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.4 f 7 HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON A TALE OF THE TORY ASCENDENCY BY JOHN P. KENNEDY liKed to betake themselves to the shelter of the thickets and swamps, when their own homesteads wer” dangerous places. The enemy wore no co. is. and was not to he distin- snished from frl nds either by out ward iruise or sneech. Not Him; could I lie more revolting ttian to see the symbols of peace thus misleading | th confident into the toils of war; ; no- is it nossible to imagine a state of society characterized by a more CHAPTER XII. A Political Retrospect.—Butler En ters South Carolina. It was the misfortune of South Carolina, during the revolutionary war to possess a numerous party lesB attached to the union or more tainted with disaffection than the in habitants of anv of the other States. Amongst her citizens the dislncllna ticn to serve from the mother conn trv was stronger, the spread of re publican principles more limited, and the march of revolution slower, than in either of the other colonies, ex oept. perhaps, in the neighbor State of Georgia, where the people resid- ♦ng along the Savannah river, were no closely allied to the Carolinians hk 1 sentiment, habits, and pursuits, as to partake pretty accurately of the political prejudices, and to uni tod themselves in parties of the same • wmplexion. Upon th first invasion «,f Georgia, at the close of the year 1778. the city of Savannah was made ar. easv connuest. and a mere hand- #el of men. early in 1779, were en aided to penetrate the interior as far as Augusta, and to seize unon that poet The audacity with* which Pre vent threatened Charleston in the same year, the facility of his march through South Carolina and the r-afety which attended his retreat, told a sad tale of the supineness of the people of that province. The The reduction of Charleston in the following year, by Sir Henry Clin was followed with singular ra- opposltion. upon fearful questions ' frightful insecurity, of passion, to those of the “giddy Such was the condition of the naced” and excited multitude, and ' country to which my tale now makes vho. nevertheless, carries them "in-1 it nec ssary to Introduce my reader, to act.” That man who can stand i Hutler’s instructions required that he in the breach of universal nubile censure, with all the fashion of opln should report himself to General Gates, and. unless detained for mot ion disgracing him In tho thoughts ; 'rossing duty, to proceed with all of the lookers on. with the tide of | the circumsnection which the enter obloquy beating against his breast, and the fingers of the mighty, com i hined many, pointing him to scorn: j tav. with the fury of the drunken | rabble threatening him with instant ( death; and. worse than all. havine no present, friend to whisper a word of defense or nalUative in his lie- | ; 'ialf, to his revilers. but bravely glv ; ng bis naked head to the storm, he •ause he knows himself to be vir- ■ ! 'nous in his purpose: that man shall | i ''mbalm his name in her richest j unction, history shall give him a ; 'ace on her brightest page and oM rea. honary. far off posterity shall! j •omember him as of yesterday. Tbe^e were heroes of thU moiil’’ ! ; ; n South Carolina, who entered with ho best spirit of chivalry into the ; ational quarrel, and brought to 1’ > hearts as bold, minds as vigorous ; id arms as strong as ever, in an- j j ‘lime, worked out a nation’s redemp I flop. These men refused submi® ion to their conquerors, and endnr | ‘d exil Q , chains, and prisons, rathe | ’ban the yoke. Some few, still un ; I discharged by the portents of the j 'lines, retreated into secret places, j 1 gathered their few patriot neighbors ! iriso might require, to Colonel | Harke, who. it was known wnq at • ‘bat time in the upland country of j South Carolina, raising troems to act i against Augusta and other British j osts He accordingly arrived at headquarters on the bonders of the ; > o Carol inns, in about a we^k a f ter ' aving the Hove Cote. The army of ' he brav and unfortunate He Kalb which had beep orieinallv destined 1 W. the relief of Charleston had ! eea increa ed hv rf*tnff> r cem nt o'' , v, ilitia form Virginia and the ad ! mining States ^o double the commit > <1 strength o* 1 the British forc"R ’ates, on taking command of it was j ll’ed with th<> most lofty Pfesentl j onfs of victory. Vainglorious and inadvisable, he is said to have oush 1 forward with an Indiscreet haste and to have tl rown himself into di* Acuities which a wiser man would avp 'voided. He professed himself ' o stand in no need of r crufts to hi'- rmv. and Butler therefore, after fie delay of a few davs. was left at bertv to pursue his origina 1 scheme Tho widosnread dlsafTection o* ''p region through which our adven p-es were about to nass inculcate'' 1 W u P [? llovvea , wu t n r* ♦hl U whAre 1 tORether ‘ an ^ contrived to keen in ' necessity of tf’e utmost, vigilance Mditv to the Vl^fnt was awe thfi soldier-government that now 1 avoif1 molestation from the numer proMnce. A civil gourmr professed to sway the land They that were then abroad weeted. The most remote IK)st « a lived on the scant aliment furnished to the seat of war. Hn’er the mountains were at once occu- , jn fh(i WOO(1s s]f> f , n f . t , , ; he almost entire guidance of Robin- pled by British soldiers or b rov a *. brakes and secret places of the fen i " lnn ‘ w *io waa familiar with everv rial troops, mustered finder the of-1 exacted contributions from the ad^ ” an ’ in leers of the royal army ProclamR i , lorenfs of the croWn an(| , )y Hons were issued to cal! f jl e ; if»»)vements of their woodland caval- wandering sheep to the royal fold. v afl( , hravp h1owR accomplished and they, accordingly, like kerds thrice their numbers rtat had been scattred from beneath ] iavp r 7ie eye of the shepherd by some \ Wir f arf , rough incursion of wolves. , flocked.* x , as soon as they were aware of * isaffected abounded in the achieved in ordinary Lord* " ,>n ° r country, and there Cornwallis maintained some strong garrisons. The difficulties that surrounded the republican leaders niav well he sup posed to have been appalling in this •a the retreat of their enemy Cornwallis, upon whom the com- raaod devolved after the return of Rir Henry Clinton in June to New York, recruited his army from these ropent&nt or unwilling republi cans; region, where regular posts had been and the people rejoices at what they : '‘stablished to furnish the Tories so thought the end of strife and the es- , c,,r '' Points of union, and the cer- lablshment of law. The auxiliaries tainty of prompt assistance when- who had marched from Virginia and | f ' v ’ p r required. Vet notwithst -uding North Carolina under Colonel Bn- i £ke numerical inferiority of the lord, to assist in the defence of the rnonds^ of independence, their guard •outhern capital, were Informed of #s surrender as they journeyed Shinier and soon found themselves neighborhood Bnt ,r> r's j olan was lo temporize with what ever difficulties might, beset his way, I and to rely upon his own and his | comrade's address for escape. The sergeant’s first object was to conduct his superior to his own dwell ing. which was situated on the Ca tawba, a short distance above the Waxhaws. This was safely accomp lished on >he second day afte- they had left Gates. A short delay at this place enabled Butler to exchange tie dress he had hitherto worn, for one of a more homely and .rustic character, a measure deemed neces sary to facilitate his quiet passage through the country. With pmr. i ‘jre ytLsi'C. 'l.ii L - v. m 1 Wi M. rr sk m / 1 m •'ey- ‘J&. This man bought a supply of tobacco with out acquainting himself with the distinctive taste of SCHNAPPS Tobacco, which has the cheering qualities that gratify his desire to chew, and at less expense than cheap tobacco. SCHNAPPS has been advertised in this paper so that every chewer has had an opportunity to get acquainted with the facts and know that drugs are not used to produce the cheering quality found in the famous Piedmont country flue-cured tobaccos, and that SCHNAPPS is what he ought to chew. Still there are chev/ers who accept other and cheaper tobaccos that do not give the same pleasure. Some day they’ll get a taste of the real Schnapps—they’ll realize what enjoyment they've missed by not getting SCHNAPPS long ago—then they’ll leel like kicking themselves. SCHNAPPS is sold everywhere in 5 cent cuts, and 10 and 15 cent plugs. Be sure you get the genuine. way of a fight, when there was need where you was going to hold forth, of scratching. I wouldn’t be so on- And, thereupon, mad Archy out with accommodating as to ax you to do ' one of his tremengious oaths, and that. But I bad some generalship in view, which t vm make appear. This road. which w y have just got into, comes up th <nigh Winnsborough, which is one of the randyvoos of the Tories: now 1 thought if we out flanked them hv coming through the hills, wo muuglit keep our heads out these ‘ a hornets’ nest. The best way, -.1 and proscribed condition, their want of support, and their almost ah " > C i etwep n precautions he and the trusty ser | M a 1°r Butler, to get along through geant resumed their expedition, and : this worl(1 Is not to „ be Quarf^ 80111 ©! now shaped their course across the ! th at’s my principle.” obliged to fly through a country they %ad come to succor;—and when even at the distance one hundred and tfty miles from mie city, were over »ken by the nmiless trooners of Tarleton. and butchered under cir cumstances peculiarVy deplorable. In truth, a larger proportion of the 9op’il&U6h‘ of South farolina seem have regarded the revolution with disfavor, and mev were slow to break ♦tielr ancient friendship fef the land •f their forefathers. The colonial government was mild and beneficent in its action upon the province, and the people had a reverence for the mother country deeper and more af fectionato than was found elsewhere. They did not resent, because, haply. *hey did not feel the Innovations of rieht asserted by the British crown, .*» acutal was some of their neigh hors; to them it did not seem to be so unreasonable that taxation should te divorced from representation. They did not quarrel with the as sumption of Great Britlan to regu late their trade for them ip such ■anner as best suited her own view* •f interest: nor did they see in. mere •ommercial restrictions the lustlfi- •ation of civil war and hot rebellion; —because, peradventure, (if I may hazard a reason) being a colonv of planters whose nroducts were much tai demand in England, neither the regulations of their trade nor the restrictions upon -commerce, were likely to be so adjusted as ' in terfere with the profitable exp .slon •f their labors. Such might he said to bo the more pomilar sentiment of the State at the time of its subjugation by Sir Henry Clinton and I-ord Cornwallis. To this common feeling there were many brilliant exceptions; and the ■tore brilliant because they stood, as H were, apart from the preponder ating mass of public Judgment. There is no trial of courage which will bear comparison with that of a ■tan whose own opinions stand in solute destitution of all the neces sarles of military life, the nation was often rejoiced to hear of bril liant passac-os of arms where, how ‘*ver unimportant the consequences, the display of soldiership and brave- rv was of the highest order. In such encounters or fr -s they might a! most he called, from the smallness of the numbers concerned and the hand-to-hand mode of flghtin" *”'ble>’ they exhibited, Marion. Sumpter, Horry. Pickens, and many others, had won a fame that In a nation of IKietical or legendary’ assocations uld have been reduplicated through a thousand channels of Immortal verse: but. alas! we have no bal lads: and many men. who as well de serve to be remembered as Percy or Douglas, as Adam Bell or Clyrn of the Clough, have sunk down with out even a couplet-epitaph upon the rude stone, that in some "nfep' , e<] and unreferenced graveyard * still marks the Ian of earth thereon their heads were laid One feature that belonged to this unhappy state of things In Carolina was the division of families. Kindred were arrayed against each other In deadly feuds, and. not unfrequently. brother took un arms against broth er. and sons against their sires. A prevailing spirit of treachery and distrust marked the times. Strang ers did not know how far thqy might trust to the rites of hospitality: and many a man laid his head upon his pillow, uncertain whether his fellow lodger, or he with whom he had broken bread at his last meal, might not invade him in the secret watch es of the nlcht and murder him in his slumbers. All went armed, and many slept with pistols or daggers under their pillows. There are tales told of men being summoned to their doors or windows at midnighj by the blaze of their farm-yard to which ♦he incendiary torch had been ap- nlied. and shot down, in the llgth of the light of the conflagration, by a concealed hand. Families were ob- RHEUMATIS CURED v' The Circulation Stimulated and the Muscles and Joints lubricated b/using Slo eav’s Liiviirveivt Price 25c 50c 6 $1.00 Sold by &H Dealers Sloan's Treatise On The Horse” Sent Free Address Dr.Earl S.Sioan,Boston.Mass. the Catawba and Broad rivers, with the intention of reaching the habitation of Wat Adair, a well known woodsman who lived on the southern side of the latter river somewhat above its con fluence with the Pacolet. The route they had chosen for this punose con sisted of such circuitous and unfre quented paths as were least likely to be infested by the scouts of the enemy, or hv questioners who might tie too curious regarding the object of their journev The scond week of August had half elapsed when, towards the eve ning of a day that had been disting uished for the exhilarating freshness of the atmosphere, such as Is pecu liar to the highlands of southern latitudes at this season, our travel lers found themselves descending through a lo- ^ and shady defile to the level gro iiid that lav along the margin of t' e Broad river. The greater part of the day had bren spent in thre ding the mazes of a series of sham and abrupt hills cover ed with the native forest, or wlpdlng throueh narrow valleys, amongst tang- ’ed thickets of briers and consewood. hv a path scarce wide enough to per mit the nassag<> of a single horse. They had now emerged form the wilderness unon a public highway, which extended across the strip of lowland that skiried the river. The proximity of the river itself was in dicated by the nature of the ground, that here refined vestig<*s of occas ional inundations, as also by the ra nk character of the vegetation. The road led through a bwamp, which was rendered passable by a causey of timber, and was shaded on either side by a mass of shrub bery. composed of laurel, magnolia, and such other plants as delight in a moist soil, ov r whose forms a tis sue of creeping plants was woven in such profusion as to form a fastness or impregnable retreat for all binds of noxious animals. Above this wilderness here and th re. might be seen in the depths of the morass. ♦ be robust cynpess or the lurid nine, high enough for the mast of the larg est ship, the ash. and gum. and, fowerln'r above all. the malestic nop- lar, with its branchless trunk bound UP In Hie embraces of a huge ser pent Ilk* grapevine. As soon as Butler found himself extricated from the difficult path that had so much embarrassed his .iournov. and once more Introduced unon a road that allowed him to ride abr ast with his comnanlon. he could not help congratulating himself up on the change. "Well, here at last. Galbraith,” he said, ’’is an end to this bridle path, as you call It. Thank heaven for It! i The settlement of the account he- ! tween this and the plain road would not leave much In our favor: on one side. I should have to set down my l>elng twice unhorsed In riding up perpendicular hills; one plunge’ up to the belly in the mud of a swamp; a dozen times In danger of string ing from grapevines; and how often torn by briars. I leave you to reckon up by looking at mv clothes. And all ibis is to lie cast up against th? chance of meeting a few rascellv Tories. Faith! upon the whole. It would have been as cheap to fight ” "Whist, Major, you are a young man, and don’t study things I do. You never catch me withoi# reason on my aide. As to standlnv/upon the trifle of a man or two odfs in the “Truly, it comes well from you, sergeant, who within two days past have been in danger of getting your crown cracked at least six times! Were you not yesterday going to beat a man only for ashing a harm less question? A rough fellow to boot. Horse Shoe, who might, from appearance, have turned out a trouble some customer." “Ho, ho, ho. Major; Do you know who that character was? That was mad Archy Gibbs, from the Broken Bridge, one of the craziest devils after a fracaw on the Catawba; a tearing Tory likewise.” “And was that an argument for wishing to fight him?” “Why, you see. Major. I’ve got a principle on that subject. It’s an ob servation I have made, that when ever you come across one of these rampagious fellows, that’s always breeding disturbances, tho best way is to be as fractious as themselves. You have beam of the way of put ting out a house on fire by blowing It up with gunpowder?” “A pretty effectual method, serge ant” “Dog won’t eat dog," continued Horse Shoe. “Ho, ho! I know these charac ers; so I always bullies them. When we stopped yesterday at the surveyor’s, on Blair’s Range, to get a little something to eat, and that bevv of Tories came riding up with mad Archy at their head, a thought struck me that the fellows mought he dogging us, and that sot me to thinking what answer I should make consuming vou. If they were to ques tion me. So. ecod, I made a parson of you, ha. ha, ha! Sure enough, they began as soon as they sot down in the porch, to axing me about my business, and then about youra. I told them, correspondent and accord ingly, that you was a Presbyterian minister, and that I had undertook to show you the way to Chester. swore he would have a sarmlnt from you, for the good of his blackguards, before they broke up.” “Mad Archy and his blackguards would have profited, no doubt, by my spiritual lessons.” “Rather than let him have any thing to say to yon,” proceeded Rob inson. “for you wa’n’t prepared, see ing that, /on didn't hear what was going on. though I speak loud enough, on purpose. Major, for you to hear us through the window; I up and told Archy. says I, I am a peaceable man. but I’ll be d—d if anv minister of the gospel shall be insulted whilst 1 have tho care of him; and. further more, says I. I didn’t come here to interrupt no man; but if you. Archy Gibbs, or any one of your crew, says one ondecent word to the parson, they’ll run the risk of being flung sprawling on this here floor, and that’s as good as if I had sworn to it; and as for you. Archy. I’ll hold you accountable for the good conduct of your whole squad. But. Major, you are about the hardest man to take a wink I ever knowed. There was a motioning of you, and slgnlfy- ng to get your horse and be off. at least ten minutes before you took the hint." “I waa near spoiling all, Galbraith, for from familiarity with these fel ows I at first thought them friends.’’ Plant Wood’s Garden Seeds FOR SUPERIOR VEGE TABLES <> FLOWERS. Twenty-eight years experience —our own seed farms, trial grounda—and large warehouse capacity give us an equipment that is unsurpassed anywhere for supplying the best seeds ^ obtainable. Our trade in seeds ) both for the 1 ' Garden and Farm is one of the Urgesl in this country. 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I wgs monstrous afeard, major, you wmldn’t saddle mr horse.” “I understood voj at last, Galbraitfc. and made everything ready for a mee- terlv retreat, and hen moved avref with a very sober ar. leaving you te bring up the rear lik* a good soldier. And you know sergeant. I didn’t as fa but that I was it hand to give you support, if you hat stood in need of it. I wonder now thit they let yo» off so easily.” “They didn’t want to have no up roar with me. Major fuller. They knowed me, that although I wa’n’t e quarrelsome man. they would’a pot some of their neck twist'd If I bed seen occasion: in particul**, I would have taken some of mai Archy** crazy fits out of him—by ttv hand I would, major! But I’ll ten you,—f made no observation, that tbs hare (Cntir.ued on page three) Cherokee B.: L. ‘ Fourth Series Now Open. Stock Being Taken-Applications For Loans Filed. 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