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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
s and the Council of State, stating to them the necessitous condition of the Marylanders, who were without arms, clothes, blankets, or the common necessities of life. The Governor and Council immediately ordered five hundred Mississippi rifles to be turned over to her with ten thousand cartridges and necessary equipments. The Constitutional Convention of North Carolina, being then in session at Raleigh, a public meeting was called at night in the Capitol under the auspices of the Hon. Weldon N. Edwards, President of the Convention, Chief-Justice Thomas Ruffin, her father, Judge Saunders, and other distinguished North Carolinians. It was presided over by Ex-Governor David S. Reid, and attended by the members of the Convention. Amid great enthusiam the cause of the Marylanders was espoused with ardor, the meeting making a liberal contribution in money on the spot. The Hon. Kenneth Rayner, in addressing the meeting, said: If great events produce great men, so in the