Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-24

no date trees in England. Live there? Not
she, No more could live under sky with
out buzzard | could not if would, and
would not if could.
Yes, It's a beautiful well huSbanded land,
and the people who dwell in it are a great
people, not yet in their prime, mewing still Il
mighty vouth---who that visited the EXPOSE
ton can doubt it? and with al inconceivable
destiny before them. We also of the South
are grcat---grcater in defeat, in the grandeur
of sclf.rcstraint las you South Carollnans
have lust proved to the confounding of your
enemies, We are greater in defeat than in war.
Why cannot these two peoples come together
without gush, tantaronade or mental rcscrva-
ton, and be friends, be one people, absolutely.
All good men in both sections ardcntly desire
it. They long for it. There can be no peace,
no prosperity, without it. Why cannot it be
| do not know. Why is it that no house is
big enough to hold one family after the sons
and daughters are grown? Why must
magnet have two poles, and what is the mean
ing of this "nevitable quality which disects
all nature?' y battery with one wire can do
no manner of work, and somewhy there Is an
imperative necessity for two opposing elec-
tricities. just heaven can it be that the
worlds work cannot be done without hate as
we'll as love and as much of one precisely as
the other? Bah These analogies are mis-
leading-it's all stuf:-thc mans crazy. Say
you 50? Then are we prepared to come flat
and plump to something practical, viz. the
Southern fool?
The first Southern fool whom | shall notice
is the worst, for he is more knave than fool, a
hound whose hide intend some day to tear
off and hold his quivering carcass up to STINK
in the nostrls of both sections. 1t is he, who,
having gone North and acquired money by
hook or by crook, mainly by crook, proceeds
to take unto himself all the glory and the
fame Of the South, disowns her shame, evades
her suffering, and overwhemS us with his ad'
vice His advice, quotha. Why doesn't ne
come down and put his shoulder to the wheel
Advice! Upon my word, gentlemen, gratuit'
Gus advice from fool of this sort is the acme
of all meanness. 1t is the very inversion OF
generosity, which naught impuvcrishes the
givcr, but makes us poor indeed. Will Il
bcggar give me handful of his rags? The
figure is coarse, horribly coarse, but not so
coarse as the fact.
1t was a shoa Of this kind of cattle lis that
Irish enough for you p of these advice-givers
(Northern born, thought who swoopcd down
upon us after the war to teach us how to grow
cotton and tobacco with machinery and free
labor. They would hear nothing, tor they
knew all things. The last nincompoop of
them failed ANONYMOUSLY, and in my State
not few of them discovered that in the SIM
H. r,f rl,m ipo fn
per was more than a match for the shrcwdest
Yankee He made him pay three prices for
his worn.out farm, one third cash. and in Il
year or So he took back the farm for the de-
ferred payments The more the fool the Nlr.
ginian for this goo$c,ripping policy, but none
the less fool the Yankee.
Prior to the war the Southern fool made his
wishes the measure of political events, and
sentiment served him in lieu Of sense. lie
believed in Bell and Everett Il voted for
them-none Of my people shall br bigger fools
than my<cIf) in Fillmore, John C"chrane,
Butler, SickIrs. Bah! AS if the designs OF
an army rnnlh h.. discovered by the attitude
of the hnpain<, the tcam>trrs, suffers and
bumnrrS in the rcar instead of by Watching
the movements Of the vanguard. l. the
Southern fool doing any better now ? Does
experience teach anything? Very little to
individuals, to nations nothing.
, When the war broke out, the Southern fool
began by undertaking the strength OF his enc
my, by looking down upon the ! ankres as
.hc Southern boys had done at Princeton.
Coming to Richmond after the battle Of Ma
nas<i.S, with the body of dead comrade, |
4 tl,ut, Dnr vtut,.C IL
in town. | FASTENED to him at once. for |
wanted to see ahead. "Mr. n, said |, "the
papers tell us that Linc"In has called for 2O0,-
600 men" He laughed Il low laugh leaned
back little and said chrcrly: "Oh . yes
the Chinese raised Il millun with gungs and
stink pots according. and ten thousand allies
marched straight to Pekin." was greatly
comiorrd.
This Chinese idea prevailed at Montgome-
ry, where. | am told, the first order for arms
was for nine thousand, possibly ten thousand
stand. Passing over the minor tolies of re-
tanning incompctentS at the head OF grand
armies and elsewhere, passing over Lees ex-
trcmc weakness in not holding his lieutcnantS
up to the Stcrnest accountability, | come to
the capital mistake of the war. 1t was nat
ural the Southern fool should make it, a
handsome grnlIcman--I can see him now; we
all remember him above the medium height !;
Il suit of black broadcloth, black satin vest,
felt hat, gold fob chain, god.headed cane and
high-hccl, high.top boots--a gentleman who
did nothing with his hands, and good deal
with his tongue, thereby making himself very
agreeable to himself But there WIS one re.
lccming quality about the fellow-he would
not take the ic-and he would iight-would
snuff out your cephac wick at ten PAGES, or
fight you with anything from toothplck to il
Columhiad. \ fight to him was Il five min
utcs affair, and if enough life WAS left in him.
self or his enemy to shake hands, he was
ready to make friends and there was an end
ont What was more natural than that he
should believe that war meant fighting.
1t was Il fatal mistake, the cardinal error of
the whole struggle. War-nine,trnths of it.,
at least, rs Alex. H. Stephens said at the
timc-is business, the panest possible matter
Of fact bu$incss-- ust such business as is done
every day here on your wharvcs and streets,
only with more energy. Did any of you enter
the Yankee lines at the close Of the war? |
did, and what did see? | saw in succession a
team of mouse colorcd mules, a team of cream
colorcd mules, and Il team of fsnow white mules,
six to Il team, and all seal fat, specimens OF
the train,y the wagons brand new, and the
wagon cloths deal cleaner than the shirt |
was then wearing. 4 little further on | saw
a corps of 10000 negroes, whose camp was
like May ground when Mcrric Eng land was
in its prime. Why. gentlemen, var t. this
people was paStime, it was aesthetics and poe
try and can readily believe what has often
been asserted, that the Yankee contractors