Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-01-26
south Carolina.

1T is the chronic custom Of class Of our Black
Republican witlings to sneer at South Carolins
4s q gasconading, rhodomontade, fuss and feath-
srs Commonwealth, as impotent in deeds as sne
is big in words, and as in6rm of will as she Is
ferocious in temper. Perhaps men who talk 30
know better, but il there is any considerable por-
zion of the seryile population Of the Palmetto
State, rs ignorant as its revilers, their masters
ought to make them present Of their freedom.
With South Carolina's political views, we, as in
dependent journalists, have nothing to do. They
may be right or they may be wrong; but we
oeyer witness an effort TO bring them into con.
tempt as people, without the most profound
contempt for those who make the effort. The
history of South Carolina, in every war in this
country, exhibits as much patriotism, self-sacri-
dce and courage as the annals Of any State or
nation in the world. To those who pretend that
she has degenerated, We beg leave to point to the
conduct of the South Carolina Regiment in Mex
leo, which was never surpassed in 5heroism by
the most desperate exploits of the Zouaves in
Italy. We do not mean generally 70 demonstrate
the courage Of South Carolina. Heaven forbid!
We should as soon think Of proving that the sun
shines II she is Bantam in size, as her enc
mics report, she has pluck enough to meet all the
Shanghais between here aud China. When,
however, the Black Republican journals repre-
sent her as impotent, ignorant and corrupt, tney
are guilty of perversion Of facts which every
man who respects truth or the dignity and honor
of his country, ought to rebuke. II South Caro-
lima were an impoverished State it would be no
letriment to her dignity, but her great staples
make her one of the wealthiest Commonwealth
Of the Union. She deserves universal respect
for having stood firm as rock against theridicu-
ous and demoralizing constitutional reforms, as
they are called, which bid fair in the end to
convert most Of the .Ststes Of the Union into or
ganized mobs, and lead first to anarchy, and
then to military despotism. All this may be
an additional reproach to South Carolina in
Black Republican eyes, but we respect her the
more for it. They may call her an Oligarchy.
Suppose she is? Does her Oligarchy hurt them !
Do her own people complain Of 0hgarchy? Is not
an Oligarchy better than q mob? We trust 8.
Carolina viii never sacrifice her rational and res
pectable government for that insane radicalism
which is the rot in the heart of our American
oak, that will one day bring down its stately
form and branching giories to the dust. But,
after all, the nation al character Of q country
must depend upon the individual character of its
people. How can such o people as the South
Carolinians are individually, be collectively Q
community of imbecilities and traitorsf There
is not more intelligent, refined and highly edu-
Gated class of men in America than the States
men and scholars of South Carolina and as to
the morals of the people, the single fact that
there never has been divorce in the State, since
the foundation of the government, is enough
Yet it is such State, that the pure and immac-
ulate mercinaries of Black Republicanism make
the constant target of their ribald jokes. Why
don't they go to South Carolina and express their
sentiments? As John Brown said Of Henry
Ward Beecher's sermon on slavery; Why don't
be come here and talk that way ?--Riehmond
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