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 WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION 
 
 AUGUST, 1907 
 
 Speeches of 
 
 Hon. E. A. HAWES 
 Hon. JAMES R MOORE 
 Hon. CHARLES R. THOMAS 
 
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 HON. E. A. HAWES' SPEECH OF PRESENTATION. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 
 It is my pleasure and privilege in behalf of the building 
 committee of the Moore's Creek Battle Ground Association 
 to present this monument, erected to the heroic women of 
 the Revolution. The battles of war, apparently, have always 
 fallen upon men, so monuments to heroes skilled in wielding 
 the sword are nothing uncommon. But there is something 
 peculiarly singular in connection with this monument we 
 have met here today to unveil. In reading history I have 
 never yet learned of a single instance where a monument 
 stands upon a battlefield in the name of woman. But I am 
 glad this association has seen fit to have the inscriptions read 
 as they do. While comparatively few women have their 
 names as a connecting link in the chain of history as Mrs. 
 Slocomb, still they play their parts nobly at home. Thus 
 fitting tributes should be paid them. 
 
 The battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was no small event 
 in the Revolutionary war. In the words of Dr. C. Alphonso 
 Smith : "It was the Rubicon over which North Carolina 
 passed to independence and to constitutional self-govern- 
 ment. The old monument with the names of Richard Cas- 
 well and Alexander Lillington, darkened by the duration of 
 time, vividly recalls such men as James Moore, John Ashe 
 and James Kenan as leaders of the Colonial troops. Thus 
 this granite slab in recognition of women will recall, too, 
 one of the most potent factors of war. When just recog- 
 nition to the heroes of the lower Cape Fear has been given, 
 their names will have transcended into a part of national 
 song story. The monuments standing proudly upon this 
 
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battlefield in the name of martyrs will not be to those gone 
 by, but to the ever living and the ever loved. 
 
 On this green bank, by this soft stream, 
 
 We set today a votive stone ; 
 That memory may their deed redeem 
 
 When like our sires our sons are gone. 
 
 Spirit that made those heroes dare 
 To die and leave their children free, 
 
 Bid Time and Nature gently spare, 
 The shaft we raise to them and thee. 
 
HON. JAMES F. MOORE'S SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Building Committee : 
 
 It is with feelings of mingled pleasure and pride that I, 
 on behalf of the Moore's Creek Monumental Association 
 and the State of North Carolina, accept from you this 
 beautiful memorial to our Revolutionary women. 
 
 I also accept and thank you, for the repair of this old 
 monument. 
 
 I fully appreciate the efforts of the committee to record 
 and transmit to future generations the history of an heroic 
 and honorable past. 
 
 Gentlemen, I am well aware, that it is the fulfilment of 
 an untiring work on your part, and so far as my knowledge 
 extends, this memorial to our Revolutionary women, is the 
 first in the State of North Carolina to be dedicated to such a 
 purpose. 
 
 We have now, on this sacred old battlefield, two monu- 
 ments, one erected 1857 to the heroes of the battle of 
 Moore's Creek, the American patriots; the other dedicated 
 today to the heroic women of that eventful period. In all 
 of the great achievements of man, woman has ever been 
 ready to perform her part. 
 
 There is no higher duty devolving upon us as members 
 of the Moore's Creek Monument Association, than to pre- 
 serve the names of our patriotic men and noble women, and 
 it should be the constant aim of the Association to make this 
 battlefield, as it deserves to be, famous in American history, 
 so that a visit to it may re-enkindle the fires of patriotism 
 which actuated our forefathers. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Association, to your care, and to your 
 protection, do I now commend these sentinels of liberty and 
 
patriotism, which bear testimony of arduous struggles of 
 our brave ancestors; and as the cycles of time shall sweep 
 over future generations, may the young of both sexes on 
 reading these inscriptions, emulate the noble sentiments 
 which governed those heroes and heroines of the American 
 Revolution. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, let us cast our eyes above and 
 behold the flag of our commonwealth, let us ever remem- 
 ber that North Carolina was the first of the thirteen original 
 colonies to declare for separation and independence. 
 
 We can not too often repeat that Hilton, a few miles be- 
 low here, on the banks of the lower Cape Fear, was the birth 
 place and cradle of American liberty. 
 
 The heroic actions of the patriots of North Carolina be- 
 fore and during the Revolution should be studied, by every 
 reader of our nation's history. 
 
 Last, but not least, let us love and cherish the beautiful 
 stars and stripes which so proudly float over our battlefield 
 today, and we should ever be willing and ready to assemble 
 ourselves under the folds of that flag, and pay homage to 
 the American patriot, whose sacrifices and bravery have 
 given to us the grandest country in all the world. 
 
SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES R. THOMAS, 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Citizens of the 
 
 County of Pender and the Cape Fear Section: 
 
 I rejoice with you exceedingly in the advent of 
 this momentous occasion ; this glorious day in the history 
 of Pender County and the Cape Fear Section of North 
 Carolina, upon which we are again celebrating the Battle 
 of Moore's Creek. I especially rejoice that we are here 
 today to celebrate the completion of the work of the Moore's 
 Creek Monumental Association, in the repairs of the monu- 
 ment around which we have so often assembled in former 
 days, the improvement of the battlefield and the erection of 
 this beautiful new shaft to the heroic women of the Revolu- 
 tion of the Cape Fear Section. 
 
 For many years, in fact, ever since the County of Pender 
 has been a part of the Third Congressional District, which 
 it is my honor and privilege to represent, I have longed to see 
 this glorious and auspicious day. In connection with the 
 Moore's Creek Monumental Association, the citizens of 
 Pender County and Cape Fear North Carolina, and the 
 Senator, Honorable James F. Moore, and the Member of 
 the Legislature from Pender County, Honorable A. H. 
 Wells, and other citizens of Pender County, I have labored 
 by day and night, in season and out of season and at all 
 times, determined to bring our hopes and desires in regard 
 to this monument and battlefield to a successful fruition 
 and termination. I congratulate the members of the Monu- 
 mental Association, all those who have interested themselves 
 in this battlefield, and myself, upon the success of this 
 great and important work of commemorating for all genera- 
 tions the battle of Moore's Creek and the heroic men and 
 women of this section of North Carolina. 
 
Gentlemen of the Monumental Association, you have per- 
 formed your work well and the State of North Carolina 
 through its annual appropriation secured by Pender's mem- 
 ber of the Legislature and the Congress of the United 
 States have shown their appreciation of your labors. Very 
 much credit for the success of the movement to fitly com- 
 memorate the battle of Moore's Creek should be given to 
 Senator James F. Moore, Mr. Wells, your member of the 
 Legislature and the members of the Moore's Creek Monu- 
 mental Association. 
 
 This day, fellow citizens, is of more than local interest 
 and importance. This battlefield now having secured both 
 national and state recognition will be handed down to future 
 generations in the laws of our State and Nation as among 
 the most important battlefields in the war of the Revolution. 
 No longer can a distinguished Senator from Massachusetts 
 or any other state show a lack of knowledge of the history 
 of their country, and the battle of Moore's Creek will take 
 the place in history it deserves as the first victory and one 
 of the most important victories of the war of the Revolu- 
 tion. These monuments upon this battlefield, one to the 
 heroes who fought here on February 27, 1776, and one 
 to the women of this section will stand for all times point- 
 ing heavenward, as incentives to the people of North Caro- 
 lina, and especially our young men and women to higher 
 aspirations in our individual and national life. Plutarch 
 said : "It was a custom of the Romans to erect monuments 
 to the most celebrated and distinguished citizens and to carve 
 upon each monument the illustrious achievements of him in 
 whose honor the monument was erected. These monuments 
 were set upon a hill and the Roman youth were bidden by 
 their parents to study the lives of their distinguished ances- 
 tors as they saw them carved in marble and they were told 
 that they too would have a life monument erected to them 
 and the record of their life work carved upon it, if 
 
they emulated the virtues and practiced the example of those 
 who had gone before. All of the nations of the world com- 
 memorate by statues and monuments those events in their 
 history which have led to independence or marked epochs 
 in their life. 
 
 The battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, the first victory of the 
 War of the Revolution has not received in the history of our 
 country its just rank, nor has it been heralded to the 
 world as the battlefields of New England, and yet the battle 
 of Moore's Creek was as important as any conflict between 
 the Colonists and the British upon New England soil. All 
 true-hearted Americans take a just pride in the glorious 
 achievements of New England and the great battles fought 
 upon her soil and the memory of Concord and Bunker Hill 
 and of Lexington, "Where once the embattled farmers stood 
 and fired the shot heard round the world," are a part of the 
 glorious heritage of the whole country. What the battle 
 of Lexington was to the Northern Colonies, the battle of 
 Moore's Creek was to the Southern Colonies. The British 
 were preparing to invade the province of North Carolina 
 and suppress the spirit of independence which was more 
 forward in this province than in any of her sisters. 
 
 Referring to my own speech delivered in the House of 
 Representatives on January 12, 1904, upon the subject of 
 Moore's Creek Battlefield Monument, the appropriation for 
 which I subsequently secured, and to the account of the 
 battle as contained in the Life and Correspondence of James 
 Iredell, I want to present to your minds a picture of this 
 battle and this illustrious event in the history of North 
 Carolina and our common country. 
 
 McRee says in his life of Iredell, it was on the 10th of 
 January, 1776, from on board His Majesty's Sloop "Scor- 
 pion," in Cape Fear River, Governor Martin, issued his 
 Proclamation, declaring a state of rebellion; that he had 
 
erected the Royal Standard; and summoning all good sub- 
 jects to rally to its support. On the 5th of February, Donald 
 McDonald, Brigadier General of His Majesty's forces in 
 North Carolina, issued a Proclamation, calling upon all loyal 
 citizens to repair to the Royal Banner, in accordance with the 
 Governor's Proclamation. McDonald's troops were to meet 
 the Governor at Brunswick, on the 15th of February. Sir 
 Henry Clinton, Commander-in-Chief, was expected from 
 New York, Lord Wm. Campbell from South Carolina, and 
 Sir Peter Parker at the head of a squadron. The whole, 
 united, were to advance into the interior, and crush the 
 province of North Carolina. The Highlanders were soon 
 assembled to the number of two or three thousand; they 
 were animated with the hope of retrieving the past, but a re- 
 morseless fate was dogging the steps of these doomed men 
 with a pertinacity surpassing that of their own "sleuth 
 hound." One of their leaders was the husband of the cele- 
 brated Flora McDonald, whose services to their fallen prince 
 invested her in their eyes with a sacred character; her 
 presence in their camp, and her counsel, enforced by the 
 charms of beauty and wit, exalted their courage into enthu- 
 siam. Though ultimately trodden into the dust by the armed 
 heel of the British, yet could they recall occasions when 
 their impetuous spirit had borne them, a resistless torrent, 
 over the broken hosts of England. They, as soldiers, had 
 been truly baptized in fire and blood; were renowned by 
 their use of the claymore as the best swordsmen in the 
 world, and now, certainly on the strong side, were flushed 
 with the prestige of victory that attached to the meteor 
 flag of St. George. They were marshalled by regular offi- 
 cers, and could not but feel some contempt for the raw, un- 
 disciplined militia of the Province. Evading the vigilance 
 of General Moore, and crossing to the left bank of Cape 
 Fear, they moved rapidly down the road to Moore's Creek. 
 
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 About seventeen miles from Wilmington, Moore's Creek 
 was, as now, spanned by a small bridge. The creek is nar- 
 row, but deep. About one hundred and fifty yards from 
 the bridge on the afternoon of the 26th of February, Colo- 
 nels Lillington and Ashe, at the head of a detachment of 
 the Wilmington Minute Men and New Hanover Volunteer 
 Rangers, had taken their post, determined to contest the 
 passage of the Celts. They hastily threw up an intrench- 
 ment at right angles with the road; two small field-pieces 
 were placed in the center so as to sweep the bridge; their 
 flanks were protected by the swamp skirting the Creek. Sub- 
 sequently, Col. Caswell came up, and finding the front 
 already occupied, drew up his forces in the rear in a sec- 
 ond line. The whole American force amounted to about 
 one thousand men and consisted of forces from New Han- 
 over, under Lillington and Ashe, and of the Minute Men 
 from Duplin, Craven, Johnston and Wake Counties, and a 
 Battalion from New Bern. 
 
 The Whigs were not in military costume, but clad in 
 simple homespun; in their hands were no muskets whose 
 bayonets gleamed in the sunshine, but long single-barrelled 
 shot guns and rifles, whose range had often been proved 
 in the deer hunt. 
 
 About daybreak, on the 27th, the Highlanders came in 
 sight of their antagonists, and the bag-pipes resounded upon 
 the frosty air of the morning. They rapidly formed into a 
 storming column, with a forlorn hope of seventy-five picked 
 men in front; their General being sick, Colonel Donald 
 McLeod took the command. The planks of the bridge had 
 been hastily removed. Their way was effectually barred. 
 Fight they must. They were celebrated for their dashing 
 onset. At the word of command, they passed the bridge, 
 and rushed forward with the force of the hurricane. Though 
 shattered by the fire of the cannon, they closed up their 
 broken ranks and pressed onward, as if to assured victory, 
 
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 while loud cheers accompanied their advance; but now was 
 heard the voice of Lillington, and a sheeted flame blazed 
 along the American line, attended with a report as of thun- 
 der when it rattles amid the mountain crags. There was a 
 moment of awful silence, in which the wind lifted the smoke 
 as a curtain, from that stage of death. Seldom has there 
 been disclosed to human eye a more appalling spectacle of 
 carnage. In front were the dead, the dying, and the wound- 
 ed — the background crowded with panic-stricken fugitives. 
 Fifty were killed, among whom were Col. McLeod and Capt. 
 Campbell. Fifteen hundred rifles; three hundred and fifty 
 guns and shot bags ; one hundred and fifty swords and dirks ; 
 two medicine chests worth $1,500, thirteen wagons with 
 complete sets of horses, and 75,000 pounds sterling in cash 
 constituted the booty. Eight hundred and fifty common sol- 
 diers, General McDonald, and many officers were captured. 
 Thus was won in North Carolina, by North Carolina men, 
 the first great, undoubted triumph of the American arms. 
 This gallant achievement entirely disconcerted the well- 
 organized plans of the intended campaign ; and North Caro- 
 lina had the honor to be the first of the provinces to repel 
 the foe from her borders. The truth is that North Carolina 
 never permitted the British to remain upon her soil. As 
 at Moore's Creek Bridge she repelled the first invasion of 
 her soil with North Carolina troops alone, so at King's 
 Mountain she repelled with the aid of her neighbors, Vir- 
 ginia and South Carolina, the second invasion of her soil. 
 I am glad to say that the Congress of the United States, 
 by the action of the Committee of Congress, of which I have 
 the honor to be a member, has provided for a monument 
 upon the King's Mountain battlefield as well as upon 
 the Moore's Creek battlefield. There is interwoven 
 with the battle of Moore's Creek other most important events 
 in the history of North Carolina, and of the nation. Not 
 only was this battle fought by heroic men from this section 
 
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 of the state, but by this battle and others of the Revolu- 
 tion in which my state participated, imperishable glory and 
 renown have been conferred upon North Carolina. The 
 history of the great achievements of North Carolina in the 
 War of the Revolution have been unjustly neglected or 
 obscured by the writers of history, and her people have been 
 oftentimes too modest to assert the rights to which they were 
 entitled in respect to great events. North Carolinians are 
 content "to be, rather than to seem" to achieve, rather than 
 to boast of what they have achieved ; but the history of North 
 Carolina, while not so well known as the history of New 
 England is inseparable from the early settlement of our 
 country and the history of the War of the Revolution. 
 It is needless for me to recall to your minds that North Caro- 
 lina was one of the foremost and staunchest of the colo- 
 nies in the Revolutionary struggles and furnished more than 
 her quota of men and eminent commanders, not only in that 
 war, but in all subsequent wars in which the nation has 
 been involved. During the Revolution North Carolina was 
 frequently overrun by British invaders who, however, were 
 repelled with great slaughter whenever an engagement took 
 place. The battles of Alamance, Moore's Creek, Guilford 
 Courthouse and King's Mountain, attest the fighting quali- 
 ties of her heroes in the Revolution. Upon the battlefield in 
 that war the record of North Carolina is among the fore- 
 most. During the Mexican War the contribution of North 
 Carolina to the National army was largely in excess of the 
 average both in numbers and quality. In the Civil War she 
 was first at Bethel, last at Appomattox, and farthest up the 
 heights at Gettysburg. In the war with Spain one of her 
 sons, Worth Bagley, was the first officer killed, giving up bis 
 young life as a sacrifice to the nation, falling at Cardenas 
 wrapped in the folds of "Old Glory," and it was the gallant 
 William E. Shipp who fought side by side with the Presi- 
 dent of our country, Theodore Roosevelt, at San Juan Hill. 
 
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 That war with Spain cemented the ties between the North 
 and the South, and the soldiers of the North and South 
 marched shoulder to shoulder in a common cause for the 
 liberation of Cuba and for its independence, and protec- 
 tion from Spanish tyranny; and by it much of the 
 feeling" and passion engendered by the great civil war 
 was obscured and obliterated. But, fellow citizens, how- 
 ever brave may have been the heroes of that war with 
 Spain, among all the North Carolinians who have fought 
 and bled for their country in any war in which we have been 
 engaged, these heroes of my section and your section of 
 North Carolina who faced the British in 1776, upon this 
 battlefield of Moore's Creek, were among the noblest, truest 
 and bravest. The forces of the Colonies at Moore's Creek 
 led by Caswell, the first Governor of North Carolina, and 
 by Lillington, won a victory unparalleled in its value and im- 
 portance by any similar battle. Much has been said and 
 written as to whether Caswell or Lillington is entitled to the 
 credit for leadership and for the victory. I have endeavored 
 to present the facts as I have gathered them from history. 
 Both were there, and if Caswell arrived upon the scene later 
 than Lillington, or if Lillington was in the rear, it makes no 
 difference for there was glory enough for all. According 
 to the inscription upon the old monument only one man 
 was killed upon the American side, John Grady, of the 
 good County of Duplin. The inscriptions upon the old 
 monument are as follows : 
 
 "In Commemoration of the Battle of Moore's 
 Creek Bridge, Fought Here February 27th, 1776. 
 The first victory gained by the American Arms In 
 the War of the Revolution. 
 
 Caswell — 
 
 Lillington — 
 Here lie the remains of Private John Grady, of 
 
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 Duplin County, who fell bravely fighting for his 
 Country. 
 
 "The first martyr in the cause of freedom in 
 North Carolina, and the only Whig killed in this 
 Battle." 
 
 As at the battle of Alamance, North Carolina in advance of 
 all other colonies called upon the nation to resist British 
 tyranny and lighted the fires of patriotism which resulted 
 in the independence of the country, so at the battle of 
 Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina stemmed the tide of 
 British invasion in the southern colonies and gave fresh 
 hope to the patriots of the north. 
 
 Following this battle came the Congress at Halifax, April 
 12, 1776, in which North Carolina declared her independ- 
 ence through her Congress assembled there, and also fol- 
 lowing it came the Declaration of American Independence 
 July 4th of the same year. No one of the heroes who fought 
 here ever flinched from the call of duty, and all deserve and 
 should receive now and for all time the thanks of their 
 grateful and appreciative descendants and fellow country- 
 men. Let this monument to them pointing heavenward, be 
 an incentive to future generations of North Carolina and 
 the Cape Fear section, and the citizens of the whole nation, 
 and let it be an altar of freedom where we may kindle afresh 
 the fires of patriotism should they ever begin to expire. The 
 descendants of the men who fought here while they honor 
 and respect the nation and fight in its defense and for its 
 flag, will never submit to injustice and oppression from any 
 source, nor permit their rights to be invaded by partisan 
 decrees of Federal Courts, or by those individuals or cor- 
 porations who would arrogantly attempt to over-ride and 
 ignore the just laws of the State. 
 
 Robert B. Glenn, the Governor of North Carolina, must 
 have in his veins some of the spirit which dominated the 
 
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 patriots who fought upon this battlefield more than a century 
 ago. 
 
 But, fellow citizens, I am especially delighted today in the 
 fact that the Moore's Creek Monumental Association, after 
 I had secured the appropriation from Congress with the aid 
 of Senator Overman, in the United States Senate, in ad- 
 dition to the repairs of the old monument, decided to erect 
 here another monument to the heroic women of the Revolu- 
 tion of the Cape Fear Section, who so justly deserve a place 
 in history side by side with the heroic men whose battle cry 
 was "Liberty or Death." This battle is connected with the 
 history of two most charming women, Flora McDonald and 
 Mary Slocumb. Flora McDonald was the wife of Allan 
 McDonald, a relative of General McDonald, who led the 
 Tory forces. It was this noble and beautiful girl who saved 
 the life of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince 
 Charlie," after the defeat of the Scotchmen and followers of 
 the House of Stuart, at the Battle of Culloden. Mary 
 Slocumb was the wife of Lieutenant Slocumb of the Patriot 
 Army. She has many descendants scattered throughout this 
 entire section of North Carolina, who honor and revere her 
 memory. Her son served in the Congress of the United 
 States, representing the district which I now represent, and 
 her brother, Charles Hooks, was also a member of the Con- 
 gress of the United States, representing the Wilmington 
 District. This separate shaft, fellow citizens, erected upon 
 this battlefield in memory of the heroic women of the Cape 
 Fear, white and pure and stainless as the good women it 
 commemorates, is the first recognition so far as I am in- 
 formed of the women of the Revolutionary period of our 
 history. Without them success in that war, and in every 
 other war of the country would be impossible. In the war 
 between the states it was the women of the South who as- 
 sisted and aided the soldiers of the South during those four 
 long years, when oftentimes amidst disaster and defeat the 
 
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 indomitable spirit of the South refused to succumb and sent 
 out fresh thousands of her sons to die upon a hundred 
 battlefields for a lost cause, yes, lost forever, but living- and 
 cherished in its undying memories in the hearts of the people 
 of the Southland; and when the Civil War was over it was 
 the women of the South who raised before the manhood of 
 the South a nobler standard and spanned the horizon with 
 a bow of .promise, and it is the women of the South who 
 with unchanging devotion upon each succeeding tenth of 
 May come with love and music to scatter roses over our 
 heroic dead. And so in the War of the Revolution the 
 women of the Cape Fear Section of North Carolina stood 
 side by side with their husbands and fathers and brothers 
 in defense of the rights and liberties of the Colonies. No 
 words I can utter can fitly eulogize the women of the Revo- 
 lution. They were bold, patient, loving, long-suffering and 
 brave. They defied the British and manifested a spirit with- 
 out fear, nerving the hearts of the men of the Revolution to 
 strive for independence. 
 
 It was the women of Eden ton, North Carolina, who re- 
 fused to drink tea because it was taxed by the British Par- 
 liament. It was Mrs. Ashe, a North Carolina woman, who, 
 when the British officer Tarleton ridiculed Col. William 
 Washington and said he was so ignorant that he could not 
 write his name, promptly retorted : "At least, Col. Tarleton, 
 you must admit that Col. Washington knows how to make 
 his mark." Whereat Col. Tarleton flushed with anger be- 
 cause he bore upon his face the mark of the sword of Col. 
 Washington. Finally it was Mary Slocumb, whose name is 
 inscribed upon yonder beautiful monument of Italian marble, 
 who upon this battlefield of Moore's Creek nursed the 
 wounded and dying soldiers after a night ride of sixty-five 
 miles from her home without an escort. All honor to her 
 and her descendants and to every heroic woman of the 
 Revolution and to their descendants, and the noble women of 
 
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 this day and time who reside in the Cape Fear Section of 
 North Carolina, who would now do and dare as she did on 
 that terrible night ride of 1776. 
 
 No monuments of stone or marble can express our full 
 appreciation of these brave men and women of the Revolu- 
 tion, and their memories are enshrined in our hearts, and as 
 we assemble each year around these monuments let us cherish 
 the memory of their noble deeds and their heroism, and 
 preserve for all coming generations of the noble people who 
 inhabit Pender County and Cape Fear Section of North 
 Carolina, the history of their lives and their glorious achieve- 
 ments in the cause of American independence. They helped 
 to lay the foundation of the greatest Government upon which 
 the sun shines. 
 
 "Nor shall their glory be forgot 
 While Fame the record keeps ; 
 
 And Honor marks the hallowed spot, 
 Where Valor proudly sleeps." 
 

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