[Gutenberg 49353] • Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians, with Illustrations and Speeches

Excerpt from Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians: With Illustrations and Speeches

The people are entitled to the sources of history (the knowledge of which, in this State, is confined to a very few), because from among the people must always arise the man who breaks the monopoly which sequesters the facts of public interest for private interpretation.

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