Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-22
THE STATE FAIR.

The State Fair opened in Columbia on
Tuesday of last week with a very good dis
play of articles, and moderately large at
tendance of people, Later in the week the
display of articles for exhibition was consid-
erably increased, and taken altogether the
fair was, in this respect, an improvement on
any that has been held since the war. :
On Wednesday addresses we're delivered
by Mr.. H. P. Kimball, of the Winnebago
Agricultural Society of Illinois; Governor
Vance, of North Carolina Governor Hamp-
ton and Others
Mr.. Kimball was introduced by Mr.. Tay-
lor, President of the Fair Company, as the
representative of the society which had invi.
ted the Hon. Jefferson Davis and Governor
Hampton to address the people of the North
west on two recent occasions Mr.. Kimball
then came forward and spoke eloquently for
paciGcation and union. In the course of his
remarks, he said:
No reproach, in general way. can be imposed
on the South or North for the part they took in
the war. Revolutions are Gods methods for re-
storing an equilibrium in the political world as
much as volcanoes and earthquakes are His in
struments for quelling the internal commissions
of planet. The law of antagonism has been the
law of national development, and the exponent
of it's progress through all ages.
The political dogma that all men are created
free and equal, is established on no principle of
reason, nature or philosophy. The equality is
only one of privilege, not povers-one of oppor-
t.,ity and not achievements. Before individuals,
peoples and races can assert their claims Of equal
ity with others, they must justify their claim
with equal evidence of ability and accomplish
ment. Before we can attain equality with CAL
houn, Webster and Clay, we must show evidence
of possessing their quality and quantity of being.
TO be Bonaparte, we must scale the Alps with
our victorious legions and inscribe victory our
banners in the "presence of forty generations
looking down from the heights of yonder pyra-
mids.'
To be Newton, we must measure the veloci-
ties of Gods invincible couriers electricity and
light; measure the nterstelar spaces, and poise
the solar systems in the balances of our calcula-
ton. TO be Morse or Field, we must fl rst tame
the lightning; and then build highway OF
thought under the sea. To be Hampton, we
must have the moral heroism to stand, in our
right and majesty, before the highest powers of
the nation and eXclaim: ~ have not come here
for any compromise have been elected u Gover-
nor of South Carolina by the expressed will of a
majority, and, by the Eternal, will be Cover,
nor or SO, 600 valiant sons of South Carolina will
unite to defend my claim.'
have yet to learn where man has earned his
immortality by the surrender of his convictions,
or the com promise of his honest principles Be-
fore the Anglo-Saxon race shall abdicate their po-
sition of white supremacy, the colored and mixed
races must first eclipse them in their powers OF in
yention, and their achievement of engineering
skill; they must construct naves, span the rivers
with magnificent bridges, cover the continents
with networks of railroads, and adorn literature
with poetry, science, and philosophy; they must
organize polytechnic schools, endow universities,
and commemorate historical events in groups of
sculpture, apd galleries of art. Outside the limits
of the ancient Egyptian civilization, no ,yestiges
of facqueducts no Ivy clad monuments, illustra-
tive Of higher civilization haye rewarded the in
dustry of modern geographical research in AFRICA.
The Anglo-Saxon race, in the versatility of their