Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-10-23
dams dull as its companion was read
able and fascinating.
Steal not this book for fear OF shame,
For in it is the owners name

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able and fascinating.
Steal not this book for fear of shame,
For in it is the owners name.
was written in quaint, old-fashioned
hand on the tly-leaf above the Signature
of Jacob Jewett. The old man died
wears ago, and his collection being dis
perscd. track of the rare old volum'
was lost. Recalling Horry's account
of the battle of Camden, it appears 10
me that the sculptor might have select
cd a historical attitude instead OF Il
merely ideal one for the brave Old
baron (who. if my recollection serves
me accurately, was not about ~, rs
has been stated, but IS years old at the
date of his death.) Horny represents
him. when Gates gave utterance to the
taunting intimatiOn that his eXpostua-
ton was prompted by cowardice on the
eve of the battle, as lifting his gray
head proudly, and replying: "Io-mor.
row, sir, will tell who is the coward!
And so it did, for, while the dauntlasS
old hero died at the head of his brave
continentals, Gates did not make his
appearance on the field during the day.
Marion was 4 little, dark, thin man,
with keen eyes and a biting tongue
He was so small when he was baby,
Horny says, that he could have been
put into pint cup, and would have
been doomed to death for pTninesS
| according TO Spartan canons. lie q .neu
n British officer. who was sent to HIM
with IN offer of amnesty and commlS-
sion on sweet potatoes served on slips
of bark, and talked so eloquently OF
liberty at dinner that the officer res en-
ed his command and went back to Eng
land, declaring that he could not hnd
| it in his heart to war against men who
| could endure such privat.onS in the
cause of human rights.
Horny concludes his narrative of De
Kalb's death with an eloquent para
! graph. Camden field was covered with
waving corn when he wrote his lively
| book, and the dark-green leaves OF the
crescent grain rustled above the very
spot where this knight-errant for free
dom fell | recolect the final words Of
the encomium: Congress ordered hin
a marble monument, but the friend o
st. Tammany still sleeps without his
fame! ana thus ne mas Slcpi ~!
century, and HOrry's eloquent tribute
has been forgotten in the scurry OF ;
hundred wears. Would it not be Il goo
venture in business, as we'll as an act o.
patriotism. to recover to historical lit
erature one of the finest memoirs of thu
war in the south-South Carolina es
pecially-that comes within my recol
lection? For Horny was intimatel,
versed in the legend and anecdote a
well rs the large military movement
of the several campaigns, and it was In
who preserved the spirited witticism o
a South Carolina lady in a reply 10 tn
hated Tarleton, who in personal ell
counter with Col Washington had ha
three fingers nearly severed, and still
bore the scar.
Il can't see why you ladies' are s
partial to Col. Washington, sneere
TarletOn. why, the man can't eve
write his own namer'
Perhaps not, sir" replied the lad
blandly, "but as the gallant Col. Tarlt
ton can testify, he knows how to max
his mark
Why not rescue from oblivion boo
so clever and valuable-one that make
you feel as though your grandfa:he
took you OH his knee and told you a
1hout ito