The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-11

| to Camden, bearing letter from Lord Corn
wallis, which stated that he intended to leave
| the town; the inhabitants being so hostile
! to him that they killed his men from every
bush, in cold blood, while they were engaged
in collecting forage for his army. Before
the enemy retreated from the place, they
buried their dead in Liberty Hall, and
burned down the building. This college
was the same which the British government
refused to charter underth the name of Queens
! Museum. From this seat of learning, many
eminent men in Church and State received
! their education, who have done honor to
their country.
Susannah Barnett was married in 1875,
to George w. Smart. She had three
children, whom she lost, and her husband
died in 1869. He built the house she oc-
cupied in 1851. She lived usually alone,
and gave accommodation to travellers who
passed, as the road lay near. William II.
Crawford, of Georgia, one of her most
esteemed acquantances, always stayed with
her, as he went to and returned from Wash
ingtOn. She became extensively acquainted
with men travelling in the south, and having
a retentive memory, knew almost every
family, their pedigree and connections, for
several generations. Young or old might
find her ready to converse on any subject.
81 have lived at home," she was wont to
say, land yet have seen two of our Presi-
dents. | knew Andrew Jack son; and many
time little Jamie Polk has passed along
the road there, with his breeches rolled up
to his knees. He was a bashful little fellow"
Mrs. Smart was reared in the doctrines
of the Presbyterian church, and remembered
all the ministers who occupied the seven
pulpits in Mccklenburg at the time Of the
Shc toll cd with infa al fSf
the politics of the day, and read the news
papers, even at the age Of ninety. She in
formed Mr.. StinSOn, on his visit to her, that
one of her relatives had been telling her of
a political meeting to be held in York Dis
trict, and had advocated the secession of
South Carolina from the Union. She init
mated to him that she had heard of this new
device, and had also been informed that
many of the good, gifted, and great, of South
Carolina were not in favor of secession. For
her own part, she said: "The North and
South stood shoulder to shoulder in the
times of rs. We should settle our family
chickering's at all times by compromise"
The stump speeches delivered at this
period brought to her mind the time when
she was a girl of fourteen. For hours at
time she remembered to have heard the
Reverend James Hall, of Iredell, who was
also a captain of dragons. There he stood
upon the stump, in his fringed hunting shirt,
his broadsword by his side, haranguing the
people. Although young, she understood
every word of his sOul-stirring speech. His
theme needed no big words to set it off; it
was the liberty taught US i'll the Bible and
the Church, at the family ireside. The
response to the orator was the noble daring
of patriots, in the maintenance of national
and individual rights; and every bush i'll old
Mecklenburg was vocal with the rifles re-
port, driving back the ruthless invader.
Then the United States formed one country {;
and Washington led her armies.