Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-08-04

Right has at last trlumphed, ana
the Vindication that Gen. EitZ John
Porter has been struggling for for the
past % years, has at last been grant
ed. Conscious of his innocence, he
has waited many years for the formal
and official vindicatiOn long since
accorded him not only by soldiers,
military critics and students of his
tory, but by the great tribunal of
public opinion.
Fitz John Porter was born at Ports
mouth, n. H., August 80, 1922, and
graduated from West Point, 1915.
He served with distinction through
out the war with Mexico; being Sc
verely wounded at the assault on the
capital, September 13, 1S47. In the
Virginia Peninsular campaign hewas
director of the siege of Yorktown,
and upon the evacuation of that place
was placed in command of the 9Th
corps, and fought the battles OF
Hanover Court House, Mechanics
vile and Cold HarbOr. He was in
command at Malvern Hill, and his
corps mainly resisted the assaults
of that day. In the second battle
of Bull Run his corps suffered Sc
verely on the Both Of August, but was
not in service on the 10Th, other than
by holding the enemy in check and
preventing them turning Pope's left,
as he received no orders to attack
till too late to be executed. He still
continued in command Of his corps
and was present at Antietam, but
in November was arraigned before a
court marshal on the charge of DISC
bedience of orders, and on January
q, 1868, he was unjustly and cruelty
deprived of his position in the army
and forever prohibited holding any
office under the government. Since
that time General POrter's friends
have been untiring in their efforts to
have him restored to rank and honor,
and their efforts have at last been
crowned by success.
ORIGIN OF a FAMOUS PHRASE
In answer to a readers inquiry the
Chicago Inter- Ocean gives the fol-
lowing account of the origin OF the
well-known phrase, "To the vic
tor belong the spOils." This famous
phrase originated with William l..
Marcy, of New York, who in a
speech before the Senate in January,
1882, in defence of President Jack
son, said of his constituents, that
they "see nothing wrong in the rule
that to the victOrS belong the spoils
of the enemy" The doctrine is
called Jacksonian, because President
Jackson had put the principle so
strongly in force even before it had
been thus systematically cnuncia-
ted by Mr.. Marcy, and because he
was the first President who did so.
Between April 30, 1889, when Wash
ington was inaugurated as President,
and the Inauguration Of Jackson,
March 4, 1927, only seventy-three re-
movals from Office had been made
by all the Presidents, including all
removals for cause. During the first
wear of President JacksOn'S admin
istration he made over 700 removals,
almost wholly for political reasons.
SOMETIME.-Ah!s sad and dreary
must be the heart to which that word
sometime" brings no joyful anticl-
patton.
TO the most of us it isa sweet song,
murmuring to and fro among the
topmost bOughs of hope, filling the
whole air with such joy and gladness
as do the songs of the birds when
the summer morning comes out OF
the darkness, and day is born
again to the world.
1t is a possession of the future.
There is the soft music, and thesweet,
fragrant flowers which our hands
would tain grasp, while now we can
only catch the faint perfume, and
hear the melody as a far-Otf strain.
TO one this possession is home
stead over whose roof no shadow
falls, over whose threshold no voice
of sorrow is ever heard 4; to another
it is a palace built upon eternal hills,
proud in grandeur of spires and pin
nacles ;aGain, to the worn and weary,
it is a season of complete rest and to
all it is an untiring enjoyment.
1t is a most fit subject for the most
fervent petition, to pray to be deliv-
cred from the despair which comes
when hope in the future, in the
"sweet sometime" is lost.
sH~ "Nengence is mine, l will re-
pay, saith the Lord" The Christian
has no need to give the matter
| thought. He is to love his enemies,
and do good to them as he has oppor-
| tunity, and God will take care of the