Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-01-04

form as having received its unnatur-
ally deep red from the veins Of my
countrymen."
$50 much a rebel as that, Miss Wal
ton! 1t is we'll for US that the same
spirit does not prevail among your
warriors What would have been our
chances Of success had such been the
case%
"You think your conquest then COM
plete, Major Proctor-you think that
our people will always sleep under
oppression, and return you thanks for
blows, and homage for chastisement.
Believe so-it is quite as well. But
you have seen the beginning only. Re-
serve your triumph for the end"
do the ladies Of Carolina all enter
tain this spirit, Miss Walton? Will
none Of them take the aid Of the gal
liant knight that claims service at their
hands? or is 1t, as L believe, that she
stands alone in this rebel attitude, an
exception to her countrywomen?"
May; I cannot now answer you
this question. We see few Of my
countrywomen or countrymen now,
thanks to our enemies: and T have
learned to forbear asking what they
need or desire. 1t Is enough for me
that when desire the arm Of good
knight, can have him at need without
resorting to that Of an enemy!"
Indeed" replied the other, with
some show of curiosity-"lndeed, you
are fortunate; but your reference is
now to your father?"
MY father?-Oh, no! although, as
now. not unfrequently claim his aid
in preference to that Of my foe"
"Why your foe, Miss Walton? Have
we not brought you peace? There is
no strife now in Carolina"
Peace, indeed! the peace Of fear,
that is kept from action by chains and
the dread Of punishment! Call you
that peace! 1t is a peace that is false
and cannot last You will see."
BE it as you say. Still we are no
enemies-we who serve your monarch
as our own, and simply enforce those
laws which we are all bound in COM
mon to obey"
mo monarch Of mine. If you please.
care not a straw for him, and don't
understand, and never could, the pre-
tensions Of your kings and princes,
your divine rights. and your estab-
lished and immutable systems of hu-
man government, humanity itself be-
ing mutable, hourly undergoing change
and hourly In advance of government"
why, this Is to be a rebel; but we
shall not dispute, Miss Walton. 1t Is
we'll for us, as have said before, that
such are not the sentiments Of your
warriors; else, stimulated, as they
must have been, by the pleadings Of
lips like yours, they must have been
invincible. 1t will not indicate too
much simplicity, If I marvel that their
utterance hitherto has availed so lit
tie In bringing your men into the field.
We have not easily found our foes in
a country In which, indeed, 1t is our
chief desire to find friends only" :.
1T follows from this, Major Proctor,
that there Is only so much more safe
ty for his majesty's more loyal sub
jects."
You are incorrigiDle, Miss Walton"
mo, sir: only too indulgent-too like
my countrymen-dreadin the combat
which / yet see Is a necessity"
IF so. why has there been so little
opposition"
Perhaps, sir, you will not always
ask the question"
You still have hopes, then. Of the
rebel cause"
My country's cause. Major Proctor,
If you please. I still have hopes, and
trust that his majesty's arms may
not long have to regret the continu-
ance Of a warfare so little stimulating
to their enterprise, and so little CAL
culated to yield them honor"
The British colonel bowed at the
equivocal sentiment, and after a pause
of few moments the lady proceeded
"And -. Major Proctor, not to
speak too freely Of matters of which
my sex can know so little, I must
say. knowing as / do the spirit Of
some among my countrymen-1 must
say, 1t has greatly surprised me that
ally so easy"
"That need not surprise you, Miss
Walton; you remember that ours are
British soldiers"-and with a smile
and bow, the British major made his
self -complacent, but only half serious
answer.
by which l am to understand, on
the authority of one Of the parties, its
own invincibility. 1t is with your
corps, believe. that the sentiment
runs-though they do Motive never
retreat. we die Unquestionable au-
thority. surely, and it may be that
such is the case. Few persons think
more highly of British valor than the
Carolinians. Father you, | know,
think extravagantly of it: and cous-
in Robert. too: l have heard you both
speak in terms which fully sustain
you, Major Proctor. in what might be
called the self -complaisance which
just now assigned the cause of your
success"
Colorlng somewhat, and with grave
tone of voice that was not his won't
Proctor replied
There is truth in what l have told
you. Miss Walton. the British soldier
fights with a perfect faith in his in
vinciblity, and this faith enables him
to realize 1t. The first lesson Of the
good officer is to prepare the minds Of
his men with this confidence, not only
in their own valor but in their own
good fortune"
And yet, Major Proctor, I am not
so sure that the brave young men /
have known. such as cousin Robert
the major. for he, too, is a major.
father-so Emily says-I am not so
sure that they will fight the less