Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-07-25
wAIHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JULY Is 1878

It is scarcely within my province to criticise
his action 10 the matters above roferrod to,
or that;;of any Judge of his ability In any
matter. But feel free to say, Deverthc-
less, that am honestly Of opinion that he
acted with more zeal than discretion 10 this
one Instance, aud would have accomplished
much more good had be followed up Rcd
mond less closely and the revenue officers
more 80. To do him justice, however, he
did order the recently reported Investigation,
and would no doubt make good use Of It flop.
portunity were presented. TO return to
Redmond, have promised to end bis
story with this letter, and though I hope
no one of my readers have wearied of him
yet, l shall try to keep my word.
IA FALSE ALARM. si&
Feeling really Ill from the effects of fa..
tigue, as I have said before, was compelled
to close my second interview with him
little before midnight, when lie again ac-
companied mo to the house of our mutual
friend, my host. There I bado him good
night, and went to bed, while he and my
host took blankets aud walked off to sleep
in the woods. Iquiokly fell into au uneasy
eeni' conscious state, from which was
startled on hour later BY the subdued voice
OF our Bind young hostess whispering to nay
companibn, Mr.. Fields, to "get up, please,
end strike q light; the revenues are ali
around the house!" Tho frightened wife
was Glad in her night dress only, and seemed
beside herself with anxiety aud alarm. "I
have heard some one walking in tho yard"
she said, "and they always comc about this
time Of night" Mr.. Fields arose and
striking: match, Chow hard they were to
findD went to the window and called, "Who
is theroS" A voice answered, whispered
consultation followed, and at last my com-
panion; came back and whispered to me that
not the revenues but the prisoner they had
captured tho day before WINS Without !
congratulated him in my heart on his
escape, and Mrs. -- rumaged around and
got him asupper. did not soc him, but
my hostess and my companion told ME they
never saw a,man eat so much in their re-
spectve lives. Then lie pushed on over
the hills and far away to the home from
which be had been taken tho morning
before, and where, no doubt, he was well
coined as one risen from the dead It was
the old story of captors DOING, sudden
dash for liberty, few bullets lodged, and
freedom once more. How Redmond nav,
how the whole peighborhood rejoiced over
the fact of his escape next morning! Pee
caui, but couldn't holp it, nor could you
had you been in my place.
KEDMoND's BENEvoLENoE.
Redmond breakfastod with US next morn
ing, and our hostess waited upon us and
could not do enough for him. The simple.
hoartod women Of the mountains all admire
il they do not love him, and neither his
name nor his presence have any terrors for
them. Why it was only last year say they,
that he paid off the taxes which we're hang
ing over tho heads of 1 am afraid to state
how many poor families, and took his pay
when be got any, in s'ohips and whetstones"
and other like valuablcs, among which was
veteran ram, which the old lady forced
upon him, and which he never saw after the
day OF transfer. 1t preferred her yard to
his, it seemed, and he never wont back for
it. And besides all this, did he not ride
live consecutive days "working for Hamp-
tom during the lest campaign, and on cleo.
tion day did he not hitch up his own wagon
and team and send eight or ten old men
who couldn't walk, and who hadn't voted
for years, all the way from their homes to
tho poll at Eastatoe, where he dared not go
bimself2 And. outlaw as ho is, is he not
now supporting his three sisters, who have
no othet dependence, and ono of whom has
been cripple for eleven yeara? Certainly
no has done and he is doing all these things,
as everybody hereabouts will tell you.
OTHER GOOD DEEDS.
1t was not so very long ago that poor
man, whose oxon and four sheep which he
had taken to market wero levied on for
taxes at Piokens Courthouse, met "tho
Major" 10 the road and asked for help aud
got it. 1t was a small sum, only 1926, but
it WAS very large sum to tho poor farmer
and to the despised Samaritan, but it was
given freely, and has nevor been returned
or asked for. No, the money was neither
stolen on tho highway nor was it tho return
Of any unlawful sale; it was tho price of
produce grown on tho outlaws farm by hard
labor, and which farm and home he darcs
not visit except at night and at long inter
walls, at tho risk of his life. "The revenues
have beon thoro after him very often" said
ono, revenue himself, to me to day.
now REDMOND TOLD HIS TALE.
I have made another depression I fiud,
but do not think I need apologize for it.
Not 80 much of good has ever been said
concerning Lewis r. Redmond that I mood
silence tho public voice of his praise on the
one single occasion Of his justification. l
have written down in these letters every
word which he has said against himself 10
speaking of his own misdeeds to mo. Z /
declare that the story was not told boastingly