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

young men growing up ana alTc''is Slo"I
plenty old enough to marry-bloodcd TEL
lows-that have gone to work, and, like race
horses at the plough, intend to break the
traces, burst their hearts or make deep fur
row in this hard old work-day world. They
would not object to marrying any mans rich
sister, but of all mems they would prefer
South Carolinian's Come, then, to the Old
Dominion-a fair exchange is no robbery
and, by the gods the next generation or two
will see race of men compared with whom
Washington and Calhoun, jefferson and
| Pinckney were but teetotums and humble
pegs.
There is one other weakling to whom |
would like to pay my respects. mean the
Southern politician, who fancics that he can
become statesman by rejecting the acqulsl-
tions of modern science, the application par
ticularly of biology to social problems, and,
confning himself to the old ruts, hopes to
make little ill.digested history and the
! speeches of few eminent men of by-gone
age, serve in the stead of those general laws,
which, embracing matter and mind alike, ell
able US to forecast the future and to forcsec
not what we think We ought to be, but what,
in the nature Of things, must inevitably be.
Time will not permit me to do more than
alude to this subject; but coming down to
immediate matters, should say that the su-
preme Southern political fool is he who, in
/ this critical moment for his section, places
confidence in any promises whatever made by
his party foes.
In conclusion, let me thank you for nvi-
! ting me to address you. No compliment is
more grateful to Nirginian than one that
comes from the people Of Carolina for here
| he finds a passionate devotion to the State
which rivals, if it does not surpasS his own
State pride and love- Caroinians! do you
love your mother? Does mother love her
afflicted and stricken SON? Does son love
: the invalid mother, for whom he sacrifices his
time, his pleasure and his hardwon earnings?
Love her? lie would die for her. Yea
more, he would live for her, would "lcnd her
half his powers to exc her living out And
when the painful night watches are all over
and the patient sufferer is laid in that narrow
bed where there is no more suffering, the son
comes back from the grave, bearing with him
an amulet that no man may ever see, but
which will keep him unharmed through life.
Nay, henccforth newer and more elevated
! life, hallowed by self:sacriice, is his. SO with
you, Carolinians You have suffered as no
cultured people in modern times have suffered,
and, so sure as heaven, the steadfast love you
have shown to your murdered mother will
bring its exceeding great reward. You have
trodden the wine press alone. Here fell the
utmost fury of your enemies, and here came
the least sympathy of your friends, for was 1T
not said (the idiots have not yet stopped say
ing it, that you "brought on the war;? The
wine press Your State was the wine press
! and your souls the grapes on which, for twelve
years, mob of jeerng devils, drum ken with
excess Of malice and of hate, danced to the
derisve laughter of half the nation. Twelve
years, four thousand days and nights Of tor
ture, Of shame, of humiliation for yourselves,
your wives your daughters, your tender chill
dren. -Four thousand days and nights, and
to the proud and sensitive nature smartlng
under indignity, every moment is an age
: Burke and Pitt lifted their voices IN behalf OF
the oppressed Colonies the cloud cry of
/ trampled Hindostan' awakened the cloqucnce
of Sheridan but the Poland Of America
"Fo,lnd not Il generous friend, ptving foe.
Strength in her arms. nor mercy in her woe!
! "Nakcd and dr>oatr she stands,
Her name by-wor'i in all lands.
No man of commanding genius in either
branch of the National Legislature stepped
! forth to plead her cause in words that might
have shaken both Continents and be quoted
for all time. Not one otthc Northern pocts-
those gentle beings whose hearts bleed at eve
ry wrong from Tartary to Timbucoo-could
pen line for Carolina. Gordon, of Georgia,
was your friend, good and true; and at the
last your advocate and champion was that
press which men aforetimc loved to call sa
tanic-the New York Uerald-and the poets
who sang your wrongs were Of your own
rearing.
Yes, Caroinians, you have been tried as by
fire, and by that fire the dross has been purged
away, leaving metal of proof only look to
see here a race of men nober than any that
have gone before Already from the flames
emerges figure, calm, contained, majestic us
an antique bronze-a form to which all eyes
were lately turned in admiration, and in graf
itude that outweighed admiration, for he had
saved his country from civil war-Anarandron
Agumenon, Wade Hampton, King Of Men!
! Happy the land that claims him as her Chief
Magistrate. Happy the Nation if he were
but its ruler. Having suffered all things, he
would see that no section, no State suffered
needlessly. Having braved all things he
fears nothing; and having endured all things,
he would brook with equal patience the malice
of his foes and the deadller tlattery of his
friends. Is it too much to hope that he will
take the place in Washington for which he is
so well fitted 1t may never be but the day
that sees him or some such Southern man i'll
stalled in power will be the dawn Of peace,
the end Of the war.
! But stay am told that near at hand there
is somewhat to eat and drink withal. Come,
let US sacrifice the bird dear TO Minerva, let
us boil the owl in Faernian or the Crcuban
vintage, and, having dined on fools, we will
sup on concentrated wisdom.
\ FLOOR OF SILvER-On the closing up
Of a silver plating concern in New Haven,
preparatory to its removal 10 Merlden, the
floor of the plating. room was taken up, burn
ed, and the ashes analysed, with the result Of
procuring pure silver to the amount Of S9Sl.
This result is not so strange as it appears at
first sight. The precious metals are capable
of extreme volatlization under heat, becom-
ing mere vapors, which may be condensed, re-
sulting in the production Of the metal in Il
pure form. But, even without heat, the par
tces Of gold and silver are made so exceed
ing; line in the process Of the manufacture
of gold and silver goods, whether solid or
plated that no devices for saving the mate
rial abraded or thrown off in the various ma
nipulations are entirely etfectua. Even in
the government assay offices, the SCOT deposit