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the world attest that to cooqaer and subdue
either a brave man or a people who have
the fervor, light and strength of religion ic
their bosoms, and the panoply of justice around
their cause, is next to an impossibility.
And herein, gentlemen, are the claims
of this spirit commended to you. Just
listen to the language of the lovely and
brave Captain Hedley Vicars, who perished
at Crimea, and of whom it was well said,
"England had not a better Christian nor a
better Military officer than he." Shortly
before he died he wrote, "The Lord has
called me to eternal life in the army, and
as a soldier I will die. Death alone, shall
ever make me leave my colors."
Should you, gentlemen, be called to the
direful contest, may you go in that spirit
which made this Christian hero of Crimea,
the bravest of the brave.
4. Such a spirit will also regulate the
deportment of the soldier towards prisoners
of war, and even his comrades with whom
he may he brought in collision. Religion
will always temper the treatment of captives
with mercy. Besides the inhumanity
and sinfulness of inflicting unnecessary
cruelty upon defenceless prisoners, the wisdom
and propriety of such are often to be
doubted. The best and most successful
warriors have been the most humane and
merciful. Admitting that under peculiar
oircumstances retaliatory measures by taking
the lives of captives, may be justifiable
and prudent, yet as a general rule, it
is our firm persuasion that, to punish or
destroy the enemy who is taken captive,
with a view of overawing and subduing
others, has, in most cases, the very opposite
I'or the Yorkvillc Enquirer.
To the Volunteers from York District.
Gallant Sirs :?To the considerations
hitherto urged as a plea for fidelity to God,
as the spirit requisite for the true soldier,
another may be added as drawn from tho
proposition submitted as the third proof.
3. It inspires the viaii with genuine heroism.
It is not denied that there may be
courage and even patriotism, in tho bosom
of him who docs not fear God, nor regard
His laws. Some men aro naturally and constitutionally
courageous?being insensible
to fear. There is apparently much of patriotism
which has no alliance with religion.
That it is genuine, disinterested patriotism,
might, in many such cases, be doubted, for
it is too olosely identified with selfishness.
But even admitting it to be, what it so nearly
resembles, yet the spirit of the irreligious
patriot does not possess that peculiar excellence
which trust in God imparts to the
soul. A man constrained by a due fear and
love for God, will be ever controlled by a
sense of his responsibility. By such a one
the summons to war will be duly weighed?
the causes of it properly estimated, and in
his mind the question will be decided,
whether the conflict is just or not. Having
these things clearly ascertained and his
judgment and conscience approving the
contest about to be ongaged in, the Christian
will step forth with an impelling motive
stronger than animal courage and selfish
love of country, or the impulse of passion
; it will be the intelligent, conscientious
conviction that he contends for the
right, and to this even his religion gives
him a moral incentive. Just hero let it be
observed that fanaticism may operate to
produce an effect similar to true religious
fervor, and hence as evidenced in the history
of the crusades of Europe, and the
conquest of the MahommedanB, whereas in
both cases, a spurious and fanatical religious
sontiment controlling the mind, an
almost supernatural power and spirit of daring
and enduranoe were exhibited. So in
all other cases, where either a true or false
religion operates to instigate the warrior,
the contest is a fierce one, for let the man
feel that his cause has a religious sanction,
>n/l lilu fnatu rif vnlnr will ho :imn7inT.
Again, especially if bis religion be real
and properly developed, tbefriond of God
and champion of truth and right, will also
be stimulated by tbo promised presence of
God. With conlidence in the power of
Jehovah to vindicate the cause of justice,
and with a lirui belief that his is such a
cause, and knowing the promise to be appropriate
to himself and his attempt, the valor
of the Christian patriot rises to an unexampled
height. See what Oliver Cromwell
with his immortal Ironsides achieved!?
With a firm confidence that theirs was the
cause of God and truth and righteousness,
before they would engage in a battle they
would commit themselves in prayer to the
God of battles, aud chanting an inspired
l'salm, they would make that dashing
charge which always brought defeat to the
army of Charles.
You may denounce this cxauiplo as being
simply a specimen of religious fanaticism,
but even if it was only this?against
which we protest?yet it aptly illustrates
the point, for if a religious dolusiou would
do so much to fortify the heart and arouse
the spirit, how much more a genuine spirit
of piety in a just aud holy cause'! Thus
it is designed to teach that religion supplies
stronger, because purer and higher, motives
to prompt to deeds of valor and heroism ;
such motives as confidence in the rectitude
of one's cause, and conscientious belief in
the willingness of God to aid aud sustain
suoh a cause, impart. Let not the quibble
be made against this that all religious men
are not brave men, and some not so valorous
as reckless and wicked and abandoned
men. The writer baa admitted a natural
and constitutional bravery, and of course
tbe same kind of timidity; but what is now
contended for, is that trust in God always
imparts additional moral courage to any
soul: hence if a man by natural endowment
be a stranger to fear, such a one will be
made braver still should he have the love
of God in his heart, and bo subject to all
the inspiring influences of religion. Other
things being equal, the Christian hero will
be always the most valiant and unconquerable
of soldiers. The powers of endurance
which arc supplied to him whose mind has
all the supports and consolations of religion,
would also evince the point in hand.?
Brave souls, without hope of victory, and
to be at enmity with God, is to be without
grounds of assurance of hope, arc liable to
be discouraged and falter. But if the man
can trustfully confldc his cause to God, and
is braced up by a religious hope, then delay
in securing the triumph of his cause, and
the hardships to bo borne for a protracted
period, will uot unman his courage, nor
tempt him to abandon the contest. The
noble and pious Waldcnscs, although but a
small handful, buttling for their religion
and homes and liberty, against the teeming
millions that infidel Europe and tho bloody
Papacy poured upon them; the immortal
and prayerful Washington, leading his believing
countrymen against the veil disciplined
ranks of proud royalty; and the invincible
Huguenot spirit and faith of Francis
Marion, never faltered, never despaired,
although they all had to light loug and endure
much, until God sealed their cause
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effect. AH, who are familiar with the first
Revolutionary straggle in South Carolina,
know the indignation and new courage with
which the execution of Col. Hayne, by the
British, aroused the hearts of our countrymen,
and so in a thousand other cases.?
Here religion dictates what wisdom and experience
prove to be best, to combine mercy
with justice.
Likewise does it operate to abolish what
is shamefully common among men of military
spirit, that is avenging private insults
and injury at the point of the sword or pistol.
True religion forbids duelling, and
thus it shields the soldier from what is too
often the appalling and heinous sin of ambitious.
but reckless spirits. So thinks
your MENTOR.
What the English Papers Say.
Napoleon III in Alliance with Jeff.
Davis.?We are informed upon the best,
most unnameablc authority, that all this
uproar is caused by the Beelzebub of the
Tuilleries. Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi
were all French possessions once.?
The French owned the half of St. Domingo,
and many of the little fragments of a submerged
continent which peep up above the
waters, as the Antilles, were French. The
Emperor has an idea; it is to revcnquer
frontiers. The inference is easy. He has
set the Spaniards at St. Domingo and the
Americans by the cars, that by and by he
may step in as a benevolent mediator to
stop the effusion of blood, and to quarter
the Palmetto of Carolina with the Ii/lies of
France. Quantities of rifled cannon and
shell arc sent to New Orleans and Pensacola
in French bottoms; but Louis Napoleon
is a great manufacturer of artillery, and ha3
always a store from whence to lend a friend.
He cannot be blamed, for Virginia herself
is casting cannon by night and day, and it
is a toss up whether they are sold to Northerners
or Southerners. It is quite true that
the French are making vast preparations in
the naval department, but the American
nary could all be spit into matches by La
Gloire alone. The Emperor doubtless
watches events, and as surely will "consult
the interests of France" hereafter; but he
has other objects nearer home at present,
and the voyasre to the Gulf of Mexico would
exhaust all the coal his steamships can carry.?Liverpool
Courier, 30th April.
Bewildered.?Very few persons in this
country ever believed in the possibility of
a Southern secession and of a separate
Southern Confederation, until the fact was
actually accomplished. Fewer still, perhaps,
were prepared for the display of en
ergy, resolution, ami political sagacity apparent
in all the proceedings of the South,
and furnishing so marked a contrast to the
treachery, the imbecility, or the bewilderment
of certain Northern statesmen. No
one anticipated that some of the foremost
men of the victorious anti-slavery majority
would seek in the hour of triumph to evade
the "irrepressible conflict" which they had
themselves announced, by unworthy suggestions
of compromise ; and it was equally
contrary to most people's expectations that
every concilitory overture should be contemptuously
ignored by a beaten minority.
j At one time the most sanguine friends of
I peace would have hardly ventured to suppose
that six weeks could elapse from the
date of tho new President's inauguration
without a single blow being struck on either
side. On the other hand, many persons
had latterly been encouraged to hope that
' | there might possibly be no war at all.
Liverpool Mercury, April 30th.
The Blunders of Lincoln.?By talking
of coercion, Mr. Lincoln kept up a continual
fever in the South, enabled the Montgomery
Govornmentto concentrate its energies
on military preparation, and forced the
border States into hostility to the Union.?
Were coercion actually practicable, this
course might have been defensible, but
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Lincoln is farther now from success against
j the South than ho was when he started from
! Chicago. As regards Fort Sumter itself,
he did the worst thing he could do. He
intended to evacuate it in a few days ; bof
sooner than consent to acknowledge ^hat
South Carolina was rebellious, he expressed
his intention to send in provisions, by force,
i if necessary. He thus gave the South the
provocation and opportunity of a brilliant
j victory, and had to submit to a mortifying
defeat. The oonduct of the Southern Government
has, on the contrary, been marked
by moderation and good sense. They clung
to no fictions, and were hampered by no legal
ignorance of plain facts. They wanted
to leave the Union and they left it. They
wanted to take Fort Sumter and they took
it. They wished the border States to join
them, and, by precipitating a collision,
they seem to have got them?unless, indeed,
some good sense at Washington prevent
them at the eleventh hour.?London
Chronicle, May 4.
YORKVILLE, S. C.
FBIDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1881.
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"the"semi-weekly.Owing
to the difficulty of many our subscribers
in receiving both numbers of the
Semi-Weekly immediately after publication,
and the increased rate of postage to
which some will be unwillingly subjected,
we have concluded after this issue, to discontinue
it, and resume the publication of
the weekly paper.
secession of n. carolina.
The good old North State has justified
the expectation of her friends in honoring
the anniversary of her first declaration of
independence. Reliable intelligence gives
us the information that she passed the ordinance
of secession on Monday, 20th inst.,
by a unanimous vote.?Columbia Guardian.
T*\T> T>-GITTV? TPPmrrDPS
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In answer to inquiries, we take pleasure
in stating that Dr. Reid's nest two Lectures
will come off in the King's Mountain
Military School on Tuesday, 27th instant,
at a quarter to 5 p. m., and the Female
College on the 3d of June (Tuesday)
at 5 p. m., and that by the kind arrangement
of Capt. Coward and Rev. Mr. Anderson,
these able lectures are free to the
whole community. As these will be the
last delivered by Dr. Reid till the hot season
is over, we advise all that are able to
avail themselves of these lectures, to do so.
JJ6T The attention of the young men of
our district, is called to the card of the
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another column. We learn that the company
are to be armed with the Minnie rifle,
and to go into immediate service in the
Confederate army. The Committee feel
assured that a sufficient number will be
raised on Monday, to organize; and persons
who wish to join the Company, are reques-1
ted to como to town on that day, in order
that they may have a share in the organization.
Wo should like to see our District
have a corps in the Confederate army.?
York has not forgotten Kings' Mountain
and llrattons; and in addition to the noble
companies already in service, she can furnish
another that will vie in prowess with
any in this broad land.
MERE-MENTION.
In retaliation for the seizure of goods
bound South, Gov. Letcher, of Virginia,
has issued an order, to prevent the sending
out of the State anything; to be used at the
North. A lot of tobacco was stopped at
Alexandria on Friday, and will be returned
to where it was B8nt from.** 'It is stated
that two nephews of Gen. Scott's are
serving with the second Mississippi regiment,
now stationed at Lynchburg, Va.-**
A letter from New Orleans, under date of
the lGth inst., says that the Ocean Eagle
has been captured by the privateer Calhoun,
and conveyed into that port. The Ocean
Eagle is said to be a Medford built vessel,
of about 600 tons, and is valued to be worth
twenty thousand dollari?. Four hundred
and twenty of the troops stationed at
Cairo were, by the last accounts, in the
hands of fever and doctors. The musquitos
had made their appearance, and a pleasant
summer is before the patriots. A dispatch
from Montgomery says the President
has vetoed the resolution providing that
Congress shall adjourn to Richmond, on
thejjround that the whole machinery flf
JtVe Government ought to go too.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Sullivan's Island, 1
Monday Evening, May 20. J
Dear Enquirer: You have seen it stated
in the newspapers that the troops who
have been quartered on the Capitol grounds
at Washington, were converting the public
buildings into a regular hog-pen and baconhouse.
This is even so. Hogs dead and
alive, are desecrating the place where Clay,
Calhoun and Webster once stood and
wrestled like giants for the weal of the defunct
nation. We have thought of this as
a kind of retribution for the chuckling joy
felt at the North for the reign of the RedRepublicans
in France. A nation's sympathies?especially
a republic's?mould its
destiny; and we can now say of the North,
as a Northern poet has esultingly said of
France in the day of her disaster,
' Tlic rough-shod foot of tlir people tread*
Iu the silken rooms of royalty."
A private letter from Memphis to our
camp speaks of a gentleman jaat from Washington,
who confirms the most loathsome
news that has reached us from that place.
The capitol buildings are shamelessly besmeared
with greaso, and abused in every
way. Lincoln is "possessed with unclean
spirits" constantly. He has the fear of
Jeff. Davis before his eyes, and sleeps no
two nights in the same place. How disgusting
and ridiculous!
South Carolina's promptitude and uncalculating
devotion in defence of her principles,
are reaping their reward at every
turn. She has, without the loss of life, obtained
her complete emancipation. They
now give a peculiar and honorable distinction
to her volunteers in the Confederate
service; that is, if we are to credit the last
news. This news is that 8000 volunteers
have been called for from South Carolina
for the Confederate service; but in view
of the fact that her forces were long since
organized into regiments and officered at the
call of the State, to serve her twelve months
when she stood alone, the present organization
is to be maintained, and we will go to
Virginia or remain here our time, just as
we choose, i< ive tnousana only are warned
for Virginia; the other three being needed
to defend onr coast. All these facts show
that Nature loves to privilege those who
are prompt to defend the right?who swerve
neither to the right nor the left?who count
not the cost.
The blookade here has been a complete
blander so far. The Niagara stayed just
long enough, to let a few ships run in in
spite of her, and to turn a few off; and her
departure leaves the port as open as ever.
All this is blander, blunder from beginning
to end; a Bedlamite could not do
worse. The first brings the blockade into
contempt; and the second excites the ire
of Johnny Bull. In fact the British Consul
here, Mr. Bunch, has made out an account
of the damages done to British shipping
interests by this milk-and-wator blockade,
and sent them on to Lord Lyons, and
Lord Lyons has presented them to the Lincoln
Government. The third?that is the
departure of the Niagara?leaves the thing
J where it began?perfectly unsettled?with
no advantnge gained?and a difficulty provoked
with a foreign power! They opened
the.^r mouth this time, and put their foot in
it.
There is no news in reference to the regiment.
A little more sickness than usual
prevails. No one is dangerous, however.
The increasing heat is, perhaps the occasion
of the sick ness.
Some little dissatisfaction exists; but we
really know no good reason why. We have
been treated in every sense well. Idle rumors
are constantly afloat?groundless oftten
; but they work their work, like an evil
genius. We hope, however, that all will
be right in the end. There is no storm at
all; and little clouds will soon blow over.
; So we are,
Hopefully,
OUR CORPORAL/
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Commencement of Hostilities in
Virginia.?Richmond, May 20.?Special
dispatches to the Richmond Examiner
say that the battery at Sewal's Point was
t fired into, yesterday, by the United States
steamer Monticello. The battery returned j||g
the fire vigorously, and with great effect, Iggg
disabling the Monticello. She made sig- 'Mm
als of distress to Fortress Monroe, when the an
steam tugs from Old Point came to her re- fm
lief and hauled her off. The United States jR
man-of-war Minnesota also came to her aid, ||0
and fired shells at the battery. A schooner ||jjj
passed the blockade. All is quiet just now,
but stirring times are expected to day. f|3
The cannonade at Sewal's Point, between
the battery and the Minnesota, was kept up f&j
several hours. Sewal's Point is near Nor- jH
folk. The number of shots fired were a- |B
bout fifty, and the firing was kept up until
dark. But one man on our side is wound- _R|
pd Snmfi heftvv puns were taken to the JKSb
Point last night. A large bod; of troops
at various points are holding themselves in |g?
readiness to march at a moment's notice.
It is believed that an attack on Richmond BB
is contemplated, and that large bodies will V
sadvance from Old Point and Western Vir- H
giuia simultaueousl;, burning the bridges, ||g
&c.'-? Special Dispatch to the Charleston SB
Courier. ^B
The Foreign News. H
The Black Republican papers of the S
North are terribly put out concerning Lord |f
Russell's announcement in the House of
Commons that the British Government m
should recognize the right of the Confede
rate States to issue letters of marque. The ||]
Times wants old Abe to protest. It says: ??
"The telegraph from Halifax notices a S
debate on American affairs in the House of ||g
Commons, on the 4th, in which Lord John . ||
Russell is reported to have said that our |8
blockade of the Southeru ports can only be 11
recognized "when effective"?and that, JH
'regarding letters of marque, the Government
were of opinion that the Southern Con- ,,
fcdcracy must he recognized as belligerents.'
"The only meaning of this is, that their fl
right to issue letters of marque must be re- H
cognized; their privateers muBt be regar- '
ded as legitimate combatants; and the Eng- fl
lish Government will protect them in hold
ing and selling their prizes, when brought
into an English port. Lord John Russell's H
statement means this, if it means anything. fj|
"Such a declaration as this, at the very H
outset out of the rebellion, put forth before fjlj
consultation with the accredited minister of I
our Government, will unquestionably be fl
regarded as unfriendly to the U. States. H
"If the full report of the debate justifies Wt
the vereihn given of it by telegraph, we Jm
take it for granted that our Government flS
will instantly protest against the conclusion,
whioh Lord John Russell announces." IB
Important Discovery.
New discoveries of saltpetre have been $1
made in Arkansas, which bid fair to fur- |w
ish a quantity of that article to more than I
supply all our wants. It has been found in ||
caves, in a chrystalline form, and of a fine jfl
quality. A large quantity has been found
near Jacksonport, Jackson county, and in KSj
White county, within twenty and twenty
five miles of navigable waters. The mines
| in White county are now turning out from ff
one to two thousand pounds of nitre daily, ?1
and a contraot has just been completed with
the chief of the Ordnance Bureau, to sup.
ply the Confederate States with one thou- j|?
sand pounds daily, to be delivered in Nash- 18
ville, and an additional quantity, if wanted, fl
landed at other points. Sulphur has also H
been found in quantities. From a late survey
we learn that saltpetre, lead, coal and
iron, are found in abundance in the State
of Arkansas. The saltpetre is found in
caves and in positions where the mines can $S
hp pnsilv worked, so that it will be but a '
short time before it can be gotten into mar- II
ket. Nitre, or saltpetre, is an important fl
salt of potash that is fonnd in great abun- I
dance throughout the world, wherever the
mineral salts exists in any large quantities
in the soil. The Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, |S
has furnished large quantities of it, and it
can be found in any cavern in this country,
in all soils that contain materials undergoing
decay. It is not found as a mineral in the v
earth, nor is it manufactured except by the |g
hand of Nature, wherever there is a heap of
moist rubbish, with some base as potash or |g
lime present. It is found in all the lime ?1
soils especially, but if exposed to the rains m
it is washed out and consumed by vegeta- ||
tion. It is to be presumed that in lime- H
stone districts much nitre could be obtained |j
by taking soil from under negro houses, or ' I
heaps of decayed wood, and leaohing it in If
hoppers, as is done in making lye, then I
boiling to dryness; but the recent discov- 11
eries in Arkansas will prevent resorting to 1?
such labor for sometime to come. Should I
uecessity require, a few simple directions |]
scattered among farmers might afford the ||
Government an abundance of this material. ?|
As is well known, this important substance jl
is used principally in the manufacture of i
gun-powder, into which it enters in the pro- a
portion of seventy-five parts in the hundred,
although this proportion varies a little in
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plicit in description of this matter, because ^HJ
it is now engaging considerable attention in g
scientific oircles.? Correspondence of the 1
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