The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-05-21
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Our band i Ew, but true and tr;ed.
Our ieadeT frank and b0ld;
The Blisiah sos.iier trrnlges
When MaiiOnis name i lsld.
Our fortress 5 The good green wood.
Our ient the cypress Tree,
~ We know the fosest round IA.
As seaInen know tie sea.
We 10 the English soldiery
That Little dread ns mar!
On them shall light u midnight
A strange and sudden fear"
The family Of Mr. New on were as
sembied IN The little parIor where the,
were accustomed TO spend their evenings
Mr.. Newton himself, a venerable genIle
man Of the old school, was silently read
ing a stray English paper; his wife, a ma
iron but lew years younger. sat engaged
with her knitting, as was then fashionable
and their only surviving Child, beautiful
g'rl oil nineteen, and the pledge Of their old
age, occupied herself with rare piece Of
embroidery, such as would put 10 shame
The boosted needle-work of our own day.
Suddenly the door opened. anil the gray,
woody head Of the old buller was thrust
in.
a note for Missus Emily" said he,
and ne prelesenled il to her on a small
silver waiter.
The young lady rose, but the instan,
she saw the superseriplion Of the note her
face became of deadly pallor. Struggling,
however TO conceal her emotion, so that Il
should not be precepiible to her parents.
she walked with firm step out into the hall,
and pausing beneath the great lamp that
hung IN The passage, tore open the note
with trembling fingers, and began eagerly
10 read il.
The contents, whatever they were, DOW.
fully agitaied the reader; and she was fore.
ed TO lean against the banis.er Of the stair
case to prevent falling.
"Shall | bring glass of water!" said
The old butler, who had stood at a reg
pectful distance while she read the note.
She started, for she had not been aware
Of his presence. and grasped for breath as
il about to speak. With an effort she
asked.
&" Who brought this note Johnson,"
...a Il wa Sh bfi here n ,horseman," he
sitive it was one ofCaptain Elwyn's men.
He told me what had happened and beg
ged me to deliver the note 10 you imme.
iiately."
Emily paused before she replied. The
period Of our story was that dark and
melancholy era in the history Of the reyo-
luton, when CORVALLIS, having overrun
South Carolina, had expressed his deter.
10 exlinguish every spark of re-
,ellion-a period when TO be suspected of
being a patriot was almost certain ruin,
md when such Of the wings as fell into
he royalists' power expiated their offence
With life. The note in Emily's hand in
ormed her that he to whom she was be-
rothed. had been captured by the royal
sis, and was to be executed on the sue
ceding day. Well, therefore, might poor
emily tremble. But her weakness was
My momentary. She saw the crisis de-
handed immediate action. and all the he
oism of her nature was reused. She
new it would be useless to apply TO her
'alents in this emergency. The age of
eT father had kept him neutral hitherto,
nd Emily was unwilling 10 compromise
i'm now, and, by so doing, endanger his
fe. Every other consideration connected
nth her situation also passed rapidly be-
Ore her. In few minutes her plan was
esolved on; and it was one that called
Or all her energy and high resolve to exc.
ute.
Emily, however, was woman to shrink
t no common obstacle in the cause of
lose she loved. And lervently, ay! with
er whole heart, she loved the gallant and
Captain Elwyn. They had
cen acquainted from childhood, the faith
of Captain Elwyn having resideded on
plantation contiguous to that of Mr.. New
IN. On the breaking out of the war of In
the young man had entered the
merican army, and his father dying short
before the fall of Charlestown, Captain
lwyn's estate had since been confiscated
Y the royal government. Emily had been
ng secretly engaged to the active young S
artizan. but her father, though he had ;
,nsented TO the betrothal, had refused to S
sent to the nuptials until the termination
the war.
Such was the condition of circumstan- q
IS when this note was put into Emily's ,
,nds. The missiye was written by one S
the troop of mounted volunteers which
lwyn had raised OH his own responsible S
after the fall of Charlestown. In hasty I
ords the note informed her that, OH the f
eceding evening, detachment of their h
rec had been assaulted by superior num- "
RS, most of them slain and their leader s
AIDE prisoner. The writer had with diff v
:ulty escaped. He had fingered long O
ough in the enemy's post whittier Cap r
in Elwyn had been carried, to learn that
e young officer, after hasty examina- p