by virtue of a more honorable past, you should receive a fuller recognition from society and the world.
As Pinckney and Rutledge, Moultrie and Marion, Pickens, Gadsden, Sumter, Richardson, and Bratton left to their descendants a record of good birth, character and capacity, there was presumptive evidence that such superior hereditary qualities would be maintained.
Can there be any doubt, also, that Hampton, Butler, Anderson and Kershaw; Gregg, Hagood, Evans, Bratton and Jenkins; McGowan, Elliott, Conner, Manigault, Aiken and Capers; Barker and Gaillard, McMaster and Haskell; the Wallaces, and—
Hundred others whom we fear to name, More than from Argos or Mycenae came,— must justly transmit to their descendants some of the fame which they so dearly acquired, and that the halo which surrounded their brows will not entirely disappear in the lapse of time.
So we hope to transmit to the descendants of the survivors, testimonials to the conduct and behavior of their proavi.
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M. Cole, Richmond county, N. C.
George Chavers, Wilmington county, N. C.
George Cook, Marshall county, N. C.
John Chandler, Marshall county, N. C.
Ezekiel Chandler, Marshall county, N. C.
David Combs, Hertford county, N. C.
Walter Dawkins, Richmond county, N. C.
Richard Dawkins, Richmond county, N. C.
Chambers Donahoe, Richmond county, N. C.
John Donahoe, Richmond county, N. C.
James T. Deans, Hertford county, N. C.
John R. Dwiggins, Guilford county, N. C.
Umphrey Elliott, Hertford county, N. C.
James L. Freeman, Rockingham county, N. C.
Peter Franklin, Madison county, N. C.
John W. Goodwin, Hertford county, N. C.
John Gosnal, Madison county, N. C.
Ambrose Hoke, Iredell county, N. C.
James C. Hodge, Richmond county, N. C.
Henderson Harrellon, Hertford county, N. C.
Alleson Henderson, Guilford, N. C.
William H. Johnson, Wilmington, N. C.
Duncan P. Johnson, Wilmington, N. C.
Charles W. Jacoks, Hertford, N. C.
William H. Jones, Hert