Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-31
Selettea Mliseellang.
Let 'em Rip.

Let 'em Kip.
The Mobile advertiser and Register, in
ga small talk with our Northern BRETHREN"
thus lays the case before them:
We know very we'll that there can be no
more war made upon us-that we cannot
be reduced to the permanent condition of
conquered provinces or territories, and that
henceforward we take our chances of politi-
cal happiness or misery with the rest of the
States. North, East and West. Shape
your Government as you will, gentlemen of
the North-make it a republic, a monarchy
and oligarchy-we are in the some boat with
you, and we sink or swim together. Re.
member that. If you wish to destroy the
life of the South, politically, commercially
and socially, all we can say is, you are
great fools, and you will hereafter pray in
sack. cloth and ashes to be "delivered from
this body of death" which you have hung
about you. When you come to carry out
your meuacing boast of settling arrearages
with Queen Victoria, aud of kicking Napo.
lean and his "squatter sovereignty" out of
Mexico, you will probably wish that you
had not emasculated eleven States whose
soils and institutions have proven prolific of
that sort of men which, according to lofty
English statesmen and poet, "constitute a
State"
The truth is, brethren of the Union, you
cannot well do without US Hrebs" We are
pretty large spoke in the general wheel,
though we do not pretend to be the "hub."
We yield that to "Boasting." And when
to our wooings to get back to the family
"bed aud board," you show US the mitten,
We make due allowances for the coyness of
virgin courtship, and persist in believing
that you really want and mean to take us
at last, after duly going through the blush.
es and task pas, which are so becoming to
modest maiden natures like yours. For
if you didn't want US, what in the duece
did you fight Us so hard for? 1t wasn't to
skick US out of the Union that you raised
three millions of men and made the whole
land bristle with steel and fame with fire,
because that object was attainable at far
less cost 1t was to keep US in, and now
do you want to make US believe that after
you have pulled caps, torn out your hair,
and taken laudanum in the anguish of
your regret at having to lose US, and hav.
ing won US back, that you don't mean to
have us? No woman was ever so 6ckle
and arrant jilt as that. No, you mean to
have US, and we mean to have you. You
have broken up our plans of single blessed.
ness, and refused to let us retire from your
amatory embraces in nunuery.
And now we must take "for better or
for worse;" and albeit the nuptials will
not be warmer at first than those the Doge
of Veince was wont TO celebrate with the
Adriatic, the bans are published, and We
must be wed again. So pray make Sum
ner and Stevens, and those other lunatcs
quit their stage tricks and all their "demDi-
tion" nonsense, aud walk up 10 the altar
and be done with. We are match not to
be despised We have "bully" dover to
settle on some happy partner-the Lord
knows how many rich acres and how many
annual hundred millions of gold cotton,
which will be highly convenient in arrang-
ing certain little financial difficulties and
foreign balances incurred during the ardor
Cannon balls) aad sharpness (swords and
bayonets) of your courtship; aud then, if
any body thrust their fist in your face, we
can ''pitch in" for you in style illustrated
by the grey jackets on many splendid field
of Valor.
The fact is, swe are irresistible and you
mean to have U.s. Why not then, leave off
fooling and couniviDg, and name the hap
py day at once? It would be our silver
wedding, aud could invite the whole fami-
ly, aud have jolly, royal, roaring frolic;
apples from Yankee land and mint-juleps
from rebeldom We claim old Pennsylvania
sWhiskey Straight of the House of Repre-.
sentatiVes for the first polka 'Chawles, of
the Senate, shall have the blackest wench
for his partner that can be found betwixt
the Potomac aud the Rio Grande. Come,
hasten up the national spice, and let's 'on
With the dance!' We are decidedly losing
time and money, progress and prosperity,
to say nothing of our own names, by this
silly and protracted dalliauce.
The SPEAKERS IN CONGRESS "A Wash
ington correspondent Of the Boston Post
says:
After listening to the debates Oh the Civil
Rights Bill, I confess 1 was disappointed,
and the more saw and heard of the men
who controlled the legislation of Congress,
the more 1 became disgusted. Trumbull,
of Illinois, the champion of the Radicals
against the veto, made what, in any other
place, would be termed barangue. His
voice is badly cracked and pitched in ahigh
key, which finally became hoarse, and
showed signs of breaking down. He is
earnest, but not graceful. Ben Wade and
Jim Lane ranted, screamed and beloved
like two mad bulls, and raved like two bye
mas. Doolittle appeared somewhat like
Webster, and commenced calmly and very
gracefully, interesting and commanding all
eyes aud ears, but unfortunately he drops
down to common place style and becomes
wearisome. Reverdy johnson commences
in about the stvle Doolittle ends, but he