༞FPཔབཔ་ཕ་ པ་ olonel of the first regiment of continenta ravery and talents he was soon promoted to ral. ed, with the North-Carolina troops, the arr commanded the reserve troops at the bloody wn, on the 4th October, 1777. When in thi he retreat of Washington, a spent cannon-ba ng away his right thigh, and killed his hors noment, his gallant aid-de-camp, Major Wit . Dr. Witherspoon, president of Nassau-Hall carried from the field mortally wounded, wi rmy; and at the house of Mr. De Haven, in ty, under most excruciating sufferings, he died orial of his gallant services has been erected y the patriotic exertions of John Fanning Wat ntown, in the Menonist burying-ground, at Ku miles from Philadelphia. It bears this inscrip THE ISABELLA GRAPE. THE Wilmington (N. C.) Herald, of September 20, 1851, has an article on the above-named grape, and in the course of it makes some proper remarks upon the manner in which North-Carolina has been deprived of honours justly due her. The Isabella grape is now more universally cultivated for table use than any other; and no intelligent person can taste this delicious fruit without being tempted to inquire into its origin and history. It perhaps originated at Dorchester, in South-Carolina, and is. probably a hybrid between a Burgundy grape introduced into South-Carolina by the Huguenots, and the Fox grape, a native of South and of North-Carolina. Such, it is said, is its origin ; and at Dorchester, it is supposed, Governor Benjamin Smith of North-Carolina got some cuttings, which he planted in his garden, on the Cape-Fear, near or in Smithville. From the garden of Governor Smith, Mrs. Isabella Gibbs, the lady of George Gibbs, Esq., of North-Carolina, carried a vine to New-York, and planted it on Long Island, where the quality of the grapes soon attracted general notice, and where, in honour of Mrs. Gibbs, it was named the Isabella. This much is certain : the Isabella grape found in the gardens of Colonel Gibbs on Long Island came from the plantation of Governor Smith in NorthCarolina. Whence it came to Smithville is not so well settled. In the language of the Herald, "we do not like to see NorthCarolina shorn of her honours, whether it be in a state paper, the first throes of a nation desirous of freedom, or in the origin of a grape, humble though it may be in the consideration of others." The Isabella grape will stand all climates; and it, the Catawba, and the Scuppernong, the three best and chief varieties of American grapes, may all be said to be natives of North-Carolina. EDITOR. AWAKE, SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF NORTH-CAROLINA. BY DAVID F. CALDWELL, OF NORTH-CAROLINA. NATIVES of a land of glory, Sons and daughters of the brave, And, from mountain-top to wave, Let us rise as one united, And resolve, with might and main, NORTH-CAROLINA. BY KENNETH RAYNER, OF NORTH-CAROLINA. My friend from Virginia, (Mr. Wise,) in the course of his remarks, made an allusion to my State, in reply to a playful remark of my friend and colleague, (Mr. Stanley,) which I thought a little unkind, knowing, as he said he did, our sensitiveness on the subject. He remarked that North-Carolina had so long followed Virginia, that she now felt like an apprentice just set free. Sir, North-Carolina needs no defender here; and if she did, she would be unfortunate in having no abler advocate than myself. She disregards the reproaches and the vauntings of her Northern and her Southern neighbours. She stands not still, whilst the rest of the Union is marching on in the career of prosperity and improvement, to deal with the vague abstractions of the one, nor does she run mad after the wild vagaries of the other. But there she rests, calm and quiet as the surface of her eastern bays, yet firm and unshaken as her western hills. It is sufficient compliment to her to say, that while, on the north and on the south of her, the spirit of reform has been unable to contend with the demon of faction on entering her borders, the flag of constitutional freedom is seen floating in triumph from her Atlantic beach to her mountain-tops. She reposes not idly on the fame of her ancestors; she boasts not vainly of their former renown; and if she has not as many bright names to adorn her history as those who revile her, she is at least saved the disgrace of violating their dying precepts, and of dishonouring their shades. Let it be recollected that Athens was once the proudest and noblest state of Greece. All the other members of that confederacy were glad to do her honour. Yet, in process of time, she was the first to surrender her freedom to the golden bribes of Philip; whilst the Thebans, who had once been the objects of her reproach, perished nobly on the field of Cheronea with the expiring liberties of Greece. The gentleman from Virginia may take the allusion, and apply it at his leisure.-Speech in the House of Representatives of the United States. 30* 190 3 4 Words by WILLIAM GASTON.-Music by R. CULVER. Published by James M. Edney, Asheville, N. C., 1850. Huz-zah! Huz-zah! The Old North State for Huz-zah! Huz-zah! The Good Old North State! 2. Though she envies not others their merited glory, 3. Plain and artless her sons, but whose doors open faster How like to the rudeness of their dear native mountains, 4. And her daughters, the queens of the forest resembling, 5. Then let all those who love us, love the land that we live in, As happy a region as on this side of heaven! Where plenty and freedom, love and peace smile before us: Huzzah! &c. 354 |