Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-07-03

NOW marx me, Inn Nettes, every tme Tie Woru
"Crack" is spoken in the song,' hit him blow
with the hickory. The science Of the thing will
charm his Jamaica from its hidingplace. He has
taste for good music, and his senses will be
more sensitive to melody when his back is the
harp played upon. And now for the music and
the dance Keep time Nettles. Sing all-dance
oil, my lads"
SONG. ~~
The soldier boys are fond of rum
Dade McFoggin give US some,
Or on your back, let the hickory crack,
Crack, crack, crack-let the hickory crack.
The soldier is thirsty man,
Dade McFoggin fill your can,
Or on your back, let the hickory crack
Crack, crack, crack--let the hickory crack.
And Tim Nettles played the tune to admiration.
Mrs. McFoggin. Pray Cap'in, don't kill my
husband. 0, pray don't. [Weeps.]
Dads MeFoggm, ITO his wife, in calm and
submissive tone.] Peggy dear, be quiet, and let
the gentlemen alone; they mean no harm, Peggy,
and don't intend to kill me. They ARE ONLY
WHIPPING NE FOR MY GOOD. Peggy dear, give up
the demijohn when one can't help it, Peggy, it is
jist as we'll to gin up. Ezi Omnes.
-=a- REVOLUTIONARY TALE.
Now, with brief commentary on the philoso-
ply of our hero, Dade McFoggin, I shall close
this article.
maintain then, that although the keeper Of
Jug Tavern, Dade McFoggin was true philoso-
pher-and his system of philosophy as evolved by
the last words we have extorted from him, is of
great practical Importance.
Hear him say with deep humility-"they are
whipping me for my good, Peggy; give up the demi-
john. When one can't help it, Peggy, ii is jist as
seeu to gin it up" This is sublime in the very
gracefulness of the surrender. How cool, when
surrounded by an outward pressure which he
could not resist What fortitude under suffering,
while compelled to part with his dear beverage!
The closing scene of the great philosopher of an-
tiouity can alone present parallel. That Dade
McFoggin ,ras philosopher, is proved by the fact
that his conduct in the trying ordeal through
which he passed, was the very reverse Of what
we should expect of ordinary mortals. Great men
and great minds alone do this.
It is we'll established fact, that mere animal
instinct, whether in man or beast, is eminently
resentful of all attempts to drive it from its gar
bage. The wolf growls back his resentment,
when driven from the sheep-fold by the shepherd
and his dog. The wild boar breaks your close and
inyades your cornfeld, but beware Of his tusks
when you advance to eject him. Bruin enters
your sty to regale upon your pork, and when
you approach to repel his assault upon your rights
he forgets the pinching of his hunger to grapple
with and rend you. So in some degree is it with
the superior race. Individuals Of this race, eve
rywhere, in pursuit of gain, adopt callings and
pursue designs, that are injurious to the para
mount interests of human society; but, when
brought before the proper tribunal for trial and
punishment, court, jury and witnesses are all de-
nounced with feelings of resentment and hate by
the culprits. There are those everywhere in civil
society, who practically, though not in words,
claim the right to be its vultures and its horse
leeches, and therefore, to prey upon it. 1fdriven
from the pursuit, and therefore disappointed in
their aims they feel greater Indignation than the
good and virtuous feel when forcibly prevented
from imparting'to society a real and lawful good.
If public opinion demand reform of any social or
other abuse, the very word reform involves the
idea, that some members of society are per-
petrating fraud and wrong upon it, and on the de-
mand for reform, these bad members are censured,
and hence, they are not only indignant on account
of their own public exposure, but also on account
of the loss of their anticipated profits. When
the great Apostle of the Gentles went boldly into
the Areopagus at Athens, and with an eloquence
which, even after the lapse of eighteen centuries,
still thrills through veins and vbrates upon our
heart-strings, preached Christ and him cruclhed
to nation of dolaters, he was plotted against by
the dol-makers, because knowledge of the true
God would take from them the profits of their
craft. Man, though in thousand things tickle
and changeful, has one element in his being which
never changes-and TINT is his nature; and as 1t
was in the days of old, so it is now. The individ-
ual who would inaict evil upon society to put
money in his purse, or plume in his cap, will
cherish resentment against society ITSELF ifit re-
fuse to permit him to perpetrate the wrong which
would degrade and dishonor it.
But no man has the right to infict an admitted
evil upon society, that he may be personally ben
e6tted. Nay, more. The man who deliberately
inaicts an evil upon society, forfeits his claim to
its protection. speak of public men and public
of both am privileged to speak
and I hold, that social and political science
jointly teach that the obligation of society to re-
sst encroachments upon its rights by its indyid-
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