Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 04, 1894, Image 1

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lewis m. grist, Proprietor, j %\\ Jmlrpcmlcnt ,$tinilt! |hu:spapfr: ^oi: the promotion of thq political, Social, Agricultural and (tfommcijcial Jntcrcsts of the ?outh. | TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL.40. YOEKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1894. NO. . . . ^ A FIGHT FOR MILLIONS.' By JOHN J. M'GINNKS. [Copyright, ISM, by American Press Association.] CHAPTER V?Continuki>. "No, I -will begin my story. Your father was George Leland, an honored j and an honorable man. He came from England with your mother, ambition goading him on. Laurence was the eldest child, nearly 8 years your senior. Two other children your parents had. ; They are dead. Your father was erratic in his way. For several years he lived at Worcester. Mass. When your brother was 8 years old, your father began to travel, searching for specula- i tions. Your brother Laurence -was not very strong, and as your mother had j hopes of bringing her husband back to Worcester she left the boy there in her sister's care. As he grew up, the boys all addressed him as Laurence Mangan. Mangau was the name of your aunt's ! husband. He had no children of his own, and Laurence became his idol." j "But how is it that Laurence does | not know his own surname?" she queried. "I am coming to that. Your mother ! was taken ill here, shortly before your birth. She didn't feel equal to a jour- ; ney back to Worcester, having been worn out with travel through several j states, and at any rate your father took a liking to this city, and she was very cautious in avoiding suggestions that might again awaken the roving dispo- i sition within him. Your brother was in his aunt's care from his third year, as the boy was not strong enough to stand the travel. Your father was moving from place to place, your I mother always with him. They settled in this city in 1878, and it was your : mother's intention to have Laurence brought on, when she was stricken down. Your uncle had queer notions of your father. He knew he had not the I disposition of the migratory swallow, returning to the old haunts with the change of seasons, and that he would never revisit Worcester. Mr. Mangan had therefore made up his mind that Laurence would remain with him. j Mangan was not wealthy, but be was comfortably situated, and he had no ; thought that objections would be made to his adontion of the bov. especially ! as the probability was that your father would not be long in wasting his substance in his speculations. Mr. Mangan never told Laurence of his people, for the reason, be said to his wife, that 'it is time enough when his folks return, | or until he is older and capable of appreciating the case.' Your mother's death was followed quickly by that of your aunt, and Laurence never learned this story. Your father placed you in the convent." "Why has my father been silent and apparently so careless of Laurence and me?" "He went to Denver and was killed j ?killed for his money. He had not time to make any arrangements." "And how have you learned this; how came you to be acquainted with a history that is a mystery to me and to ?to?Laurence?'' "Simply enough. The old lawyer with whom I studied was your father's counsel. In rummaging over old papers a short time ago, I found a letter from the district attorney of Denver, inclosiner a memorandum written at your father's dying request?he lived a few hours after the shooting. That memo- j random directed your father's counsel j to look after your interests. I presume I the lawyer found you had a good home, | that Laurence had another and that, as j your father had left no property, mat- I ters could not be improved. Out of my love for you I made inquiries that enlarged my knowledge. Your family, on the maternal as well as the paternal j side, is an honored one." "Why not tell Laurence?" **^Has he never spoken to you about mi. "No, beyond saying that you were not friendly toward euch other on account of politics. I never asked more, just because it was politics." "He's a queer lad," remarked -Raymond. "If 1 told him, he would almost j kil his uncle, now an old man, for the \ deception practiced upon him." "In what does all this mean danger for Laurence?" asked Isabel. "You have not yet told me that my j interest in you is reciprocated?" "The interest is." "But there is something more I seek." "A woman's heart is not like the wax matrix of a phonograph, susceptible to the slightest sound and holding it until itself is molten, was the evasive response. "There is no one whom you would have nearer or dearer to you?in this i one 6ense, I mean?the sense of honest love?" "If Laurence is my brother?then? perhaps"? and realizing that she had almost made an admission* she broke off into the Btrain most pressing upon her mind: "How is Laurence threatened?" Raymond was satisfied. He knew that gratitude in woman, like pity, is akin to love. The first process in its evolution was visible to his quick eye and was confirmed by the ear that had marked the intonation when she referred to the quality of a woman's heart. He could now finish his story 1 and trust safely to time, he thought, to make her his own. "Laurence was a clerk in your uncle's store, a large one for a town like Worcester. He had other ambitions and ran away one morning and entered newspaper life. The day after his departure there was a defalcation of a few thousands of dollars reported. The bookkeeper placed the blame upon Laurence, who was trusted. The evidence was against him. The deposit sent with him to the bank, the day previous to his departure, was larger than the sum credited in the passbook. So the bookkeeper charged. They have been a few years hunting Laurence down. A lawyer friend of mine who has the case in hand has withheld proceedings at my earnest request. He has not notified your uncle, who, some time ago, sent him authority to act, having heard Laurence was here. Requisition papers will be soon issued and would have been issued ere this, but fnr mv inflnpnro ir< nrtvicincr rlolav " " You do not think him guilty, do you?" "Certainly not, but your uncle is so stubborn and vindictive that if he once got Laurence back in Worcester he would not relent, but would press the 1 charge to conviction. The evidence of the bookkeeper would be sufficient to send your brother to state prison, and your uncle is severe enough to do it as a punishment for what he considers ' ingratitude. My opinion is that the bookkeeper is the real thief, who saw ! in the disappearance of Laurence a splendid opportunity to evade the consequences of his own peculations. I suggested this to my lawyer friend, but. be says that Mr. Mangan, your uncle, will not listen to the theory." "Oh, what shall we do to save him?" tucu ioa uvj. "Say nothing to hiiu at all about it," Raymond advised. "If he had the slightest inkling of it, he is too manly to remain here for a day. He would go to Worcester immediately, and having no defense prepared, nothing to rely upon but the consciousness of his own i innocence, his impetuosity would lead to the penalty of imprisonment. Leave the case to me to manage, and in duo time you will find the results favorable, provided you do not allow your anxietv to betray you and muke known to him the situation. My friend confided to me alone, because he was under the j impression that I desired Laurence's humiliation, and that his action in the 1 case, if agreeable to me, might be another step up to the seat of a justiceship to which he aspired. Such is the way of the world." "I will obey your wishes," she answered faintly. The tension on her nerves relaxed, and she swooned. Her body 6lowly| slid from the chair to the floor, the rustling of her dress and the deadened: 6ound of the soft fall attracting the attention of Inez, who was passing. "The heat of the room has been too' much for her," said Raymond. "Even, the flowers are fading." "That and the excitement," said Inez. Isabel was carried to the boudoir set apart for her. She rested little that j night, but arose in the morning at her ' accustomed hour, bearing herself brave ly, showing no sign that would reveal aught of the great trouble that was darkening her life, with few rifts in the clouds through which she could look to I for consolation in the" brightness beyond. "Mr. Raymond is good," she said. | "He means well, but can I repay him j as he wishes?" CHAPTER VI. * THE SHADOW OF PARTING. Laurence Mangan spent some days in j looking over the territory in which the j principal park was to be located, according to the information he had re- j ceived from sources he knew to be re- j liable. There are many men in politics who are 80 anxious to make friends with newspaper men that they occasion- i ally abuse the confidence of others and disclose state secrets, so to speak, well knowing that their own are safe. Have you ever thought how those big j stories, not coming through regular news channels, have been drawn into j print, startling the public and the parties interested with the precision of statement and accuracy of detail? This may enlighten you. It was one of Raymond's lieutenants, an assemblyman, who told Mangan that Raymond had explained, when asked why he did not leave the appointment of the commissioners to the supreme court, instead 1 of naming them in the bill, that one of the justices could not be depended on. Just think of it! One man under , the political system of this free country can not only have laws passed to suit his purposes, if he is a shrewd political leader, but can actually have these laws interpreted as he pleases by his own nominees on the bench, if he have 1 no quarrel with them! We shudder when we read of the tyrannies of the czar, whether all of us, or only some of us, may palliate the nihilism engen- j dered by the excesses of Russian autocracy. Here we have a political revo- ! lution. We clean out one or more branches of the city government, where j wrong has become so potent as to be notorious, but the other departments to which the ramifications of fraud have i extended are left untouched year atter year. The politicians have been taught a lesson, and the taxpayers take a rest. So it is that our political reforms are transitory, and that the uprising at the polls we imagine to be the palingenesy of our liberties, not to say palladium, becomes the genesis of greater official corruption, because the feeling of security it creates has more strength than wisdom. It temporizes. Laurence Mangan had all the facts of his assignment in mind, so far as they related to the commission and probable sites. He would soon be able to turn in his article. He had completed all his arrangements for starting to Denver and had made up his mind that ho would call again upon Mother St. Gertrude and Isabel and make his adieus. That afternoon he started for the convent. It was two days after the reception given by Inez Mortimer. He had seen Isabel's name in the newspaper account of the reception, but to him there was no special significance in that, for he knew that Isabel's presence was looked for by the people whose names figured in the report of the event. She was often in demand at entertainments and other affairs where her taste and executive ability contributed to the success. If she was called upon where hard tasks were imposed, it was but natural that she should 6hare in the social pleasures of those whom she aid- I ed at other times. What a surprise was in store for him! \ Isabel came to receive him, not play- ! fully as on the last occasion, with the > raillery that had lightened his heart, j but diffidently, demurely, blushing,out- ; stretching her hand mechanically, bow- 1 iug her head in a vain attempt to hide j her confusion. She would have given worlds to be i relieved of her secret, and yet she be lieved his honor depended uj>on her ret- | icence with respect to it. He was nonplused. Was her action j due to the fact that this was the first j time he had met her since their troth j had been plighted?and plighted under conditions that implied, on her own j understanding, a sense of her unworthiness? Or did she, with woman's intuition, divine that this meeting, solecistic though the thought, was to be one of parting? Loverlike, ho sought in his own inner consciousness for some reason that would account for her conduct. Somewhere and somehow, where and when ; he could not then discover, he was responsible, not she. How quick the mind works under such circumstances! No hesitation was apparent in him from the moment the heavy doors of the convent closed until he had his arm around her, awakening her faith in his own strength, while her head, leaning against his breast, her golden locks i waving on his left shoulder, was pressed gently back by a kiss upon her brow, and her face upturned to his. "You didn't look for me, did you?" he asked, assuming a gayness that he did not feel. "No." With his arm still around her waist, they walked into the reception room. "Didn't you expect me to come to say goodby before I went to Denver?" ho began. "You must have known I wouldn't delay ? When did you think I was going to put my promise into execution?" "I didn't know." "Suppose it was the day after tomorrow?" "Why so soon?" "Don't you know?" "I can't think." "Well, the sooner I unveil the mystery, the sooner you are mine." Htr brother talking to her as a lover! Her heart and soul revolted. He had expected her to press closer to him, not to start back, as she did. Quickly she saw her mistake. His strange look apprised her of it. She must suffer and bear. Her resolution seemed to call up power superhuman, and the pain that worked upon her features disappeared, much as does the sun chased i shadow. "I had not thought you were going . away so suddenly." "Then you do not wish to part just now, even for a lune wnue."You know I don't." "Yon mustn't worry, darling. When 1 coine back, we will never part again." , TO III-: roNTIXUKI* NEXT WKKK. * Everlasting Faithfulness. "Charley, dear," said the rustic young girl, "will you love 1110 as now and cling to me always:" "Yes, darling," replied the matter of fact lover, "I'll stick to you as tight as those freckles on your nose."?Exchange. Modem Society. Downtou?Any news up your way? Upton?Well, yes. Miss Catchem is going to retire from the stago and get married, and Mrs. Cheatem is going to retire from marriage and goon the stage. 1 HIIlJjjBGRTl. History of Heaven's Greatest Blessing to Man. DR. LATH AN TELLS THE STORY. * ? (>od Committed the Spark to Abraham?It Went Out in Disobetfi- | nice?It wus uestorcu ny c nrisi ? Smothered by tin* Popes?Fanned into a Flame by the Reformers of the Middle Ages?The Heroes of King's Mountain Hallowed it with Ulood?Its Transmission to Future Generations Our Highest Duty to I Him "Who Gave It. Rev. I)r. Robert Lathan, of Due West, delivered his address on tlie buttle of King's Mountain, in the court house, last Wednesday at noon. The speaker spoke frotu the judge's stand, j In front of him were the members of | the board of visitors and faculty of the i citadel, on the right and left was seated the corps of cadets, aud in the main auditorium was a large audience ! of ladies and gentlemen of the town, ! visitors from the surrounding country and from a distance. The exercises | were opened with prayer by Rev. I)r. 1 S. A. Weber, and the speaker was in- : troduced by Gen. E. M. Law. The general presumption was that i Dr. Lathan's address would be con- ; lined to a description of the battle of , King's Mountain ; but Dr. Lathan is : not one of those men who can be an- ; ticipated. His theme was civil and religious liberty, and King's Mountain was only dwelt on as a glorious inei- j dent in the struggle for these priceless 1 blessings. Here is the address: REV. DR. ROBERT LATH AN. Officers and Cadets of the South i Carolina Military Academy, Ladies j and Gentlemen : Savages build no ; monuments. They have no past and j no future; only the present. For the J deeds of their ancestors, whom they j know only through a dim and con- j fused tradition, they cherish no pride and feel no blush of shame. Like brute beasts they live and die, leaving j nothing behind them to perpetuate their memories. As nations, however, rise in civilization they begin to cherish a veneration for the past; their hopes for the future brighten and their respect for the present is developed. When the children of Israel had been delivered from a hard bondage of 215 years, and had finished a wandering of 40 years in the wilderness and crossed the Jordan and entered into the prom- j ised land, they, by the command of i God, built a monument at Gilgal to i perpetuate to all coming generations the memory of their triumphs, under j God, over all the hosts of Kgvpt and the perils of the wilderness. Those 12 1 stones, taken from the bed of the Jor- | dan and borne on the shoulders of j priests and constructed into a rude J monument, were eminently calculated to promote the devotion and fan into a flame the patriotism of the hosts of Israel. This result it actually had until the descendants of Jucob forsook i God, and in forsaking God, ceased to | love their country. The part I am to take today, by the : request of the committee, in these ex- J ercises, is to talk about the "Battle of | King's Mountain." It is, to my mind, indicative of something good in the future, that in connection with the ; commencement exercises of the Military Academy of the State of South i Carolina, there is to be, in some sense, | a celebration of the battle which turned i the tide of war in favor of the 13 colonies and severed from the kingdom of Great Britain, all that vast territory which is today known as the United States of North America. The day is j propitious of good. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Fort Moultrie. It < augurs good that in this restless age, j when the watchword seems to he to tear down everything and build up j nothing; when multitudes of what the I old Romans were wont to call novi homines, seem to revel in defiling or corrupting everything in Church and State which God in his infinite mercy i bestowed upon our self-sacrificing ancestors as an inheritance to bequeath to us. It augurs good that in these days of fierce political strife, carried on by miserable demagogues whose only ambition is to reign or ruin, that this audience, the most of whom are the . descendants of Revolutionary ancestors, are willing to hear the story of King's Mountain told .over again. When compared with the great battles of cither modern or ancient times, the battle of King's Mountain was, in point of numbers, a mere skirmish : hut when viewed with respect to its results, it was a Waterloo. It led to results the most disastrous to the 1 armies of Great Britain, and the most favorable to the 13 colonics. It was 1 the pivotal point on which the whole war of the American Revolution turned, and turned decidedly in favor of the freedom of the colonies. A rain on the night before the battle of Waterloo decided the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte. The loss of the battle of King's Mountain decided adversely for Kngland ber claim to govern her North American colonies. It was a little battle?a mere skirmish?planned by officers, on the side of the colonies, without any military education, and fought by privates whose only fitness for the field of conflict was their delib- I crate determination to win or die. The battle of King's Mountain is very generally regarded as an isolated event. The little mountain on which it was fought, seems to have been torn * l _! ? r a i* ii.? ! by some convulsion 01 muure iroui me great Allegheny range. So insignificant is it in the judgment of our map-makers, that it is marked, if marked at all, on our maps by a little blur. Very much in the same way have many historians treated the hattie which was fought on its crest. The battle of King's Mountain was not a detached event. It was a part, and 110 insignificant part, of the great conflict which wasattlie time going on between Kngland and her North American colonies. The cause of that conflict is generally stated to be taxation without representation. Or, the Kng- ( lish government claimed the right to tax her North American colonies, and at the same time denied them the right of representation. We, of the present day, hold, and that most tenaciously, at least in theory, that taxation and representation are inseparable; but at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed, the doctrine was comparatively new. When we consider the fact that the North American colonies : had cost the English government a | vast amount of blood and treasure, it 1 was not strange that the colonies were I ! called upon to contribute something to I i their own maintenance. It was cer- | lainly not very strange that a tax was I imposed on them. Multitudes today i are taxed with only the shadow of i representation. i The Revolution of 1770 had its I ' origin in the purpose of (Jod to deliver , < the world from the yoke of priestcraft and popery. This purpose is not yet ; 1 fully accomplished. The events which | i occur in this world, whether the agen- j 1 cies which bring them about be ration- ! i al or irrational, are all capable of being ' systematized and placed under proper j ' heads, according to their nature, or in < accordance with the end which they 1 are designed by (Jod to accomplish, i Wc make a grave mistake when we j s jump to the conclusion that either j 1 kings, or presidents, or popes, govern j j this world. It has been demonstrated j 1 in thousands of cases, and is constantly ! t being demonstrated, that the Lord < reigns absolute sovereign, and the i earth and all tlfat it contains belongs I to him ! The three great events of modern t history prior to the American Revolu- j 1 tion, arc, first, the invasion of Rome I by the barbarians, which resulted in i i the destruction of the Western Em- ? t pire and the uniting of the Roman and ! < German civilizations and diffusing the t influences of Christianity among the : j new national organizations. The next ' t is the Crusades, which aroused Euro- j 1 pean society from a state of stupor and i prepared the way for a new state of i things among the nations of Europe by < crippling the feudal system. The i third is the Reformation of the Six- 1 < leenth century. These three great j j events are but parts of one whole, and I sustain to each other the same rein- 1 tionship which each part does to the whole. The whole is the establishing j f and building up the kingdom of Jesus | ] Christ in all lands and among all ! people. I It is with the Reformation of the , f Sixteenth century that the American ! 1 Revolution stands more immediately ! . connected. The latter grew out of the i t former, and is but a development of it. : t We speak of Martin Luther and John i Knox as reformers. They were more ( than reformers. They were rovolu- j tionists. Wieklilfe, I fuss and Wessel j were reformers; but Luther and Knox t were revolutionists. Luther burned 1 papal bulls and Knox "drove the i rooks out of Scotland and tore down i the nests." s There is something strange in the i progress of both civilization and I Christianity. Neither moves forward in mrnllel lines: neither do thev as- i 4 7 v cend or descend by angles of regular i elevation or depression. On the con- 1 trary, they rise and fall in what may be correctly described as a ricochet motion. Such is the history of nations. Such was tlie history of Israel. A single individual was called from the headwaters of the Euphrates. With his wife he left his native land and kindred and became the progenitor of a numerous offspring. Although the descendants of Abraham were God's people in a sense that no other people at that time were his people ; still they were sometimes rejoicing in the favor of God, their fields visited with the rains and dews of heaven, and again they were worshipping the gods of their idolatrous neighbors and groaning beneath the oppression of the Philistines, the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians and the Chaldeans. Another example is found in the history of Rome. About 7o0 years before the Christian era, it began in a confederation of a few outlaws on the banks of the Tiber. At the time of Augustus, the Roman empire extended from the Euphrates on the east, to the Atlantic ocean on the west, and from the deserts of Africa on the south, to the Rhine and Danube on the north. The population was at least 120,000,000? fully twice as great as that of the United States today. After the battle of Phillippi, it began to decline. In A. D. 47(5, the Roman empire came to an end. It was not long after the ascension of our Saviour before the pure doctrines of religiou aud the spiritual modes of religious worship which he gave his people, began to be corrupted. Error, both in doctrine and modes of worship, had been introduced by false teachers previous to the death of several of the apostles. Error, always insidious, is ready at all times to turn to its own advantage the neg- j lect of duty on the part of the followers of truth. A system of ecclesiastical tyranny was, by designing and selfinterested religious teachers, foisted upon the Church, and through the Church, upon the State, which no i words can adequately describe. The pope of Rome governed everything, f both in Church and State. The people j f were robbed of their property and j ? corrupted in their morals. Reformers, j t such as Wicklifl'e, had made honest 1 efforts to effect a reformation, and s they did accomplish a great deal. ( They translated the Bible into the ( vernacular language of the people, y They made preparations for the future. ] It was not, however, a reformation of 1 tlie papal system that was demanded, s It was revolution that was needed. 1 Nothing short of this could save the 1 world. This revolution began in (Jer- \ many de facto?in earnest?on the t 10th of December, 1"?20, when Martin i > Luther, in the presence of the profes- ! t sors and students of the University of j i Wittenberg and the inhabitants of the | t town, threw into a lire previously pre- | ! pared, the pope's bull, which oxcom- | I municated him from the visible church j I and barred the doors of heaven against | ( him forever unless he would recant ! within 00 days. f This revolution, begun by Luther in i I Germany, was carried into England, | 1 Scotland and Ireland, and by the Eng- i i lisli, and especially by the Scotch and 1 Irish, were the grand principles em- I s bodied in this revolution brought to < America. The Reformation, as it is ; < called, began in England during the j l reign of Henry VIII. It was, how- ' ever, in England, only a change of popes. Henry rebelled against the 1 pope of Rome; not because of relig- 1 ions principles, but from motives pure- y ly and brutally selfish. The reign of 1 his son Edward was of short duration t and was succeeded by that of the i Bloody Mary. When John Knox be- y gan the work of Reformation in Scot- j i inml ?1ip liPMiitifnl hut misirnided and ' j unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scotts, i was sovereign of "the land of the j blown heath and shaggy wood." In A. I). 1(103, on the death of Elizabeth, the sovereign of Scotland, James VI, became also sovereign of England with the title James I. Then began the reign of the ill-advised and ill-omened Stewarts over England, Ireland and Scotland. 1 Hiring that whole period J of about SO years, the kingdom was in a state but little better than anarchy. Thousands were put to death for no other reason than that they dared to worship (Jod according to a conscience enlightened by (Jod's word and spirit. Thousands were banished as slaves to the English plantations, and thousands sought voluntary exile. Banished from their native land, they sat down in the . wild woods of America, happy that an ocean, 3,000 miles wide,separated them from the misguided tyrants of the home of their ancestors. In the forests of : America they began to narrate the story of their sufferings. This story was repeated over ami over again in J coming generations. The young? | i males and females?were made to l?e- i lieve that the British government had j 1 usurped the crown rights of Jesus j 1 Christ and deprived the people of both t civil and religious liberty. It was this ] feeling which led the colonies to resist 1 ) stamp acts and the tax on tea. The storm had been gathering for years. The men who fought and won the battle of King's Mountain were, officers ind privates, the descendants of those i martyrs who perished in old Grey friar's j churchyard, and of those brave men who quenched the bonfires kindled to ( celebrate the restoration of Charles II. in the veins of many of them ran the blood of those who penned and subscribed, in U5S0, 100 years before the battle of King's Mountain, the following declaration : "We do declare that j we will set up over ourselves, and over | what God shall give us power of, gov eminent and governors according to j the Word of God ; that we shall no more commit the government of ourselves and the making of laws for us j to nny one single person, that kind of ! government being most litible to incon- | venicnce and aptest to degenerate into tyranny." It was the spirit which this ieclaration breathes that inspired Patrick Henry to exclaim, "(Jive me liber- 1 Ly or give me death." A large number of the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies at the time of the I Revolution, were natives of the eoun- j :ry?"to the manor born." They had lever seen a king or a member of the royal family, and the English govern- j )rs and other officers, both military tnd civil, had, by their indiscretion, j served to keep warm in their breasts j he hatred for the English government ; which had been engendered by the oft i tar rated trials of their ancestors on iccount of tyranny. The circumstan- j ;es by which they had ever been surrounded had wrought a marvelous diange in their modes, both of thought , ind life, as compared with the inhabi- : ants of Old England. The English were monarchists and high-churchmen, i The native born American was a dissenter in religion and a republican in lolitics. It is impossible to understand the j rattle of King's Mountain, either as a act or in its results, without a clear j cnowlcdge of the condition of the j American colonies at the time. The hirteen colonies which entered into a :onfederation for the purpose of resistng the usurpation of (treat Britain, ! consisted of only a narrow strip ofter- j itory extending along the coast of the | Vtlantic from Florida on the south, i o the St. John's river on the north, i t was about 1,400 miles long with an j iverage width of perhaps less than 800 j niles. All of this region was sparsely i ictlled, and a great deal of it was tin- j eclnitned swamps and forests inhabi- j ed only by Indians and wild beasts. j -i ? r... :i,. i lie population was repurieu, iur u? nilitary effect, to ho .??,000,000 ; but it, ! 11 fact, fell far short of this number. 1 S'one of the inhabitants were rich in ' he modern sense of that word, and the I iverwhelming majority of them were lepeudenton their daily labor for their I laily bread. With England the in- I mbitants of this territory had been at var since the battle of Lexington, on he 19th of April, 1775?a period of ; nore than five and a half years?when lie battle of King's Mountain was ! ought. We are not to conclude, as is levy commonly done, that the Ameri:an people were a unit in their oppo- j iition to the English government. Such was not the case. The inhabiants of Massachusetts, which has alvays claimed the lion's share of the ;lory due the patriots of the Revoluion, was, at the beginning of the truggle, greatly divided, and many of ler illustrious men never did take part villi the Whigs. The same is true of j inch and all of the colonies. When he struggle between England and her j S'orth American colonies began, nothng was desired by the overwhelming | najority of the colonists but a redress j >f grievances. Only a very few even , I reamed of severing the tie which j lound the colonies to the mother counry. Even John Adams, afterword the j econd ptesideut of the United states, Icclared, in 1775, in a controversy ' vhich he had with Sewall, attorney general of Massachusetts and a Loyal- j st, that no man in the province among j he Whigs, either at that time or at my previous time, harbored a wish to I 'stablish an independent government j n America. And that no greater ; lander could be perpetrated on the >Vhigs than to publish that they were ittempting anything beyond a redress , if grievances. All were not in favor >f making any special effort to redress jrievances. The stamp act and tax on ea was in no way injurious to the : nasses, and to only a few was it bur- I lensome; and to some, as officeholders, t was profitable. These opposers of he colonial movement were of two dasses, called Loyalists and Tories. \I1, however, were frequently called fories. The Loyalists proper were j riends of the English government j rom principle, and deserving of respect; the Tories proper, belonged to hat class of human beings found, per- . mps, in every land in all stages of society, who, strictly speaking, have no jouiury and do not care 10 nuve u :ountry. During the Revolutionary ,var, they signalized themselves by ex- j doits in horse and cattle stealing, in louse-robbing and burning, and in in- \ suiting helpless women and children. Like all of the class to which they beonged, they were cruel. Many who ! .vere Loyalists at first, afterward, when he contest began in earnest, united villi the Whigs and fought bravely to he end. Large numbers, however, j villained firm in their allegiance to ; he Rritish government. Of these, some joined the Rritish army, some led from the country, and others were mnishcd and their property conlis:atcd. Then, as now, in times of political ends, families were divided. General Lacey, of Chester, was a true Whig: nit his father and brother Reuben vere Tories. Renjamin Franklin and lis son William, were on opposite fides. The father a decided republican, and his son, and only son, as lecided a monarchist. These were lot the only cases of family divisions, j They were painfully numerous. Under such circumstances, the war j vhich resulted in the severing of the ' Id American colonies from England, I vas begun and carried on. When the Kittle of King's Mountain was fought, lie affairs of the colonies were in ini- ninent peril. For full five years, war, vitli all its desolating and demoraliztig effects, bad been stalking over the S'orthern colonies. The resources of lie country were exhausted. Many inrd battles had been fought in j vhich, with a few exceptions, the forces )f the British were successful; and j ?vi>ii in flinso in which the Americans ,vere victorious, the gain was neither lermanent nor decisive. The Colonial brces, never strong, had lost in battle ind by death caused by exposure in . amp, more than onc-halfof their avail- , iblc strength. Of the remainder, many ,vere unfit for active duty, and all were ialf-starvcd and illy clad. It was all ! hut the commander-in-chief could do o prevent mutiny among both officers ind privates. When Sir Henry Clin- , on, on the *J(5th day of December, 177!), deared the ice in the harbor of New i'ork on his expedition to South Caroina, the pall of despair hung over the ountry. It is true that several Euro ican powers and many of the English icople sympathized with the colonies, iot so much because of their love for lie Whigs of America, as on account of j heir bitter hatred of England. France j lad, in 17(5:1, ceded Canada to England, n order that the American colonies ! night thereby be so strengthened as to ie able to sever themselves from Engand and establish a government of j /heir own, and thus injure England, j l-larly in 177S (Feb. (5) France recoglized the idependcnce of the colonies, ' and previous to this a noble band of ] Frenchmen came to America ami aid- I ed the struggling patriots. At this 1 trying moment it was little that could i be done. Washington, without the < men or means sufficient to drive the I enemy from his strongholds or risk a 1 general engagement, wisely, but from i sheer necessity, had been retreating for ] years before the foe. His camp was 5 often nothing but an assembly of halfstarved, half-clad, unpaid soldiers. [ < Near the last of December, 1778, Sa- i van nail, (Ja., was captured by the i British with a loss in killed, wounded < and prisoners to the Americans of538? i nearly two-thirds of the whole force? < while the British loss was only 24. It I was but a short time until the whole of 1 Georgia was under the foot of the in- I vader. This encouraged the Tories of 1 the northwestern part of South Carolina, and as if the day of their deliver- < ance from Whig restriction had arrived, l they rose in arms, and, in marauding < parties, advanced to join the British in ] Georgia. Colonel Pickens, at the head < of 400 militia, dashed in upon one of I these Tory hands of 700, led by Colonel j Boyd. Pickens aud his militia were i successful in nearly annihilating Boyd's < forces. Boyd himself and 75 of his ; 1 men were killed, 75 others were cap- 1 tured, tried and condemned to death 1 as outlaws ; hut the sentence was exe- | ] cuted on only five of the ringleaders. ] The success of Pickens startled Colonel < Campbell, who, with part of the Brit- ' ish army, was at the time in Augusta. He broke up his camp at Augusta and i began a retreat to Savannah. This was I 1 some gain for the Whigs, but it was ' soon counterbalanced. i On the capture of Savannah, the < Whigs of Georgia passed over into I South Carolina. While Campbell was < retreating down the Savannah river I from Augusta to Savannah, General i Lincoln, who in September, 1778, was 1 I placed over the Southern armj', sent , i General Ashe with a force of 2,000 j < militia to cut oir the retreat of the i i British. One company of the force put < under General Ashe, was made up j mainly of volunteers from York county, ! < under the command of Captain Boss. \ I On the 3rd of March, 1779, General i I Ashe suffered himself to he completely ! i hemmed in at Brier Creek by Provost, 1 who had come from Savannah for the ; < purpose of cutting him oir and sup- j ] porting Campbell in his retreat. The | f American loss at Brier Creek in killed, j < wounded and prisoners, was 1,550? j t more than four-fifths of the whole? I 1 while the British loss was only 1(5. i < The affair at Brier ('reek sent a pang of j s * ?:~r ?< ii,n ! i JJUI^IIUUl III IIIIU IIIC ill ill to Hi IIIU ; ? Whigs of Georgia and the two Caroli- i nas, and a thrill of joy into the bosom J r of the British and Tories. Georgia lay again prostrate at the feet of the j British commander, and a royal gov- 1 eminent was established over the State. ' South Carolina was now exposed to the enemy. The Tories, made ferociously hold by the destruction of the Tory band under Boyd, and elated by the overthrow of Ashe's command at : Brier Creek, began to devastate the 1 country by modes which could be sug- j gested only by fiends incarnate. The I war now, in upper South Carolina aud Georgia, became intestine?neighbor against neighbor?and us the majority of the Tories were men morally degraded, many of them fit only to be slaves, the country was soon made a howling wilderness by their midnight ravages. Everything which came within their 1 reach was destroyed. Dwelling houses 1 were burned aud helpless women and ; 1 children forced to take up their abode ( t in the forests. Domestic animals of all > ( kinds were either wantouly killed or j s driven off, and the corn cribs and meat t houses robbed of their contents. Since t the defeat of Sir Peter Parker by Gen- 1 eral Moultrie, on the 28th of June, t 177(?, South Carolina had scarcely felt < the elfccts of the war; but from the ! i fall of Savannah until September, 1782, ; i when Colonel Wilmot was killed and ! j Lieutenant Moore was wounded?the c last blood shed in the struggle for in- ; 1 dependence?no section of the 18 colo- | 1 nies experienced such trials and sutler- j c ings as the inhabitants of South Caro- < linn. The warfare carried on by the j I Tories and winked at by the British, j ( was such as only savuges wage. The | j heart sickens at the wanton cruelties j j which were perpetrated by those mon- i sters in human form. All the Whigs ; ( in the State?men and boys able to j i carry a rifle?rose in arms to save their ! 1 country from their vandal foe. The ] old men and women and children were | i forced to leave their homes and hide j i themseves in swamps and inaccessible j < thickets, and support life by eating : 11 roots, the bark of trees, and small fish j < caught in the shallow streams. No i i language is sufficient to paint the suf- i < ferings which the patriots of. upper i j South Carolina were forced, by their ! i Tory neighbors, to endure, and never i did patriotism beam forth in greater t splendor than that which was exhibit- : < ed by the Whigs?fathers and mothers, i t young men and young women, little i 1 boys and little girls. Long years of i cruel sullering made an impression up- j on their minds which they carried f with them to the grave. They con- j t tinned to hate with bitter hatred the ! ( English government, and to regard 1 Tories with the supreinest contempt, i and they taught their children to treat I their children with disdain. < To add to the miseries of the inhabi- ! tants ofboth South Corolina and (Jeor- i gia, Count D'Estaing was, after the : c coiupiest of Grenada, earnestly request- j ( ed by Governor Kutledge, of South ( < Carolina, and i'lombard, the French i consul in Charleston, to visit the coast j 1 of South Carolina. The opinion was j I expressed by these officials that the 1 1 city of Savannah could be easily wrest- I ed from the British by the joint effort J J of the American land forces under the t command of General Lincoln, and the j 1 French fleet under Count D'Estaing. t On the 1st of September, 177D, D'Es- ' < taing arrived, and he and General Lin- 1 coin began to make preparation for the j siege of Savannah. The siege was be- j s gun by the combined forces of the 1 French and Americans, amounting to < 4,550, about the last of September. On j i the 4th of October, the batteries of the i beseigers, flushed by the conquest of i Grenada, opened fiercely upon the 1 s works of the beseiged and the town. < This was kept up day and night with- 1 out any serious effect upon the works I 5 of the British, until the 0th of October, j i when D'Estaing, for various reasons, I concluded that the seige must beaban- < doned or the city stormed. General ] Lincoln accepted the latter as the less < objectionable of two doubtful things. < The assault was begun with great spirit, 1 just at dawn of day, and was pushed | < with the utmost vigor for five hours, i 1 when the French and Americans dis- i played a white flag and asked for a < nilnn in nnloi- thof. ttip fiend mifrht be l buried, l'revost, the British command- j I der, granted four hours, during which 1 time Count D'Kstuing and General Lin- ] coin arranged for a retreat. I t The seige of Savannah was fraught | < with disasters the most calamitous to < the colonies, and especially to the t South. The British loss in killed and ; i wounded was only about 120, while i s that of the French and Americans was I 1,093. Here it was that Count I'ulas- i ki and Sergeant Jasper were killed. | 1 Lincoln's little array, now amounting 1 to only about 1,000, and Miese com- ) ( pletcly demoralized, set out for i Charleston. ( Georgia and South Carolina were 1 now left exposed to the cruelties of the I I Tories. The Whisrs who were unable 1 to escape from the city of Savannah, . were subjected to sullerings which ! beggar description. Ladies of the first j rank in society were grossly insulted by the Negroes and ruflian Tories in ' Prevost's army. Many of thera barefooted and illy clad, stole through the iues of the British, and through ilmost impassable swamps and impenetrable thickets, and made their way to the settlements in South Curolina, where they found the same condition of lfTairs which they had escaped. Apparently the sun of liberty was soon to >et in the gloom of darkness. When, in January, 1780, Sir Henry L'linton and Yicc-Admiral Arbuthnot reached (ieorgia, they had, to all hu man appearances, noining 10 uo in crderto reduce South Carolina back to illegiance to England, but to capture Charleston. Prevost bad attempted die capture of the city in May, 1779, aut was thwarted in his purpose by the combined efforts of Lincoln and Moultrie?mainly by the latter. After the seige of Savannah, the army af General Lincoln began to decrease rapidly. The time of some of the solJiers expired, and so hopeless was the prospect of the success of the Americans, that only a few could be induced to re-enlist. So soon as Sir Henry Clinton had repaired the damage done to his forces an his passage from New York to Savannah, he set out to capture Charleston. About the middle of February, the British forces were put in motion. Prom Savannah to Charleston their progress, although cautiously slow, was comparatively without molestation. The French fleet was gone, and the Whigs we're so dispirited that only a few made any special effort to impede the progress of the enemy. On the 20th of March, the British navy crossed the bar without loss, and nu the 9th of April, ran by Fort Moultrie with the loss of but 27 men and cue ship, which grounded and was inimed. Charleston was now blocklded at every point except that facing the Cooper river. Clinton began immediately to erect batteries and mount cannon. On the 10th of April, he sum-, moned General Lincoln to surrender the garrison. This summons was reected, and beseigers and beseiged did everything possible; the latter to derend the city and the former to capture it. On the 12th of May, when educed to the last extremity, General Lincoln surrendered. This was anoth>r terrible calamity to the colonies. Nrearly every Whig who could go had jone to Charleston, if not to fight the enemy, to be protected from his cruelies. The whole was surrendered. Everything fell into the hands of the enemy. All the officers and private soldiers, amounting to 5,283, all muniions of war of every kind and churacictcr, fell into the hands of the victors, fhe Tories all over the two Carolinas tnd Georgia rushed to arms in all their itrength, while the Whigs were forced o hide themselves in thickets and twain ps. There were a few armed iquads of Whigs in different sections of he country ; but what could these effect inder the circumstances? They had lathing with which they could hope 0 carry on even a guerrilla warfare. The money of the country was nearly vorthless, requiring $700 to purchase 1 pair of shoes. The Whigs of the :ouutry were without money, without iread and barefooted, and nearly laked. Starvation stared them in the ace, while the victorious British and uffian Tories pursued them to the leath. After the capture of Charleston, Sir Henry Clinton returned to New York, eaving the army under command of Lord Cornwallis. The city of Charleson being placed under a royal goveruir with sufficient forces to keep it in subjection, the array of Cornwallis, in hree divisions, was put in motion for .he purpose of aidiDg the Tories and Loyalists and driving the Whigs from ,he country. It was not long until ;very town and fortified station in the state was in the hands of the British, ind the heel of the invader firmly ilanted, as was thought, upon the neck if the Whigs, while the Tories and Loyalists by hundreds were Hocking to lis staudard. The plan of the British jommander was to advance into North Carolina so soon as the season of the fear would permit, conquer North Carilina, then Virginia, and then form a unction with the British army in the STorth. This done, there would not be u the American colonies a single indivilual who would call in question, even n a whisper, the supremacy of Great 3ritain in America. This was a grand llau and apparently its execution was ittended with no great difficulty. In nany sections of the State of South Tarolina, there were small bands of Whigs, hut all that these brave men ;ould hope to do was was to anloy the British army and capture or lisperse squads of thieving Tories. \t Beckhamville, and Mobley's Meetng House, both in Chester county, a lumber of these plunderers were made ;o bite the dust. The destruction of Colonel Buford's command in Laucas;er county, by Tarleton, on the 20th of May, 1780, aroused the old Comerolians of Laucaster, Chester and York, fheir nastor. Rev. Martin, proclaimed rom the pulpit that it was no time to :alk ; it was time to fight. On the 12th )f July, 1780, at what is now Brattons/ille, Colouels Neill, Bratton, Lacey ind McLure, attacked and killed C'hris;ian Huyck, and scattered his Tory command to the wind. All these advantages were swept iway by the almost literal destruction, )n the lfith of August, near Camden, >f the American army under General Jutes, and the surprise of General ^umter at Fishing Creek, two days ater. At Camden and Fishing Creek, ,he British gained everything and ost nothing. Notwithstanding these :plendid victories of the British, strange is it seems, they were in a state of coninual anxiety. They could scatter the Whig bands, take their arms, burn heir houses and drive their wives and diildren into the swamps and thickets, jut crush them they could not. On the day after the defeat of Gates it Camden, Cornwallis despatched, as lie says, "proper people" into North L'arolina with directions to the Tories ind Loyalists, "to arm themselves and issemble immediately, to seize the Whig leaders and all their military stores and intercept the stragglers of Bates's army," promising that without oss of time he would march to their support. Apparently it was an easy matter for Cornwallis to lead his army rrom Camden to any point in North L'arolina. There was not a well appointed American army within a hunJred miles of his line of march, and a diain of British forts had been estabished ucross the upper part of South L'arolina. Hence Cornwallis, apparenty had nothing to do in order to advance into North Carolina, but march )n the shortest road. But things ire not always as they seem. He bund that although he thought he lad his foot on the neck of the people, still they were rebels. He found .hat many of the leading citizens of Charleston, although paroled prison?rs, were communicating information ,o Whigs in every section of the State, ind the country began to swarm with small but determined bands of Whigs. Major Patrick Ferguson, a man of io ordinary abilities and unquestioned jravery and daring enterprise, had )een sent out, after the capture of Charleston, for the purpose of enlistng the Tories and driving the Whigs >ut of the western part of the State. :Ic was succssful. To him the Tories locked in great numbers, and the Whigs of South Curolina and Georgia led heyond the mountains. Near the :nd of September, Tarleton's legion, nf tha Hrifijh nrmv rnnehed Charlotte, North Carolina. The Britsh were on their march to join the ! king's forces in Virginia. General f Davie and other patriots gave Tarle- 1 t ton a warm reception. The Brit- 1 I ish officers were startled. They found j e the country full, as they thought, of e Whigs, and the town of Charlotte by 1 v no means a safe camping ground, j i: During the advance of C'ornwallis to j ii Charlotte, Major Ferguson was laying I ii waste the country west of Broad river [ v with fire and sword. He cursed the j s Tories and Loyalists because of their ; slowness to Hock to his standard, and 'J he cursed at the Whigs because of their c j desperately daring bravery. ' t l While these things were going on iu : p the South, the cause of the colonies in j e : the North were in a state bordering on o despair. Arnold, the traitor, was lay- t ing waste Virginia. Glaring-eyed ? starvation stalked through the camp of o Washington, and officers and men, dis- v piritcd by want of success, were cen- li i suring loudly and bitterly everything ! t and everybody. The sinews of war i 1 had perished ; congress had neither f ; gold nor silver, and the paper currency | J ! issued by it was not worth more than i s ' two cents on the dollar. Had it not < v been that a few men of wealth came j I ; forward and pledged their private | g i property for the public good, the safest ! place in America for a Whig would j I 1 have been beyond the mountains, and 1 1 the forces under Washington would 1 have been scattered by the enemy like ' 1 forest leaves before the storm. There { 1 ! is, however, a turning point in all t j human affairs. Major Ferguson, not c 1 satisfied with driving the Whigs out v j of Georgia and South Carolina and de- r | stroying their property, determined 3 ; to pursue them with vengeance beyond j ? 1 the mountains. He advanced, carry- | t i ing everything before him as far as ? Gilbert Town, near Rutherfordton, N. I j C. From that point he sent an insult- o ing message to the inhabitants of the n j country beyond the mountains, among j d whom the invincible Whigs of Georgia ; v ; and South Carolina had found a safe C ' retreat. Samuel Phillips, a paroled c j Whig soldier, was ordered to go to these | ii i mountain men and say to them that I s ! unless they would lay down their b arms and espouse the king's cause, he j t ! would march his army into their midst, ' fi j lay waste their country with fire and ( j sword, and hang the Whig leaders. ' P l Patrick Ferguson meant all that he t said and more too. He was no loud- ! t I mouthed braggart. He was a brave t ! man with all the fixeduess of purpose, f j unceasing perseverance and unflinch- i g j ing determination that have for centu- , a j ries characterized the Scotch race, b ; Samuel Phillips bore the threatening ! message first to his neighbor and rel- h [ ative, Isaac Shelby, who at the time ii was engaged in surveying. In a si- , s lence which indicated desperate deter- | c | mination, he laid down his compass, c chain and pins, and without a moment's ii delay, mounted his horse and set out p to summon the clans to the fray. The li place appoiuted for rendezvous was I Sycamore Shoals, on Watauga; the ; t time, the 25th of September?less than j t a month after the delivery of Fergu- I r son's message by Phillips. Punctual a both as to the place and day of assem- I bling, Colonel Win. Campbell, with 400 1 Virginians; Colonels Isaac Shelby and o John Sevier, each with 240 mountain- j li ers from western North Carolina ; and j v Colonel Charles McDowell, with 1G0 s refugees from Burke county, N. C., li were present. There were no gay uni- t forms, no commissary trains, no bag- | J gage wagons. Each man carried on j his shoulder, in a rude bag hastily ; 1 made with the fingers of his wife or j c sisters, his rations. Each man's outfit | s consisted of a powder horn and coon- i a skin shot bag, a hunting knife, a home- ! t made knapsack and homespun and ' b home-woven blanket. The whole pop- | a ulatiou of the country?men and wo- i o men, boys and girls?were present to n see the clans off. There was no whin- j I ing, no complaining. There were Spar- s tan women there as well as Spartan men. j c On the 26th of September, the moun- i C tain men and refugees began the ! i< march. On the 1st of October, they ! t were joined at the foot of the mountain b by about 400 men under Colonels S Cleveland and Winston, and when the tl ' " * r it. , A | settled country east 01 uie muummu u was reached, their numbers were cou- C stantly increased by many single indi- i t: viduals. When they arrived on the 3d ii of October, within twenty miles of I a Gilbert Town, where Major Ferguson r I was supposed to be encamped, Colo- n i nel Campbell was chosen commander i c ! of the whole force. On the night I j of the 3d of October, it would seem d { that they were informed of Ferguson's s j movements by Colonel Lacey, who 9 I had been sent for that purpose by the ii j officers of a small body of men under c | Colonel Williams, operating on the ii j west side of Catawba river, only a e short distance above Barron's Ferry, ti : in York county. On the 4th, they a j reached Gilbert Town and found that | a i Ferguson had broken up his camp and ' k I gone in the direction of the Cowpens. d j A council of war was called, and it c ! was determined to pursue the retreat- rI j ing foe with all possible haste. On to t< j the Cowpens they rushed, where they I j were joined on the evening of the Gth p ; by Colonel Williams and other partisan ; j leaders. From Colonel Williams, the j location of Major Ferguson's camp j p j was learned. A council of war was at tl : once held, and says the official report: t; | "It was decided to pursue the enemy o : that night with 900 of the best horse- 1 C : men and leave the footmen and weak j p j horses to follow as fast as possible." n | At 8 o'clock the pursuit began and was j continued all night. The darkness ' 3 ' was intense and the guides lost their a ! way; but on they went, and on the C j morning of the 7th of October, they c 1 were on the east side of Broad river, | v within a few miles of Major Ferguson's C camp. The rain was pouring down in o j torrents. The men wrapped their f< guns up in their blankets and on they e went. About 2 o'clock in the after- t! ! noon, the clouds broke away and the " j sun shone out in his splendor. At ; t : Randall's?afterward the residence of j Abraham Hardin?all halted, tied up S their blankets, examined their guns, i ii j picked the touchhole, reprimed and ! t*' prepared lor action. The whole forces ; were arranged in four divisions. Two b of these were ordered to march round ii the western side of King's Mountain, on which Major Ferguson was camped, b and the other two marched around the p j eastern side. When the divisions met, h the camp of Ferguson would be sur- s I rounded; and then it would be decided il i who would do the hanging, Ferguson s or the Whigs. e From Randall's, hungry, tired, wet j t and mad, the patriots thus arranged, I fi j dashed forward determined to beard j P the lion in his den. At a proper dis- b i tance from the foot of the mountain, n the men dismounted, and leaving their horses in charge of a few men selected b for the purpose, moved forward, and j C . nwioi. nponrviirnrpil hpt/an to r Ill ItlVi , --o surround the camp of the enemy. At t 3 o'clock the tight began. Desperate p | courage was exhibited by both the j J j British and the Americans. Ferguson t, soon discovered that he must conquer e , or be cut to pieces. His force soon dis- t covered that their condition was peril- t j ous in the extreme. White tlags were v j hoisted at different times by the tl British, but Ferguson cut them down, a declaring with a horrid oath, that he 1< i would never surrender to rebels. He v I blew his silver whistle, whose shrill li S0U1KX lUSpiri'U IMS lUCll iu imuo u> 1 desperate valor. But a J)eckhard si rifle, aimed, tradition says, by Colonel ti Williams, hurled a ball which laid the d j brave leader prostrate on the ground, tx ) With desperate courage the battle was nr j waged for 65 minutes, when the British K ! surrendered. 2S Whigs were killed or k j mortally wounded, and 60 wounded, j w ' "The provision returns of the enemy ' tl or tliat day, found in the camp, showed hat their whole force consisted of ,125." Of this number 094 were killd and wounded, and 711 taken prisoners The remaining 20, of the 1,125, rere out on a plundering expedition n the country. Everything pertainugto Major Ferguson's command fell nto the hands of the Whigs?their ragons, commissary stores, and 1,500 tand of arms. The patriots slept on the battlefield. ?he next morning, the wagons of the <aa "'ore luirno/l honniKA UIJIJ UCl CVA 1 \J\j u tl V 1/ut uvu? hey could not be used. With the u lsoners, arms and ammunition of the nemy, the patriots of Watauga set ut for their homes beyond the mounains, and Colonel Lacey, with the louth Carolina forces, for Burris's mill, n Turkey creek, in York county. It rns Sabbath morning, and the sun of iberty shone upon them as it did upon he Israelites when they crossed the ted Sea. They beheld, and beheld or the last time, the command of lajor Patrick Ferguson. At BiggertafTs Old Filed, nine notorious Tories rere hanged. Such was the battle of Cing's Mountain?the beginning of a [lorious end. The first result of the battle of Cing's Mountain was, Lord Cornwalis broke up his camp at Charlotte and ed his forces to Winnsboro. Before eaving, however, he sent Colonel Tarleton with his legion, to look after he stragglers from Major Ferguson's omraand. He found none?there vere none to find?and he proceeded 10 further in the direction of King's ilountain than the mills of Black and Scott; then known, the former as Ldams's, and the latter as Boss's. At Scott's mill, he learned that Colonel .?acey and the South Carolina heroes f King's Mountain were at what is iow Burris's mill. Tarleton got in a lesperate hurry to join Lord Cornrallis, which he did. The reason ,'ornwallis selected Winnsboro as his amp for the winter 01 1780-1781, was, n the language of 'l.Tleton: "Its pacious plantations yielu'ng a tolerable post, its centrical situation between he Broad river and the Wateree aforded protection to Ninety-Six and 'atnden, and its vicinity to the Dutch .'/-.fL-a " n?r nnf/ih TtYit'lrs hfi liipans hat region of country south of the own of Newberry ami lying between he rivers Broad and Saluda. It was nil of plundering Tories; but the rave has long since claimed them, nd the race, charity bids us hope, has eeome extinct. The march of Cornwallis from Cliarotte to Winnsboro was not one of uuuterrupted quiet. His sentinels were hot down and his baggage wagons aptnred and burned. He soon beume sensible of the fact that he was a an enemy's country, and that the rice of his safety was constant vigimice. After the battle of King's Mountain, he Tories and Loyalists were forced o hide themselves in swamps or take efuge in the camp of the British, and rmed bands of Whigs kept both Iritish and Tories in a state of terror. ?arleton was sent into the lower part f the State of South Carolina, but ie found Francis Marion and his men rere there, and Tarleton soon was uramoned to return. A number of ittle battles in various sections of the he State were fought, in which the Lmericans were victorious. On Sabbath, the 7th of January, 781, Lord Cornwallis broke up his amp at Winnsboro and set out the econd time to invade North Carolina nd Virginia and form a junction with he British forces in the North. Tareton was ordered to cross Broad river, nd either kill or drive the Whigs out f the Ninety-Six district. Cornwallis aoved slowly up the eastern side of Iroad river, in order that he might upport Tarleton. The enterprising ommander of the legion found the )ld Virginia wagoner, General I)an?1 Morirau. in the recion. Of one hing he was sure ; either Morgan must e driven out of the region, or Ninetylix and Augusta would be taken by he Whigs. Tarleton determined to rive Morgan before him into North Carolina. For two days, Morgan rereated until he came to the Cowpens, a Spartanburg county. There, on the ight of the 16th of January, he aranged his forces for battle. On the ext morning, at 8 o'clock, Tarleton ame in sight of the American forces, le was surprised that Morgan would are to fight. Confident, however, of uccess, he arranged his troops, and at o'clock the conflict began and ended i a spleudid victory to the Amerians?the loss in the engagement be3g only twelve killed and fifty woundd. The loss of the British, according a their own account, was 100 killed nd 523 taken prisoners. Two standrds, two pieces of artillery, 800 mus;ets, 35 baggage wagons, and 100 ragoon horses were the trophies of the onllict. With all possible speed, ,'arieton, with a body guard, hastened a join Cornwallis, then encamped at lillhouse's?now Sam Youngblood's? lace on Turkey creek, York county, outh Carolina. Tarleton says bis forces at the Cowens became panic stricken. He has he manliness to say that "the catasrophe at King's Mountain put a perid to the first expedition into North .'arolina, and the affair at the Cowens overshadowed the commencelent of the second." After the battle of the Cowpens, -lorgan led his forces across the Broad .*,1 f\ifnt,thn fitmw trlinrn Onnpral uu v aian uu, htvio nuviv rieene, who had been appointed sucessor to Gates, took command of the diole American army in the South. >n the loth of March, 1781, the forces f Greene and Corwallis met at Guiljrd Court House. The British claimd a victory; but it cost them more ban it was worth. Tarleton says: It was neither useful nor advantageous o Great Britain." Soon after this, Greene returned to louth Carolina for the purpose of drivug the British and Tories out of the 'tate, and Cornwallis pushed on to 'orktown, where, on the 19th of Octoer, 1781, he and his whole army fell uto the hands of the Americans. It is not claimed that in itself the attle of King's Mountain will eoiniare with many other battles which ave since been fought on American oil. All that is claimed for it is that t was the pivotal point on which the uccess of the American colonies turnd. King's Mountain was followed by he C'owpens; the Cowpens by Guil3rd Court House; Guilford Court louse by Yorktown ; and Yorktown y American freedom from British doliniou. The men who fought and won the attles of King's Mountain and the 'owpens were violently opposed, from eligious principle, to committing hemselves, or what God gave them ower over, to any single man. Like ohn Knox, they believed that "libery and religion were twins, and if ither of thera were taken from them, hey had nothing left them whereby hey might be called men." They .'ere grand men. They acted well heir part in the private walks of life s well as on the battlefield. They jved peace more than they loved ,-ar; but they loved civil and religious berty more than they loved peace. Shall we, who inherit the rich poseson which they won by their Chrisail valor, forget their noble deeds of aring, and waste the paternal inheriuice in riotous living? Shall we lake this country what the heroes of ling's Mountain desired it to be?the ind of the free ; or shall we make it hat Rome became?lirst saleable, ten sacked by the Northern hordes? /