. Historic towns of the Southern States. nor Tryon, in hisdespatches, tells us how Colonel Ashe, withthe militia of New Hanover County, cameopenly to the Governors house in Brunswickand compelled William Houston, the stampmaster, who had gone to the Governor forprotection, to go with them to Wilmington,and before the Mayor, Moses John de Rosset, Wilmington and the City Council, in the Court House, toresign his office and to take an oath that hewould not receive the stamps. He also saysthat upon thearrival of thesloop of war Dil-zcence at Bruns-wick with thestamps, theywere not landed,as there
. Historic towns of the Southern States. nor Tryon, in hisdespatches, tells us how Colonel Ashe, withthe militia of New Hanover County, cameopenly to the Governors house in Brunswickand compelled William Houston, the stampmaster, who had gone to the Governor forprotection, to go with them to Wilmington,and before the Mayor, Moses John de Rosset, Wilmington and the City Council, in the Court House, toresign his office and to take an oath that hewould not receive the stamps. He also saysthat upon thearrival of thesloop of war Dil-zcence at Bruns-wick with thestamps, theywere not landed,as there was noperson to re-ceive them. Buth e neglects t ogive the truereason, w h i c hwas that them en of NewHanover, underColonel Wad-dell, assembled at Brunswick and notified thecommander of XX^^ Diligence that they would notallow the stamps to be landed. A few weekslater, when Captain Lobb, of the J^ipcr, hadseized two vessels in the harbor for the wantof proper papers bearing the required stamps,the men of Wilmino-ton, this time under the. HUGH WADDELL. 40 Wilmington lead of Moore, Harnett, Lillinyton, Lloydand Ashe, in defiance of two armed vessels,the Viper and the Diligence, compelled thesurrender of the vessels which had been seized,to the great disgust of the Governor. Allthese actions were open and undisguised, thepeople of the country assembling in arms un-der their chosen leaders, and compelling boththe civil and the naval authorities to yield totheir demands. The same prompt and intrepid spirit showeditself throucrhout the whole struorale, whichwas just beginning in 1765. Nine years laterthis little community, hardly to be called atown, raised eight hundred pounds in a veryshort time in response to the appeal in behalfof Boston ; and sent to that city a ship-loadof supplies. Its Committee of Safety, whoseminutes have been preserved from 1774 to1776, when its function was superseded by theorganization of the State under its Constitu-tion, kept a very vigilant watch, and e
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