Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-06-10
KINGS MOUNTAIN CENTENNIAL.

| LETTER FROM Col. ASBURY COWARD AC-
| KNowLEDGING THE GENEROUS OFFER OF
| ASSISTANCE FROM THE WASHINGTON
LIGHT INFANTRY.
The following letter has been received by
the Washington Light Infantry, and is pub
lished at the request of Capt. George D. Bryan,
commander Of that company:
YoRKvILLE, S. c., May, 25, 1880.
To the Officers and Members Of the Washington
Light hJantry Charleston, s. g.:
| GENTLEMEN-Th News and Courier of this
date, just received, contains the resolutions in
reference to the Kings Mountain Celebration,
adopted at the last regular meeting of your
spirited corps. In advance of the meeting Of
| the Association, hasten, in it's name, to well
come most cordially your tender of the Eutaw
| Flag with guard of honor for the celebration
| day, and to accept most gratefully your offer
as committee to raise funds in Charleston for
the monument proposed to be erected on Kings
| Mountain, &C."
Although the action is too characteristic
of your patriotic company to occasion any
surprise, cannot refrain from saying that it
thrills me with emotions of joy and pride You
have of your own motion sounded the keynote
of this memorial movement, which is to be
mainly a spontaneous, popular. tribute to the
splendid assertion of liberty-loving, Aryan
manhood on Kings Mountain one hundred
years ago. For one hundred years that noun
tain, eloquent in it's solitude, has stood as
Natures monument to the deed of patriotic
heroism accomplished there. Let us now make
it vocal with the eloquence Of human art, and
thus proclaim to future ages that at the end
of the first century self f-abasen,emt had not yet
"Paved the way
To vlan-bonds and despot's sway"
Your own wisdom, and the cooperation of
your old commander the energetic and saga
cious mayor of your city-Who is likewise a
member of the assOciatiOn-render supertluous
any suggestion from me as to the mode of
doing the work you have generously under
taken In conclusion must express the hope
that when the crimson flag that cleaned
through the smoke at Cowpens and Eutaw
shall add it's lustre to the august ceremonies
of Octocer I, it's guard of honor will be your
entire corps, with all it's veterans too.
With great esteem and admiration, I am,
your obedient servant, A. COWARD,
Chairman Executive Committee.
KEEPING SUNDAY.-The question how to
secure proper observance of the Sabbath
without infringing on the rights of the citizen
is very difficult one, but it is one which is at
this time occupying the minds of very many
thoughtful men all over Christendom, and
without doubt the result of their cogitations
will be sooner or later to find it's solution.
There are, certainly, conscientious differences
of opinion as to what is the right way to spend
this day, but there are people who are in the
habit of indulging in amusements or occupa-
tions such as card playing or drinking, which
they know and every one else knows are wrong
and demoralizing to the community, and Which
tend very strongly to do away with the day as
an institution altogether. These people claim
that they have right to do as they please in
this respect, as citizens Of free country.
And Just here there comes in the question how
to induce them to discontinue practice which
is njuring the body polite, without trespass-
ing upon their rights as citizens.
Until that question is better answered, pub
lie opinion must be looked to as corrective.
If this is temperately, politely, but unequlvo-
cally expressed through the press and by in
dividuals, it's power can reach very many
Then again let the voters Of the country, who
have right to vote as they please, resolve
never to cast ballot for man who makes
Sunday a day for sport, and we will find
many an aspirant for political honors, great
or small, suddenly withdrawing his counte-
nance and support from the circles where he
is now seeking popularity around the card
table and the bottle on the Lords Day.
The Sabbath is one of the sacred landmarks
of our national faith, inseparably co-existent
with the spirit of Anglo-Saxon liberty, and
when the one disappears beneath the wanes
Of popular debauchery and frivolity, the other
will have expired beneath the wheels OF the
triumphal Car OF tyranny
A PARABLE FOR COMMUNIsTs.-Herei is
shoe-shop. One man in the shop IS always
busily at work during the day-always indus
trious. In the evening he goes counting
good nice girl There are five other men III
the shop who don't do any such thing: They
spend half their working hours in loating and
their evenings in dissipation. This first young
man by and by cuts out from those others ana
gets a Shoe store his own. Then he marries
this girl Soon he is able to take his wife out
to ride of an evening The five laborers, his
former companions, who see him indulging
in his little luxury, retire to neghborlnag sa-
loon and pass a resolution that there IS an
eternal struggle between labor and capital
1l, nIDo