Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-23
politiital,
From the New Orleans Delta.
THE FABIAN POLICY OF THE



In our better days, when the Republic
was just struggling vigorously up tho great
pathway Of pationalitica when our fathers
betook themselves to patriotic toll, and here
and there in Europe the "fcrco Demooraoie
grew iubilant as we rose, men looked with
little solicitude, compared with to-day, to
the advent of q Presidential canvass. They
did not think it necessary to peer into the
hidden future; to climb the mountain to
look for the Land of Promise beyond. The
thousand and one hrazen Isms" which curse
tho land, had not arisen with their Stygian
deformity. The white flag of Peace was
everywhere seen, for red Murder, with the
sword in one hand, and the torch in the 9TH
er, was chained in his native perdition
Years agone-when our better days were
passing away-when public virtue began to
crumhle, the bright sky which leaned around
this country of ours, Ga country reared up by
Providence as a compliment to humanity and
blessing to the world, as the dead sages
thought } became dis6gured by cloud emo
bigger than a mans head" Gradually,
slowly, portentously, that scarcely colored
vapor deepened and blackoned and spread
until one-half of the continent was covered
with Pandemonium darkness. Spoilsmen,
intent upon plunder ; placemcn, satisfied
with the fat grain boarded for the hired in
struments, who keep in motion government
al machinery, took little heed of the ominous
aspect of the political elements.
Every year, every month, every day, every
hour, from the seething hell of New Eng
land Abolition, like the animate millions that
spring up from blistering ccss-pool, vermin
with human heads and eyes and legs were
generated. Men, emineutly good and conser-
vative, with thinking brains and hearts beat
ing in the right place, gazed at first with un-
utterable disgust upon these kissing and ven
omous political things. Anon, intercourse
and familiarity paralysed these sentiments.
Disgust yielded to respect, and respect RI
pened into afiiation. Puritanism, at last,
seized hold of the New Englander as effect
ually as the followers of Cotton Mather seized
and drowned the women-witches of Salem
William Lloyd Garrison was soon regarded
by some thousands of pious knaves as John
the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness; the
forerunuer of Universal Emancipation. The,
odore Parker sermonised upon the coming Of
the Messiahs and the Negro Millennium, and
Wendell Phillips struck hands with the rev.
erend rascal, and shigher-awism" took pre-
cedence of the Gospel in the pulpits Of Bos
ton.
All! it was pitiable sight to see men, or
whose brow sat enthroned the beauty of ever
lasting genius; men, the great dome o.
whose mind was frescoed beyond the art O.
Michael Angelo---your Bryant and YOU
Longfelow-bow down to the golden cal
set up for the worship Of the congregation
of the New England Judea.
1t was pitiable sight to see the descend
ants of the Adamses, the Otises, the War
rens, swell the wild cry of Abolition fauati
cism to witness the son of the elder Adams
ay, that renegade son himself, an ex-Presi
dent, in the "sere and yellow leaf of life
like the blind Sampson, put his arm aroun'
the pillars of the Constitution, and seek t.
pull down the Temple of Liberty upon tn
heads of the twenty millions of people !
And he sought to die like Chatham, tha
Door old man! Yes in one respect onl