Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-17
From the Charleston Mercury.
Straws Of Politics.

From the Charleston Mercury
straws of Politics.
The whole nation of Yankeedom is deliv.
cred up to vanity. They are the greatest
braggadocios and humbugs that the world
has ever seen. Everything among them
resolves into fuss and feathers. A city (Bos-
ton) storms when a poor British singer
(Auderson) presumes to say that America
is by no means the wondrous region which
it cracks itself up to be! The same city
goes into another fury when Edmund
Kean (the actor, shows himself a little
cool and contemptuous as to its wondrous
pretensions and opinions. Here, again,
such is the enormous puritan self.esteem,
that they become furious when the Irish
presume to set up for themselves. These
Irish may do their slave labor, but let them
not presume to carry arms. They will take
from them their weapons. They will not
allow them to carry arms. awe are the
sal, of the earth," says Yankeedom-"we
want none of these Irish or foreign people.
Our ambition is to be homogeneous; that
is to say, all rogues, bigots and beauties,
together"
The same spirit resents even the preten.
sions of women and the valorous wretches,
who shrank from the fire of the Mexcans
at the siege of Vera Cruz, rush upon the
Catholic convent, burn it down with the
most woudrous gallantry, and kick the sim
pie nuns out of doors. Read their history
in their deeds.
And, New York, is not dissimilar fash
ion, under Yankee domination. She hugs
Dickens for week. The week after, she
takes Fanny Ellsler to her arms ;-and the
same carriage which has been the triumph
al car of the fashionable author, becomes
instantly that of the danseuse, whom they
dub "La Deese,"-the goddess!
Barnum was sort Of demigod in New
York; professional swindler, who boasted
of his success as a liar, and his profits as
a knave! Having the profits, he soon found
his way to their prophets, their saints and
Iranistan became very Mecca for New
York artists, who, feeding on Barnum,
glorifed him! They put him in the illus
trated newspapers. New York has no great
er mode Of glorifcation than an illustrated
newspaper. Her whole moral consists in a
lying history with big pictorial illustrations.
Barnum published his "Autobiograpby"
the most popular book Of the season.
greedily bought up as teaching the best,
and safest methods of swindling. He was
the best authority in popular education.
His "iNermaid" was faith in N. York
in Charleston it was literally laid bare;-
the seams-unitiug the monkey with the
fsb-were soon detected by our savants; ;
and Barnum would have brought his action
for damages against Charleston, had not our
lawyers discouraged him telling him that
however lie might be relished in New
York, it would not be appreciated by q
Charleston jury and bis damages would be
kicks rather than coppers. Barnum dis
likes Charleston.
With the Northern people-who are all,
more or less, Barnums-success is every
thing, and justifes all vice, crime, swind-
ling and lying. Their people seem to be
divided between vanity and knavery. TO
lie proGtably, to boast uproariously, to wear
peacock's feathers on the crown, and enjoy
the lusts ofappetite with the money of an
other, seem to be meritorious performances.
And for bustcr, brag, swell and strut,
no people equals-none could excel them.
During the Mexican war, when the New
York regiment of Burnett could not be
brought up to the scratch at all, the en-
gravers in New York sent forth picture,
in which that blue beard regiment was
made to occupy the place Of the Palmetto
regiment at the taking of Chapultepec.-
General Shields could not get them to the
scratch at Churubusco, nor the Pennsylva-
mans. Some twenty gallant Irishmen, on
that occasion, joined themselves to the Pal
metto Reoiment They we're led on by