*Governor Martin took advantage of this journey to visit the Scotch settlements on the upper Cape Fear, and set on foot the insurrection that culminated in the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. QUESTIONS. 1. What signs were observed after the first Provincial Congress? 2. What was necessary for North Carolina to do? What was done on February 11, 1775? 3. What is said of this election ? Describe the Legislature and Congress? 4. How was the Legislature received by the Governor? How did Captain Howe answer him? 5. What was done by the Congress? 6. What startling news was received on April 19th. 7. How did the circulation of news in 1775 differ from the present? Who was first to receive the news of Lexington? 8. When did the tidings reach Mecklenburg? What great event occurred at Charlotte? Find this city on the map. 9. What was the attitude of the American people at this time? By what name have the Charlotte resolutions always been known? 10. What sad news next thrilled North Carolina? 11. What was done by Governor Martin? What occurred at Fort Johnston? CHAPTER XXV. THE CONGRESS AT HILLSBORO. A. D. 1775. It had been seen at New Bern that Colonel Harvey's days were numbered, and Samuel Johnston had been empowered, in case of the Moderator's death, to order an election for another Congress to meet at Hillsboro whenever he should deem it necessary. Accordingly (Colonel Harvey having died) the Congress met, at the call of Mr. Johnston, in Hillsboro, on the 20th of August, 1775, and a memorable Congress it was. Samuel Johnston was its President. 2. When Governor Martin left New Bern royal authority was virtually at an end in North Carolina, but it was at Hillsboro, and by the Congress there assembled, that its last vestige was swept away. The time had come when, if North Carolina intended to stand with her sister colonies, she must take up arms and appeal to the God of battles. This she was ready to do without any hesitation, and this she did do at Hillsboro, giving publicly to the world her reasons for so doing. 3. The Governor sent to Samuel Johnston a copy of his proclamation, dated on board His Majesty's ship Cruiser, at Cape Fear, on the 8th of August, 1775, in which he warned the people against the Hillsboro Congress as a dangerous and unconstitutional assembly, and of baneful influence; and further, that to assemble men in arms in the province without authority from the King, was a violation of law for which they would be held answerable. In reply to this proclamation, which was duly laid before the Congress by the Moderator, Mr. Johnston, it was formally resolved that the proclamation was a false, scandalous, scurrilous and seditious libel, tending to disunite the good people of the province; "and further, that the said paper be burnt by the common hangman."