Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-14

multitudes of white men have no vote and
only few are eligible to hold office. With
all of its defects, must say the United
States is the home of the free. 1t is the best
poor mans country in the world, and if our
people are only wise and prudent, the United
States will, in time, and that short time,
revolutionize all the governments on the
gG6e re 1t is asStnea to pattern for
One DEPRESSION suggests another. The
first colored man / have seen since | left
Ballymena, Ireland, and the third that
have seen since I left New York, saw yes
terday. He was a young man Of would
say, about twenty-five, Of medium size and
decently dressed. He was standing on the
corner of the street when l first met him.
Again 1 met him in dinner house. When
first seen, he presented the woe-begone ap-
pearance of a game cock when the feathers
have all fallen out of his tail, and the hens
are all on their nests Matching their eggs
The second time L saw him he had before
him plate amply supplied with beef and
cabbage, which he was throwing into his
mouth with a rapidity which indicated that
it was the first meal of the day, and, in all
probability would be the last for the next
tWenty-fOur hours. He was alone. No one
was near him. l saw an evidence of the alb
sence of that social equality which some ILL
guided hunanitarians clamOrs so much about.
They are anxious for others to do what they
will not do themselves. Like the Pharisees
Of old, they place heavy burdens upon other
mems shoulders, but these burdens they
will not touch even with their fingers. If l
were poet, l would write poem on con-
sistency, the first line of which would be,
consistency, thou art a jewel )" but rarer
and more precious than diamonds. Since l
| ntn content
myself to let some people wear the, by them,
much priced jewel, Inconsistency.
In London may be seen every type OF the
human family. This will be readily admit
ted, since of it's four and one-half millions
of inhabitants, one hundred and twenty
thousand are foreigners. In London there
is sufficient number of foreigners to make
more than two such cities as Charleston,
South Carolina. These foreigners are the
representatives of every nation on earth.
On High Holborn street, the flag Of the
United States proudly waves in the breeze:
In London may be seen all the shades OF
civilization, and multitudes of the human
| family may be seen who are sunk below any
grade of civilization. London is the world,
not in miniature, but the world represented
on grand scale. In London is seen the
Englishman in all his glory, and in all his
degradation.
No matter what may have been the pro-
ducing cause, the English people are very
unlike, in their manners and customs, to the
Scotch or Irish. Physically, they are less
robust, with perhaps more nerve. Intel
| lectually, they are more refined, but without
the mental strength of the Scotch, or the
impetuous vigor Of the Scotch-Irish. The
English people are characterized by manly
dignity and gentlemanly courtesy. The
n Snl0l< h1rShIV-npV1r
suit, causelessly, any one; and never expect
to be insulted. They prize their honor as a
thing of more value than any amount Of
money, and their word is as good as their
bond. They will not attempt to palm off
on stranger plated jewelry for solid gold.
In all their dealings, they are manly. AS a
matter of course, all the English are not
strictly honest Men are the same in eve
ry land, but by a long system of training
the English people-that is, the better class
of thenl-have acquired the habit of dealing
honestly. This is redtable-highly credit
able-but the Englishman, even in his best
estate, is like all other men, a defective
creature, and some of his defects or faults,
if this is preferred, are very great. The
foolish notion that wealth is the principal
thing in true greatness, nearly counteracts
all that is good about him. The idea has
been inWrought into an Englishman's soul
that, to be great and honorable, and, conse-
quently, to be honored, a man must be the
descendant of long line of mobiles and the
heir to q lOrdly estate.
The doctrine of caste has been part of
the Englishman's creed for several centuries.
1t will be found to be the main pillar in
the Fundamental Constitutions" drawn
proprietors of the territory which is now
embraced by the two Carolinas. TO an
American, caste titles are odious. But since
promised to write of nothing in particular,
here / will drop this subject and take
up something else.
One of the noticeable things in London,
and in fact in all the towns in the British
Isles which / have seen, is the advertise
ments which are placed above the mer-
chants doors. In Ireland, in Scotland, and
of course in England, a very large number
for the Queen. The advertisements read
as follows: "John Jones, Butcher to the
Queen;" "John Smith, Halter to the
Queen )" "Peter Smith, Haberdasher to the
Queen" Advertisements similar to the
above are seen in every town and city in
the Kingdom in which have been. The
thing seems to be foolish, and some of them
are extremely ludicrous. AS an example,
a travelling companion informs me that
there is an advertisement in London which
reads as follows, except the name, which |
have forgotten: "John Smith, Bugger to
the Queen" John Smith had discovered
bed-bug exterminator, and publishes him
self to the world as Bugger to the Queen.
To render the thing more ludicrous, another
John Smith, who did business on the oppo-
site side of the street, announces himself as
"Bugger to the Queen" also, but as having
no connection with John Smith, on the Op-
posite side of the street.
Another feature of London is its trans,
omnibusses and other vehicles of public con-
veyance. All these vehicles are numbered
from one up. How many there are l do
not know. All that / can say is that l saw
one which bore the number 1878. hard
ly think have seen the hundreth part of
them. If this be true there are more than
a million horses in London. Besides these
vehicles there is an underground railroad
which winds its way in q circle through the
city. New York has it's elevated railroad;
but London has an underground railway.
This underground railway of London [
may describe in one short sentence. 1t is
dark and gloomy. Only at the stations,
which are distant from each other q con-
siderable distance, is the light Of day seen.
The carriages are lighted with dim lamps,
and since the smoke of the engines, which
burn coal, is all confined in the tunnel, the
carriages are covered both within and with
out, with SCOT. 1t affords cheap and rapid
mode of travel, but by no meansa comforta-
BILE one, and deprivesa stranger of the pleas
ure of seeing anything as he passes from one
point to another.
Among the prominent places of interest,
especially to stranger, in the city OF Lon
don, is the Tabernacle of which Rev. c. II.
Spurgeon is the pastor, and believe is the
founder. TO this place on yesterday morn