The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1867-04-04

striker widow, into the very grave,
piercing the poor dumb corpse itself,
with his malignant spear. You have
entered the lists with your vizor down,
bu, Inow cali upon you TO lift il, and,
as you do 50, excisirn, rs did the un.
veiled Mokanna-
" Here judge il hell, with all lis power to damn,
Can add one curse TO the foul thing am."v
But to drop the metaphorical, and
come down to the literal. "A poor, dy.
ing. Southern gentleman, in former
times u highly esteemed resident of this
city, bu; whose lot had been cast with
the Southern cause in the humble ca
pacity of clerk, returns 10 Burlington
that he may dedicate the few DAYS re
naming 10 him in preparing work for
the press, the profits from which be
thopes may add to the scanty support Of
his family when he is gone! III is warm
ly welcomed by Christian family, who
had known him in brighter dsys-sa
| family who abhorred the cause with
which he had been ailied--one of whose
sons had offered up his life in the Fed.
eral army, and another had won his
eagles BY gallantry in the field. TWAS
truly a Christian family, for, notwi,h-
standing ALL. it received and comforted
this, adberent Of cause by means of
which it bad-so giievously sufferei--,
remembering only the words Of its Sa
yior, and His I" If ye forgive men their
trespasses, your Heavenly Father will
also forgive you," and next that noble
expostulation of the greatest of the
apostles" Sufficien. to this man is the
PUNISHMENT inflicted Of many. So that
contrsrywise We ought rather TO forgive
him and comfort him. lest perhaps such
an one should be swallowed up By over.
much SORROW" -. -. IT,
Here, in this Christian family, re-
ceiving all the tender care and. assidui
ty that only the closest relationship
could have looked for, he gently breath
ed his last. invoking blessings on those
loying friends who had afforded him so
sweet refuge for bis dying hours. lie
called upon me to aid him in his feeble
ness. in preparing the above mentioned
work for the press; aud during nv
brief intercourse with him, was afford.
ed The opportunity that Addison, on
his death bed, offered 10 one of his
friends, "of seeing how Christian
man can die" ! noted with admiration
the calm courage and sweet serenity
with which he awaited the approach of
dea;h-a courage and serenity that
could have only been ehgendered "by
a conscience void of offence towards
God and towards man" beheld, too.
the existence of a serene, reliant faith,
that could exclaim with confidence
though 1Ie:slay me. yet will | trust in
Him. ] can only, in all charity, breathe
The prayer that you may be in the same
spirit and temper when your summons
shall come, although. from The fendsh
maRgnity you exhibit in your commu-
nicalion in the last weeks Dollar News.
paper, | very much fear that il will take
more years than fepain to you to purge
your foul breast of the envy, hatred and
uncharitableness that seem fostering
there. e. . u ~. =, : :.
AT the request Of the DISTRACTED wife
Of the deceased, | prepared the obituary
sotice, the tone and spirit of which ap~
pear to have so tortured your pre- emin
entity pa'rio,ic soul. You wfilhe, you
twist, you stop your ears at il, in per-
feet agony. So have Iseen the fiend
Mephislophies, i'm The play of Fansi,
when the: sparkling holy waterfell upon
| his hell-buln sides, and his demon ears
were tortured by the sound of vesper
bells, or the cathedral music of the holy
choir. AS far as your communication
allddes 10 me, pass it by in contempt0-
Gus silence ;ahd Il is only your infamous
assault upon the memory Of The dead
that invokes my indignant comment
There is a sacredness about the grave,
and the memory Of the departed, that
even the mos, degraded savages revere;
aud yet you,do not hesitate for mo.
ment to assail the character of this poor,
dead Christian gentleman, for what you
are pleased TO term "his treason here
on EARTH" Are. You. afraid that the
God before whose impartial tribunal he
has now gone, will be more Just and
,nercifol in His jpdgmen. than your
own revengefnl and malignant passions
permit you to be Z Or do you propose
10 take an appeal from Heavens merci
ful decree, al d upset its decision by the
fiat Of that awful tribunal, the Burling.
ton Areapagas of scandal nongerirg,
gibber,gabber losalistsi Your pfoduc
tion. which mingIes reviling of The liv>
ing with pharisaical exhibitions Of i'm.
macluate patriotism, an Ola podrida of
venomous fahatieism, -mixed up with
Iha iannfs nf a afnaI NJ Ll,,l,e marriott Of