Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-16

After he had taken his scat, one common
call for Governor ADAMS arose on every
side, to which his Excellcncy yielded with
the ease and grace so natural TO him at all
times. Stepping to the rostrum, he deliver
ed really beautiful speech, not exceeding
Is minutes in length, but just the thing
from beginning to end. The wearied as
sembly were again electrified, and the day
ended as it had begun, spiritedly and en-
Enthusiastically.
Much more would We say; but our space
is filed
THE UNION rs IN DANGERH
We copy the following eloquent and I'M
pressiye article from the Providence OR. ~
Post -
"TnE UNION Is STRAINING lGEE FASTEN-
INGs ."-Such is the language Of the old
line Wings of Baltimore, in an address to
the people: "The Union is straining her
fastcnings, and calls upon all patriotic citi-
zens to come to her rescue
Trucr words, it is our honest belief, were
never spoken. The Union Is straiuing her
fastenings. The storm of fanatieisnl, now
wildly raging in sixteen States, threatens to
part her fastenings and carry her down.
Our readers will bear US on. in saying that
we arc not an alarmist. We have never
threatened fire and sword, nor needed threats
of civil war or disunion from others. We
have had faith in the Union-in its stability
and almost in its eternity. We believe,
now, that it is destined to stand.
But VIC do not believe that it could long
survive the triumph of bitter scctionalism in
the election of John c. Fremont. We do
not believe that any family can be proitably
kept together after the members of it have
illustrated their hatred of each other by open
acts of hostility.
The question of the continuance of the
Union is now reduced to this simple qucs-
ton: Whether the black Republican party,
in its avowel hostility to the South, actual
ly represents the North, or majority of the
people Of the North? This question will be
decided in November.
If it is decidedly in the affirmative, then
We shall say unhesitatingly that the great
blow of dsunion has been struck. The
South will not wait to he "<uIjnyatrd." 1t
will never trust itself to the tender mercies
of party whose very existence rests upon
hatred Of its people and hostility to its in
stitutions.
Men of Rhode Island, you may as we'll
look this fact snuarcly in the face! No .W-
teen .S'ot,$ of tbs In;on-northern, south
ern, eastern, or westcrn-~W rr"r SuLmHo
be gor'r"cd L.y si:"tcr" other States, ~h"~
tri"mph has hccH S"""r I by oppcaI< H. pr"-
juices n.Jai"a Meir instit"tions omd by pro-
c1amations Of hostility 10 Mejr citizens!
Should John c. Fremont take the presi-
dental chair to-day as the representative of
the party which placed him in nomination,
and which supports him by appeals to Sec
tional feelings and prejudices, he would have
to sit there without q single cabinet officer
from any Southern State! No man in Mc
South, wiM 4 partirIe IF rputation, mo"W
darc to acrcp', or ~o"M rdnt to accept on
oppoint0,cm as o"c Of his adriHrs.'
Could President thus circumstanced ad-
minister the government thirty days? Could
he command the respect Of the army or ma
w thirty hours? Would Congress ever as
scnble to lcgisate for the country? With
thirty senators and ninety representatives
voluntarily absent, what would its legislation
be worth? With cabinet and all the i'm
portant officers of the government appointed
from the North, how long, think you, could
that government be sustained?
1t is folly to talk at such time as this of
the Importance of the Union to the South.
So far as maintaining slavery is concerned,
the South gains nothing by the Union, if we
except the occasional return of fugitive
Slavery would stand on a irmer basis with
the Union dissolved than it does to-day. 1t
would only have to expatriatc its thousands
of free negroes, and send them North in
single avalanche, to place itself beyond the
reach of internal disaster. This done, the
West, following its rivers, would become its
ally: and in less than three years, N"w En-
gtana wouW aaH a5"nc-boHhrupt aad
detcacckcss.
We are told sometimes that it is not the
purpose of Mr.. Fremont and his friends to
attack the institutions OF the South through
the machinery Of the government. This as
surance, sincere or not, is worth nothing
The South knows rhat Mc porty is, and mho
its leadcrS are, and 'chat is the .t0od it Hres
upou And it will never wait-mark omr
rords!-d wW nercr rat TO test the truth
of this declaration. 1t has too much at
stake.
We shall not stop here to remark upon
the vast Importance and value Of the Union
to Rhode Island 1t seems TO us that half
blind fanatic must perceive it. As a manu-
featuring and commercial State, what could
We do, even in confederacy of all the free
States? What could we do without the
South? To say nothing Of political and ma
t;onal weakness, what should We be as q
commercial and a manufacturing people thus
cut off from our best market?
We caution our people again not to be
deceived by the syren song of such as would
have us believe that the Union cannot be dis
solved. The necessity of separation is be-
ing forced upon us by the action of the black