Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-23
RSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1856.

lltlcal petterfogger-a sort of modern Luciu
Catallne, and a servile and venal Press, will
the staggering air of a great bully, vain
magniloquent and domineering, while writ
ing down John G. Calhoun, wrote themselve
Individually down Gan ass !"
Another John comes crying in the wilder
ness, dragged by the harlot Abolition, ant
the Free-Soil propagandists, from abysma
mud. He, too, is Of the South, but unlike
the dead Hercules, he rides along the North
ern ranks marshaling his legions of black
robbers for terrific onset upon the section
that gave him birth. Fremont, Black Re
pubicanism, Sectionalism, Abolitionism!-
What combination of reckless daring ant
unblusiDg treason
Not little of this burning Free-Soil fe
yer has been caught from the injudicous
ness of Southern leaders. Anterior to 1910,
and even later, it was common admission
of many of our own statesmen, that slavery
was social evil and political curse. In
Virginia, as late as 1851, numbers of the
prominent men of that State, not only agi-
tated in the General Assembly radical
emancipation, but undisguisedly denounced
the institution. Towering above them all,
loomcd the lofty form of Mr. Clay, who lent
his powerful influence and tremendous ap-
titude for patch work Cancellation, to the
Northern and Southern propagandist ofthis
pernicious doctrine. All this has put re-
proach against us in the mouths of our ene-
mies-we furnished them with an argument
which is hurled defantly in our teeth. 1t
is treason to nature-treason to truth-trea-
son to the South to hold doctrine like that
Slavery is not an evil. but positive and un-
conditional blessing and necessity. And
yet, is this more absurd-this foolish admis-
sion that domestic slavery is at evil and a
curse-thau suicidal policy of thousands of
the braying Baalamities of the stump, who
denounce the Kansas. Nebraska bill, anu -
cribc our present Intestine troubles to the
repeal of that infamous 'ssel," the Missouri
Compromise, the only act Of iuctce which
has been done the South for forty years p
Palsied be the arm that would aid in its res.
toration-may it wither up like that Of Jere-
boam when he offered violence to the Proph,
ct of God!
They would offer up the South as holo-
caust to the sectional pride, ambition and
vengeance of the North. Well |! let us see
if it will be done while big hearts throb be-
meath Southern sun, and red blood Grim
sons Southern arteries.
We have felt the weight of the last ounce
that breaks the back of the camel. The
banditti of the Apprentices
never gave "mine host" of Terracina and
his quaking guests half the uneasiness as
have the black brigands of hyperborean
New England, the shareholders of the Dor.
der. If we expect to get anything from
that section but robbery and insult, vitupe
ration and malediction, we ought to consult
a knowing one as to the ward comforts Of
Bedlam, for sanity will soon be vague tradi-
tion.
81 will not associate with men," said Mr.
Calhoun, "who want to cut my throat p
If Black Republicanism prevails over con,
servatsm and the Cousttution-in a word,
if Col. Fremont is the successful candidate
for the Chief Magistracy, let the South cut
loose from a Union which is even now
Union of straw. Let her go into the field,
like Godfrey, of Bouillon, with the holy
lance into Askalon, crying "God for the
right and the JUST Tear from the North
the mighty trade which has made the region
of Fifth Avenue an opulent and marble
glaring aristocratic West-End. Let half
million of starving operatives-for gaunt
hunger knows no argumcut-hang upon
their hundred Tyburu hills, the Stewards, the
Summers, the Garrisons and the Greeleys.-
The rctribution will come as sure as the
green verdure would be redolent in the
streets of the Babylons of the North. Hap
PLY for the South, and hosanna to the mon
arch of the fields: Cotton as King! The
of the South is the dependence
of the North the glory Of the one, the abb
ject degradation of the,other. Every year
would demonstrate the fact as clearly as any
problem in Euclid can be demonstrated
Like the angel sitting in the sun, the gran
deur of her position, and the magnifcence of
her proportions, would be the admiration of
the world HAMPDEN.