Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-25
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THE UNION AND THE PRESI-
DENCY.

THE UNION AND THE PREsI-
DENCY.
We confess that we look forward with
great solcitude to the next two months o.
the political history Of this country. Will
civil war raging in the West, anarchy in
the Government, and the North a great nes
of faction, it seems almost impossible thai
the Union should preserve its integrity
That it has existed so long is the great won
der 1t is difficult to reconcile with prece
ding history and with the nature of man
that thirty-one sovereign States should live
under the same Federal Government, when
divided into two sections at deadly hostili
ty. 1t is hard to understand that an homo
rable, sensitive aud brave people should
tamely suffer itself to be plundered of its
property; its slaves to be excited to insur,
rection; its citizens to be murdered when
reclaiming their fugitive slaves; its share in
the public domain to be wrested from it by
fraud, violence and unconstitutional legisla.
tion; its most cherished institutions, and its
wealth, too, threatened with destruction its
character to the vilifed, and, by the basest
ISLANDERS, to be held up to the reproach oi
the world. And what renders it almost in.
explicable is, that the States comprising the
section which submits to all this are the
most powerful in all the elements of great.
ness, are united by the closest ties of blood,
affection and interest, and have plain, hon
orable, we'll known and peaceful remedy be-
fore them
The historian of two hundred years hence
will find it difficult to explain this strange
Union, at best, and will find it impossible
unless he have the clue. Heretofore our
political contests have been between parties
existing equally in both sections, and upon
questions interesting to the whole people,
But this Presidential canvass divides the
country upon purely sectional issues. When
we reflect upon this, and upon the civil war,
and the movements in Congress, we can see
but one chance for the Union to exist even
four years longer-and that is the election
of Mr.. Buchanan.
We must regard it as unfortunate that
Mr.. Fillmore was nominated. His election
is impossible. Whatever may be the sage
opinions of few half.awake partisans, pot
house politicians, antiquated sectarians and
Samites, he apd "Sam" are fungi, foreign
bodies, not in the canvass, out of the game
entirely. 1t is now the North against the
South, and his nomination merely serves to
complicate matters between them.
1t is the policy of the South to have her
peace and safety at once secured-in the
Union or out of it; and in order to do this,
that the North should decide directly, and
positively, whether or not it will adhere to
the Constitution as it is. But Mr.. Fillmore
comes in as disturbing cause, and if FIRE.
mont be elected, many Southerners will
blind their eyes, and say it was because Fill
more took away good constitutional support
in the North from Buchanan they will be
disposed to hang on to broken Constitution
and a disastrous Union and to try the North
once more, apA will talk of peace while the
chains are being :;ssted firmly upon them.
If, on the other hand, Mr.. Buchanan be
elected, the factionists at the North will say
(and we firmly believe they will be right
that Mr.. Fillmore took from Fremont sup
port he would otherwise have received, and
they will encourage themselves to persevere
in their factious designs.
We argue as men who sincerely love the
the Constitution and value the Union only
so far as it is a Constitutional Union. The
prospect for a return to such Union seems
very remote. If Mr.. Buchanan be elected,
although some semblance Of a Constitution
may be preserved four years longer by his
exercise of the veto power, we can by no
means affirm that it will be so preserved
How soon or how far the civil war in Kan
sas may extend, "must give US pause
But the only chance of preserving the Union
aud restoring it to its constitutional charac-
ter, is in the election of Mr.. Buchanan !;
and if there be conservative element in the
North it must manifest itself now, or it will
be forever too late.