Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-02-11

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ispree that he would sell his plantation for twenty
Thousand dollars, wodid not revoke his words when
1sober, although it was worth thirty Thousand.
IEnewof another planter who beat hisbeauti- .
|ful wife as long as be lived, and at his death wid
her a considerable property, on condition that she
should never quit the State, he knowing that her
|chsfest desire was to remove to the North
/ Iknew Southanezs Who taught their slaves TO-
read IN spite of sevsre pruhibitoy laws, and who
labored for their growth in morality and piety az
misGonarieslabor for rtheoonyenion Of the heather.
knew Of I4ouisina lady who fogged . negro
woman with her own hands until the sufferers
back was vast sore Of bruised and bloody fiesh. -
Audaciy, vehemence, recklessness passion,
sentiment, prejudice, vanity, WhimHhams, absur- y
ditias, culture, ignorance, courtGness, bafbarisml
The individual has plenty Of telbow-room at the,
South he kicks cut Of tbs traces With freedom
unknown to anr steady pulling society; heiss . bull
In Mz Gfsndy Q obiuarshop. Sxangest Of 81, he
believes that he is Ike the rest of the world on
more accurately, that the rest Of the world should
be like him.
I This remarkable personase,I more striking in
character and habits than the strange people
whom the Bronte girls brought out Of the depths
of Yorkshire, has hitherto found no worthy paint
er. Even Mrs Stove has but family sketched
two or three Southern portraits: p .Loqiaanian
the typeof laIguid gentiity without aegice
withouss shadow Viginisn--th the type ofwelli
bred jolHty and goodnatme, also without . sha-s
dow; afeld-preacher -shrewd, coarse, humorous
aud well enough Her Eva Is no more distinctive :.
IN Southern than her Uncle Tenn IS honestly Arr
cam Her Mrs. St. Clair consider a,ibd on the
hard.working,i careful, Southern housewife and 4
mistress of plantation 20 n y1s5c G'iT gtaggs
The chisatouseS SQUADRON has bean too positively
and authoritativsly political power 10 get fair I
treatment III literature. People haye not desaib }
ed him; they have felt driven to declsim shout
him; they have preached against him. Northern
pens have not done justice to bis virtues nor
Southern pens to bis vices :. ..yy.; g,.rg-.--
|. The ronaacesof Dixie, produced under mixed
inspiration Of aamby y.pambyism and. provincial
vanity, strong in polysyTlabes and feeble N per-
oeption Of character, deserve better than any other
results of human labor that am aware Of the ma
tive epithet Of powerful weak" The novelist
evidently has but two objects in view: Erst to
present the Southron as the flower of gepiEy
second, toido some fine writing for his own glory
Two or three works BY Kennedy and by the au- /
|thoress Of sMarion HarlaBd' are the only e1cep-
tions TO this rule. Not until the Southerners get
Ind Of some Of their local vanity, not until they
cease talking of themselves only in spirit Of self
adultion, not until they drop the idea that they
are Remsns and must write in the style Of Cicero,
will they be able to 90 paint their life as that the
world shall crowd to- see the picture Meantime
let US pray that true Southern novelist may soon
arise, for he will be able to furnish us vast amuse
ment and some instruction. His day is passing
in another generation his material viii be gone,d
the ''chivalrous Southren" will be as dead as the
slavery that created him.
How shall we manage this eccentric creature?
We have been ruled by him; we have fought him,
beaten him, made him captive; now what treat
ment shall we anot him? My opinion is, that it
would be good both for him and for us if We
should perseveringly attempt to put up with his
oddities and handle him as a pet. He resembles
the ideal white bears described in the "Peah Of
Or's Island :" "there amt no kinder creetw m
the whole world If you'll only get the right side Of
him. It is true that he has wanted to eat us,
which is exasperating It is true that he still talks
of eating us at some convenient season. which is
ridiculous but I believe that he suffered too much
in our late struggle to seriously think Of renewing
it : hold that his war suorts are mere election
buncombe. IN o- 1
A little letting alone little conciliation, little
aattery even, would soothe him amazingly and if
united with good government would IN the end be
sure to reconstruct him as o quiet citizen and
sound patriot The Republican party, while firm
" maintaining the integrity Of the country and the
great results Of the warm the advancement Of hu-
man freedom, ought to labor zealousy for the pros
perity Of the South, treat tenderly its wounded
pride, forget the angry past; be patient with the
perturbed present. and so create true, heartfelt
national unity. -, -, -.,.-