The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-05-06
Gsimpses from Another World; Or What the
Seven Stars Saw. = ~,.- :

WV Wv "SoIpCbs H''S w. N'N'Ao'S t'eN'
been under it, in the wet. Both the up
per and lower regions however, have felt
its effects For, during the haze which
interviewed, though we have been fulfill
ing our peculiar destiny and shining as
good stars, We have been looking.at you
as "through glass darkly," and hence
the reason why our notes of men and
things are desultory. aud mixed. We
have not been mapping, and have been
glimmering ADD .winkling in our arched
and yaulted DUNE, though lost to'human
sight. ,~S -,
As Democrats We rejoice to see
tardy though-it be-that this element is
growing among you that the better in:
formed are getting down from their hith,
erlo high hor<rd dignity, mixing with the
masses letting their lights shine, and
even smoking their pride off into thin
air, in graceful wbiffS and rings of Lone
Jack and other favcrite brands Of tohac.
co. By the way what vile and abomi-
nable practice it is, this smoking, how
did you ever fall into it? Ola clear day
We are forced to close our latticeS to
keep out tie everlasting, never-cea,ing
>,noke. We advise reconstI ucti"n in
this particular, if you love MS. (Alcy
one, our dear sister, is . trihe inquiSi-
tive, and begs to know if the women
smoke in doors, if not, if they are I'D
dct to snuif; you see, like the most
Of her adorable sex, she is up to snuff"
She also desires to propouAd few que
iieS as to fashions. Is il not singular that
women the upper and lower world over,
are such votqrieS Of fashion, and not sat.
i>ticd with hci''g fashioned in natures
lnveIie>t mould, yet move heaven and
earth to make themselves still more con-
| SpicuouS. We confess to be out Of ra-
| tieuce with the whole kit Of them But
Al.vone uuust be patient till we discuss
weightier intereStS) Where we're we,
ahycS, telling of the happy change which
brings You to condescend to men of ""low
degree" of different color and race, and
setting to work with good wili' to er-
tighten :hcir benighted minds. It's n
labor of love. "Go it while you're
Young" Wre>tle with these unfortu
mates, talk with then, pray for and si'h
rhem; that. ere it, be too late, they may
ne convinced how near they are to de-
>tru ,tion, and that like brands they may
be saved from a future burning. We
feel interested inyour fate as a gallant
eeople, and our l6ve takes in this other
race, who~are heset2 By political blood
hounds, who, even now, have their tangs
fastened i,r> their qu,verins flesh, and
would lap their hearts blood. Tel them,
through your young orators some OF
whom we are observing. with the deep
est atsention-ttrat' the stars weep for
them. and are sadly watching their. mis-
suided ways, and wonld even now though
not in regular astroornical course, treat
on to fall Of stars, if only the fanati
ca ly minded and Of ignoble degree
| might be senck down and " iped -out
fronlshe face Of yeur green earth. Be
wary and wise We rejoice@sto see, and
}:twlnkle on YOU, and ;wink~at each other,
henever you show an independent
:luathing and scorn Of the renegades who
have baftcred their all, and would sacri-
ice their State and country 1or political
! pottage.: Touch them not, they are -un-
1lcan, like adderS they forget and bite
the bands which foStered them We adj
| AiSe their mothers to diSown them, and
the colored people whom they profess 10
love, to place eoppers on the eyes Of their
,'e arted ones no more, lest: they steal
them, Ina word let them be anathema
marapa,ha, how and forever, amen. We
| >ee these creatures filled with mistaken
articipxtion Of ottice'aud fat things, NOV.
i,g aoeut among you, eS,f thcm With
eounte'feit >t'ur, and satisfied air, who,
not seeing The length Of their noses,
know hot Of the bitter fall which awaits
them. Others with atject mien, cringe
and crawl about by day, and only when
! darkness hides them fsom honest view,
elevate their, heads, and lord it over their
mi guided dupes. Some of them have
still remnant of soul left, y Nhich ell.
able> ttem to feel that they have prosti.
tuted liberty, conscience and decency,
/ that they are foul with moral leproSy,
and tainted that they fill tie atmos.
| pliere which honest men breathe with
peS,ilential efnuvla. They are whited
sepulchres, clothed Hith garments, mot
dyed from Bora, but dyed in in'amy,
from the Bureau: they live on pap, and
call on the gods, to sustain them, but
bless US, the gods are7hohest immortals
and cry, ont death and. destruction. "
The gods defy and will destroy them,
the stars hook on them with scorn the
white mans party turn with loathing
from them and we even see where thei,
! cninred aIlirS and nnorterS are castinu