The worthy daughter of a Hero.
--All who are familiar with our revolutionary history, must bear in grateful and enthusiastic memory the great services, the heroic courage, and splendid achievements of
Gen. Nathaniel Greene, who led the chivalry of the
South in so many terrible conflicts and glorious victories over the
British.
A Rhode Islander by birth,
General Greene was sent southward by
General Washington as his most reliable chief, and by his brilliant generalship and virtues so endeared himself to the people of this section that he ever afterwards resided in the
South, and his descendants have ever been distinguished for their devotion to the honor and rights of the
South.
We have now before us a letter from a venerable lady, says the New Orleans Delta, the last surviving child of
Gen. Nat. Greene, who has reached the advanced age of eighty, in which, addressing one of her descendants, she uses the following noble language:
‘
"Rather than hear that
Fort Moultrie was taken from
South Carolina, I would have myself dragged there and sit on the parapet until the last gun was fired."
’