Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-17


Col. Burnett, of the New York regiment,
wrote to Gen. Shields, saying: "Yoahave,
in your report, done injustice to the New
York regiment"
The reply of Shields Gas reported) was
prompt enough:
"You are right Had I done them jus.
tice, I should have said that they run like
pack or id towards, and their Colo.
mel at the head Of them!" How consol.
ing!
They certainly covered themselves be.
hind a rancho, leaving Mayne Reid, and
his twenty stout Irishmen, to assert, in the
way Of the Palmettos, the honor Of their
skulking regiment.
Subsequently, Mayne Reid demanded,
as of right, from the city of New York,
the snuf.box, or sword, or cane, or "what
not" left to New York, by Andrew Jack
son, to be given to the citizen Of that State
who should most bravely distinguish him.
self in the next ensuing war.
Mayne Reid should have had it. But
what could poor young Irishman, how
ever brave, expect at the hands Of that
monstrous vanity-that imposthume Of
wind and conceit He got nothing-not
even the thanks Of the community. In truth
his gallant course had mortified their van
ity. He, too, himself, Mayne Reid, was
something Of peacock, but he had the
merit Of being gamecock also. he was
brave enough, whatever his weakness in
other matters.
We have touched the vanity of these
republicans, even as we have touched their
pocket nerve! Fort Sumter was def.
arce to our prowess, which they perpetual.
ly flung into our teeth. up the moment
when it was taken, they laughed at our ef-
forts. Major Anderson was to sweep away
our Iron Battery as with bulrush; it was
only necessary for Captain Doubleday Goth
am to look out at his southeast windows
to settle the hash with Forts johnson, Cum.
mings and Morris. Captain Foster had de-.
vised some beautiful combustible expert
ments-rockets and serpcnts-which were
to play about among our boys, frisk fiery
tails, and explode to our aunihilation Fort
Moultrie, riddled by Sumter, was to be
translated into such specimen of the cock
ed hat as to render it very uncomfortable
as we'll as discreditable to its wearer! As
to the "Boomarang"-the Floating Bat
tery-that, in the hands of the Northern
press, was the most comical of military ex-
pedieuts. According to their accounts, it
had gone down in launching, it was lop.
sided; would neither float, nor lie fat, nor
sink, nor stand it was all sorts Of farce
and failure! It would be amusing now to
read over the comments of Yankeedom not
only upon this experiment, but upon all the
plans Of South Carolina to capture Fort
Sumter.
Major Anderson involuntarily helped
them to these ideas. he seems to have
been something Of blunderer. He was,
no doubt, quite right when he reported Fort
Moultrie-in has hands-to be indefeusi-
Bile against Fort Sumter. He never asked
sohat 1t might become in OUR hands. lie
has been taught since. In his hands, Fort
Sumter proved to be neither shelter nor
power. In our hands, it will be power
and something more-a shelter s<s
But We need not prate of what We can
do, or shall do, or are doing. Let the ene-
my find out-soon enough-when we shall
remove the mask! We shall teach them
few lessons in time.
Enough, to illustrate the present wide
mouthed and confident boasting of the Van.
kee press, with regard to the future, if we
make gentle reference to what We have
heard from them touching hepast. Sumters
and Stars of the Vest! These shall speak
louder than Times, and Tribunes, and Posts,
aud Heralds. One would think that the
past experience would silence these blath-
erskiter, who have proved so equally ridio.
ulous as prophets and politicians, soldiers
and strategists. But their impudence is
the only one of their virtues which will
never leave them, so long as they can
writhe and wrigge and blow bellows. One
single grain of modesty, il their carcasses,
would shut their mouths forever. We do
not object that they should brag and bull
ly; they howz more loudly even than they
brag. We can suffer this. Enough that
we knop them. We have only to remem.
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