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

long dark brown hair had scarcely trace OF Hver.
Unlike the majority of the lengthy y-Gmbed popula-
ton of the. AHeghany slopes, .he vas short and
broadly built. His face was very red, and bis eyes
a little bloodshotf He bore unmistakable signs Of
being regular and by no means stingy drinker Of
his own excellent white whiskey, But be was an
honest, worthy; generous, hospitahle, honorable
mature. I had heard of him, and of bis tribe and
set, as determined Unienists. Loopers and Dur
hams. ,'".Gualandi CON Sismopdi e Ianfanchi." |" >
Yet stubborn as they were, the Coufederssy had
known how to make them bend. ..,,cs,., =, i..,l
!. "Myson went into their army" he said to me-
1T was 90 in or be shot" never went in. +
furnished substitute, and did everything under
Gods heaven to escape it. Yet they were always
after me. I was open-mouthed. Every body
knew what Looper thought II,saa
!. 'They took every: COW I had curse me ID, they
didn't One dayia party of twenty came, with q
lieutenant at their head i saw them at my barn,
and went out to meet them Said they i'Haye
you any claim on these cattleP'o Says ], By :.
they are mine.s Says they, we are going to take
them for the Government to help carry On the war.
Says I, Its q dam wicked war, and you are dam
set of fools for trying it. Says the Lieutenant,
You say another word, and we'll hang you.to the
next tree BY -, you may hang me, says,l;; [;
but as long as live you can't shut my mouth !
I tell you cursed them as long as they staid. IF
you doubt what sert of man I am, ask any body
in Pckens District. Every body knows me. Ey-
cry body knows what Loopg is. III .rur.:.,ia
''Ah, those dam scoundrels have robbed me
cruelty Every one of my cattle, and every horse
except an old broken-down critter! But it can't
be helped DOW. Ny son never went in your army,
but he done service for your side; he has helped
your runaways through the lines There was Ad-
jutant johnson; write to him if you don't believe
it. Write to Captain Bray; he knows us;
"And now they've got my son, just for killing p
dana rebel named Miller, who was passing himself
off for the bushwhacker Lrgent, and Insulting our
women and children-just for shooting that dam
scoundrel they've got him shut up in the peniten-
tiary, curse me If they haven'tl Why; SIR, that
Miller had been threatening to plunder sand kill
me for harboring your men. He knew about my
ways; every body knows Looper. Ny doors had
been broken in by the bushwhackers two nights
before / suppose came near being shot That
was way they had make noise at your door,
perhaps call you to it; then if you opened it, fire
Off rides the bushwhacker in the dark, and nobo-
dy ever knows who it is. More than dozen men
in our district have been killed that way.
"Pve got up petition for my sons release,
He ought not to be shut up there with thieves
and rascals. He's as amiable and good and gen.
tlemanly boy Of his age as there is, / don't care
where I'll show you the paper" lg .,,
The document had long list of sgners, many
of them, to my surprise, leading secessionists.
But Looper was man of property, influence,
energy and courage; and when Southern public
feeling does not forcibly rid itself of such an anita
gonist it will treat him fairly. Fit does not blow
his brains out, it will subscribe his petitions. 1t
has certain martial respect for acouragousoppo-
nent. - a.-f a. .-t5 zt} El aT%A:
SOUTHERN INDIVIDUALITY. .sia s,d:'.
Whether chivalrous or semi-chivalrous, the
Southeruer has more individuality of character
than the Northerner, and is one Of the most inter
esting or, at all events, one of the most amusing,
personages on this continent, fnot in the world.
He has salient virtues vices, and oddities; he has
that rich, practical humor which is totally uncon-
scious of being humorstic; he in the gravest msn-
ner deeorates his fife with ludicrous and romantic
adventures in short, he is prize for the anecdo-
tist and novelist Dixie has thousands Of high
toned gentlemen who suppose themselves to be
patterns Of solemn and staid sobriety, but who
would be fit to associate with the Caxtons and Doc
tor Riccabocca In that land of romance you will
find Uncle Toby and Squire Western and Sir Pitt
Crawley and Colonel Newcome and Mr.. Piekwick
and LIE Chourineur, all moving in the best society
and quite sure they are admirable Crichtons. 'a
| In what other part of the civilized earth would
leading statesman write 'ponderous political
work in dialogue, after the fashion of the essays
of Plato and Cicero? Such a gusto OF classical
imitation might possibly be found in Harvard
Sophomore; but at the South we discover it in an
cx.United States Congressman and ex-Vice Presi-
dent of the Confederacy. Alexander 81. Stephens
is as redolent of Greeks and Romans, as verdant
with lore, as Keitt or Prior. ;.!'' -, -
Where else could you meet with such a curious
incarnation Of the apostolic character as---,
q planter by profession and habitude, but preach
er by mission2 He was passionate religiouist; |;
if he met you in the street he button-holed you
and vented upon you his dogmas; chance passers-
by were beckoned to until he had circle; you
listened because you dared not run away. One
Sunday, exhorting in little crossroads church,
and having been annoyed by two negroes stealing
out Of the house, he came to solemn pause in his
service, and then spoke as follows: "Next Lords
day shall hold worship in this same place. l
shall bring nv double-barrelled gun; shall stand
that gun, brethren, in the pulpit, alongside OF me;
and if any man gets up and goes out while am
preaching, by! I'll shoot him.
A half fuddled planter called on me one evening
and invited me out to q treat Of stewed oysters.
The restaurant was the back room Of q bakery; we
cat on broken chairs, among sticky pans, spilled
-four. and loaves of dough; the oyster-cans were
opeped with an old bowie knife. When the stews
were before US, myfiend observed: "Come, don't
let's eat like savages. Major, can't you ask q
blessing?' AsI declined he pulled his broad
brimrned felt from his muddled Uranium and said
grace himself
I knew worthy old South Carolinian, bearing
name of revolutionary notoriety, who would not
invest his money at high profits, holding that "six
per cent, my dear sir, is the interest Of gente-
man" .''-.
I knew another worthy old person who raised a
set of white and set of black children, treated
both with generosity and affection, maintained an
excellent character in bis church, and died in the
odor of public esteem. 49,
knew planter who, having said in drunken