The Evening Chronicle from Charlotte, North Carolina • Page 8

Vr .4 if THE CHARLOTTE EVENING' CHRONICIiE, SATURDAY, ABIL 30, .1910. military' pie? Whence and why did the v. come? ar uicu uhj fvi i-i v. in the winter rOf176S-69, pher. Boats' were built.

and 1 remembers an unl ThlslwJlt to be alwys the place furnished They were every, one patriots, fu on every h.awJ, hid in eve ry busn an urn up, driving a 'wagon, and storey collected with money crouched behind every tree trunk. nf woman's cqntTvanee3 B.ahnerhassett. whilst Burr summoned soldiers and good citizens. They came had "made, there ap the now we have cunning surgitai uu ihn Finley. the fur trader of, Brao: recruits from Kentucky and -Tennessee, from the battlefield of the Aamance-r DANIEL BOONE CELEBRATION Continued from page 1.) lary appustiiea 1 cnu day! He spent loe uvvr i.

uu close OI tne merpi i umi nri ui me ncvuiunuu limb, he had 1 ir an 4l a 11 A ft rt A 1 tin 1 1 3 1 1 A 1 am am An fA Rnnnps aDDarently roreiuug iun ueuerai vviiKinson nean eveniuaieo iju ahwhcw wouna or cruise ui nA nothing bat home-made remedies and the manhood his peddling outfit, and in the spring, af- sent a letter of Burr's-to Jefferson say1-; They left their homes because of the th. rrnns had been planted', he" and ing that he had not undehstood the ae-! astrous result jt that 'Battled which of healthy srangreen, start u.u neia to the l.V road as one goes into Boone fT 0( The site Is still nn- ra BC citizens of Boone. P'nted out The route James m. sav, him, he followed when Ronf lm mouth of E'k Creek to the Hn rm was up Elk Creek to its hAm through Cook's Gap 0f the as there are cITffa alon. 1 Ri1 were a law unto themselves, at no man beok and call, free to come and go as they listed.

Each, with the Australian TVin stuart" set out "on "their -signs until be receive, this enistle. At many of them had nart'clDated, and be 1 i -Ironlatlon. or agra Impeded quest the discovery of tlCentucky uu t-i, Weeks or aP'B --r- hired as- Pet native -o "3- the sundered bone me Beth-el in truth and In deed; they and aU who' may; call on the name of the I think Rudyard KlpHng must have had" Boone in mind when composed "The I leave to con- elude by quoting "abnie. stanzas: ho sense in 'going further it's the edge -of cultivation So they said, and I believed' it broke my lane', and sowed iny cropi Built my barns arid feiraes in wttle border station. Tucked away below the fooe-hllls where tne trail run out.

and" stop. Wltfi ineiu bu vi-w. With mem aiso 1 or 1 can nae no man to say me 'nay tv ho T-im of the mist-blue world, at siis-ht injury in i wnii- suffering might follow a death! sistants, Joseph Holden, the isolation of the wilder-ess, aud aeat wmSam Coole. all" a mere scraii- nrps fulVy armed and once tne rea.dent issued a prociama- cause or tneir uncenqueraoie naircu tioh warning the people of the West to the British government and their open "have nothing to do with these unlawful revolt against British "authority and the enterprises The conspirators fled, their oppression of British offlciels." boats and stores were seized, Burr was Boone's military services, which were arrested ia Mississippi but ecaped, only incalculable, have been, left to be ret-arrested in Alabama and taken by men, "because, while they were great to Richmond lor trlal.fl In August, 1907, and valuable, they were negligible when' a hiirnln? flav; mlerht result from mht rpsult from was nis mounieu uu -r in ttiia mnss-huns .1 a ,1 pntprorise as lununcu me aiviaing rido- i. Elk; Creek and Stony Fork CW Wee' 11 i 1 r'xii ill caul i 1 1 1 1 j-i k.i i the.

over the Stone ana i. v. lies norinetst of Elk Creek fi. lwnich would require weens uu th Holston va ley, uuu oAnro of thousands or aouais, i Tv, to'the camo tnence mruus" old Indian trail. A wagon road ng up Elk Creek and another 0Wrtf he was nlaced on Jn Richmond be-1 comoared with his foresisrht, caution, employment or scores i tpT.t; clinch, mountains and Powell's vaney now runs up Stonv Fork rZ roaI equipment, surgeons, su This book also says that is rea- vfore Chief Justice Marshall to answer a sagacity, wisdom -and diplomacy through a voice as bad as copsclence, rang nAMmiv rinK ill mi 1 whlrfi miifh nrarfsra was avoided hOW charge of treason and misdemeanor.

Af through Cook's Gap. Rrtim Coo. they followed a small hrn tho mule ioaa, scrub, sing to tne gray Gaze my All at the Southern Cross, bu It high in an arch of stars. It was there, in nature's grand cathedra's amid her vast and awful solitudes, with Pan's many-reeded flute for organ and their own rapt- spuls for worshipers, that they held communion "with i VThat which being everywhere lets none who speaks with Him seem ail -Like Enoch Arden, they might watch much.onlv Boone Drobably knew. But, teri.a long and tedious trlaJ.

he was ac. ultted. much to th. of Jeffer-f even the strife that -lie could not of the" waters of New River' son to believe that in 1772 he roqvea-iP the Watauga valley, but after living there for a time, went back to' the Yadkin." This is in keep'ng with the traditions I have appended to this address. It also appears that Boone kept a hotel at Maysville, West fOf -ots or xew River, where th.

nre4 son, who desired the conviction of Burr i evade, without, him the settlers would in maps pontoons, medicines, brfmnj Charts and compasses. He went w.t a singl rifle, without supplies of any kind, and his home was wherever night ght all htiman nrobabilitv have been ex and vindication of himself. came together, and from ther. -Howard, or Boone's Court Court TTnno. 1 interminable changes On -one everlasting wnlsperay and mSht so; Something hidden; Go and find it.J Qo and.

look behind the rahge- lost behind the -ranges. Lost and waiting for you. So I went, worn of patience; 'never told my nearest-neighbors Stole away with pick and ponies ft overtake him. Accident or from some "violet cure upimeu fn him. but undaunted three or four mi'es from Three Forks and nhm.t i to tirpated and the settlement of the West delaped indeflnitell.

On the 20th of August, 1845, twenty years after his death, amid the booming of minute guns, the throb of muffled -It wag the contemptible effort o'f this unprincipled conspirator to shift from his own shou'ders the guilt of this enterprise and fasten it on Herman Blanner1-hassett that evoked from William Wirt, stars! three years following 1786, and ran a gieai wen oyo" I 1 i mUao nnnn miles, tne 1. Bme di, the crystal evening air, tne cqt-s that irlobed themse "cfis in tartoe 'from there to oBone neav- ne iiouri mi. I. for his compass by nigrni. me quite a settlement at Three Pnrv.

'the sunrise nrt th morrow see 1 I 1 1 Ho-i- -Rut. we may wn small store, getting gooas irom jaaryiarju by pack horses, and that in l7S8 he moved to -I inr easant at tbe Junction re Kanawaha and Ohio. Also that re the Baptist church of that i Afterwards Attorney General of the drums, and the doitid of martial cere- i. a St.f hev loved the That a7l the while God's whisper was in Tt 1m thA nldMf it 18 in an U11UC1 tlon. his ears.

"was a member of the Virginia Leglsla- i.uin0 onAl dim forest, the en slijiucos v. nr- nrn pss laiinuai IkT Vi l.Ffnni ir lrl- MOSt OI US ic wna- chanted whisper of the r.rrumea "Tnit in lHre ana attenaea a. session ai mcmiiuuu lino Olttyea at l)Pcrar 'm drinking in the' town; And the faitn that moveih. mountains didn't sem to-help my As I faced the sheer main ranges, 'whipping up and leading downy March by march' I pujezled': through em, turning nanks, and dodgrng shoulders. Hurried on in hope of neaded back LHouse, near the head of Elk Ci 5 United States, under President Madison, mony, the remains of Daniel Boone and an unrivaled gem of forensic "eloquence, of Rebepca, his wife, were laid away to Prior to the Burr incident Xortb, Cairo-' rest at Frankfort, not far from that I'na had had troubl-e--with Tennessee as -palteaded fort his valor had so often de-had Virginia with Kentucky Xorth Caro-i fended in the past.

Thus did Kentucky Una with the State of Franklin the faf-off interest of tears." prise and Virginia with he Transylvania! What, now, of, the aftermath of this uusrger nnv nr hpn a wood, the silvery tinke of dimpledpurl- with the nomeiy ug! in. April, 1780, where "with a few her ing brook, and the sun-shot sy.vanaa- God and keep BWfre! number. captured by British ows of approaching twilight "when in it has little significance, to offlcftr Tarleton, but released on parole, soft rose descends the even-tide." For, i quently, it -meant lire- oraej He represented Fayette county, In what friend of 'Boone's Boone's Hav. wiir- I VA I Boone Branch, near tv u. iii neaa of ei.

iicau i ror ack of gress; if ever later-born mortals had, they pos-j and moisture nave me ls now Kentucky. When eighty years of colony, and I shall now read a short ac- seeming'y aimless wandering? The Till I camned hiw thi tree-line drift1- ut VJO0K a ii on tne a-muiuumvu sessed, the spirit of their progenitor and a smau Drancn puoneg over a rnoi, in the absence of waterprooi ciom- ha irnoi riirt TTlvsses. to nine. leaves a vacant space between ih prototype. I'll.

V11.1. ng, compelled often to travel for days in AnH i mi nor tn vieia. i greatest, freest, most enlightened and e(j snow and naked boulders progressive, nation of forty-six sovereign Felt free air astir windward knew States- welded Into one Indissoluble I'd stumbled on the Union; an Invincible world'-power, re-! spected by all the nations of the earth, Then I the while I doubted 'knew iv. im ii passing betwetj 1. 1 i ij occiv.

i i ii "Push off. and sitting well in order smito iu --ivu- miusr me waier one reaches small cave, fifteen or twenty feet sonar, which la' CAnfeoloH frnn. count of that episode, taken from Dropped Stitches in Tennessee History," by Hon. John "The settlers lived and their affairs were conducted under the jurisdiction of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions fpr a period, of about six years, in a quiet and orderly manner; but ever since that -May day of 1772 when they organized the "first free and his iiauu was t'erotui vec uci age Boone went from his new Missouri home to 'the Yellowstone game fields to hunt, and in 1810 he returned to. and paid up all his leaving: with fifty cents in his pocket.

His wife died in 1813, and although Kentucky removed her remains when In 1815 his own were taken back torankfort, no monument was erected over either of them until 1880. All accounts agree, however, that on and in turn respecting Inherent rights of through rainsoaked vooas, iw.v.. tents or other shelter at night, with only the crude cow's horn for his powder, and when to have his rifle miss Are might have proven fatal to his own life, we may well believe that Daniel Boone real- Still it might be self-delusion-scores, of new Dy (Jn n.n11 ,1.1. The sounding furrows; far my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars until I aie." No wonder, either, that Boone, in a tnat aream ana ultima Thuie of states- better men had died at woiciiau. in una cave are sign cookery blackened walls, and rockj i whitened by sa't meat lying on ih.

man and philosopher a galaxy of lesses I cou df reach the township living, but sovere'gntles, each supreme in its' own; He knew what terrors tore me'. province of State concern, and yet all But 1 didn't but I didn't I went letter to his sister-in-law, in the fall of vori ahnv nu men 1 1 a wiouuui Alfred Foster, father of John Fostw-lived where Boone lived on Beav' Creek, and told his son John that independent government," their dream ing his powder dry." How it was managed, however, is almost inconceivable to us now; for he loyal and imperlshably bound to a cen'-, auw.n siae' 1-Iud along the hostife mountains. where the first day of May, 17B9, Daniel Boone, had been of a new, separate and inde- from and his five companions started pendent commonwealth, and they began per ai unuisputea in an motters ot the haiP.polsed snow-slide shivers 1816, stated his creed to be as follows: "All the religion I have is to love and fear God, believe, in Jesus Christ, do all the good to neighbors and myself that I can. and do as little harm as I can help, Efcid trust God's mercy for the rest." Roosevelt's "Wirfhing of the West." had lived there. After Boone had 2 his home on Beaver Creek, Thonu Trlnlett.

and hJ a must orten nave nau. iu Holman's ford on-a journey destined to n'o-ht r.n BTOund in sodaen c.otn-, nationality and influence the nations of the world. 11 ,1,11 Boone's home on Beaver Creek, thou to- be restless, dissatisfied and disaffected toward the government, of North Carolina. Many causes seemed to conspire to increase their discontent. The first constitution of North Carolina had made Are not they worthy of the dangers, the privations and sacrifices of -pioneers like Boone? But that is not all: in manufactures ic nicie nuw, till AlfriJ TT 1 1.

'91 provlsion for a future State within her we lead the world; our agricultural pos- wugiii me iana rrom him. The Boone Gap in the Brushy MoudI tains, three miles northwest from Rnnn," who outcome no man could then possibly foresee. For they were to open up a highway from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and beyond. What stories of Indian legend and imperial greed those shores could tell! DeSoto discovered the stream at its mouth and was buried beneath its sullen flood; LaSalle, from the North, ing, with the firmament for ceiling and dripping tree boughs for bed-and-window curtains. Remember, too, the crude "pan," which held the priming powder, and the almost utter impossibility of excluding from it the permeating and intrusive moisture; the danger that the touch-hole might become clogged; the absolute necessity that the flint should It was simple, but grand and compre-1 hensive.

For no man can long hold i communion with the subtl influences of nature's solitudes without being- a bet- ter man a better father, husband, broth- i er, friend in a word (for all that is good er and at the head of the Warrior (W limits, on the western side of the Alle-j. sibilties have not yet reached half their ghany mountains. Tbe mother State had limit; our laws are models of justice and persistently refused, on the plea of pov- 1 righteousness; and each new problem is Affi. ii lev. ,1 met a nrl o1va1 rn Vi i v.

Down and through the -big fat marches that the virgin ore-bed strains, TilL I heard the miie-wide mutterings of unimagined rivers And beyond the Umber saw illimitable plains! r' Have I named the one single river Have I held one' single acre? Have I kept one single nugget (barring samples)? 3fo, not I. Because my price was paid me ten times over by my. Maker. But you wouldn't understand it. You go up and occupy.

Ores you'll find there; wood and cattle; water-transit sure and steajjy (That should keep the railway rates down), coal and iron at you doors. nan a. iiuuuiijs wauiy ui uoones and the rocks and small clearing there no do not indicate that it was ever a hoot ja i ivj i ui cl a uutl iui uui aim me mu.y JL lie IT I appoint an Attorney General or prosecute- greatest good to the greatest number later or larm. her conq ArJ France, offlcer ftr th weBt- of without once losing sight of the just i iaPtieKi "i1'11 mountains. In 1784.

many claims for rights of property or discouraging the bloodJr 8ram" compensation for military services, sup- accumulation of wealth by individual ef- ls embraced therein) a better Christian. be alwaya firmly gripped bv the wabbling It would seem that. whatever the gcrew order tnat it should strike emergency, a man arises peculiarly kuali-j from 'the lock or steel tne elusive spark: tied to meet it. In the case of our pion- and above all do not forget that this seel eer days several such men arose. To musJ.

at the proper time, fly forward and need of hlA fflr tVi a 1 PiiinnA th rrh n- rom uoone a home on Beavef Creek to Cook's Gap Is about twentj-flV miles, and Deep Gap Is a nearer tt the Creek home in a direct ih. ln the campaigns against the rrt. wnen confronted with the advant- in" 1 1 v. i is iiilu iiitr wail' meet tne exigencies or tne occasion our i thno rrwn the nan for the recention of i 'Indians, were nresented to the State go When Boone moved to Kentucky it v. ages arising rrom the use of capital In of -large masses on the one hand and of the danger of monopoly and the crush- mountain ancestry were peculiarly adapt- flakes fires and tne ignitn fhS" ernnnt from th" settlements west ed.

Many of them came from Scotch-! nreclou8 powder within. 'Jj 1 ZJU1 AUeghanies. North Carolina was Ir ins lamuy ne proDaoiy roiiowed the old Indian trail shown him by the slavs God took care to. hide that country till out of the individual toiler on the insn parentage, others from vvaies ana tn rrlctlon match and kero-l rt 7" 1 poverished and, notwithstanding the mountainous regions of Great Britain Boone had the punk and tinder. vovacupr.

Mn J. P.7 that hese claims were just, reason or He judged His peopTe ready, ihFr tv, Then He chose me for his whisper, and? hermwa8 otheTr tra11 1 I've found it, and it's yours! at that tIme- Whn James TnV.tr i i and 5f ot which were guarded and hoarded veutlJrer and UlerT draining 1.248 honest, it was suggested. iuuru yvaa ooy, uap was call. were It- carefully as the powder ltseir. xnina.

hv Phipst believed, "that all pretences ea uoone Gap. fabricate luuunia.n i.ere tne Appa acn.ans fl tramp of having StlU om Th nnn tT 7 1 I laid held of (by the settlers) Yes, your 'never-never ccuatry'- -yes. One of the Coffeys married a Boon and or America iney were like all the; through the long. slow, uncertain, was Ju, nrZnW against the government. other, we have endeavored and are still striving to reap the harvest arising "from wealth without Impairing the efficiency anod prosperity of the citizen.

It is a difficult! subject, involving many complicated and fundamental principles of justice and po'ity, but that we shall reach the best and most righteous solution I have absolutely no doubt. In matters of arms and warfare our edge of cultivation' no sense in going further' till I those inininiam omiuren oi nom process of kindling a little fire; rn i that tho industry and property of and his grandson, now 98 years HVjV on "Mulberry Creek, waters of JohnV speaks-iovers or irDerty, lovers or home. boil at the end of a 'who on the east side of the crossed tne range to God forgive me! Ao, I It's God's present to our nation. lovers or naturefl Many of them had cnirrel nr i-enison. to i.

tr th. fnflK a river, five or s'x miles from Coliettsv.il' P- suffered from the oppression of their for but His' Tne utfthe r'dge to Cnnk'( washed down with spring water, but thunders where the soft-nadded fo-r Hn P'opriated to discharge the debts con- it Anybody might have found whisper came to without bread or coffee or other food. ped noiselessly from-covert to covert and n'ac1ecl tv those on the west." Thus It "jap nas Deen worn knee-deep by ra't slne people have stopped iislng It ii nag has waved in trlumDh at NTw Or- wna aeer grazed by placid it Is APPENDIX. not too much to oxneot that r-o Carolina, in order to relieve herse dr uuucr leaaersnip of that peer- Ftlll the shortest and bept route fni Paver Creek to Boone M. doe not how tho Bnnp Foj mer home governments and were determined that, God helping them, tyrants should gain no foothold in this "home of the brave and land of the free." First among those retreating before this slowly advancing fringe Of civilization, came one who was not only a pathfinder but a- path-maker as well.

"The stature and general aDDearance of this wanderer may yet answer to the gregarious to this ceded to th? United States less "North Carolinian, Andrew Jackson; stinct of mankind where now oily "the i wfst of the Alleghajsles, ln the war with the sons of our kneeling hamlet drains the ehaliro nt th provided that Congress would accept It flrst Pioneers, emulating the example of I am indebted to the latest and most; authentic life of Boone of which I have 1 knowledge that by Reuben Gold I Thwaites. compiled from the Draper manuscript of Western history in the for many detaHa of Boone'setaoientaoinet Wisconsin State Historical Society, for many detal's of Boon's life not given Mr. John P. Aorthpr of Ashevllle, who has assisted me in the selection and ar- or trie waiauga river got Its nam-. historlcal material several weeks last grapes of God." within two years.

"At a subsequent s3- cne'r great ancestors, led our armies rangement of the There are two events In Boone's life to slon- an act was PassM retaining juris-- the Brasos' flood and planted Oil used herein, spent Tvveiij'-i-c--oiia which I would call attention that J''' nvi th rrit-rv tters iii iie c.v.l war, a.u iuu of tne regiment for a snoit ine. ie re. elsewhere: and while I do not propose to lost all the land 4 i until it should have been accepted ry Glory about the walls of the ancient cap- May and June in trying to establish the ltol of the Aztecs. It was ihe spirit of; location of the almost rorgotten trail of Boone and his pioneers that at Gettys-! our herb gn his journeys Kentucky, burg filled the batt'e's maw with blood Being familar with the mountains south tigned In' Ib.z, because ne nai resent even an outline of his career in tucky and all that had been ki. Immediately after nasVi? th i been to tue Carol.na Lt; of the wilderness aproached the' gigantic His chest was broad and prominent, his muscular powers displayed themselves in every limb." "Conquering the Wilderness." Clad in coon-skin cap, buckskin shirt.

in From ADn)etnn' act of cession. Xorth Carolina closed the llaturts at preceding etciiun'in land office In the ceded territory, and an1 forged from the Ingredients of war's of the Watauca river and knowing thv.t t)qire AV.liiam L. Bryan i.as l.veu Boone county, Xorth Caro. ina, since dia of American Biography, I copy the following: I "Kentucky was admitted to, the Union i February 4. 1791.

and In the survey of the State the title to Boone's land was rtl. this anaress, i mihi ence whMe I fill in much that ls obscure. especially concerning bis early days. Thlsj work also corrects several errors and 11- lumines one or two obscurities in the us-ual accounts. For Instance.

It is implied In the Encyclopedia Americana that on the sixteenth of June. 1778. and "when coming therefrom eight 'm-les' noruietot.i nullified all entries of land made after crucible of steel and lead and blood-not tradiilon does not designate any gap May 5, 1784." (only a new nation, but a sectional brath- 1 tween that stream and the Georgia line Thereupon the State of Franklin had erhood in the bonds of which not only as the one through which Boone passed, been formed, which professed to be lnde-j rreed slaves but freed masters are dwel'- Mr. Arthur followed the main range from nendent of' Xorth Carolina and of Con-1 peace and ln hope. Boone Court House to the Virgina line fringed leggin3and home-made moccasins; bearing a ilong, deadly flint-and-steel rifle across his stalwart shoulder, bullet pouch, powder horn and hunting; knife ever ready to his hand, on the first! pufed.

The case was decided in.f H.m UHUUIllL iitlll I ent Watauga -coumy- waa a partt) Ahf, from which it was formed In Is 18 or Ms. The foregoing statement was made in search of evidence that the great exT and, stung to the quick bv the wrong i gres. and one of the provisions of their; Ana to crown the edifice whose foun- day of May, 1769, set forth from his home at Holmans Ford, on the Yadkin river. me by Col. James Martin Isbell at plorer passed north of the- county seat of Wautagua.

He found none." He then went to Holman's Ford and traveled westward to Roan Creek, Johnson coun- out oi vi-, ''ru i aa again to seek a new home, which borough, more than 160 miles distant. he established at Point Pleasant between which he trave'ed ln less than five days. the Ohio and the Great Kanawha but He reallv escaped from ChllUcothe. I Jn 1795t beIn disturbed hv proposea iorm or government was aunv auu ms companions laid in "The inhabitants within these limits the forest and by the streams of the agree with each other to form themselves West, their spirit, still triumphant, at Into a free, sovereign and independent one blow, struck from the limbs of the home in Caldwell county, North Carp Daniel Boone-the peerless paladin of the; Ttr a i l.na. May western wilderness, on the seventh of the following Jnne, this obscure and un and not Detroit.

From this hook we civilization, he removed to Missouri body of politic or Stare, by the name of oppressed Cubans the shackles degen ty, Tennessee, gathering a eonsiderabls His great, great grandfather, Morgai Bryant lived. Philadelphia, in Bl and something, and he and ipam w.i I a Panisn possession, and received er. left Oley, Pennsylvania, with his fam- not the appolntrnent of commandant known frontiersman; this lithe-limbed, i alert, eagle-eyed, iron-nerved nimrod: erate Spain had aced there In the af- number cf sitlements of most reMable rogance of her Ignorance and supersti-! citizens tending to- show that yte's tion two centuries before. Moreover, and trail was through, what Is flow Couks the commonwealth of Franklin." The territory "within these I'mits Included fifteen counties in Virginia, six of West ily, in the spring of 1750, traveling in father of came to North Carolina 1 4 aua romantic ngure, thus: a OTW," trt reach the then best of all, so sure were the sons of tha i rau. passing Three Forks tn Roone fmm Ponnsv vanin togrther.

he th.nks. Virginia, one-third of Kentucky, one- 0.feV panoplied, strode forth Into the limelight famous vallev of the Yadkin. They reach of the Femme Osage district. 45 mHes west of St. Uouls, but a grarj.of 845 acres.

The Spanish possessions prfsed into the hands of Napoleon, who sold them to the United States, and in the half of Tennessee, two-thirds of Ala1-1 emancipated masters of the old then through the Hodge's Gap of The two men had farms adjoining eacli bama and more than one-fourth of that Spain would in time rejoice as they the Rich Mountain, down the Brushy other three or four miles below Wilkes- oi nistoryand undying fame. As the years go by this gigantic character, instead of diminishing, looms larg ed the ford at Harper's Ferry, followed up the Shennandoah. and tarried a year or more on Llnnville creek, six mile3 nrnrl Tn the lanruacre of this au'- themselves are still reioiclnsr over th Fork two miles. Herp It sem hnriv r.r, rhu VAdk-ln river and abov followed, the Spanish grant of Boone's thor, "Cast your eye over the magnificent liberation of their own slaves, ln the' divided, or became two, one crossing the Winston-Salem, Jesse and Da: 1 Boom er and larger as the true significance of Harrisonburgh. Rockingham ills n.i nortn or lands was pronounced InvaTld because he area; see t'je blue mountains, the freedom and Independence of all her peo-! ridge to the right and passing Into Ten nlot on, i-aireC county.

Virginia, leaving there In the au did not go to New Orleans to complete browned cliffs, the beautiful rivers, the pie, that there was no room in our nessee by Zionsvire, and on to Roan They stop- atorv onnT'r. "UncUI: tumn of 1751 for the Yadkin his title. An aDneal to the r.r hrrni v'1p with thr golden wheat tTTd.uo a. suuue ana ned no more until they sett ea finally at armies for one-twentieth of the sons of Creek; and the other fol owing Brushy the. ex-Confederates who wished to I Fork to Cove Creek, thence down Cove pledge anew their allegience to that -Creek to Rock House Branch, ub a ridgj vengeiui roe are better and more gener.

were? brothers, and Glllam conev mother -fras Jesse Boone's daughter. Jesse Boone settled on Boone'? Fork of the Watauga river, and h's spring i of the head spr'ngs of Boone Fnrtr near Kelfey Postof flee-near- Sprlhgs church on Yonnfilfs'e cMo Af the Blue Any Known and understood. I tls Kentucky, and another to Congress, re-' fields and verdant meadows, with the suited In the confirmation bv Congress of hundreds of smaller streams and spark-the Spanish grant, when Boone was 75 ling springs; it seems like one grand years of age, though still hale and 1 niece of natural embroidery, fashioned Buffalo Lick, where Dutchman's creek joins the north fork of the Yadkin. In 1755 Daniel went as a wagoner and black- TT TT 1AA Union, which was founded b3r their forefathers no less than by the ancestors of' smitn wun captain i-iubu huucm iW, strong, I and out together by the fingers of ln- McKlnley. and Dewey and Shafter.

through Ward's Gap into Tennessee and to Roan Creek. I have appended these statements to this address in the hope that if the do not establish the route in question, they will lead to North Carolina frontiersmen as a part i Braddock's little army that was so badly Tfve" Rnnp lived and died there. In addition to the very accurate and en- finlty and spread out by the hand of the We need not close our eyes to th? fact torto Ifllnrr d'AtoVi j. I I tU. 1 -v- irir Of.

i i i i j. i iuu mucn to say, viewed in the light of recorded history, that what Columbus was to the new world. Daniel Boone was to the Mississippi valley its discoverer For, although James Adair and others had visited the wonderland of Kentucky and Tennessee, and John Finley had told Boone of "The Dark and Bloody Ground," it was only when this peerless AtcmA th ravine of Tuttl Creek. ul r-, llJxl i.i.wic lumic by Almighty Daniel Boone married Bry tt. ftra aM In Ir.

tcKn Prnm Inat zealous gentleman and historian, i ble, lead, copper, zinc, and other mtn- tnat jn some instances the weak have information which will. When this has ill LIJJ3. Q. i. la slaughter pen Boone escaped on a wagon IP horse and returned to the Yadkin.

But. December 29. on this expedition he met a man who was! hZ I. oerr Hfixtnhn count of Chief Justice of Boone's erals hidden within its son you migm, been overcome by the powerful; but I am been done, the rote should be marked by 'in ne 0yes in the darkness, near have put a Chinese wall around the. peo-- persuaded that a' nean.

we are still permanent monuments, as this link is yZ. rni'stook her for a deer, 'and pie of the 'State of and still 0und and healthful in all that constitute I important in tracing the beginning of "bout' to shoot her when he discovered they could have lived absolutely inde- true patriotism, and that plutocracy will what afterwards became the Wilderness 'followed her Im leaaer or men stood on the bank of the Jit'U river, a. tributary of the Kmtnv I -ri, f-J connection with the Transylvania colony. pendent of the outside world. There 13 nPVer triumph over democracy.

For all Road over which thousands of pioneers' a marrieri her Tills was i. ii. courtea ana more iron ana coai mi iuis itrinLVij thus rar nas oeeg, reouireo oeen sup-; Li.veit-u me earij- aays or tms re-1 "ftn'noW Yadkin coun'y. can be found in the same area elsewhere; hy the executive, legislative, and.pub'ic. The people of this State 'are in- :x.ora and the rn fv.

i I ll lev a nruiuii-ii irsiiiiinii niiu iu hau- the day June' 1769' thatjer, who had penetrated down the Ohio as fond 'n NorJh Carolina Booklet Hit flno WaS in the as far as the present site of Louis- tort Jt shows Boone to have been We sho the West. fvnie. His account Gf this hunter's para- not only a path -finder but a road-builder, to honor nfl th rising generation dise inflamed Boone's fane yand he'" was he who blazed the first "trace to nonor and revere the memory of this a or trail of what afterwards became the vjl Lins afterwards ceased to aream oi rtehtert tn Mr Arthur fnr 4. nuir U' ii. i IWillllS.

1VI" inv oy CdUlU 1 In the United States, and It is today; juajcjal branches of our tripartite gov-yielding a vast revenue to its Inhab- crnment. I vi beitva' urtrc. services he has rendered this respect. i -v ah i-i sir its JLI IS. 1U I LUIl HLflilU "1M11C i -J I J.

C. P. uve year ago, w.ei "en uug Out ue uoaes and gl)UU great wilderness mail, nr --ar! tho rin- mnimfaln torvs nnrl see heavens dark'- fearless natrifi never son of the forest. His reaehinr that eoal. In the soring of 1756 While not partaking of any of tho characteristics of paternalism, yet our national ana state governments are Larson, La wno i' following statements were made to iiua suuf Uide of the -Yadkin ot Tofethed.fharaCter aff0rcl a Clear lnsight Boone married Rebecca Bryan and set- highway to the enchanted West.

ened by day with the pillar of Cloud, lishin-th uses. resulted In estab- tied ln a smal' log cabin on Sugar fork. Well, after all has been said of Boone. made luminous by night with the Dillar of fire arlsine from furnance and bv the DerSOnS named nnrl at the tlmae showing every dav that we have re- tOlU -BHUHC re'les and iw nVomfanil nlnfej Inilloataif nnnnl. thes unps a'l l01 trr ho- a ex.

ll lUUtai i uuiiuiau ivi -m cv i. mtflll UeitU aim o-ic umi i-wnn ii i Jif, Lirv and hear the ihem. Daniel boobb greatest republic on the face timnt a few mllea north' of -amount to Hunter. frannerL TndlAn forge in the valleys below cation of the trail of Daniel Boone from of the globe. his father's home now in Davl county.

er, pioneer, pathfinder road-builder, ex- hammer of Thor beating the iron ribs of plorer, what did he more than thousands those majestic o'd mountains into the of others who lived at that time He was! marvelous machines of modern invention Whera is the individual in all this land, mow that JL lnis, ins tra. i irum addouDi- ot Beaver Creek to Ke.uuO less had a number ft fne Holman's Ford into Kentucky, JOHN ARTHUR, March 28, 1910. It would seem, further, that in the1 riod 'of our hist at pe! spring of 1759, in consequence of the' In'- no- KMira. iusi Commandment" which Christ gave unto us that' we love one another. What else is the meaning of our pure food laws, our laws for damages for injuries to those hurt in carrying on commerce between the States, the reservation for the use of future generations of much of our nubile domain.

with its forests and and the utilities of a grand trails Yadkin folio vv.uj ian wmg up Gib luxury have mnin(Ji. na vasion of the Yadkin and Catawba val- and hard.hin of hi, Lt leys by the Cherokees, Boone moved his willing to embark 1 Wh WOU'd be wife and two sons in a two-horse wagon ing- wSe we to Culpepper county, Virginia, and was hunting expedli ions. xy "7 i. tl) lerl' After considerable friction and some bloodshed, Xorth Carolina finally re-established its Jurisdiction over that part of Tennessee within the limits of the laurei cpur, toh twelve miles- utnt u. Col.

James Martin Isbell, whose grend-mother was a Martin, was: born at Elk-vnie, July3, 1837. He was the second son of Thomas whose -mother was, a daughter of Benjamin Howard. Thomas Isbell was born in January, 1800,. arid i f.r-.Ti ar fnnrta mir nil 1 employed there in nauiing tooacco to fviia o-a being low erf mobiL theauwa6 V0 'the aSH Tha he SSde of nr the Holston river in 1760, a failure at business, lost all the land he had entered because he despised the necessary formalities of the law and was really unhappy unless beyond the bounds of civilization- He must himself have regarded his own career as unsuccessful. But consider what followed this seemingly aimless and- apparently unsuccessful life: The colonies, forming narrow fringe along the Atlantic, were about to go to war with Great Britain.

On the West, have been if the State of Franklin, and the people of the our asylum, for est took heed to the warning of Pre si' no fhe bJ1nd- the deaf and dumb, dent Jefferson's proclamation against the, deepest cut; in the i5 ue mounlalnaks on elthe (f James grandmother, who. died in, ine wltt irab is Watson's at the high the next gap rs are ours, but he was compelled to travel on foot or anil ill: gap tmo-- and the ne' aecu cw caiji, lytu James roaas are mapped and charted and kno wn date on the 'Boone tree is correct, seems certain; but Thwaite's states positively that he was again a member of Hugh Waddell's regiment of 500 North Carolinians, when, in 1761, they fought and defeated the Cherokees at Long Island that Daniel Boone used, to, live six anlles coming UP the ridge on below James present home near the ,.,1 rfjT. nd this Cooks yap O.U men, wnne the trail of his own wral'un. mrough thicket scheme of Aaron Burr. Held to the mother States of "Virginia and North Carolina almost by ropes of sand and to the United States by even frailer ties, how came it that these free spirits yielded at the flrst command of authority? Because the spirit of American pa4-, swamp and rfananrolrs France and Spain dominated the Mlssls- vtr ciirraana hill and preci- customa Pathway; om.

and eve convenience or the Hoiston. Alter his return from slppi river and its valley for miles on bank of the Yadkin river on' a little seven miles southeast creek nbw known as Beaver Creek, Town. Cook's Gap is one mile from where, it oa into the (oest in'the Blue Ridge, and was re Yadkin river, near Holman's ord. The olden days by following an Boone house was in a little eswamp and now knee-deep In this trip he and some of his companions both sides. North of the St.

Lawrence ra well-being, the camp roamed through the vallevsi of southwest nnfl the Oreat TjiVm. TTino-1 nnd' sunr 1 triotlsm, even In that ear'y day. dorai- There isr no wonder' then that the governments of Europe are today paying marked respect to that "beloved son of both sections the North and the South-Theodore or that the oppressed ot every land are praying that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people, the foundations of which were largely laid by Daniel Boona and his compeers, should never perish from the earth, but continue to flourish until they too can come here and bask in the sunlight of its freedom. Tt is both customary and eminently me 1 11 1 inw uoc 1 1 food as he could secure "'i. -ana such Virginia and east Tennessee, returning' macv was undisputed.

war was of his life or rlsk to the Yadkin In 1763. In the last months; fought with triumph to the American Between Boone and Cook's Gap Wa(aUg i th most desirable na canebrake surrounding the point ot a ridge, with but one aprroach--ttmt by the ridge. That the swamp was In the shape of. a horseshoe with the "point of1 the uenrin ana of 1763 he and seven friends went tn la i. nic oi hiuiuct liril.

11113 UL Lilts IVA venturers and ree-booters who constituted, probably a real majority of the inhabitants. And that spirit predomina ed because the way had been made plain emu sustenarwe tn Vitm. i zr. coun In It is the Three "or chuxch-the oldest in all this r.inll arms. So far.

jso good. But west of tha Blue Ridge, from the Ohio, river to the Gulf, for twenty years after peace had ridge projecting into it as the, frag of a more than 100 years old. from the Atlantic across the bald Smok- clothing of the latest flhV 1 i'v or Florida, where he purchased a house and est fabric, hij bodt the. fln" hot In Pensacola, -intending to remove his bi-eechesmoccaSX But wlfe "fused to coonskln cap; eef rhl VI "Ve in a meless country! is the cause 3. 11 piace of the latest m.

fr- v.t been it was pracitcally No to norses noor aoes between -the calks of tn PftmB from Tennessee iiui" less hv TVnnlel nnnno Via Kaayi maA he mw. I.li,.. IU wmo xBrpe or tne cnimney, or. thkra. It Js three mi'es iru.

Man 5 ijana, or more properly Any ivih.ii ehmill Land who could take It. It belonged nom- Pin so much longer than the same ter- proper that all civilized countries should rirrvrv Viort Kaon mark with nermanent monuments ano the, foundation' thereof, are still mo i wnoin rnr a rima nni nrrnr uu aw rjtuir ii um ui- and the cabin itself, has not gone "leb'rated its. centennial anni rbcalitles associated i 'VioiWest or Mlssissinni. that the Americans! inscriptions those vv ai uo vJ A-i ilc, it vvao fifty years. Afred Foster Mrs azo.

The prewi i ii Tne proved firearms with fixed am unit km' the Ant-lock rifle In its crudest form was, his principal weapon of offense and de fense; and while we have numberless churches, whose spires are ever nointin upward, and school housed, whml ters are ever leading a North Carolina. In 1767 Benjamin Cur-birth, who had married Boone's niece, with John Stuart, Daniel's brother-in-law, and several others, went as far West as the Mississippi, crossing" the mountains and returning before 1769. ire land, showed James M. on that site, ah the I UlllUt CUIM-' v- AVCI 3 ma remembers seeing It. I from Holman's -or while North Carolina' was trying to per a .77 ana Dest tho.

i.t oest of all vjame oeconitng very scarce ana taxes I h'! thM? and.Arl. iirmv-j ucrn am iiiurpciiuwii rvn1 J. -a ix "lauvinc i ti a tjtt ii clkciils prexeiiQini to ernment xoaay, anrr an independent em- own win'j. .1 Boone wpII r- i no camp fte pire might have stood In the place of Great Pioneer, although now within tnfnno hl M- Boon, thouirlw4.t is discover flaws In titles of land, Boqne uuu, nurrured and de-' veioped by a longing desire Texas In truth, but for Boone, the! domain of Davidson county, should erect took his family sixty-five mi'es northwest nn ri 1M1 Lll' III' beautiful and appropriate with her father the mouth of world a I to the foot of a range of hills, seven and camp on 'tne n-u Calvin Lip rom; that m'1" from whole of the VaMey might here this form the same office for Tennessee from Hlllsboro. Necessarily, in those days of defective the government of these two sections was unsatisfactory.

Aaron Burr saw his opportunity in this anarchy and was not slow ln seizing It. He went West and engaged in schemes for developing san independent govern---ment in the Mississippi valley. Herman Blannerhassett, an Irish refugee, had a Creek, now Elkyolle. three miles United monolith 'of native granite, as a perpeU nave been wrested from the Boone's home on-Beaver Creek Tioone He-ha of nal reminder of the fact, tere, in en v.ow,,cu to the greatest monument to human liberty on earth Consider, too, the self-reliance and' in dividualitv imnlioM I on-half miles above Wilbesboro, but becoming dlssatis defithere, he moved 'five miles further ur the riyer snd half a mile up Beaver creek. "Again he changed his ijenjamm Howard, father of.

Jame bv NColonel Tsbell. near grandmottfier. was.tbom in 1742. and own- Tl Tn tood the camp. tW during bronze and stone, posterity to the remotest dav can read the name of States, and In view of many other thlnert It ls almost miraculous thf.t It was not.

Again, many regard the battle of King's Mountain as the turning point of ouv.ii it journey in- f. flfirnDa mT, nKkj-c(v 'Vt. V. i 1 i.u au unuiu-nen wuaerness. Daniel Boone; and hi descendants.

land near where. BoOne.Cpurt House 1 liirice wbite oak tree, as you po like those stands; and there is creek nearl riM, eolnr '-from. Boone to Blo" pcfi roaf going rrom.j5uww tbe (nirMlnr numbers bers. the Rpvolutionn-v wr Rnt for Sevier ever beauif ul plantation on an island in the Ohio river, but his acquaintance with the this occasion. mav ivue mage, caned Howarfl, Creek.

aP. ieaa-B the the Western mountains, for -all hope of inst above the mouth of Beaver human succor that he had. he might as creek." This was at Holman's Ford, well haye been in the wilds of In the springs of 1767, Governor Tryon How intently he must have watched fQt- had run a boundary line between the back and his battle, might never sratliered here on to draw fresh Inspiration from this ter saId Benjamin, arid a high knob or Dormintory; and the stones Ji.m tn he seen neemg auenst caused nis TlltLmate ruin, have been tougnt, or, if fought, migncj c'luit- -nf hoi muuuiain pean, is still eaueo Howard's itti ii iLre'Biiw' tap i For in view of the constant stream ofjKnb- Benjamin; Howard iised to range corner one hundred and nfty om'cration to that West which had there and, would send-a native Wnmi the creek and between A 1 i 1 -r n-A0K This cree anient oi wigwam or mark offootprljt br sign of lurking savage; how earnest he must have listened for a false note in hoot or -owl or howl of wolf to discover if, perchanoe, it might be answered by lurking TToe imitating the wild things of genesis here we are reminded of those siave io attend ana sail inem. Boy's Xornilntory. words of Holy writ: Tne name of this negro was, Burrell, and of Rlch Mqubfain UP BJ nor- settlements of Carolinas and the Cherokeje- hunting grounds, but this line was not regarded by the settlers.

In the fall of 1767 Boone and William Hal', his friend, and possibly Squire Boone, Daniel's brother, still desiring to ket to Kentucky, crossed the mountains into the Gap, They entered into schemes for mutual have been lost. Most certainly it was aggrandizement. It is said that he an important contribution to the patriot visited Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay cause. But for Boone, there never and endeavored to enlist them as his would have been any Watauga settle-partners. He purchased four hundred 1 ment until after the' close of the Revolu-thousand acres of land on the- Wishlta! tion, and, hence, no Sevier or his hardy river with a view of establishing a col-j "Pickets of as, after hav-ony.

He enlisted for an expedition Ing blazed the he was almost im-against the Spaniards, and spoke; of an mediate! for owed bv th "Refirulators." ei. I WB- hhnll snmalhlnc nti i' hli' me. a A if he And Abraham-went up. out ot ligypt, "'r? t. Boone.

he, and his wife, and all that he had, tne wilderness by cunning strategeni; and and Ixt with him, ihto the south. And have been 115 years old when ihe died, i eamp at that place, to of James M. saw often, as James o-stv is two miles northwest how careful to wait until night's shad- valleys of the Holston, crossed the moun- .4 in ow should shroud the heavens before ve and -in ld.7. An4 h.e,wnt Mf empire to be established in Mexico, butj succeeding the famous but disastrous his chief object seems have been to4 battle of the Alamance. "During tjie journeys, from the sotilh even to Betnei, t.

illv' thence tnru- cabin Creek, thence permitting a blue ribbon of smoke to ascend from his campflre for broiling steak of bear or deer. Burrell then; ocCupJed 100 yards creek lo Cave. form an. independentVgpvernmerit in the onto the place where- his tent had been thr summer and fall following this- settlers came in considerable, numbers to TTrman -settlement. Misslpsippl vauey.

expressed a that with, a few desperata'AnA fains Into the valleys of the Holston, the Clinch and reached of the west fork of the Big Sandy, which they followed down one hundred miles to Floyd ln eastern Kentucky where they had to speindthe: to gether to the Yadkin in th spring -of npwj upon i the eve his from the house rfrr James now 11 yes.1-- I T'ri Lt i 'Riirril 1 told Jam es Isbell 1 Branch 4 the world the1 Alleghimles it Ana now circumspect lest the snapping twig ahpuldbefray him to the, edIndlansr cr? the p. over, to TTse at the begiiittlg. between Beth-el and Hai; unto the the- altar; i which, he had Kniade there th firs and here SA'brahanY called, on. the nameof the "Th waite's Llf Vof Boorifc that hteiiaopiloted flrs t'trip across (the Blue vRldge as-faf a tWhereHhe Town of Boone It snd wnat is now tht Boons probably" went V1 Omenta th Holston and They carried -i a correspondence cl-1 NplMchucky; Who wire-thse peov fie should carry ip- the listehmg ear jof Cherokee -or Chickkmauga Pferil-; lurked.