Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-06-26

deserved failure. - - - 1 :.
If tke result be call be desired, it
can be said he is easily satisfied; it re-
mains to be seen whether his Govern
ment and people will be Of like opinion.
. I attest that all we lost at Corinth
and. during the retreat, would not a.
mount to one days expenses Of ,lit' his
army. @E;..... -. =
I Respectfully, your ob't serv't,
g: T. BEAU REGARD. :.
Captain Henry Campbell King.
It is one Of the most obvious and
prominent evils of war, as has been re-
marked, that the fathers bury the sons.
We have felt and seen this sad re-
fsult in the war now urged against US,
and our city is now called on to mourn
the near approach of this evil The
terrible and well fought fight on Mon-
lday, 18th instant, on. James Island,
has countred from families Of this; city:
many victims, who viii be lamented BY
those who, in the order of peace and
natural course of events, should. have
been buried by the sons they now mourn.
The first Captain who has fallen a
martyr on the soil Of South Carolina
in this war IS Captain Henry C. King,
Of the Sumter Guards, who died on
Tuesday afternoon, from the wound he
received on Monday. The list Of casu-
alties Of the Sumter Guards. will show
that they bore chief place in the fight,
and did their duty. Where all were
devotedly brave; It is neither proper Or
necessary to discriminate, but it tisjus-
tice to say that, according to all the
testimony Of participants and 1obser-
yers, there was no company in the fight
more distinguished for steadiness and
persevering courage, than the Sumter
Guards, and in thisgallant band there
was no braver OF stonter spirit than the
Captain and commander Of their choice,
and the martyr who is now mourned.i. :
Captain King, son5of our venerable
felloW-citizen, Mitchell King, was grad
uated from the South Carolina College
in 1889, and entered soon after the
study of the law, to which he was in
due time admitted. 10y 7, -. So -, -
In College, as in active life afterwards,
be was warmly and constantly attach
ed to and esteemed by his friends, and
had he cherished and cultivated the arts
of popularity he could and would have
been very popular, in the common sense
of the term. :, f., - ~ Z
He ewas called on to represent his city
lin the House of Repres entatiVes Of the
State, and was d faithful member, atten-
tive to the duties ofhis office, and the
interests of legislation. :
F He was actively awake to all social
Eor political movements sof interest and
progress, and d7was more congenially
employed in such enterprises than IN
public station or IN office seeking.
0nthe late revival Of the Sumter
Guards corps originally founded for
the special defence of the State and
the cause of the South2-hewas re-elec-
ted First Lieutenant, and on the with
drawal of the Captain whose name,
with his own, connected the company
with its former history, he: was chosen
Captain. ., VI.
How well his duties were discharged
and the confidence reposedin him was
justified by his comrades, is sufficiently
sattested in the. bloody but glorious re-
cords of the battle Of Secessionville. :,
His grave, like the, grave Of. every
noble and gallant citizen, officer, and
private, who falls in our holy struggle
of self-defence and deliveranoe, will lbe]
an added rampant against the foul in
vasien. ,.-y..sl.s. - - ~. -.
5 Should the thought Of acquescncee,
or Of subjugation, ,2or of reconciliation,
or of reconstruction, come across the
mind of the most timid defender of the
South, he will be, cheered or rebuked
as he looks over those graves, and will
press on with new vigor: and increasing
courage and quenchless devotion. w.
The men who have murdered ourl
friends and brothers cannot and shall
not reduce us by penitence, professions
and persuasions Of fraternity, nor can
they, God with our cause being our
help, drive us from the graves of their
murdered victims and. our martyrs
Charleston Courier.
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