The North-Carolina Reader. Number III: Prepared, with Special Reference to the Wants and Interests of North Carolina, Under the Auspices of the Superintendent of Common Schools: Containing Selections in Prose and Verse
The North-Carolina Reader. Number III: Prepared, with Special Reference to the Wants and Interests of North Carolina, Under the Auspices of the Superintendent of Common Schools: Containing Selections in Prose and Verse
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...and had been raised a Quaker, lived on Sandy Creek, in the present county of Randolph, and is said to have possessed a handsome property. Tradition connects him with Dr. Franklin, and it was believed that Franklin sent him political pamphlets. Though deficient in education, he was a man of considerable mind, grave, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...and had been raised a Quaker, lived on Sandy Creek, in the present county of Randolph, and is said to have possessed a handsome property. Tradition connects him with Dr. Franklin, and it was believed that Franklin sent him political pamphlets. Though deficient in education, he was a man of considerable mind, grave, cautious, and shrewd; and he undoubtedly exercised no little influence among the discontented people of the province. He drew up the paper read in court at Hillsborough in August, 1766, the resolutions adopted at Maddocks's Mill, and many of the papers and petitions of the regulators; spoke often in their assemblies, and procured copies of the laws, which he read "to his neighbours and friends. He did not make the cause of the Regulation, nor was he its head and guide; but his industry, zeal, and ability undoubtedly gave him influence and endeared him to the friends of the cajnse. His imprisonment raised the country in arms; and the authorities, dreading an outbreak, set him at liberty. As the excitement progressed, James Hunter and Rednap Howell, on the part of the regulators, waited on Governor Tryon, in June, 1768, and laid before his excellency a copy of the address adopted at the last general meeting, and copies of the proceedings of that and all their previous assemblies. These papers were answered by Tryon, in a letter dated on the 21st; and in that, instead of removing causes of complaint, he displayed the untempered zeal and unbecoming acrimony of a party to the disputes. The conduct of Fanning was highly approved as having been "discreet and steady;" and, in hightoned and censorious language, the movements of the regulators were denounced as having amounted to little less than actual treason. He promised, however, to issu...
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