The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-07-11
From the waichman Of the aouih.
JOSEPH GRAHAM.
tconiiaued.)


CORVALLIS found his position in Char
lote exceedingly unpleasant from the on
friendly spirit of the surrounding popula-
lion. While there vas no army OF the
pstriots near hi@, his men found safety
only in their numbers. HIS senuies we're
shot down. ofrn in open day; his fo,as-
ing parties seldom escaped an ambush, or
returned 70 camp without blnod-shed.
The whigs would not bring IN provisions,
torres were watched, and bropgh, supplies
a, the peril Of their lives.
CAUSES OF ExAsPERATIoN.
II 10 not wonderful ,hs, he inhabitants
were rendered desperate: that no lerrors
II armed men could break dawn The pa.
uiot.. nor any pacific offers oftbe British
general sllsy their hostility; and ,hsi any
deftction, in neiRhbo, hood, from the pa
triot cause. but mfamed the already ex-
ciled spirIs. aud aided 10 the suffering.
Of an Invasion, the mIseries Of domestic
war. In one excursion Of the BRUSH
forces up the Csiswbs waters in South
Carolina, Presbyterian Church vas
burned; their preachers house destroy e!;
and every Bible in the nelghborhood that
had Ddrids Psalms in Metre bound " i,h
It. (which Was the case ~ilh every Bible
10 Presbyterian families in the CarolInss)
was committed to the flames. To sing
old Rouse's version wss rebtllion;--anJ
yet old Rouse's version vas the manual
Of oil the Scotch-Irish in their solemn
worship Of Almighty God. /, was war
against religion; anil men fought for the
hope Of immortality. Every man rejolc
ed when Sump'er surprised This party
and Tell upon them s~ord in hand while
they we're making merry with the misery
of some poor women who had come to
beg Tor Their families, and Tor some respite
in their sufferings--snd The sscrlegious
commander was fonnd smong the slain.
The d fIicul,y attending the toraging and
plundering in Mecklenburg county made
the sufferinps Of the country greater. The
British soldiers knew no bounds 10 their
rspsciry when they found family unp'o-
,ec'ed Leave me at less, bucket TO
bring y ATE, Tor my children. "ssid widow
from whose house tie soldiers had taken or
destroyed every movable hing. Yes.
yes," SAID Tsrlion-" Widows 10 every
house nov; nothing but widows now-a-
days." When some widows appeared
before COINS ellis, and demanded redress
in the name 81 suffering humanity. to the
h"nor OF Cornw alIis he il said, that a wi.
dow tina, could &c. hearing from his
IIordship. never sued for rtd'ess 10 vain.
CHARLOTTE EVACUATED.
The battle Of Kings Mountain took
plare on The 7,h Of October. 1850. on The
first chain Of hills to the west Of Char.
lo,ie, and ended in the death OF captivity
of the British iorce under Ferguson. The
best. the only accurate accoun. &c that bat
tie. derived from authentic sources, is in
The handwriting Of Graham. and is ac-
compaaied with 'beaut ful'd,aaraD. As
this will probably be gwen to The public
by his son.in law, Dr.. Morrison, iur'h-
er notice will be omitted here.
On The dark and stormy night Of The
18th Of October, jus' 10 days alter lie had
entered the town. Cornwsll,s abandoned
Charlotte. The graves around L'ber'y
Hall, which he had used as his hospnal,
tpstif'd that his forces we're diminished.
In his has,y retreat from the village.
which took place in the nigh. TO proven,
surprise by ITS secrecy, he lost much OF
his baggage IN the swsmps IN which he
became sn.snsled by whig guide whom