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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 4 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.25 (search)
se or sat in judgment to be during the pleasure of their several constituents. And they who bore the sword of power were bidden to arm and hold themselves in readiness to execute the commands of the General Congress of this province and this committee. Such was, indeed, that clear and logical conception which the Mecklenburg patriots of 1775 were foremost to form of the civil status created for the American colonies by the address of both houses of Parliament to the Crown, adopted February 7, 1775, declaring the colony of Massachusetts in a state of actual rebellion, and constructively passing the same sentence of outlawry on all the other colonies which were giving her aid and comfort. Fellow-citizens of North Carolina, it is not quite enough to say that the Mecklenburg patriots of 1775 won and wear the unique fame of the precursors of American Independence. The North Carolina Koh-i-noor blazes from a broader facet with a finer light. The Mecklenburg patriots of 1775 als