Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-30
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We take the following eloquent paragraph
from Judge LoNGsTREET's explanation ant
vindication of his secession from the Stats
teal Congress held in London. 1t will be re-
membered, Lord Brougham cast a taunt into the
teeth of the Americans there, by announcing thu
presence of a free negro, one DR.. Delany, o.
Chatham, Canada West. For this. Mr.. Long
street retired from the Congress. 1t is found tc
be very probable that this same Delany was q
member of the Convention, held in Canada, ir
1868, which organized the Provisional Govern
meut, and set on foot the raid of John Brown.
This, if so, makes the jibe the more CALLING
for Lord Brougham must have known the pedi'
gree of Delauy. We admire the Judges course
and see how his noble heart swells with the high
est impulses in every line of these paragraphs!
Now, I take leave to say that a Briton was
the last man on earth who should cast contempt
uous reflections upon the United States, and the
delegates the last men on earth who should have
countenanced them. Not one of them, not a
man on all the broad surface of Europe, can
assail that country without assailing some near
home-born friend of his own language and blood,
or some kinsman by short lineage from a COM
mon ancestry. She spreads herself out from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf to the
Lakes, and through all her length and breadth,
she is ono vast asylum for the poor, the Cypress
ed, the down trodden, the prosecuted of the
world. Her sons are a multitudinous brother
hood of all chimes, religions. and tongues ; living
together in harmony, peace, and equality, so
far as these can possibly prevail within her Dor
ders. Say what you may, think as you may OF
her "peculiar institution" she is. after all, the
good Samaritan of nations. Do q people cry
and waste from famine! She loads her ships
with supplies, and lays them at the sufferers
doors without money and without price. Do nm
oppressed people strike for liberty? You will
find some other sons under their flag. Does a
wife's cry come across the water for help, to find
a noble, long-missing husband? She fits out
her ships; her volunteers man them, they search
nearly to the Pde, learn the husbands fate, dis.
burden the wife's heart from suspense, and
then lie down and die from the exposure and
tolls of the search. Does she find q nations
slocp of war afoat, still sound hut unnamed
She puts her in decent trim and sends her to her
owner, in charge of her own men, and ut her
own expense. "Bear with me-" If 81 an be
come a fool In gloryIng, ye have compelled me.
for | ought 20 have been commended to you"
"Farewe!l to thee, London, for q short time.
One more brief look at thy wonders and then
farewell for ever. Another visit TO Liverpool !;
l like her better than London. because she likes
my people better. Interest" cotton" II may
be so, hut | an grateful for love of any kind in
England. Never in my long, long life did my
heart strings knit around a fair one so quickly and
so closely as they did around a lady in London,
who approached me-, and said Mr.. Longstreet,
| must get acquainted with you, | love your
country. | have several kinsmen there That's
natural, that's womanlike. 1t is for man to
draw favors from u country and curse her.
God bless her. And God bless the family in
which she said it. As Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, shareholders, are in Heaven, l hope to
get there too. May l meet them all there But,
whittier am wandering Liverpool, another
beni6ce to the English Cunard line, and then
farewell to Europe forever and forever"