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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The life and character of William L. Saunders, Ll.D. (search)
rth Carolina can be fully and truthfully written, and it is to be hoped that some equally devoted son of hers will soon take up the task, and perform it as acceptably as he did his. Nothing so delighted him in his investigations as the discovery of facts which proved the existence among the early settlers of the Democratic spirit, and no incidents roused his enthusiasm like those in which this spirit forcibly asserted itself. He would quietly smile at the conduct of such characters as John Starkey, who despite sneers and ridicule persistently refused to wear shoe-buckles and a queue, but his eye would kindle and his cheek glow at such declarations as that of John Ashe, that the people would resist the Stamp Act to blood and death. His sympathies were altogether with those who, like the Regulators, sought redress of grievances even by violent and revolutionary methods, because he believed that underlying all such movements there was the true spirit of liberty and devotion to the ri
d in the ashes, he acknowledged the fact, and also that he had been engaged in the battle of Manassas. Langford, the captain, is part owner of the vessel, and has been engaged in the contraband trade for five months. The passengers and crew were all, together with those captured by the Reliance, given in charge of Colonel Thomas, at Fort McHenry. The following is a list of passengers on board the Velma: John G. Little, of New York; Joseph C. Wilson, late merchant of Baltimore; John Starkey, late of the house of T. T. Martin, of Baltimore, and George McCafferty, of Baltimore, and H. A. Brooke, son of Prof. N. C. Brooke, of Baltimore, a captain in the rebel army. The crew are Captain Samuel D. Langford, Robert H. Creswell, Samuel Somers, and W. J. Whittington. Baltimore, April 14.--The passengers taken on board the Velma were subsequently taken before the United States Marshal, and, strange to say, have all been released. Some of them profess that they were ignoran