Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-01-08

HOW KNOW you tildt. quiShiS ohi>
the other.
How know that? Let me answer
that question by another more direct
Will Colonel Walton be able any long
er to keep the quiet security of nj!
plantation, to hug his grounds, saw
his crops, and keep his negroes from
the West Indies, without military ser
vice-active military service, ant
against his countrymen too-agains
his avowed principles?"
The colonel strode the room impa'
tiently. The other. continued
mo, no. good uncle, you have M
help. Earl CORVALLIS compels you tc
your duty You must buckle on the
sword-you must take up arms for ol
against your people, and in either case
at the expense of all that comfortable
quiet for which you have already made
quite too many sacrifices. I know you
too we'll to suppose that you can fight
against our people-your people; and
am glad therefore that you are forced
into the field How many thousands
are in your condition. how many that
look up to you, influenced by your ex-
ample! Will these not be moved In
like manner and by like necessities?
You will see-we shall have an army
Of native citizens before many days.
Perhaps so, Robert, and ! am not
too timid to wish that such may be Its
effect. But Is 1t not a dishonorable
deception that he has practiced In this
movement? Did not the projections
promise us immunity In this particu-
lar?"
mo, sir-I think not. l see nothing
that Clinton has done in this so very
grievous. Your protection secured
you, as a citizen, to conform to the
duties Of the citizen, and to protect
you as such. One of the duties Of the
citizen is the performance Of militia
service"
Granted, Robert-but commutable
by fine. l am not unwilling to pay
this fine; but Clinton's proclamation
insists only on the duty"
And I am glad Of 1t. Uncle, uncle,
do you not see the dishonorable char
acter Of such an argument? Your con-
science forbids that you should serve
against your country, but you avoid
this actual service in your own per-
son, by paying the money which buys
a mercenary to do the same duty.
You will not do murder with your
own hand, but you pay another to
perform the crime. Shame! shame,
l say!"
Not so, Robert we know not, and
believe not, that the money Is so
appropriated. 1t becomes the spoil OF
the leaders. and simply helps them to
fortune"
Granted, and the sterner argument
against you is yet to come. You are
wealthy, and avail yourself Of your
good fortune to buy yourself out Of a
danger to which the poor man must
submit. BY what right would you es-
cape from and evade your duties, when
he, as citizen, having the same
must submit to their performance!
His conscience. like your own. teaches
him that to fight for his country and
against her invaders is his first duty.
You evade your duty by the help OF
your better fortune, and leave him, as
in the present instance, either to per-
ish hopelessly in unequal contest-un-
equal through your defection-or to
take up arms in a battle to which his
principles are foreign. Such is the
effect Of this most unpatriotic reser-
vation, which. on the score Of your
money, you have presumed to make.
You sacrifice your country doubly,
when you contribute to violate the
conscience of it's citizens. The duties
OF the rich mantle leading. infiuen-
tial man-are those chiefly Of exam
pie. What is our safety, and where
would be the safety Of any nation-its
freedom or its glory-if, when danger
came, its rich citizens made terms
with the invader which sacrifie the
poor? Such is your case-such your
proceeding exactly. There Is now,
thank heaven. but one alternative that
Clinton's proclamation has left you"
THAT is the sword-I know 1t, /
feel 1t, Robert"
Touch it not, touch 1t not, dear un-
Gle, l pray you. Forbear the sword
the bloody shifting sword. Submit
rather to the oppression. Touch 1t
not"
Such was the adjuration Of the fee
BILE girl who lay gasping on the SOFA.
Her eyes were illuminated with a
holy fire; her cheeks. pale, almost
transparent, shone, white and glitter
ing, with a spiritual glory, from the
pillow on which her head was rest
ing: while one of her long, taper fin
gers was stretched forward with an
imploring earnestness. She had been
silent listener with the rest to the
warm and deeply important dialogue
WHICH DeeIl SOlli6 hC NV
city of the difficulty-for they had not
heard of the proclamation beforehand
kept them dumb until that moment,
when Colonel Walton, as one having
come to a settled conclusion, had re-
ferred to the sword as a last alterna-
tive The gentle spirit of Emily Sim
gleton, quick, sensitive, though frail
and fieeting, then poured forth its
feeble notes, in order to arrest the de-
cision.
"Oh, touch not the sword. l pray
you-the keen sword that cuts away
the happy life, and murders the bless
ed, and the blessing, peace-the peace
of the innocent, the peace Of the young
and good. Oh, Robert wherefore
have you come with these fierce words
Is there to be no end to strife-the
bloody and the brutal strife-the slay-
ing Of men-the trampling Of Gods
creatures in the dust?"
why. sister-dear Emily-but how
can we help 1t? We must fight our
enemies ar they will tramDle on us