On The Important Duty Of Subjection To The Civil Powers

Author : Martha Helen Haywood
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230107806
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book On the Important Duty of Subjection to the Civil Powers; a Sermon Preached Before His Excellency William Tryon, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chi written by Martha Helen Haywood and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...knowledge of the Mecklenburg traditionary declaration, raised doubts as to the genuineness of this paper. I-Iad John McKnitt Alexander's rough notes of 1800 and the valedictory address been brought into evidence at that time, those doubts would have been increased, as critical observers would have seen at once that those two papers and the national Declaration had furnished nearly all of the material from which both the narrative and the "declaration" had been constructed. But, as none of the records which have been cited here to show exactly what it was that Mecklenburg County adopted in May, 1775, were then in evidence, and as there were many people alive who had personally witnessed the passage of what they had long regarded as a declaration of independence, there were many who readily accepted this paper as authentic. Some of those who had witnessed the proceedings in May, 177 5, made statements. One of the first of these was Col. William Polk, who was sixteen years old in May, 1775. He stated in a letter to Judge Archibald DeBow Murphey, August 18, 1819, that he could not vouch for the accuracy of the resolutions in the paper which he enclosed (a copy of the foregoing narrative and "declaration"), and which he said he had procured from Dr. Joseph McKnitt Alexander, but that they were "essentially correct." The Raleigh Register for February 18, 1820, published a further statement to the efl"ect that Colonel Polk vouched for "the correctness of the facts generally, though he thought there were errors as to the name of the Secretary," etc. There is nothing in Colonel Polk's statements to prove that the declaration he witnessed the passage of was passed by a convention May...