Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-14
THE CELEBRATION PAMPHLET.

does credit to the Publisher and the Editor, and
promises to deserve goodly harvest.
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THE CELEBRATION PAMPHLET.
After o ve1ations and unreasonable delay of
several months, we have at last been enabled to
procure the remaining copies of the pamphlet,
containing the account of the proceedings in re-
ference to the Kings Mountain Celebration. The
book contains a complete history Of the celebra-
ton from the date of the call for the first meeting to
the 9th of October, embracing the speeches Of Mr..
PRESTON and Mr.. BANCROFT, and besides, by way
of appendix, many valuable historical incidents
connected with the gathering Of the clans, the bat
tie and its consequences. 1t has been printed in
the best style, at very considerable outlay our
part, and will be afforded at price barely sufti-
cient to remunerate US for the money actually e1-
pended. It is our intention as soon as possible,
to present copies to the members of the several
mmittees-others may obtain the work by ap-
plication to Mr.. GR1sT, at the ENQUIRER Office.
From the many complimentary notices bestowed
upon the Pamphlet by our contemporaries in the
State, we append the following, from the Charles
ton Standard, the Edgeaeld Advertiser, and the
Columbia Times:-
K1Na's MOUNTAIN CELEBRATION. We have re-
ceived from Messrs. Miller & Melton, proprietors
Yorkville Enquirer, copy Of the proceedings Of
the anniversary celebration of hebattle Of Kings
Mountain. Of this celebration our readers will
remember wc have already given tolcrably e1-
tended account The work before US contains not
only an outline and narrative of the principal
events but includes the proceedings of the sever
al public meetings rocking to this occurrence
the speeches of the Hon. John 8. Preston and Mr.
Bancroft, and many letters from distinguished
gentlemen who had been invited but who were
unable to attend. Altogether, it throws bright
and cheerful light upon this period Of our country's
history. 1t has been compiled with taste and
Judgment, and has been admirably executed
Messrs. Miller s. Melton, of tho Yorkville Enquirer
are the publishers, and the printing has been exc.
cuted by Messrs, James s Williams, No. l6 State
street. The paper is unusually fne-the mechani-
cal execution admirable, and the work itself ex-
tending to over one hundred pages, presents an
exceedingly attractive appearance.
We are pleased to learn from the Publishers,
that the work is selling rapidly. Four hundred
taken up, and IN order issued fortwo
hundred more. A part of the edition, we under
stand, will be retained in Charleston, and placed
in SOME of our prinoipa! Book Stores for SALE
Charleston Standard.
"KlSG's MOUNTAIN CELEBRATION. Such is the
title of q Rell=prepared publication recently is-
sued by Messrs. Miller & Melton Of the Yorkville
ENQUIRER. 1t is very handsome pamphlet Of
moro than one hundred pages, containing, among
many other good things, the speeches Of COL John
s. Preston and Mr.. Bancroft on the occasion Of
the celebration of the anniversary of the battle Of
Kings Mouutainin October last. We have derived
much pleasure from tho perusal of its pages and
shall place the copy wo have received upon shelf
in our library set apart for really valuable Amerl-
can works. Perhaps we are wrong in designating
it work and yet, so seldom do wo see Southern
talent engaged in illustrating the history and char
acter of our homes, that We will even let the word
stand as tits writ.
1t certainly was something to have achieved the
imposing celebration Of October last in the mnn'
ner it was DONE 1t was something too to have
drawn from tho eloquent descendant of Campbell
that glowing narrative Of those "high-souled pat
riots who left the banks Of the beautiful Wautau-
"a one bright September morning, seventy-fve
wears ago, with high purpose written upon every
deeply wrought description of the da-
ring attack of Sewer, Campbell, Williams and
Shelby, with their gallant mountaineers, upon the
rocky stronghold of tie fearless and insatiate
Ferguson-that closing in of the ranks Of the pat
riots around the nfurated and astonished soldiery
of Britain; until there came, in place of madden
ed curses, "a yell for mercy" when the white flag
Was run up and Gods champions shouted 'victory!
liberty !"-that rich fow of feeling and sentiment
the whole production-and lastly, that
noble tribute to the genius of American Liberty
as snstamped upon the free heart of our country.
1t was indeed above the common routine Of events,
that pilgrimage Of ten thousand worshipping chill
dren who went to kneel upon sod hallowed by the
purest ancestral blood. 1t was surely more than
a common anniversary, upon which that autumnal
''sun rose 80 gloriously and went his round from
to twilight without cloud to dim even
for moment his unusual splendor." All in al,
the occasion was an honor to the heart that con-
roic past which must command the applause Of
the vrtuous and brave in every part Of the coun-
try.
1t affords US high satisfaction to have the prvi-
ege of recording our admiration Of this patriotic
celebration" and all its accompaniments; and
We beg to recommend the publication in. question
10 our readers.
Those who may think proper to possess them
selves of it Gun do so by enclosing 36 cents to
Bryan, bookseller, Columbia, S. C.-Eagefsld
advertiser.
TIE KIS6's MOUNTAIN CEIEBRATIoN.-Messrs.
Melton and Miller, of the Yorhpills Enquirer have
placed US under many obligations by presenting
US neat pamphlet, containing full account Of
the late celebration of the anniversary of the Bat
Ito of Kings Mountain. To the preservering zeal
Of those gentlemen, more than to any other sim
gc moving cause, more perhaps than to all other
causes combined, is the country indebted for the
magnificent and most appropriate style, in which
Tho descendants Of tho everglorious heroes Of
''timcs that tried mems souls" testified their ap-
probation of the mighty deeds Of yalor which were
signalized on tho 7th October, 1850. They earn
cStly devoted themselves TO the task Of arousing
tho people of South Carolina, North Carolina and
Tennessee to sense oftho duty whichthcy owe to
the noble hero-patriots of Kings Mountain. The