Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-15

He went from Augusta to Edgefield,
then to Abbeville, and thence to
Pendleton, in the old District of
Ninety.Six, just at the foot of the
mountains. His course was still
westward until he came to the Seneca
rivers tributary of the Savannah.
He describes how he happened
to spend the night at the home
of Col. 2, who lived thirty
miles from Pendleton. Horseshoe
Robinson came there that night.
"What man / saw! Tall, broad,
brawny and erect. His homely dress,
his free stride, his face radiant with
kindness, the natural graccfulness of
his motions, all afforded a ready in
dex TO his character. 1t was evident
he was man TO confide in"
The old soldier was drawn out to
relate some stories of the war. He
told how he got away from Charles
ton after the surrender, and how he
took FIVE Scotchmen prisoners; and
these two famous passages are faith
fully preserved in the narrative:
"It was first published in 1885.
Horseshoe Robinson was then a very
old man. He had removed to Ala
bama and lived, / am told, near Tus-
,caloosa. / commissioned friend to
send him copy of the book. The
report brought me was that the old
man had listened very attentively to
the reading OF it, and took great in
terest in it.
"'What do you say to all this.T
was the question addressed to him,
after the reading was finished. His
reply is voucher, which l desire to
preserve: sIt ia all true and right-in
it's right place-excepting about them
women, which l disremember. That
mought be true, too; but my memory
is treacherous-I disremember.'
1t is pleasure to know that this
fine old hero was real parsonage,
and although his exploits may have
been colored in measure by the pen
of the romancer, there still remains
a rich stock of adventures, which
were undoubtedly true, and the pic
ture of nature frank, brave, true
and yet full of modesty.
Extract from Flag of the Union
published at Tuscaloosa, January II.
1888:
Horseshoe Robinson-W has
not read Kennedy's delightful noveI
of this name, and who that has read
it would not give an half days ride
to see the venerable living hero Of
this tale of "Tory Ascendancy," the
immortal Horseshoe himself-the
determination of "Jim Curry" and
Hugh Habershaw? The venerable
patriot bearing the familiar soubri-
quet, and whose name Mr.. Kennedy
has made as familiar in the mouths
of American youths as household
words, was visited by us in company
with several friends one day last
week. We found the old gentleman
on his plantation about twelve miles
from this city, as comfortably stu
ated with respect to this worlds
goods as any one could desire to
have him. 1t was gratifying to us
to see him in his old age, after hav-
ing served through the whole war OF
independence, thus seated under his
own vine and fig tree, with his chill
dren around him and with the part
ner of bis early tolls and trials still
continued to him enjoying in peace
and safety the rich rewards of that
arduous struggle, in the most gloomy
and Responding hour of which he
was found as ready, as earnest, as
jealous for the cause of liberty as
when victory perched upon her
standard, and the stars of the "Tory
Ascendancy" was for awhile dimmed
by defeat, and in which he continued
with unshaken faith and constancy
until it sank below the horizon never
again to rise. The old gentleman