Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-23

semi barbarian civilization fell before the mighty
prowess of their arms. Their heroic deeds, their
lofty chivalry, their Christian loyalty now read
more like the romances of Froissart than as they
are, the true records of history.
Our Anglo-Saxon fathers started later from the
shores of England and landed upon the rock Of
Plymouth, or upon the flats Of jamestown. The
Puritan himself, trembling overhis rock for awhile
in terror of the tomahawk, ventured at last on
what was then deemed gigantic heroism. He
crossed the Connecticut and the Hudson and
slowly crept up the Mohawk, and halted for years
and years upon Lakes Erie Ontario and Huron
The cavaliers of jamestown threaded their way up
the river James, stealthily wound over the passes
of the Alleghanies, and looked down at last with
astonishment and alright upon Ia belle rauiere of
Ohio. But all this time these heroic Hidalgos of
Spain were spreading the name andfame Of Cas-
tile and Arragon throughout the whole American
continent, from Florida on the North to Cape
Horn on the South, and from Cape Horn to Cali
forna, while our Anglo-Saxon race stood shivering
upon the Ohio and Lake Eie, without the cour-
age to advance further. What sir, happened
then? What has produced this difference between
us and the lofty Hidago? Why are they fallen,
these men of the Armada, so exalted among all
the nations of the earth, who made our ancestors,
in the days Of Queer Elizabeth, tremble on the
throne2 Why was it that in the Mexican war
one regiment of our Anglo o-Saxon, Celtic Teutonic
blood, again and again, put whole regiments OF
these once noble Hidagos of Spain to fight at
Chapultepec the Garita, and elsewhere l will
tell you why, sir. The Latin, the Spanish race,
freed from that instinct of ours, which abhors all
hybrid amalgan,ation, reveed in fatally tempting
admxture of blood, INDUCED in social and govern
mental copartnership with Aztecs. Indians, ne
groes, one and all The pure blood, the azure
blood of the old Hidalgos of Spain lost and drain
ed dishonored and degraded, has dwindled into
nothing, while the pure blood of the AngloSaxons,
the Celts, the Teutons, abhoring all such associa-
ton and amalgamation with the negro or the In
dian, has leaped over Lake Erie, crossed la belle
ruerc the great father of waters, the Mississippi
crowded the mountain passes of Colorado, Utah,
Nevada, and Montana. rolled over the Rocky
Mountains and spread for hundreds Of miles on
the Pacific Ocean, carrying not only there, but
everywhere, triumphant, from the Arctic to the
Antarctic the glorious flag of our country, that
emblem of pure race, and ever contrasting the
glory and honor, the proves of that race, with
the degradation of the race of these once noble
Hidalgos of Spain.
Sir, you are on the eve now of an association
and copartnership with like inferior race which,
if the people do not drive you from this capitol,
will be destructive of US all, as has been like CO.
partnership to the Spaniards, the Turks the
Moors and the Arabs 1 have recalled these sa-
cred lessons of history, and hold them up to you
for your admonition and warning. Heed, Oh
heed! Strike, thear -.
I have here, sir, and will publish in note, a
table of the different admixtures of races, which
have brought about the utter degradation of the
white ruce In parts Of Spanish America, and I
hold them up to you as what you are legslating to
make Of U.s.
Now, sir, this may be the last time in this Con-
gress when shall have an opportunity thus at
length to address white audience upon the floor
of this House. [Laughter.] Aye, you are 80
huryng up thisreconstruction, as you call it, that
the African will soon come down from your gale
ries, and make his appearance here upon the floor,
side by side with you, as q man and brother.
He is soon tobe within you, and part of you, q
representative upon this floor. tell you, gentle
men, that you make fatal political mistake, for it
will not be acquiesced in by the Northern people,
and your violent, revolutionary acts here, will be
resisted in the elective tribunals elsewhere In
order to obtain few additional negro representa-
tive votes upon this floor from the South, you are
jeoparding the domination Of your party in the
great North and West. The Northern people are
sound upon the subject of race, and where ethnol-
ogy is discussed scientifically in the primary as
scmblies of the people, they will become more and
more sound, and become more and more converts
to the principles I have been laying down to-day.
But know, sir, that it is vain for me to invoke
the majority of this House to pause. I have too
often sent forth vain invocations here and appeal
ed to the majority of this House in vain and in
vain. But, thank God, my voice and the voice Of
the few bold compatriots around me have gone be-
yond this capitol, and been heard among the peo-
ple who have responded by rolling up majorities
in our favor, such as we did not dream Of so early
after our vain appeals to you here on this floor
But if you blacken this House this session Of Con-
gress it will soon be whitened by the Democracy
of the North and the West. 1t cannot be that
God inspired Columbus to the discovery Of this
great New World only to drive out Pequads, Chip,
pewas, Mohawks, Pottawatomies, Sioux, Cheyen-
mes, to sustain here government Of Congo ne
groes from Africa instead. 1t cannot be that Al
mighty wisdom has gath hered here the best blood
from all the nations of Europe to be overwhelmed
as Spanish blood has been, by the basest mixture
of Aztec, Indian and Congo negro. But to you,
pledged, manacled to party, and loving party more
than you love country, or, God, or man, know
speak in vain. A voice even from the dead would
not now change single opinion here, but we shall
be heard and needed elsewhere. Posterity will
yndicate our foresight History will do us justice
while grateful country is already sending in its
plaudits>of "wen done good and faithful SER
7'H';:")--.-- wants:
BsSa A Paris letter to the London Star notes a
mong the incidents of the day the reform which
the Austrian band has succeeded in efecting in the
martial music of France. For the last sixteen
years the Parsians had no other patriotic air than
"Partant pour Ia Syrie, - but the other evening,
at the Cirque de pImperatrice, the demand for
''La Marseiaise" was so pressing, ovielent, that
the Austrian band yielding to the shrieks of the.
people, struck up that splendid, that most warlike
of tunes, the melody of which went ringing through
the house as spirit-moving strain, with all its