Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-02
From the Charleston Mercury.
THE TRUE REMEDY.


The following brief communication, from
one of the leading thinkers of the State, pre-
sents forcibly the real, and the only real,
political question that is now before the
Southern people Can we live in this I'm
ion ? The North and the South are two ma
tions, made by their institutions, customs
and Eabits of thought, as distinct as the En-
glish and French and our annual meetings
at Washington are not Congresses, to discuss
common interests, but conventions, to con-
test antagonistic opinions, and to proclaim
mutual grievances, and utter hostile threats.
Whatever sense the South may have of its
rights, it is fettercd by the absolute power
of the majority to vote it down, and that ma
jority has been gradually compressed, from
divided factions, into a united party, the
avowed objects of which is to set its heels
upon our throats. This hostile majority has
already elected Speaker of the House Of
Representatives it has an even chance of
clccting President Of the United States
not man eminent for public services or
elevated talents, but an advcnturer, picked
up in Wall street-a renegade from the
South, made hero at the North; and with
this instrument, all the more venemous from
its meanness, they threaten to double the
humiliation of our defeat, by making us at
once the victims of force and of treachery.
But we are detaining the reader from the
clear, calm and thoug view of the sub
jcct, presented by our correspondent.
M$u$. Editors: In your issue of the 9th
instant, you copy an article from the erich
moud Dispatch" in which the people of the
South are counselled to initiate the proceed
ings of the Colonists in 17774, looking to nom
intercourse with Great Britain. think the
Dispatch is in error in counsclling this
course. In III it may possibly have had
something to recommend it. But it is diff
cult to show that it influenced, in the slight
est degree, the question of Independence
Those who adopted it hoped, no doubt, to
make some impression on the mercantile clas-
ses iu Great Britain, that might react favor
ably upon the ruling class. The history of
the Revolution shows that it was weak
measure, although no doubt the friends Of
the Colonists in the mother country made
the best of it.
The contest in which We are engaged with
the Northern section of the Confederacy,
has much more bitterness and intensity than
the Revolutionary struggle. In II many pa
triots looked to the possibility of recoucilia-
ton. Many still believed that a farther contin-
uance of the connection with Great Britain
would not, of necessity, fatally involve the
fortunes of the Colonies. Hence halfway
measures and temporising expedients, misled
them and dclulcd them for some time.
But in our case, there can be but little
room for delusion, except among those who
are wilfully bliud. Our enemies certainly
tako no pains whatever to deceive us. They
play their game very openly. Their war has
been carried on with great directness aud
consistency for thirty-fye years. 1t is war
in which success on their part, involves US
not only in disgrace, but utter ruin-a dis
grace and ruin, compared with which, moth
ing of disaster and calamity that has befallcn
civilized communities, deserves serious con-
sideration. The degradation of the Southern
/ people, the Dissertation of our Southern
homes, the desolation of our Southern fields
these are inevitable, if we fail in the con-
test that the Northern section is waging
against US. And now we are told, by South
ern men, at the eleventh hour, in the very
crisis of our fate, "do not buy of the North"'
edo not sell to the North" Weak, weak
worse than weak. Does not the Southern
man who counsels thus, know that the whole
course of the confederate Legislation has been
such, and will ever be such, as to rivet US
commercially to the North? To tell us not
to buy of, nor sell to the North, is to tell
us neither to buy nor sell as long as this Cn-
ion lasts. The North knows this full well,
and laughs to scorn all such weak and puny
devices. She knows full well, that her COM
mercial supremacy necessarily follows in the
wake of her political domination; and that