The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-10-09
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We Ihiilh lncIc Is Il c!ass OF community tc
: whose merits for keeping the world in progress
: Scanty justice Is donc-we mean the bows of
say from ten to fifteen years old. After the
latter age, III this fast country, they clam to
| bc men, carry revolvcrs, begin to nurse nous.
tachc and drink brandy-slnashes, they cease
their boyhood and get into goslinhood. We
} lay 1t down as an axiom that bows are of no
account after they begin to go to see the
gals they are no longer boys, but unripe
men.
but Tor the genuine boy we have profound
adnlratlol-hc is 4 great institutions high
Invention, and we do not think the world could
very well wag on without him, so we believe,
as We have al idle moment, and local items are
scarce, because the boys are particularly dull
Just now we will cnumerate some of the sery-
ices for which the public is indebted to the
boys.
All grown-up mankind is just now agog a.
bout politics, but there is very little enthusiasm
manifested, because the boys are not vet fully
enlisted :or any candidate The enthusiasm
i'll politics always stalts with them, Just as fire
makes the pots that hold little boil over first.
But the boy must have something tangible to
which to pin his faith, and by which to excite
his zcal-"squattcr sovereignty"i is beyond his
depth, and though he constitutes part of that
posterity, which unambitious and sclt.sacrifc-
ing politicians are so nervous about, he cares
very little for his inheritance in "the territories"
But give him some principle that lie can see,
feel, hear, taste or smell, and straightway his
enthusiasm reaches fever heat, and I" he goes it
with looscncss." We believe Harrison owed
his election to the boys, because they could
comprehend hard cider and coon-skiins, thew
indoctrina ed their venerable progentors with
the merits Of those principles, and formed the
first ripple Of that ground swell which carried
"Tippacanoe and Tyler too" into office. If our
theory is true, John Bell stands the best chance
in the present contest-thc boys can under
stand bells and bell ringing, while the othe,>.
parties, having no outward and visible sign of
their inward and spiritual fath," if they hope
for success should provide the boys with lib
cra supply of flags, tire-crackers, rockets, tar
barrels, and other necessary nuisances
political meeting is poor show without
the boys. Who makes the appausc9 Wo tor
the speaker when Il circus or niggcr show.
draws them in another direction, and he has
to vent his eloqucucc upon set of cool headed
and undcmonstrativc old fogies. His best er-
trmporaneous burst Of indignation,. carefully
studied and ski!lully prepared long before, fails
to elicit applause, except, perhaps, modest
ana feeble rap from some old gentleman, who,
rs soon as he has committed the indiscretion,
looks round, terror stricken, lest somebody hesaA
observed him, and is regarding him with sI
priscd iisapproyal.-But the boy, having " '
body's opinion to care for, starts up the 41
piausc with rim, and under cover of the So Z.
he raises, the old ones follow boldly Thoyl3 a
he sometimes puts in his licks in, the 49,
place, yet upon the whole his ySGsa,ss
good, and his sympathy is ve5
an orator. a political maa< ;3S3S
is an nodorous rase- ';S
'.sz,i 2ss S ,.,;;!Ss...-GssouP
I,sstSs "a letting up ana kec ire
I'VE ire sorry to qualify Oar a--::--isaying
he sometimes starts false alarms, just for the
qualification of running with the masliecn, if
we should relate the instrumentaity of boys.
aid their missiles, in imrcing important revo-
lu;ions if We sloalI tell how Louis Napoleon
owes his throne to the qamins of Paris, how
the merit or dcmerit Of making France an En-
pire is due to the boy who threw the first brick
bat, and thus commenced the fight between
the people and the soll:ery, we should. have
down upon It's the boys, who are sticking type
up stairs, and are even now "waiting for copy"
and We should be obliged to write to be con-
tinrel' at the lotion of this article, as our
ncirhor Of the Chronicle does when hc gives
his readers most particularly unconsociabe
sirctcker.-.lu9u%ta Dispatch.