Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-02
From the Mobile Register.
SOUTHERN UNION.

We publish in another column an article
on the Presidential question, which we cx-
tract from the New Orleans Delta of We'd
nesday. Although our estimate of Mr.. Buch-
anan differs from the Deltas, We commend
the article to the consideration of our read
crs, as presenting just and sound view of
the bearing of the present canvass upon the
great question in which the interests of the
South are bound up. For our own part, we
are infinitely more interested in promoting
the Union of the South, than in securing
the election of a President. Long ago, as
soon, in fact, as we were old cnoush to form
an opinion on the subject, we reached the
conclusion that, unless the South were pre-
pared to accept a position of political infer
iority and subiection to the North, she
should bestir himself in organizing separate
Southern Confederacy. Not that We were a
disunionst PR Sc, for we fully appreciated
the benefits the South had already derived,
and could in u still greater degree yet, de-
rive from the Constitutional Union designed
by our forefathers; from a Union which
should secure equal rights to all the States !;
not that we could contemplate with cool in
difference the injury, the ruin, we might say,
Il disruption of this Union, would inilict on
the causes of liberty and progress through
out all Christendom; but because an cxami-
nation Of the history of the slavery agitation
and our own personYl experience at the
North satisfied us, that, although the asita-
ton was ostcnsibly kept up by demagogucs
who could be bought, and a rabble that
could be crushed, yet the movement WAS in
fact controlled by men who could neither be
bought nor crushed. We saw actively en-
gagged in the organization of that party,
which now controls the Government, men
who devoted themselves to the work from
principle and a sense of duty; whom diff
culties and dangers served only to stimulate,
and who displayed an energy, determination,
and courage, that, exerted in better cause,
might have challenged the admiration of the
world. From that moment we felt that a
compromise was hopeless, for, as one of them
truly said, there can be no such thing as a
com promise of principle, and we felt that
the question whether the South would choose
political slavery in the Union, i, iudepen-
dence out of it, was simply one of time.
We were not alone in our opinion
Thousands at the South entertained tie
same convictions, and were prepared to act
upon them but when an opportunity pres
cntcd itself Tor uniting the South upon the
wise and manly pulley of meeting the dan
ger in limine, it was found that unhappily
she was, as she had always been, divided
Southern men could not be persuaded that
the North would press the issue to an ex-
tremity, and so while the energies of the
South have been cramped and her action
paralyscd by internal dissension, she is gra-
dualy being bound hand and foot. Soon
there will be no choice for the South ; soon,
unless she rouses herself, she will find that
the question is already settled, and that her
chances of equality in the Union or lnde-
pendence out of it, have vanished together.