Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-17
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I writ some of my letters, 1 was q right
smart fool. I can look back and see that
amt proffet. Proffesy amt my forte. Me
and the preachers was both mistaken. We
thot we would whip the whole of the fte, but
we only whipped two.thirds of it. We whip
ed it at the fust and in the middle, but they
whipped us at the last. We never counted on
havin to fite all creashun in front and Elk
Brown and Joe Stephens & Co. in the rear
It was unfair contest. IF | was a Yank
I wouldn't never menshun this war as long as
I liv'd. I'd be ashamed to. Old Nerxes
with his big army, whipeda few Spartans, but
histry amt got no respect for him. Now
don't want to hurt feelins. After man has
done mean thing and bin cotch at it, | ain'l
the individual to keep a THROWN it up to him
If the Yanks are ashamed of their konduct
I'm willin to drap it and make friends. The
pure breed of Yankees never was favorite
stock with me. When it's jewdishously cross
ed it does very we'll, but even then the old
Yank will crop out ever and anon and sho"
the skrub.
There is as much difference in people as
there is in horses. The pure Southerner is
blooded stock With him honor and fail
dealin and family pride are bigger things
than money. The pure Yank is philthy
lucre skrub. Money is the big thing. Their
chief end of man is to keep all you git, and
git all you can. They like what other people
have got better than their own, and they 60
for it and call it speculatin. If they can't
git it fast enough that way, they pass laws in
Congress that will get it by degrees. Through
tariffs and bounties and appropriashuns they
got nearly all we had before the war, and
have stole all the ballins since. They look
upon us as foemen worthy of their steal
When a Yank gifts rich and don't want any
more, he gifts sorter honest, and gives away
sum to churches and colleges. Then he lays
down and dies, and has white sepulker bilt
over him, and goes about huntin for Abra'
hams buzzum.
A pure Southerner don't keer for thrip
but Yank will git rich off of coppers. He
will buy nails at four dollars and 80 cents q
keg and retail EN- out 5 cents pound. Ten
cents and keg is considered fair profit in
Konnetikut He will speculate on anything
in the world. Iknowed one to buy his wife's
dover for two hundred dollars and sell it to
his dady-in-law for thousin. That was a
cute way of maxim the stingy old cuss give
him sumthin before he died. A reglar Yank
is perambulatin man. He out travels all
creashun when hunten roun for money. He
don't mind goin from Maine to Mississippi
not more than we mind goin to the post offs.
He insinuates himself into every land that's
got any thing he can git. He's smart, and
he's diligent, and he's never left by the train.
These is good qualities, and l wish our peepul
had EN-. When clever Yanks Gums down
South and mixes with our foaks, he improves
rapidly by contakt, and if he comes in his
youth and stays long enuf and marries in a
respectable family he is apt to make good
citizen. 1t helps him and helps the family,
especially if its poor and proud. This kind
ola cross generally does we'll and brings good
froot. The offspring is apt to be lively and
shifty and have the love of money and the
love of honor so butifully mixed up you can t
tell tother frum which. The only danger is
that the Yank may crop out occasionally and
produce sum morti6cashun.
A cross between Massachusetts and South
Carolina does very we'll now days. One is
chuck full of money, the other of honor. The
money keeps the honor from perishin, which
is good thing, fur if it aint kept comforta-
ble its inklined to degenerate, and the stock
runs into skrub in two generashuns. Honor,
nor nuthin else aint bumb proof aginst the
debasin influence of an empty stomach. If a
race hoss aint we'll kept, his offspring will
play out; and so when q fust family gifts
poor, the children bekum sekond family, and
so forth, until you can't tell them from COM
mon stock.
Now my opinyun is that State or Guv-
erment ought to keep up its human stock.
When man looms up above the horizun as
a great man, he ought to be penshuned and
supported so that he wouldn't hav to think
about mummy. He ort to be required to mar
ry into another penshuned family, and in this
way keep up family of brains to draw from
for our Presidents and Guvenors and law
makers They ort to be paid enuf to keep
them out of temptashun, and then we would
hav no carpet-bagers, nor Moblliars. nor
Cleweses, nor pig iron Kelleys, nor lobbyin
bills through the house for pay. | like to see
family of brains keepin up the family repu-
tashun for generashuns to cum. like the
Adomses, and Brekenridges and Lamars and
Bayrds and Prestons, and all sch, and I'm
glad they was born rich. I want all great
men to be rich as long as they are good.
Their influence spreads all over the country
and we can pint our children to EN- and say,
"theres your mark, now shoot at it,"
AS it is now, the struggle seems to be who
can git the richest, and it don't matter how
they get money, so they git it, and amt cotch
stealth of it. Sometimes you see the worst
sort of skrub stock blessed with an uncommon
quantity of brains, and then you may look
out. You mout as we'll surrender, for they
are goin to have slice of your property. If
they can't git it no other way they will run
down an offs, or railroad, or Michel es-
tate, or lease, or get up government kon-
trakt, or git sumthin that pays without work.
A smart skrub is dangerous animal. A
COW that horns down the fence, or hog that
roots open the gate, or hoss that lets down
the draw bars is a nuisance and cuss. They
are skrub. A pure Durham, or a Berk-
shire, or Harney won't do it. The old
fashund fust families wouldn't do mean
thing. They wus abuv it. They wouldn't
lose their self respek. like them sort, espe-
cially if they are rich. like to live in their
naborhood. They have big ideas and big
ways, and look like foaks ort to look. They
hold their heads up and look at you strait
when they talk to you.
They don't ride nor walk like common foaks.
1 can tell one of EN- hundred yards. 1t
takes all sorts of foaks to make up world,
and I'm glad that kind is in it. I'm as poor
as Lazzyrus, but amt fool enuf to hate rich
foaks l like EN-. If they are good stock l
can pick up rite good livin off of what they