Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-31
wHIPPY SWAMP.
EProm the NeN York Express.l


"whippy swampl"--wc think we hear the
unsophisticated anduneniigh tened reader ejacu-
late, 'What or where is Whippy Swamp 1t
is not down in the latest gazetteers, and the
newest map rnongers, with singular unanimity,
have ignored its existence" All that may be
but nevertheless, there is such a place as
Whippy Swamp. 1t is down in South Carroll
ma, somewhere within the precincts of Prince
Williams Parish. It's natural productions are
Majors, Generals GolOnels, Captains and buns
combe speeches. Everybody in w hippy Swamp.
is supposed TO wearepaulettes, and to have
broadsword swinging at his side. They are
military people down there, in the swamp
Their voice is always for war, and every man
looks upon himself as private standing army,
ready for an emergency. What these chival-
rous Swampers say and do, therefore, cannot be
matter of indifference to the rest of mankind,
and, of course, cannot be passed by us newspa-
per chronicIers with silent contempt.
But ''Whippy Swamp" is chiefly celebrated
Las the most rampant disunion district in all
South Carolina. The Whippy Swampers are
born and bred with the notion that everybody
out of PalmettodoIn is ''an infamous abolition
Isl, land to be an infamous abolitionist in
Whippy Swamp, is to be ''tie sum ofall human
viEliahies." They don't likcthe Union, either,
these Whippy Swamp folks don't,-and the on
~ conception they generally have of the Fourth
Of July, is to get together to denounce that
Union and the Federal Government Oft, as a
very great tyranny, to bego rid ofby the Colo
nels, Majors, Captains, and high privates of the
Swamp, ''peaceably if they can, forcibly ifthey
must" Whenever that glorious anniversary
comes round we are always uneasy until
"Whippy Swamp" is heard from. We are I'M
easy lest, by talking like sensible people, we
should lose our annual laugh over the speeches
and toasts which distinguish Cor extinguish)
'the day " e ceehrate" These usually are far
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Sermon, about the ''Mountains ofHepsidam,"
and 'the whaugdoodle mourning for his first
born" The Charleston Mercury is the organ of
the Swamp folks-and has just come TO US with
full report Of their celebration. On looking
over the list of guests, this year, we do net see
quite so many Generals" and "Coonelsn and
'Lieutenants" as on former occasions. In fact
| it would seem as if nll the greatest men in the
Swamp had packed up their traps, and left no.
body behind, except that ineyitabeand eminent
patriot and statesman-Hon. Lawrence NJ.
Keitt. Everybody in the Swamp knows Keitt.
Keitt was the leading idea there on the
"Fourth." They were SO full of Keitt that they
could neither think nor speak of much else
Now, if the reader thinks we are joking, just let
him run his optics down the following compli-
mentary reiterations which we Gull from among
the volunteer toasts ut the Swamp Dinner:
ByJ j. Mole: The Great Gun Of the Sd Con-
greSsional Distict, L. NJ. Keitt-phOugh he did
flash on the English Kansas bill, we will prick
him, prime him, and try him again.
| By j. f. kearse: Hon. L. NJ. Keitt-A states
man honorable and trustworthy; old Orangeburg
may well boast of such son.
BY B. w. kearsc: l.. NJ. Keitt-The bright
est star in the constellation of Cardinals states
men.
By Isaac Ellis: Col. L. NJ. Keitt-Will be our
next representative in Congress.
BY j. w. Warren: L. NJ. Keitt-The III
cfo DF4 no
By L. S. Bryan: Hon. L. NJ. Keitt-Prince
| Williams is proud of her representative.
By H. p Bryan: Col. L. NJ. Keitt-Voted
right in 1856, and just as true in '58; may he be
our next senator in Congress.
By II. D. Gooding: l.. NJ. Keitt-A model
statesman; we have proved him, and will not
change him for mushroom politician.
By P. d. Sinclair: Col. L. NJ. Keitt-We wish
tosee him again at Whippy Swamp, where he
will geta warm reception, and cordial salute
from the old musket of P d. Sinclair.
BY Captain John A. Lightsey: Our honest
and talented Representative to Congress, L.
NJ. Keitt-Will always be the choice of the peo-
pie, though npstarts may oppose his election.
Cheers.
BY F. Cassiday; Hon. L. NJ. KETTLE has
courage enough to not brook an insult, and
honor enough to acknowledge fault.
These Whippy Swappers are evidently under
the conviction that the Fourth of July was only
made TOR one perSOn-and that was the ElOriti.
cation of-not George Washington. nor Frank
lin nor Jefferson, nor any other of the Revolu
tionary fathers-but Lawrence Nj. Kcitt. To
be sure, there was ono of the company that
seems to have had something in his Uranium
besides the "Colonelm-a soft spot which
sought manifestations in this excruciating COM
plilnent 10 the ''last and best:"-
By VIM. T. Snider; The Young Ladies-so
lovely, SO beautiful; SO kind; they ever have my
love and applause.
Get out, Sniderl Get outl
While the Colonies, and Majors, and Cap
tains were thus honoring ''the day" in the
swamp, heDisunion boys were having an equal
Jolly time, in another damp place, in the same
parish aierburgh. Here, too, the iIluStri-
Gus and magnificent Mr. Keitt was the Idol, and
here is the way they got down and worshipped
him:
L. NJ. Keitt-Our immediate Representative;
his past services only the more secure the con-
tidence Ofhis constituents.
BY Col a. NJ. Peoples: L. NJ. Kcitt-our i'm
mediate Representative, able, energetic, and
fearless, he retains the undiminishcd confidence
of a generous constituency.
BY A. L. Campbell: L. NJ. Kettle has the
US in the halls of Congress.
BY VIM, Sanders: L. II. Keitt-The brilliant
champion OF Southern rights, ever ready and
untiring: his trenchant blade is as true as ir-
reSistible.
By JoSeph Fraser. T. N Ka;H- f0nr ];st;n