The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1859-05-04
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THE LEAGUE OF ruE SEVEN.

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urging their way with great difficulty
. through almost impervious walls inter
laced and opposing shruLbery, met at
! midnight beneath the spreading branches
OF cypress tree, at a place called Laurel
Swamp, in South Carolina, in the wear
. III. They gathered sticks and leaves
and made a fire The flames, springiur
up from the dry heap, threw red glaze
/ upon thei. iaCes, wi.ich were scanned and
dIStigured by the plav of bad PASSIONS
They were young men-thc oldest not be
ing more than thirty five years of age
As they stood IL IA circle around the fire,
thev resembled "A group of vagabond En-
gIi>h glpseS, fresh from the stocks or whip.
/ ping post. They were armed with sabres.
knives, pistols ard muskets. Their faces
were smutchel with powder, their boards
and bar long ard neglected, their gar
munts torn by conflict and the sharp
tec,h OF the cypress hedges. The names
OF these men were respectively as follows:
Martin Nania>s'e, Nathaniel Hcrrick, Phil
lip lau"iprd, Srmon Arrowsmith, John
Nico!son, James Pollard, and Timothy
Becker
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/ ont, which will be soon. 'cordin' 70 pr.s.
/ sent appearances, we'll bc masters Of the
country ourselves. Wen have houses and
lands, and niggers to wait on us
/ That's the kind o talk like to hear
said jim Pollard.
1t, a kind Of talk. too. tha,'l n,ove
prophetic,' reioined Vantnssle.
IL would, !: we could keen Marion and
Sumpter still interposed Lanrcord.
The Swamp Fox will soon be still. en-
ough, I'll warrant We! Colonel TarIe,nn is
on Lis track, and he'll trap him afore he's
n week older However. that's neither
here nor there; let them fght for glorv
who will-our motto IS 'Boofy and Be1u.
W.'
. sNe know who your beou,v is, said
Simon Arrowsmi,b, with lecr..,t is les
sic Burnside
/ And he shall have her, too - said Her
rick, with An oath.
'Thank'e Nat IIerick and il Won don't
succeed with Ruth H.yilsnd. MI be no
faul, of mine
J And will nobody sneak \ word for pa'
asked LangGord.