Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-18

With the exception of the paragraph committing
his influence to the Blue Ridge project, the lnau-
gural gives, in remarkably chaste and concise
style, view of our domestic and political policy
which will command the unanimous approval OF
your people. You will not have room for the en-
tire document, but must beg you to append to
my letter that portion in regard to our federal re-
lations. 1t has the exact ring of the true metal
in it.
! After the Inauguration, both Houses went to
work, and passed several important measures, Of
which shall tell you to morrow. HELToN.
Extract from the Governors Inaugural.
With regard to our Federal relations, l woul'l
willingly be hopeful of the future. But the his
tory of the present Congress, the forbidding as
pect of New England, and the many repellins
circumstances which mark the recent Federal cleo
tion, taken in connection with their antecedents,
constitute n solemn warning to the Southern coun-
try, which we cannot overlook, and must not fail
to heed. God grant it may serve to draw the
States affected nearer together in confidence and
counsel.
The spirit which would peril the peace and
union of the Confedcracy, rather than witness the
extension of domestic slavery into the Territories,
is the same which succeeded twenty years ago in
imposing on the staple States the burden of n pro-
tective tariff. Strengthened and cmboldened now
| by various successes and embttered by the COM
minglng with it of q reckless fanatlclsm, it must
| be rebuked, or the bond of Union will be broken
and destroyed.
To our Constitutional Union is justly to be as
cribed the wonderful progress in prosperity and
power of the United States. Abroad it is known
| only as NahondL-the American Union"-and
there it is tower of strength to the citizen, with
in the shadow of which his life and property are
safe. AT home, we recognize it rs Federal-com-
posed of independent States, and integral parts,
each of which, as it enjoys the benefits derived
from the terms of the Constitution, cannot escape
accountability for the co-existing duties imposed
thereby. Upon the observance Of those terms, in
their true spirit, as to herself, it is the right and
duty of the State to insist, as we'll as to that
due observance Of the same is rendered on her
own part 1t is sod to perceive that tue States Of
the Eastern and Northern section ore diverglng
more and more from their ancient affection and
common duty to the Southern and Southwestern
States, thus nursing estrangement OF feeling
among their citizens towards us, and hostility to
the institution four brth-right) which has const-
tuted so material an element of their wealth, as
well as of our happiness and prosperity.
At the time the Constitution was adopted, prop
erty in African slaves was held legalized and pro-
tected in majority Of the Confederated States.
Since the period of admission of the five States
which were organized in the Northwestern Terri
tory ceded by Virginia, the number of States still
holding such property was reduced to one-half OF
the Confederacy. Most of the other half or Sec
! = hnir fo
ty and their duty in relation thereto toward their
co-States where it is an institution.
/ Now, in order to preserve, in some measure,
! the power to protect the rights of the Southern
States in this behalf We must preserve the equili-
brum between the two sections in at least one Of
! the Federal Councils. That equilibrium in the
Senate was disturbed by the irregular admission
| of California-it may be restored by the admls-
sion Of Kansas.
! Whenever it shall become the settled policy Of
the Federal Government. that States which adhere
! to the institution of domestic slavery shall no
more be admitted into the Union, then the South
ern States, unless their people shall have become
utterly blind to their own interests and safety,
making common cause for Il common interest will
combine to throw off that Government, or will
prove themselves unworthy of wise and brave
ancestry and regardless of the duty to postcrity
! Just now the country rests in momentary calm,
after the unhappy troubles in Kansas and the ex-
haustng excitement of heated canvass for Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United States, an
excitement pervading the whole land, which has
betrayed throughout the borders of New England,
n fanatical bitterness Of hostility to Southern in
stitutons, which caunot fail in uniting the South
ern people warmly in their vindicaton. Grateful
! " we have received as heritage those institu-
tions, wisely and dscreetly We will enjoy and i'm
provo them, without qunrrclling with others (if
they only let US alone) because they cannot view
them as VIC do and with the blessing OF God,
| (keeping always i'll view our accountability to
Him, faithfully will we transmit them TO our chill
dren. We. Of the States Rights school, have been
identified in the late election with the great Demo-
cratic party. That party has triumphed, and
sincerely sympathize in their triumph. Grat full
should VIC be for this, for all the least of Gods
blessings Gil our efforts in the right direction.
At a moment when defeat would have been de-
structive to the peace and order of our common
country-whcn revolution and anarchy would have
been the consequence of triumph to those whose
motto seems to be 'rule or ruin" the canvass has
resulted as the people of the State desired, in the
appointment of Electors favorable to our views
favorable to the election of distinguished citizen
of PENNSYLVANIA, ripe in statesmanShip, expcrien-
ccd and wise in diplomacy, sound in constitutional
law, of honesty and remarkable cquanimity. 1t is
true he is not familiar with Southern society, and
knows not the people who so warmly sustained
| him but regard it as due to our own share in
| the late contest-to the common bond of union
which still subssts-to the few persistent majorl-
ties and the several respectable minoritics in the
| North and East-to the fhr promises and honest
purposes of the President elect himself, to render
to his administration candid consideration and
| L. Sn 1pnn hn
prove able to resist the sinister influence which
will be brought to bear upon it by those who pos
sess the design and facility to combine against the
interests of the plantation States so loug, / am
persuaded, you will be unwilling to embarrass or
obstruct its Legitimate progress.
| Maintaining firmly, however, the principles Of
States Rights, State Equality, we will devote our
energies to the increase Of the moral power the
productive capital, anl the commercial ndepen-
dence of the Commonwealth.
FRIDAY Evening, Dec. 10.
My letter of Tuesday, notice, did not appear
in this weeks issue; and presume it did not
reach you in time. You must place the censure
upon the Post Office at this place. At any rate
the fault is not mine.
have been more than once taken to task for
nv wholesale criticism upon the calbrc of the
country delegation, in the last ESouIRER. To tell
the truth, the remark was rathertoo "wholesale'; ;
but think the most evony-tempered among you
would have been provoked to make it. You re-
member that it was written in connection with the
the resolutions in regard to bank taxation. This
measure had for us but ono face: right in princi-
ple correct in policy, just to all and conservative