North Carolina´s Priority in the Demand for a Declaration of Independence (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from North Carolina´s Priority in the Demand for a Declaration of Independence A well-known essayist, in a study of "The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" says, with reference to the movement for a national Declaration of Independence: "To-day the consensus of critical opinion is adverse to the claims of those who would give the ´Old North State´ priority in this bold and important step, and the conviction is wide-spread that the Mecklenburg Declaration is of the stuff of which myths are made." The writer here falls into an error too common among students of American history, for which North Carolinians are primarily responsible. "The claims of those who would give the ´Old North State´ priority" in the demand for independence, are not dependent on any thing that occurred, or is supposed to have occurred, at Charlotte in May of 1775; and the true basis for these claims is not affected at all whether a Declaration of Independence was made on the day and in the words claimed, or not. They rest on another event, about which there can be no dispute, which in historical importance and interest takes precedence of either the Declaration of May 20 or the Resolutions of May 31, viz., the adoption by the Provincial Congress, April 12, 1776, of the resolution authorizing the delegates from North Carolina in the Continental Congress to vote for a Declaration of Independence. Unfortunately for correct historical perspective the "acrimonious controversy" which has been waged for more than three-quarters of a century about "The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence," has attracted more attention to that event than its importance deserves, and has tended to throw into obscurity the more significant action of the Congress at Halifax in April of the next year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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