Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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<**> *\ V . ^ . City #f Union, and Suburb# Has f 1~T fi T IT T /KnflT ^ | ^ 1 17^ City of Union and Suburbs Has Kw I*rge Cotton Mills, Oxxs Knitting I fl fl I J S j flL I fl M I Q / fl 9 J VW Five Graded Schools, Water Works, ' and Spinning Mill with Dye Plant, Oil fl fl fl B I fl B fl--B fl fl fl l I Sewerage System, Electric Lights, Three Mil), Furnitore Manufacturing and H fl fl fl 1 i fl j I flj I fl fl^ 6 9 V H I A k. 1* Hanks with aggregate capital of $250,<X 0, AuL.bar Yards, Female Hominary. _fl.. ?flL-^L -H?J X w .fl_ ? fl O- X- _fl_ Jfl?.Jm rV. ' V lvleetric Railway. Population 7,000. '' VOL. LV. NO 8. ""Wcwt - "NION, SOUI'll CAROLINA, FR^Y, Fi.BRl ARY 24, 1903. #1.00 A YEAR. Wejteve Me to have an inter V / Poetical Tribute PuMishe the Nan In His Old A? Written by Ofcipswi ^Clem30| ^Culle^e, jjMeto? '^vdutSni^^mB The following tribute tc "Horseshoe Robinson" is qxtracted from c poem, entitled ^ 4The Dayef MHbm/J ander B. Meek/and^eliveTwE an oration at Tuscaloosa on th* 4th of July. 18^8: i^wLsesrA m'J*i r -> or I Embalmed in aong, beside tlic Iial lowed ones Of Douglass and of Percy ; not unsunj I Entirely his fame, Romance ha I wreathed With flowering finger*, and wit wizard art, | . That hung* the votive chaplct on Hi heart, Hi* story, mid her fiction*, and hat \ given Ilia name and deed* to aftertimes. When last This trophied anniversary came aroui And called Columbia's patriotchildri out To greet its advent, the old man w here, fierenely smiling as the autumn sun Just dripping down the golden west seek His evening couch. Few months age I snw^ jL llim in hLTjuict home, with all aroii Its wishes could demand?and by H side The loved companion of his youtli years, H This singing maiden of his hoy hor time; She who had cheered him with -jf smiles when clouds Were o'er his country's prospects ;' had trod, In sun and shade, life's devious ] with him. And whom kind Heaven had still %j served to bless, With all the fullness of mate f wealth, i - The mellowing afternoon of his |. V cline. ?the old mar A . wneru urv ?m/j i.^.. hiH wifef Alan! the broadening gun gcta night, The ripening shock falls on the erg' arm; The lingering guest must leav hail at last; The music ceases when the fe done; The old man and his wife have from earth, Have passed in peace to Heaven summer's flowers, Beneath the light of this triun day, Luxurious sweets arc shedding < 1 The uiisculpturcd grave of | "Horseshoe Kobinsoi J The grave of James Rob a > is in Tuscaloosa County, o | banks of the Black Warrior I near Sanders Ferry, in tl I family burying ground. I 1 the famous Horseshoe I son" of Revolutionary is 1 South Carolina, and the 1 g the novel of that name, i | by John Pendleton Kenn g 1835. The nams "Hors y- was given because of a 1 B a creek in his plantation ii Kr Carolina, shaped like a S shoe. v The following inscrip | S taken from his tombstom Major James Robert B A native of S. C. ??^?i mey to Lend or** \. >ther Acceptable re shall be glad view with YOU! |* SOH.frmKers. | RFMBW tJHtj^Swrri ^jjrlf. ^IBL^jBj B I u^u^^roayM Jth?y left several children; on A - daughter was living in Missis si ippi a few years ago. Jamel J Robinson was a famous scoul during the Revolution and a tei! ?> ror to the Tories. After the wal he settled in Pendleton district! c and was living there^when^ Ken! lti an account of the circumstanc9 a which led him to write the stor! He says that in the winter fl the western section 01 ooui to Carolina. He went from Augus to Edgefield, then to Abbevill >ne in the old district of Ninety-Si ll)d just at the foot of the mountair his His conrse was still westwa until he came to the Sene lful River, a tributary of the Savi xi'a nah. He describes how he hi pened to spend the night at t i?or home of Col. T?, who lii . thirty miles from Pendlet Horseshoe Robinson came th ,>ath that night. "What a man I si Tall, broad, brawny and er< Pre" His homely dress, his free str: mal ^ice radiant with kindn< the natural gracefulness of do- motions, all afforded a ready . dex to his character. It was 1 dent he was a man to confide: into The old soldier was drawn to relate some stories of the i reap- jje told how he got away 1 e the Charleston after the surrer and how he cook five Scotch a?t i? prisoners; and these two fai passages are faithfully prese K 1 in the narrative. ; and "It was first published in Horseshoe Robinson was tl iphant ver? old man. He had ren 0?cr to Alabama, and lived, I am near Tuscaloosa. I commiss ^ " o friend to send him a coj ertson the book. The report br n the me was that the old mai River, listened very attentively t le old reading of it and took gre le was terest in it. Robin- What do you say to all ime in | was the question addres: nero of him, after the reading vritten1 finished. His reply is a v edy in which I desire to preserv ?snoeM is all true and right?in iti bend in place?excepting Jabout n South women, which I disrem horse- That mought be true, tx my memory is treache tion is di8remember.'" s: It is a pleasure to kno son, this fine old hero was a r , Isonage, and all of his may have been colored in ameas- i ure by the pen of the romancer,, j there still remains a rich stock" J of adventures which were un- ( doubtedly true, and the picture 1 of a nature, frank, brave, true \ and yet full of modesty. i I Extract from "Flag of the s Union," published at Tuscaloosa, 1 January 17, 1838: ] i " 'Horseshoe Robinson' ?who < has not read Kennedy's delight^ ] venerable living hero 6f this ta!?3 * of 'Tory ascendency,' the im- j mortal Horseshoe himself-?the ' extermination of 'Jim Curry' an 1 i I 'Ho|fh Habershaw.' The venera- j j ble jjatriot bearing the familiar i sobriquet, and whose name Jdr. ; Kennedy has made a* familiar in ! the mouths of American youths \ as household words, was visited 1 by us, in company with severa' 1 friends, one day last week. We found the old gentleman on his < plantation, about twelve miles ' from this city, as comfortably a situated with respect to this.* world's goods as any could desire' < to have him. It was gratifying $ to us to see him in his old days, after haying serve^. through the J j Whore vfr&t&jf independence, thus ; seated, unoer his .own vine and hi? children around ^nw!::^R?rw ihe Pawner of his ,, cariyTdils -an# trial* still con1 ^?y $in peace > antTOfetjfathe rich rewards of j that arduous stttigsrlo, jn Hle ' W. n* ai^ desponcfert ' J which he was found as ready, as earnest, as zealous for the cause of liberty as when ! v ictory perched upon her standa see i fd eiiQy ^ star^ of the'Tory f lutionary adventures, containing j many interesting facts respecting * the domination of the Tory party g in the South during the times of j. the Revolution, which Mr. Kennedy has not recorded in his r book. But it will chiefly interest our readers, or that portion of them at least to whom the history e of the old hero's achievements, as recorded by Mr. Kennedy, is ,s ; familiar, to be assured that the jS principal incidents therein por' trayed are strictly true. "That of his escape from Charleston after the capture of th that city, his being entrusted ^ with a letter to Butler, the Ip scene at Wat Adair's, the capture x' of Butler at Crindal's Ford, hi,' jS' subsequent escape and recapture rcj the death of John Ramsey, an< !ca the detection of the party b; in_ reason of the salute fired ove m, his grave, his capturing of th he f?Llr men under the cammand c /e(j the younger St. Jermyn, his al on tack upon Innes's camp, and Ah erg death of Hugh Habershaw by h iwi own hand, and finally the deaf iC(-' of Jim Curry, are all narrate ide Pretty much as they occurred esg' the old veteran's own languag v?V4 'There is a heap of truth in 11 t"" l-?oo micrVltj jj^- thOUgfl LUG Writer uuo n?0..., evj. burnished it up.' That t jn ?? names of Butler, Mildred Lir 0'ut Mary Musgrove, John Ramse Hugh Habershaw, Jim Curry; Toni ^act' almost every other used l(jer the book with the exception men' his own, are real and not fi< nous ti?us- His own name, he infoi r.ed ed us James, and that he not 'go by' the familiar appe 1835. ti?n by which he is now so w: len a ^ known until after the v loved wben he acquired it from told, form of his plantation in ioned Horseshoe Bend of the Fair I ?y of est Creek, which was besto ought uP?n bim by the Legislatur 1 had South Carolina, in consequ* o the fcbe services he had rend at in- during the war. This estate understood him to say, he this? owned. 3ed to "He was bom, he sayi was 1759, in Virginia, and em oucher the army in his seventeenth e; 'It Before the close of the ws 3 right says^he commanded a tro them horse, so that his military is that of captain. Horse " 1 Ul. x>; but although in innrm neuitu, rous?I evident marks of having I man of great personal str w that and activity. He is now af eal per- with a troublesome cough, exploits in the natural course of < ** must in a few years wear out his aged frame. Yet, notwithstand-, ing his infirmities and general debfiit # his eye still sparkles wath the fire of youth as he recounts the stirring and thrilling incidents of the war, and that sly, quiet humor so well described by- Kennedy may still be seen playing around his mouth, as one calls to his recollection any of the pranks he was wont to play upon the Tory vagrants, as he very properly styles them. 'The old gentleman received IB with warm cordiality and hospitality; and after partaking of bounties of his board and spending a night under his hospitable roof we took leave of him, Sincerely wishing him many years of the peaceful enjoyment of.that liberty which he fought lo long and so bravely to achieve. It will not be uninteresting, we jiptoe, to remark that the old hermit still considers himself a soldiery though the nature of his warfare is changed; he is now a zealous promoter of the Redeemer's cause, as he once was in securing the independence of the country. >%VSince the above was in type Wirtiave heard of the death of tliaaged partner of this venerable patriot. JTI i utr i r?_u* ' ^1nui"sesuoe ivouinlnsaP, is interesting- reading, evep m this critical and blase onr1, centui7- Judge A. t>. ^eek, a fine literary critic, # ?*T , KennecJy? the author of Horseshoe Robinson.': fthat inimitable "Tale of ry Ascendency in South ia proved the suitablef American subjects for is composition of the most d kind. Although in his ts and characters he has ttle more than presented fal chronicle of fact, using atea fo pim uv ni? men) himsetC yet such is ^irthplling interest of the s ory.^he vivia pictures of scenery, manners customs and language, the striking contrasts of character and the pervading beauty and power of style and description throughout the work that we think we do not err in saying that it is not inferior in any respect to the best of the Waverly series." The home of James Robertson in South Carolina, where he lived for a third of the centurj i is still standing. It is in Oconee : County, a few miles from West I minister. It i? now owned b; j Mr. Cox, and travelers frequent 3 ly visit the place, drawn thithe 3 by the fame of "Horseshoe Rol , inson."-News and Courier. yr Highering Southern o Educatioi >f t- Ogdenism, which would co ie trol the education of the Sout k finds on the verge of its expect triumph, that the South is opt in ing its eyes. Promoters of t ;e: movement for the endowment the University of Virginia mi it convenient, following antici 1C1- tory and telling publicity, >y, omit, when they made the f in call, certain names from the 1!J, of those behind the movemt The second call will have to 1 the following from United Sti did SenatorVoseph W. Bailey, ;lla- Texas, which is given wide j 'de" licity through special corres the ^ence *n Southern press. the "Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, For- Washington, D. ( wed "Dear Sir?Some time age e of and others were good enouj ~ na q ntomber ence designate me ? ered committee whose duty it i, we raise by subscription a sui still fund for the University ol | ginia. I did not at that tin 3, in cept the appointment, beca tered doubt the propriety of any year, while engaged in the ] ir, he service soliciting large con opof*tjons even for the most v title purposes, but I did not ishoe, necessary to protest agair bears use of my name as a mem >een a the committee. Recently, ength ever, a circumstance has dieted which compels me to insisi which the withdrawal of my nam evf. a all connection with the F. M. FARR, President, T XX Merchants and Plan! Successfully Doing Busim I IB lins a capltxlinul surplus R is tli? on v N\TIOX A ' li i has pniii rtlvldciVh mm I'll.vs !'"<HIl< |mt cent, in , is the only Itank in I'nion has llui'irlur i'1-oof vault. pays more taxes than A I. WE EARNESTLY SOLK w ii ? ii i which your committee was in- < tended to promote. Xhe circumstance to which I refer is the speech which Dr. Alderman, the present head of the University, 1 delivered before the Southern c Society of New York, and in ( which he makes a mean and i wholly unwarranted reflection J upon the intellect and staning of * Southern senators and represen- ? tatives in Congress. s "If I thought the estimates ex- L pressed were Dr. Alderman's r candid and unbiased opinion of the Southern men who are en- 1 gaged in the services of their re-11 spective States I would feel less' < resentment, but as I am con-'< constrained to believe that he \ was seeking the favor of those , millionaires who are sui posed to ( abhor certain principles and pol- j icics advocated by Southern sen- ( ators and representatives, I find ^ it impossible to be patient with . his eritiicsm. It would seem ' that those of our own section 4 i i 11 ill n i i wno compiaim tnai mc soctn no , longer supplies the republic with such men as John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay and Jefferson Davis ' I 80 rei^ember that other h "Without entering an^ . explanation of * the fact that , that changes in. the habits and* occupations of oiy* people have established a different, and perhaps a lower test of excellence in our public servants. I need only to remind thoughtful and candid men that Southern repre' sentatives and senators of this I time compare favorably with their associates in intellect, char' acter and conduct, as did their T predecessors; and if it be true * that the quality of Southern lead ership is not so high as it was in / in other days, the same can be asserted with equal truth as to r all other section. With this fact obvious to every thinking man, I hove scant respect for Southern educators who unduly dispraise their own neighbors. "Much as I would rejoice ii 1* the prosperity of the Universit; I of Virginia, I had rather see it n- ancient halls of learning deserte ;h, than to see them made the plac e(j where false and unjust opinion of Southern men and Souther '. principles are instilled into th ,lie minds of Southern youths. R< of gretting beyond expression tl rde circumsranae which has renden pa_ it impossible for me to co-opera t with you in your undertaking, have the honor to be, irst Very yours truly, list J. W. Bailey." int. This will probably lead otl ?ace Southerners to regret that t\ fKoJf namps to be UJ dies perniittuu tllVU ?f in connection with the undert; >ub- ing. They will begin to und pon- stand what is meant by ( "democratization of the Soutl and what the New York Tribi 3.: meant when it wrote concerr > vou the election of I)r. Aldermai the presidency of the Univer is to Virginia: "To the public table general the chief significant' : Vir- this selection is that it links le ac- University of Virginia, with s ,use 1 traditions and its powerful i public ence on Southern thought, tribu- tbe movement for the demo< rorthy zation of education. Thisele feel it may be fairly regarded as ist the ginia's answer to the critii ber of made in the South of effoi , how- extend and improve the cor arisen school system for both race: t upon of the abuse of Governor V e from gue for taking part in thr work sade."?Manufacturer's R I J. l>. ARTHUR, Cashier. | lers National Bank, I ess at the "Old Stand." 1 'nion, Q of H :ink in rniuii. K lilting in JjOlin S icivsl mi iU'i"-f?its. S| i iiisiM i'tid l>y :m (illlccr. ? nixl ShI'c u iiti Tii'i - I.nok. P I. tin- Clinks in Cnioti comlitii' il. M :iT YOUR BUSINESsJ Strengthening the South. A dispatch from Manchester, England, reports that the heavy :rop of American cotton has aused great activity in mill milding at that point, and that 'our mills are in course of construction, and at the same time i number of new mills are going ip for using Egyptian cotton, rhe combined capital of these lew mills now under construc;ion is $15,000,000. and they are expected to give employment to )000 hands. Thus the South coninues to furnish the raw material for the further developtment )f the textile interests of Great Britain. So long as Europe buys >0 per cent, of American cotton ;urns it into the finished product md exports it to all parts of the world there is room for the extension of the cotton-manufacturing industry in the South. Of course, there are certain conditions of cheap capital, low cost jieiih. aiuUi* the industri g?g?S j* wr this section * instead of building of new mnra ima m V creased competition, will nna that the more mills that are built in the South 011 a sound, legitimate, business basis the sooner will all secure the advantages ot low cost of machinery and cheaper capital, and with the development of the textile industry will come an increase in population, which will add to the labor supply. 4 In this connection is it also an ? ,1 f?Awi TV/T'i >->r?l-i?icl"pr that nouiictru 11 win foreign spinners are forming a combination, practically a trust so far as the buying of raw cotton is concerned, in order to se~ [ cure greater strength in keeping } down the price of the staple. In1 stead of competing with each 1 other in buying cotton, it is said v that the foreign mills are form^ ing a combination to buy all of their cotton through one agency, ^ which will then divide out the [s purchases as made to different n mills. Such a combination in , Great Britain will of necessity "' strengthen the South in its determination to develop new v* methods of handling and carryj ing cotton.?Manufacturers' 1 Record. "The Clansman." ier lev "The Clansman," by Thomas Dixon, Jr., says the New York >i^_ j Times, is a story of burning inler_ j dictment of the policy of revenge the bursuec^ ky Congress towards l ,, the South after amnesty had been tine ' 0^ere(* an<^ accepted. |ingi "Only too true is the picture ^ to which the autljp: draws of the t horrors which followed the be. jn stowal of arms and civic rights f upon the negroes of the South. ' ' ^ fnrlotr iVlO tVlO ^ Pttie WOI1UUI liiai luuaj vnv ill its PeoPle ?f those States pasnflu sionately reser,t the least hint of with a ^eturn t0 ^ays w^en negro ,rati_ legislatures and negro officials ction cast ^eir terrible shadow over Vir- the land. Bad as such a state of cisms things would be to theorize over, *ts to the actual endurance of it must nmon j,ave been so horrible that one fonta- marve's ^ow men w^? su^' t cru- fered it ever made peace with ecord. those who imposed it upon them."