Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-19

Sumter said Benjamin May Was the braVest
mau he ever knew. Among the Tories not
one hero was to be found. The Wings and
Tories met at Mvbley's meeting house, and
after the first crack of the rifle the Tories
fed to man. The same thing occurred at
Wing and Tory skirmish at CaldwelPs place
at Lees Greek, and after one firing and the
rout of the Tories was perfect, their leader,
Col John Phillips, was found squatted in
briar patch and drawn out prisoner. The
Court ofAppeals of South Carolina have tac'
itly affirmed that the "devil is entitled to his
due" According to that potent decision,
John Phillips is entitled to his due He
had an unaccountable influence over Corn
wallis, and in the benefcent exercise of that
influence he obtained pardon for ;Ill the
Wings condemned to death at the drum head
court, while his lordship occupied Winns.
borough.
During the stay of the British chieftain,
he often sent for John Milling and Watty
Robertson, to converse with him about mat.
ters connected with his command He said
they were men of extraordinary sense, and,
no doubt. often reminded him of victory,
resulting in no advantage, and triumphs
ending in hard knocks and ultimate disaster.
Cornwallis ordered the country people to be
paid literally for their produce, and molested
no one in the enjoyment of civil rights
With the due military ceremonies and pre-
cautions, he admitted every one to his
markee. Johny Sarvice visited him. He
was crank old Irishman. "And who, /"
said CORVALLIS, care you?" ~ am Johny
Sarvice, at your service" "Well, what do
you want?" 81 want pay for patch Of
wheat eat up by the British Cavalry
"Well, co." said Corvallis, "to the Com
missary, establish your claim, and get your
money. =" Johny thought it appropriate to
indulge his irresistible propensity for crank.
ness, and before he left his presence, he en-
quired of CORVALLIS, if he was any kin to
the Wallis down the road? ..
John Mills, of Chester, gained admission
to the markee. "And who, said CORVALLIS,
are you?'' "My Lord, replied Mills, do not
you remember old John Mills, who kept your
fathers race horse in Ireland "O,is that
you, John ?-give us wag of your bone,
and help yourself right freely to spirits and
water" John drank, but failed to grace
his dram with toast. "And have you any
business with me, my old friend 2" ; eyes,
your Lordship-I understand you -ha#esitia
view to hang good many of you darn't
Wings, aud had it in mind to say to you
that that was not the way to succeed with
these people-besides nothing is more un-
certain than the fate of battles, and your
Lordship and your brave men may change
places with the Wings now condemned to
die. My son John is one of the damndest
Wings in the colony, and if your Lordship
goes on to hang, and you should afterwards
fall into Johns hands, he would hang up
your Lordship like dog" Johny's speech
had its possible effect, for nobody was hung,
no property plundercd or destroyed. 1t
would not be worth while to speak Of the
spirited attack made by part of Sumter's
force on the British post at Rocky Mount
Turnbull in command of that post, with
British and Tories, made out to maintain his
position with inconsiderable loss. The hope
of the attack consisted in firing stack Of
hay and communicating the flames to the
Fort; but the unruly wind blew the wrong
way And how often in life do we find that
we fail because the wind is perverse and in
tractable. Jas. Johnston, commonly known
as Adjutant Johnston, was the Wing hero
on this occasion. He wore the blade which
graced the side of his grand father at the
siege Of Derry. .... ~
After the defeat of the British at Black
stock, and it was incontcstible in its COM
pleteness, the wreck of the British troops
engaged in that fight dropped down to Mrs.
Danby's near Broad river. The poor old
widow was forthwith ordered out of the
dwelling with her children. She refused to
go;. force was threatened. She bid defiance
to force 81 will not say what I am but
you say 1 am a British subject-and if so !
have the right of British subject until l
am legally divestad by the verdict of jury.
If you must have shelter, go take the
kitchen, and make the most of it." They
took her at her word-and British officers,
scented, clad and trimmed off with gold lace
and decorated with epaulettes, were glad
to find an asylum in poor old Martha Dan
by's kitchen Such is the indomitable res
olution exerted n:.the right spirit and in a
good cause. Many of the British officers
and British soldiers wounded at Blackstock's,
died here. Among the rest and chiefest in
all that constituted the man and the hero,
was Major NTorny. He was connected with
some of the highest names in old England,
and distinguished for scholarship, kind heart
edness and gallantry. The day he was re-
moved from the kitchen to another world,
the pewter on the shelf ratified with the cx-
cess OF his convulsive agonies, and he cried
out often, scomc on boys, We value none of
them but Tom Sumter and Will Washing
/ ton.
Major Morny is particularly mentioned,
because, strange to say, his English friends
were never apprized of his fate, and not
thirty years ago inquiries were made after
him. He sleeps on the hill top where he
brcathed his last, and the winds have long
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