Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-21

the little promontoy was required tor the comfort
of the wounded. One of the surgeons approached
the stranger, whom he supposed to be only cltl-
zen attracted to the spot to witness the battle, and
requested him in rather hasty manner to move
out of the way. ...... ..... ........
'sCertainly, gentlemen" replied the stranger,
''the wounded should be kindly cared for, and
shifted his position. ...ai rr.. ."s ..,f.
In o few minutes courier dashed up and in
quired for General Lee. ...
"Here he is; move quickly!"
The surgeon was thunderstruck, and FASTENED
to offer apologies, which General Lee readily ac-
cepted, mounted, and galloped to the front
THE WORLD OWES ME A LIVING.
This is one of the vile, stereotyped falsehecds
that loafers and rogues of all sorts use as an apol
ogy for their laziness and other rascalities. ..,
The Jeremy Diddler, who sponges on society,
comforts himself with the idea that he is thus only
getting some of the debt which "the world owes
him. -...- -. ,
The thief sometimes intimates that, in helping
himself out of somebody's till, he was merely ta-
king his own. It was part of the debt uncanceled
that society-that enormous bankrupt-had re-
fused to pay.
The whole theory is false and fraudulent. The
rule is the reverse. We owe the world an upright
life and in return the world will give US living.
The lounger about the grog-shops, orother places
of loaing, may fold his arms in idleness, under the
consolation of being so large creditor but we'll
just tell him how the world will pay him ulti-
matey. 1t will square off with an instalment on
hunger, poverty, contempt, degradation, and the
alms-house. It will give him rich dividends OF
scorn and starvation, and finally pay him in full
with six feet of earth in the pauper's grave Per
haps, as he goes along, he will receive occasional
payments ION account, by generous orders on the
county jail or the State prison. In the latter place,
we believe the world literally throws in q new
suit of clothes of beautifully vsriegated eolors
Our advice to young men is, to trust to their two
good hands, their brains their economy, their in
dustry, and their honesty for a ''living" With
such aids-and strong self.reliance, backed by in
domitable perseverance-there are but few indeed
who fail of reaching the goal at which they aim.
The world is full of glorious illustrations Of this
truth. We see young men rise from obscurity and
poverty to reputation and wealth, and we wonder
how they ''get along 80 well" 1t seems myste-
ry, but the whole mystery lies in the qualifications
above named. They commence right, they con-
tinue right, and they end right.
If we mark the history of such man, we shall
invariably find that he has been hard worker and
careful manager. He has looked after the spiggot
as we'll as the bung-hole of his business. He has
husbanded his earnings, and added them to his
capital instead Of leaving them all at the box-ofhce
of the theatres or wearing them upon his back, or
pouring them down his throat. r..s. :s.5!
We said he was hard worker" That, we
apprehend, is the great difficulty with the loafer.
He would be perfectly willing, no doubt, to hold
the hat if Providence would shower gold into
or, if it would rain roast beef, he would have a
platter ready to catch it. But to Work, and work
hard-' there's the rub" Let fortune come to
him in any other shape than that. ....
But, young man, WORK it must be-woRK i
WORK !-woRK 1t was designed from the be-
ginning that man should earn his bread not by
loafng, but by the ''sweat Of his brow" Those
drops the industrious man coins into the golden
mint drops that fill his Golfers .:. re-
REMoNsTRANcE AGAINST THE S. G. CoNsTrTU-
TIoN.-Colonel j. P. Thomas, j. G.. Gibbes and
Colonel L.. D. Childs, representing the State Cen
trail Executive Committee, of the Democratic par
ty of South Carolina, came hther to present to
Congress remonstrance on the part Of the white
people of South Carolina, against the Constitution
recently adopted by the Reconstruction Conven-
ton. Yesterday, the Committee appeared before
the Reconstruction Committee Of the House. MIR.
Stevens, the chairman, received them with courte-
sy. Colonel Thomas, chairman Of the committee,
and representing the State Central Executive
Committee, remarked that in analyzing the propo-
sed constitution for South Carolina there were two
objections which stood out in bold relief viz: un-
qualified suffrage and the taxation law. He ar
gued to show their disastrous effects upon both
races The constitution established taxation with
out representation. Those who have no property
are to tax those who have all the property. I'm
der the constitution two millions of dollars might
be raised in the way Of taxes, one million of which
might be for educational purposes, and yet these
advantages were to be enjoyed by the blacks alone
as the white children would not attend the black
schools The State, heretofore, in its most pros
porous days, had not been able to pay tax of
more than from three to four hundred thousand
dollars annually. ... ..
Colonel Thomas, in conclusion, said he felt it to
be his duty to state to the Committee that while
the whites are willing to concede to the negro all
civil rights and qualified suffrage, yet the white
race would never acquiesce in negro rule. You
may, said he, make us pass under the yoke, and
we shall have to do 80, but by every means which
God and Congress have left US under the constitu-
ton and laws, we will resist this domination of an
inferior race By peaceful means, by political ef-
forts by industrial agencies, we will carry on this
political contest until we regain the control which
of right belongs to the power of mind and the in
huence of virtue. Nor can you have prosperity in
the South under your reconstruction scheme. But
give the South fair showing, restore the States
to the Union on just basis, and again will our
people return with willing hearts to the Union and
the same energy, the same self-sacri6ce, the same
valor which they gave to the lost cause, will they
give now to the Union, provided you meet them
in spirit Of just magnanimity, and coneede to
them the rights to which they deem themselves
entitled Washington Erpress, Mays.
John RANDoLpu's BLACK CoLoNY.-The fair
est experiment on any scale Of magnitude that has
been made in this country to test the capabllty OF
a negro community to maintain itself, was the no
table one made by the celebrated John Randolph,
of Roanoke, who, by his will, emancipated con-