Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-08-19
From the London Weekly Dispatch.
1t is wearisome to argue on the Stransat-
lantie contest. The persistence ID. il ought

1t is wearisome to argue on the-Stransat'
lantic contest. The persistence init fought
to be condemned in the briefest sentence Of
universal. reprobation. The cruelty is so
unchristian, the extermination principle is
SO damnable, that the religion in the name
of which these are justified, is itself con-
demned byssuch results. The American
religion or religions are, not of Christ, but
of the. worst passions Of early u1tutored
savagery, that uiade its Cod out of its own
worat passions The plea Of abolitionism is
a mean and contemplate hypocrisy. lthss
no ground inrcgard for those ,wbomait af,
fects to care for; it uses their cause, and
dooms as it scorns and personally loathes
themselves. The war is, more fully than
Earl Russell could have perceived when he
spoke these words, 'sa-war fOrempire." II
is prosecuted not only to conquer the South
but to restore dominion that may bully,
insult, and irresponsbly injure all the rest
of the world. Every day it produces
crimes and miseries that the best pretended
results could never compensate. 1t has
slaughtered and doomed to death by disease
those who should have been the manly pro-
genitors of a vast nation. 1t is killing out
the bravest, and leaving only the cowardly
knavesswho speculate in blood and are paid
in, contraets-cbeats and swindlers, con.
temptible in all but the vastness of their
robbery-and the still more cont emptible
dastards who submit to the plunder, though
they loathe the dishonesty and the tyranny
that uphold it. go
The vast sham is always on the point of
breaking up. What keeps it together is
the common dread of the result that must
be met when the crash comes. An insol-
vent goes on for long time, knowing, if
he is pressed to the truth, that.he can never
answer the claims upon him. But as long
as be can keep up appearances, he is allow
ed to live in luxury. He'will trust to any
preteuce of chance that bankruptcy may
be avoided. He does not believe in any
hope, but he has very sure dread Of real
lied ruin. The picture which any Ameri-
can statesman, any American citizen, must
make for himself of the North with the war
at an end and the South gone, must be ap-
palling enough. Debt without help to re-
deem it. Collapse of all war employment
and all war excitement. Reckoning, taxa.
ton, or bitter, shameful, ruinous repudia-
ton. A currency vanishing into its con.
stituent rags. Justice upon the lawiess,
contempt for. the spresumptuoas. AnssEac.
for despots, anangrily compelled
disgorgiog for rascals and jobbers. Public
and private property, conscience as sick as
folly after week drunken'debauch. The
Union cannot afford to stop Itisiesslter-
ribIes stosdie.iD the riotons refal. Itzzisslife
for the day, as long as the pulses :cansbeat.
We will all know the end Of these things,
sooner OF later; worse later than sooner
Andathe end ought'to be very terrible for
if Smen~might indulge in such wickedness
,insthese days without the certainty Of. awful
retribution, the hopes of the world would
be ridiculous mockeries If what we see
does not become the reprobation of the ma
tions, the earth is intended for Pandemo-
mum.