Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-14

he slept away. At least, too, he made
his atOnement. The south. following
his doctrines, itself was long accursed
Of this same sleeping sickness; but in
the providence of God it was not lost
to us. and is ours for a long and splen-
did history.
1t was through John Calhoun.
grave and somber figure of our hist9-
ry, that we got the vast land of Texas.
1t was through him also-and not
through Clay or Jackson, nor any of
the northern statesmen, who never
could see n future for the WeSt-that
we got all of our vast northwest realm.
Within a few days after the Palo Alto
ball, a memorandum of agreement was
signed between Minister Pakenham
and Mr.. Buchanan, our secretary OF
state. This was done at the instance
and by the aid of John Calhoun. 1t
was he-he and Helena Won Ritz-who
brought about that treaty which, on
June fifteenth, of the same year, was
signed, and gladly signed, by the min
lister from Great Britain. The latter
had been fully enough impressed (such
was the story by the report of the COL
umns of our west bound farmers, with
rifles leaning at their wagon seats and
plows lashed to the tail-gates. CAL
houn himself never ceased to regret
that we could not delay year or two
years longer. In this he was thwart-
ed by the impetuous war with the re-
public on the south, although, had that
never been fought, we had lost Cali
fornia-lOst also the south, and lost
the Union!
Under one form or other, one name
of government or another, the flag OF
democracy eventually must float over
all this continent. Not part, but all
of this country must be ours. must be
the peoples. 1t may cost more blood
and treasure now. Some time we snail
see the wisdom of John Calhoun; but
some Time, 700, tiiiilN' w ''i''
come true that prophecy Of strange
and brilliant mentality, which in CAL
houn's presence and III mine SAID that
all of these northern lands and all
Mexico as we'll must one day be ours
which is to say, the people's-for the
sake of human opportunity, of human
hope and happiness. Our battles are
but partly fought. But at least they
are not, then lost.
For myself, the close Of the Mexican
war found me somewhat worn by traV-
el and lily equipped in financial mat
ters. | had been discredited, say, by
my own government. My pay was
withheld. Elisabeth, by that time my
wife, was a girl reared in all the lux
ury that our country then could oher.
Shall l say whether or not l priced her
more when gladly she gave up all this
and Joined me for one more long and
final tourney out across that great
trail which l had seen-the trail OF
democracy, Of America, of the world!
At last we reached Oregon. 1t holds
the grave of one of ours: it is the home
of others. We were happy; we asked
favor of no man; fear of no one did we
feel Elisabeth has in her time slept
on a bed Of husks. She has cooked at
a sooty fireplece of her own; and at
her cabin door myself have been the
guard We made our way by ourselves
and for ourselves, as did those VINO
America for our flag. The
citizen standing in the doorway of his
home, shall save the republic" So
wrote a later pen.
1t was not until long after the dis
covery of gold in California had set
us all to thinking that l was reminded
of the strange story of the old German,
Won Rittenhoren, of finding some pieces
of gold while on one of his hunts for
butterflies. l followed out his vague
directions as best l might. We found
gold enough to make us rich without
our land. That claim is staked legally.
Half of it awaits an owner who per-
haps will never come.
There are those who will accept al
ways the solemn asseverations of poll
ticians, who by word of mouth or pen
assert that this or that party made our
country, wrote its history. Such as
they might smile if told that not even
men, much less politicians, have writ
ten all our story as a nation; yet any
who smile at woman's influence in
American history do so in ignorance of
the truth Mr.. Webster and Lord Ash
burton have credit for determining our
boundary on the northeast-England
called it Ashburton's capitulation to
the Yankee. Did you never hear the
other gossip? England laid all that to
Ashburtons American wife! Look at
that poor hot-tempered devil, Yrujo,