Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-09
YORKVILIE, S. THURSDAY, OCTOBER g. 1856.

universal demand for expectation. Cotton,
tobacco, hemp, sugar, live stock-the staples
of each section so wanted by all-that barter
without money might almost suffice for their
exchangc-thus constituting harmony of
interests almost uuexamplcd. Abundant
mines of iron, lead, copper, coal, abundant
timber-in a word, lavish abundance of
natural resources scarcely halfknown, scarce
ly begun to be developed.
10 pass to other points, however; Any
section will be impoverished which bears its
proportion of the burdens of government, but
fails to receive its proportion of the benefits.
If taxes are raised uniformly from all sec
tions, and expended in one only, the latter
will be enriched at the expense of the form
er. Much more will it gain and the former
lose, if the taxes are paid by one section
alone, and expended alone in the other
The name Of this process between States
"tribute."
That rule in the order of nature, "unto
the place from whence the rivers came, thith-
er they return again." has not obtained in
the expenditures of the revenue of the Fed
eral Government. The South has patiently
seen them 60 in at one end and come out at
the other She has failed to calculate Alright
the exhausting efforts Of this policy upon
herself. She has paid into the treasury more
than three-fourths of its receipts. She has
received from the treasury less than one
ttnth of its expenditures The fund was not
common oat of which the expenditures were
made-tAe fund was hers. The diSbursc-
mcnts out of that fund of hers were not COM
mon---thc disbursements were to the North.
Its resources generally y-its industry, COM
merce, manufactures-hav been built up,
developed, encouraged, and ours neglected.
BY the dissolution of the Union, this great
copartnership of inequality would be broken
up---this unceasing outlet with no cores
ponding incomel cut off. If government
were extravagantly administered, the ex-
travagance would, at least, end at home.
As to safety from domestic revolt, separa-
ton would disarm the sole power which
threatens it. The North, the North alone,
aims at disturbing our domestic peace. In
the Union she lays claim to powers never
conceded, and has succeeded again and
again in cncroachiog upon our rights. Out
Of the Union they would be better defined
and more particularly respected.
Southern men should awake to the truth
of the case. 1t is only through weapons
furnished by the Union that slavery is attack
ed. The Union, so far from being our means
of defence, is the firm and sole weapon of Of
fence in the hands of the enemies of slavery.
Disunion RENTS US to our reserved rights
and disarms aggression. The Constitution,
rightly interpreted, was intended for our pro-
lection. Its paper barriers are no longer
sufficient defence.
The capacity for selfgovcrnmcnt exists in
a higher degree in no other people than in
those of the South Indeed, its proper condi-
tons scarcely meet in any other people. The
North is fast proving theimpossibility of self.
government without the conservative inhu-
ence of slavery. There the ignorant and de-
graded (Which at the South are as class out
side of the elective franchise) who have no in
tcrest in good government, have as great
voice in moulding it as the wise and virtuous.
We are not near enough yet to the millen-
mum for that experiment to succeed.
This brief and general view of the per-
mancnt consequences fdisunion, establishes
the conclusion that although great and radi-
cal, to the South at least, they arc by no
means disastrous. The event of disunion is
certainly not so undesirable as upon mere
calculation to weigh down much of inconven-
ience even in the scale of Union, much less
anything Of dishonor and degradation.
The South, as separate Republic, would
still be first class power, great people,
respected abroad, maintaining, with foreign
powers, relations both peaceful, and because
resting on mutual interest, stable disinclin-
ed to aggression, powerful for selfdcfencc.
At home, resting upon the stable foupda-
tion Of common interest and common senti-
ment; within territory adapted by God for
our country, (almost of necessity one.)
free from the domestic agitation which has
convulscd the Union, and Of which the Tn
ion has been the sole instrument; with the
wisest statesmen of the Union to shape her
policy; with the conservative influence of
slavery to save her from mob law (now gain
inu aScrndancv at ihn Sorthl. with n GREAT
and fertile territory, and boundless rcsour-
ces; possessed of every element of national
greatness, she would at once be free to adapt
her policy, without let or hindrance, to her
own circumstances, interest and advantage.
In another article (possibly in two) we
shall discuss the immediate consequences of
dissolution. SENTINEL.