by other men.\\nCotton was becoming more and more widely cnltivated, and,\\nyear by year the valne of slave property was increasing by\\nreason of the profits realized in the cnltivation of this great\\nSonthern staple.\\n2. The Dismal Swamp Canal was at last ready for traffic\\nbetween the Albemarle country and Norfolk, in the State of\\nVirginia. A change was soon apparent in the trade of the\\ntowns thus connected by a new water-course with the outer\\nworld. The dangerous voyages through the inlets and out into\\nthe ocean Avere by degrees abandoned, and almost all direct trade\\nwith the West Indies ceased.\\n3. The first railway charter given in North Carolina was\\nthat of the Petersburg Railroad. This was in 1830, and was\\nfollowed, two years later, by that of the Portsmouth and\\nRoanoke route. Soon after, Governor Dudley and others\\norganized the AYilmington Railroad, leading to Weldon, the\\nsame terminus fixed for the others. This was for some time\\nthe longest single line in the world.\\n4. A few lines had been constructed in^the United States\\n])rior to these, but they were among the ])ioneer works of the\\nvast net-\\\\v()i k of* railways now seen in ev(M v portion of the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "THE COURTS AND THE BAR. 207\\nRepublic. Wonderful changes have taken place in the travel\\nand traffic of the States. The vast extent of the national\\nterritory once presented to wise observers of our institutions\\na bar to any unity of thought and interest; but steam and\\nelectricity have triumphed over space, and the Republic, in\\n1882, is far more compact and its parts greatly more accessible\\nthan were the Atlantic States in 1787.\\n5. In just a half century the iron lines, beginning at the\\nsea have reached and pierced the mountain barriers of Western\\nNorth Carolina. From State to State rush the tireless ministers\\nof our wealth and pleasure. Instead of the wagon toiling\\nslowly in the rear of weary axemen, we see the long and well-\\nappointed railroad train sweep by with the speed of the hurri-\\ncane, bearing the wealth of States, and doing more in the\\ncourse of twenty-four hours to diffiise civilization and luxury\\nthan our ancestors could have accomplished in as many years.\\n6. The Baptist churches of the greater portion of North\\nCarolina, in 1830, formed what they called a State Conven-\\ntion, and organized for missionary and other purposes. This\\nimportant movement resulted in a great improvement to this\\ndenomination, for out of this combination learned periodicals,\\nnew churches and many colleges and schools were to have their\\norigin.\\n7. Among public men of that day Judge Willie P. Man-\\ngum, of Orange, held a distinguished position. His brilliant\\neloquence and gracious demeanor secured his election in 1830,\\nover Governor John Owen, to the United States Senate. In\\nthis distinguished body he remained long and became highly\\ninfluential. A personal difficulty cam e near resulting in a duel\\nbetween these two gentlemen, but it was amicably settled. Gov-\\nernor Owen was no further in public life, except to preside over", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "208 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nthe convention wliieli nominated Harrison and Tyler for the\\nchief execntive offices of tlie United States in 1840.\\n8. Upon the deatli of Chief- Jnstice Taylor, in 1829, the legal\\nprofession lost one of its greatest ornaments. His strong natnral\\nnnderstanding was further improved by his learning; bnt in\\naddition to this, he possessed qualities which peculiarly fitted\\nhim for framing the practice and precedents of a new tribunal.\\nHe was an eminently wise and just man, and well deserved to\\nbe called the ]\\\\Iansfield of North Carolina.\\n9. Upon Judge Taylor s death, Leonard Henderson became\\nChief- Justice, and Judge J. D. Toomer, Associate-Justice. The\\nlatter only remained a member of the Court a few months, and\\nhaving resigned, was succeeded by Thomas Ruffin, of Orange.\\nXo one in our history has l)rought higher judicial (pialities to\\nthe bench than were seen in Judge Ruffin. Deep learning, wide\\ngrasp and luminous statement soon made him respected both\\nat home and abroad.\\n10. Upon the death of Chief-Justice Henderson, in 1833,\\nWilliam Gaston, of Craven, was elected to the Supreme Court.\\nThe Court was then composed of Chief-Justice Thomas Ruffin,\\nJoseph J. Daniel and AVilliam Gaston, Associates; and was un-\\nequaled in America as a legal tribunal. Judge Daniel was able,\\nlearned and upright; and in Gaston nature had combined her\\nhighest gifts. His Roman Catholic creed was not shared by\\nmany peoj)le of the State, but such were the ])urity and useful-\\nness of his life that no man of his time was more beloved or\\ntrusted.\\n11. The Judges of the Superior Courts were also men of in-\\ntegrity and ability. Henry Seawall, who was a powerful advo-\\ncate in the courts, and had twice been clothed with the judicial\\nermine, had I cceiUb- li( (l, and the diifercnt circuits were then", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "THE COURTS AND THE BAR. 209\\npresided over by Thomas Settle, of Rockingham; R. M.\\nSamiders, of Wake; John M. Dick^ of Guilford; John L.\\nBailey, of Pasquotank, and Richmond M. Pearson, of Rowan.\\n12. The Bar of North Carolina was never more respected\\nfor the learning and eloquence of its members than at the\\nperiod now reached in this narrative. Gavin Hogg, Peter\\nBrowne and Judge Duncan Cameron were all men of renown.\\nThey were possessed of large fortunes and left names of\\nunsullied honor.\\n13, Judge Badger, B. F. Moore, Thomas Bragg, and\\nW. N. H. Smith were all in full practice before the courts, and\\nwere the peers of Iredell, Davie and Archibald Henderson of\\nformer days. It is impossible to overestimate the influence for\\ngood or evil which has been and ever will be exerted by the\\nlawyers in a free land. They are the sentinels and conserva-\\ntors of public liberty, and, next to tlie clergy, improve or im-\\npair the morality of the masses.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What changes were noticed in North Carolina in 183G What is said\\nt)f cotton and slave projoerty\\n2. What canal had been completed How did it benefit that section\\n3. What is said of the railway charters?\\n4. In what condition were railroads at this time?\\n5. What is said of present means of travel?\\nO. What religious convention had been formed in ]8oD?\\n7. What public man is now mentioned, and what is said of his abilities?\\n8. W luU mention is made of Chief-.Justice Taylor?\\nO. What changes were made in tbe Supreme Court? What is said of\\nJudge Thomas Ruffin?\\n10. Who succeeded Judge Henderson? Who comix)sed the Supreme\\nCourt in 1833\\n11. Can you name some of the Judges of the Supreme Court?\\n12. What is said of the Bar at this period?\\n13. How is the influence of lawvers always felt in a community?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "210 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROIJ^.^.\\nCHAPTER XLVIII.\\nORIGIN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.\\nA. D. 1837 TO 1842.\\nIt will be renieml ered that in 1767 the first school was\\nincorporated by the Legislature of North Carolina, by the act\\nin favor of the academy at New Bern. In this, and subsequent\\nlegislation for schools at Edenton and elsewhere, it had pro-\\nvided that the teachers should all be communicants of the\\nChurch of England. This stipulation was, of course, part of\\nthe English Church and State system of government.\\n2. When, just previous to the outbreak of the Revolution-\\nary war, the founders of the Queen^s Museum, at Charlotte,\\na school so named in honor of the Queen of England, asked\\nincorporation of the Colonial General Assembly, it was not\\ngranted, for the reason that this institution was Presbyterian,\\nboth as to trustees and faculty. Up to that period dissenting\\nministers had not been allowed any legal recognition, and it\\nwas considered a great concession that the Presbyterian clergy\\nwere allowed to officiate at marriages.\\n3. During the Revolution (in 1777) the useful seminary at\\nCliarlotte was first legally chartered as Liberty Hall. It\\nwas in no way sustained by or connected with the State, but\\nwas to tlio Presbytery of Orange what Davidson College is\\nnow to tlip Synod of North Carolina, and was sustained solely\\nby the contributions and patronage of private citizens. Indeed,\\ntil is had been the case all along with the chartered schools of\\nNew l ern and Edciitoii.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "ORIGIN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 211\\n4. In 1776, when the Convention at Halifax framed the\\nfirst Constitution for the State, among the leading ordinances\\nof that instrument was that for the State s active aid to the\\neducation of the people. With this clause in the Constitu-\\ntion which they all swore to uphold, the legislatoi-s had done\\nnothing so far, except to provide, in 1790, for the establishment\\nof the Universit}^ at Chapel Hill.*\\n5. This disregard of their organic law, on the part of thovSe\\nconstituting the State government, Avas deeply regretted by\\nmany wise and gO(xl men. But only a few dared to encounter\\nthe opposition to taxation for popular education. Governors\\nJohnston and Davie in former days, and Judge Murphy and\\nBartlett Yancey of later times, had been strenuous for a larger\\ncompliance with the terms of the State Constitution, but the\\nmembei-s of the vseveral Legislatures, fearful of incurring\\npopular displeasure, or for other reasons, had held back.\\n6. General Jackson and the Democratic party had opposed\\nthe distribution of the proceeds from the sale of national public\\nlands as a fixed rule in the policy of the government, but in\\nhis last administration many millions of dollars had accumu-\\nlated in the Federal treasury, for which the general govern-\\nment had no immediate use. In 1837 this fund was divided\\nout to all the States except Virginia (that Commonwealth\\nrefusing her share). North Carolina s proportion amounted to\\none and a half million dollars.\\n^Section 41 of the Kalifax Constitution declared that a school or schools\\nshall be established by the Legislature for the convenient instruction of\\nyouth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public as may enable\\nihem to instruct at low prices. All useful learning shall be duly encour-\\naged and promoted in one or more universities.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "212 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n7. This fund, together with the amounts realized from the\\nsale of swamp lands belonging to the State, and certain shares\\nof hank stock, also the property of North Carolina, was set\\naside and invested for the benefit of the ])ublic schools of the\\nState, and was knowi\\\\ as the School Fund,\\n8. It was not until the year 1840 that any effective legisla-\\ntion was had for the establishment of the free educational\\nsystem. By an act of the Legislature of 1836, the Governor\\nand three others, by him to be appointed, were constituted the\\nLiterary Board. In 1839 an act was passed to divide the\\ncounties into school districts. It left to each county the option\\nof schools or no schools. It showed considerable advance in\\npopular wisdom, that all but one of the counties decided to\\nhave schools and to be taxed for the erection of such buildingg\\nas were necessary in the work.\\n9. Not in the General Assembly alone was the subject of\\neducation receiving unusual attention. The Baptists, in 1826,\\nestablished a high school on the farm of Colonel Calvin Jones,\\nin Wake comity. A little later it was changed in name and\\nbecame Wake Forest College. The Presbyterians, in 1838,\\nfounded Davidson College, in Mecklenburg. These denomi-\\nXuTK. Tlie Presidential campaign (if 1840 wjjh an iiiiusiialiy excitinic\\none. The Whig nominee, William Henry Ilanison, was charged by hh\\nopponents as having lived in a log cabin, with nothing to drink but hard\\neider, His friends made good use of these charges. Hard Cider\\nbecame a political watch-word, and, in the numerous Whig processions n\\nlog cabin on wheels occupied the most prominent and honored position.\\nThe Log Cabin Campaign will long be remembered. President Harri-\\nson died within one month after liis inauguration. His last words were,\\nThe principles of the government; I wis^h them carried out. I ask\\nnothing more.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "ORIGIN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 213\\nnational institutions became noble adjuncts to the University\\nin aifording opportunities for liberal culture in our own\\nborders.\\n10. Thus, at last, the old-field schools were superceded\\nas better institutions took their place. The old-fashioned\\ncountr}^ teacher, who j:)assed from house to house for subsistence,\\nand was wholly dependent upon the feelings or caprices of one\\nor two employers, gradually disappeared as academies and\\ncommon schools multiplied.\\n11. The Bingham School in Orange, the Lovejoy School in\\nKaleigh, the Bobbitt School in Franklin, the Caldwell Insti-\\ntute in Greensboro, Trinity College near Raleigh, the Donald-\\nson Academy in Fayetteville, and numerous other excellent\\nmale academies greatly added to the number of well-informed\\nand useful men.\\n1842. 12. The Salem Seminary, so widely renowned for\\nthe host of cultivated women sent out to every portion of the\\nSouth, at last found a worthy rival in St. Mary s School..\\nThis institution was established at Raleigh, in 1842, under the\\npatronage of Bishop Ives and the Episcopal Diocese of North\\nCarolina. Rev. Dr. Aldert Smedes, who so long presided\\nover its fortunes, was singularly fitted for such a place; for in\\nno other institution in America was intellectual training more\\nlargely supplemented by the moral and social graces. These\\npopular institutions were soon re-inforced by the excellent\\nMethodist Female College at Greensboro. The Presbyterians,\\na few years later, had a first rate school for the education of\\ntheir daughters in Edgeworth, a noble seminary established\\nby Governor Morehead at Greensboro.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "214 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What is this chapter about? What hiws had been enacted concern-\\ning education?\\n2. Why had incorporation been refused to the Queen s Museum\\n3. What is said of the schools at Charlotte and Davidson\\n4. What clause was in the first State Constitution How had the intent\\nof this clause been carried out?\\n5. What were some of the views in regard to popular education?\\nWhat men had advocated the provisions of the Constitution?\\n6. What addition to the School Fund did North Carolina receive in\\n1837\\n7. How was the fund further increased\\n8. Can you mention the legislation at this period affecting sciiool mat-\\nters\\n9. What denominational schools were foimded about this time?\\n10. W^hat is said of the old-field schools\\n11. Where were the leading male schools, and what is said of their\\nusefulness?\\n12. What female schools are mentioned What is said of St. Mary s\\nSchool? What is said of other schools?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "SLAVERY AND SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT. 215\\nCHAPTER XLIX.\\nSLAVERY AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.\\nA. D. 1842 TO 1844.\\nWhen the year of our Lord 1842 had come, peace and\\nprasperity were in all portions of North Carolina. Society\\nwas still divided into three classas. These were the white\\npeople, the slaves and the free negroes. The latter class had\\noriginated by manumission, and were numerous in some of the\\neastern counties. They had lost the right of suffrage by the\\naction of the State Convention of 1835.\\n2. This action on the part of the Convention was due in\\nsome degree, doubtless, to the constant agitation of the slavery\\nquestion, though by no means due to that alone; but to the\\nfurther fact, as well, that during the time they voted by suffer-\\nance they had plainly demonstrated their utter unfitness to\\nappreciate or exercise the great right of suffrage.\\n3. As a class they were unthrifty and dishonest, and each\\nyear becoming more useless as members of the community;\\ntheir association with the slaves was regarded as an evil to be\\navoided if possible; therefore, they were discriminated against\\nin the legislation of the period. Virginia and Ohio had both\\nenacted statutes which forbade them access to their borders.\\nNorth Carolina provided by law that in case of their removal,\\nfrom the State they lost their residence, and were forbidden to\\nreturn.\\n4. The right of the States to pass such laws for the protec-\\ntion of their slave property cannot be denied, luiless the right\\nof property in slaves be also denied. Nor can they properly", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "216 HISTORY OF NOETH CAROLINA.\\nbe called unjust. The right of property in their slaves the\\n])eople of North Carolina regarded as settled by the Constitu-\\ntion of the State and that of the United States. Theorists\\nmight speculate whether African slavery was consistent with the\\nAmerican Declaration of Independence as they pleased, but\\nthe right of property in slaves was undisputably recognized\\nand secured in the fundamental laws of the land. As to the\\nmoral question involved, if any such there was, the vSouthern\\nslave-owner regarded it as one between himself and his God,\\nand not between himself and his Northern brother.\\no. As a matter of course slavery and intellectual culture\\nare incompatible, and education was therefore denied the slaves.\\nThe right to testify in the courts against a white man, and even\\nthe right to defend himself from the assaults of white men,\\nexcept in defense of life in the last extremity, were also neces-\\nsarily denied him. These restrictions were necessary to the\\nmaintenance of the legal relations between the dominant and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2subject races.\\n6. Of course there were those Avho studied tlie slavery\\nproblem from every possible stand-point, except the constitu-\\ntional legality of it. That, at least, was fixed. Some doubted\\ntlie morality of it and others questioned the policy of it, and it\\nis quite possible, had time and opportunity for gradual manu-\\nmission and exportation offered. North Carolina would have\\nbeen a free State, in the course of events, of her own accord.\\n7. The Northern States had sold their slaves rather than free\\nthem under their acts of manumission. It was not possible for\\nthis to be further rej^eated by the Commonwealths still i*etain-\\ning the institution; so in a blind ignorance of (lie Cnlni c :ind\\nin utter hopelessness of any practicable solution of their diCfi-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "SLAVERY AND SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT. 217\\nciilty, except in remaining as they were, the statesmen of the\\nSouth contented themselves with a simple poHcy of resistance\\nto change.\\n1844. 8. Among the white people of North Carolina were\\nfound all who participated in the conduct of public affairs.\\nThe means of popular education had been too recently adopted\\nto show effects upon the community. The labors of a few wise\\nmen were just being crowned with success and the children of\\nthe poor were receiving the rudiments of education in every\\nportion of the State.\\n9. In religion, the great mass of the people belonged to coun-\\ntry churches. These rural congregations, as a general thing,\\nmet on one Saturday and the succeeding Sabbath of each month,\\nto attend the preaching of a minister who often served other\\nchurches as pastor the remaining Sundays. Beyond the Sun-\\nday-schools and annual protracted meetings, there were no other\\nreligious observances except occasional fiuierals and prayer-\\nmeetings at private houses.\\n10. The balls and horse-races of former days in the eastern\\ncounties had, in a large measure, ceased. In the growth of the\\nMethodist and Baptist Churches in that section, such amuse-\\nments had been so discouraged that festivities of this kind\\nbecame rare. In the western sections of North Carolina they\\nhad never been countenanced by the Presbyterians.\\n11. The summers became more or less marked by great\\nassemblages in the protracted or camp meetings. They were,\\nto the devout, seasons of religious devotion, but to the young\\nand thoughtless, opportunities for courtship and social enjoy-\\nment.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "218 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nqup:stions.\\n1. AVliat three classes of society existed in North Carolina in 1842?\\n2. What action was taken by the Convention of 1835 in regard to free\\nnegroes\\n3. What is said of this class of our jwpnlation\\n4. How (lid our people view the question of slavery\\n5. What privileges were denied the slaves Why?\\n6. What would probably have been the final result in North Carolina?\\n7. What had the Northern States done with their slaves How was the\\nSouth compelled to act?\\n8. What educational progress was being made?\\n9. What was the condition of religious matters?\\n10. What effects were seen from the growth of the churches?\\n11. What great congregations were found in various places during the\\nsummer?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THE MEXICAN WAR. 219\\nCHAPTER L.\\nTHE MEXICAN WAR.\\nA. D. 1844 TO 1847.\\nGovernor Dudley was opposed by ex-Governor John Branch,\\nof Halifax, as the candidate of the Democratic party in 1838.\\nGovernor Branch had been in the Cabinet of General Jackson,\\nand upon his defeat in this contest, retired from public life in\\nNorth Carolina to receive the appointment of territorial Gov-\\nernor of Florida. In the Gubernatorial contest, two years later,\\nJohn Motley Morehead, of Guilford, as the nominee of the\\nWhigs, likewise defeated the Democratic leader. Judge Romu-\\nlus M. Saunders.\\n2. They were both men of large natural endowments, and\\nhave never been surpassed in the vigor of their debates before\\nthe people. They were both educated at Chapel Hill, and Avere\\ntypes of public Southern men of their day. Judge Saunders\\nmade a high reputation as a member of Congress; and Gov-\\nernor Morehead so grew in favor that eloquent Lewis D. Henry,\\nwho opposed his re-election, was also defeated by a considera-\\nble majority.\\n3. The loss of the State in the deaths of Judge Gaston, of\\nJudge Daniel, and of Lewis Williams, long one of our repre-\\nsentatives in Congress, was not easily repaired. Michael\\nHoke, of Lincolnton, was rising to prominence as a politician\\nwhen his untimely death occurred. He had just concluded a\\nbrilliant canvass against William A. Graham, of Orange, for\\nthe office of Governor, and lost his election and his life in the\\nsummer of 1844.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "220 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n4. This election of Governor Graham marked a new era in\\nthe development of the State. He was the son of General\\nJoseph Graham, of the Revolution, and inherited many of his\\nvirtues. No public man in the history of the State has brought\\ncloser application or a higher elevation to his duties. Like Rich-\\nard Caswell and Nathaniel Macon, his hold upon the public\\naffections was never lost, and to the day of his death he was\\nfirst in the hearts of his countrymen of North Carolina.\\n5. In 1844, James Knox Polk, of Tennessee, who was a\\nnative of North Carolina and a graduate of our University,\\nwas elected President of the United States. During his admin-\\nistration the United States and the neighboring Republic of\\nMexico went to war. The boundary line between Texas and\\nMexico had long been in dispute between those countries, a\\ndispute that practically amounted to a constant border warfare.\\nOf course as soon as Texas was annexed to the United States\\nthe Federal government took the place of Texas as a party to\\nthe quarrel, and undisguised, open war followed.\\n6. President Polk made a visit to the University during his\\nterm of office, which was highly appreciated and greatly\\nredounded to the honor of that ancient institution. President\\nPolk was born in Mecklenburg county in 1795, and died in\\n1849. The announcement of his nomination for the Presi-\\ndency was the first message ever sent by telegraph. It was sent\\nfrom Baltimore, where the National Democratic Convention was\\nin session, to Washington City, on 29th May, 1844, over an\\nexperimental line, put up at the expense of the Federal govern-\\nment, to test Professor Morse s recent invention.\\n184 7. A regiment of North Carolina volunteers was\\nsent to Mexico under Colonel Robert Treat Paim of Chowan.\\nIt was stationed on the lino of communication, but was not", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THE MEXICAN WAR. 221\\nactively engaged in any of the battles. Two companies of\\nNorth Carolina troops, under Captains W. J. Clarke and Charles\\nK. Jones, were mustered into the Twelfth Regiment United\\nStates Infantry, and did valiant service in the battle at National\\nBridge.\\n8. Louis D. Wilson, of Edgecombe, had been Captain of\\nCompany A, in Colonel Paine s regiment. He was promoted\\nMajor and assigned to duty in the Twelfth United States In-\\nfontry. He died on duty in Mexico, and left his estate to the\\nbenefit of the poor of his native county.\\n9. Captain Braxton Bragg gained great credit for his con-\\nduct at the battle of Buena Yista, where, with a single battery\\nof light artillery, he resisted the attack of a large force upon\\nGeneral Taylor s left flank, and thus prevented a movement\\nthat would otherwise have caused the immediate retreat and\\nprobable destruction of the American army.\\n10. The smoke was so dense in this action that Captain Bragg\\nwas able to place his battery within fifty yards of the advancing\\ncolumn. He gave the foe a round of double canister shot, which\\nopened great gaps in their ranks. They staggered and recoiled\\nunder this murderous fire. When the delighted American\\ncommander saw that the battle was won, he arose in his stir-\\nruj)s and joyfully sliouted (live them a little more grape,\\nCViptain Bragg.\\n11. Major Samuel McfRcc, of Wilmington, rendered valua-\\nble service as Quartermaster in the army under General Scott.\\nCaptain J. H. K. Burgwin, of the First United States Dra-\\ngoons, died of his wounds at Taos. Lieutenant James G.\\nMartin lost an arm and gained a brevet at Churubusco. Cap-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "222 HISTORY OP NORTH CAROLINA.\\ntains T. H. Holmes and Gabriel Rains, and Lieutenant F. T.\\nBryan, all gave valuable and recognized service in the two\\ncolumns under Generals Scott and Taylor.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What |)eii()(1 have we now reached Who were Governors at this\\ntinne What is said of Governor John Branch\\n2. What mention is made of tlie candidates for Governor?\\n3. What deaths of prominent men occurred about this period?\\n4. Wiiat Governor was elected in 1844? How was he behjved in the\\nState?\\n5. What troubles arose in national matters on the election of James K.\\nPolk?\\n6. Wiiat is said of his visit to the University? Of what State was\\nPresident Polk a native? How was his nomination announced?\\n7. Can you mention the North Carolina troops sent to Mexico, and their\\ncommanders?\\n8. Tell something of Major Louis D. Wilson?\\n9. What valiant officer was with General Taylor at Buena Vista?\\nGive an account of his timely aid to the American army.\\n10. Describe the action.\\n11. What other officers are spoken of?\\n3|C*f3ft-V", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "IJATLWAY AND ASYIATJSrS. 223\\nCHAPTER LI.\\nTHE NORTH CAROLINA RAILWAY AND THE ASYLUMS.\\nA. D. 1848.\\nNo single year in human records has been more prohfic of\\nchange and social advancement than that which witnessed the\\noverthrow of King Louis Phillipe in France, and the general\\nupheaval of all Europe. It seemed that the spirits of the\\nsixteenth century had revisited the earth, and that men were\\neverywhere resolved on revolution or amendment.\\n1848. 2. North Carolina formed no exception to this gen-\\neral impulse of Christendom. A wise and patriotic disregard\\nof old sectional and party traditions first led to the assump-\\ntion by the State of a controlling part in the great work of\\ninternal improvement. The railroads that had been previously\\nconstructed from different points to Roanoke River, were all\\nin a deplorable condition.\\n3. The Raleigh and Gaston route was so decayed and\\nimpaired in its equipments that a whole day was consumed in\\nthe passage of a mail train over the eighty miles traversed.\\nThe Seaboard route to Portsmouth, Virginia, was prostrate and\\nout of use. The Wilmington Road, though it was in somewhat\\nbetter plight, was still served by feeble engines, which drew\\na few trains slowly along the track, ironed no more heavily\\nthan the wheels of a six-horse wagon.\\n4. The additional fact that no railway went further west\\nthan the village of Raleigh, also prevented the accumulation\\nof such travel and traffic as to repay tlie outlay of construe-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "224 irisToiiY OF north Carolina.\\ntion and (juipincnt. The Wilmington lioad furnished the\\ngreat route between the Nortli and South, and in that way won\\nricher returns than lines leadinfy to the interior.\\n5. The long deferred hopes of Western North Carolina wTre\\nat last to be realized. Ex-Governor Morehead and others\\nbesought the Legislature for the State s aid in a great line\\nwhich sliould connect Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh and\\nGoldsboro. This was to be called the North Carolina Rail-\\nroad, and was to be two hundred and forty miles long.\\n6. Eastern men, as a general thing, opposed this bill, but it\\nwas earnestly supported by William S. Ashe, of New Hanover,\\nand others, in the House of Representatives; and, having\\npassed that body, it was sent to the Senate. The vote in the\\nupper House resulted in a tie. Calvin Graves, of Caswell,\\nwas Speaker. He had been a life-long Democrat, and knew\\nthat the people of his county were opposed to the State s aid-\\ning the proposed road, but he nobly discharged what he\\nthought to be his duty, and, by his casting vote, the bill became\\na law.\\n7. This great step in building up the material prosperity of\\nthe Commonwealth did not satisfy the desires of this memo-\\nrable Assembly. Measures that had been adopted at the pre-\\nvious session for the establishment of an institution for the\\neducation of tJie deaf, dumb and the blind children of the\\nState were extended; and, at the earnest solicitation of Miss\\nDorothea Dix, of New York, a further appropriation was\\nmade for the erection of a hospital for the insane.\\n8. Miss Dix devoted her life to the amelioration of this\\nunfortunate class of people. In North Carolina, as generally\\nin tlie Re})ublic, there had been no better disposition of lunatics\\nthan thcii confinement in the loathsome duuireons of countv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "RAILWAY AND ASYLUMS. 225\\njails. Numbers who might have been restored to reason and\\nusefuhiess were, in this way, condemned to the horrors of per-\\npetual insanity. Instead of the comforts, kindness and resto-\\nration now to be found in the management of the Insane\\nAsylums, the jjoor lunatic lay in chains in the murderer s cell\\nand howled out his life amid the darkness and foetid exhala-\\ntions of the hell to which he was doomed.\\n9. North Carolina Avas thus manfully meeting the require-\\nments of both civilization and humanity; for as the condition\\nof their highways affords the truest test of a people s advance-\\nment in civilization, .so, also does the provision made for the\\ncare and comfort of the unfortunate and helpless afford the\\nhighest evidence of a people s progress in humanity.\\n10. In this memorable session of 1848- 49, a still further\\nexemplification of the wisdom of the North Carolina Legis-\\nlature was seen in their statute for the protection of married\\nwomen. Before that time the husband acquired by marriage\\nabsolute title to his wife s personal estate and a life interest in\\nher real property, and these interests he could sell without her\\nconsent. He could also restrain her of her personal liberty.\\n11. The statute of this year provided that the husband s\\ninterest in the wife s lands should not be subject to sale l)y the\\nhusband without her full and free consent and joinder in the\\nconveyance. This was to be attested by a privy examination\\nand certificate appended to the deed conveying such lands.\\n12. A further nuich needed improvement took place when\\nthe ancient English rules allowing the husband the right of\\npersonal chastisement were also abolished, and this infamous\\nbadge of inferiority numbered among the things of the past.\\nIe3. There have been periods in the history of all commu-\\nnities when extraordinary development was witnessed. The", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "226 HLSTOJIY OF XORTfl C AEOLINA.\\noverthrow of one ancient abuse leads to the correction of\\nanother; and thus, in the awakening sympathies of the hour,\\nreformations give way to a new and higher humanity.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wliat is this lesson about? What is said of the period now reached\\n2. How was North Carolina feeling the general impulse of improve-\\nment?\\n3. In what condition were the railroads?\\n4. How far west were the railroads reaching? Which of the roads was\\nobtaining most travel\\n5. What important railway is nmv mentioned? What was to be its\\nextent?\\n6. Can you describe the passage of the Kail road Bill through the\\nLegislature?\\n7. What charitable institutions were provided for at this session\\nThrougJi whose instrumentality was the appropriation made for the Insane\\nAsylum\\n8. What devotion did Miss Dix give to this subject? What had been\\nthe disposition of the insane before this\\nO. What is said of these internal improvements?\\n10. What other important law was enacted at this session? Canyon\\ntell something of the rights of married women previous to this time?\\n11. What were the provisions of the new law?\\n12. What was indicated by these acts of the State?\\n13. \\\\Vhat reflections are made upon this era?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "A SPECTRE OF THE PAST RE- APPEARS. 227\\nCHAPTER LII.\\nA SPECTRE OF THE FAST RE-AFFEARS.\\nA. D. 1848 TO 1852.\\nThe female seminaries of Salem, Raleigh and Greensboro\\nwere supplemented, in 1848, in the establishment, by the\\nChowan and Portsmouth Baptist Associations, of another\\nfemale school of hiffli trrade, at Murfreesboro. This useful and\\npopular institution soon gained reputation and attracted patron-\\nage from many of the Southern States. The Edgeworth Semi-\\nnary at Greensboro was a similar institution under Presbyterian\\nrule. It was a worthy rival of its compeers in the education\\nof Southern girls. The University, Wake Forest and David-\\nson Colleges were advancing their standards and growing in\\nprosperity. The Univei-sity, especially, under the sagacious\\nadministration of ex-Governor Swain, assisted by an able body\\nof experienced teachers, made great progress. Several hundred\\nstudents were in attendance, gathered from all the Southern\\nand South-western States.\\n2. Governor Morehead had been succeeded in office by Wil-\\nliam A. Graham, of Orange. In the United States Senate,\\nJudges Mangum and Badger were the peers of the best men of\\nthe Republic, and reflected honor on North Cai olina.\\n3. In the House of Representatives, Colonel James J.\\nMcKay, of Bladen, had long been recognized as one (jf the\\nleading men, and was chairman of the Committee on Ways and\\nMeans. Messrs. Kenneth Rayner and Thomas L. Clingman\\nwere also men of recognized a])ility, the latter bringing varied\\naccomplishments to aid his discharge of duty.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "228 iriS J OKY OF NOllTH CAROLINA.\\nISJrO. 4. At tlie exi^iratioii of Governor Graham^s term\\nof office Charles Manly, of Wake, became Governor. The\\npeople of the State grew excited in the contest between Messrs,\\nManly and Reid over the Democratic pro|X)siti( n to abolish\\nthe free-hold qualification of voters for State Senators. It had\\nbeen, ever since 1776, necessary for a man to possess fifty acres\\nof land to be entitled to this franchise. It was now proposed,\\nto allow all white men the privilege of suffrage.\\n5. U})on the election of General Taylor as President of the\\nUnited States, Mr. Polk retired to private life, and soon died\\nat Nashville, Tennessee. He was a pure and laborious man,\\nbut was not the equal of Andrew Jackson in those great natu-\\nral gifts which immortalized the hero of New Orleans.\\n6. Upon the cessation of war with Mexico, it had been\\nagreed in the treaty of eace tliat upon the payment of a large\\nsum of money, Upper California should, with other Mexican\\nterritory, belong to the United States. The discovery of\\nimmense deposits of gold on the Pacific coast led to such immi-\\ngration there that, in 1850, California was applying for admis-\\nsion as a State into the Union.\\n7. Again the spectre of coming strife and bloodshed was\\nseen in the renewal of the struggle over the question of free-\\ndom or slavery in this new sister in the galaxy of States.\\nSouthern men like Henry Clay thought that the whole sub-\\nject had been settled in 1820, when, l^y the Missouri Compro-\\nmise, it had been ordained that involuntary servitude should\\nnot obtain north of the geogra])hical line 36\u00c2\u00b0 30 north lati-\\ntude.\\n1850. 8. It was understood that the surrender of the right\\nto ()wn slaves north of this line was the consideration for the\\nadmission of the ridit to own tliem south of it, and that this", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "A SPECTRE OF THE PAST PvE-APPEARS. 229\\nwas what the compromise meant. But they were told that\\nthe inhibition alone was effective, and that no such converse\\nright was intended to be conveyed as that contended for by the\\nmen of the South. The most logical of these men said that\\nCongress had exceeded its powers in the enactment mentioned,\\nand that no jiower could settle the question but the people of\\nthe new State.\\n9. It was seen that Wilmot s Proviso/ which was an amend-\\nment continually offered by Mr. Wilmot, of Pennsylvania,\\nexcluding slavery from all future States, was the fixed determi-\\nnation of the Northern people. So, after a protracted and bitter\\nstruggle, Mr. Clay, as the last service of a long and illustrious\\nlife, procured the pas ^age of the compromise of 1850, in which\\nthe only concession by Northern men was the Fugitive Slave\\nLaw.\\n10. This statute provided that Federal courts and officers\\nshould arrest and retiu^n to their owners such slaves as should\\nbe found absconding in the different States of the Union,\\nwhether free or slave-holding. It was greeted by a prodigious\\noutcry from the Northern press and people. They determined\\nthat this national law should not be executed, and the different\\nlegislatures of the free States began their enactment of personal\\nliberty laws, which made it penal to aid in carrying out the law\\nof Congress.\\n1851. 11- The people of the South were both exasperated\\nand disheartened at such manifestations, and in view of such\\npalpable violations of their plain constitutional rights, began\\nseriously to consider whether iu a union with the Northern States\\nthe arbitrary will of the people of those States was not to be the\\nrule of government rather than the Constitution solenmly", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "230 lIISTOliY OP^ XOETH C AllOJ.INA.\\nagreed upou between their forefjitliers. If this Avere to be so the\\ndream of liberty, regulated by law in the Federal Union, was\\nat an end.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. ^VIlat educational institutions are mentioned?\\n2. AV lio was Governor in 1848? What two men were distinguished in\\nthe United States Senate?\\n3. Who were the representative men in the House?\\n4. Who succeeded Governor Graham in 1849? Wliat proposition was\\nagitating the people?\\n5. Who succeeded Mr. Polk as President of the United States? What\\nis said of President Polk\\n6. What events were occurring in the West?\\n7. What spectre of the past re-appears? Relate the circumstances?\\n8. In what condition was the question now seen\\n9. What is said of the Wilmot Proviso and Fugitive Slave Law\\n10. What was the Fugitive Slave Law How did the North legis-\\nlate against this law of Congress?.\\n11. How was the South effected bv these troubles?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STATUS. 231\\nCHAPTER LIII.\\nTHE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STATUS.\\nA. D. 1852 TO 1859.\\nThe election of General Franklin Pierce to the Presidency,\\nin 1852, was considered by many as a rebnke to those who had\\nbeen so clamorous in the North against the compromise of\\n1850. He was a warm supporter of the rights of the indi-\\nvidual States, and the knowledge of this fact brought repose\\nto the minds of Southern men.\\n2. North Carolina had just entered upon a career of rapid\\ndevelopment of her mineral resources. The incorporation of\\na clause extending the right of suffrage in the State Constitu-\\ntion, the completion of the great central railway, the opening\\nof the asylums and the large addition to the number of schools\\nwere evidences of progress and wide-spread prosperity. Capi-\\ntalists, for the first time, began to invest their wealth in cotton\\nand Avoolen factories.\\n1853. 3. The creation of the office of Superintendent of\\nCommon Schools, in 1853, and the appointment of Calvin H.\\nWiley, of Guilford, to that position marked an extraordinary\\nadvance in the matter of popular education. Mr. Wiley soon\\nevinced so much discretion and devotion to his duties that his\\npropositions of improvement were adopted, and his views and\\nwishes soon became those of the State government. Tlic same\\nyear was further signalized by the Normal School, under charge\\nof Mr. Craven, being empowered by the Legislature to grant\\nliterary degrees and the assumption of the full dignities of a\\ncollege. After nearly thirty years of usefulness, this institu-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "l )l HISTOIIY f)F XOirni CAItOLIXA.\\ntioiij now known as Trinity C ollege, is still acconi])lisliing\\ngreat good nnder the auspices of the Methodists of the State.\\n4. AYith the new lines of railway and the restoration of the\\nold routes, there was a large advance in the value of real estate\\nand in the amount of productions sent abroad. The use of\\nPeruvian Guano and other concentrated fertilizers was just\\nbeing introduced, and the example of Edgecombe county in\\nthe use of compost heaps was being folloAved in every direc-\\ntion and adding innnensely to the yield of exhausted fields.\\n5. It was a notable thing in the political history of the\\ncountry, that in the Presidential contest of 1852 the candi-\\ndates for Vice-President, of both the Whig and Democratic\\nparties, were born in North Carolina and educated at Chai)el\\nHill. Ex-Governor William P. King, Democrat, then of\\nAlabama, Avas chosen over ex-Governor Graham, who had been\\nSecretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Fillmore.\\n6. The churches Avel e prospering under their increased atten-\\ntions to education. A larger culture was coming to those Avho\\nfilled the pulpits at home, and devoted men like Dr. Matthew\\nT. Yates were going to heathen lands to spend their lives for\\nthe good of other races. The Episcopal Church had abundant\\ncompensation in the wisdom and virtues of Bishop Atkinson\\nfor the loss of Bishop Ives, upon his leaving that communion\\nfor the Church of Pome. The great slavery controversy was\\nbringing trouble and division to the Baptists and Methodists,\\nand thus, not only statesmen and politicians, but ministers of\\nthe Gos])el were also set at variance.\\n1854. 7. From Massachusetts was sent, jit this ])eriod, a\\nnew and startling impulse to the northern pulpits and hustings.\\nIt had beeji the peculiar glory of tlie American peoj)le that\\nthey were tlie originators of the great doctrine and practice of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STATUS. 233\\nreligious liberty. A new party, calling themselves the Know-\\nNothings, had carried that State and were proclaiming their\\nojDposition to all Roman Catholics as public officers. The\\nKnow-Nothings were also called the American Party,\\nand their motto was America for Americans.\\n8. This was to prove a short-lived and pernicious movement.\\nIt not only contravened the noblest American precedents, but\\nat once combined all the ends and fragments of parties which\\nhad previously opposed the great organization that had been\\nled by Jefferson and Jackson. Besides their hostility to the\\nRoman Catholic religion, they inculcated one other principle;\\nthis was opposition to the naturalization of foreign immigrants\\nuntil after a residence of twenty-one years within the borders\\nof the United States. The success of this new party ended in\\nthe Virginia campaign between Governor Wise and T. S.\\nFlournoy.\\n1855. 9. About this time another party began to be prom-\\ninent in the Northern States. It was called the Republi-\\ncan Party, and was the outgrowth of the notorious controversy\\nover the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Con-\\ngress. This statute was, in effect, but a continuance of the\\nlegislation in regard to California, and amounted to little\\nbeyond transferring the question of slave or free territory from\\nCongress to the new States. The North, however, was fanati-\\ncally bent on the destruction of slavery everywhere within the\\nUnited States, and would not consent that each new State\\nshould settle the question for itself. On the contrary^ it\\nwas determined to prohibit the spread of slavery whether the\\npeople in the new States and territories desired it or not.\\n10. It was soon seen, therefore, in the bloody conflicts\\nbetween the settlers from the North and those from the South,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "234 IILSTOIiY OF NORTH CAJIOLJXA.\\nespecially in Kansas, that ^SS({uatter Sovereignty Avoukl\\nneither afford protection to Southern immigrants in removing\\nwith their property there, nor any prospect of a fair solution\\nof a vexed question.\\n1857. 11- On June 27th, 1857, an event occurred m\\nNorth Carolina which brought sadness to the whole State.\\nRev. Elisha Mitchell, D. D., while making researches and\\nsurveys upon Black Mountain, in the darkness of night lost\\nhis way and fell over a very steep precipice and water-fall, and\\nwas killed. His remains were found, eleven days after the\\naccident, in a pool of clear water at the foot of the water-fjdl.\\nThey are now resting on the highest point of the mountain,\\nand the spot is known as Mitchell s Peak. Dr. ^Mitchell\\nfound, by measurement, that the Black Mountain was the\\nhighest point of land east of the Rocky Mountains. ^Mitchell s\\nPeak is 6,672 feet above the level of the sea, and 244 feet\\nhigher than Mount Washington in New Hampshire.\\n12. After the defeat of Charles Manly by David S. Reid, of\\nRockingham, for Governor in 1852, the Democrats continued\\nto gain in strength in each succeeding election. In 1854\\nGovernor Bragg was elected to succeed Governor Reid l)y an\\nincreased majority over Hon. John A. Gilmer, the Whig can-\\ndidate. Messrs. Mangum and Badger were succeeded by Gov-\\nernor Reid and Colonel Asa Biggs, of Martin, as United States\\nSenators; and when, in 1S5S, another (Governor was to be\\nchosen, both Judge John W. Ellis, of Powan, and his com-\\npetitor, Duncan K. MacRae, of Chuuberland, claimed to be\\ndefenders of the Democratic faith. The diflferences between\\nthe North and the South wei*e fast bringing the peo})le of North\\nCarolina to one mind.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STATUS. 235\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Of what does this chapter treat? How was the election of President\\nPierce considered?\\n2. Wliat is said of internal improvements?\\n3. What educational progress was being made?\\n4. How was the value of lands increasing?\\n5. What is said of the Presidential campaign of 1852?\\n6. In wliat condition were religious matters? How was the question of\\nslavery effecting some of the religious denominations?\\n7. What new party was organized in Massachusetts? What was the\\nmain policy of the Know-Nothings?\\n8. What is said of this new party\\n9. What party next originated?\\n10. How was the South effected by Squatter Sovereignty?\\n11. W^hat fatal accident befell Dr. Elisha Mitchell in 1857?\\n12. What changes in the government of the State are now mentioned\\niiiiili|{|iiiii\\n,,,iii 1 III", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "2o(i IIISTORV OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER LIV.\\nPRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE WAR.\\nA. D. 1860 TO 1861.\\n18C0. After seventy years of party struggles toucliing the\\nrelations of the General Government to the individual States,\\nthe Presidential contest of 1860 opened with such notes of\\nviolence and public confusion, that it was at once seen that at\\nlast the supreme crisis had come.\\n2. The only issue apparently before the American people\\nwas that of slavery in the Territories. The Democrats Avere\\ndivided into two fragments. Those suj^j^ortiug Judge Douglas\\nfor the Presidency advocated Squatter Sovereiijnty. The\\nBreckinridge men said that the question .of slavery should only\\nbe settled as to the new States at their constitutional conven-\\ntions; Avhile Republicans, supporting Abraham Lincoln, pro-\\nclaimed that only the enactment of the Wilmot Proviso\\nwould satisfy them. The Whig candidates, Messrs. Bell and\\nEverett, and the Whig party were silent on all these stormy\\ndifferences, and were not of much significance in the general\\nupheaval.\\n3. Back of this question, hoAvever, about slaA^ery in the Terri-\\ntories, and iuA olved in it, Avas the real issue between the Repub-\\nlican and Democratic parties, and that Avas Avhether the Federal\\nConstitution sliould be tlie supreme law of the land. The riglit\\nr property in slaA es Avas guaranteed by that Constitution, and\\nif tlie lve[)nblican ])arty could thus destroy tliat right it might,\\nwhen it so pleased, destroy any and all other rights. The", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE WAR. 237\\nDemocrats held that the Constitution Avas supreme; the Repub-\\nlicans held that there was a still higher law unwritten and\\nundefined. One was certainty, the other chaos.\\n4. It was seen at an early period of the contest, that the bulk\\nof the Southern people would be found supporting Breckin-\\nridge and Lane.* It was generally held in all the slave-hold-\\ning States that the election of Mr. Lincoln would be significant\\nof a purpose among Northern men to disregard their rights,\\nand that the inauguration of the abolition policy by the Fed-\\neral officers would compel and justify the secession of the\\nSouthern States from the Union.\\n5. When, in November, 1860, it was known that the Repub-\\nlicans had triumphed in the national election, and that Abraham\\nLincoln would be chosen President of the United States by a\\nmajority of the electors in the different State electoral colleges,\\nthen it was realized that the extreme Southern States would, at\\nan early period, sever their connection with the government at\\nAVashington.\\n1801. 6. South Carolina and others said that protection of\\ntheir property would now be impossible in the Union, and there-\\nfore, before the inauguration of President Lincoln, on March\\n4th, 1S()1, seven States had assembled conventions, and by their\\nordinances declared the ties formerly binding them to the\\nRepublic of the United States to be null and void.\\n7. On the 1st of January, 1861, the Legislature then in reg-\\nular session, passed by a large majority in each House, an act\\ndeclaring that in its opinion the condition of the country was\\n*Jo.sepli Lane was born in Buncombe county in this State, and was the\\ncousin of Colonel Joel Lane, who once owned the lands upon which Raleigh\\nwas built. He had served gallantly as a Brigadier-General in Mexico, after-\\nwards in Congress and as CTOvernor of Oregon.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "238 IIISTOIIY OF NORTH CAIIOI.IXA.\\nSO perilous that the sovereign people of the State should\\nassemble iu convention to effect an honorable adjustment of the\\ndifficulties whereby the Federal Union is endangered, or other-\\nwise to determine what action ^vill best preserve the honor and\\npromote the interest of North Carolina.\\n8. At the same time that the delegates were to be elected the\\nact required that the sense of the people should be taken whether\\nthere should be a convention at all or not. The election was\\nheld on 28th of February, 1861, and upon the question of\\nconvention or no convention, the official count showed a major-\\nity of 194 votes against convention, that is to say, 45,409 votes\\nfor convention and 45,603 votes against convention. The vote\\nof Davie county, which was not received in time to be counted,\\nwould have increased the majority against convention some 200\\nvotes.\\n9. How the delegates elected were divided in sentiment on\\nthe day of election cannot be ascertained, nor was such division\\nto be relied upon, for changes were daily taking place, and men,\\nno matter how reluctantly, were rapidly coming to believe that\\nin united action by the South lay the only hope for the future.\\n10. In April, President Lincoln, in consequence of the\\nattack upon and capture of Fort Sumter, required of Governor\\nEllis North Carolina s proportion of an army of seventy-five\\nthousand men, which was to be used in the coercion of the\\nseceded States. This demand Governor Ellis promptly refused\\nand he at once convened the IjCgislature in s})ecial session,\\ndeclaring in his proclamation that the time for action had come,\\nand upon his reconnnendation twenty thousand volunteers were\\ncalled for by the General Assembly to sustain North Carolina\\nin her course.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE WAR. 23U\\n11. A State Convention was called by the Legislature on the\\n1st of May, and met on the 20th day of May, 1861, in the hall\\nof the House of Commons. On this anniversary of the Meck-\\nlenburg Declaration the Ordinance of Secession was passed, and\\nNorth Carolina made haste to connect herself with the Con-\\nfederate States of America.\\n12. The Ordinance of Secession was as follows\\n^AN ORDINANCE DISSOLVING THE UNION BETWEEN THE\\nSTATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THE OTHER STATES\\nUNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT OF GOVERN-\\nMENT ENTITLED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED\\nSTATES.\\nWe, the people of the State of North Carolina, in Convention\\nassembled^ do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and\\nordained, That the ordinance adopted by the State of North\\nCarolina in the Convention of 1789, whereby the Constitution\\nof the United States was ratified and adopted and also all acts\\nand parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopt-\\ning amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby repealed,\\nrescinded and abrogated.\\nWe do further declare and ordain, That the Union now\\nsubsisting between the State of North Carolina and the other\\nStates, under the title of The United States of America, is\\nhereby dissolved, and that the State of North Carolina is in full\\n]30Ssession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which\\nbelong and appertain to a free and independent State.\\n13. The number of submissionists in North Carolina was\\nvery small, and the real diiferences of opinion did not so much\\nregard final action in the crisis as they did i\\\\\\\\Q wiiy and the\\ntime in which it should be reached. Many preferred separate\\nState action many others preferred concert of action among the\\nStates. Some preferred immediate action; others thought it\\nadvisable to wait until s(^me actual overt act, as it was called,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "240 HLSTOliY OF XOIITII CARC^LINA.\\nwas committed by the new administration. Bnt no matter how\\nmncli people were divided on these points, on one point they\\nwere a unit, that is to say, in the desire that final action should\\nrepresent as near as possible every phase of public sentiment.\\nAnd to secure this greatly to be desired unanimity in action,\\nmany personal preferences and original opinions were sacrificed.\\n14. Many good people had hoped and prayed that the troubles\\nbetween the North and South would be peaceably arranged\\nbut all hope of such a blessing was now lost, and the whole\\nState resounded with the notes of preparation for the war. In\\nevery county men pressed forward by thousands to enlist at the\\ncall of the State.\\n15. Governor Ellis ^vas in the last stages of hopeless disease,\\nbut, with great resolution, he addressed himself to the discharge\\nof the onerous duties of his station until his death, on June 9,\\n1861. He was succeeded by Colonel Henry Toole Clark, of\\nEdgecombe, who became Governor of the State by virtue of\\nhis office as Speaker of the Senate.\\n16. Colonel John F. Hoke, of Lincoln, was succeeded as\\nAdjutant-General by James G. Martin, of Pasquotank, late a\\nMajor in the army of the United States. The forts, Johnston,\\nMacon and Caswell were seized, as was also the Federal arsenal\\nat Fayetteville; and, in this way, fifty-seven thousand stand of\\nsmall fire-arms and a considerable store of cannon and ammu-\\nnition were secured.\\n17. After many years of peace and prosperity, the people of\\nNorth Carolina were once again to exhibit their patriotism,\\ncourage and endurance under the most trying circumstances.\\nIn the first Revolution they had contributed twenty-two thou-\\nsand nine hundred and ten men to the defense of the United", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE WAR. 241\\ncolonies in this second upheaval niore than a hundred and\\nfifty thousand crowded to the fra\\\\% and grew famous on more\\nthan a hundred fields.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. How was the Presidential contest of ISGO viewed\\n2. Wliat was the issue Who were ihe candidates,, and what were their\\nplatforms\\n3. What was the real issue between the Democrats and Republicans\\nWhat views were held by each party\\n4. To whom were most of the Southern people giving support? How\\ndid they view the probable election of Mr. Lincoln\\n5. Who were elected? What did some of the Southern States intend\\nto do\\n6. What occurred before the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln?\\n7. What act was i)assed by the North Carolina Legislature?\\n8. Can you tell the result of the vote upon this question?\\nO. Wha.t was the South beginning to realize?\\n10. What call was made upon Nortii Carolina by Mr. Lincoln With\\nwhat result\\n11. When did North Carolina leave the Union\\n12. Can you repeat tiie Ordinance of Secession\\n13. Mention tlie political opinions to be found in the State upon these\\nquestions.\\n14. What had been the hope of many of our peoi\u00c2\u00bbJe? How was the\\nnews of secession received\\n15. What occurred on June 9th WJio succeeded Governor Ellis\\n16. What seizures were made by North Carolina authorities?\\n17. What are tlie thoughts upon this period\\n16", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "242 HISTOPtY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER JA\\\\\\nTHE WA E BETWEEN THE STA TES.\\nA. D. 1861.\\nThe people of North Carohna loved the Union of States\\nthat had been in such large part constructed by the heroism\\nand wisdom of their own fathers. They well knew its value\\nto themselves under an unbroken Federal Constitution; they\\nknew, too, the danger incurred in the attempt to absolve them-\\nselves from further Federal connections. But they knew, also,\\ntheir rights under the Constitution, and were fully determined\\nneither to surrender them, nor to aid in the subjugation of\\ntheir sister States. As the State had entered the Union by\\naction of a convention of her own people, she uoav resolved\\nto leave it in the same manner.\\n2. For more than a month before the memorable 20th day\\nof May, 1861, when the secession ordinance Avas passed, troops\\nwere volunteering and being received by Governor Elns from\\nmany portions of the State. The first ten companies were\\nembodied in a regiment, of which INIajor Daniel H. Hill Avas\\nelected Colonel by the commissioned officers. They were at once\\nsent to York-town, in Virginia.\\n3. On June 9th, General Benjamin F. Butler, aaIio was in\\nconmiand of tlie Ignited States forces at Fortress Mom-oe, in\\nVirginia, sent a colunui of troops up the Peninsula for the\\npurpose of ascertaining the ]X)ssibility of reaching Richmond,\\nwhich city had recently become the Capital of the Southern\\nConfederacy. Early the next morning the Federal advance\\nbecame confused in the darkness and two of their regiments\\nfired iiixtn eacli other.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATP:S. 243\\n4. At Big Bethel, on the 10th, they found the regiment of Col-\\nonel Hill supporting a battery of the Richmond Howitzers.\\nThere were also present two infantry and three cavalry com-\\npanies belonging to Virginia. This force was assailed by the\\nFederal army, but the attack was repelled and the assailants\\nretired in disoi der to Old Point Comfort. Only one Confed-\\nerate soldier Avas killed in the action, and that wixs private\\nHenry Wyatt, of Edgecombe county. He belonged to Cap-\\ntain J. L. Bridgers company, and was the first Southern soldier\\nslain in the war between the States.\\n5. The whole affair was insignificant, both as to the num-\\nber engaged and the results achieved, but was hailed as a\\nhappy omen by the South. North Carolina, with all her\\ndeliberation in taking part in the struggle, was thus to afford\\nthe first martyr of the South, and was present with her troops\\nto arrest the first Federal invasion of Southern soil.\\n6. On the 18th and^21st days of July occurred much greater\\nand more serious conflicts at Manassas and Bull Run, also in\\nVirginia. Another Fe leral army, commanded by General\\nIrvin McDowell, and numbering more than forty thousand\\nmen, left Washington with ordei-s to attack the Confederates\\nunder General G. T, Beauregard, The Fifth, Sixth and\\nTwenty-first Regiments of North Carolina troops were present,\\nand gallantly aided in the Federal defeat.\\n7. Colonel Charles F. Fisher was especially valuable in the\\naid he rendered in restoring a ditched train to the track, and\\nthus making possible the timely approach of the re-inforce-\\nments under General E. Kirby Smith, which so speedily\\nresulted in the flight of General McDowell s army. It is\\nmournful to add, that, after performing this signal service, and\\nafter gallantly capturing the celebrated Rickett s Battery, Colo-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "-!44 HISTORY OF XORTII CAROLIXA.\\niK l Fisher was slain in the battle. He fell at the head of his\\nregiment, beyond tlic battery and still in piu suit of the enemy.\\nThis memorable victory was very grateful to the South, but it\\n(lid not delude the people into the belief that the war was at\\nan end it was useful, too, in that it gave them time to ])repare\\nfor the greater conflicts still to come.\\n8. It had been hoped by Mr. Lincoln and his advisers that\\nall Southern opposition would be overcome in ninety days, but\\nat J^idl Run and Manassas they were convinced that only by a\\ngreat and prolonged struggle were such adversaries to be sub-\\ndued. The sliort ])eriods of enlistment were abandoned by\\nboth sides, and the winter was spent in pre2)aration for a gigan-\\ntic struggle in the spring.\\n9. It was early seen in Xorth Carolina that fortifications\\nwere necessary at Hatteras for the defense of the many broad\\nwaters covering so large a portion of the eastern counties. A\\nsmall sand-work, known as Fort Hatteras, with an outlying\\nfiank defense, called Battery Clark, was the only reliance for\\nthe protection of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds.\\n10. Before these weak defenses a large Federal fleet appeared\\non .Vugust 27th, 1861, and by means of its superior armament,\\nlay securely beyond the range of the guns mounted in Fort\\nHatteras, Avhile pouring in a tremendous discharge of shot and\\nshell. The Federals having effected a landing on the beach,\\nand most of the canon being dismounted in the fort, it was\\nthought l)est by Colonel W. F. Martin, on the 29th, to sur-\\nrender the fort.\\n11. In two days operations the whole tier of eastern counties\\nwas thus laid bare to the incursions of Federal troops and\\ncruisers. There was great sorrow for the ca])tu7 ed garrison,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. 245\\nand general alarm and uneasines.s; but the spirit of resistance\\nwas undaunted; and troops continued volunteering by thou-\\nsands.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. WJiat is the subject of this lesson? How did the North Carolinians\\nconsider their departure from the Union\\n2. What preparations for war were made by tlie State, even before its\\nsecession? Who comujanded tiie first regiment?\\n3. Eelate General Butler s exploit.\\n4. Give an account of the battle of Big Bethel. What Confederate\\nsoldier was slain\\n5. What is said of this event?\\n6. Where were North Carolina troops next engaged in battle?\\n7. What signal aid was rendered by Colonel Charles F. Fisher? What\\nwere the effects of this victory\\n8. What did Mr. Lincoln learn from these battles?\\n9. At wiiat point on the North Carolina coast were fortifications\\nspecially needed\\n10. Describe the Federal attack on Fort Hatteras. Point out Hatteras\\non the map.\\n11. What was the result of the fall of Hatteras?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "24G HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER LYI.\\nTHE COMB A T DEEPENS.\\nA. D. 1862.\\n1862. By the fortune of war in the Revokition, as again in\\n1812, the State was nearly always left with a small propor-\\ntion of her own troops to defend the home of their birth. So,\\nalso, when the spring opened in 1862, though fully forty\\nthousand men of the State were under arms, they were to be\\nfoiuid in Virginia and South Carolina, except a small force left\\nat AVilmington and Roanoke Island.\\n2. This condition of affairs did not result, however, from\\nany indifference on the part of the general government to us,\\nbut from the fact that the main strategic points were in other\\nStates, and fortunate it was for North Carolina that this was\\nso for whatever may have been the necessities of local defense,\\nor the evils incident to an unprotected coast-line, or those\\ninseparable from its occupation by the enemy at various points,\\nthey cannot be compared to the evils resulting from the pro-\\nlonged occupation of a State by large contending armies.\\n8. Roanoke Island Avas the only hojie of defense for Albe-\\nmarle Sound and the many rivers flowing therein. To defend\\nit, General Henry A. Wise was sent with a small force to be\\nadded to the Eighth and Thirty-first Regiments of North\\nCarolina Volunteers. He was sick on February 7th, 1862,\\nwhen General Burnside, with a great fleet and fifteen thousand\\nFederal troops, sailed up Croatan Sound and began the attack.\\n4. Colonel Henry M. Shaw, of the Eighth North Carolina\\nRe^jjiment, was in command, and made a gallant but unavailing", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "THE COMBAT L EEPEN8. 247\\ndefense. The Federals landed and moved up the island in the\\nrear of the forts which had been constructed to prevent the\\npassage of -vessels to the west of the defenses. The only\\nrecourse left was to abandon the lower batteries and concen-\\ntrate the Southern troops at a point near the centre of Roanoke\\nIsland.\\n5. It was hoped that the morasses, indenting both shores\\nand leaving a narrow isthnuis, would enable the small Con-\\nfederate force to defend that position; but the bravery and\\nenterprise of the enemy enabled him to turn both flanks, and\\nnothing was left Colonel Shaw and his command but to fall\\nback to the northern end of the island and there lay down\\ntheir arms.\\n(3. The battle had been bravely fought for two days, and\\nthe two thousand Confederate prisoners and their gallant\\nleader became captives, but only after inflicting heavy loss upon\\nthe assailants. The place was untenable against superior\\nnaval appliances, and quite men enough had been sacrificed in\\nview of the impossibility of preventing its isolation by Federal\\nfleets.\\n7. Very different were the defensive capacities of the city\\nof New Bern. It was immediately foreseen that this impor-\\ntant place would be next assailed, and with enough troops it\\nAvould have been an ea.sy feat to have held it indefinitely, but\\nwhether its value as a strategic point would have justified such\\na defense may be doubted. The Confederate authorities\\nentrusted its defense to General L. O B. Branch, who had no\\nexperience in military affairs, and in whose command, like\\nGeneral Wise s, was not a single regiment that had been under\\nfire, though there were skillful officers of lower rank who had\\nseen much service in the old army. On March 14th, General", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "248 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nBurnside, with the army and fleet so lately the victors at\\nRoanoke, moved to attack the forts Avhich had been constructed\\njust below the junction of Neuse and Trent Rivers.\\n8. General Branch had in his command the Seventh,\\nTwenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth\\nNorth Carolina Regiments, a portion of the Nineteenth (cav-\\nalry), with Brem s and Latham s light batteries and a small\\nforce of militia. These were disposed along a line stretching\\nfrom Fort Thompson, on Neuse River, across the railroad to\\nan impassable swamp, which afforded abundant protection to\\nhis right flank.\\n9. The battle began at seven o clock in the morning and\\nraged imtil noon. The Federal attacks Avere repeatedly\\nrepelled until, by the fatal flight of the militia in the centre,\\nthe Confederate lines were broken and a precipitate retreat\\nensued. General Branch lost two hundred prisoners and\\nseventy men killed and wounded; and, besides these, all his\\nguns and stores. He was beaten in his first battle, when per-\\nhaps naught but defeat wan expected, ])ut he soon Avon high\\nreputation as a brave soldier and skillful officer. Victory is\\nnot always possible to the best generalship. He met, in a few\\ndays at Kinston, re-inforcements that would have enabled him\\nto hold his ground at New Bern; but like many other earthly\\nsuccors, they came too late for real benefit.\\n10. The fall of New Bern sealed the fate of the Confederate\\nforces at Fort Macon. Colonel M. I. White, with five com-\\npanies of the Tenth Regiment (artillery), endured the Federal\\nbombardment until the work was in danger of being blown\\nup. He sim-endered the fort on April 26th, 1862. These\\ndisasters at home were indeed calculated to dishearten, but the\\nonly visible effect upon the people at large was to increase the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "THE COMBAT DEEPExN.S. 249\\nnumbers of those who were still volunteering by thousands to\\ndefend North Carolina and the Confederate States.\\n11. In the spring of 1862, General McClellan, the Federal\\ncommander, having determined to make his advance on Rich-\\nmond by way of James River, and having made his preparations\\nto that eifect, General Johnston transferred the Confederate\\ntroops from Manassas to the peninsula between the James and\\nYork Rivers, thus placing his army between McClellan and\\nRichmond.\\n12. At Williamsburg occurred the lirst memorable conflict\\nof the year between the two great armies struggling on the\\nsoil of the Old Dominion. In this conflict the charge of the\\nFifth North Carolina Regiment, under Colonel D. K. MacRae,\\nexcited the admiration and its terrible losses the sympathy of\\nboth friend and foe.\\n13. In the bloody and glorious campaign in the Shenandoah\\nValley, General T. J. Jackson grew immortal before the com-\\ning of midsummer. The gallantry of the Twenty-first North\\nCarolina Regiment at Winchester, like that of the Fourth at\\nSeven Pines, was as conspicuous as bloody. In this latter\\nbattle, where so many other men of the State were slain, the\\nFourth Regiment, under Colonel George B. Anderson, lost\\nfour hundred and sixty-two men out of five hundred and\\ntwenty.\\n14. In the last days of June nearly all of the North Caro-\\nlina regiments and many Southern troops were concentrated\\naround Richmond, under the command of General Robert E.\\nIjcc, in place of General Johnston, who had been wounded at\\nSeven Pines. In the week of battle ^vhich ended in the over-\\nthrow of the great investing army of General McClellan, they\\nlost thousands of their bravest and best. Ninety-two regi-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "250 IIISTOUY OF XOIITH CAIiOJ.IXA.\\niiu iits constituted tlic divisions of Jackson, Longstreet, D. H.\\nHill and A. P. Hill. These were the forces that drove the\\nFederals to their ships; and forty-six of these regiments\\nbelonged to Xorth Carolina. It may be safely asserted that\\nmore than half the men actively engaged and disabled during\\nthat terrible week were citizens of Xorth Carolina.\\nQITKSTIONS.\\n1. WluU is said of North (Jarolina s forces in the wars?\\n2. What is said of this condition of affairs?\\n3. What force was sent to defend Albemarle Sonnd?\\n4. Can you tell of Burnside s attack?\\n5. What was the conclusion of the engagement?\\n6. What is said of this battle?\\n7. To what point was attention next directed? What officer was in\\ncommand? When was the Federal attack made?\\n8. What com])osed General Branch s command?\\nO. Describe the battle.\\n10. What is said of the fall of New Bern? What fort was next snr-\\nrendered? Where is Fort Macon?\\n11. What military movements were made in Virginia?\\n12. What is said of the gallant charge of the Fifth Regiment at Wil-\\nliamsburg?\\n13. Wiiat regiments are s[)ecially mentioned as participants at Win-\\nchester and Seven Pines?\\n14. What is said of the events at this [)eriod?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "thp: war continues. 251\\nCHAPTER LVII.\\nTHE WAR CONTINUES.\\nA. D. 1862.\\nAmid the exultation that filled the hearts of the people of\\nNorth Carolina for the victories around Richmond, there was\\ngrief in many families for heroes fallen in the discharge of\\nduty. Colonels Stokes, Meares, Campbell and C. C. Lee, like\\na great host of their compatriots, were gone to come no more.\\nIt seemed that the superior numbers and resources of the\\nUnited States forces were to prove powerless before the fiery\\nonsets of the Confederate troops.\\n2. In the month of August, 1862, Zebulon B. Vance, of\\nBuncombe, then Colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, was\\nchosen Governor of North Carolina over William Johnston,\\nof Charlotte, who had been of late Commissary-General of the\\nState. By an ordinance of the Convention, Colonel Vance\\nentered upon his duties as Chief-Magistrate on September 8th,\\n1862. He was to evince great zeal in the discharge of his\\nofficial duties.\\n3. The first Maryland campaign, which occurred in the fall\\nof the year, was the next event of general interest. In the\\nbattles fought in that memorable campaign the North Carolina\\nregiments won great reputation, but at a terrible loss of life.\\nGeneral Branch was killed and General Anderson received\\nwounds at Sharpsburg of which he soon died, and left grief\\nin many hearts for their untimely end. Colonel C. C. Tew\\nalso fell in the same great V)attle, and increased the grief of his", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "2o2 lIISTOkV OF XORTIl C AUOI.IXA.\\nl)e()j)le at tlit loss by tlie niystcry of liis fate. He disappeared\\namid the storm of conflict, but exactly how and when was\\nnever known.\\n4. In North Carolina there liad been comparative quiet\\nthrough the spring and summer months. The Federal garri-\\nsons at Plymouth and New Bern were watched by small bodies\\nof Confederates, but no fighting occurred except in Plymouth,\\nwhich toAvn was taken and held for a few hours by Colonel\\nMartin, Avith the Seventeenth Regiment, and then abandoned\\nbecause of the Federal gun-boats.\\n5. On Blackwater Piver, just below Franklin, in Virginia,\\nthere was a gallant conflict of a few cavalrymen under Lieuten-\\nant Thomas Puffin, of the Fourth Cavalry, and a Federal\\ndouble-ender. The crew were all driven from deck and\\nthe ship lay at the mercy of the assailants until her consorts\\ncimie up the stream from below and slielled the victors from\\ntheir prey.\\n6. By the 1st of December the Federal army, this time\\nunder command of General Burnside, was confronting General\\nLee at Fredericksburg, Virginia. On the 13th, Burnside\\nattempted to carry our lines, but after repeated and desperate\\nassaults and terrible slaughter, withdrew his troops. It w^as in\\nthis battle that Marye s Heights Avon its bloody fame. The\\ngallantry of the enemy, especially of Meagher s Irish Brigade,\\nwas magnificent.\\n7. Simultaneously with the attack of General J^urnside upon\\nthe army of General I^ee at Fredericksburg, tlie South Caro-\\nlina brigade of General Fvans, then stationed at Kinston,\\nNorth Carolina, was sur])rise(l to see a few mounted Federal\\nsoldiers make an attack uj)()n the jxtsition then licld by them.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "THE WAR CONTINUES. 253\\nThe Federals were driven back and pursued in the direction\\nof New Bern. Suddenly the South Carolinians found them-\\nselves confronted by more than twenty thousand foes.\\n8. In the speedy retreat that ensued, General Evans was\\nunable to burn the bridge across the river, and effected his escape\\nwith some loss. Pie was, the next day, re-inforced, and awaited\\nGeneral Foster s approach on the road leading to Goldsboro.\\nBut the Federals were seeking to intervene between that place\\nand the one occupied by Evans. All of Tuesday morning\\n(December 16tli) the masses of the Union troops were seeking\\nto cross Neuse River at White Hall, but they were bravely\\nmet there by General Beverly H. Robinson, who, with the\\nEleventh, Thirty-first, Fifty-ninth and Sixty-third Regiments\\nand Battery B, Third North Carolina Battalion, withstood all\\ntheir attacks and inflicted severe loss upon the baffled invaders.\\nThe contest lasted for eight hours, during which General Foster\\npersisted in his efforts to drive off the Confederates, so that pon-\\ntoons could be laid for a bridge across the stream, in place of the\\none burned the night before.\\n9. Failing to cross Neuse River at White Hall, General\\nFoster marched in the evening for Goldsboro, and, having\\nreached the bridge of the Wilmington Weldon Railroad,\\nsucceeded in burning it, in spite of the gallant eflPorts of Gen-\\neral Clingman and his brigade to prevent.\\n10. General Foster retired in great precipitation to New\\nBern, and the burned bridge was his only trophy in an expe-\\ndition which seemed so threatening at its inception.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What Avas the feeling concerning the victories around Richmond\\n2. Who was chosen Governor in 1802? When did Colonel Vance enter\\nupon the duties of Chief-Magistrate?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "2o4 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n3. What losses had North Carolina sustained in the battle of Sharps-\\nburg? What increased the grief of Colonel Tew s people?\\n4. Wliat was the state of aflairs in North Cai oliiia during the spring\\nand sn miner of 1802?\\n5. Describe the engagement on Blackwater River?\\nO. Where was the Federal army confronting General Lee on December\\n1st? What occurred on the loth?\\n7. Can you tell of the surpi-ise at Kinston\\n8. What was the further result of this affair?\\ni}. What is said of the conclusion of this matter?\\nlO. Where did General Foster go?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "WAR AND ITS HORRORS. 255\\nCHAPTER LYIII.\\nWAR AND ITS HORRORS.\\nA. D. 1863.\\n1863. When the year 1863 had come upon the American\\nStates in their bloody and wasting quarrel, there was nothing\\nto indicate any solution of the great controversy. Many\\nbloody battles had been fought, thousands of homes were\\nsaddened in the loss of brave and true men, and yet both sides\\nwere as intent as ever upon carrying on indefinitely the terrible\\nand costly struggle.\\n2. Mr. Lincoln and the government at Washington said\\nthere should be no peace until the seceded States returned to\\ntheir allegiance. Mr. Davis and the government at Rich-\\nmond said, on the other hand, that the seceded States were,\\nof right, free and independent States that had rightfully\\nresumed their delegated powers, and owed no allegiance to the\\nFederal government.\\n3. It was hoped that England and France would recognize\\nthe independence of the Confederate States; but beyond\\nextending to the Southern government the rights of bellig-\\nerents, this trust proved utterly fallacious. Confederate agents\\nwere received and armed vessels allowed to enter their ports,\\nbut no aid was extended to the Southern cause. The arrest\\nof the Confederate Commissioners, Messrs. Mason and Slidell,\\non a British mail steamer by a United States war vessel, was\\nresented by England and war seemed probable; but these\\nSouthern envovs were released, and no aid came from abroad", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "256 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nexcept in the ships tliat were l^ouo-lit of private persons for the\\npurpose of cruising against vessc^ls belonging to citizens of the\\nUnited States.\\n4. Among the earliest measures adopted ])y the Federal\\ngovernment was the blockade of the Southern sea-ports. Wil-\\nmington, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and Galveston were\\nall watched by armed ships that sought to exclude the vessels\\nof all countries from entering these harbors. Cruisers swarmed\\nalong the whole Southern coast, and it became a matter of\\ngreat peril and difficulty to send out or bring in any com-\\nmodity by way of the ocean.\\n5. This soon led to a scarcity of salt, sugar, coffee, molasses\\nand everything which had been formerly imported from\\nEurope or bought of Northern merchants. Prices continually\\nadvanced as such things became more scarce in the South.\\nWilmington is so situated that an effective blockade there was\\nalmost impossible. There were two inlets, and, therefore, two\\nblockade fleets were necessary, and even with this added diffi-\\ncult^ the blockading squadron could not prevent, on dark\\nnights, the passage of s^\\\\ ift steamers that swept in and out of\\nthe Cape Fear Kiver and brought from Nassau and Bermuda\\nwhat was most needed for the armies and people.\\n6. Soon after his inauguration, Governor Vance, at General\\nMartin s suggestion, sent Colonel Thomas M. Crossan to Eng-\\nland for the purpose of procuring a ship to supi)ly the wants\\nof North Carolina. Crossan had been a naval officer in the\\nservice of the United States, and had judgment enough in such\\nmatters to select one of the swiftest ships in the world. It\\nwas called the Loirl Clyde abroad, but that name was changed\\nto the Ad- Vance, and the vessel made many successful voyages\\nbefore she was ca]itured.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "WAR AND ITS HORRORS. 257\\n7. Ill the superior clothing and equipments of the North\\nCarolina troops were the wisdom and activity of the State\\ngovernment manifested. And, too, not only were the neces-\\nsities of our own soldiers supplied, but large aid was extended\\nto the troops of other States. Besides this, cotton and woolen\\ncards and many other necessaries were brought in and dis-\\ntributed to the different sections of the State. Salt was the\\nmost important of all the domestic supplies excluded by the\\nblockade. To procure this indispensable article, private ftic-\\ntories on the sea-coast were supplemented by others under\\nState management but these proved insufficient to meet popu-\\nlar wants, and arrangements were made to procui^e additional\\nsupplies from the salt wells of south-western Virginia.\\n8. It was early foreseen that in so great a struggle enormous\\nexpenditures would become necessary; and, to meet such\\nliabilities, it would be necessary for the Confederacy and the\\nindividual States to use their credit in procuring supplies on\\nthe faith of future payments. Many millions of dollars were\\nto be expended, and only Confederate and State obligations\\nwould be available to meet such purchases.\\n9. Unhappily, the great supply of cotton then in the South\\nwas not utilized by the authorities, and thus a solid basis of\\ncredit was lost; and a favorite theory is, that had all the cotton\\nbeen promptly seized by the government and sent to foreign\\nports, the depreciation of its funds would have been averted,\\nbut whether this could have been done is, to say the least, by\\nno means certain. As it was, in 1863 both Confederate and\\nState money began to.depreciate in value, and this depreciation\\nonce begun, had no stoj) in its downward tendencv.\\n17", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "258 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the condition of the war in 1863?\\n2. What positions were taken by Presidents Lincohi and Davis\\n3. From what countries iiad the South expected aid? What is said of\\nthe arrest of Mason and Slidell?\\n4. What Southern cities were blockaded? What was the effect of this\\nblockade\\n5. What is said of the port of Wilmington?\\n6. How did Governor Vance supply the wants of the people? What\\nis said of the Ad- Vance f\\n7. What supplies wei e brought in by the Ad-Vance f How was salt\\nobtained\\n8. How did the Confederate government jiropose to obtain fluids for\\ncarrying on the war?\\n9. What was the cause -of the great depreciation in the value of money?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "THE DEATH- WOUND AT (JETTYSBURG. 259\\nCHAPTER LIX.\\nTHE DEATH-WOUND AT GETTYSBURG.\\nA. D. 1863.\\nIll spite of the great Federal success in acquiring territory\\nin North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and elsewhere, and,\\nnotwithstanding the increasing hardships everywhere felt, the\\ngovernment and people of the Confederate States were still\\nundismayed and hopeful when the spring of 1863 permitted\\nthe vast armies of the United States to resume active military\\noperations. No thought of submission was entertained by the\\nConfederate soldiers, and, among the people at home only in\\nrare instances were individuals to be found who expressed\\nhopelessness as to the result of the war.\\n2. In North Carolina a period of inactivity suc(, eeded the\\nraid by General Foster, which was only broken by the unsuc-\\ncessful attack on the town of Washington. General W. H.\\nC. Whiting, who had made reputation a.s a division commander\\nin the Army of Northern Virginia, was sent to assume charge of\\nthe Department of the Cape Fear, with his headquarters in Wil-\\nmington. This city had been fearfully ravaged by yellow\\nfever in the fall of 1862, and had now become all-important\\nto the Confederacy as a port. Other Southern sea-ports were\\nalmost totally closed by blockade, and only at the Cape Fear\\nwas there left a hope of access.\\n3. Generals Braxton Bragg, D. H. Hill, Leonidas Polk and\\nBenjamin McCulloh had all risen to prominent commands, and\\nconferred honor by their connections with the Old North State.\\nAmong the younger officers. Generals Pender, Hoke, Pettigrew\\nand Ramseur had all won distinguished notice and promotion\\nfor o n11nnt and meritorious service.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "200 HISTORY OF XOPvTH C ATJOTJNA.\\n4. Many thousands had been enrolled in the sixty-six reji i-\\nnients and ten battalions of North Carolina mustered in the\\nC/Onfederate service, and, though mourning was in many house-\\nholds, recruits \\\\vere constantly going to fill the gaps occasioned\\nby deaths on the field and in the hospitals. Dr. Charles E.\\nJohnson had been succeeded as Surgeon General of the State\\nby Dr. E(hyard AVarren. Drs. E. Burke Hjiywood, Peter E.\\nHines, AV. C. Warren and others of the leading physicians\\nwere placed in charge of great hosj)itals at Raleigh and other\\ncities in the State. North Carolina sustained a similar institu-\\ntion at Petersburg, in Virginia. Of the latter the excellent\\nlady^ Miss Mary Pettigrew, a sister of the General of the same\\nname, became matron and, like another Florence Nightingale,\\ncheered the sick aiid dying with her elegant presence.\\n5. General Burnside lost his place by his disaster at Fred-\\nericksburg, and was followed in command of the Army of the\\nPotomac by General Joseph Hooker. This gallant commander\\nwas as signally beaten at Chan eel lorsville on May 2d and 3d.\\nNo battle of any age conferred greater honor upon the victors\\nbut in the loss of Stone=syall Jacikson the South was deprived\\nof a leader whose place could not be supplied. North Carolina\\nwas never more gloriously indicated than on this famous\\nfield, and ex-Governor Graham, who ^yas then in Richmond,\\nsaid, a fcAv days afterAvards, in the Confederate States Senate, that\\nhalf the men killed and wounded at Chancellorsville belonged\\nto North Carolina regiments.\\n6. So astonishing was the result of this battle, and so crush-\\ning its effects u])on the Federal authorities, that General Lee\\nagain resolved n])on an invasion of the North. The invasion\\nproved a failure, and after several severe battles General Lee\\nwas forced to return, with his defeated army, to Virginia. It", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "THE DEATH-WOUND AT GETTYSBURG. 261\\nwas on that last dread day, the 3d of July, at Gettysburg, that\\nhe discovered that even his incomparable infantry could not\\naccomplish everything he desired.\\n7. Thirty thousand of the bravest and best, who had so\\nlong made the Army of Northern .Virginia unconquerable,\\nwere lost to our cause forever. Among the North Carolinians,\\nGenerals Pender and Pettigrew, Colonels Burgwin, Marshall\\nand Isaac E. Avery were slain, and a host of subalterns like-\\nwise perished.\\n8. Another great disaster happened at this time in the sur-\\nrender of Vicksburg, Mississi]^pi, with the army there under\\nconniiand of General Pemberton, involving as it did the occu-\\npation of so large a portion of the Confederacy. These great\\nlosses, occurring as they did on the same day, and so vitally\\naffecting our strength, were never retrieved, and from that day\\nSouthern fortunes waned, with occasional flickeriugs, of hope,\\nuntil the close at Appomattox.\\n9. But many gallant struggles were yet to be made. On\\ndifferent fields the great forces of the Union were to be bravely\\nrepelled, but the ranks of General Lee s army were so much\\nthinned that it became daily more impossible to confront the\\nincreasing horde that gathered against it from all civilized\\nnations. But the policy of attrition and exhaustion was not\\nto be seen in full force until the next year.\\n10. During the month of June, Colonel Spear s cavalry raid\\nin Hertford and Northampton counties was driven back by\\nGeneral M. W. Ransom, and, beyond this, there were no\\nmovements of a hostile character in the State limits duriiip;\\nthe year.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "262 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROIJNA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. In wliat condition was the vSouth in 1803?\\n2. How was the port of Wilmington specially iini)ortant to the Con-\\nfederacy? Who was in command at this place?\\n3. What North Carolinians are mentioned as having risen to promi-\\nnence\\n4. How many regiments had the State furnished up to this timer Who\\nsucceeded Dr. Charles E. Johnson as Surgeon General of the State? AVhat\\ndoctors had charge of the liospitals? What noblewoman is mentioned,\\nand what is said of her?\\n5. What fierce battle was fought on May 2d and 3d? What did Gov-\\nernor Graham say of the North Carolina troops at Chancellorsville\\n6. Upon what did General Lee resolve after the victory What was\\nthe result of the invasion\\n7. How many Southern soldiers were lost on this occasion? What\\nNorth Carolinians are named among the slain?\\n8. What other great disaster happened at this time How did it eflect\\nthe Southern cause\\nO. What is said of Lee s army\\nlO. What raid was driven back by General Kansom\\n*-i^\u00c2\u00a5i^^", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "GENERAL GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGN. 263\\nCHAPTER LX.\\nGENERAL GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGN.\\nA. D. 1864.\\n18G4:. The ibiirth year of the great war opened on North\\nCarolina with grief in ahiiost every family; still, with\\ndiminished hopes and increased exertions for the general\\ndefense, they looked forward to a campaign which they well\\nunderstood was to be decisive of their fortunes. Perhaps not\\neven General Washington was so trusted and beloved by the\\nAmerican people in the Revolution as was General Robert\\nE. Lee by those of the kSouth in the closing years of the\\nstruggle.\\n2. In his genius and capacity they felt sure they had the\\nvery highest human leadership, and in his splendid career and\\nspotless renown they all took pride as conferring reflected\\ncredit upon themselves. So nol)le, unselfish and wise, he had\\nbecome the idol of his o\\\\vn people and the admiration of his\\nfoes. At the outbreak of the war he had declined the com-,\\nmand of the Federal armies, because he believed it was his\\nduty to take part with his own people.\\n3. Ex-Governor Thomas Bragg had been for some time in\\nthe Cabinet of President Davis, as Attorney-General. He\\nresigned the position and was no more in public life. Since\\n1854, when he had left the Bar to become the Governor of\\nNorth Carolina, he had been continually growing in public\\nfavor, and now returned to the leadership of his profession.\\nNo lawyer in our annals has been more respected or successful.\\nIn the Confederate States Senate the })olished and eloquent", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "264 HISTORY OF NOllTH CAROLINA.\\nGeorge Davis, of Wilmington, and W. W. Avery, of Burke,\\nhad served until the latter was Succeeded, in 1862, by W. T.\\nDortch, of Wayne; and, a year later, Mr. Davis was suc-\\nceeded by ex-Governor Graham; and later still, Mr. Dortch\\nwas succeeded by Thomas S. Ashe, of Anson, who did not\\ntake his seat by reason of the dissolution of the Confederate\\ngovtTument.\\n4. In the midst of the great struggle there was, of course,\\na great diminution of attention to matters of education. Gov-\\nernor Swain, with a renniant of the faculty, remained at Chapel\\nHill, and, with a few boys too young for service, yet retained\\nthe name and semblance of the University. Professors\\nHubbard, James and Charles Phillips, Hepburn, Smith, Fetter\\nand Judge Battle were still on duty at their old posts, but\\nProfessor Martin was Colonel of the Eleventh Pegiment, and\\nalmost all the students were enrolled as soldiers of the Con-\\nfederate army. The sectiu^ian colleges, male and female, Avere\\nnearly all closed, and even in the common schools there wa.s\\nsmall interest manifested amid the blood and excitement of\\nthe time.\\n5. Many of the ablest ministers of the gospel left their\\nchurches and wera faithful chaplains in the army. Great\\nreligious interest was awakened by them among the men who\\nwere so bravely battling in Virginia, and many thousands\\nwere converted and added to the churches^ during the revivals\\nin the camps.\\n6. The re-capture of Plymouth, in Washington count} on\\nApril 20th, 1864, was one of the most brilliant and successful\\naffairs of the war. The youthful and gallant Brigadier-\\nGeneral R. F. Hoke was sent by General 1jva\\\\ in command of\\na division, with which he surrounded the strong fortifications", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "GENERAL GRANT ANI HIS CAMPAIGN. 265\\nand took them by assault, capturing more than three thousand\\nprisoners. The help of the iron-clad Albemai k was very\\nefficacious oi? this occasion, and her combat at the mouth of\\nRoanoke River, a few days later, was one of the most stubborn\\nnaval engagements on record. Single-handed, Captain Cook\\nfought and defeated a strong fleet of double-enders, and drove\\nthem, routed, from the scene. This expedition of General\\nHoke secured his promotion, and was in marked contrast with\\nthat of General Pickett against New Bern a few weeks before\\nthe only incident of which, creditable to the Confederates, was\\nGeneral Martin s well-fought battle at Sheparsdville.\\n7. When the spring opened, tidings came from the Wilder-\\nness of fresh battles in that region which had been made\\nfamous the year before. General U. S. Grant had been made\\nCommander-in-Chief of all the Federal armies, to assume the\\ndirection of affairs in Virginia. With the vast numbers at\\nhis command, he resolved upon such strategy as fell with\\nfearful results upon his army, but it weakened the reduced\\nranks of the Confederates at the same time. General Grant\\nlost more men in his march from the Rapidan to the James\\nRiver than General Lee had confronting him, but it mattered\\nnot, for still fresh Federal thousands poured in to fill the places\\nof those who fell at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor\\nand the minor combats. On our side, however, there were\\nnone to take the places of those who were killed.\\n8. In this terrible campaign, which was not ended even\\nwhen General Grant began the siege of Petersburg, the North\\nCarolina regiments were fearfully reduced. Generals Ram-\\nseur, Daniel and God^vin, together with Colonels Andrews,\\nGarrett, Brabble, Wood, Spear, Blacknall, C. M. Avery, Jones,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "266 HISTORY OF NORTH CIAROIJNA.\\nBarbour and Moore were anioni those who sealed their faith\\nwith their blood.\\n9. No battle of the war was more brilliant in ih partieulars\\nand results than that of Ream s Station, fought on August\\n24th, 1864. General W. S. Hancock, of the; Federal army,\\nhad seized and fortified a position, from which General Ix c\\nordered Lieutenant-General A. P. Jlill to dislodw him. So\\nstern was Hancock s resistance that two bl(K)dy assaults had\\nbeen repelled, when the privates of Cooke s, MacRae s and\\nLane s North Carolina brigades demanded to be led to the\\nattack in which their comrades had failed. Their officers\\ncomplied; and, with seventeen hundred and fifty muskets in\\nthe charge, they took the Avorks and captured twenty-one hun-\\ndred prisoners and thirteen pieces of artillery.*\\n10. In the steady depreciation of Confederate and State\\nmoney was the greatest calamity of all. The cry of distress\\nfrom famishing women and children was increasing in volume,\\nand the State and county authorities were finding it more and\\nmore impossible to meet, by public charit} the pressing wants\\nof their people.\\n11. The pay of Confederate soldiers in the ranks was $15\\nand $17 per month, in Confederate money. During the\\nlatter days of the war flour sold for $800 per barrel meat\\n}^3 per pound; chickens $15 each; shoes (brogans) $300 per\\npair; coffee $50 per pound; tallow candles $15 per pound.\\nIt may be easily imagined how great was the suftering in the\\nSouth when it is remembered that numbers of soldiers wives\\nwere almost entirely dependent upon the pay of their husbands\\nTlu North iiioliiiii cavalry regiments were al.so greatly applauded by\\nGeneral llanipton lor service on the same occasion.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "GENERAL GRANT AND HLS CAMPAIGN. 267\\nfor support. There were relief coniiiiittees throughout the\\nState, but the great scarcity of provisious made them ahiiost\\nhelpless.\\n12. Almost all the white meu of North Carolina were in\\nthe ranks of the different regiments and battalions mustered\\ninto the Confederate service. Their families were largely\\ndependent upon the pay they received as soldiers. When tlie\\nConfederate money became w^orthless want and suffering\\nappeared in every s(jption, and unhappy wives were clamorous\\nfor their husbands return to avert starvation at home.\\n13. The sufferino^ families were ever in the minds of the\\ndauntless men who Avere away facing the enemy, for a direr foe\\nwas thinning the blood and blanching the cheeks of wife and\\nchild. Therefore, many a hero turned his back on the scenes\\nof his glory and incurred personal ignominy, and sometimes\\nthe punishment of death, for desertion.\\n14. The case of Edward Cooper was in point. He was\\ntried by court-martial for desertion. He declined the aid of\\na lawyer to defend him, and, as his only defense, handed the\\npresiding judge of the court the following letter, which he had\\nreceived from his wife:\\nMy Dear Edwakd: I have always been proud ol you, aud since your\\nconnection with the Confederate army I have been prouder of you than\\never before. I would not have you do anything wrong for the world, but\\nl)efore God, Edward, unless you come home, we must die. Last night I\\nwas aroused by little Eddie s crying. I called and said, What is the\\nmatter, Eddie? And he said, O mamma, I am so hungry. And Lucy,\\nEdward, your darling Lucy, she never complains, but she is growing thin-\\nner and thinner every day. And before God, Edward, unless you come\\nJiome. we must die. Your Mary.\\n15. General Cullen Battle and his associate members of the\\ncourt were melted to tears. Although the prisoner had vol-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "268 HISTORY OF XOKTH CAROLINA.\\nuntarily returned to his command, they found him guilty, and\\nsentenced him to death, but recommended mercy. General\\nLee, in reviewing the case, api)roved the finding but pardoned\\nthe unhappy artilleryman, who was afterwards seen by Gen-\\neral Battle, standing pale and bloody, as he fired his last round\\ninto the retreating Federals. He then fell dead at his post in\\nbattle.\\nQUESTIOxXS.\\n1. What year of the war liave we now reached? Wliat is said of North\\nCarolina s ho{)es?\\n2. What tribute is paid to General Robei t E. Lee?\\n3. What is said of ex-Governor Bragg? What changes were made in\\nthe Confederate States Senate?\\n4. What is said of educational matters at this period?\\n5. How were the ministers of the Gospel faithfully performing their\\nduties?\\nO. Can you desciibe the capture of Plymouth by General R. F. Hoke s\\ncommand?\\n7. W^liere was the principal fighting in the spring of 1804? What is\\nsaid of Grant s campaign?\\n8. What losses had North Carolina sustained in this campaign?\\nO. Descrilie the battle of Ream s Station. What North Carolina tr()o[)s\\ncaptured General Hancock s position?\\n10. What is said of the depreciation of the Confederate currency?\\nHow was it effecting the people?\\n11. What was the pay of Confederate soldiers? Mention the prices of\\nsome of the necessaries of life.\\n12. How were the soldiers families suffering?\\n13. What is said of the terrible struggle of the women and children?\\n14. Can you mention the case of Edward Cooper?\\nlo. What w^as the verdict of the court-martial? What was the ending\\nof this sad case?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "NOr.TH CAROLINA AND PEACE-MAKING. 269\\nCHAPTEK LXI.\\nNORTH CAROLINA AND PEACE-MAKING.\\nA. U. 1864 TO 1865.\\nIn 1864 Colonel Vance was re-elected Governor of North\\nCarolina. At his first election he was personally very popular,\\nwas a soldier in the field, had been in actual battle, had been\\nby no means a strong Union man in the earlier portions of\\nthe year 1861, and, indeed, in May of that year, was in camp\\nat the head of his company. Mr. Johnston, his opponent, was\\na secessionist, but neither popular nor a soldier, and compara-\\ntively but little known to the mass of the people, except in his\\nown immediate section of the State. Everybody of every shade\\nof opinion had the fullest confidence that Colonel Vance would\\ndo his whole duty. There was no expectation that Mr.\\nJohnston would be elected, nor any serious effort made in his\\nbehalf.\\n2. In his course as Governor such strenuous support was\\ngiven to the Confederate States that when his term of service\\napproached conclusion, and a new election was to be held, a\\nfew men who had been among his most zealous friends two\\nyears before, but who now opposed the determined attitude of\\nthe Confederacy and of North Carolina, were found opposing\\nhis continuance as Governor.\\n3. These comj^rised a small fragment of the people, and\\nWilliam W. Holden, of Wake, was their candidate, and this\\nwas all the opposition Governor Vance had. Mr. Holden was\\nthe editor of the Standard, a newspaper that had, in years\\npast, been extreme in Southern proclivities, and he had advo-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "270 HISTOIJV OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\neated and signed the Ordinance of Secession, bnt of late lie had\\nadvocated North Carohna s \\\\vithdrawal from the Confederacy\\nand tlie making of separate terms with the powers at Wash-\\nington.\\n4. Governor Vance and the people, except the handfnl of\\nHolden s followers, both in and out of the army, opposed this\\nproject as dishonorable and unjust to their compatriots of other\\nStates. They held that North Carolina s fortunes Avere insep-\\narable from those of the other Southern States and that she\\nmust share their fate, whatever that might be.\\n5. About this time several propositions looking to overtures\\nto Mr. Lincoln for peace were communicated to Governor\\nVance from certain members of the Confederate Congress\\nfrom other States, but he refused to take any part in such a\\nscheme. He was re-elected by an overwhelming majority,\\nafter a thorough exposition of his views by many addresses\\nboth to the people at home and to the North Carolina soldiers in\\ntheir camps.\\n6. As General Grant day l)v day massed fresh thousands\\nof troops before Petersburg, and the Confederate resistance\\ngrew more feeble in the Shenandoah Valley, the conference\\nwhich took jilace at Old Point Comfort Avas arranged to no\\npurpose. After a mighty struggle the South, in utter exhaus-\\ntion, was soon to lay down the arms that had been so bravely\\nwielded.\\n7. The importance of AVilmington to the waning fortunes\\nof the Confederacy had long been evident in the closing of\\nother sea-ports by blockade. General Whiting was an able\\nand experienced engineer, and his main defense. Fort Fisher,\\non New Inlet, was ])ronounced by General Beauregard as\\nalmost impregnable. Forts Caswell and Holmes, at the mouth", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "NORTH CAROLINA AND PEACE-iMAKlNG. 271\\nof Cape Fear River, and the numerous work.s fringing both\\nbanks of the stream from Wihnington to the ocean, had\\napparently rendered hostile approach from that direction a thing\\nalmost imjDossible to any naval expedition.\\n8. On December 25th the same General Butler who had\\nbeen at the capture of Fort Hatteras in 1861, came with an\\narmy which was borne in a great fleet commanded by Admiral\\nD. D. Porter. This vast armada, carrying six hundred of the\\nheaviest cannon modern science has been able to construct,\\nopened fire upon Fort Fisher.\\n9. The fort was re-inforced by a few companies from other\\nportions of General Whiting s command, and later, the divis-\\nion of General Hoke arrived from Petersburg and took posi-\\ntion in the intrenched camp at Sugar Loaf, four miles distant\\nup the river. General Braxton Bragg had been for some time\\nin command of the department and was present on this occa-\\nsion.\\n10. All day, on that Christmas Sabbath, a fiery storm of\\nshot and shell was rained upon the fort, which answered\\nslowly and deliberately from its different batteries. In the\\nmidst of the bombardment. General Butler landed his army\\non the peninsula above the land-faci of the work, but upon\\ninspection of its strength he grew hopeless of his undertaking,\\nand, on the night of December 26th, having re-embarked his\\nforc^ the fleet returned to Beaufort.\\n1865. 11. There was much joy and relief in this evident\\nFederal confirmation of the reported impregnability of the\\ngreat work, and congratulations went around among the Con-\\nfederates over this defeat of the costly undertaking of the\\ninvaders. General Braaca: withdrew Hoke s Division and all", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "272 IIISTOPvY OF NOIITPI CAROUXA.\\nthe force at Sugar Loaf, except Adani\\\\s light battery and the\\ncavahy, witli the intention of attacking the garrison of New\\nBern.\\n12. He was signally interrupted in this undertaking, when,\\non the night of the 12t]i of January, 1865, Colonel William\\nLamb telegraphed from Fort Fisher that the fleet had returned\\nand the troops were disembarking for a renewal of the attack.\\nGeneral Bragg hurried Hoke s and all other available com-\\nmands back to the rescue, but found the Federal army in\\ncomplete possession of the ground between the fort and\\nintrenched camp. Upon a reconnoissance, the enemy were\\nfound too strongly posted to be assailed.\\n13. The great fleet opened fire upon the land-face, and having\\ndismounted all but one of the twenty-two heavy guns defend-\\ning that flank, on the evening of the 15th, General Terry, by\\nsignal, changed the fire of the fleet to the sea-face batteries.\\nThe three Federal brigades that had worked their way close\\nup, sprang forward in a charge that resulted in the capture of\\nseven traverses and four hundred })risoners. The assailants\\nlost their three commanders and five hundred men. It was a\\nfatal blow. The Federals could not be dislodged, and, after\\nbrave and unavailing combat within the Avorks, Fort Fisher\\nwas taken; and its garrison, numbering two thousand men,\\nbecame ])risoners of war. General AMiiting and Colonel\\nLamb were both badly wounded, and the former soon died of\\nliis injuries.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What is said of the re-election of Governor Vance in 1804?\\n2. What course had Clovernor Vance pursued? Wliat is said of tlie\\napproacliing election?\\n3. Who was Governor Vance s opponent? What measures were being\\nadvocated bv Mr. Holden and his followers?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "NORTH CAROLINA AND PEArE-iMAKING.\\nZ/ 3\\n4, How did Governor Vance and the people consider these measures?\\n5. What propositions had certain members of the Confederate Congress\\ncommunicated to Governor Vance, and how had he received them? Wliat\\nwas the result of the election\\nO. Where was General Cirant placing fresh troops? W^hat was the\\nresult?\\n7. What is said of Wilmington and its defenses?\\n8. What occurred on December 25th, 1804?\\n9. Describe the attack on Fort Fisher.\\n10. What was the conclusion of the attack?\\n11. How did the Htate receive the news of this Federal failure? What\\nforces were removed from Fort Fisher?\\n12. Describe the preparations for renewal of attack on January 12th,\\n13. Give an account of the engagement, Wat was the sad result?\\n18", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "Zi4 inSTOKV OF NOKTH CAKOI.fNA.\\nCHAPTER LXII.\\nTHE WAR DBA WS TO A CLOSE.\\nA. D. 1865.\\nWith the fall of Fort Fisher the fate of Wilmington was\\nsealed. With the Federal troops in siieli a position the port\\nwas most effectually closed. The last connection of the\\nbeleagured Confederacy with the outer world was thus broken,\\nand North Carolina^ with beating heart, listened to the\\na})proaching footsteps of countless invaders. General Lee,\\nA\\\\ho had been made General-in-Chief of all the Southern\\narnn es, selected General Joseph E. Johnston to command in\\nNorth Carolina.\\n2. General Bragg s forces having retired from Wilmington,\\nmet the corps of Major-General Scholield in an ineffectual\\nengagement at Kinston, on March 8th, and retired upon Golds-\\nbore This command, with the troops lately in Charleston\\nmid Savannah, the remnant of the Army of Tennessee and\\nHampton s Division from Virginia, soon made an army of\\ntwenty-five thousand men, under the command of General\\nJohnston.\\n3. Against him were coming, from South Carolina, the great\\narmy under (Jeneral W. T. Sherman; from Wilmington, the\\ncorps of General Terr}-, and from Kinston, the army of Gen-\\neral Schofield. In addition to these overwhelming forces,\\nanother cohnnn was approaching from the west, under General\\nStoneman.\\n4. As this great array gathered toward Raleigh as a com-\\njuon focus, the first conflict was between the. division com-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "THE WAR DRAWS TO A CLOSE. 2ib\\nmanded b}^ General Hardee and the arni}- of General Slierman\\nat the hamlet of Averysboro. After a stubborn light, Hardee\\nwithdrew, and, having joined General Johnston, the latter\\ncollected fifteen thousand men at Bentonsville, in Johnston\\ncounty, on March 19th, and awaited Sherman s approach.\\n5. General Sherman, on that day, made six successive\\nattacks upon Jolinston s left, composed of Hoke s and Cheat-\\nham s divisions and the late garrisons on the Cape Fear. The\\nFederal assaults were all repelled, and, at the order for our troops\\nto advance, three lines of the enemy s field works were carried\\nand several batteries captured. This success, however, was not\\nbloodlessly eifected.\\n6. General Sherman withdrew to Goldsboro to meet Scho-\\nfield and Terry, and Johnston halted near Smithfield to await\\ndevelopments. With such a force it seemed impossible that he\\nwould be able to meet the combined strength of the thi-ee\\narmies assembling at Goldsboro, but the result at Bentonsville\\nhad greatly elated his troops, and they resolutely awaite :l Gen-\\neral Sherman s return to the shock of arms.\\n7. After so much bloodshed the end of hostilities, however,\\nwas near at hand. General Sheridan, with heavy cavalry\\nre-inforcements, having assailed the right flank of General\\nLee s defensas at Petersburg, after hard fighting, succeeded in\\nwinning a decisive battle at Five Forks on the 28th of March.\\nThe loss of the six thousand Confederates made prisoners on\\nthat day was fatal to a -longer hold on the thinly-manned lines\\naround the city that had been so long and nobly defended.\\n8. On the morning of the 2d of April, in the general\\nassault. General Lee s lines were pierced in three places,\\nGeneral A. P. Hill was slain, and, at nightfall the doomed\\narmy of Northei-n Virginia began its famous retreat. .Vfter", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "276 JIISTOKY OF XOKTII CAROI-IXA.\\nincredible hardships, having fought their way to A])poniattox\\nCourt House, the small remnant of the heroes who had for\\nfour years so dauntlessly held their ground against all comers\\nwere envelojx d in the masses of pin-suing hosts, and, on April\\n9th, at the command of their beloved leader, they there laid\\ndown their arms.\\n9. General Lee was never greater or more loved or inore\\nreverenced than in the hour of his fall. He had not taken\\npart in the struggle to gratify ambition or for love of war, but\\nin the conscientious discharge of sacred duty. Into that\\nstruggle North Carolina had sent more than a hundred and\\nfifty thousand of her sons, and to them all he was ever the\\nideal of the soldier, the gentleman and the Christian. At his\\ncommand they laid down their arms, returned to their homes\\nand in time renewed their allegiance to the United States.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the effect of tlie fall of Fort Fisher?\\nti. What occurred at Kinston? What was the size of (4eneral John-\\nston s army?\\n3. What great forces were march int? against Johnston\\n4. Where was the first conflict between these armies? When was the\\nbattle of Bentonsville fought? Point out Averysboro on the map. Ben-\\ntonsville.\\nCan you tell something of the fight at Bentonsville?\\nWhat was done by the Federal and Confederate commanders after\\nthis battle?\\n7. What occurred at Petersburg?\\nH, How did the battle result? Wiiat took place at Aijpomattox\\nO. What is said of the great Ociieral Lee?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "(JONCIATDING .SCENE.S OF THE WAK. 277\\nCHAPTER LXIII.\\nCONCLUDING SCENES OE THE WAR.\\nA. D. 1865.\\nWhen General Johnston became aware of General Lee s\\nretreat, he Avas informed that his next duty would be to effect\\na junction of his forces with those withdrawn from Peters-\\nburg. In accordance with this object a movement was begun\\nat Raleigh, April 10th. The army, Governor Vance accom-\\npanying it, having passed the capital, ex-Governors Graham\\nand Swain, accompanied by Surgeon-General Warren, met\\nGeneral Sherman at the head of his vast army a few miles\\nfrom Raleigh and asked him to protect the city.\\n2. General Sherman and his accunmlated army of more than\\na hundred thousand men entered the capital city on April\\n13tli. As the advance, under General Kilpatrick, the brutal\\nlibertine and notorious bummer, moved up Fayetteville street,\\na Confederate cavalryman. Lieutenant Walsh, of Texas, before\\nhis flight, halted near the State House and fired several times\\nat Kilpatrick and his staff. His horse falling in his effort to\\nescape, he was captured and taken before Kilpatrick, who\\nordered him to be immediately hanged. This outrageous order\\nfor the murder of a Confederate prisoner of war was speedily\\nobeyed.\\n3. General Johnston was soon api)rised of General Lee s\\ncapitulation, and, after conference with President Davis at\\nGreensboro, he resolved to end the war by surrender of his\\narmy. To this end, having connnunicated with General Sher-\\nman, they met on April LSlli, at the house of a Mr. JJennell,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "27S HISTOIIY OF NORTH CAROLiyA.\\nnear Diirliam, and aoTCcd upon conditions of surrender, sub-\\nject to the aj)])ro\\\\ al of President Lincoln. Most unhappily\\nfor the Soutliern people, Mr. Lincoln never had an opportunity\\nto express his opinion concerning this military convention; for\\nhe having just been assassinated at Washington by John\\nAVilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, the Vice-President, had\\nbecome President in his place.\\n4. Mr. Johnson was a x^orth Cai olinian by birth. He had\\nlived in Raleigh until he reached manhood and then emigrated\\nto Tennessee, where he became a very prominent citizen.\\nWhen the war came on he adhered to the Federal side, and\\nwas very bitter and harsh in his hostility to the South. He\\nwas rewarded for his course by election to the Vice-Presidency\\nof the United States in 1864. In the violent excitement\\nwhich followed upon the killing of President Lincoln, Mr.\\nJohnson would not sanction the liberal terms of surrender\\nwhich General Sherman had granted to General Johnston,\\nalthoup-h General Sherman had been in conference with the\\ndeceased statesman just previous to his death, and was folk)w-\\ning his directions as to the treatment of the conquered South.\\n5. Notwithstanding this refusal of the President of the\\nUnited States to carry out the agreement of the military com-\\nmissioners, the army of General Johnst(^n was surrendered at\\nGreensboro on April 26th, 1865, and sent home on parole on\\nlike terms Avith the Confederate troops at Appomattox.\\nNote.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the State election of 18(10 the total vote i)()lle(l was ni ,oS(;\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe largest that had ever been polled. North Carolina furnished to tlie\\nConfederacy over 150,000 men, or quite as many soldiers as she had voters\\nduring the four years of the war. The total number of troops furnished\\nbv all the Stales of the Confederacy was about (iO0,()0O, and it will be se-en\\nthat North Carolina furnished one-fourth of the entire force raised by the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "CONCLUDING SCENES OF THE WAR. 279\\n6. General Schofield was made military Governor of North\\nCarolina, and his first official act was a proclamation declaring\\nfreedom to the slaves in the State. After two centuries of\\nservitude these people were at last delivered from their bond-\\nage. It is difficult at this day to say who were the more\\nblessed in this deliverance the slaves or their masters.\\n7. It was a hard thing for men who had been reared in the\\nSouth to realize that their principal property, guaranteed to\\nthem, as it was, in the fundamental law of the land, was\\nfounded in injustice; and still harder was it to accept poverty\\non the strength of a sentiment. Human nature is selfish in\\nall regions, and, that Southern men should have clung to their\\nproperty is no more than what their opponents would have\\ndone had the circumstances been exchanged. It will be diffi-\\ncult for posterity to understand what a mighty revolution in\\nthe domestic life of the people was involved in this single act\\nof an army officer.\\n8. The slaves had been looking forward with hope, since the\\nbeginning of the war, that freedom might be in store for them,\\nvet almost all of them had remained in quiet subjection at\\ntheir homes while the war was progressing. It seemed hard\\nfor them to realize, for some time, that they were at last the\\nmasters of their own movements. As a general thing, they\\ncontinued quietly at labor on the farms of their former owners\\nuntil the crops that were growing were complete in their\\ntillage, or, as they expressed it, laid by.\\nConfederate governinent during the war. At Apj^mattox North Carolina\\nsurrendered twice as many muskets as did any other State, and at Greens-\\nboro more of her soldiers were among the paroled than from any of her\\nsister States. North Carolina s losses l^y the casualties of the war were\\nlai-gely over 30,000 men. {Our Living and Our Dead.)", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "280 lIlSTOliY OF .NORTH CAKOJ.INA.\\n9. Governor A^ance was soon arrested and imprisoned in\\nthe old eapitol at Washington. President Davis was also\\ncaptured and imprisoned. Mr. Johnson appointed Vance s\\nlate political antagonist, W. W. Holden, Provisional Governor,\\nand, at the same time, removed from office every State and\\ncounty official in North Carolina. For some weeks no officer\\nwith civil powers was to be seen, and to the connuanders of the\\nmany Federal posts alone could the peaceful have looked for\\nprotection against violence and fraud.\\n10. No man ever had so great an opjmrtunity for fixing\\nhimself in the esteem and affi?ction of the people as Governor\\nHolden had during his administration as Provisional Governor,\\nand no man ever so completely threw golden opportunities\\naway. Had he risen to the full height of a patriot, his name\\nwould to-day be a loving household Avord in every section\\nof the State. But he did not, and such opportunities rarely\\noccur twice to any man.\\n11. His career had been not an uneventful one. )f humble\\norigin, he had, by dint of his own work and his own brains, car-\\nried himself to the control of the Democratic party in the State.\\nHe was not satisfied with the position of editor of the chief\\norgan of the dominant party, and the pecuniary profits that then\\nresulted from such a position, but desired to be made Governor\\nof the State. He was defeated for the nomination by Judge\\nEllis before the Democratic State Convention at Charlotte, and\\nfrom that pei-iod dates his downward career. He advocated\\nthe Douglas movement, and then supported Breckinridge and\\nLane. He voted for and signed the Ordinance of Secession,\\ndeclaring he intended to preserve as an heirloom in his family\\nthe ])en with Avhich he attached his name to the ordinance; and\\nthen he became the head and front of the Union element in the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "COXCLUDING SCENES OF THE AVAR. lJ8l\\nState during the war. At the close of the war, as we have\\nseen, he was made Provisional Governor by President Johnson.\\n12. No man knew better than Governor Holden that on our\\nside the war was entirely at an end when the troops laid down\\ntheir arms, and that when the people of North Carolina\\nrenewed their allegiance to the Federal government they\\nintended to stand to it honestly and faithfully. None better\\nthan he knew that they desired nothing so much as to set them-\\nselves to the task of rebuilding their fallen fortunes. He\\nknew, too, that they w^ere well aware that before this could be\\ndone civil government, with all its varied machinery, must be\\nre-established, and that in all that was right and proper for a\\npeople so situated, they were ready to aid him in doing this.\\nThe returned soldiers, too, especially felt that of them some\\nrecognition was due for the honorable terms and respectful\\ntreatment accorded to them at Appomattox and Greensboro.\\n13. In such mood it would have been an easy task for a\\nruler Avho was both patriot and statesman to re-estal)lisli Fed-\\neral authority in North Carolina. It was simply impossible to\\npunish all who had fought against the Federal government.\\nIt was quite as impossible to expect the many who had fought\\nagainst it to take part in punishing tha i aw. Amnesty and\\noblivion on one side, renewed allegiance and strict observance\\nof the laws on the other, plainly constituted the true solution\\nof the problem. Unfortunately, the partisan prevailed over\\nthe patriot. Instead of granting amnesty and oblivion, treason\\nwas to be made odious and traitors to be punished. Instead of\\nmaking the j^ath easy back to the Union, it was constantly\\nl^locked up in every possible way by both State and Federal\\nauthority. Of course an era of bitterness l)egan, which the\\nlong imprisonment of Mr. Davis, the judicial nnuxlers of Mrs.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "282 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nSuiTatt and Henry Wirz, the protracted exclusion of the\\nSouthern States from all participation in the general govern-\\nment and the harsh policy of reconstruction daily served to\\nintensify.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What movement did General Johnston attempt after the surrender\\nof General Lee? What men met General Sherman s army in behalf of\\nthe city of Raleigh\\n2. Wiien did Siierman s army reach Raleigli? Wliat event is men-\\ntioned\\n3. What was done by Johnston after learning of Lee s surrender?\\nWhat occurred at Washington City?\\n4. Wiiat is said of President Andrew Johnson? How did lie act con-\\ncerning the terms of Johnston s surrender?\\n5. When and where did General Johnston surrender?\\n6. Who became military Governor of North Carolina? What was his\\nfirst official act? What is said of the freedom of the slaves?\\n7. How is the question of slavery further considered?\\n8. How had the slaves acted during the war? How did they receive\\nthe news of freedom\\nO. What befell Governor Vance? To what ofiice was W. W. Holdeu\\nappointed? What was the condition of civil affairs in North Carolina?\\n10. What is said of Governor Holden\\n11. Can you tell something of his life?\\n12. How should Governor Holden have viewed the situation?\\n13. What would have been the proper course to pursue towards North\\nCarolina?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "REFITTING THE WKECK. 283\\nCHAPTER LXIY.\\nREFITTING THE WRECK.\\nA. D. 1865 TO 1867.\\nWhen the bulk of the vast armies that had effected the\\noverthrow of the Confederacy was marched northward and\\ndisbanded, the full extent of the ruin that had been wrought\\nwas at last realized. So many Federal troops had been col-\\nlected in North Carolina that their subsistence and depreda-\\ntions had consumed nearly all the food in the State, and the\\nutmost scarcity was disclosed in broad districts contiguous to\\nthe line of march and occupation by General Sherman s great\\narmies.-\\n2. Grief for the ruined South, the desolated homes and slain\\nkinsmen was further supplemented by the pangs of want and\\nhuno:er. Famish ino^ men and women were forced to solicit\\nrations of the Federal officers. Aid was given generally to\\nneedy applicants, upon their taking the oath of allegiance to\\nthe United States.\\n3. In the liberation of the slaves ruin was brought upon\\nthe banks and other fiscal corporations of the State, and, as a\\nconsequence, the endowments of the University and the colleges\\nwere, to a great extent, forever lost. Even the large Literary\\nFund, by which the whole system of common schools was\\nsustained, being invested in similar securities, also disappeared\\nin the general bankruptc}\\n4. When the Provisional Governor had entered upon the\\ndischarge of his official duties, North Carolina was reduced to\\na small supply of cotton as the sum of her available means to\\ndischarge the current expenses of the new government, and", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "284 JIISTOHV OF NOllTIT CAROLINA.\\neven that was seized by the agents of tlie United States, and,\\nto Governor Holden s appeals for its release, the Seeretary of\\nthe Treasury and President Johnson jiroved deaf and inex-\\norable.\\n5. fludges Pearson and attk were reinstated in tlieir\\nplaces of Supreme Court Justices, but Judge M. E. Manly\\nwas replaced by Edwin G. Reade, of Person. By orders\\nfrom ashingt()n, a proclamation was issued for an election of\\na Convention to restore the State to its former relations. This\\nbody met October 2d, 1865, and selected Judge Reade as its\\npresident. Ordinances were passed repealing and declaring\\nnull and void the secession ordinances of May 20th, 1861,\\nabolisliing slavery and invaliding all contracts made in futhcr-\\nance of the late w-ar.\\n1866. 6. In the same election, Jonathan Worth, of Kan-\\ndolph, W as cliosen over Governor Holden as Chief-Magistrate.\\nThe State was apparently resuming its self-government, and\\nw^as soon to show that some spirit was left in the people. They\\nrefused to ratify the ordinances of the late Convention by a\\ndecided majority; and, while accepting the situation and sub-\\nmitting in all quietude to the authorities imposed, they were yet\\nresolved to take no part in these constrained reformations.\\n7. The general government had been for four years declar-\\ning the Ordinances of Secession, passed by the several States,\\nnull and void. It had been repeatedly announced that no\\nState could thus sever her connection with the Union; but\\nwhen the legally elected Senators and Representatives from\\nNorth Carolina reached Wasliington, they found that this\\ndoctrine was reversed, and were told that they could not take\\n])art in national kgislation until Congress should restore the\\nSouthern States to their lost privileges.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "BEFITTING THP: WRFX K. 285\\n8. In the Soutliern elections that were held, every man was\\nrequired to take oaths of allegiance and for the support of the\\namended Federal Constitution. Some refused to attend the\\npolls and a few left the country for foreign lands. A vast\\nmajority were resolved to support the Union in good faith, but\\nunhappily, this was not so understood by the men who con-\\ntrolled at Raleigh and at Washington. They were impressed\\nwith the belief that only hostile sentiments actuated Southern\\nwhite men, and, therefore, the proper policy was to confer\\npolitical power upon the negroes, and in that way establish\\na new system of rule and social life in the Southern States\\nlately in revolt.\\n1867. 9. This was a great and cruel mistake in policy. It\\nwas not only impossible of execution, but necessarily entailed\\ntrouble and suffering on both races thus put in antagonism.\\nIt could not be expected that white people would quietly submit\\nto the domination of negroes who had so recently been their\\nslaves, even if such rulers had been equally intelligent and\\nsocially respected. When the race feeling was added to the\\nlate subjection and present ignorance of the negroes, it was the\\nmost futile and abortive scheme ever proposed in America,\\nand was at war with all the precedents and spirit of the great\\nRepublic.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the condition of tlie State after the departure of Federal\\ntroops\\n2. How were the people enduring mental and bodily snfiering?\\n3. What had become of the various educational funds?\\n4. W^hat was the only means by which North Carolina could meet the\\nexpenses of the State government? What became of tlie small supply of\\ncotton", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "286\\nTirSTORV OF NOHTII CAROUXA.\\n5. What cluinges did Governor Holden make in the Supreme Court\\nWhat orders did the Goveinor i-eceive from Washington Wliat was tlie\\nwork of the Convention?\\nO. Who was chosen to succeed Governor Holden? What political\\nopinions were expressed hy the people in their votes?\\n7. What inconsistencies were observed in the management of affairs at\\nWashington?\\n8. How did the men of the South feel concerning the laws of Congress?\\nO. How are the events of this period considered", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOK WORTH AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON. 287\\nCHAPTER LXY.\\nGOVERNOR WORTH AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON.\\nA. D. 1867 TO 1868.\\nPresident Andrew Johnson, as has been*ah*eady stated, was\\nborn and reared in the city of Raleigh. He went to Tennessee\\nafter reaching manhood, and, though blessed with small advan-\\ntages as to early culture, devoted himself to political life.\\nHe is said to have mastered the rudiments of education\\nwith his wife s help. His native ability soon gave him position\\nas a politician and eventually great popularity and control over\\nthe Tennessee people.\\n2. He soon relaxed in the severity of his feelings toward\\nthe late Confederates, and thereby incurred the resentment of\\nthe leaders in the party which had elected him Vice-Presi-\\ndent. In the bitterness of the mutual recriminations between\\nhim and his late friends in Congress, there was, unhappily,\\nevil to result to North Carolina and the South for to the old\\nresentments against the South was added a desire in many men\\nto thwart the President who had become their ally.\\n3. Governor Worth had ever been marked as a public man\\nby the utmost devotion to the Federal Union. He had con-\\nstantly opposed the doctrine and necessity of secession. He\\nwas now to show his wisdom and attachment for the State of\\nhis birth. As Governor, he was continually pressed to secure\\nlegal protection for the people against the interference of mili-\\ntary commanders and courts-martial, which were constantly\\nintruding upon the jurisdiction of the State courts.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "288 HisTonv of north oarotjxa.\\n4. The whole system of education in the common schools\\nhad perished in the loss of the Literary Fund. The Univer-\\nsity still continued its ministrations, but with a diminished\\nfaculty and patronage. Tlie colleges, male and female, })elong-\\ning to the different religious denominations, were re-opened\\nand generally were slowly regaining their former efficiency.\\n5. Among the first enactments by the Legislature after the\\nwar, Avas the law allowing negroes to testify against or for\\nwhite parties in courts of justice. This w^as a great change in\\nour law, but was now necessary for their protection, as they no\\nlonger had masters to care for them.\\n(3. The agriculture of the period was rapidly advancing in\\nthe perfection of its details. Concentrated fertilizers were\\ncoming into general use and the area af cotton culture was\\nimmensely expanding. The farms were about equally divided\\nas to the style of their management. The best farmers still\\nhired their Viands and superintended the details of opera-\\ntion in person, but many leased their lands to laborers and\\nfurnished the teams and supplies needed by the tenants.\\n7. Under the sensible and moderate rule then seen in the\\nState, prosperity seemed rapidly returning, but as the LTnited\\nStates Congress still refused to allow any representation in that\\nbody, there was great and increasing uneasiness as to the terms\\nthat would be finally exacted from the South in the j^ro posed\\nreconstruction measures.\\n1808. 8. Early in the year 1868 a convention, so-called,\\nwas held to frame a new Constitution under the Reconstruction\\nAct of Congress. The election for the delegates was held\\nunder General Canby s orders and the returns were sent to him\\nat Charleston. U])on his order the Convention met, ;nid U])on\\nhis order its delegates were seated and unseated.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR WORTH AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON. 289\\n9. Ill the latter part of April the Constitution thus framed\\nwas submitted to such of the people as were allowed to vote,\\nat an election held as before, under General Canby s order, and\\nby him, in Charleston, South Carolina, the returns having been\\nsent to him there, declared to have been adopted. It is now\\ngenerally known as the Canby Constitution. In June, by\\norder by telegram from. General Canby, Governor Worth,\\nwho had been elected Governor by the people in 1866, was\\nturned out of his office and Governor Holden put in his place.\\nThe only authority for this and other outrages was the might\\nof Federal bayonets,\\n10. The Legislature elected under the recently adopted Con-\\nstitution met on the 1st of July, 1868. It was comprised\\nlargely of negroes and of men from the North who had lately\\ncome to North Carolina. These latter were popularly known\\nas carpet-baggers, and a.s a class were mere birds of prey who\\ncame here for plunder. As might have been expected, the\\nlegislation of such a body was both corrupt and injurious.\\nIgnorant of the resources of the State, of its people and\\ntheir necessities, it would have been a miracle almost, no\\nmatter how honest, had their legislation not been harmful.\\nUnfortunately, there was added to gross ignorance the most\\nunblushing corruption and ^vanton extravagance. Many mil-\\nlions of debt, in the shape of Special Tax Bonds, as they\\nwere called, were attempted to be fastened upon the State by\\nthis Legislature, but the people have pei ;istently refused to\\nrecognize them.\\n11. The Convention and elections of 1868 will ever be\\nremembered. The act of Congress, passed on February 20th,\\n1867, was in vain vetoed by the President. It was made the\\nlaw of the land, and under its provisions, while twenty tliou-\\n19", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "290 HISTORY OP NORTH CAROLIXi^.\\nsand white men of North Carolina were deprived of the right\\nto vote, that privilege was extended to every colored male in\\nthe State who liad attained the age of twenty-one years.\\n12. Tlie year closed with great apprehensions to all classes.\\nThe new State government possessed neither the confidence nor\\nthe aifection of the people, and in the pandemonium of bri-\\nbery and corruption there was justification for the fears of\\nmen, who, in corrupt and reckless appropriations and corrupt\\nand reckless expenditures, foresaw ruin to all material interests\\nof the State.\\n13. In Robeson county life and property were so insecure\\nthat extraordinary measures Avere adopted to extirpate the\\nbandits who slew and plundered as if no legal restraints Avere\\nleft in the land. The story of Henry Berry Lowery and his\\nSwamp Angels will ever stand as a convincing proof of the\\nincompetency of the government of that day or of its wanton\\ndisregard of its duties to its citizens.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Where was President Andrew Johnson born? To what State did\\nhe go To what profession did he devote himself? How is he said to have\\nmastered the rudiments of education What position did his native ability\\ngive him\\n2. How did his feelings toward the South undergo a change What did\\nhe incur tlicreby How did this effect North Carolina and the South?\\n3. W^hat is said of Governor Worth\\n4. In what condition were the institutions of learning at this period?\\n5. What legislation is mentioned favoring the colored people? Wliy\\nwas this noVv necessary\\n6. How were agricultural matters progressing? How were the farms\\nconducted?\\n7. Wliat was the general condition of the State?\\n8. For what was the Convention of 1S()8 held? Under whose order\\nwas the election for delegates held?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR WORTH AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON. 291\\nD. When was the Constitution thus framed submitted to the people\\nHow is this Constitution now known How was Governor Worth removed\\nfrom office, and who was put in his place? What was the authority. for\\nthis and other high handed measures?\\n10. When did the Legislature of 1868 meet, and of whom was it com-\\nposed What is said of this Legislature? What is said of the Special\\nTax Bonds\\n11. W^hat is said of the Convention and elections of 1868?\\n12. In what condition were public affairs?\\n1.3. What is said of Robeson county, and Henry Berry Lowery and his\\nSwamp Angels", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "292 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROT.INA.\\nCHAPTER LXVI.\\nTHE RESULTS OF RECONSTRUCTION.\\nA. D. 1868 TO 1870.\\nThere was in North Carolina great indignation at the result\\nof the enforced changes wrought in the polity of the State by\\nmeans of the various congressional enactments. Straligers from\\nother States, and men entirely unused to legislation, had effected\\nmany alterations in our government and laws. It was to be\\nexpected that such things, done in such manner, would prove\\ndistasteful to a proud race that had so lately withstood so\\nstoutly on the field of battle, and so long, such superior num-\\nbers.\\n2. Among the many unnecessary changes that were rendered\\nmore distasteful by the harsh manner of their accomplishment\\nAvere those made by Governor Holden and his party at the\\nState University at Chapel Hill. This venerable institution,\\nwhich had given education to many men of renown, was taken\\nin hand, and, with a new management and a new faculty, made\\nuj) of carpet-baggers and unsuitable native North Carolinians,\\nre-opened its doors. Its late president, ex-Governor David I^.\\nSwain, had died shortly after his removal, his colleagues in the\\nfaculty had dispersed in search of new homes, and silence had\\nusurped the halls so long thronged by students from many\\nStates. The village of Chapel Hill, depending on the existence\\nof the University for its support, became almost deserted. No\\nless than thirty of its best families removed within two years.\\nThe people of North Carolina refused to jxitronize the new\\norganization, and the institution was for seven years prostrate.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "THE KESULTS OF RECONSTRUCTION. 21)3\\n3. The changes did not stop with the University. The\\njudges of all the courts had been, since 1776, elected by the\\nLegislature. This was altered, so that they were in future to\\nbe selected by the votes of the people. The name of the lower\\nbranch of the General Assembly, so long known as the House\\nof Commons, became that of the Representatives. The\\nmeeting of the Assembly was made annual instead of biennial,\\nand the pay of the members and State officials largely increased.\\nOur county government system, too, was changed, and so was\\nthe mode of electing magistrates, who had hitherto been elected\\nby the Legislature. In future they were to be elected by the\\npeople. In many portions of tlie State the eifect was to put\\nthe white race at once under the domination of the black race.\\nBitterness and great excitement were the inevitable results.\\nBut of all the innovations, none, perhaps, was so startling as\\nthat made in the procedure and practice of the courts. It was\\ndistasteful both to client and counsel, but to the older lawyers\\nit was especially objectionable.\\n1869. -I. The distinguishing event of this year in North\\nCarolina was the appearance, in various parts of the State, of\\nwell-organized bodies of horsemen, commonly \u00c2\u00abdled Ku-Klux,\\nwho ro^e about at night in full disguise and punished crimes\\nthat the law had failed to punish. The mystery attending their\\ncoming and their going, the silence they preserved in their\\nmarches, the disguises they wore, coupled with the terrible\\npunishment they inflicted, struck terror into the hearts of men\\nwith guilty consciences.\\n5. These midnight riders were doubtless in their origin tlic\\nnatural outgrowth of the condition of society that had pre-\\nvailed in North C arolina for some time past that is to say,\\nthey were originally nothing more nor less than local mutual", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "294 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nprotective associations, with little form about them and but\\nlittle more secrecy. The first step having been taken in that\\ndirection, the next followed as a matter of course. Next came\\nassociations to prevent future crime by punishing past crime.\\nThese organizations were more conn)lex in their character and\\nof wider range in their operations.\\n6. The condition of society was very bad, but not worse\\nthan might have been expected under a government Avhich,\\nobnoxious in its creation, daily became more hateful in its con-\\nduct. Negro suffrage had just become a reality. Spies and\\neavesdroppers were everywhere catching up men s Avords and\\nwatching men s actions for report to the govei-nment at Raleigh.\\nCorruption and licentiousness stalked openly in the legislative\\nhalls and sat unblushingly on the judicial bench, while in the\\nExecutive office was a Governor ready to obey the behests of\\nhis party at any cost. It was an era of extravagance, bribery,\\ncorruption, oppression, licentiousness and lawlessness. Of the\\nnegroes, ignorant slaves but yesterday, with all their passions\\nstirred to the utmost, large numbers blindly believed that\\nfreedom and suffrage would make them masters to-morroAV\\nAvere it not for the native white race. First suspicious, then\\nsullen, then aggressive, they soon came, under the bad teaching\\nof the men Avho were their leaders, to regard the native white\\nmen as their born enemies. The result was the murder of men,\\nthe outraging of women, the burning of barns and other like\\ndestruction of property, then of vital importance, for the hnv\\nhad no terror for any evil doer who had friends at court or in\\nthe Executive chamber. It is but just to the negroes, how-\\never, to say that it is not believed that if they had been left\\nto themselves tliey would have acted as they did, but that they\\nwere influenced to bad deeds by bad white men, who used them", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "THE RESULTS OF RECONSTRUCTION. 295\\nas tools to accomplish political ends. Under such circum-\\nstances as these, good citizens felt that they were tried beyond\\nhuman endurance, and justified themselves to their own\\nconsciences for taking the law into their own hands.\\n7. The evils the Ku-Klux came to cure were indeed unbear-\\nable; but it must be said, also, that while the disease was\\ndesperate, the remedy was fearful. It is a fearful thing for\\nmen to band themselves together in secret and take the law into\\ntheir own hands, and nothing but the direst necessity and the\\ngravest emergency can ever justify it. Inseparable from every\\nsuch organization, and this proved no exception to the rule, is\\nthe danger of its easy perversion to the gratification of personal\\nmalice or the improper punishment of petty offenses, and this\\nalone ought to be warning that in such a remedy lies terrible\\ndanger.\\n8. Governor Holden quailed before the Ku-Klux, and from\\nhis guarded house issued proclamation after proclamation, but\\nthey would not down at his bidding. When winter came, and\\nwith it the Legislature, Senator Shoifner, of Alamance, at the\\ninstance of the Governor, introduced a bill into the Senate, in\\nits terms conferring upon the Governor the right to declare any\\nand every county in the State to be in insurrection, and to\\nrecruit and maintain an army Avhenever he saw proper. In\\nother words, the bill sought to confer upon the Governor the\\npower to declare martial law at will. Of course this was\\nunconstitutional.\\n1870. 9. The Shoifner bill was ratified on the 29tli of\\nJanuary, 1870. On the night of the 26th of February, Wyatt\\nOutlaw, a negro, was hung in the county town of Alamance\\nby the Ku-Klux. On the 7th of March the county was\\ndeclared to be in a state of insurrection. Federal troops were", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "296 HISTORY OF NORTH CAJiOLINA.\\nsent there, but beyond eating tlieir rations they had no occupa-\\ntion, for quiet and good order prevailed throughout the county.\\n10. A striking fact, true of every place during these un-\\nhappy times, is that whenever white Federal troops were sent\\nto a troubled section, whether in Alamance, Caswell, Orange\\nor elsewhere, there was straightway an end of trouble. The\\nlaw-breakers were awed into good behavior, and those whom\\nself-protection had forced, in their own judgment, to take into\\ntheir own hands the administration of justice, of course had\\nno further occasion to do so.\\n11. Governor Holden, however, seemed not to be satisfied\\nwith the Shoifner bill, for on the 10th of March he wrote to\\nthe President, asking that stringent orders be sent to the com-\\nmanding General, and stating that if criminals could be\\narrested and tried before military tribunals and shot, there\\nwould soon be peace and order throughout the country. The\\nremedy, he said, would be a sharp and bloody one, but as\\nindispensable as was the suppression of the rebellion. On\\nthe 14th he wrote to the members of Congress from North\\nCarol ina,t beseeching them to induce Congress to authorize the\\nPresident to declare martial law in certain localities, so that he\\nmight have military tribunals, by which assassins and mur-\\nderers can be summarily tried and shot, and telling them at\\nthe same time that he could not have such tribunals unless the\\nPresident was authorized to suspend the habeas corpus.\\n12. At the time when the Governor was so anxious thus\\nsummarily to try and shoot people, not a single man had\\nbeen killed in Caswell, and onlv one in Alamance. It nuist be\\nFor letter in full, see GoveriKji- n Letter-book, page 328.\\njFor letter in full, see (iovernor s Letter-book, page 329.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "THE RESULTS OF RECONSTRUCTION. 297\\nborne in mind, too, that the men whom he refers to, and whom\\nhe afterwards arrested as assassins and murderers, were among\\nthe best men in all the land, many of them venerable for age\\nas well as respected for personal integrity and Christian char-\\nacter.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. How did our people take the many changes in State polity?\\n2. What was done with the University\\n3. How was the manner of electing judges changed? What was the\\neffect of this change?\\n4. What secret organization was formed at this time?\\n5. What is said of the Ku-Klux\\n6. Can you tell something of the condition of society?\\n7. How are the doings of the Ku-Klux considered?\\n8. What was done by the Governor in regard to the Ku-Klux?\\nO. What occurred in Alamance county?\\n10. What was the general effect produced by the Federal troops?\\n11. What was the next step taken by Governor Holden\\n12. Who were the men arrested by order of the Governor?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "298 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROI.INA.\\nCHAPTER LXVII.\\nTHE RESULTS OF RECONSTRUCTION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Continued.\\nA. D. 1868 TO 1870.\\nOn the 21st of May, John W. Stephens, then a Senator\\nfrom Caswell county, was secretly murdered in an unused\\nroom in the court-house at Yanceyville. A large concourse\\nfilled the house when the deed was connnitted, the occasion\\nbeing a Democratic political gathering, and Stephens was seen\\nand talked to at the meeting, being there as a spectator.\\nStrange to say, however, it is a mystery to this day as to who\\ncommitted the crime.\\n2. It was insisted by Governor Holden and his party that\\nStephens had been murdered by the Ku-Klux. This, how-\\never, was as stoutly denied, and the assertion added that, as\\nStephens was an object of derision and contempt rather than of\\nhatred, there was neither desire nor cause to put him to death.\\n3. Meanwhile, Congress had refused to confer upon the\\nPresident the power to declare martial law, and the August\\nelections kept drawing near. A new Attorney-General and a\\nnew Legislature and new Congressmen were to be elected.\\nThe Governor and his party were therefore comjjelled to rely\\non the Shoffner bill alone.\\n4. State troops, as they were called, were now recruited,\\nand, on the 21st of June, George W. Kirke, a brutal ruffian\\nof infamous character, and known to be such, who had com-\\nmanded a regiment of Federal troops during the war, was\\nbrought from his home in Tennessee and commissioned Colonel.\\nTliis man Kirke, in liis public posters calling for recruits, the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "THE RESULTS OF EECONSTRUCTION. 299\\noriginal of which was found in Governor Holden s own hand-\\nwriting, appealed to his old comrades to join him, saying that\\nthe blood of their murdered countrymen, inhumanly butch-\\nered for opinion s sake, cried to them from the ground for\\nvengeance/\\n5. On the 8th of July the county of Caswell was declared\\nto be in a state of insurrection. Meanwhile, however, a com-\\npany of Federal troops had been stationed at Yancey ville, and\\nhad found use for neither ball nor bayonet, and in both Ala-\\nmance and Caswell the courts were open and not the slightest\\nobstruction to any process of the law.\\n6. On the 13th of July, Kirke having organized his regi-\\nment, was ordered to take command of the counties of Ala-\\nmance and Caswell. In a few days more than a hundred\\ncitizens of Alamance and Caswell were arrested and imprisoned\\nby Kirke and his subordinates. In some instances persons\\nthus seized were hung up by the neck, or otherwise treated\\nwith great brutality. Among these prisoners were many men\\nwho had been for years of the first respectability as citizens,\\nand were known and honored in every portion of the State.\\n7. Application was speedily made to Chief- Justice Pear-\\nson for a writ of habeas corpus, that Adolphus G. Moore, and\\nothers thus imprisoned, might know the cause of their deten-\\ntion and receive the protection of the laws. Judge Pearson\\ngranted the writ, but when it was served on Kirke, he directed\\nthe messenger to inform the Chief-Justice that such things\\nhad played out, that he was acting in accordance with Gov-\\nernor Holden s orders, and he refused to obey the command of\\nHis Honor. The lawyers of the imprisoned men then asked\\nfor further process of the Judge to punish Kirke for his dis-\\nregard of his orders but Judge Pearson passed over his con-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "300 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nteinptuous message as the flippant speech of a rude soldier/^\\nand held that his powers were exhausted, as the Governor had\\nordered Kirke to seize the men, and the judiciary could not\\ncontend with the Executive, and in this he was sustained by\\nthe other members of the court.\\n8. The conspiracy against the Constitution, the laws and the\\nliberties of the people developed rapidly, now that the highest\\njudges in the State had declared the courts of the State to be im-\\npotent. The military tribunals that the Governor failed to get\\nfrom Congress in March, he now proceeded to organize under\\nthe ShoflPner act. The court was to consist of thirteen members,\\nseven of whom Governor Holden selected from among his own\\npartisans in the militia and six he left to Kirke to select from\\nthe officers of his command.* The 25th day of July was first\\nselected for the meeting of the court, and then the 8th of\\nAugust. t It was a terrible state of affairs. The Chief\\nExecutive of the State was daily making his preparations for\\nholding a drum-head court-martial to try the best men in all\\nthe land, tie them to stakes and shoot them like dogs, while\\nthe judiciary, standing in sight and in hearing, declared itself\\nhelpless\\n9. Fortunately, Chief- Justice Pearson and those who sat\\nAvitli him were not the only judges in North Carolina. There\\nproved to be at least one judge who did not think his powers\\nexhausted. That judge was George W. Brooks, Judge of the\\nUnited States District Court for North Carolina, and applica-\\ntion was accordingly made to him for a writ of habeas corjjus.\\nHe axme to Raleigh, and was told by the Governor that if he\\nFor full letter, see Inipeacliment Trial, Volume I, page 233.\\nfFor full letter, see Inipeacliment Trial, olnme II, page 1147", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "THE RESULTS OF RECONSTRUCTION. 301\\ninterfered civil war would ensue; but Judge Brooks was\\ninflexible^ and, on August 6tli, he ordered Marshal Carrow to\\nnotify Colonel KIrke that in ten days his prisoners should be\\nbrought before His Honor at Salisbury.\\n10. Governor Holden then appealed to President Grant,\\ninforming him of the situation; and the President, after advis-\\ning with the Attorney-General, replied that the authority of\\nJudge Brooks must be respected. Kirke accordingly brought\\na portion of his prisoners as ordered, to Salisbury, and as no\\ncrimes were alleged for their detention, they were all set at\\nliberty.\\n11. As soon as Governor Holden was informed of the\\ndecision of the President, he sent a messenger in haste to the\\nChief-Justice, who thereupon came to Raleigh, and the prisoners\\nwho had not been brought before Judge Brooks at Salisbury\\nwere carried before him and the other Judges of the Supreme\\nCourt at Raleigh.\\n12. But it was Judge Brooks who broke the backbone of\\nthis great conspiracy against the government of North Caro-\\nlina. No man ever lived on our soil who deserved to be held\\nin more grateful remembrance by the people of North Caro-\\nlina than he. Whatever others may have done in building\\nup the State, it was he that saved her Constitution and her laws\\nand the liberties of her people. The scenes of horror that would\\nhave been witnessed but for his timely interference cannot be\\nthought of, even now, without a shudder. It Is greatly to be\\nhoped that the Legislature will speedily erect a suitable monu-\\nment in the capltol square in token of the gratitude of thfe\\npeople for whom he did so much.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "302 HISTORY OF NOllTH CAROLINA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What occurred at Yanceyville on May 21st?\\n2. Wiio were accused as the murderers of Stephens? Upon what\\nground was tliis denied?\\n3. What had Congress done concerning martial law?\\n4. What man was put in charge of the State troops? Where was\\nKirke from, and what was liis character?\\n5. What was the condition of affairs in Alamance and Caswell counties?\\n6. Give an account of Kirke s exploits in these counties.\\n7. To whom did the people apply for aid With what result?\\n8. What was next done by the Governor\\n9. To what judge did the people next go for protection? What did\\nJudge Brooks do?\\n10. What was Governor Holden s next step? Where were Kirke s\\nprisoners taken?\\n11. Where were the prisoners then carried\\n12. What tribute is made to Judge Brooks? What are the reflections\\nupon this matter?\\nI M", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "THE IMPEACHMENT OF GOVERNOR HOLDEN. 303\\nCHAPTER LXVIII.\\nTHE IMPEACHMENT OF GOVERNOR HOLDEN\\nA. D. 1870 TO 1872.\\nThe election of 1870 resulted in a great triumph for the\\npeople. Opponents of the administration were elected to the\\nLegislature in overwhelming majorities, and a determination to\\nbring Governor Holden to trial for his crimes against the\\nConstitution and liberties of the people was at once apparent.\\n2. Nothing can be more important in a civilized government\\nthan protection to the liberty of the people. Nothing is truer\\nthan that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Even in\\nthe royal government of England, for more than two centu-\\nries the King has had no power to deprive a citizen of the\\nright to be heard in the courts, when restrained by legal pro-\\ncess or otherwise. Neither there nor in America could any-\\nthing but foreign invasion or positive insurrection justify even\\nParliament or Congress in suspending the right to this palla-\\ndium of civil liberty.\\n3. Upon motion in the House of Representatives, the Leg-\\nislature having assembled, a committee was appointed to inquire\\ninto the facts, and soon, articles of impeachment were presented\\nto the Senate, charging the Governor of the State with the\\ncommission of high crimes and misdemeanors.\\n1871. 4. By the terms of the State Constitution, this\\nworked a disability in Governor Holden; and Tod R. Cald-\\nwell, of Burke, then Lieutenant-Governor, assumed control of\\nthe Executive Department.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "304 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n5. Ilia court of iin])ca( linient in North Carolina, Avhen tlie\\nGovernor is on trial, the Cliici-Ju.stice is the president of the\\nbody. The members of the Senate are triers and the House\\nof Representatives act as prosecutors in behalf of the j^eople,\\nand a two-thirds vote is required to convict.\\n6. Thus, with Judge Pearson presiding, there was a long\\nand deliberate examination as to the charges made against the\\nChief-Magistrate of North Carolina. After hearing the testi-\\nmony presented both by the accusers and by the respondent.\\nGovernor Holden was convicted of the charges made against\\nhim, deprived of his office and declared incapable of holding\\nany further honor or dignity in the State.\\n7. Such a trial has been seen but in this single instance in\\nall the history of the State, and it attracted considerable atten-\\ntion in its progress. It involved great and important issues,\\nand was happily followed by peace and quiet in every portion\\nof the State.\\n8. After eight years absence, a delegation was again seen in\\nthe Federal capital representing the State of North Carolina\\nin the Congress of the United States. For two years past her\\nmend)ers of Congress had been allowed to participate in the\\nnational legislation, and thus an ignominious disability had at\\nlast been removed from her Federal relations. A mighty con-\\nvulsion that had stirred the nation to its depths, was being\\nslowly hushed into calm by the adoption of wiser and more\\npeaceful methods. A broader nationality w\\\\as coming alike to\\nthe Northern and Southern people, and the wounds of the war\\nwere fast healing in the lai)se of time.\\n9. The census of 1870 showed vast improvement in many\\ndepartments of human industry. North Carolina, in the many\\nalterations wrought by the war, was learning the wisdom of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "THE IMPEACHMENT OF GOVERNOR HOLDEN. 305\\ndiversifying the pursuits of the people. Slowly, public atten-\\ntion was being turned to the opening of new industries. The\\nWestern North Carolina, the Raleigh Augusta and the Caro-\\nlina Central Railroads were opening up a new era in the his-\\ntory of such interests in the old North State.\\n10. With a greatly extended area of production in cotton,\\nthere was, besides, an enormous addition of railroad profits\\nfrom the increase both of travel and freights. As the railway\\nlines lengthened to the west, it was found that they would\\nrepay the cost of construction, and each of the rival political\\nparties pledged itself to the completion of the great Western\\nRoad which was to pierce the extreme mountain barriers and\\nfind outlets into Tennessee, both at Pucktown and the Warm\\nSprings in Madison county.\\n11. Slowly this great dream of the wise men of the past\\napproaches the day of its accomplishment. A half century\\nhas gone by since Dr. Joseph Caldwell and Governor Dudley\\nfirst impressed this scheme upon the public mind as a work of\\nthe future.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was the result of the election of 1870? Upon what was the\\nLegislature determined?\\n2. Can you tell what is said about piotection of the liberties of the\\npeople\\n3. What was done by the House of Kepresentatives?\\n4. How did tliese charges effect the Governor? Who assunieil control\\nof the Executive Department?\\n5. Who constitutes a court of impeachment in North Carolina, and\\nwhat vote does it take to convict?\\n6. Who presided at the trial of Governor Holden? How did the trial\\nterminate? What was the punishment?\\n20", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "306 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n7. Wliat is said of this great trial What did it involve By what\\nwas it followed\\n8. What political changes were seen at Washington City How was\\nthe condition becoming better?\\n9. What is said of industrial pursuits in North Carolina? Of rail-\\nroads? Can you trace the route of these railroads on the map?\\n10. How was the State being agitated upon the question of internal\\nimprovements?\\n11. What is said of the accomplishment of these improvements? How\\nlong has it been since this scheme was impressed upon the public?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "RESUMPTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. 307\\nCHAPTER LXIX.\\nRESUMPTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.\\nA. D. 1872.\\nIn the yeai-s that had passed since the close of the war\\nbetween the States the people of North Carolina had been con-\\ntinnally looking forward to the honr when the State should be\\nfully restored to its old relations with the Federal government.\\nIn the consummation of the reconstruction policy, inaugurated\\nand carried out by Congress, this had been partially attained,\\nbut, in the provisions of the Constitution adopted in 1868,\\nthere were many particulars that were unsuited to the habits of\\nthe people, and amendment was eagerly desired in this respect.\\n2. Political animosities were being softened by the lapse of\\ntime and general prosperity was fast extending to different\\nsections. Towns and villages were being built along the lines\\nof railroads and cotton and other factories were con.stantIy\\nIxiing added.\\n3. Just previous to the outbreak of the late war the Masonic\\nGrand Lodge of North Carolina had reared at Oxford a large\\nand costly building, which was called St. John s College,\\nand was intended for the education of young men. In 1872\\nthis building was devoted, by the fraternity that had erected\\nit, to the education of the orphan children of North Carolina.\\nThis noble charity was placed in the care of John H. Mills,\\nwho has abundantly justified the wisdom of those who were\\nparties to his being diosen for so responsible a place.\\n4. This school, which educates so many who would other-\\nwi.se gi ow up in ignorance and vice, is aided now l y an annual", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "308 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nappropriation from the State and another from the Grand\\nLodge of Masons, but on individual contributions of the\\ncharitable it is mainly dependent for its support. Perhaps no\\nother cliarity ever so much enlisted popular sympathy in North\\nCarolina, and none ever more richly repaid the unselfish con-\\ntributions of the people.\\n5. At the period now reached the University had ceased to\\nl)e attended as a college. Rev. Solomon Pool still remained\\nits President, but the buildings were silent, and the famous\\nseat of learning no longer held its proud position among\\nAmerican institutions. Meanwhile the denominational colleges\\nwere vigorously at work, and were receiving a larger patron-\\nage than formerly.\\n6. Amono; the female seminaries of the State a new and\\nformidable rival for popular favor arose Peace Institute, at\\nRaleigh. This institution, like the Orphan Asylum, had\\noriginated before the war, but, during the years of strife the\\nbuilding was used as a hospital. It is controlled by the Pres-\\nbyterians, and under their excellent management it has become\\none of the best appointed and most popular institutions in all\\nthe State.\\n7. In the nomination and re-election of General Grant as\\nPresident of the United States, in 1872, there were many inci-\\ndents to show the alteration in Southern sentiment. The white\\nmen of the South, as a general thing, voted in that contest for\\nHorace Greeley, of New York. He had been long identified\\nwith all the movements that were specially obnoxious to\\nSouthern people, and yet, after so many bitter differences in\\nthe fifty years past, the old leader of the Abolitionists became\\ntha nominee of the Hemocrats and received tlieir votes for the\\nPresidcncv.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "EESUMPTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. 309\\n8. This strange course was said by those w^io pursued it to be\\ndictated by the desire on their parts to show that they did not\\nharbor resentment toward old enemies, and wx re not now dis-\\nafFectal tow^ard the Union, but ^^^ere willing for ^the dead past\\nto bury its dead/ and well might they pursue such a course.\\nWith the close of the war had passed all reason for the exis-\\ntence of another Republic. In the abolition of slavery .the\\nStates had become uniform in interest, and it was soon patent\\nthat it ought to need only a little time to heal the breaches of\\nthe war and restore concord to the two great sections of the\\nmighty American Commonwealth.\\n9. Unfortunately, however, the men who swayed the desti-\\nnies of the country were more partisans than patriots, and\\nsought to perpetuate the domination of their party more than\\nthe restoration of peace and concord.\\n10. In the sober second thought of the American people it\\nis to be hoped that patriotism will prevail. That hatred and\\nmalevolence can continue indefinitely in the relations of the\\ntwo grand divisions of the Republic, is as impossible as it\\nwould be unwise and wicked. Their destiny is too grand for\\nthe people of America to think of marring it by a continuance\\nof strife. Year by year the traces of blood disappear from\\nthe face of the land, and more closely grow the bands that\\nmake us a free and united people.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. To what period had the people of North Carolina been looking for-\\nward since the close of the war? What acts had somewhat prevented tlie\\narrival of this state of affairs?\\n2. \\\\Vhat is said of political animosities and the general prosperity of\\nthe State? Of towns and factories?\\n3. What charitable institution iiad been opened by the Masons? W^ho\\nwas put in charge?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "310 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n4. What is said of the Orphan Asylum?\\n5. In what condition was the University? What is said of other col-\\nleges?\\nO. What female school is now mentioned\\n7. What political changes were seen in the Presidential cam[)aign of\\n1872?\\n8. What was said to have dictated this course? What was the general\\nposition of the people since the close of the war?\\nO. What was the cause of sectional prejudices continuing to exist?\\nlO. In what characteristics do the American people stand high? Why\\nshould all sectional animosities be speedily lemoved", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "THE COTTON TRADE AND FACTORIES. 311\\nCHAPTER LXX.\\nTHE COTTON TRADE AND FACTORIES.\\nA. D. 1873.\\n1873. Previous to the introduction of Whitney s cotton-\\ngins there had been much attention bestowed by the people of\\nthe State upon the cultivation of flax. This crop was never\\nreared for exportation, but for family use at home. Few of\\nthe ancient spinning wheels can now be found, but they were\\nonce abundant and the manufacture of home-made linen was\\ncommon in North Carolina. This was even more the case than\\nis now the preparation of woolen fabrics upon the hand-looms\\nof the families.\\n2. So soon as the lint cotton was cheaply separated from its\\nseed the great question of its universal use was solved. It\\ncould be so easily produced that no woolen or linen fabrics\\ncould hope to compete with it in the markets of the world.\\nThe good women of the State soon learned the economy of\\nbuying the cotton warp of the cloth wove at the farm houses,\\nbut it was long before even this common domestic necessity\\nwas prepared for use in the South.\\n3. The cotton-yarns were, until about 1840, almost all spun\\nin New England and bought by the merchants in the large\\ncities when laying in their semi-annual supplies of goods for\\nthe retail trade. The purchase of slaves and the cultivation of\\ncotton so completely absorbed the energies of our people that\\nno one invested capital in anything else, except, perhaps, some\\nAvho preferred real estate for such a purpose.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "312 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n4. But even before the civil war and the liberation of the\\nslaves there were wise men who urged the propriety and profit\\nof cotton mills in the South. Since the war there has been an\\nimmeuse development of this itidustrv, and now the sound of\\nthe loom and spindle may be heard throughout the State.\\nHundreds of persons are employed in a single one of the cot-\\nton mills. In this way not only the Avealth but the population\\nof the section is increased by bringing in new settlers. The\\nrailways find added employment, and in some cases private\\nresidences are seen that are rural paridises in the beauty and\\ncomfort of their appointments. There is, in some of the\\nwestern counties, large capital invested in mills for the manu-\\nfacture of woolen yarns and cloth, from which satisfactory\\nprofits are realized. Another one of the important industries\\nof the State is the manufacture of paper. The daily and\\nweekly newspapers of North Carolina are now largely supplied\\nwith printing papers by the mills of the State. The first\\npaper mill in North Carolina was erected near Hillsboro, in\\n1778; the second one was built at Salem, in 1789, by Gotleib\\nShober.\\n5. North Carolina has ever been sIoav to change in the\\nhabits of her people. The Avays of their forefathers always\\nseem best to most of them until abundant example has shown\\nthe wisdom of an innovation. Steam, however, is usurping a\\nplace in every species of labor and motiou. The great seines\\nof Albemarle Sound, the printing press, the cotton gin and\\nnearly everything else is now obedient to the tireless energies\\nof this great motor.\\n6. When North Carolina shall have developed her system\\nof trausportation so that the coal and iron mines shall be more\\nlargely w tik l, and wlicii, as now in Vermont, not only cot-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "THE COTTON TRADE AND FACTORIES. 313\\nton but woolen factories shall be found in every section where\\nsuch staples are produced; then, and not until then, will the\\ncivilization of the State be complete. They who merely pro-\\nduce raw material will ever be hewers of wood and drawers\\nof water to others wdio prepare such things for market.\\n7. Second alone in importance to the State at large, after the\\ncotton factories, are those devoted to the handling and prepa-\\nration of tobacco for the market. The western powers of\\nEurope had, for many years, realized immense revenues by\\nmeans of their imports and monopolies of the Virginia weed,\\nbefore the government of the United States ever realized a\\ndollar from all the vast production of this crop in the diflPerent\\nStates. So, too, in North Carolina, enterprise and capital had\\nremained almost completely blind to the possibilities of the\\nsituation.\\n8. Though great quantities of tobacco had been grown in\\nmany of the counties, and the soil and climate were suited to\\nthe production of the finest and costliest grades, yet the farm-\\ners were content to raise such as commanded but humble\\nprices, and but a small proportion of this was prepared for use\\nin the vicinity of its production. In a few villages and on\\nsome of the farms were to be found small factories, which,\\nwith the rudest appliances, converted into plugs of chewing\\ntobacco such portions of the crop of the neighborhood as could\\nbe probably sold from itinerant wagons.\\n9. These vehicles were sent to the eastern counties and even\\nto portions of South Carolina and Georgia, to supply the farms\\nand country stores. This traffic continued until the strong\\narm of the Federal government, by means of Internal Eev-\\nenue Laws, was interposed between the pedlers and their\\nancient profits. The bulk of the crop was sent, before this,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "314 XIISTORY OF XOIITII C AliOLINA.\\nto l)e inaiiufactured at Richmond, Lynchburg and Danville, in\\nVirginia. The fine brands of plug and all smoking tobacco\\nused in North Carolina were received from these cities.\\n10. If lie who adds to the numl)er of grass blades is a\\npublic })enefactor, then the creators of new industries and\\ntowns may Avell claim consideration along with the warrior and\\nstatesman. In many towns and vast productions are modern\\nStates enabled to sustain the great and costly appliances of our\\nnew civilization. AVith the railroad and factory come })opu-\\nlation and those advantages that can never be enjoyed by the\\npeople who lack numbers and wealtli.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What was a principal crop in Norlli Carolina before tiie cotton gin\\nwas invented? What is said of the cultivation of flax?\\n2. Wliy did the production of cotton so rapidly take tiie place of flax?\\n3. How did the people invest nearly all their means?\\n4. What can you tell of the various cotton factories?\\n5. Why have not our people entered more largely into this class of\\nindustry?\\nG. W^hat better future prosperity is yet to be attained by the State?\\n7. W^hat other great industry is now considered?\\n8. What had been the production in North Carolina?\\n9. What is said of the tobacco pedlers?\\n10. What sentiment animates the people of North Carolina?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "PKOGRESS OF MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT. 315\\nCHAPTER LXXI.\\nPBOG.RESS OF MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT.\\nA. D. 1876 TO 1878.\\n1876. Ill this state of advancement as to her material\\ninterests, North Carolina again became excited, in 1876, over\\nthe choice of new men for Chief-Magistrates, both of the\\nRepnblic and of the State.\\n2. After eight years of service as President of the United\\nStates, General Grant was retired to private life, and Governor\\nBrogden, who had succeeded Governor Caldwell upon the death\\nof the latter, in 1874, was also near the end of his service as\\nGovernor of North Carolina. No Gubernatorialel ection was\\never more exciting to the State. It resulted in the choice of\\nex-Governor Z. B. Vance over Judge Thomas Settle of the\\nSupreme Court.\\n1877. 3. In the complications which resulted in the seat-\\ning of Governor Hayes as President of the United States,\\nthere was such a chani^e effected that the Federal armv\\nwas no\\nlonger employed to uphold the reconstructed officials in\\nLouisiana and South Carolina, and the people of those States,\\nat last, were left to the management of their own affairs.\\nWith this consummation, so long and devoutly wished, came\\ntliat peace and contentment to all sections which had been\\nunknown since 1861.\\n4. The enormous increase in the amount and quality of cotton\\ngrown in North Carolina since the late war has been depend-\\nent upon the use of various fertilizers and other appliances of\\na better cultivation of the soil. The old habit of educated", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "316 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nmen, in committing their plantations and slaves to the manage-\\nment of overseers, has been almost wholly abandoned. Many\\nindividuals of the largest culture are now devoting their time\\nand skill to the discovery of improved methods in agriculture,\\nand North Carolina is reaping a golden harvest thereby.\\n1878. 5. No employment, except agriculture, exceeds in im-\\n})ortance that of the merchant. North Carolina is shut off\\nfrom, foreign commerce by the sand barriers on the coast.\\nOnly at Beaufort, on Old Topsail Inlet, can be found such an\\nentrance to internal ^vatei s as promises safety to the mariner\\nwho would approach with his deep-laden vessel. But, Avhile\\nthis has precluded the possibility of great commercial activity\\nin North Carolina, there has not been a lack of men, at any\\nperiod of our history, to illustrate the dignity and importance\\nof legitimate traffic. Cornelius Harnett and Joseph Hewes\\nwere as conspicuous for financial success as they were for\\npatriotism during the Eevolution.\\n6. With the return of peace to the belligerent States, North\\nCarolina was commercially prostrate. The merchants and the\\nbanks were almost all ruined in the general impoverishment of\\ntheir debtors. The supply of cotton which remained on hand\\nat the cessation of hostilities was about all that had been left\\nin the general wreck, upon which trade could be again com-\\nmenced with parties at a distance.\\n7. Raleigh had never been recognized as a trade centre. A\\nfew stores on Fayetteville street, between the State House and\\nwhere the Federal building now stands, were the representa-\\ntives of their class in tlie citv. Cotton Avas verv little ijrown\\nIn that region of the Stnte, and no market for its sale had ever\\nexisted nearer than Norfolk and Petersl)urg.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "PROGRESS OF MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT. 317\\n8. But this state of affiiirs was not to continue. Numbers\\nof young men^ combining great energy and judgment with\\nsmall capital, came to the city and began the work of expand-\\ning its trade and resources. It has not, like Durham, risen\\nup in a few years from almost nothing, but so great a change\\nhas been wrought that the story of its growth is one of the\\nmost striking incidents in the State s history. The extension\\nof the railway lines has opened up new custom in many\\ncounties that had never previously dealt with merchants of the\\nplace.\\n9. The development of commerce and manufactures is the\\ngreat hope of the Old North State. The enterprise and\\ncapital of this and other communities are seeking opportunities\\nof investment, and the day is fast coming when North Caro-\\nlina will rival Pennsylvania in the variety and excellence of\\nher manufactures. The Cotton Exchange of Raleigh is\\naiding very largely in building up the business of the city to\\nvast proportions. The quantity of cotton sold in Raleigh has\\nbeen rapidly increasing annually since the war, and the receipts\\nfor the year 1880 amounted to over seventy-six thousand bales.\\nIn 1869 the entire product of the State was only one hundred\\nand forty-five thousand bales.\\n10. In the towns and cities of North Carolina may be found\\na considerable number of Israelites engaged in the various\\nbranches of trade; and this class of our citizens has added no\\nlittle to the general growth and material prosperity of the\\nState. They have synagogues at Wilmington, Charlotte,\\nRaleigh, Goldsboro and New Bern.\\n11. About the year 1878 the exampl-e of the Federal govern-\\nment and that of certain Northern States induced the State\\nCommissioner of As^riculture to establish a fish hatchery at", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "318 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nthe mouth of Salmon Creek in Bertie county. This establish-\\nment has hatched and liberated a very large number of shad\\nand other varieties of fish, and valuable returns are seen in\\nsome of the rivers that have been in this manner replenished\\nwith this savory and abundant source of food. It has been\\nsatisfactorily demonstrated by Seth Green, of New York, and\\nother naturalists, that fish which are spawned in fresh water\\nand reared at sea almost invariably seek the place of their\\nbirth in the spring, when they reach maturity.\\n12. In addition to this artificial increase of the supply of fish,\\nthere have been large additions made to the means of their\\ncapture. The use of steam in the handling of the long seines\\nand the great weirs known as Dutch Nets,^^ have opened the\\nway to an indefinite increase of the amount taken, while the\\nuse of ice and rapid transportation make it possible to deliver\\nthe fish fresh in the markets of the Northern and Western cities.\\n13. This trade is also supplemented in the same region l)y\\nmucli attention to the growth and sale of vegetables. All the\\nrequirements as to position, soil and climate are abundantly\\nfilled by the counties with alluvial soils along the sea-coast.\\nHeavy crops of Irish potatoes and garden peas are reared on\\nthe same land which, later in the year, su])plies a second crop\\nof cotton and corn.\\n14. In the same cjistern counties the prochicts of the farms\\nIiave been increased by a large and rajiidly extending area\\ndevoted to the production of pea-nuts and higli-land rice.\\nWith the exception of a limited supply of the former article,\\ngrown above Wilmington, tliere Avas seen in other communities\\nonly a few small j^atches for tlie use of tlie family, but with\\nno design of sale oi* shipment. In many eastern counties the\\nfields of pea-nuts are, of late years, almost as numerous as tliose", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "PROGRESS OF MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT. 319\\nof cotton. The same history belongs to the high-land rice.\\nThis great staple of human diet is rapidly becoming a favorite\\ncrop, and mills for its preparation are fast making their appear-\\nance in different localities.\\n15. Nowhere else in the State has there been so great an\\nincrease in trade as in the city of Wilmington. Many ships\\nfrom foreign ports began to visit Cape Fear River, and, from\\ndiiferent cities in other States, regular lines of steam packets\\nwere established, which greatly facilitated the means of com-\\nmunication.\\n16. Repeated appropriations, but never in sufficient amount,\\nwere made from time to time by the United States Congress\\nfor the improvement of Cape Fear and other water-courses in\\nNorth Carolina. The closing of New Inlet is believed to be\\nentirely efficacious in the effi)rt to deepen the approach by way\\nof the river s mouth. A stone barrier of great length and\\nstability shuts off the flow of water, except past Fort Caswell,\\nand the hap})iest results are already realized.\\n17. In the city of New Bern another shipping point of\\nimportance had been largely developed in the years since the\\nclose of the war. There, too, is the terminus of prosperous\\nfreight lines, employing many large steam vessels that yet ply\\nregularly between Neuse River and cities beyond the borders\\nof the State. A great trade in lumber and garden produce is\\nimproved by cotton and other factories, that add largely to the\\n])o])idati()n and means of the city.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. How was the State excited in 1876?\\n2. What was the result of this election?\\n3. What is said of the events of the past few years?\\n4. How have the asrieiiltnral nrsiiits of the State been benefited?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "320 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n5. What are the most iinportant employments in a State? What are some\\nof North Carolina s commercial advantages?\\nC What was the financial condition of the people at the close of the\\nwar?\\n7. What is said of Raleigh as a trade centre?\\n8. In what way did trade matters begin to improve at the capital?\\nO. What else is said of North Carolina s commercial prospects What\\nadvantage has Raleigh derived from the Cotton Exchange?\\n10. Wiiat is said of the Israelites?\\n11. What new enterprise was inaugurated in 1878? What has been the\\nresults of the hatchery? What fact has been pi oven concerning fish?\\n12. What is said of tiie improvement in the means of catching fish?\\n13. What other species of trade is found in the eastern counties?\\n14. What is said of the production of pea-nuts?\\n15. Can you tell something of the growth and trade of Wilmington?\\n16. How has the navigation of the Cape Fear River been impi-oved?\\n17. What other sea-port city is now mentioned? What is said of its\\ncommercial interests?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "THE liAILROADS AND NEW TOWNS.\\nCHAPTER LXXII.\\ntiip: railroads and new towns.\\nA. D. 1879.\\n1879. The Raleigh Gaston Raih oad originally connected\\nthe two places that gave name to the route. It was necessary,\\nin reaching Raleigh from the Albemarle region, to go to Wel-\\ndon, and then, by the Petersburg Railroad, the junction in\\nGreenville county, Virginia, gave access by a short line to Gas-\\nton. It was not until about 1853 that the Raleigh Gaston\\nroute was extended directly down the Roanoke River to Wel-\\ndon. This was a great facility to both trade and travel on this\\nimportant line, yet twenty years elapsed in the progress of\\ninternal communication before this short link could be added.\\n2. A great trunk line, extending east and west through the\\nwhole length of the State, has long been a favorite scheme of\\nmany statesmen in the effort to build up a sea-port at Beaufort.\\nBut in the progress of .the late war it became all-important to\\nthe Confederate government to tap the North Carolina Road\\nat Greensboro, in order that troops and militiiry freights might\\nbe speedily conveyed to Petereburg and Richmond by way of\\nDanville.\\n3. The completion of the. lines leading from Charlotte to\\nWilmington, from Charlotte to Statesville, from Raleigh to\\nHamlet, the Cape Fear Yadkin Valley from Fayetteville to\\nGreensboro, and the Western North Carolina Road from Salis-\\nbury to Asheville, and the Paint Rock branch have enormously\\nincreased the facilities for travel in the State. In addition to\\nthese lines new routes from Jamesville to Washington, from\\nRocky Mount t(^ Tarboro, from Norfolk to Elizabeth C^itv and", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "322 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nEdeiiton, from Durham to ChajK l Hill, from Henderson to\\nOxford, from Goldsboro to Smitlifield, have also been recently\\nadded to the railway system.\\n4. The road from Winston to Greensboro has resulted in the\\ncreation of a city alongside of ancient Salem which is in every\\nrespect the compeer of Durham in the swiftness of its growth\\nand the amount of its trade and manufactures. Winston,\\nDurham and Reidsville have arisen almost like magic, and are\\nexpanding into such importance that Charlotte, Salisbury and\\nGreensboro have all felt the consequences of their growth in\\ntrade and population.\\n5. The city of Charlotte has greatly prospered and has\\nbecome important for its large trade and railway interests.\\nPerhaps nowhere else in the State have the citizens of a city\\nshown greater enterprise. Its merchants, lawyers and editors\\nhave all won the respect and admiration of other comnumities,\\nand have raised their city to such prosperity that it is now\\nrapidly becoming a rival of Wilmington and Raleigh and taking\\nplace in the front rank among North Carolina s emporiums.\\n6. One of the most remarkable scenes ever witnessed in\\nNorth Carolina was the famous centennial anniversary of the\\nsigning of the Mecklenburg Declaration. It tilled Charlotte\\nwith thousands of visitors, among whom were the Governors\\nof several States and manv other distino;uished ^Vmericiui\\ncitizens. Ex-Governor W. A. Graham, Judge John Kerr,\\nGovernor Brogden and others delivered orations, and the\\ncitizen-soldiers of the State were gathered to do honor to an\\nevent that had made Charlotte forever sacred to history and\\nsong. This oc(!urrence was, of course, on May 20th, 1875,\\nand just one hundred years later than the concourse ordered", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "THE RATI.ROAD8 AND NEW TOWNS. 323\\n7. Fayettevllle, Asheville and Statesville have also afforded\\nreniarlval)]e instances of thrift and expansion in the busy latter\\nyears of our State s history. Asheville, besides being a favorite\\nresort as a watering place, supplements its summer festivities\\nwith large numbers of visitors avoiding the rigors of winter\\nmonths elsewhere. It is becoming a railway centre and is fast\\ndeveloping a large and lucrative trade.\\n8. The tendency to\\\\vard the erection of manufactories and\\nthe recent influx of foreign immigrants are happy auguries for\\nthe continued prosperity and growth of towns in the State.\\nThe wondrous diversity of products of the soil, the extent of\\nthe forests and the richness of the mines, all combine to demon-\\nstrate the ease with which the success of other American States\\ncan be rivalled in our own.\\n9. Already the mountains have been pierced by the railway\\nfrom Salisbury. Other lines from Virginia, South Carolina\\nand Tennessee are being constructed, so that every portion even\\nof the mountainous region will soon be within easy reach of\\nthe markets of the world. The Cranberry Iron ores, the\\nmatchless Mica quarries and the Corundum deposits are all\\nbeing made available to commerce and will realize valuable\\nreturns for the capital employed upon them.\\n10. Not the least remarkable among the new industries of\\nthe western counties is the c jllection and shipment of Ginseng\\nand other valuable medicinal roots and herbs. A firm in States-\\nville have been, for years past, employing large capital in this\\nbusiness, which seems capable of indefinite extension. The\\npreparation of dried fruits is another lucrative addition to the\\nresources of the same region.\\n11. Years ago, attention was called to the fact that at certain\\nelevations in the mountains there was no frost to be seen at anv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "324 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nj)eriod of the year; and tlii.^ iininiinity has beeu turned to\\nvaluable account by the fruit growers, and now great orchards\\nare- found in many parts of the western counties and the ship-\\nments of very fine apples show the cultivation given to them.\\n12. North Carolina is not only the original habitation of the\\nscuppernong grape, but also of the luscious Catawba. This\\nlatter fine fruit, which has proven so valuable to the nurseries\\nof Cincinnati, is at home in this latitude.\\n13. Yadkin county was, before 1860, famous for the ])ro-\\nduction of a stronger beverage, derived from rye and corn.\\nSince the war many distilleries have been carried on in the\\nState, in spite of the government regulations that carry so\\nmany men as culprits to the Federal prisons. The offenders,\\nknown as Moonshiners, are those who make and sell whisky\\nwithout paying the United States for a license in the trade.\\nThese transgressors of the law have for years been hunted like\\nItalian bandits or ferocious wild beasts, and not unfrequently\\nblood has been shed in defense of the hidden distilleries and\\nquite as often in attacking them and their owners.\\n14. In February of this year the Secretary of State, Joseph\\nA. Engelhard, died after a brief illness. In the death of\\nMajor Engelhaixl, the State sustained a great loss. As a soldier\\nhe was faithful, capable and brave. At once made a conspic-\\nuous leader in the fierce struggles that followed the war by his\\ncontrol of a prominent journal, he proved ever courageous, far-\\nseeing and of rare judgment. And to him, for the happy ter-\\nmination of thos.e terrible struggles, the State owes a deep debt\\nof gratitude that now, unha])})ily, she can repay only in honor-\\nable remembrance.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "THE RAILROADS AND NEW TOWNS. 325\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wluit is the subject of this lesson Wliat is said of the extension of\\nthe Kaleigh Gaston Railroad Go to the map and point out this road.\\n2. Wiiat favorite trunk line has long been desired? What road was\\nspecially important to the Confederate government? Point out this road\\non the map.\\n3. What roads are mentioned as having been recently comi)leted?\\nPoint out tiiese on the map.\\n4. What towns are now mentioned, and what is said of their growth\\nLocate them on the map.\\n\u00c2\u00ab5. What is said of the prosperity of the city of Charlotte?\\n6. What is said of the Centennial celebration at Charlotte? When did\\nit occur\\n7. What mention is made of Fayetteville, Asheville and Statesville?\\nFind these towns on the map.\\n8. What have been the causes of the rapid growth of the towns in the\\nState\\n9. What further prosperity is noticed?\\n10. What other industry is described? Can you tell anything of this\\nvaluable production (Teacher will explain.)\\n11. Wliat is said of the western fruit growers?\\n12. What excellent varieties of grape are natives of North Carolina?\\nWhat is said of the Catawba grape?\\n13. What mention is made of the manufacture of stronger liquors?\\n14. What State officer died at this period? What is said of Major\\nEn^lehard?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "326 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER LXXIII.\\nLITERATURE AND AUTHORS.\\nA. D. 1880.\\n1880. It would seem natural that the connection of Sir\\nWalter Raleigh with the history of North Carolina should have\\nadded to the literary tendencies of a people blessed with\\nsuch a god-father. He was so full of genius and devotion to\\nletters that a special impetus ought thereby to have been given\\nto the cultivation of a similar spirit among those who were to\\ninhabit the land of his love. But, though Hariot, Lawson\\nand quaint Dr. Brickell were moved by such a spirit the\\nmuses have not made the Old North State very remarkable in\\nthis respect.\\n2. North Carolina has always been, sin(;e its settlement, the\\nhome of some highly cultivated people, but all the while the\\nmass of the population has possessed but little knowledge of\\nbooks. This fact has been a great discouragement to the j)ro-\\nduction of autliors. Professions are not eagerly sought when\\nnot encouraged by the sympathy and support of the public.\\n3. In the period just preceding the revolt from British rule,\\nEdward Moseley and Samuel Swann had been succeeded by\\nmen who possessed better literary opportunities and were more\\ndevoted to general culture than had been these two able and\\naccom])lished lawyers. Moseley, ith every acquirement,\\ncould never bring to any of his many controversies with Gov-\\nernor Pollock and others such flowers of rhetoric as Judge\\nMaurice Moore lavished upon his famous xVtticus Letter.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "LITERATURE AXD AUTHOUS. oZi\\n4. That production was just such an attack upon Governor\\nTryon, for his conduct toward the Regulators^ as, a few years\\nlater, immortalized the English writer who is to this day only\\nknown by his signature, Junius. When Judge Moore and\\nhis compeer, Cornelius Harnett, were growing old, William\\nHooper, Archibald Maclaine and the first James Iredell were\\nyoung lawyers, who travelled to all the Superior Courts in the\\nState and mingled belles-lettres largely with their inspections of\\nCoke and the new lectures of Dr. Blackstone.\\n5. No man or woman then in North Carolina wrote books\\nas a profession, but the copious correspondence of that day,\\nwhich yet survives, and upon which fifty cents were paid as\\npostage for each letter, proves that what was called polite\\nliterature engaged much of their attention. They made fine\\nspeeches, and Judge Iredell wrote a law book and frequent\\ndissertations for the newspapers; but, beyond this and an\\noccasional pamphlet, no literary tasks were undertaken.\\n6. Dr. Hugh Williamson was a man of similar habits. He\\nwas not only a skillful physician, but served with credit as a\\ncollege professor and a member of the Convention at Phila-\\ndelphia which formed the Federal Constitution, and he ^vas\\nalso a member of the United States Congress. After ceasing\\nto be a citizen of this State, he undertook to write its history\\nbut achieved very moderate success as an author.\\n7. In the lapse of years, this task was again undertaken\\nby Judge Francois Xavier Martin. He came from France\\nwhen a boy, and practiced law for seventeen years at New\\nBern. His compilation of the statutes and history of North\\nCarolina were invaluable labors, and will ever render him\\nmemorable in our annals. His dry statement of facts was\\ngenerally correct, and he fell into very few errors, considering", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": ";328 HISTORY of nohth Carolina.\\nthat he was the first to attempt anythiiiG: like a full record of\\nthe State s history; and tliis was accomplished in his new home\\nin Louisiana.\\n8. Joseph Seawell Jones was a remarkable man in many\\nrespects. He was brilliant in social life and became well-\\nknown to the literary and fashional)le circles of New York\\nand Washington. His love for North Carolina was intense,\\nand the Defense of the Revolutionary History of the State of\\nNorth Carolina that he wrote exhibits both talent and research,\\nHis infirmities of temper impaired his judgment, but his\\nmemory should ever be cherished in his native State for the\\nservices he rendered. After the gay scenes of his Ciirly man-\\nhood he spent many years on a Mississippi plantation. His\\nlast book was entitled My Log Cabin in the Prairie.\\n9. Early in the present century the literary aspects of the\\nState Avere brightened by men who had attended as students\\non Dr. Joseph CaldwelFs ministrations at Chapel Hill. His\\ntendencies were all so practical that scientific and mechanical\\ndevelopment was more encouraged than lighter subjects, but\\nHardy B. Croom, Joseph A. Hill, Judge A. D. Murphey and\\nRev. Drs. William Hooper and Francis L. Hawks were early\\ndistinguished for the elegance of their literary acquirements.\\n10. Judge William Gaston left just enough literary memo-\\nrials to cause us to regret that he did not attempt more things\\nof the kind. His ode to Carolina, and certain orations, will\\nnever l)e forgotten. Judge Robert Strange was also possessed\\nof similar gifts. Philo Henderson, Walker Anderson and\\nAbraham F. Morehead were largely gifted in ])oetic power.\\nEach of them, at rare intervals, indulged in compositions that\\nshow wliat might have been accomj)lished had they been\\nauthors by profession and not mere literary amate.urs. The", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "LITERATUHE AND AUTHORS. 329\\nState, Avhile possessing a number of excellent musicians, has\\nnot produced many musical compositions of si)ecial merit but\\nthe two songs, The Old North State, by Plon. William\\nGaston; and Ho! for Carolina, by Rev. William B. Harrell,\\nwill ever remain favorites with our people.\\n11. Colonel John H. Wheeler and Rev. Dr. Calvin H.\\nWiley have both executed tasks that will render their names\\nhousehold words for ages to come. The historical contribu-\\ntions of the former are of the greatest possible value and are\\nhighly prized in every portion of the State. Rev. Drs. Hub-\\nbard, Foote, Hawks and Caruthers, and ex-Governors Graham\\nand Swain have each been large contributors to the same\\ncause. Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, Theo. H. Hill and the\\nlamented Edwin W. Fuller added much to the fame of our\\nwriters. Professors Richard Sterling, William Bingham and\\nBrantley York have contributed excellent educational text-\\nbooks, which do great credit to the talented authors. The\\nrecent History of Rowan County, by Rev. Jethro Rumple,\\nis both pleasing and valuable as a tribute to our local tra-\\nditions.\\n12. In addition to the authors mentioned, there have been\\nmembers of Ihe Bar of North Carolina who have produced\\nlegal works of very great importance- and value, ijot only to\\nour own practitioners, but also to lawyers of other States. The\\nmost prominent writers of this class of literature were James\\nIredell, Edward Cant well, Benjamin SAvaim, William Eaton,\\nJr., B. F. Moore, S. P. Olds, William H. Battle and Quentin\\nBusbee, of former years; followed, in later times, by A\\\\^illiam\\nH. Bailey and Fabius H. Busbee. These law l)oo]vs liave\\nbeen chiefly digests, revisals and manuals of practice.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "380 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\n13. Gifted Avoineii have not been wanting amid tliese liter-\\nary people. Mrs. Cornelia Pliilli])s Spencer, Mrs. Cicero W.\\nHarris, Mrs. Mary Mason and Mrs. Mary Bayard Clarke have\\nmade valnable contribntions to the literature of their era. In\\nthe case of Miss Frances Fisher, under the assumed name of\\nChristian Reid/ a most signal success is to be chronicled.\\nShe has given to the press many excellent stories and established\\na national fame as a novelist.\\n14. North Carolina has produced many able newspaper\\neditors. Joseph Gales and his two sons, Edward J. Hale, ex-\\nGovernor W. W. Holden, Joseph A. Englehard, William J.\\nYates, P. M. Hale, William L. Saunders, S. A. Ashe, T. B.\\nKingsbury, R. B. Creecy, Dossey Battle, C. W. Harris and\\nother gifted men have wielded a wide influence on the people\\nof the State.\\nQUESTIONS.\\nOf what does this lesson treat?\\n1. Who is the first literary man known to North Carolina? What is\\nsaid of hitn? What others are mentioned in this connection?\\n2. What has been the general condition of literary matters in the State?\\nWhy have so few professional authors been seen?\\n3. What is said of Samuel Swann and Edward Moseley Wiio was\\nauthor of the Atticus Letter\\n4. W^hat mention is made of the Atticus Letter Who were the\\nliterary men of that period\\n5. What is said of the correspondence of that day What was the\\nextent of Judge Iredell s literary efforts?\\nWhat is said of the attainments of Dr. Hugh Williamson?\\n7. What other historians are mentioned, and what is said of them?\\nH. Tell something of the labors of .Joseph Seawell Jones.\\nO. What produced an improvement in literary affairs early in the\\npresent century?\\nlO. What is said of the ode to Carolina and its author? What writers\\nof similar gifts are named? What is said of musical compositions?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "LITERATURE AND AUTHORS. 331\\n11. What is said of the literary efforts of Colonel Wheeler and Dr.\\nWiley? What other historical writers are mentioned? Who have con-\\ntributed to the State valuable series of school books?\\n12. What members of the Bar have produced legal works of great\\nvalue?\\n13. Can you tell something of the gifted women of the State?\\n14. What prominent editors has the State furnished\\n;i!", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "1^ IIISTOKY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nCHAPTER LXXIV.\\nTHE COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS.\\nA. D. 1880.\\nAs was intended by tlie men who framed the Constitution of\\nNorth Carohna at Halifax, in 177G, the University of the\\nState has h;)ug lield the leadership of such institutions in the\\nCommonwealth. The unfortunate and inexeusable interference\\nof politicians with its management during the years of recon-\\nstruction only resulted in its temporary eclipse. The public\\nrefused it patronage when the new managers had installed a\\nstrange faculty in the seats of Governor Swain and his long-\\nhonored coadjutors; but since the restoration of the ancient\\norder of things prosperity has returned both to \\\\\\\\\\\\q University\\nand the beautiful village in which it is situated.\\n2. Many useful reforms have been accomplished in its cur-\\nriculum and management. Perhaps never before was seen\\nsuch devotion to study and compliance with the rules on the\\npart of the students. The President, Dr. Kemp P. Battle,\\nhad been much identified with the institution before assuniing\\ncharge of its fortunes. His learning, combined with public\\nexperience, made him a wise ruler of the literary community\\nover which he was called to preside and the excellence of the\\nnew faculty is becoming every day more evident in the\\nscholarship and bearing of the young men who are sent nut\\nfrom its halls.\\nWake Forest College is the oldest of the sectarian col-\\nleges of the State, and has long vindicated its usefulness among\\nthe Ba])tist Churches. Its first intended end was the (nlucation", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "THE COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS. 333\\nof young men for the miiiistry, but this has been largely\\naugmented by the successes of its graduates in every other\\nbranch of human usefulness in our midst. The councils of the\\nState and the learned professions have been greatly illustrated\\nby men who laid the foundations of their success by diligent\\napplication to their duties while attending as students at \\\\Yake\\nForest.\\n4. In the recent death of Rev. Dr. W. M. Wingate the\\ninstitution lost a President who had given long and signal\\nservice; but, in his successor, Rev. Dr. T. H. Pritchard,\\nperhaps even higher executive qualities are seen. Wake\\nForest catalogue has latterly contained about two hundred\\nnames of students, and, through the munificence of certain\\nfriends the College has received handsome additions to the\\nbuildings and appliances.\\n5. Davidson College has also immensely developed in the\\nlast few years. Not only in increased patronage, but in the\\ngrade of scholarship a great advance has been achieved, so that\\nfew institutions in America afford higher and more thorough\\ninstruction than is now enjoyed by the young men who avail\\nthemselves of the advantages here offered.\\n6. The same things may be said of Trinity C^jllege, inider\\nthe direction of Rev. Dr. B. Craven. The pulpits of the\\nMethodist Churches in North Carolina have long borne evi-\\ndence of the literary and moral excellence imparted to the\\ngraduates, and in many respects the whole State has been\\nbenefited and elevated by contact with such men.\\n7. The female seminaries at Salem, Greensboro, Raleigh,\\nMurfreesboro, Thomasville, Wilson, Kittrell, Oxford and\\nLouisburg have also prospered in this era of general advance-\\nment amonji the N(^rth Carolina schools. Tjarw numbers of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "334 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nyoung ladies from other States are sent to them for education,\\nand, in the noble emulation thus evolved admirable instruction\\nis obtained.\\n8. Among preparatory schools, that of Major Robert Bing-\\nham, at Mebaneville, in Alamance county, is, by common\\nconsent, supreme in North Carolina, and perhaps in the South,\\nnot only in number of students, but in the excellence of tuition,\\ndiscipline and drill. On the catalogue of this institution will\\nbe found the names of young men from almost every State in\\nthe Union, and even some foreign countries are represented.\\n9. Other similar institutions have long flourished at Raleigh,\\nOxford, Greensboro and elsewhere, and all of them are hav-\\ning a large influence for good upon the young men of the\\nState. The Normal Schools at Chapel Hill and other towns\\nhave been largely attended by teachers, and great interest is\\nalso manifested in the graded schools. At no previous period\\nhas so much attention been bestowed upon matters of this kind\\nby the people of North Carolina.\\n10. One of the most prominent of the graded schools in the\\nState was organized at Raleigh, in 1876, and named die Cen-\\ntennial Graded School. The great success of this institution\\nhas led the citizens of other towns in the State to establish\\nschools of like character. There are now to be found flourish-\\ning graded schools at Salisbury, Fayetteville, Goldsboro,\\nWilson, Greensboro, Charlotte, Wilmington, New Bern, Rocky\\nMount and Franklinton. Several towns also contain excellent\\nschools of this description for the colored people, and their\\neffectiveness is rapidly becoming apparent.\\n11. Soon after the conclusion of the late war in the month\\nof December, 1865 a colored school for both sexes was\\nfounded through tlie exertions of tlie Rev. H. M. Tupper, at", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "THE COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS. 335\\nthe State capital, and called the Raleigh Institute. On\\naccount of large donations from Elijah Shaw, of Massachu-\\nsetts, and Jacob Estey, of Vermont, it was, in 1875, changed\\nin name; the male school then became Shaw University,\\nand the female department was called Estey Seminaiy.\\nSpacious and well-built edifices were reared ou different por-\\ntions of the grounds, and hundreds of colored pupils have been\\nIn attendance since its foundation.\\n12. In a different section of the city exists another seminary\\nof similar character for the colored people, founded in 1867,\\nby the Rev. Dr. James Brinton Smith. This is called St.\\nAugustine Normal School and Collegiate Institute. It has\\nbeen for some years under the charge of Rev. John E. C.\\nSmedes, and is under Episcopal patronage. Though not so\\nlargely attended as Shaw University, it is still of great benefit\\nto the race it was intended to educate, and In this way is also\\na blessing to the community at large. Another excellent\\nschool for the colored people is located at Fayetteville, and\\nothers are to be found in various sections of the State.\\n13. Ever since the close of the late war the colored people\\nof North Carolina have shown a remarkable unanimity in\\ntheir efforts to procure education for themselves and their\\nchildren. In this desire they have been nobly aided by the\\nwhite men and women, and their progress has been rapid. It Is\\nthe belief of all that only In enlightened public sentiment can\\nsafety be found for our peace and liberties and thus the State\\nis doing all that can be effected for the culture and mental im-\\nprovement of all classes of Its population.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "836 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. Wliiit is this lesson about? Wluit was the intent of tlie Halifax\\nConstitution coneerning the University What is said of this institution\\n(luring the years of reconstruction? When was it re-establisiR-d\\n2. How has the University been benefited by its new management?\\n3. What is said of the success of Wake Forest College?\\n4. Tell something of its management.\\n5. Give an account of the progress of Davidson College.\\nC What is said of Trinity College and its work?\\n7. What female seminaries are now mentioned? What has been the\\nresult of their labors\\n8. What have been tiie peculiar successes of the Ringham School\\n9. W^here are other line schools for boys to be found? What other\\nschools are mentioned\\n10. What is said of the graded schools?\\n11. Give an account of the Raleigh Institute for colored people? I Jy\\nwhat name is this institution now known?\\n12. What is said of the St. Augustine Normal School? Where are\\nother excellent schools for the colored people to be found?\\n13. What is said of the efforts of the colored |)eople to secure educa-\\ntion How have thev been aided in their efforts?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 337\\nCHAPTER LXXV.\\nCONCL USIOK\\nA. D. 1881.\\nIll the financial prostration consequent upon the late war,\\na large debt was due from North Carolina to creditors who\\nheld the bonds of the State. That portion of these bonds\\nwhich had been issued before the war was considered an honor-\\nable burden, that should be discharged by such payment as\\nmight be fixed by agreement between the State and the bond-\\nholders.\\n2. In this way a compromise was effected, and new bonds\\nhave been issued, which embrace a large portion of what was\\nhonestly due from the State to her creditors. For those which\\nwere made in defiance of the terms of the Constitution and\\nappropriated almost entirely by dishonest officials, no provision\\nhas been made, and doubtless, will never be.\\n3. When, in 1876, the great quadrennial contCvSt for the\\nPresidency of the Union again recurred, it was rightly con-\\nsidered one of the most momentous crises that had yet occurred\\nin American history. The great issue was as to the continuance\\nof State o;overnments. The recent habits of General Grant in\\nhis dealino; Avith Southern Commonwealths had virtually\\nignored their sejDarate existence. In the strange and unprece-\\ndented action of Congress that resulted in the seating of Gov-\\nernor Hayes as President, the Federal troops were withdrawn\\nand the people of the States left to administer their own affairs,\\nand State governments were recK)gnized.\\n22", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "338 HISTORY OF NOR^rH CAROIJNA.\\n4. Ex-Governor Vance was this year elected over Judge\\nThomas Settle to the Chief-Magistracy, as has already been\\nstated. General M. AV. Ransom and ex-Judge A. S. Merri-\\nmon were sent to the United States Senate, in the place of\\nJohn Pool and General J. C. Abbott. Through the effoi ts of\\nour Congressmen, many needed appropriations by Congress\\nhave been secured to lN orth Carolina, and their result is\\nspecially noticeable in the great improvement of the ship chan-\\nnels of the Cape Fear and other rivers.\\n5. Upon the election of Governor Vance to the United\\nStates Senate, February 8th, 1879, he was succeeded by Lieu-\\ntenant-Governor T. J. Jarvis. The latter had served as a\\nCaptain in the Eighth North Carolina Regiment in the late\\nwar, and subsequently, as Speaker of the House of Represen-\\ntatives. Chief- Justice Pearson died in 1878, on his way to\\nattend the session of the Supreme Court at Raleigh. W. N.\\nH. Smith was appointed by Governor Vance as Chief-Justice\\nin the place of Judge Pearson. At the next election by the\\npeople. Judge Smith, with John H. Dillard and Thomas S.\\nAshe as Associate Justices, was elected without opposition.\\nJudge Dillard having resigned in 1881, Judge Thomas Ruffin\\nwas appointed his successor.\\n6. The public charities of the State have been enlarged and\\nelevated in their ministrations. The recent adoption of the\\nOrphan Asylum at Oxford as a recipient of the State s bounty,\\nthe erection of a colored Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the erection\\nof an hos])ital for the insane of the colored race and the great\\nbuildino; at Mor^ranton for additional accommodation to white\\nlunatics are only a portion of the recent humanities inaugu-\\nrated bv the General Asseml)lv.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 339\\n7. Perhaps in no other respect is so much physical im-\\nprovement possible as in the development of the mining\\ninterests of the State. Capital from abroad is flowing in and\\nfrom many counties fresh discoveries of mineral deposits are\\nleading to the establishment of companies and firms for the\\npurpose of working such mines. No other State of the Union\\npresents such a variety of these rich and beautiful gifts of\\nnature. The recent discovery, in the western part of the State,\\nof a new gem, called the Hiddenite, is attracting general\\nattention and increasing the influx of visitors to the romantic\\nscenery of the mountains.\\n8. For years past, it has been evident to intelligent observers\\nthat no bar exists to illimitable progression, both to North\\nCarolina and the great American Republic, except in the sense-\\nless and cruel sectional hostilities. If the people, North and\\nSouth, could only be induced to surrender their mutual distrust\\nand aversion, thereby would disappear the last danger left to\\nthe American people.\\n1881. 9. God has blessed them year by year with over-\\nflowing bai us. They are already one of the most numerous\\nand wealthy of all nations; and yet, with so many blessings,\\nsectional hatred had become the ruling emotion in countless\\nbreasts. Amid such a state of affairs. General James A. Gar-\\nfield became President of the United States. On the 2d day\\nof July he was shot down in Washington by an assassin.\\nThe news of tliis crime, when flashed over the electric wires,\\ncarried sorrow to the whole civilized world and of all the\\ncities of the Union, Raleigh was the first to express, by public\\nmeeting, the indignation of her people at the deed. In the\\nweeks of the President s subsequent agony, as he lay battling", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "340 HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nwith (lentil, the hearts of the Ameriean j)e()ple were strangely\\nclraAvii together in the presence of this eonnnon national\\noalaniitv.\\n10. AMien, on September 19th, it was announced that the\\nlong and painful struggle was ended, and the smitten states-\\nman Avas at last eased of his ao^onv bv death, such o;rief was\\nseen in all America as had never before been witnessed. In\\nthe })resence of such a death all cries of dissention ceased to\\nbe lieard and every i)arty and race united in the general\\nmourning.\\n11. The people of North Carolina, with one accord, desire\\nthat such a spirit may continue to animate the American\\npeople. As they were the first of all the States to urge the\\nindependence of America, so may they ever be found sus-\\ntaining the Constitution and the Union that guarantee its\\nperpetuity.\\nQUESTIONS.\\n1. What is .said of the State at this period? What portion of tliis debt\\nwas considered an honorable bnrden\\n2. How was a compromise eflected in 1875? How does the State con-\\nsider the unconstitutional debts?\\n3. What is said of the Presidential contest of 1870? What was the\\ngreat issue? How had General Grant acted towards the Southern Com-\\nmonwealths? What followed the seating of Governor Hayes as Presi-\\ndent?\\n4. What changes had been made in 1876 in Nortli Carolina public\\nofficers? What appropriations from Congress Jias North Carolina received\\nthrough efforts of her Senators?\\n5. Wlio succeeded Governor Vance? Who became Suj)reme Court\\nJudges\\n6. What mention is made of the public charities?", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 341\\n7. What tends greatly to the physical improvement of the State? What\\nis said of North Carolina s mineral wealth\\n8. What has retarded the State s progress?\\n9. What was the condition of this sectional feeling during the late\\nPresidential campaign What calamity befell the country on July 2d,\\n1881 How did the news of this event effect the whole world?\\n10. When did President Gartield die What are the concluding reflec-\\ntions upon this great national calamity\\n11. What is the sincere desire of every true North Carolina patriot?\\n?:;::i\\nIjllliillljliilll,\\nSk,\\n(ii; Mr\\nh:bv", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "REMARKS.\\nTlie CoDStitution of North Carolina is an important instru-\\nment to the people of the State. It contains, all the funda-\\nmental principles of our State government, and ought to be\\ncarefully read and studied by every citizen of North Carolina.\\nIn order that the boys and girls who study this history may\\nmore thoroughly understand the meaning and provisions of\\nthe State Constitution, a series of Questions has been pre-\\npared with great care, by a distinguished citizen of the Com-\\nmonwealth who is well acquainted with the subject.\\nThe i)upils Avill become better informed on this subject if\\nonly short lessons are given to them for })rcparation. About\\none l)age of the text will be sufficient for a lesson if proj)erl\\\\\\nstudied, and by this means a much greater amount of infor-\\nmation will be retained than if larger s])ace is rapidly passed\\nover.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION\\nOF THE\\nSTATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nPEEAMBLE.\\nWe, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God,\\nthe Sovereign Ruler of nations, for the preservation of the American Union,\\nand the existence of our civil, political and religious liberties, and acknowl-\\nedging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to\\nus and our posterity, do, for the more certain security thereof, and for the\\nbetter government of this State, ordain and estaldish this Constitution:\\nARTICLE I.\\nDECLARATION OF RIGHTS.\\nThat the great, general and essential principles of liberty and free gov-\\nernment may be recognized and established, and that the relations of this\\nState to the Union and government of the United States, and those of\\nthe people of this State to the rest of the American people may be defined\\nand affirmed, we do declare:\\nSection 1. That we hold it to be self-evident that all men are created\\nequal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable\\nrights that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of tlieir\\nown labor, and the pursuit of happiness.\\nSec. 2. That all political power is vested in, and derived from, the people;\\nall government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their\\nwill only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.\\nSec. 3. That the people of this State have the inherent, sole and exclu-\\nsive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, and of\\naltering and abolishing their Constitution and form of government when-\\never it may be necessary for their safety and happiness; but every such\\nright should be exercised in pursuance of law and consistently with the\\nConstitution of the United States.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "346 APPENDIX.\\nSec. 4, That this State shall ever remain a member of the American\\nUnion; that the people thereof are part of the American nation; that\\nthere is no right on the part of the State to secede, and that all attempts,\\nfrom whatever source or upon wiiatever pretext, to dissolve said Union, or\\nto sever said nation, ought to be resisted with the whole power of the State.\\nSec. 5. That every citizen of this State owes paramount allegiance to the\\nConstitution and government of the United Stales, and that no law or ordi-\\nnance of the State in contravention or subversion thereof can have any\\nbinding force.\\nSec. 6. The State shall never assume or pay, or authorize the collection\\nof any debt or obligation, express or implied, incurred in aid of insurrec-\\ntion or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the h)ss or\\nemancipation of any slave; nor shall the General Assembly assume or\\npay, or authorize the collection of any tax to pay either directly or\\nindirectly, expressed or implied, any debt or bond incurred, or issued, by\\nauthority of the Convention of the year one thousand eiglit hundred and\\nsixty-eight, nor any debt or bond incurred, or issued, by the Legislature of\\nthe year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, either at its special\\nsession of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, or at its\\nregular sessions of the years one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight\\nand one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and one thousand eight\\nhinidred and sixty-nine and one thousand eiglit hundred and seventy,\\nexcept the bonds issued to fund the interest on the old debt of the State,\\nunless the proposing to pay the same shall have first been submitted to the\\npeople, and by them ratified by the vote of a majority of all the qualiiied\\nvoters of the State, at a regular election held for that purpose.\\nSec. 7. No man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate\\nemoluments or privileges from the community but in consideration of\\npublic services.\\nSec. 8. The legislative, executive and supreme judicial powers of the\\ngovernment ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other.\\nSec. 9. All power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any\\nauthority, without the consent of the representatives of the people, is inju-\\nrious to their riglits, and ought not to be exercised.\\nSec. 10. All elections ought to be free.\\nSec. 11. In all criminal prosecutions every man has the right to be\\ninformed of the accusation against him and to confront the accusers and\\nwitnesses with other testimony, and to have counsel for his defence, and", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 347\\nnot be compelled to give evidence against himself, or to pay costs, jail fees,\\nor necessary witness fees of the defence, unless found guilty.\\nSec. 12. No person sliall be put to answer any criminal charge, except\\nas hereinafter allowed but by indictment, presentment or impeachment.\\nSec. 13. No person shall be convicted of any crime but by the unanimous\\nverdict of a jury of good and lawful men in open court. The Legislature\\nmay, however, provide other means of trial for petty misdemeanors, with\\nthe right of appeal.\\nSec. 14. Excessive bail should not be required, nor excessive fines im-\\nposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted.\\nSec. 15. General warrants, whereby any officer or messenger may be\\ncommanded to search suspected places, without evidence of the act com-\\nmitted, or to seize any person or persons not named, whose offense is not\\nparticularly described and supported by evidence, are dangerous to liberty,\\nand ought not to be granted.\\nSec. 16. There shall be no injprisonment for debt in this State, except in\\ncases of fraud.\\nSec. 1.7.. No person ought to be taken, imprisoned or disseized of his\\nfreehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner\\ndeprived of his life, liberty or property but by the law of the land.\\nSec. 18. Every person restrained of his liberty is entitled to a remedy\\nto enquire into the lawfulness thereof, and to remove the same, if unlawful\\nand such remedy ought not to be denied or delayed.\\nSec. 19. In all controversies at law respecting property, the ancient mode\\nof trial by jury is one of the best securities of the rights of the people, and\\nought to remain sacred and inviolable.\\nSec 20. The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of lib-\\nerty, and therefore ought never to be restrained, but every individual shall\\nbe held responsible for the abuse of the same.\\nSec. 21. The privileges of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be sus-\\npended.\\nSec. 22. As political rights and privileges are not dependent upon, or\\nmodified by property, therefore no property qualification ought to affect\\nthe right to vote or hold office.\\nSec. 23. The people of the State ought not to be taxed, or made subject\\nto the payment of any impost or duty, without the consent of themselves,\\nor their representatives in General Assembly, freely given.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": ";348 APPENDIX.\\nSec. 24. A well regulated militia being necessary fo the security of a\\nfree State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be\\ninfringed; and, as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to lib-\\nerty, they ought not to be kept up, and the military should be kept under\\nstrict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Nothing herein\\ncontained shall justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons, or pre-\\nvent the Legislature from enacting penal statutes against said practice.\\nSec. 25. The people have a right to assemble together to consult for their\\ncommon good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the Legis-\\nlature for redress of grievance. But secret political societies are danger-\\nous to the liberties of a free people, and should not be tolerated.\\nSec. 26. All men have a natural and unalienated right to worship\\nAlmighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no\\nJiuman authority shoidd, in any case whatever, control or interfere with\\nthe rights of conscience.\\nSec. 27. The people have the right to the privilege of education, and it\\nis the duty of the State to guard and maintain that right.\\nSec. 28. For redress of grievances, and for amending and strengthening\\nthe laws, elections should be often held.\\nSec. 29. A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is absolutely\\nnecessary to preserve the blessings of liberty.\\n.Sec. 30. No hereditary emoluments, privileges or honors ought to be\\ngranted or conferred in this vState.\\nSec. 3L Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free\\nState, and ought not to be allowed.\\nSec. 32. Ketrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the exist-\\nence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are oppressive,\\nunjust and incompatible Avith liberty, wherefore no ex post facto law ought\\nto be made. No law taxing retrospectively sales, purchases, or other acts\\npreviously done, ought to be passed.\\nSec. 33. Slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than for crime,\\nwhereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and are hereby,\\nforever prohibited within the State.\\nSec. 34. The limits and boundaries of the State shall be and remain as\\nthey now are.\\nSec. 35. All courts shall be ofjen; and every person for an injury done\\nhim in liis lands, goods^ person or reputation, shall have remedy by due\\ncourseof law,and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "COJS.STITUTION OF NORTH C AROI.INA. 349\\nSec. 36. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house\\nwithout the consent of the owner; nor in time of war but in a manner\\nprescribed by law.\\nSec. 37. This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair or\\ndeny others retained by the people; and all powers not herein delegated\\nremain with the people.\\nARTICLE 11.\\nLEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.\\nSection 1. The legislative authority shall be vested in two distinct\\nbranches, both dependent on the people, to-wit: A Senate and a House of\\nRepresentatives.\\nSec. 2. The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet biennially\\non the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January next after their\\nelection; and when assembled shall be denominated the General Assembly.\\nNeither House shall proceed upon public business unless a majority of all\\nthe members are actually present.\\nSec. 3. The Senate shall be composed of fifty Senators, biennially chosen\\nby ballot.\\nSec. 4. The Senate Districts shall be so altered by the General Assembly,\\nat the first session after the return of every enumeration by order of Con-\\ngress, that each Senate District shall contain, as near as may be, an equal\\nnumber of inhabitants, excluding aliens and Indians not taxed, and shall\\nremain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and shall at all\\ntimes consist of contiguous territory; and no county shall be divided in\\nthe formation of a Senate District, unless sucli county shall be equitably\\nentitled to two or more Senators.\\nSec. 5. The House of Representatives shall be composed of one hundred\\nand twenty Representatives, biennially chosen by ballot, to be elected by\\nthe counties respectively, according to their population, and each county\\nshall have at least one Representative in the House of Representatives,\\nalthough it may not contain the requisite ratio of representation; this\\napportionment shall be made by the General Assembly at the respective\\ntimes and periods when the districts for the Senate are hereinbefore\\ndirected to be laid off.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "350 APPENDIX.\\nSec. 6. In making the apportionment in the House of Representatives,\\nthe ratio of representation shall be ascertained by dividing the amount of the\\npopulation of the State, exclusive of that comprehended within those\\ncounties which do not severally contain the one hundred and twentieth\\npart of the population of the State, by the number of Representatives, less\\nthe number assigned to such counties; and in ascertaining the number of\\nthe population of the State, aliens and Indians not taxed shall not be\\nincluded. To each county containing the said ratio, and not twice the said\\nratio, there shall be assigned one Representative; to each county contain-\\ning twice but not three times the said ratio, there shall be assigned two\\nRepresentatives, and so on progressively, and then the remaining Repre-\\nsentatives shall be assigned severally to the counties having the largest\\nfractions.\\nSec. 7. Each member of the Senate shall not be less than twenty-five\\nyears of age, shall have i-esided in the State as a citizen two years, and\\nshall have usually resided in the district for which he is chosen one year\\nimmediately preceding his election.\\nSec. 8. Each member of the House of Representatives shall be a quali-\\nfied elector of the State, and shall have resided in the county for which he\\nis chosen f(M- one year immediately preceding his election.\\nSec. 9. In the election of all officers, whose appointment shall be con-\\nferred upon the General Assembly by the Constitution, the vote shall be\\nviva voce.\\nSec. 10. The General Assembly shall have power to pass general laws\\nregulating divorce and alimony, but shall not have power to grant a divorce\\nor secure alimony in any individual case.\\nSec. 11. The General Assembly shall not have power to pass any private\\nlaw to alter the name of any person or to legitimate any person not born\\nin lawful wedlock, or to restore to the rights of citizenship any person con-\\nvicted of an infamous crime, but shall have power to pass general laws\\nregulating the same.\\nSec. 12. The General Assembly shall not pass any private law, unless it\\nshall be made to appear thirty days notice of application to pass such a\\nlaw shall have been given, under such directions and in such manner as\\nshall be provided by law.\\nSec. 13. If vacancies shall occur in the General Assembly by death,\\nresignation or otherwise, writs of election shall be issued by the Governor\\nunder such regulations as maybe prescribed by law.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 351\\nSec. 14. No law shall be passed to raise money on the credit of the\\nState, or to pledge the fiiith of the State, directly or indirectly, for the pay-\\nment of any debt, or to impose any tax upon the people of the State, or to\\nallow the counties, cities or towns to do so, unless the bill for the purpose\\nshall have been read three several times in each House of the General\\nAssembly, and passed three several readings, which readings shall have\\nbeen on three different days, and agreed to by each House respectively, and\\nunless the yeas and nays on the second and third reading of the bill shall\\nhave been entered on the journal.\\nSec. 15. The General Assembly shall regulate entails in such manner as\\nto prevent perpetuities.\\nSec. 16. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, which shall\\nbe printed and made public immediately after the adjournment of the\\nGeneral Assembly.\\nSec. 17. Any member of either House may dissent from, and protest\\nagainst, any act or resolve which he may think injurious to the public, or\\nany individual, and have the reason of his dissent entered on the journal.\\nSec. 18. The Hotise of Eepresentatives shall choose their own Speaker\\nand other officers.\\nSec. 19. The Lieutenant-Governor shall preside in the Senate, but shall\\nhave no vote unless it may be equally divided.\\nSec. 20. The Senate shall choose its other officers, and also a Speaker\\n(pi^o tempore) in the absence of the Lieutenant-Governor, or when he shall\\nexercise the office of Governor.\\nSec. 21. The style of the acts shall be: The General Assembly of\\nNorth Carolina do enact.\\nSec. 22. Each House shall be judge of the qualifications and elections of\\nits own members, shall sit upon its own adjournments from day to day, pre-\\npare bills to be passed into laws; and the two Houses may also jointly\\nadjourn to any future day, or other place.\\nSec. 23. All bills and resolutions of a legislative nature shall be read\\nthree times in each House, before they pass into laws; and shall be signed\\nby the presiding officers of both Houses.\\nSec. 24. Each member of the General Assembly, before taking his seat,\\nshall take an oath or affirmation, that he will support the Constitution and\\nlaws of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of North Caro-\\nlina, and will faithfully discharge his duty as a member of the Senate or\\nHouse of Representatives.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "oOZ AIM KNDIX.\\nSec. 25. The terms of ofBee for Senators and members of the House of\\nRepresentatives shall commence at the time of their election.\\nSec. 26. Upon motion made and seconded in either Ilonse, by one-fifth\\nof the members present, the yeas and nays upon any question shall be taken\\nand entered upon the journals.\\nSec. 27. The election for members of the General Assembly shall be\\nliehl for the respective districts and counties, at the places where they are\\nnow held, or may be directed hereafter to be held, in such manner as may\\nbe prescribed by law, on the first Thursday in August, in the year one\\nthousand eight hundred and seventy, and every two years thereafter. But\\nthe General Assembly may change the time of holding the elections.\\nSec. 28. The members of the General Assembly for the term for which\\nthey have been elected, shall receive as a compensation for their services\\nthe sum oi four dollars per day for each day of their session, for a period\\nnot exceeding sixty days; and should they remain longer in session, they\\nshall serve without compensation. They shall also be entitled to receive\\nten cents per mile, both while coming to the seat of government and while\\nreturning home, the said distance to be computed by the nearest line or\\nroute of public travel. The compensation of the presiding officers of the\\ntwo Houses shall be six dollars per day and mileage. Should an extra\\nsession of the General Assembly be called, the members and presiding\\nofficers shall receive a like rate of compensation for a period not exceeding\\ntwenty days.\\nARTICLE III.\\nEXECUTiVE DE PARTMENT.\\nSection 1. The Executive Department shall consist of a Governor, in\\nwhom shall be vested the supreme executive power of the State, a Lieu-\\ntenant-Governor, a Secretary of State, an Auditor, a Treasurer, a Superin-\\ntendent of Public Instruction, and an Attorney-General, who shall be\\nelected for a term of four years, by the qualified electors of the State, at\\nthe same time and place, and in the same manner as members of the Gen-\\neral Assembly are elected. Their term of office shall commence on the\\nfirst day of January next after their election, and continue until their suc-\\ncessors are elected and qualified: Provided, That the officers first elected", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 353\\nshall assume the duties of their office ten days after the approval of this\\nConstitution by the Congress of tlie United States, and shall hold their\\noffices four years from after the first day of January.\\nSeo. 2. No person shall be eligible as Governor or Lieutenant-Governor,\\nunless he shall have attained the age of thirty years, shall have been a\\ncitizen of the United States five years, and shall have been a resident of\\nthis State for two years next before the election; nor shall the person\\nelected to either of these two offices be eligible to the same office more than\\nfour years in any term of eight years, unless the office shall have been cast\\nupon him as Lieutenant-Governor or President of the Senate.\\nSec. 3. The return of every election for officers of the Executive Depart-\\nment shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government by the\\nreturning officers, directed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives,\\nwho shall open and publish the same in the presence of a majority of the\\nmembers of both Houses of the General Assembly. The persons having\\nthe highest number of votes respectively shall be declared duly elected\\nbut if two or more be equal and highest in votes for the same office, then\\none of them shall be chosen by joint ballot of both Houses of the General\\nAssembly. Contested elections shall be determined by a joint ballot of\\nboth Houses of the General Assembly, in such manner as shall be pre-\\nscribed by law.\\nSec. 4. The Governor, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall,\\nin the presence of the members of both branches of the General Assembly,\\nor before any Justice of the Supreme Court, take an oath or affirmation\\nthat he will support the Constitution and laws of the United States, and of\\nthe State of North Carolina, and that he will faithfully perform the duties\\nappertaining to the office of Governor to which he has been elected.\\nSec. 5. The Governor shall reside at the seat of government of this State,\\nand he shall, from time to time, give the General Assembly information of\\nthe affairs of the State, and recommend to their consideration such meas-\\nures as he shall deem expedient.\\nSec. The Governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutations\\nand pardons, after conviction, for all offenses (except in cases of impeach-\\nment), upon such conditions as he may think proper, subject to such regu-\\nlations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for\\npardons. He shall biennially communicate to the General Assembly each\\ncase of reprieve, commutation or pardon granted, stating the name of each\\n23", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "354 APPENDIX.\\nconvict, the crime for which lie was convicted, the sentence and its date,\\ntlie date of commutation, pardon or reprieve, and the reasons therefor.\\nSec. 7. The officers of the Executive Department and of the public\\ninstitutions of the State shall, at least five days previous to each regular\\nsession of the General Assembly, severally report to the Governor, who\\nshall transmit such reports, with his message, to the General Assembly;\\nand the Governor may, at any time, require information in writing from\\nthe officers in the Executive Department upon any subject relating to the\\nduties of their respective offices, and shall take care that the laws be\\nfaitiifully executed.\\nSec. 8. The Governor shall be Conmiander-in-Chief of the militia of\\nthe State, except when they shall be called into the service of the United\\nStates.\\nSec. 9. The Governor shall have power, on extraordinary occasions, by\\nand with the advice of the Council of State, to convene the General\\nAssembly in extra session by his proclamation, stating therein the purpose\\nai purposes for which they are thus convened.\\nSec. 10. The Governor shall nominate, and by and with the advice and\\nconsent of a majority of the Senators elect, appoint all officers, whose\\noffices are established by this Constitution, and whose appointments are not\\notherwise provided for.\\nSec. 11. The Lieutenant-Governor shall be President of the Senate, but\\nshall have no vote unless the Senate be equally divided. He shall, whilst\\nacting as President of the Senate, receive for his services the same pay\\nwhich shall, for the same period, be allowed to the Speaker of the House\\nof Kepresentatives and he shall receive no other compensation except\\nwhen he is acting as Governor.\\nSec. 12. In case of the impeachment of the Governor, his failure to\\nqualify, his absence from the State, his inability to discharge the duties\\nof his office, or, in case the office of Governor shall in anywise become\\nvacant, the powers, duties and emoluments of the office shall devolve upon\\nthe Lieutenant-Governor until the disabilities shall cease, or a new Gov-\\nernor shall be elected and qualified. In every case in which the Lieu-\\ntenant-Governor shall be unable to preside over the Senate, the Senators\\nshall e)ect one of their own number President of their body, and the\\npowers, duties and emolinnents of the office (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^f Governor shall devolve", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 355\\nupon him whenever the Lieutenant-Governor sliall, for any reason, be pre-\\nvented from discliarging the duties of such office as above provided, and he\\nshall continue as acting-Governor until the disabilities are removed, or a\\nnew Governor or Lieutenant Governor shall be elected and qualified.\\nWhenever, during the recess of the General Assembly, it shall become\\nnecessary for the President of the Senate to administer the government, the\\nSecretary of State shall convene the Senate, that they may elect such\\nPresident.\\nSec. 13. The respective duties of the Secretary of State, Auditor, Treas-\\nurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Attorney-General shall be\\nprescribed by law. If the oflice of any of the officers shall be vacated\\nby death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Governor to\\nappoint another until the disability be removed or his successor be elected\\nand qualified. Every such vacancy shall be filled by election at the first\\ngeneral election that occurs more than thirty days after the vacancy has\\ntaken place, and the person chosen shall hold the office for the remainder\\nof the unexpired terra fixed in the first section of this Article.\\nSec. 14. The Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer and Superintendent\\nof Public Instruction shall constitute, ex-officio, the Council of State, who\\nshall advise the Governor in the execution of his office, and three of whom\\nshall constitute a quorum; their advice and proceedings in this capacity\\nshall be entered in a journal to be kept for this purpose exclusively, and\\nsigned by the members present, from any part of which any member may\\nenter his dissent; and such journal shall be placed before the General\\nAssembly when called for by either House. The Attorney General shall\\nbe, ex-officio, the legal adviser of the Executive Department.\\nSec. 15. The officers mentioned in this Article shall, at stated periods,\\nreceive for their services a compensation to be established by law, which\\nshall neither be increased nor diminished during the time for which they\\nshall have been elected, and the said officers shall receive no other emolu-\\nment or allowance.\\nSec. 1G. There shall be a seal of the State, which shall be kept by the\\nGovernor, and used by him, as occasion may require, and shall be called\\nthe Great Seal of the State of North Carolina. All grants and commis-\\nsions shall be issued in the name and by the authority of the State of North\\nCarolina, sealed with the Great Seal of the State, signed by the Governor\\nand countersigned bv the Secretary of State.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "356 APPENDIX.\\nSec. 17. The General Assembly shall establish a Department of Agr i-\\ncnlture, Immigration and Statistics, under such regnlations as may best\\npromote the agricnltnral interests of the State, and shall enact laws for the\\nadequate protection and encouragement of sheep iiusbaiidry.\\nARTICLE IV.\\nJUDICIAL, DEPARTMENT,\\nSection 1. The distinctions between actions at law and suits in equity,\\nand the forms of all such actions and suits, shall be abolished and there\\nshall be in this State but one form of action for the enforcement or protec-\\ntion of private rights or the redress of private wrongs, which shall be\\ndenominated a civil action and every action prosecuted by the people of\\nthe State as a party, against a person charged with a public offense, for the\\npunishment of the same, shall be termed a criminal action. Feigned issues\\nshall also be abolished, and the fact at issue tried by order of Court before\\na jury.\\nSec. 2. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a Court for the\\ntrial of Impeachments, a Supreme Court, Superior Courts, Courts of Jus-\\ntices of the Peace, and such other courts inferior to the Supreme Court as\\nmay be established by law.\\nSec. 3. The Court for the trial of Impeachments shall be the Senate. A\\nmajority of the members shall be necessary to a quorum, and the judgment\\nshall not extend beyond removal from and disqualification to hold office\\nin this State; but the party shall be liable to indictment and punishment\\naccording to law.\\nSec. 4. The House of Representatives solely shall have the power of\\nimpeaching. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-\\nthirds of the Senators present. When the Governor is impeached the\\nChief-.Justice shall preside.\\nSec. 5. Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war\\nagainst it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No\\nperson shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two wit-\\nnesses to tiie same overt act, or on confession in open court. No conviction\\nof treason or attainder shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture.\\nSec. 6. The Su[)reme Court shall consist of a Chief- Justice and two\\nAssociate Justices.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 357\\nSec. 7. The terms of the Supreme Court shall be held in the city of\\nRaleigh, as now, until otherwise provided by the General Assembly.\\nSec. 8. The Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction to review, upon\\nappeal, any decision of the courts below, upon any matter of law or legal\\ninference. And the jurisdiction of said Court over issues of fact and\\nquestions of fact shall be the same exercised by it before the adoption of\\nthe Constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the\\nCourt shall have the power to issue any remedial writs necessary to give it\\na general supervision and control over the proceedings of the inferior\\ncourts.\\nSec. 9. The Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction to hear\\nclaims against the State, but its decisions shall be merely recommendatory;\\nno process in the nature of execution shall issue thereon; they shall be\\nreported to the next session of the General Assembly for its action.\\nSec. 10. The State shall be divided into nine judicial districts, for each\\nof which a Judge thall be chosen and there shall be held a Superior Court\\nin each county at least twice in each year, to continue for such time in each\\ncounty as may be prescribed by law. But the General Assembly may\\nreduce or increase the number of districts.\\nSec. 11. Every Judge of the Superior Court shall reside in the district\\nfor which he is elected. The Judges shall preside in the Courts of tiie\\ndifferent districts successively, but no Judge shall hold the Courts in the\\nsame distriat oftener than once in four years but in the case of the pro-\\ntracted illness of the Judge assigned to preside in any district, or of any\\nother unavoidable accident to him, by reason of which he shall be unable\\nto preside, the Governor may require any Judge to hold one or more speci-\\nfied terms in said districts, in lieu of the Judge assigned to hold the Courts\\nof the said district.\\nSec. 12. The General Assembly shall have no power to deprive the\\nJudicial Department of any power or jurisdiction which rightfully pertains\\nto it as a co-ordinate department of the government; but the General\\nAssembly shall allot and distribute that portion of this power and jurisdic-\\ntion, which does not pertain to the Supreme Court, among the other courts\\nprescribed in this Constitution or which may be established by law, in such\\nmanner as it may deem best; provide also a proper system of appeals and\\nregulate by law, when necessary, the methods of proceeding in the exercise", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "358 APPENDIX.\\nof their powers, of all the courts below the Supreme Court, so far as the\\nsame may be done without conflict with other provisions of tiiis Constitu-\\ntion.\\nSec. 13. In all issues of fact, joined in any court, the parties may waive\\nthe right to have the same determined by a jury in which case the finding\\nof the Judge upon the facts shall have the force and effect of a verdict by\\na jury.\\nSec. 14. The General Assembly shall provide for the establishment of\\nSpecial Courts, for the trial of misdemeanors, in cities and towns, where\\nthe same may be necessary.\\nSec. 15. The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the\\nCourt, and shall hold his office for eight years.\\nSpx. 16. A Clerk of the Superior Court for each county sh?ll be elected\\nby the qualified voters thereof, at the time and in the manner prescribed\\nby law for the election of members of the General Assembly.\\nSec. 17. Clerks of the Superior Courts shall hold their offices for four\\nyears.\\nSec. 18. The General Assembly shall prescribe and regulate the fees,\\nsalaries and emoluments of all officers provided for in this Article; but the\\nsalaries of the Judges shall not be diminished during their continuance in\\noffice.\\nSec. 19. The laws of North Carolina, not repugnant to this Constitution,\\nor the Constitution and laws of the United States, shall be in force until\\nlawfully altered.\\nSec. 20. Actions at law, and suits in equity, pending when this Constitu-\\ntion shall go into effect, shall be transferred to the courts having jurisdic-\\ntion thereof, without prejudice by reason of the change; and all such\\nactions and suits commenced before, and pending at the adoption by the\\nGeneral Assemby of the rules of practice and procedure herein provided\\nfor, shall be heard antl determined according to the j)ractice now in use,\\nunless otherwise provided for by said rules.\\nSec. 21. The Justices of the Supreme Court shall be elected by the quali-\\nfied voters of the State, as is provided for the election of members of the\\n(ieneral Assembly. They shall hold their offices for eight years. The\\nJudges of the Superior Courts, elected at the first election under this\\namendment, shall be elected in like manner as is i)rovided for Justices of\\nthe Supreme Court, and shall hold their offices for eight years. The Gen-\\neral Assembly may, from time to time, provide by law that the Judges of", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 359\\nthe Superior Courts, cliosen at succeeding elections, instead of being elected\\nby the voters of the whole State, as is herein provided for, shall be elected\\nby the voters of their respective districts.\\nSec. 22. The Superior Courts sliall be, at all times, open for the transac-\\ntion of all business within their jurisdiction, except the trial of issues of\\nfact requiring a jury.\\nSec. 23. A Solicitor shall be elected for each Judicial District by the\\nqualified voters thereof, as is prescribed for members of the General\\nAssembly, who shall hold office for the term of four years, and prosecute\\non behalf of the State, in all criminal actions in the Superior Courts, and\\nadvise the officers of justice in his district.\\nSec. 24. In each county a Sheriff and Coroner shall be elected by the\\nqualified voters thereof, as is prescribed for members of the General Assem-\\nbly, and shall hold their offices for two years. In each township there\\nshall be a Constable elected in like manner by the voters thereof, who shall\\nhold his office for two years. When there is no Coroner in the county,\\nthe Clerk of the Superior Court for the county may appoint one for special\\ncases. In case of a vacancy existing for any cause, in any of the offices\\ncreated by this section, the Commissioners for the county may appoint to\\nsuch office for the unexpired term.\\nSec. 25. All vacancies occurring in the offices provided for by this\\nArticle of the Constitution shall be filled by the appointments of the Gov-\\nernor, unless otherwise provided for, and the appointees shall hold their\\nplaces until the next regular election for members of the General Assem-\\nbly, when elections shall be held to fill such offices. If any person, elected\\nor appointed to any of said offices, shall neglect and fail to qualify, such\\noffice shall be appointed to, held and filled as provided in case of vacancies\\noccurring therein. All incumbents of said offices shall hold until their\\nsuccessors are qualified.\\nSec. 26. The officers elected at the first election held under this Consti-\\ntution shall hold their offices for the terms prescribed* for them respectively,\\nnext ensuing after the next regular election for members of the General\\nAssembly. But their terms shall begin upon the approval of this Consti-\\ntution by the Congress of the United States.\\nSec. 27. The several Justices of the Peace shall have jurisdiction, under\\nsuch regulations as the General Assembly shall prescribe, of civil actions\\nfounded on contract, wherein the sum demanded sliall not exceed two hun-\\ndred dollars, and wherein the title to real estate shall not be in contro-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "360 APPENDIX.\\nversy; and of all criminal matters arising within their counties where the\\npunishment cannot exceed a fine of fifty dollars, or imprisonment for thirty\\ndays. And the General Assembly may give to Justices of the Peace juris-\\ndiction of other civil actions, wherein the value of the property in contro-\\nversy does not exceed fifty dollars. When an issue of fact may be joined\\nbefore a Justice, on demand of either party thereto, he shall cause a jury\\nof six men to be summoned, who shall try the same. The party against\\nwhom judgment shall be rendered in any civil action, may appeal to the\\nSuperior Court from the same. In all cases of a criminal nature^ the party\\nagainst whom judgment is given may appeal to the Superior Court, where\\nthe matter siiall be heard anew. In all cases brought before a Justice, he\\nshall make a record of the proceedings, and file the same with the Clerk\\nof the Superior Court for his county.\\nSec. 28. When the office of Justice of the Peace shall become vacant\\notherwise than by expiration of the term, and in case of a failure by the\\nvoters of any district to elect, the Clerk of the Superior Court for the\\ncounty shall appoint to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.\\nSec. 29. In case the office of Clerk of a Superior Court for a county shall\\nbecome vacant otherwise than by the expiration of the term, and in case of\\na failure by the people to elect, the Judge of the Superior Court for the\\ncounty shall appoint to fill the vacancy until an election can be regularly\\nheld.\\nSec. 30. In case the General Assembly shall establish other courts infe-\\nrior to the Supreme Court, the presiding officers and clerks thereof shall\\nbe elected in such manner as the General Assembly may from time to time\\nl)rescribe, and they shall hold their offices for a term not exceeding eight\\nyears.\\nSec. 31. Any .Judge of the Supreme Court, or of the Superior Courts,\\nand the presiding officers of such courts inferior to the Supreme Court, as\\nmay be established by law, may be removed from office for mental or physi-\\ncal inability, upon a- concurrent resolution of two-thirds of both Houses of\\nthe General Assembly. The Judge or presiding officer against whom the\\nGeneral Assembly may be about to proceed, shall receive notice thereof,\\naccompanied by a copy of the causes alleged for his removal, at least\\ntwenty days before the day on which either House of the General Assem-\\nbly shall act thereon.\\nSec. 32. Any Clerk of the Supreme Court, or of the Superior Courts, or\\nof such courts inferior to the Supreme Court, as may be established by", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 361\\nlaw, may be removed from office for mental or physical inability; the\\nClerk of the Supreme Court by the Judges of said courts, the Clerks of\\nthe Superior Courts by the Judge riding the district, and the Clerks of\\nsuch courts inferior to the Supreme Court as may be established by law,\\nby tlie presiding officers of said courts. The Clerk against whom proceed-\\nings are instituted, shall receive notice thereof, accompanied by a copy of\\nthe causes alleged for his removal, at least ten days before the day appointed\\nto act thereon, and the Clerk shall be entitled to an appeal to the next term\\nof the Superior Court, and tiience to the Supreme Court, as provided in\\nother cases of appeals.\\nSec. 33. The amendments made to the Constitution of North Carolina by\\nthis Convention shall not have the effijct to vacate any office or term of\\noffice now existing under the Constitution of the State, and filled, or held,\\nby virtue of any election or appointment under the said Constitution, and\\nthe laws of the State made in pursuance thereof.\\nARTICLE V.\\nREVENUE AND TAXATION.\\nSection 1. The General Assembly shall levy a capitation tax on every\\nmale inhabitant of the State over twenty-one and under fifty years of age,\\nwhich shall be equal on each to the tax on property valued at three hun-\\ndred dollars in cash. The commissioners of the several counties may\\nexempt from capitation tax in special cases, on account of poverty and\\ninfirmity, and the State and county capitation tax combined shall never\\nexceed two dollars on the head.\\nSec. 2. Tlie proceeds of the State and county capitation tax shall be\\napplied to the purposes of education and the support of the poor, but in no\\none year shall more than twenty-five per cent, thereof be appropriated to\\nthe latter purpose.\\nSec. 3. Laws shall be passed taxing, by a uniform rule, all moneys,\\ncredits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint-stock companies or otherwise;\\nand, also, all real and personal property, according to its true value in\\nmoney. The General Assembly may also tax trades, professions, franchises\\nand incomes, provided that no income shall be taxed when the property\\nfrom which the income is derived is taxed.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "362 APPENDIX.\\nSec. 4. Until the bonds of the State shall be at par, the General Assem-\\nbly shall have no power to contract any new debt or pecuniary obligation in\\nbehalf of the State, except to siip[dy a casual deficit, or for suppressing\\ninvasion or insurrection, unless it shall in the same bill levy a special tax\\nto pay the interest annually. And the General Assembly shall have no\\npower to give or lend the credit of the State in aid of any person, associa-\\ntion or corporation, except to aid in the completion of such railroads as\\nmay be unfinished at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, or in\\nwhich the State has a direct pecuniary interest, unless the subject be sub-\\nmitted to a direct vote of the people of the State, and be approved by a\\nmajority of those who shall vote thereon.\\nSec. 5. Property belonging to the State or to municipal corporations\\nshall be exempt from taxation. The General Assembly may exempt ceme-\\nteries, and property held for educational, scientific, literary, charitable or\\nreligious purposes; also, wearing apparel, arms for muster, household and\\nkitchen furniture, the mechanical and agricultural implements of mechanics\\nand farmers; libraries and scientific instruments, or any other personal\\nproperty, to a value not exceeding three hundred dollars.\\nSec. 6. The taxes lesded by tlie Commissioners of the several counties for\\ncounty purposes shall be levied in like manner with the State taxes, and\\nshall never exceed the double of the State taxes, except for a special pur-\\npose, and with the special approval of the General Assembly.\\nSec. 7. Every act of the General Assembly levying a tax shall state the\\nspecial object to which it is to be applied, and it shall be applied to no\\nother puri)ose.\\nARTICLE VI.\\nSUFFHAGE AND ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE.\\nSection 1. Every male person born in the United States, and every male\\nperson who has been naturalized, twenty-one years old or upward, who\\nshall have resided in the State twelve months next preceding the election,\\nand ninety days in the county in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed\\nan elector. But no person, who, upon conviction or confession in open\\ncourt, shall be ailjuilged guilty of felony, or any other crime infamous by", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIOX OF NORTH CAROLINA. S6o\\nthe laws of this State, and hereafter committed, shall be deemed an elector,\\nunless such person shall be restored to the rights of citizenship in a man-\\nner prescribed by law.\\nSec. 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide, from\\ntime to time, for the registration of all electors; and no person shall be\\nallowed to vote without registration, or to register, without first taking an\\noath or affirmation to support and maintain the Constitution and laws of\\nthe United States, and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina not\\ninconsistent therewith.\\nSec. 3. All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and all elections\\nby the General Assembly shall be viva voce.\\nSec. 4. Every voter, except as hereinafter provided, shall be eligible to\\noffice; but before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, he\\nshall take and subscribe the following oath: I, do solemnly\\nswear (or affirm) that I will support and maintain the Constitution and\\nlaws of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina\\nnot inconsistent therewith, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties\\nof my office. So help me God.\\nSec. 5. The following classes of persons shall be disqualified for office:\\nFirst, All persons who shall deny the being of Almighty God. Second,\\nAll persons who shall have been convicted of treason, perjury, or of any\\nother infamous crime, since becoming citizens of the United States, or of\\ncorruption, or malpractice in office, unless such person shall have been\\nlegally restored to the rights of citizenship.\\nARTICLE VII.\\nMUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.\\nSection 1. In each county, there shall be elected biennially by the quali-\\nfied voters thereof, as provided for the election of members of the General\\nAssembly, the following ofl!icers: a Treasurer, Register of Deeds, Surveyor\\nand five Commissioners.\\nSec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners to exercise a general\\nsupervision and control of the penal and charitable institutions, schools,\\nroads, bridges, levying of taxes and finances of the county, as may be pre-\\nscribed by law. The Register of Deeds shall be, cx-ojjicio, Clerk of the\\nBoard of Commissioners.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "364 APrEXDix.\\nSec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Cominissioners first elected in each\\ncounty to divide the same into convenient districts, to determine the\\nboundaries and prescribe the name of the said districts, and to report the\\nsame to the General Assembly before the first day of January, one thousand\\neight hundred and sixty-nine.\\nSec. 4. Upon the approval of the reports provided for in the foregoing\\nsection, by the General Assembly, the said districts shall have corporate\\npowers for the necessary purposes of local government, and shall be known\\nas townships.\\nSec. 5. In each townshi[) there shall be biennially elected, by the quali-\\nfied voters thereof, a Clerk and two Justices of the Peace, who shall con-\\nstitute a Board of Trustees, and shall, under the supervision of the County\\nCommissioners, have control of the taxes and finances, roads and bridges\\nof the townships, as may be prescribed by law. The General Assembly\\nmay provide for the election of a larger number of the Justices of the\\nPeace in cities and towns, and in those townships in which cities and towns\\nare situated. In every township there shall also be biennially elected a\\nSchool Committee, consisting of three persons, whose duty shall be pre-\\nscribed by law.\\nSec. (5. The Township Board of Trustees shall assess the taxable\\nproperty of their townships and make return to the County Commissioners\\nfor revision, as may be prescribed by law. The Clerk shall be, ex-officio,\\nTreasurer of the township.\\nSec. 7. No county, city, town or other municipal corporation shall con-\\ntract any debt, pledge its faith, or loan its credit, nor shall any tax be\\nlevied, or collected by any officers of the same, except for the necessary\\nexpenses thereof, unless by a vote of a majority of the (jualified voters\\ntherein.\\nSec. 8. No money shall be drawn from any cotmty or township treasury\\nexcept by authority of law.\\nSec. 9. All taxes levied by any county, city, town, or township, shall be\\nuniform and ad valorem, upon all propei ty in the sanie, except projjcrty\\nexempted by this Constitution.\\nSec. 10. The county officers first elected under the provisions of this\\nArticle shall enter upon their duties ten days after the approval of this Con-\\nstitution by the Congress of the United States.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 365\\nSec. 11. The Governor sliall appoint a sufficient number of Justices of the\\nPeace in eacli county, who shall hold their places until sections four, five\\nand six of this Article shall have been carried into effect.\\nSec. 12. All charters, ordinances and provisions relating to municipal\\ncorporations shall remain in force until legally changed, unless inconsistent\\nwith the provisions of this Constitution.\\nSec. 13. No county, city, town or other municipal corporation shall assume\\nto pay, nor shall any tax be levied or collected for the payment of any debt,\\nor the interest upon any debt, contracted directly or indirectly in aid or\\nsupport of the rebellion.\\nSec. 14. The General Assembly shall have full power by statute to\\nmodify, change, or abridge any and all of the provisions of this Article, and\\nsubstitute others in their place, except sections seven, nine and thirteen.\\nARTICLE VIII.\\nCORPORATIONS OTHER THAN MUNICIPAL.\\nSection 1. Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall\\nnot be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases\\nwliere, in the judgment of the Legislature, the object of the corporations\\ncannot be attained under general laws. All general laws and special acts,\\npassed pursuant to this section, may be altered from time to time, or\\nrepealed.\\nSec. 2. Dues from corporations shall be secured by such individual lia-\\nbilities of the corporation and other means, as may be prescribed by law.\\nSec. 3. The term corporation, as used in this Article, shall be construed\\nto include all associations and joint-stock companies, having any of the\\npowers and privileges of corporations, not possessed by individuals or part-\\nnerships. And all cor{)orations shall have the right to sue, and shall be\\nsubject to be sued in all courts, in like cases as natural persons.\\nSec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organiza-\\ntion of cities, towns and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power\\nof taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts and loaning\\ntheir credits, so as to prevent abuses in assessment and in contracting debts\\nby such municipal corporations.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "366 APPENDIX.\\nARTICLE IX.\\nEDl^CATION.\\nSection 1. Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to gf)od\\ngovernment and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of educa-\\ntion shall forever be encouraged.\\nSec. 2. Tlie General Assembly, at the first session under this Constitu-\\ntion, shall provide by taxation and otherwise, for a general and uniform\\nsystem of public schools, wherein tuition shall be free of charge to all the\\nchildren of the State between the ages of six and twenty-one years. And\\nthe children of tlie wliite race and thecliildren of the colored race shall be\\ntaught in separate public schools; but there shall be no discrimination in\\nfavor of, or to the prejudice of either race.\\nSec, 3. Each county of the State shall be divided into a convenient\\nnumber of districts, in which one or more public schools shall be main-\\ntained at least four inonths in every year and if the Commissioners of any\\ncounty shall fail to comply with the aforesaid requirements of this section\\nthey shall be liable to indictment.\\nSec. 4. The y roceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be\\ngranted by the United States to this State, and not otherwise appropriated\\nby this State or the United States; also, all moneys, stocks, bonds, and\\nother property, now belonging to any State fund for purposes of education\\nalso, the net proceeds of all sales of the swamp lands belonging to the State,\\nand all other grants, gifts or devises that have been or hereafter may be\\nmade to the State, and not otherwise appro[)riated by the State, or by the\\nterm of the grant, gift or devise, shall be paid into the State treasury and,\\ntogether with so much of the ordinary revenue of the State as may be by\\nlaw set apart for that purpose, shall be faithfully appropriated for establish-\\ning and maintaining in this State a system of free public schools, and for\\nno other uses or puri)oses whatsoever.\\nSec. 5. All moneys, stocks, bonds, and other property, belonging to a\\ncounty school fund; also, the net proceeds from the sale of estrays; also,\\nthe clear proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures, and of all fines collected\\nin tlie several counties for any breach of the penal or military laws of the\\nState; and all moneys which sliall be paid by persons as an equivalent for\\nexemption from military duty, shall belong to and remain in the several\\ncounties, and shall be faithfully appro{)riated for establishing and maintain-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 367\\ning free pnl)lic schools in the several counties of this State: Provided, That\\nthe amount collected in each count} shall be annually reported to the\\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction.\\nSec. 6. The General Assembly shall have power to provide for the\\nelection of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, in whom, when\\nchosen, shall be vested all the privileges, rights, franchises and endowments\\nthereof, in anywise granted to or conferred upon the Trustees of said Uni-\\nversity; and the General Assembly may make such provisions, laws and\\nregulations from time to time, as may be necessary and expedient for the\\nmaintenance and management of said University.\\nSec. 7. The General Assembly shall provide that the benefits of the\\nUniversity, as far as practicable, be extended to the youth of the State free\\nof expense for tuition; also, that all the property which has heretofore\\naccrued to the State, or shall hereafter accrue, from escheats, unclaimed\\ndividends, or distributive shares of the estates of deceased persons, shall\\nbe appropriated to the use of the University.\\nSec. 8. Tiie Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treas-\\nurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Attorney-General\\nshall constitute a State Board of Education.\\nSec. 9. The Governor shall be President, and the Superintendent of\\nPublic Instruction shall be Secretary of the Board of Education.\\nSec. 10. The Board of Education shall succeed to all the powers and\\ntrusts of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund of North Caro-\\nlina, and shall have full power to legislate and make all needful rules and\\nregulations in relation to free public schools and the educational fund of\\nthe State; but all acts, rules and regulations of said Board may be altered,\\namended or repealed by the General Assembly, and when so altered,\\namended or repealed, they shall not be re-enacted by the Board.\\nSec. 11. The first session of the Board of Education shall be held at the\\ncapitol of the State, within fifteen days after the organization of the State\\ngovernment under this Constitution; the time of future meetings may be\\ndetermined by the Board.\\nSec. 12. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the trans-\\naction of business.\\nSec. 13. The contingent expenses of the Board shall be provided by the\\nGeneral Assembly.\\nSec. 14. As, soon as practicable after the adoption of this Constitution,\\nthe General Assembly shall establish and maintain, in connection with the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "368 APPENDIX.\\nUniversity, a Department of Agriculture, of Mechanics, of Mining, and of\\nNormal Instruction.\\nSec. 15. The General Assemhly is hereby empowered to enact that every\\nchild, of sufficient mental and physical ability, shall attend the public\\nschools during the period between the ages of six and eighteen years for a\\nterm not less than sixteen months, unless educated by other means.\\nARTICLE X.\\nHOMESTEADS AND EXEMPTIONS.\\nSection 1. The personal property of any resident of this State, to the\\nvalue of five hundred dollars, to be selected by such resident, shall be, and\\nis hereby exempted from sale under execution, or other final process of any\\ncourt issued for the collection of any debt.\\nSec. 2. Every homestead, and the dwellings and buildings used there-\\nwith, not exceeding in value one thousand dollars, to be selected by the\\nowner thereof, or in lieu thereof, at the option of the owner, any lot in a\\ncity, town or village, with the dwellings and buildings used thereon, owned\\nand occupied by any resident of this State, and not exceeding the value of\\none thousand dollars, shall be exempt from sale under execution, or other\\nfinal process obtained on any debt. But no property shall be exempt from\\nsale for taxes, or for payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of\\nsaid premises.\\nSec. 3. The homestead, after the death of the owner thereof, shall be\\nexempt from the payment of any debt during the minority of his children\\nor any one of them.\\nSec. 4. The provisions of sections one and two of this Article shall not\\nbe so construed as to prevent a laborer s lien for work done and performed\\nfor the person claiming such exem{)tion, or a mechanic s lien for work done\\non the premises.\\nSec. 5. If the owner of a homestead die, leaving a widow, but no children,\\nthe same shall be exempt from the debts of her husband, and the rents and\\nprofits thereof shall inure to her benefit during her widowhood, unless she\\nbe the owner of a homestead in her own right.\\nSec. 6. The real and personal property of any female in this State,\\nacquired before marriage, and all property, real and personal, to which she", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 369\\nniay, after marriage, become in any manner entitled, shall be and remain\\nthe sole and separate estate and property of such female, and shall not be\\nliable for any debts, obligations or engagements of her husband, and may\\nbe devised and bequeathed, and, with the written consent of her husband,\\nconveyed by her as if she was unmarried.\\nSec. 7. The husband may insure his own life for the sole use and benefit\\nof his wife and children, and in the case of the death of the husband, the\\namount thus insured shall be paid over to the wife and children, or to the\\nguardian, if under age, for her, or their own use, free from all the claims\\nof the representatives of her husband, or any of his creditors.\\nSec. 8. Nothing contained in the foregoing sections of this Article shall\\noperate to prevent the owner of a homestead from disposing of the same by\\ndeed; but no deed made by the owner of a homestead shall be valid with-\\nout the voluntary signature and assent of his wife, signified on her private\\nexamination according to law.\\nARTICLE XL\\nPUNISHMENTS, PENAL INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC CHARITIES.\\nSection 1. The following punishments only shall be known to the laws\\nof this State, viz.: death, imprisonment, with or without hard labor, fines,\\nremoval from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of\\nhonor, trust or profit under this State. The foregoing provisions for im-\\nprisonment with hard labor shall be construed to authorize the employment\\nof such convict labor on public wu)rks, or highways, or other labor for pub-\\nlic benefit, and the farming out thereof, where, and in such rtianner as may\\nbe provided by law; but no convict shall be farmed out who has been sen-\\ntenced on a charge of murder, manslaughter, rape, attempt to commit rape\\nor arson: Provided, That no convict whose labor may be farmed out, shall\\nbe punished for any failure of duty as a laborer, except by a responsible\\nofficer of the State; but the convicts so farmed out shall be at all times\\nunder the supervision and control, as to their government and discipline,\\nof the Penitentiary Board or some officer of this State.\\nSec. 2. The object of punishments being not only to satisfy justice, but\\nalso to reform the oflfender, and thus prevent crime, murder, arson, burglary,\\nand rape, and these only, may be punishable with death, if the General\\nAssemblv shall so enact.\\n2\\\\", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "370\\nappp:ndix.\\nSec. 8. The General Assembly shall, at its first meeting, make provision\\nfor the erection and conduct of a State s Prison or Penitentiary, at some\\ncentral and accessible point within the State.\\nSec. 4. Tlie General Assembly may provide for the erection of Houses\\nof Correction, where vagrants and persons guilty of misdemeanors shall be\\nrestrained and usefully employed.\\nSec. 5. A House, or Houses of Refuge may be established whenever the\\npublic interest may require it, for the correction and instruction of other\\nclasses of offenders.\\nSec. 6. It shall be required, by competent legislation, that the structure\\nand superintendence of penal institutions of the State, the county jails, and\\ncity police prisons, secure the health and comfort of the prisoners, and that\\nmale and female prisoners be never confined in the same room or cell.\\nSec. 7. Beneficent provisions for the poor, the unfortunate and orphan\\nbeing one of the first duties of a civilized and Christian State, the General\\nAssembly shall, at its first session, appoint and define the duties of a Board\\nof Public Charities, to whom shall be entrusted the supervision of all\\ncharitable and penal State institutions, and who shall annually report to\\nthe Governor upon their condition, with suggestions for their improvement.\\nSec. 8. There shall also, as soon as practicable, be measures devised by\\nthe State, for the establishment of one or more Orphan Houses, where des-\\ntitute orphans may be cared for, educated, and taught some business or trade.\\nSec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Legislature, as soon as practicable, to\\ndevise means for the education of idiots and inebriates.\\nSec. 10. The General Assembly may provide that the indigent deaf mutes,\\nblind and insane of the State shall be cared for at the charge of the State.\\nSec. 11. ^It shall be steadily kept in view by the Legislature, and the\\nBoard of Public Charities, that all penal and charitable institutions should\\nbe made as nearly self-supporting as is consistent with the purposes of\\ntheir creation.\\nARTICLE XII.\\nSection 1. All able bodied male citizens of the State of Xorth Carolina,\\nbetween the ages of twenty-one and forty years, who are citizens of the", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "CX)NSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. 371\\nUnited States, sliall be liable to duty in the militia: P? oi iV/(?(:/, That all\\npersons who may be averse to bearing arms, from religious scruples, shall\\nbe exempt therefrom.\\nSec. 2. The General Assembly shall provide for the organization, arming,\\nequipping and discipline of the militia, and for paying the same when\\ncalled into active service.\\nSec. 3. The Governor shall be Commander-in-Chief, and shall have\\npower to call out the militia to execute the law, suppress riots or insurrec-\\ntion, and to repel invasion.\\nSec. 4. The General Assembly shall have power to make such exemp-\\ntions as may be deemed necessary, and to enact laws that may be expedient\\nfor the government of the militia.\\nARTICLE XIII.\\nAMENDMENTS.\\nSection 1. No Convention of the people of this State shall ever be called\\nby the General Assembly, unless by concurrence of two-thirds of all the\\nmembers of each House of the General Assembly, and except the proposi-\\ntion, Convention or No Convention, be first submitted to the qualified\\nvoters of the whole State, at the next general election, in a manner to be pre-\\nscribed by law. And should a inajority of the votes cast be in favor of said\\nConvention, it shall assemble on sucli day as may be prescribed by the\\nGeneral Assembly.\\nSec, 2. No part of tlie C^onstitution of this State shall be altered, unless\\na bill to alter the same shall have been agreed to by three-fifths of each\\nHouse of the General Assembly. And the amendment or amendments so.\\nagreed to shall be submitted at the next general election to the qualified\\nvoters of the whole State, in such manner as may be prescribed by law.\\nAnd in the event of their adoption by a majority of the votes cast, such\\namendment or amendments shall become a part of the Constitution of this\\nState,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "372 APPENDIX.\\nARTICLE XIV.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nSection 1. All indictraents which shall have been found, or may here-\\nafter be found, for any crime or offense committed before this Constitution\\ntakes effect, may be proceeded upon in the proper courts, but no punish-\\nment shall be inflicted which is forbidden by this Constitution.\\nSec. 2. No person who shall hereafter fight a duel, or assist in the same\\nas a second, or send, accept, or knowingly carry a challenge therefor, or\\nagree to go out of the State to fight a duel, shall hold any office in this\\nState.\\nSec. 8. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of\\nappropriations made by law; and an accurate account of the receipts and\\nexpenditures of the public money shall be annually published.\\nSec. 4, The General Assembly shall provide, by proper legislation, for\\ngiving to mechanics and laborers an adequate lien on the subject matter of\\ntheir labor.\\nSec. 5. In the absence of any contrary provision, all officers of this State,\\nwhether heretofore elected or appointed by the Governor, shall hold their\\npositions only until other iipj)ointments are made by the Governor, or if\\ntlie officers are elective, until their successors shall have been chosen and\\nduly qualified according to the provisions of this Constitution.\\nSec. 6. The seat of government in this State shall remain at the citv of\\nRaleigh.\\nSec. 7. No person, who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit\\nunder the United States or any department thereof, or under this State, or\\nunder any other State, or government, shall hold or exercise any other\\noffice or place of trust or profit under the authority of this State, or be\\neligible to a seat in either House of the General Assembly: Provided,\\nThat nothing herein contained shall extend to officers in tiie militia, .lus-\\ntices of the Peace, Commissioners of Public Charities, or commissioners for\\nspecial purposes.\\nSec. 8. All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a\\nwhite person and a person of negro descent to the third generation inclu-\\nsive, are hereby forever prohibited.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA,\\nPREPARED BY\\nHON. KEMP P. BATTLE, LL. D.,\\nPRESIDENT OF THE UNIVEESITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.\\nPRELIMINARY QUESTIONS.\\n1. When was the first Constitution of North Carolina adopted\\nAnswer. On December 18, 1776.\\n2. When was it first amended\\nAnsiver. In 1835.\\n3. When was it again amended?\\nAnsiver.\u00e2\u0080\u0094li^ 1854, 1861 and 1865.\\n4. When was a new Constitution adopted?\\nAnswer.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1868.\\n5. W^as there not a Constitution adopted in 1866?\\nAnswer. A new Constitution was adopted in 1866 by the Convention of\\n1865-66, but the people voted it down.\\nO. Has the Constitution of 1868 been amended\\nAnswer.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yes; it was partially amended in 1874, and greatly amended\\nby the Convention of 1875. The people adopted these amendments in\\n1876 a hundred years after the adoption of the first Constitution.\\n7. Is there further amendment?\\nAnswer. Yes; in 1880.\\n8. What is a Constitution\\nAnswer. The principles or fundamental laws which govern a State.\\nAnother definition is: The body of rules and maxims in accordance with\\nwhich the powers of sovereignty are habitually exercised.\\n0. Is the Constitution of North Carolina the highesl laiof\\nAnswer. No; the Constitution of the United States, and the laws of the\\nUnited States passed in pursuance thereto, are the supreme law.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "374 APPENDIX.\\n10. Is the Constitution of North Carolina liigher than tlie acts passed\\nby the General Assembly\\nAnswer. Yes; acts contrary to the Constitution are null and void.\\n11. Who decides whether acts are constitutional and binding or not?\\nAnswer. The courts.\\n12. Give a simple explanation of the Constitution of North Carolina.\\nAnswer. It is a written document in whicli the people of North Caro-\\nlina have laid down their plan of government of the State. It designates\\nwhat officers are to make the laws, what officers are to interpret the laws,\\nand what officers are to enforce tiie laws. It lays down rules for the guid-\\nance of these officers. If an} officer acts contrary to it he is liable to pun-\\nishment. It is the organic or fundamental hiWr-the foundation stone on\\nwhich our State government rests. It guards and enforces the liberties of\\nthe people. If officers are allowed to disobey it, our liberties will be in\\ndanger. Hence every citizen should understand it, so that he may watcli\\nthe officers and liold them to their duties.\\n13. Can it be changed\\nAnswer. Yes; the people of the State can change or amend it. The\\nmanner in which the people can change it is prescribed in the Constitution\\nitself, as will be seen hereafter.\\n14. Can it be changed in any other way?\\nAnswer. Y es; if an amendment to the Constitution of tiie United States\\ncontrary to any provision of the State Constitution is made according to\\nlaw, the latter must yield.\\npreamblp:.\\n1. AVIio made the Constitution?\\n2. For wliat purpose was it made?\\n3. Is there recognition of God in it?\\n4. For what blessings is gratitude to God expressed?\\nARTICLE I.\\nDECLARATION OF RIGHTS.\\n1. For what purpose is this declaration made?\\n2. What fundamental truths are declared? Section 1.-\\nNote.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Most of the language of this section is taken (i-oni the Declaration of Inde-\\npendence.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 375\\n3. In wliom is political power vested Section 2.\\n4. For what good is government instituted? Section 2.\\n5. Who has the right to regulate the State government? Section 3.\\n6. Under what circumstances can the people change the form of gov-\\nernment? Section 3.\\n7. Are the people under any restrictions in changing the form of gov-\\nernment? If so, what? Section 3.\\n8. Has the State the righi to secede from the Union Section 4,\\n9. Is the American Union a confederacy of States, or a nation of the\\npeople of the States? Section 4.\\n10. Is this State bound to prevent otlier States from seceding Trom the\\nUnion Section 4.\\n11. Is our allegiance lirst due to the United States or to North Carolina?\\nSection 5,\\n12. Can the General Assembly or a Convention of the people release us\\nfrom our primary allegiance to the United States? Section 5.\\n13. Can the State pay a debt incurred in rebellion against the United\\nStates? Section G.\\n14. Can such a debt be collected in our courts? Section 6.\\n15. Does this prohibition apply to past as well as future debts? Sec-\\ntion 6.\\n10. Can the State pay for emancipated slaves Section 6,\\n17. What debts are forbidden to be paid or assumed in any way unless\\nby a vote of the people Section G.\\n18. What majority must be had to sanction such payment or assumption\\nSection G.\\n19. Is there no exception to this Section 6.\\n20. Can this vote be taken at a special election? Section 6.\\n21. By what name are most of the bonds mentioned in the answer to\\nquestion 17 known?\\nAnswer. Special Tax Bonds.\\n22. Was this prohibition in the Constitution of 1876?\\nAnswer. No; it was inserted by amendment submitted to the people by\\nthe General Assembly of 1879, and adopted by the people in 1880.\\n23. What provision in regard to exclusive emoluments and privileges?\\nSection 7.\\n24. What provision in regard to the legislative, executive and judicial\\nbranches? Section 8.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": ":]7(y APPENDIX.\\n25. Can the Governor or Judges suspend laws? Section 9.\\n26. Who can suspend laws? Section 9.\\n27. What provision about election? Section 10.\\n28. What rights has one Avho is charged with a crime? Section 11.\\n20. If acquitted does he pay the costs of liis own witnesses, c. Sec-\\ntion 11.\\n30. What modes of prosecution are prescribed? Section 12.\\n31. By whom must conviction be made? Section 13.\\n32. Where must the verdict be rendered? Section 13.\\n33. What right has the Legislature in regard to petty misdemeanors?\\nSection 14,\\n34. Can those accused of petty misdemeanors be utterly deprived of\\nright of trial by jury? Section 13.\\nAnswer. No they must have right of appeal and thus getting a jury,\\n35. What provision alnnit bail? About fines and punishment Sec-\\ntion 14.\\n3( What are general warrants Section 15.\\n37. Are they allowed? If not, why not? Section 15,\\n38. What provision about imprisonment for debt? Section 16.\\n30. Kepeat the section guarding the life, liberty and property of citizens.\\nSection 17.\\n40. From what great historical document is this section taken?\\nAnswer. From Magna Charta wrested from King John, A. D, 1215.\\n41. What rights has one restrained of his liberty? Section 18,\\n42. Should he have a speedy trial? Section 18.\\n43. In law suits about property what kind of trial is declared best?\\nSection 19.\\n4:4. What is said about trial by jury in controversies about property?\\nSection 19,\\n4.5. What is declared about freedom of the press? Section 20,\\n46. Can the press be lawfully used for libelous and immoral publica-\\ntion? Section 20.\\n47. What provision about the writ of Habeas Corpus Section 21.\\n48. What do you mean by tiie privileges of the writ of Habeas\\nCorpus\\nAnstuer. The riglit of one restrained of his liberty to be brought before\\na Judge in order that the cause of imprisonment may be enquired into and\\nhe be dealt with according to law.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 377\\n40. Must a man own property in order to vote or hold office? Sec-\\ntion 22.\\n50. Why not? Section 22.\\n51. What safeguard against improper taxation Section 23.\\n52. Did the people claim this when we achieved our independence of\\nGreat Britain?\\nAnswer. Yes; the denial of this right was one of the chief causes of\\nthe Revolutionary war.\\n53. Is the right to bear arras secured Section 24.\\n54. What reason is given why the people should have this right?\\nSection 24.\\n55. Are standing armies allowed Section 24.\\n5S, WHiy should they not be allowed Section 24.\\n57. Which should be supei ior, the civil or military power? Section 24.\\n58. Can the practice of carrying concealed weapons be prohibited, and\\nhow Section 24.\\n59. For what purposes may the people assemble together? Section 25.\\n00. Wiiat is said of secret societies? Section 25.\\n01. What provision securing religious liberty? Section 26.\\n02. What provision about education Section 27.\\n63. Why should elections be often held Section 28.\\n64. What is necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty? Section 29.\\n65. What provision in regard to hereditary privileges, c.? Section 30.\\n66. About perpetuities and monopolies. Section 31. (See Article II,\\nsection 15.)\\n67. What are ex post facto laws Section 32.\\n68. Are they proper? Section 32.\\n60. WHiat retrospective laws are forbidden Section 32.\\n70. Are all slavery and involuntary servitude abolished? Section 33.\\n71. What not abolished? Section 33.\\n72. What provision about the State boundaries? Section 34.\\n73. W^hat provision about the courts? Section 35 and section 17.\\n74. What redress for injuries? Section 35 and section 17.\\n75. How shall justice be administered?^ Section 35.\\n76. How are householdei s protected from quartering of soldiers? Sec-\\ntion 36\\n*NoTE. These words are from Magna Charta.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "378 APPENDIX.\\n77. Does the Declaration of Rights enumerate all the rights possessed\\nby tlie people? Section 37.\\n78. Who have the powers not delegated in the Constitution? Section 37.\\nARTICLE II.\\nLEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.\\n1. How is the legislative authority vested? Section 1.\\n2. When these two bodies meet according to law what is their joint\\nname Section 2.\\n3. Wiien is their regular meeting? Section 2.\\n4. How many members required in order to proceed to public business?\\nSection 2.\\n5. What name is given to this majority\\nAnswer. Quorum.\\nG. How many Senators? Section 3.\\n7. Plow chosen Section 3.\\n8. How often chosen Section 3.\\nO. How are the Senate districts formed Section 4.\\n10. Wlio are excluded from the count? Section 4.\\n11. When can a ctxinty be divided in forming a Senatorial district?\\nSection 4.\\n12. How are the members of the House of Representatives chosen?\\nSection 5.\\n13. What is the rule as to counties not having a hundred-and-twentieth\\npart of the population Section 5.\\n14. How is the ai)[)ortionment of Representatives made? Section G.\\n15. What are the qualifications of a Senator? Section 7.\\n1( What of members of the House? Section 8.\\n17. How does the General Assembly elect oflicers? Section U; and\\nArticle VI, section 3.\\n18. How do the people vote for Senators and members of the House?\\nSections 3 and o; and Article VI, section 3.\\nlO. What is the provision about divorce and alimony? Section 10.\\n20. What legishition is prohibited to the General Assembly? Section\\n11. (See Article V, section 1.)", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 379\\n21. How can the General Assembly pass private laws other than those\\nmentioned in sections 10 and 11? Section 12.\\n22. How are vacancies in the General Assembly filled? Section 13.\\n23. What laws must be read tliree times in each flonse, on three sep-\\narate days? Section 14. (See Article V, section 6.)\\n24. Must the names of the members voting be entered on the journal\\nwhen these laws are passed Section 14.\\n25\u00c2\u00bb. How must entails be regulated? Section 15. (See Article I, sec-\\ntion 31.)\\n26. What must be done with the journals of each House? Section 16.\\n27. When can a member have the reasons of his dissent entered on the\\njournal? Section 17.\\n28. Who chooses the Speaker and other officers of the House of Rep-\\nresentatives? Section 18.\\n20. Who presides in the Senate ordinarily? Section 16.\\n30. When has the Lieutenant-Governor the right to vote? Section 19.\\n31. What power has the Senate, independently of the House of Rep-\\nresentatives? Sections 20 and 22. (See Article IV, section 3.)\\n32. When does the Senate choose a Speaker? Section 20. In Article\\nII, section 12, he is called President.\\n33. W^iiat is the style of the acts of Assembly Section 21.\\n34. What powers has each House by itself? Section 22.\\n35. Can one House by itself adjourn to any future day, or other place?\\nSection 22.\\n36. How often must bills be read before becoming laws? Section 23.\\n37. What else must be read three times?. Section 23.\\n38. Who signs these bills and resolutions Section 23. They must be\\nigned in the presence of the Houses.\\n39. What are bills called after such signatures? Sections 21 and 23.\\n40. W^hat oath or affirmation must each member take Section 24.\\n41. When must he take this oath or affirmation Section 24.\\n42. When do the terms of office begin Section 25.\\n43. When must the names of the members be entered on the journal\\nSections 14 and 24.\\n44. What is this proceeding termed?\\nAnswer. Calling the yeas and nays.\\n45. What time is designated in tlie Constitution for holding tlie election\\nof members? Section 27.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "380 APPENDIX.\\n40. Can the General Assembly change this? Section 27.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a24:7. Has the change been made\\nAnswer.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yes to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.\\n48. What authority determines the places of voting? Section 27.\\n49. What compensation do members receive, and how long? Sec-\\ntion 28.\\n50. What mileage? Section 28.\\n51. What do the presiding officers receive? Section 28.\\n52. What provision about compensation during extra session? Sec-\\ntion 28.\\nARTICLE III.\\nKXECUTIYE DEPARTMENT.\\n1. In whom is the supreme executive power? Section 1.\\n2. Who constitute the Executive Department Section 1.\\n3. Who chooses these officers Section 1.\\n4. How long do they serve? Section 1.\\n5. At what titnes and places are the elections held? Section 1.\\nO. When does their term of office begin? Section 1.\\n7. How long do they serve Section 1.\\n8. What are the qualifications for the offices of Governoi and Lieuten-\\nant-Governor? Section 2.\\ni). Can they ever serve two terms in succession Section 2,\\n10. To whom are all the returns of election sent? Section 3.\\n11. To what post-office Section 3.\\n12. Before whom are they opened and published Section 3.\\n13. Who must be declared elected Section 3.\\n14. Wliat is done in case of a tie Section 3.\\n15. In such case how do the Houses vote? Section 3.\\n16. What must be done about contested elections? Section 3.\\n17. What oath does the Governor take Section 4,\\n18. Before whom taken Section 4.\\n10. Where must the Governor reside? Section 5.\\n20. What duties Ikis he to perform in regard to the General Assembly?\\nSection 5.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 381\\n21. In wliat eases can the Governor grant pardons, c.? Section G.\\n22. Can he pardon before the offender is convicted? Section (5.\\n23. Can he pardon one impeached? Section G.\\n24. What is the Governor s duty in regard to pardons, c., after\\ngranted Section G.\\n25. What ofBcers report to the Governor Section 7.\\n26. What is done with these reports? Section 7.\\n27. Supposing the Governor desires information regarding tlie duties of\\nofficers of the Executive Department, what can he require Section 7.\\n28. W^liat is the greatest duty of the Governor Section 7.\\n29. Who is chief commander of the militia? Section 8.\\n30. Can the militia ever pass out of his authority? Section 8.\\n31. Under what circumstances can an extra session of the General\\nAssembly be called Section 9.\\n32. Who nominates officers not otherwise provided for in the Constitu-\\ntion Section 10.\\n33. To what body are the nominations sent Section 10.\\n34. Can the Senate reject the nominations? Section 10.\\n35. What duty has the Lieutenant-Governor in regard to the Senate?\\nSection 11; and Article II, section 19.\\n36. Is he a Senator\\nAnswer. No.\\n37. What is his compensation Section 11 and Article IT, section 28.\\n38. Under what circumstances does the Lieutenant-Governor assume\\nthe powers, c., of the Governor? Section 12.\\n39. What is done when the Lieutenant-Governor cannot preside in the\\nSenate? Section 12.\\n40. Who succeeds the Lieutenant-Governoi-, and under what circum-\\nstances? Section 12.\\n41. What is done if the Lieutenant-Governor loses the office of Gov-\\nernor during the recess of the General Assembly? Section 12.\\n42. Who prescribes the duties of the officers of the Executive Depart-\\nment? Section 13.\\n43. What is done in case of a vacancy? Section 13.\\n44. How long does the officer so appointed hold his office? Section 13.\\n45. Who constitute the Council of State Section 14.\\n46. What is done with their proceedings? Section 14.\\n47. Who is the legal adviser of the Executive Department? Section 14.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "382 APPENDIX.\\n48. Who establishes the compensation of these officers? Section lo,\\n41). How is their independence secured Section 15.\\n50. What is the seal of the State called Section 16.\\ni l. Who lias charge of it? Section IG.\\n\u00c2\u00bb1\u00c2\u00bb2. In what name are grants of lands, c., issued, and how are tliev\\nauthenticated? Section 16.\\n53. In what manner are commissions to officers, c., authenticated?\\nSection 16.\\n54. What department besides those heretofore named must be estab-\\nlished by the General Assembly? Section 17.\\n55. What laws must be enacted? Section 17.\\nARTICLE IV.\\nJUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.\\n1. What is done in regard to distinctions between actions at law and\\nsuits in equity? Section 1.\\n2. Do the old forms of actions and suits remain Section 1.\\n3. What is the name of the form of actions in use? Section 1.\\n4. What is the name of the actions prosecuted by the State for a public\\noffense? Section 1.\\n5. What is done with feigned issues? Section I.\\nO. How is the fiict at issue tried Section 1-.\\n7. In what courts is tlie judicial power vested Section 2.\\n8. Can tlie General Assembly establish any courts? Section 2.\\nO. What is the court for trial of impeachments? Section 3.\\n10. How many Senators must be present? Section 3.\\n11. Who presides when the Governor is impeached Section 4.\\n12. What sentence can the Senate inflict? Section 3.\\n13. Does the impeachment for a crime indictable in the courts prevent\\nprosecution in the courts? Section 3.\\n14. Can a less number than thirty-four Senators convict on impeach-\\nment? Section 4.\\n15. What is the least number which can possibly convict?\\nAnsioer. Two-thirds of a bare quorum\u00e2\u0080\u0094 eighteen Senators.\\nIG. What is treason against the State Section 5.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTFrUTION. 383\\n17. In what modes can traitors be convicted? Section 5.\\n18. Can the pnnishnient be made to extend to forfeiture of hind or\\ngoods? Section 5.\\n19. Can it extend to corruption of bh)od Section 5.\\n20. What officers constitute the Supreme Court? Section G.\\n21. Are they called Judges? Section 6, but see sections 18 and 31.\\n22. Where are the terms of the Supreme Court held Section 7.\\n23. What is the jurisdiction of this Court on appeals? Section 8.\\n24. What jurisdiction over issues and questions of fact? Section 8.\\n25. Over what courts has it control? Section 8.\\n26. What writs may it issue to effectuate this control? Section 8.\\n27. What are some of these writs called\\nAnswer. Mandamus, Procedendo, Certiorari, Recordari, c.\\n28. What original jurisdiction has the Supreme Court? Section 9.\\n29. Can the Court issue execution against the State? Section 9.\\n30. Wliatj\u00c2\u00bbis done with the decisions of the Court in such cases? Sec-\\ntion 9.\\n31. Is the General Assembly bound to carry out the decision of the\\nCourt? Section 9; and Article I, section 8.\\n32. Into how many districts is the State divided by the Constitution?\\nSection 10.\\n33. What chief town or towns in First District?\\nAnswer. Elizabeth City, Edenton.\\nIn Second District? Kaleigh, New Bern.\\nIn Third District? Wilmington, Goldsboro.\\nIn Fourth District? Fayette ville.\\nIn Fifth District? Greensboro, Durham.\\nIn Sixth District? Charlotte, Monroe.\\nIn Seventh District? Winston, Salisbury.\\nIn Eighth District? Statesville, Morganton.\\nIn Ninth District? Asheville.\\n34. Can the General Assembly change the number of districts? Sec-\\ntion 10.\\n35. How often in each county must the Superior Court be held? Sec-\\ntion 10.\\n36. Where shall be the residence of the Judge? Section 11.\\n37. Do the Judges preside always in the same district? Section 11.\\n38. How often can a Judge preside in the same district? Section 11.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "384 APPENDIX.\\n39. Is there any exception to this? Section 11.\\n40. Can the General Assembly deprive the Judicial Department of its\\nrightfnl powers, c. \u00c2\u00a7ection 12; and Article I, section 8.\\n41. What is allowable for the General Assembly to do? Section 12.\\n42. Does this power extend to the Supreme Court? Section 12.\\n43. Can the General Assembly regulate appeals? Section 12.\\n44. What power has the General Assembly in regard to methods of\\nproceedings? Section 12.\\n45. Are parties in a law suit bound to submit issues of fact to the jury?\\nSection 13.\\n46. What effect has the finding of the Judge in such case upon the\\nfacts Section 13.\\n47. What duty has the General Assembly in regard to courts for cities\\nand towns Section 14.\\n48. Can these courts be allowed to try capital cases and other felonies?\\nSection 14.\\n49. W^ho appoints tlie Clerk of the Supreme Court? Section lo.\\n50. What is his term of office? Section 15.\\n51. How is the Clerk of a Superior Court appointed Section 16.\\n*^2, When is the election? Section 16.\\n53. What is the term of office? Section 17.\\n54. Who prescribes the salaries, fees, c., of Judges, Clerks, c.\\nvSection 18.\\n55. Ifow is the independence of the Judges secured? Section 18.\\n56. What laws of North Carolina are in force? Section 19.\\n57. W^here may these laws be found\\nAnswer. Some may be found in the acts of Assembly, State Codes, c.\\nbut besides tliese we have the Common Law, inherited from our ancestors,\\nnot found in any statute book.\\n58. Where are the principles of this Common Law to be looked for?\\nAnswer. In the reports of judicial decisions, writings of eminent law-\\nyers, c.\\n59. Who can alter these laws? Article IT, section 1.\\n60. What was done with actions and suits pending when the Constitu-\\ntion went into effect Section 20.\\n61. How were these old suits to be heard and determined Section 20.\\n.62. Who appoints the Justices of the Supreme Court? Section 21.\\n63. When does the voting take place? Section 21.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 885\\nC4:. What is their term of office? Section 21.\\n65. How are Judges of the Sn[)erior Courts elected? Section 21.\\nOO. What is their term of office? Section 21.\\n07. Are they necessarily elected by all the voters of the State? Sec-\\ntion 21.\\n68. W^hen are the Superior Courts open Section 22.\\n60. Is there exception to this? Section 22.\\n70. Who elects the Solicitors of the Judicial Districts? Section 23.\\n71. What is their term of office? Section 23.\\n72. What are their duties? Section 23.\\n73. Can a Justice of the Peace call on the Solicitor for legal advice?\\nSection 23.\\n74. How are Sheriffs and Coroners chosen? Section 24.\\n75. What is their terra of office? Section 24.\\n76. Who elects Constables? Section 24.\\n77. What are their terms of office? Section 24.\\n78. Suppose there is no Coronei- and one is needed, wiiat is done?\\nSection 24.\\n79. Who may fill vacancies in the offices of Sheriff Coroner and Con-\\nstable Section 24.\\n80. Who fills vacancies in offices created under this Article not specially\\n[jrovided for? Section 25.\\n81. How long do Judges, c., so appointed, hold office? Section 25.\\n82. Suppose no election is held for such offices? Section 25.\\n83. Suppose those elected refuse to qualify? Section 25.\\n84. Suppose successors do not (jualify? Section 25.\\n85. Is section 26 obsolete\\n86. What jurisdiction have Justices of the Peace over civil actions?\\nSection 27.\\n87. Suppose the title to lajid is in question Section 27.\\n88. Suppose the action is not founded on contract, where is it to be\\ntried? Section 27.\\n89. Of what criminal matters have they jurisdiction? Section 27.\\n90. Who has power to regulate the fines and imprisonments?\\nAnswer. Tlie General Assembly.\\n91. Can the General Assembly give jurisdiction to Justices of the Peace\\nover anv other matters whatever? Section 27.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "386 APPENDIX.\\n02. Suppose an issue of fact is joined before a Justice, can he decide\\nit? Section 27.\\n93. Suppose eitlier party demands a jury Section 27.\\n94. Is not this provision for a jury of six violating Article I, section 19\\nAnsiver. No; right of appeal is allowed. Section 27.\\n95. Is appeal allowed in criminal cases also? Section 27.\\n96. Must the Justice write down the proceedings? Section 27.\\n97. What must he do with the record? Section 27.\\n98. Who fills vacancies in the office of Justice of the Peace Sec-\\ntion 28.\\n99. W1]0 fills vacancies in the office of the Superior Court Clerk?\\nSection 29.\\n100. Supposing the General Assembly to establish other courts, who\\nchooses. the Judges and other officers? Section 30.\\n101. What is their term of office Section 30.\\n102. For what may Judges be removed? Section 31.\\n103. What vote is necessary? Section 31.\\n104. What notice must be given? Section 31.\\n10\u00c2\u00ab5. Supposing two-thirds of one House, and a majority not two-thirds\\nof the other House, vote for removal, what is the result? vSection 31.\\n100. For what can Clerks of Courts be removed? Section 31.\\n107. Who have the power of removal Section 31.\\n108. What notice must Clerks have of proceedings against them Sec-\\ntion 31.\\n109. Can the Clerks of the Courts inferior to the Supreme Court\\nappeal Section 32.\\n110. Is section 33 obsolete\\nARTICLE V.\\nREVENUE AND TAXATION.\\n1. What is another nauie for capitation tax\\nAnm Cr. Poll tax.\\n2. Is the General Assembly bound to levy sucii tax? Section 1.\\n3. On whom must it be levied? Section 1.\\n4. To what amount must it be equal? Section 1.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 387\\n5. What is the maximum capitation tax under this section Section 1.\\nO. What is the maximum property tax?\\nAnsiver. Sixty-six and two-third cents on the one hundred dollars valu-\\nation.\\n7. What is the object of tiie equation of taxes\\nAnswer. To protect property from excessive taxation by those owning\\nno property, and vice versa.\\n8. Who can exempt from capitation tax, and for wliat reason Sec-\\ntion 1.\\n9. To Avhat purposes must the capitation tax be applied? Section 2.\\n10. What is the maximum amouiit which can be applied to the support\\nof the poor? Section 2.\\n11. How must property be taxed? Section 3.\\n12. What has the General Assembly power to tax without being com-\\npelled to do so Section 8.\\n13. Can the income of a farmer from his lands be taxed Section 3.\\n14. What provisions in regard to contracting new debts? Section 4.\\n15. Is the special tax to be levied when the bonds of the State are at\\npar? Section 4.\\n16. Supposing the bonds are not at par, in what cases are the special\\ntaxes not required Section 4.\\n17. What is necessary before the General Assembly can give or lend\\nthe credit of the State to individuals or corporations? Section 4.\\n18. What exception to the general rule Section 4.\\n10. Does it require a majority of all the qualified voters to sanction\\nsuch loan Section 4.\\ni20. Can the General Assenibly take stock in a corporation and pay for\\nthe same by bonds of the State accepted at par Section 4. (The Supreme\\nCourt says they cannot.)\\n21. W^hat property the General Assembly cannot tax Section 5.\\n22. What property does the General Assembly have power to exempt\\nto an unlimited extent Section 5.\\n23. What property to a limited amount only? Section 5.\\n24. WHiat is the limit? Section 5.\\n25. In what mode are county taxes to be levied Section 5.\\n26. What is the limit of county taxation for general purposes? Sec-\\ntion G,", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "388^ APPENDIX.\\nii7. Supposing the county desires to exceed this limit for :i special pur-\\npose Section 6.\\n28. What must be observed in levying tax acts, i. e., Revenue Acts\\nSection 7.\\n20. Can tax money raised for one purpose be used for another? Sec-\\ntion 7.\\nARTICLE VI.\\nSUFFRAGE AND ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE.\\n1. State the qualifications of an elector, i. e., a voter Section 1.\\n2. What exception to this rule? Section 1.\\n3. Does the mere commission of an infamous crime disqualify? Sec-\\ntion 1.\\n4. What authority lays down the rule for restoration to rights of citi-\\nzenship? Section 1.\\n5. What step is requisite preliminary to voting? Section 2.\\n6. Wliat oath is necessary to registration Section 2.\\n7. What authority provides rules for registration Section 2.\\n8. How do the people vote Section 3.\\nO. How do members of the General Assembly vote in elections of offi-\\ncers Section 3; and Article II, section 9.\\n10. What is the general rule as to qualifications for holding office?\\nSection 4.\\n11. What oath does the officer take Section 4.\\n12. What persons are disqualified Section 4.\\n13. Does mere disbelief in an Almighty God disqualify, if such disbe-\\nlief be not expressed?\\nAriswer. No; the word deny is held to mean assertion of disbelief by\\nword, writing or otherwise. (See Article I, section 26.)", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 389\\nARTICLE VII.\\nMUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.\\n[Note.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bj- antliority conferred in section 14 of this Article the General Assembly has\\nmaterially changed its provisions (Laws of 1876- 77, chapter 141). The attention of the\\npupil will be called to the most important of these changes.]\\n1. What county officers are to be elected Section 1.\\nBy act of 1870-77, cliapter 141, section 5, the Justices of the Peace\\nelect three, four or five County Commissioners. The Justices may abolish\\nthe office of County Treasurer, and then the Sheriff takes his place.\\n2. How often, and when does the election take place? Section!.\\n31 What are the duties of the County Commissioners by the Constitu-\\ntion? Section 2.\\n4. How is this changed by act of 1876- 77, chapter 141?\\nAnsioer. By this act, section 5, the Commissioners cannot levy taxes,\\npurchase land, remove or designate new sites for county buildings, contract\\nor repair bridges, if the cost may be over $500, or borrow money, or alter,\\nor make additional townships, without the concurrence of a majority of\\nthe Justices of the Peace sitting with them. Moreover, by the same act\\nthe Board of County Commissioners have the powers of the Township\\nTrustees. Section 6.\\nt Who is Clerk of the Board of Commissioners? Section 2,\\n6. What duty did tlie Commissioners of 1868 have? Section 3.\\n7. What is the name of the districts so formed? Section 4.\\n8. What powers did they have, and for what purpose? Section 4.\\nBy act of 1876- 77, chapter 141, section 3, these powers are to be under\\nsupervision of the Board of County Commissioners; and the said Board can\\nalter boundaries of said townships and create additional ones.\\n9. Who constituted the Board of Trustees of the Township by the Con-\\nstitution, and by whom and when were they to be chosen Section 5.\\n10. How is this by act of lS76- 77, chapter 141\\nAnswer. By act of 1876-77, chnpter 141, the General Assembly appoints\\ntliree Justices for each township, who are divided in three classes and\\nhold their offices for two, four and six years, but the successors of each\\nclass, as its term expires, hold office for six years. For each township in\\nwhicli any city or incorporated town was situate, one Justice of the Peace\\nis appointed by the General Assembly, and one for eacli one thousand", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "390 APPENDIX.\\ninliabitants of the city or town. When new townships are created, the\\nGeneral Assembly not being in session, the Governor appoints until the\\nnext meeting of the Assembly.\\n11. What other officers were to be elected in the townships? Section 5.\\n12. How has section 6 been changed?\\nAnswer. The Board of Commissioners appoint one Justice of the Peace,\\nor otlier suitable person, in each township, to list lands and personal\\nproperty therein. Laws of 1881, chapter 117, section 1.\\nThe tax list is revised by the Board of County Commissioners. Same;\\nsection 18.\\n13. What is necessary to enable a county or other municipal corpora-\\ntion to contract debts, pledge its faith, or loan its credit? Section 7.\\n14. What is necessary in order to levy and collect taxes more than for\\nnecessary expenses? Section 7.\\n15. Will a majority of those actually voting be always sufficient? Sec-\\ntion 7.\\n16. What is necessary to enable money to be drawn from county or\\ntownship treasuries? Section 8.\\n17. What is the rule of taxation in county and other municipal corpo-\\nrations? Section 9 and Article V, section G.\\n18. What exemptions are required f Section 9; and Article Y, section 5.\\n19. What exemptions are allowed, and to wliat extent? Section 9 and\\nArticle V, section 5.\\n20. Is section 10 obsolete?\\n21. Ts section 11 obsolete?\\n22. Did all charters, c., relating to municipal corporations, become of\\nno efTect on the adoption of this Article? Section 12.\\n23. What debts are counties, c., forbidden to pay, or levy taxes for\\nSection 13.\\n24. What provision of this Article can the General Assembly change\\nor abroiate? Sectioti 14.\\n25. What is section 7\\n20. What is section 9?\\n27. What is section 13\\nNote.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By Act of 1881, Chapter 200, County Superintendents of Public Instruction\\nare to be elected by the County Board of Education and County Board of Magistrates in\\njoint session.\\nTlie County Commissioners constitute the County Board of Education. Same Sec-", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 391\\n28. Suppose the General Assembly should attempt to change either of\\nthese sections\\nAnswer. It would be the duty of the Courts to decide their action invalid.\\nAKTICLE VIII.\\nCORPORATIOXS OTHER THAN MUNICIPAL.\\n1. In what way may corporati(jns be formed Section 1.\\n2. In wliat case may they be created by special act? Section 1.\\n3. Can charters of corporations granted under this section be amended\\nor repealed? Section 1.\\n4. How shall debts of corporations be secured Section 1.\\n5. What authority has the right to prescribe rules for so securing cor-\\nporation dues? Section 2.\\n6. What is the meaning of the term corporation as used in tliis Article?\\nSection 3.\\n7. Can corporations sue and be sued like natural persons? Section 3.\\n8. On whom is the duty of organizing cities, towns and incorporated\\nvillages? Section 4.\\nO. What powers should the General Assembly restrict? Section 4,\\nlO. For what purpose are these restrictions? Section 4.\\nARTICLE IX.\\nEDUCATION.\\n1. Why should schools, c., be encouraged? Section 1.\\n2. What is the duty of the General Assembly in regard to public\\nschools? Section 2.\\n3. How must they provide such scliools? Section 2.\\n4. What are the school ages? Section 2.\\n\u00c2\u00bb5. What charge shall be made for tuition Section 2.\\n6. Are mixed schools allowed Section 2.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "31)2 APPENDIX.\\n7. Is it lawful to have the schools for one race superior to those of the\\nother? Section 2.\\n8. IIow shall the counties he divided for school purposes? Section 3.\\nO. How long must the sciiools he maintained? Section 8.\\n10. What punishment do the Cotnn)issif)ners incur hy failing to comply\\nwitii this? Section 3.\\n11. What funds are set apart for support of the schools? Section 4.\\n12. Can these funds be used for any other |)urpose? Section 4.\\n13. What officer has charge of these funds Section 4.\\n14. What funds do tlie counties have charge of for school purposes?\\nSection 5.\\n15. How is the Superintendent of Public Instruction to know about\\nthese county funds? Section 5.\\n16. Who provides for the election of Trustees of the University? Sec-\\ntion 6.\\n17. What is vested in these Trustees? Section 6,\\n18. Who has power to provide for the maintenance and management of\\nthe University? Section 6.\\n19. Whiit is the duty of the General Assembly in regard to education\\nat the University Section 7.\\n20. What is their duty in regard to escheats, unclaimed dividends and\\ndistributive shares? Section 7.\\n21. Who constitute the State Board of Education Section 8.\\n22. Who are its officers? Section 9.\\n23. To what does the Board of Education succeed? Section 10.\\n24. What power of legislation has the Board Section 10.\\n25. Is such legislation final? Section 10.\\n26. Who fixes the times of meeting of the Board? Section 11.\\n27. How many necessary for the transaction of business? Section 12.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a228. W^ho provides for the contingent expenses of the Board? Sec-\\ntion 13.\\n29. What departments in connection with the University must the\\nOeneral Assembly establish Section 14.\\n30. Can the General Assembly enact compulsory education Sec-\\ntion 15.\\n31. Over what ages Svonld this compulsory education extend Sec-\\ntion lo.\\n32. Eor wimt Icni-th of time? Section 15.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 393\\nARTICLE X.\\nHOMESTEADS AND EXEMPTIONS.\\n1. How much personal property is exem|)te(l from execution? Sec-\\ntion 1.\\n2. Who chooses this property Section 1.\\n3. Is it exen pt from execution only? Section 1.\\n4. What land is exempt, and of what value? Section 2.\\n5. Who selects the homestead Section 2.\\n6. Can a lot in a city, c., be set apart Section 2.\\n7. Is the homestead liable for taxes? Section 2.\\n8. Is it liable for any other debt besides taxes? Section 2.\\n9. After death of the owner is the homestead exempt any longer? Sec-\\ntion 2.\\n10. If work is done on a homestead, is such hon)estead exempt from\\nthe mechanic s or laborer s lien Section 4.\\n11. Supposing the owner dies leaving a widow, but no children from\\nwhat is the homestead exempt, and how long? Section 5.\\n12. What privileges does the widow enjoy, and how long? Section 5.\\n13. Is every widow entitled to such privileges Section 5.\\n14. What becomes of the property of a woman marrying? Section 6.\\n15. Suppose she acquires property after marriage, does she or her hus-\\nband own it Section G.\\n16. What kind of property so belongs to the wife? Section 6.\\n17. Cannot such property be made to pay the husband s debts Sec-\\ntion 0.\\nIS. Can she give away her pi operty by will Section 6.\\n19. Is her husband s assent necessary to the validity of her will Sec-\\ntion 6.\\n20. Can she sell or give away her proj)erty before her death Sec-\\ntion G.\\n21. Is her husband s assent necessary to such sale, c. Section G,\\n22. Can the husband signify such assent by word of mouth Sec-\\ntion G.\\n23. Can the husband insure his life for the benefit of his wife and\\nchildren and pay for the policy out of his own money, rather than pay his\\nci-editors? Section 7.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "394 APPENDIX.\\n24. What is done with the money when lie dies Section 7.\\n25. Can the owner of the homestead sell it? Section 8.\\n26. What is necessary to the validity of the deed Section 8.\\n27. Suppose he is not married Section 8.\\nARTICLE Xr.\\nPUNISIIINIENTS, PENAL INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC CHARITIES.\\n1. What are the punishments lawful in North Carolina? Section 1.\\n2. Can convicts be made to labor on public works, c. Section 1.\\n3. Can convicts be hired (or farmed) out to individuals or corporations?\\nSection 1.\\n4. Can all convicts be farmed out? Section 1.\\n5. What authority prescribes the rules in regard to farming out convicts?\\nSection 1.\\nO. What convicts cannot be farmed out? Section 1.\\n7. Can those hiring convicts punish them as they please? Section 1.\\n8. For what can they be punished by the proper officer? Section 1.\\nO. Under whose supervision, c,, are these convicts? Section 1.\\n10. Can the General Assembly abolish capital punishment? Section 2.\\n11. For what offenses can the punishment of death be inflicted? Sec-\\ntion 2.\\n12. What are the objects of punishment? Section 2.\\n13. Wliat is the duty of the General Assembly in regard to a. Peniten-\\ntiary Section 3.\\n14. For what may houses of correction be provided Section 4.\\n1\u00c2\u00bb For what may houses of refuge be established Section 5.\\n10. How must the structure and superintendence of [\u00c2\u00bbenal institutions.\\nc., be arranged? Section 6,\\n17. What provision in regard to male and female prisoners? Section 6.\\n18. What is one of the first duties of a civilized State? Section 7.\\nlO. What must the General Assembly do to carry out this duty Sec-\\ntion 7.\\n20. What are the duties of this Board? Section 7.\\n21. What must the General Assembly do for destitute orphans? Sec-\\ntion 8.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 395\\n22. What nmst the General Assembly do in regard to idiots? Sec-\\ntion 9.\\n23. Can idiots be educated?\\nAnswer. Yes; they can be taught many things of value to them and to\\nothers.\\n24. What other unfortunates are classed with idiots? Section 9.\\n25. What classes may be provided for at tlie expense of the State\\nSection 10.\\n26. Has this section been changed since 1876?\\nAnswer. By amendment to the Constitution adopted in 1880, the word\\nmay was substituted for the word must in this section.\\n27. Should the penal and charitable institutions be made self-support-\\ning? Section 11.\\nARTICLE XII.\\n1. Who is liable to militia duty? Section 1.\\n2. Who are exempt? Section 1.\\n3. What duties has the General Assembly in regard to militia? Sec-\\ntion 2.\\n4. Who is Commander-in-Chief of the militia? Section 3; and Article\\nIII, section 8.\\nt5. For what may he call them out? Section 3; and see Article III,\\nsection 7.\\n6. W hat autiiority can make exemptions from militia duty? Section 4.\\n7. What other duty has the General Assembly in regard to the militia?\\nSection 4.\\nARTICLE XIIL\\nAMENDMENTS.\\n1. In what manner must a convention of the people be called Sec-\\ntion L\\n2. What is the number of votes necessary in the Senate?\\nAnswer. Two-thirds of fifty thirtv-four at tlie least.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "396 APPENDIX.\\n3. What number in the House of Representatives?\\nAnswer. Two-thirds of one hundred and twenty\u00e2\u0080\u0094 eighty votes at the\\nleast.\\n4, What authority directs the manner of submission to the people?\\nSection\\nWhat authority prescribes the day of meeting? Section 1.\\n6. Can a Convention so called alter the Constitution?\\nAnswer. Yes; it can amend the Constitution or make a new one.\\n7. What is a restricted convention\\nAnswer. One in which the General Assembly provides that the members\\nshall confine their action to certain specified matters, or shall refrain from\\nmaking changes in certain particulars. Some have doubted the power of\\nthe General Assembly to bind the members in this way, but it has been\\ndone several times in this State.\\n8. Can the Constitution be altered without calling a Convention? Sec-\\ntion 2.\\nO. By what vote must the proposed change pass the General Assembly?\\nSection 2.\\n10. Does tliis mean three-fifths of all the members of each House?\\nSection 2.\\n11. What is the least vote by which it could pass in the Senate?\\nAnswer. Three-fifths of twenty-six sixteen votes.\\n12. What is the least in the House of Representatives?\\nAnswer. Three-fifths of sixty-one\u00e2\u0080\u0094 thirty-seven votes.\\n13. What must then be done with the proposed amendment? Sec-\\ntion 2.\\n14. Does it require a majority of all the qualified voters to pass it?\\nSeetion 2.\\n15. Which is the most, two-thirds or three-fifths?\\nARTICLE XIV.\\nMI^^CELLAXEOUS.\\n1. Supposing indictments to be pending at the adoption of the Constitu.\\ntion, what is the rule in regard to tiielr i)unisliments Section 1.\\n2. What is the rule in regard to dueling? Section 1.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION. 397\\n3. Is the challenger dis(]iialitiecl if the other party declines to fight?\\nSection 2.\\n4. Is the challenged party, who accepts the challenge, disqualified if no\\nfight occurs Section 2.\\n5. Is the person who carries the challenge disqualified if no fight occurs?\\nSection 2.\\nG. Is it any offense against the laws of North Carolina for its citizens to\\nfight in another State?\\nAnswer. No; but it is an offense to agree to go out of the State for the\\npurpose of fighting.\\n7. What is necessary to enable money to be drawn from the Treasury\\nof the State? Section 3, (See Article V, section 7.)\\n8. What must be done with the account of receipts and expenditures\\nSection 3.\\nO. What protection to mechanics and laborers must be given Section\\n4; and Article X, section 4.\\n10. What is the genei al provision in regard to terms of office? Sec-\\ntion 5.\\n11. Where shall be the seat of government? Section 6.\\n12. What is the rule in regard to double office? Section 7,\\n13. What exception to the general rule? Section 7.\\n14. What marriages are prohibited Section 8.\\n15. What proportion of negro blood comes within the proliibition\\nSection 8.\\nAnsiver. One-eighth negro blood (octoroon) will prohibit.", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "OUR PRINTING DEPARTMEN\\nFor tlie convenience of our friends, customers and the public\\ngenerally throughout the State, we have added to our regular\\nbusiness unsurpassed facilities for\\nBOSK J\u00c2\u00a9B PMIMTIN\u00c2\u00a9\\nAND ALL STYLES OF\\nBOOK-BINDING.\\nWith one of the most complete Book-Binderies in the State,\\nwith new and modern styles of Type, and with new and most\\nimproved Steam Presses, we propose to do only\\nFIRST-CLJSSS WORK fflT LOWEST PRICES!\\nIn all our work we guarantee promptness, neatness,\\nACCURACY and perfect satisfaction in every particular.\\nWe shall give special attention to the following:\\nNOTE AND LETTER HEADS,\\nENVELOPES, CARDS, BILL HEADS,\\nSTATEMENTS, VISITING CARDS,\\nPROGRAMMES, CIRCULARS, BOOKS,\\nTAGS, BUSINESS CARDS,\\nPOSTERS, LEGAL BLANKS.\\nSCHOOL AND COLLEGE CATALOGUES,\\nCONVENTION JOURNALS.\\nASSOCIATION MINUTES,\\nGRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS,\\nAnd every other class of work that is desired.\\nWe will also xivake to order any class of Beank Books,\\nincluding Day Books, Ledgers, Cash Books, Journals,\\nPass Books, Memorandt rs. Justice s Dockets, (tc\\nj|@^ Prices furnished on application.\\nBOOKSKLLKRS, STATIONERS AND FRINTP^RS,", "height": "3505", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": ".X- M ^^l\\n.V\\nvi5 -n^\\nbo^\\n^^A V^\\n,0o.\\n^i\\ncP", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0z. V\\n^x.\\nN^o,.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2o.\\n-t^iA\\nV^", "height": "3400", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3790", "width": "2390", "jp2-path": "schoolhistoryofn02moor_0422.jp2"}}