Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-29
: WAR talk.


Since the Senate's rejection Of the johnson
Clarendon treaty for the settlement Of the Ala6an'e
claims, the Republican press Of this country have
INDUCED freely in that peculiar style of eloquenct
known as blowing" with reference to a war witt
England. Taking their cue from the great apos
tie of moral ideas and rubber canes, Charles Ssm
nsr, they have all at once swaked to the conscious
ness that something ought to be done to England
by way of punishment for her conduct during oul
late civil war. 1t is rather surprising that thi'
keen sense of injuries received has slumbered y
long, and no less surprising that it leaps so quickly
into vigorous Life, in response to the clarion call
Mr.. Sumner = 49,. .. = .,g1.i
+ Yet both Of these phenomena admit Of salts
factory explanation The Republican party live!
on sensation. Without some great moral idea
to work upon, it feels that it must fall to pieces
although now in the full flush Of victory and the
undisputed possession Of the spola The mora
idea" by feeding on which it has grown 50 grea
was '.freedom for the slave" But having carried
this idea through the degrees of freesoil, abolition
war and destruction to the great consumation-re
construction find its fruitfulness nearly ex
hausted. There is nothing more to be done to-
the negro, which it will pay the party of mora
ideas to do. 80. -, =. . ,,-..., j.
It is, therefore, necessary to start another great
moral idea, and what better than the idea of chas
tising the British ion2 1t follows so naturally as
consequence from the prosecution of the freedom
idea, that many will look upon it as only higher
development of that idea. With this view MIR.
Sumner has dropped the ''nigger" championship
and assumed the part of lion.tamer. He and his
followers desire war with England as new test
of 'loilty" by which to keep the campfollowers Of
the Republican party true to their colors The
idea is that if England can be bullied, great honor
will accrue to the heroic Senate, and if not, all they
have to do is to order out the rank and file Of their
supporters to bear the brunt of the shock. As be.
fore the cry of loyalty'' will be used to hush op'
position and drive unwilling heroes to the held,
while the 'loilest' of the loil will be needed at
home to keep the poor soldiers families from star
wing. ... .., -. ....' ra .-.,...
Such is evidently the programme Of the Repub-
lcan leaders, and it explains the Senates rejection
of the treaty and the war bluster of leading manu-.
facturers. of Northern public opinion. Whether
or not it will be carried out to the extent of war
with England, is of course impossible to say
but the history of the world proves that when ma
ton is spelling for fight, it generally gets one,
and not unfrequently bigger fight than it wants.
MERE-MENTION. ;" -
Governor Scott advertises for contractors to
complete the work on the Blue Ridge Railroad
from Anderson, s. C., to Knoxville, Tenn, a dis.
lance Of l22 miles. '''''''A correspondent Of the
Charleston Ne,cs says that Charles N. Wilder, the
negro postmaster in Columbia, in point of decency
stands head and shoulders above the white scala
wags and carpet-baggers who have worlned them
selves, through dirty ways, into so many of oul
Offices. 1.-THE citizens Of Newberry held a meet
ing for the establishment for sorgho sugar manu-
factory. AT an indignation meeting held al
Timmonsville, Darlington county last week, reso
lutions were adopted censuring white magistrate
for marrying negro to white woman, and re-
turning thanks to colored magistrate who hac
refused to perform the ceremony.
The treasury statement shows sSS, 900, 600 coin
$4,000, 900 coin certificates, and S., 1000, 900 il
currency on hand '.''.''.'The correspondence o
the Alabama claims has reached ten octave vol
umes, of eight hundred pages each, yet the discus
sion must all be done over again. '''''''"Williau
Sturgis has gone into bankruptcy in Chicago, witt
liabilities amounting to 81 AS, ,0OO '''''It takes
ffty-seven paymasters, from Brigadier Genera
down, to pay off the present standing army of thu
United States ''''''The President has sent to ths
Senate since the 4th of March over l,loO nomina
tions. '..'.'.'The snow was q foot deep on tht
White Top Mountain near Abingdon, Virginia
last week ''''''A grand jury in Georgia presented
the late Legislature of that State for reckless ex
travagance in voting themselves nine dollars (
day. 1.-THE Bank of the State of North Caro-
lima is to be taken out Of bankruptcy, as it wa
illegally placed there. '''"..'The Richmond Lift
Insurance Company, of Virginia, has recently de
clared dividend of forty per cent. '''''''''Th'
Weldon IN. c. Ne,rs states that Mr.. r. II
Baptist, of Petersburg, was in that place day o.
two ago, showing the citizens how to make pount
Of butter from one pint of milk, the receipt fo
which he sells at one dollar .'.'':''.A party, con
sisting of Colonel John W. Forney, Of Washing
ton Governor Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey
General Van Wyck, of New York, and othe
prominent men from the North, are prospecting
Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia
.':':'"One thousand Of Ex-Goyernor Joseph E
Browns pixies, manufactured for the use of Sc
oession soldiers were sold at government sale il
Augusta, Ga, last week. Gov: B., who now en-
joys the honor of being "loiP' saint, was no
present to witness the sale of these memorials O.
his sinful days. '''''''The heperiahst, advocating
the establishment of an empire in the Unitec
States, claims circulation Of 10000 copies, in
spite Of the refusal Of the news companies to cir
lculate it. a1 IT