Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-05-29

price for - Words spoken By Candidate.
Several years have passed away since the last
clause of the motto of this article was uttered,
and it is hardly necessary to add, it was not spo-
ken by any son of York District. 1t is sufficient
for the purpose of the writer that it was uttered
within the limits of the United States, where the
great franchise of free suffrage is the boast of the
people; and he inserts it here for the sole purpose
of eliciting thought in the minds of our people
upon subject of grave Importance. If Rome,
in the days of sylla, Cesar and Jugurtha, was
bought and sold; so the Republics of America have
no promise that they will not fall by the same arts
to wit the arts of the Demagogue.
Now, in this age, there are everywhere certain
controlling influences in civil society, which, if
true to their mission, will shape its destiny, and
of right ought to do so. These influences are
here in our midst and slowly but surely doing
their work but we are too much blinded to see
them in all their beauty, splendor and power, by
their very commonness. What is that most pow
erful influence, controlling and shaping the for
tune of society and leading it on to the most e1at
ed civilization the world has ever known. IT IS
CHRISTIANITY. Is proof demanded? Each one
of US has it abundantly in our own heads and
hearts. Burn your Bibles pull down your houses
Of public worship, disband your churches, ostra-
cze your ministers, and declare with revolution
ary France-'there is no God, and death is an
eternal siep!" What then will be the result? p
Remember, too, in all this your blows are evelled
ut Christianity alone. The picture is too horrible
to contemplate without q shudder. From such
scene the genius of humanity might well turn
away her face and weep. Christian woman, the
link of the chain which binds the good on Earth
to the good in Heaven, turns pale at the thought
of world thus demonized, and pressing her in
fant to her breast shrinks affrghted from such
spectacle. In what save Christianity and the BIZ
BILE can you or your country hope? What are
your souls even, without them! Condemned spr-
its-nothing more; their destiny, an eternity of
torment and despair Is not this proof sufficient? ?
Let US reflect upon and realize it.
Well, how much help in the prosecution Of its
great mission of "Peace On Earth" does Chris
tianity receive, from the "bald-face" consumed
upon the hustngs, while your elections are pend
ing? To Christians and thinking men, the enqui-
ry is addressed. OF what avail in making men
better is the preaching of e Word, while Candi-
dates devote every other year to the purpose Of
making them worse, by drugging them with whs-
key and preaching to them from the platforms of
whiskey wagons: Does the Office of Christianity
and public morality, in truth, intsrmt-prevail one
year, and surrender the next as jubilee to the
Candidates and their whiskey? Is the Great Ser
pent to be thus unclaimed each alternate year,
and before his time; and in order, too, that A.
may get more votes than B., and c. more than
D., when perhaps it would be fur better for the
country if all were dstanced and better men elect
ed in their stead? Is it not fact, verified by our
history, that the portion Of citizens best quail
fed to be our legislators, will not resort to the
'bald-face" influence to gain their election?
Let the reader pause for while, and permit
the writer to make sketch of the Candidate whose
best argument is his Whiskey, as be has seen it
painted to the life The individual belongs to that
class of politicians who, while they are upon the
hustings, promise to do everything for every body
Upon the "stnmp," his eloquence is really "cir-
cumstance.' 1t is of the Robin Roughhead type |!
Conscious of his power, he walks or rather struts
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the arm-holes of his vest, his head thrown back,
his chin drawn in and resting against the tie of
his cravat, his toes turned out to the right and to
the left at an angle of 45o; and when he walks,
the sides of his feet and his chest are considerably
in advance Of the balance of the corporation. Af-
ter having thus, for while, exhibited like old
Terveydrop in "Bleak House, ') his 'deportment,
his fugeman, for he has one at each petty mus
tering- ground, calls out in loud voice-"O, yes |!
O, yes. all the friends of Colonel Eastman come
and take some Of his treat and then hear him
make q speech !" Riding astraddle the keg, the
fugleman then draws and hands round the whiskey,
with much animation. 1t is of that kind, general
ly, which looks oily and yellow, and its "farewelp
has sort of q tobaccojuice twang Now comes
the speech. "Colonel Eastman" takes the stump
places tumbler of his own renowned beverage
near him to wet his whistle with during the pau
ses and while the applause with which he is fire.
quently interrupted goes on, and begins some
what in this style:-
Feller Citizens and Gentlemen-I ar q candi-
didsts for the Legislator, gentlemen, and you all