...he very line, and then they waited for a twelve-month the fateful issue. But resolute then for self-government they were, at the hazard of their fortunes and their lives. A long renown to the Mecklenburg Patriots of 1775, the precursors of American Independence! But a deathless renown to self-respecting, self-governing freemen, capable to rend asunder and destroy that unserviceable body of govern...