Excerpt from Revolutionary History of North Carolina: In Three Lectures For a number of years past, an unusual de gree of interest has been manifested in various quarters, in regard to the early history of North Carolina. In former times, her distance from the centres of commerce, and the comparatively quiet and retiring disposition of her people, withdrew her name and character, to some ex tent, from general observation: Little attention was paid to her interests, and her primitive glo ry was forgotten in the din and tumult of polit ical agitation. But a change has taken place in the direction of the American mind. A growing taste for history and antiquities has be come apparent in our literature, and some of our ablest men, turning away from the unsatis factory study of present social phenomena, have begun to search among the records and tradi tions of the past, for subjects worthy of patriotic contemplation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.