Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-25
OUR CONGREss-nIEN.

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some of the sayings and doings of our Congress
sional delegation, with which we are furnished by
our Stale exchanges. Since the adjournment,
they have all been bearing themselves conspicu-
ously.
Mr. BoYcE, we noticed, tarried at several points
in Virginia, and made strong and urgent appeals
to the people of that State in behalf of Kansas.
He has since been at home quietly enjoying
respite from the arduous labors of his position.-
We dislike to disturb him, but our people need
some potent voice to warm them up about Kansas,
and no one can do the work more effectively than
their Representative. We shall expect him to
give us ''talk' on politics generally, Court-week,
and to send us word beforehand so that the people
may come ont to hear him.
Afterhaving bravcd al army of admirers blythe
way, which might have made far less modest
man quail and tremblc, Col. Brooks has given
himself up to his friends at home, and right clev-
erly and heartily are they doing him honor. As
the advertiser has expressed it, "his friends are
his constituents" and never have grateful people
| Wllu SUCH SIllSlC JOiiieu W iSMtiu
fu servant. The Brooks Ball, at Greenville, week
before last, was magnificent ovation, worthy of
such high-toned anil hospitabe community
The Patriot says OF it: ''Seldom has so much
youth, beauty, fashion and manhood, assembled
in one room to pay honor and respect to gallant
and distinguished gentleman" The great Brooks
Dinner ut Nnety-Six, which promises to he the
grandest affair Of all, will be given the Sd of
October. DR.. S. V. CAIN has been appointed
| President of he Day, with the following Vice
Presidents: DR.. ]. P. Watts, Col. G. 4. Ad-
olson, COL J. H. Irby, DR.. J. j. Wnrdlaw, Dr..
Peter Moone, Dr. T. Lake, n. McCants, Esq,
COL L. Boozer DR.. John Logan, Gen. Kinard,
]. P. Carroll, ESQ.,, COL NJ. c. Hammond, Col.
]. F. Marshall, Edward Noble, Esq.,, C. P. Sui.
Ivan, Esq. An grafton will be made by Gen.
MCGOWAN, of Abbeville.
Col. ORR has been giving his people an account
of his stewardship, thus discharging n duty which
has not been rs often and thoroughly performed
rs it should be by our Representatives. The peo.
pie nave right to know, and ought to know what
they have done, and what they have failed to do.
The burden of the Cops. speeches have doubtless
weighed upon the latter division of his theme-a
Southern Representative can only talk of what
he has f,iled 10 do. We are pleased to learn that
COL ORR has declared his intention to withdraw
from Congress after the next term Although he
is ns efficient as any man can be at Washington,
he can serve his State much more efficiently at
home. There is work here which suits his calibre
admirably, and is worthy of his mettlc. A COR
respondent of the Charleston Standard makes the
suhjoined report of his speech in Greenville -
"Col. Orr took the stand very soon after ouf
arrival and reminding his constituents that it had
been his practice te make annual reports of Con-
gressional proceedings, went on to tell them that,
to the best of his judgment, "al was not we'll"
The Black Republicans, early in the session, had
elected Speaker who had stocked the cards of
legislation; they approved the Topeka Constitu-
ton of Kansas urged the admission of the free
soil delegate; tackled proviso on the Army Bill,
to the effect that the soldiers of the general gov
ernment should not be used to sustain the pres
ent laws of that territory; and, not content with
all this had put in nomination for the Presidency
a renegade from South Carolina, pledged to re-
strict slavery; and in every other way had cvinced
legislative powers of the country lie could not
say that Mr.. Fremont would be elected he thought
he would not ; but he was constrained to say that
the result of the contest was doubtful and as in
the event of his success the dominion Of the North
over the South-of sectionalism over the repub-
lic-will have been consummated, he saw the ne
cessity, even now, for preparation to assert our
right to liberty and self-government.
'Gen. Harrison spoke to the same point after
the review was ended and referring to the speech
of Col. Orr, and the probabilities it suggested Of
the election of Mr.. Fremont, said that the Union
and the Constitution are trusts committed as well
to to the North that we have violated none
of our constitutional obligations, and that if the
North shall proceed to do so, it will be our prvi
legc and our duty to march to the capital, to take
the government under our protection, and compel
the North to obey and respect the Constitution
This raised tempest of applause, and the Colonel
of the regiment and all his officers EXPIRE ssed their
readiness to march, upon the first call for rolun-
teers, to any such an object 1t is a mistake to
apprehend submission at the South. This has
been strong Union loving regiment; they have not
been prepared ,and they are not now prepared for
dissolution, but they are ready to whip the North
whenever they are assured there is the propr"
ground for doing so, and this for all the practl
purposes of our condition is about all that can be
required. The experience of Col. Brooks has
shown that the popular heart is ready to respond
to any act in vindcation of the South it has also
shown that the occasions for such an act will GER
tainly occur, if men are prompt to meet them IN
Congress, if not upon our own soll-and even IN
the present condition of public feeling, nm per-
fectly assured that while no Southern State, per-
haps, may be ready to withdraw from the Union
upon the election of Mr.. Fremont, there is not one
regiment in the Southern States that would not |
spring to defend the one that would strike the |
miscreant down about the pillars of the capital"
X x
"The recent occurrences in Congress and in
Kansas seem to have formed the minds OF all l
meet to the conviction that the days OF the Union
are numbered, and that it is only left us now to |
prepare for the event. Such has been my own
conviction for a long time, but men who have been
more hopeful, look upon the consummation as
fixed fact, and anticipate greater unity in pub
lie sentiment ut the South than has ever existed
before, whenever the occasion for its expression
comes Col. Orr, in his speech at the review in
Pickens, gave utterance to the opinion that the
time for action has about come at last"
Gen. MCQUEEN, who, by the way, is one o.. the :