The Rhode Island Republican

In an oration delivered on the 5th of July at Georgetown, (S. C.) the following instances of female heroism, during the revolutionary war, are cited:

"When a British officer arrested the sons of Mrs. Edwards, as objects of retaliation, she bade them "despise the threats of your enemies, and steadfastly persist to support the glorious cause in which you have engaged. But if from the frailty of human nature, you are disposed to temporize, and exchange your liberty for safety, you must forget me as a mother, nor subject me to the misery of ever beholding you again."

"When Mr. Leanc Holmes was arrested at the break of day, for transportation to St. Augustine, and was ordered before he had time to dress, to depart; his Lady handing him his coat, said "Take it my husband, and submit; waver not in your principles, but be true to your country. Have no fears for your family: God is good, and will provide for them."

"When a party of the enemy demanded of Mrs. Shubrick, an American soldier, whom they were in pursuit of, and who had sought protection in her house, she refused to deliver him up; and when threats were made to enter by force and seize him; she replied to them,"To men of honor, the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary! I will defend the passage to it though I perish. You may succeed and enter it, but it shall be over my corpse."