Excerpt from Kings Mountain and Its Campaign: An Address
Mr. President, of The Guilford Battle Ground Association Ladies and Gentlemen:
I come today to tell you the curious story of the wonderful "Battle of King"s Mountain." No more lustrous page appears in the life of this fair land of ours.
That we may understand it we must go back and approach it as our fathers did. History should never be studied backwards.
As you all know, the present State of North Carolina was for more than a century a colony of Great Britain. It embraced the present State, Tennessee, and a vast extent of then unknown lands.
The original deed or charter for that territory was given by Charles II of England. Like most other soverigns, he was claiming the whole of America, and they all sliced it out to their favorites, with reckless prodigality. Three and a third centuries ago, this gay monarch gave to his "Kitchen Cabinet" a generous portion of that unknown world. There were Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington and Lauderdale, the initials of whose names originated our pregnant word "Cabal." That deed is the foundation of the ownership of this battle-field, and of every other acre in this good State. You must not ask me to substantiate the right which his majesty had to execute that paper.
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. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Kings Mountain and Its Campaign (W. A. Henderson)