Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-29
NO.. 35.

coast, or sweltering under the scorching rays
Of tropical sun, they were never excelled III
the annals of war.
Upon the defeat of our arms, and through
the mistake of our policy, followed the tyran-
nical sway of ignorance and corruption, whose
sole object was pecuniary and political aggran.
dizement, and the consequent degradation OF
the whole Southern country. For ten long
years the tendency was from very bad the
very worst, so that finally the mock govern
ment eliminated in the vilest, most abomna-
BILE, and most corrupt robber band that ever
infested civil society. Hence the State was
reduced to poverty, every industry languished,
the people became apathetic-desolation and
ruin were rife in the land, detection and al
most despair were settling upon our social and
political horizon. But as the darkest hour
precedes the rising day, so the impenetrable
and almost Cimerian darkness OF Radical OPP
preston was but the precursor of that bright
and glorious sunlight which burst with so
much splendor and refulgence upon our doWn-
trodden and impoverished Carolina.
Having emerged from the gloom consequent
upon the tyranny which stamped it's iron heel
upon the already prostrate State, our old COM
monwealth was transmitted into govern
ment which has taken rank with the first in
point of honor and respectability, and will
continue, under the management OF such as
the present administration, to increase in pop
ular favor and authority, until it's power and
distinction will be recognized throughout the
widespread nation. AS representatives of our
dead comrades, we would prove recreant to
duty, and traitors to the cause which we es-
poused in common with them, were we to suf-
fer, without the most strenuous exertion, this
glorious land of ours ever again to become
despotism whose Infamous and degraded min
ions would peryert and prostitute to their foul
purposes our fallen fortunes and much loved
institutions. I trust we are now, SO far as
South Carolina is concerned, established upon
a sound basis, with genuine principles Of de-
mocracy pervading our body polite, and
every political act, with men of the
most unsullied character, whose MINDS are
thoroughly imbued with the peoples interest.
Then, in our present condition, together with
the hopeful prospect of continuous meliora-
tion, our government will be wonderful to con-
template. These happy circumstances can
never be too highly appreciated, and can new
er fail to raise throb in every heart that
loves peace, honor, prosperity and liberty, and
to fill with the liveliest emotions and most
grateful recollections those who will be the
recipients Of all the blessings guaranteed un,
der this glorious cOnsummation. With old
South Carolina thus reinstated in her former
grandeur, with her good, wise and heroic Ex-
ecutive, directing with PATRIOTS zeal and
patriots devotion her most vital concerns;
with her legislative department alive and as
siduous in it's responsible duties, with the
prosperity of the people paramount to every
other consideration with a judiciary of spot
less integrity, spurning alike the partial adj
ministration of justice and the foul pollutions
of bribery, dashing from it's lips the poisoned
cup of licentious and debasing servitude, and
planting itself upon the firm foundations of
truth and rectitude, and dispensing to all the
consequent legitimate results, will be trans
mitted the richest and most honorable herit-
age to the latest posterity. With these three
branches of government securely established,
with such officials as the present incumbents,
and with harmony of feeling and unity OF
action, such as prevailed amongst our gallant
soldiers during our late unfortunate struggle,
is there any position which we may not at
tain-are there any results we may not accom-
plish-any deeds we may not achieve Then,
indeed, our never-tO-be-forgOtten dnte-bettann
days will surely return, bringing with them
the propitious influences Of statesmen such as
the immortal Lowndes, the great and saga
cious Calhoun, the energetic and brilliant
Hayne; of jurists such as Cheves, Harper
and O'Neall, whose ermine was never tar
nished by an unjust act, nor polluted by Ill
thy bribe; of divines, as Thornwell and Ca
pers, the purity of whose lives is living tes-
timony of the faith they professed, and OF
that religion which will and only can raise
man to proper elevation upon earth, and ex-
alt him in the paradise above then, too, OF
lovely woman, whose province it always has
been to cheer onward the desponding, to give
statesmen influence, and arm heroes for bat
tle She will still continue to assert her high
w hnr
sion, and will thus erect to her virtuous and
praisewOrthy deeds monument whose tow
ering summit will stand immutable amid
change, magnificent amid ruin, the last rem
nant of earth's beauty, the last resting place
of heavens light.
Furthermore, every interest OF our whole
United States will enhance in proportion to
the appropriate adjustment Of our civil poll
ty, and this, properly developed, will be the
harbinger of progress and enterprise on the
most gigantic scale. And in such a country
as we possess, stretching from the dense for
ests of Maine to the broad prairies of Texas
and from the frozen peaks Of Alaska to the
reef f-girt peninsula Of Florida, embracing
every variety of climate, and with a soil which
the husbandman's desires, our COM
merce will again whiten every sea, our fields
wave with the fruits of agriculture, and our
inexhaustible mines TEEN with the most val
liable mineral productions. A general sys-
tenn of liberal education will be established,
academies and colleges will spring up in every
town and neighborhood, with ''temples of un-
piety reared and dedicated to the
living God, and vocal with his praise" FL
nally, the youth, the only hope of the future,
under these benign influences, together with
the fostering care of pious mothers, will be-
come learned and virtuous, and be prepared
to occupy the high stations in life for which
they were created. Then we have the consol-
ing reflection, that when we shall have passed
off the stage of action, our mantles will fall
upon worthy descendants, the star of whose
destiny will shine the more intensely bright as
it approaches the zenith Of it's glory, and sheds
it's brilliant halo upon succeeding generations
in all ages to come.
STOP, A MINUTE.
Don't hurry so. Move slower, it may be
that you will 60 surer. Grind, grind, grind;