Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-21
sTARTLrSa DOCTRINES.

The Charleston Standard, Of Friday last, con-
tains an elaborate editorial comment upon the re-
cent Proclamation of the President, which evolves
opinions so startling and dangerous in their char
acter that as to require from us word of criti-
cism. We have not space for the publication of
the article entire, and but little inclination to fol-
low the misty process of argument by which the
editor attempts to maintain his position. The
purport of it all, as we'll as VIC can fathom it, is
this: In the first place, as "the two systems are
about to come together it becomes proper to con-
slider "what course men of high character and
elevated purposes should pursue" If the South
designs to remain in the Union, it may perhaps be
important to secure Kansas; if not if the Union is
to be dissolved, the possession Of Kansas as
slave State is not at oil desirable And if it must
be at all, the Union should be dissolved BY means
other than those which are now looking to the &C
QUESTION of Kansas, the tendency of which is in
evitably to that end. In other words the contest
in Kansas is stupid, and, although the Importance
of the issue is universally acknowledged and the
justice of our cause triumphantly vindicated, the
South should fold her arms in submission and sup
pliantly bow the neck to the yoke Then follows
this language
awe have often said, and we have seen no reason
yet to doubt the truth of the assertion that do
not strengthen slavery BY extending its area. The
men that directly interested in keeping the ne
GRO in the condition of slave is the only one who
will fight for the institution. Very few feel di-
recty interested in keeping the negro in the con-
dition of slave, except slave owner. Very few
who do not own slaves, even in slave country, feel
inclined to fight and peril his life toprotect thepro-
perty of other people We do not increase the num-
ber of masters by increasing the number of States
We do not intensity tho institution by extending
it."
We have no disposition to accord to such state
ments the dignity which belongs to q reasonable
proposition. Even if we were so inclined, the
work would be that Of supererogation. While we
do not yield to authority more than we are bound
to yield to the truth, we must bs allowed to say
that if such propositions are tenable, the struggle
of the last forty years has been contest between
arrant fools; JOHN C. CALHOUN was a ranting
mailman and all the brilliant men who have vim
dicated the institution of slavery and illustrated
the policy by which itsi integrity is to be preserr
ed, have been engaged in the performance Of On
idle, silly, stupid work! Even the abolitionist
himself hos been ignorantly working out his own
defeat by contributing to the consummation Of the
very designs he has sleeplessly and villainously
toiled to Subvert. Pretty logic, truly!
But the paragraph We have quoted in full is
still more decidedly to be condemned and repudia-
ted. If We had met with it in the columns of the
New York Tribune, journal as industriously de-
voted to the work of fomenting the hatred which
has ever existed between the laborer and his mas
ters capital, as it has been constant in the crusade
against the institution of slavery-if, we soy, the
Tribune had given voice to such an opinion, We
might not have wondered indeed, while We spurn-
ed the warrior, we should have admired the keen
ness of his blade. But that it should have appear
ed in the Charleston Standard, q journal distin-
gushed for the conservatism, the ability, the dig
nifty of its conductors, passes our comprehension.
If it be sane ''insftution it knows such
stuff to be false in theory and in fect it were char
ity to mark it with the brand of the traitor; but
it, as ws bseva. it honestly entertains such IN O.
piuion, surely it has done glaring error, an er-
ror worse tran folly, to fling it in the face of the
world.
Really, if We did not recognize the style of the
editor, for whom we take occasion to say We have
ever entertained sentiments Of the most pro.
found respect and friendship, we would readily
conclude that the article had steathily crept from
the pen of some hireing penny-a-liner, fresh from
the recking cess-pool Of Northern fanatcism.--
We earnestly trust that the Standard has inadyer.
tently misstated its opinions; or, if not, that il
will not, by reiteration, wantonly blot the fail
| escutcheon of South Carolina journalism.