The First Declaration of Independence
... was right here in Charlotte, North Carolina, and wouldn't you know those ornery Scots-Irish were behind it? George Will pens a well-needed history lesson here:
The impatient patriots here had splendidly short fuses in 1775. Those who tilled the startlingly red clay or who lived in the town named for George III's wife Charlotte might have been bemused had they foreseen the annual hoopla that commemorates July 4, 1776.
What occurred that day in Philadelphia might have been a Declaration of Independence, but the first such was enacted here on May 20, 1775. Presbyterians, meaning most Mecklenburgers, were incensed by Anglican meddling from London, such as the Vestry and Marriage Acts of 1769, which imposed fines on Presbyterian ministers who conducted marriage ceremonies. Marriage as a political issue is not just a recent phenomenon.
Take that, Philadelphia.
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Thursday, July 03, 2008
3 Comments
3 Comments:
So cool! Thanks for this information. I've been digging into "The Declaration" lately and find it fascinating how little knowledge I retained of it from my school days. Perhaps that's because my educators failed to place a great emphasis on it.
saddlegait,
Or they fed you the party line that it was a declaration of universal egalitarianism, and the Federal government had to be powerful enough to intervene at home and abroad to impose that noble standard.
Hey yall'
As I posted before, were it not for the Scots Irish people , we would have never HAD a REAL revolution much less won it!
Thanks to the Over the Mountain Men and my ancestors who turned the tide at Kings Mountain!
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