Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1855-10-18
From the 4 bbeyille Press;
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aUNIoN PRocLIVITTEs, 2 &
With Col Brooks, whom we have always
sheld up as our ideal Of the genuine South Car
olipa poliiieiaR We had Che pleasure Of several
vcfysgreeable and to us profitable interviews
We were glad to find him where We left him
firm cpusistent, earnestand jet eonciliatory
standif as firmly as ever upon the old Co
operation platff willing to abide the time
Z for action, and then; when it scomss,Sto act
We we're glad to learn that, although joining
J. IN The peanss hich were sounded in praise of
Col. On, he-diissnot sympathise with Col. Orr's
Union proclivities and although deci-
ded in bis opposition to Know Nothingism, he
did not respond to the crusade which, whileit
cannot hasten the extinction Of Know Nothing
principles, must negsttheless involve the State
in all the baneful infuences of political discord
and party dissentioas We were glad tosfnd,
in fine, that his future course is in the direction
g of his past eareeS the career of moderation,
common sense aid disinterested patriotism"
The above paragraph, which is taken from a
late issue Of that texcellent journal the York
vile Eaqasfe contains a very high compli-.
ment 10 eur Representative, which is to be the
more highly pkized by himself and friends be-
cause Of its curing from outside his District,
and from SO ihtelligent a source as is the ac-
eomplished Eda r-iin-chief of that paper. With
the opinion q spressed of Col Brooks ability
and ftmnss p Is scarcely uecesszryzfto us to
saw we most 4HRrtily concur.
But our cotsmporary, we think, at the same
time, does anoher distinguished Representa-
tive injusi4 BY creating an impression that
Col. Brooks issents from his course and
that part of ht paragraph suggests a remark
Z. or two which We shall respectfully submit.
If we are nos most egregiousiy mistaken,
Messrs. Orr az Brooks both have :"Union
procliyities 20 o&Astitutional "Union proolivi-
ties They oecapy the same position. That
position is, as we hare understood it, that, iun-
der such administration of the Government as
has been made by de Democratic party with
Pierce at its head, thSyeven prefer the present
Union to separate Soqthern Confederacy.-
They stand upon the Georgia platform-wil-
ling to abide the past if the future will do us
Justice. Does not Eaquirer stand upon
the same platform Z Do not the people of
South Carolina stand upon ito We answer
they dc; and all attempts to get them off by
sneering at q Union procliyities" viii be fruit
full only in5discomfture and disappointment to
those whomake such attempts The people,
con6ding in their own quiet determination and
conscious ability to maintain their rights, atall
times, present and future, against: any and eve
y possible form of assault, and believing with;
4 Orr, that, $50 far as statutory Legislation is
concerned, the South enjoys a repose and se-
curity' long denied to her are willing to wait
for the future to develop its own events; and
they hope Git is a REASONABLE hope 7? with Orr
that that party which has always stood up to
the Constitution will still survive the onslaughts
of Abolition and Know Nothing fury, and af-.
ford US sufficient aid to maintain our present
position in the Union in honor and safety If
that hope proves delusive and the wish herr Afe
ten santicipationg Of ddignities arc heap
ai,zassttff-d us, then, in Brooks own burning
words, ..the man that prepares to defend his
home in advance Of Orr (ani his political sup
porters, let us add, } will need the light of the
morning star when he whets his sabre for the
battle, -. =
There are few in South Carolina who, fail
ing in their attempts to find anything ip the
action of the Federal Government for the last
five years (since the admission of California;
from which to advocate disunion, blood, thun-
der desolation and DEATH have resorted to the
probable efforts of. Abolition and Know No
thing fanatics in the coming Congress as
foundation for stated elaborate admonitory SER
mons. They confidently predict the repeal Of
the Nebraska bill 1.-THE abolition of slavery in
the Federal District; the prohibition of the
Interstate slave trade, and so on; and to read
some Of their discourses, one would think these
measures had already been perpesrated Now
We do not belieyA that such men aoant the
North to deus Justice. They prefer that these
- ares should be consummated, the quarrel /
etuated, and disruption finally ensue-
eeh very often in emergencies contemplate al
Tentative resources until they come to believe
them even better than those Of ftheirfrstchoiee.
1t is precisely the case with per SC disunionists
of the South They first considered whether
We could maize ont to 1ice as separate ma
tionality Or not, and having concluded that
we could, it was natural in contemplating that
alternative to advance little, and conclude
that we could live pretty agell;; and still fur
thcr, aud decide that, indeed, we,cou1d live
even better; and so, until they are ready to
swear that we can live in ao:otder ,oayi We !
have not come to this last conclusion. yet. The {
Southern people have not come to it; and
will take reasons more tangible than the trum-