Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-11-10
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
FROM CHARLESTON,

Mr.. Eaitor:-That Christ Church demonstra-
tion did take place, and among other things, was
the occasion of bringing out some letters from
prominent gentlemen, Of more or less Value
Among the rest, will be found published in the
city papers, very sober, clear, and l think,
sound and statesmanlke production, from MIR.
Mazyck, State Senator from st. james, Santee
Parish-from which Parish the more recent move
ment was inaugurated. Their Senator is q clear
headed lawyer, substantial planter, an e1pe-
rienced and influential legislator, and gives char
acter and life to any matter which he takes IN
hand, and if men like him, less fiery than e1-Gov.
Adams, and equally as patriotic, will, through the
whole South, or even the Atlantic tier of States,
60 into a calm and patriotic discussion Of the
question in all of its practical and economical as
poets, there would certainly be eicitedan interest
and purpose wide spread, cumulative and irresis-
tible.
Ex.Gov. ADAMS letter to the Chestnut dinner,
has the ring Of the true metal in it, and seems to
me to be incongruous to the tone and conclusions
Of the Senator, though, friend Warren, OF the
Journal, is morally certain at least that Mr.
Chestnut is calm for the encounter-booted and
spurred for the charge.
Well, as citizen identified substantially and
for lfe with all that is precious in our good old
State, I must confess that things look greatly
mixed up, and this indecision or hesitancy waits,
I presume, for the signs Of cooperation, from
other quarters, and by other equally interested
parties; and among hands, I presume that half
dozen Harper's Ferry developments will, BY the
force Of external pressure, mere e-necessity-dear
love of property and lfe-bring the long desired
co. operation from the Potomac to the Rio Grande.
By the way, what cause can you and others show
Why you should not be prosecuted for the pubhea-
ton and circulation of incendiary documents con-
trary to law, and against the peace and dignity
of the State?
The literary Judge is down on somebody (!) in
late decree, given and Issued from his most hon.
orable court. And as his attorney has peremp-
tory orders to bring no complaints to him from
the presumptuous and incorrgble groundlings
your Charleston correspondent may Of course say
with impunity, whatever is in his mind or heart.
The occasion on which the judgment was rendered
is little strange, not to say significant An Eng
lish history of France, by one Parson White, is
mentioned for good and potent reasons, with en-
tire appreciation. Then His Honor, in running,
easy, unconcerned and slightly defiant, not to say
contemptuous style, bespatters the preachers OF
platitudes, and all the yelping crew that ever did
insinuate the peccabity, or infallibility Of his
grave Judgeship. How judicial! How defefen-
tial is he, on his seat of honor, as to subjects,
at which true wisdom-learning- manners
out of the question-does not suffer his children
to cast Aippant jibes or supercilious disdain IL
And if his musquito net sufices to protect him
in person and reputation, he and all who choose
to be concerned may not forget that the respectful
and regetful complaints have not been so much
for either his injury or benefit as for the purpose
of drawing attention on the part of the public, to
the fact that our Simms, like the sun, might pos
sibly have spot; and as he was in more respects
than one, part Of US, we, or any of US, in sect,
or tabernacle, or temple, or any whittier, might
say our say and not get spit at between the recur-
renee of his jokes, songs and goblets. am fully
persuaded that Mr.. Simms' skin is tough, his
spots fixed, and his fame established, and though
that skin may never grow tender again, those
spots, suoh as they may yet be found to be, may
not be altered even by the re-rubbing of any and
all the scribbling tribe yet for the sake of that
fame as it travels down the ages, some might dare
to utter softly the hope that those books-a part
of our literature now that he is in his own esti-
nation Judge-might be bettered somewhat by
filing and Furnishing, without injury to the gold
that is in them, and greatly to the good will OF
many who will read them and can't protect them
selves so easily from the damage of the dross-
or base metal and who are not quite so willing
to risk all events, if the author can afford it
But with right and willingness to return to
the matter whenever inclination or opportunity
may serve, will, with all humility and gratitude,
retire from the undismayed presence of our own
The Orphan House is great institution with
Charlestonians, and its anniversary has been
recently celebrated Mr.. Girardeau was the ora
tor, and achieved his task in his usual clear,
favorable and impressive style I did not like the
valsdictories of the boys either in their rhetoric,
their doctrines or the manner Of delivery. or
course they did not write or compose their speech
es, nor need we inquire who did that work yet if
I could have looked over his shoulders while he
was at their production I would have said, "wrte
them as boys would, if they coulG-make the SEN
tences shoEt-leave out learned allusions-less of
the Aorid verbiage-have them simple, hearty,
natural and brief" I am sorry there is an Or
phan House here, or any where else. None could
be managed any better than this. None l pre-
sumo has ever been more successful. Yet chill
dren as all men, were 'made to dwell together
in families on the face of the EARTH and "He
setteth the solitary in families"-so these little
ones should not be herded and stalled, but should be
brought up with other children at private homes,
at the suggestion of natural sympathy-at the
command of christian love. Orr necessary for the
interests of the State let legislation with the wis
dom of Moses, or with the sternness Of Draco,
preserve them from the scarcely mitigated misfor-
tune of spending their formative period under
circumstances which furnish no natural objects
for the exercise of those sensibities and affec-
tions, which, if not opened and cherished, leave
them in o false-because unnatural-position in