The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-10-05

| airtations with some handsome fellows tha
she took special fancy to. However thai
may be, it is certain that all Of the adven
turers that went out from the old shoe
brought back such glowing accounts of the
country as made many of the poorer boys
mouths water to 60 over there and get rich
For some Of the children in the shoe were
living in great misery and discomfort already
from being SC much crowded together. Sc
plenty of them ran away from home and
friends, and were not heard; of again, some
for many years and others not at all and
some succeeded in getting rich, but It was
many years before any Of them made per.
manent homes in the new country.
But many years after the good old maid
had died there. were ssome sthriving settle
ments across the water And they were
destined soon to have many, acccssions to
their numbers; for tutor, or governor,
named Charles, had the management Of the
shoe, and he told so many stories and cheat
ed the boys with so many false promises,
besides spending all their pocket money on
himself and feeding and clothing them badly,
that they gotexasperated, and with a big boy
named Oliver at their head they demanded
a redress of their grievances. But instead
of that Charles got angry and tried to whip
them into submiss onf which was the worse
for him, for they got more angry, and, after
fighting a long time, caught him and cut of
his head, and put Oliver in his place. Oliver
behaved very well, but he was so much
frightened at what he had done that he
died very soon, and another Charles came
back with fairer promises and greater
treachcry to take place of his father, the
first Charles. He treated all the. children
so harshly thut they. were obliged, many of
them, to hide from him until they could
find an opportunity to run off to the "Colo-
nics," as the settlement across the water was
called. So it came about that there were
almost as many Of the children in the new
country as there we're in the shoe, but they
still loved their old mother, across the water,
and she sent them out tutors and governors
who we're to act under the direction Of the
governors of the shoe, which arrangement
led, as you presently shall see, to the first
invention of the tUnion Torpedoes." For:
the governors in the shce tried to domineer,
over the children across the water. and to-
take aagreat deal Of their honest earnings
from them, and made .snch grieyons rules to-
govern them that they tegan. to complaia;
and renion stsate but finding this .an;
aysiil they at last deter mined not to gaye up
any Of their money nntn they got satisfae-,
ton. Then the governor Of the shoe sent
ships full of soldiers to punish the bad boys,
but they did not find that so easy. For.
these boys determined to fight it out, and
some of the smarter boys put their heads
together to invent something for their de.
fence, and THEY made the FIRST Union: Tor
pedo'-but they called it by another name
at first and when they finally exploded it,
there were thousands killed and wounded on
both sides, and there was such: breach
made between the old woman and her chill
drcn across the water that she was obliged
to wean them and leave them to the care of
which almost broke her heart.
But the boys were almost beside themselves
with Joy at getting out OF the leading
strings, and they set to work to improve on
their torpedo. After much time and trouble,
they made one which every body approved
Of, and they solemnly agreed among them,
selves that; they would never make any
change unless every body agreed that the
change would be for the best, and many of
the smarter boys wrote down for tho bene-
fit ef their successors how dangerous it was,
and warned them not to touch it, or, if me-
cessary, to handle it very. carefully. But
before ffty years had passed some of the
boys began to Jingle it and to talk about put
ting some new explosive matter in it; that
they thought better than what was there al
ready. But all the boys would not agree, 80
they did not quite succeed then; though
they almost exploded it in their efforts
From this time there were. two parties, and
one of them was all the time for changing
the torpedo, till at last; they felt strong
enough to run away with it altogether, pro-
vided the others did not catch them in time.
They tried it, and the result was a s1uabble,
and the thing exploded, spreading death
and desolation over miles of what had been
a lovely country and full Of riches. But
that lesson was not sufficient; they had their
way now, for the other party was unfortu-
nately the greatest sufferer from the explo-
sion, and too weak to be ,lc to make any
resistance. So they made o new torpedo,
full of their new notions, calling it by the
same name as the other, though it
was very different from it in some respects
and ten times more explosive; and which
will burst some day again, not alone spread
ing desolation and ruin but .overthrowing
toe whole fabric of government on this con
tinent, and condemning Republicanism tt
all future ages. -. ~.
Thus l. have shown you that "Union Tor
pedoes' are no. new invention, and are NJ
less dangerous and explosive than they were
ninety odd years ago, and perhaps expert
ence ought to teach us to have nothing
more 10 do with them, unlese we have no
suffered sufficiently yet in OUR experience
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