. Southern heroes;. teous cause can suffer harm If He its part has taken ? Though wild and loud And dark the cloud, Behind its folds His hand upholds The calm sky of to-morrow ! Whittier. • Men are so constituted that those of similar tastes,habits, callings antl religious beliefs are very sure, asa rule, to form themselves into lodges, leagues, guilds,societies and even communities. The Friends are aptto gather into rather distinctive neighborhoods ; notabsolutely so, as do the Shakers, neither do they haveall things in common as does that body, but for privi-leges of fellowship and convenien
. Southern heroes;. teous cause can suffer harm If He its part has taken ? Though wild and loud And dark the cloud, Behind its folds His hand upholds The calm sky of to-morrow ! Whittier. • Men are so constituted that those of similar tastes,habits, callings antl religious beliefs are very sure, asa rule, to form themselves into lodges, leagues, guilds,societies and even communities. The Friends are aptto gather into rather distinctive neighborhoods ; notabsolutely so, as do the Shakers, neither do they haveall things in common as does that body, but for privi-leges of fellowship and convenience of meeting toworship God, they natiu^ally gather in neighborhoods. The Friends make it the habit of their lives togo up to the house of the Lord at least twice aweek. They care for the education of their children,and in the South, where the public school systemhad been very deficient and general education muchneglected, they had a schoolhouse near every meeting-house. We have already learned of Holly Spring and. W -5 = :^ SOUTHERN HEROES. 215 Marlboro neighborhoods. West of Ashboro and southof Marlboro is a community called Back Creek neioh-borhood. The zealous home guard, anxious forothers to go to the front, were hunting here for con-scripts and endeavoring to secure every man whocould possibly be made to serve the Confederacy. We have the names of twenty-nine of the Friendsgathered by these hunters at different times, from thislittle country church. For one of them a relative senta substitute ; some were assigned to the salt-works;some paid for substitutes to work there ; but sooner orlater twenty-two paid the tax. Much suffering wasexperienced by exposure from lying out and per-secutions of various kinds, before relief could be ob-tained. Much property was taken from William Lowand other Friends, — horses, cattle and provisions,without recompense. Deep River neighborhood is situated about thirty-five miles north of Back Creek, and here, since about1695, the Friends h
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