Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-24

lar majority forthe Democratic faith, including
the Nebraska act. Indiana has redeemed he
escutcheon from the stain of Black Republi
canism, and has given the Democracy majori
ty of near fifteen thousand in her recent State
elections. Many other of the Northern State:
have done equally we'll and yet in the mex
Congress, if the Presidential election is devol
we'd on the House of Representatives, the votes
of every Northern State Except Iowa, and il
will be divided will be cast either for Fusion
or Know Nothing candidates. The late elec-
tions show that there has been a reaction in
the North, almost unparalleled in political an.
mails !; and it is nearly certain, if the South is
true to herself and sustains with unanimity a
Constitutional Democrat, that the aid we will
receive from some of the Northern States will
enable US to elect him in the Electoral College;
but if his election was even more doubtful than
I imagine, still it is all important that rigor-
Gus and concerted effort should be made-for
I have shown, that if we fail in the Electoral
College, the House will elect a President hos
tile to our political opinions, if not to our in
stitutions. If it should be Seward, or any
other Black Republican, and an effort should
be made to carry out their platform, then | see
no means whereby the government itself can
be preserved. Such an election must produce
disurion, bloodshed and anarchy. Are we
prepared for it c? And if yea, will we not
be grossly derelct to humanity if we neglect
to use all the efforts in our power to avert the
catastrophe, so long as we can preserve the
government consistently with our own safety
and rights :? ....
Our sister States of the South begin to ap.
preciate the magnitude Of the crisis which a.
waits our section. They perceive that the next
convention is to be one of much more than
usual Importance, and they are preparing for
an able and efficient representation there. Our
sister Georgia, has already taken the initiative,
to secure unity and harmony among the States
of the South, on questions of vital importance
to us as section. The Democratic and Anti
Know Nothing party of that State, through
Cobb, Toombs, Iverson, Stephens, Warner,
Hillyer, Bailey, Lamar, Scriven, and many
other distinguished sons-former Wings and
Democrats, States Rights and Union men
have taken ground in favor of sending dele
gates to that convention have declared the be-
lief that the Democratic party at the North was
the only constitutional party-have reiterated
the Georgia platform, upon which most of the
politicians of the State, as l think, properly
stand, and propose to instruct their delegates
to insist, at Cincinnati, upon platform which
shall-lst, recognize and adopt the principles
established in the Kansas-N Nebraska act; I'd,
that neither the Missouri Compromise, nor any
other anti-slavery restriction, shall hereafter
be extended over any territory of the United
States; Sd, the prompt and faithful execution
of the fugitive slave law, and its permanent
continuance on the statue book. The last reso-
luton, at the late mass meeting of the party
at Milledgeville, addresses us in language
which commends itself to every Democrat in
the South:
"Resolced, That the Democratic and Anti
Know Nothing party in all our sister States,
and especially Of the Southern States, are re-
spectfully and earnestly requested to take the
foregoing resolutions into their early considera-
tion, and cooperate pM as in the policy and
objects intended to be thereby secured" ;"
Such is their appeal to the South. We have
heard much of Southern union being necessa-
ry to our safety. We now have it in our power
by cordial cooperation with our Southern sis
ters, to secure it. To secure it on such basis
as will permanently preserve our institution.
We can here make our demand, and with a
united South, we can offer it to the true men
of the North. If we act wisely, and present
such an ultimatum, doubt not thatthousands,
perhaps millions, at the North, will espouse
and maintain it; for it is a platform of the
Constitution, and there are hosts of conserya-
tive men whom l know are prepared to main
tain the Constitution of our fathers.
Will we reject it with silent contcmpt-ad-
here to our isolation, and stubbomly refuse to
fraternize with her, and all the balance of our
Southern sisters? Who doubts that all the
South will be represented there; and can it he
said, truthfully, that our voice can be of no
avail or weight, when the ultimatum shall be
laid down ? If we send delegates, who can
say that our votes may not secure a reliable
nominee and sound platform? Will the in
structions of Georgia to her delegates be more
or less potent with the endorsement of all of
or only portion of the South ?
If, indeed, fanaticism is in the ascendant in
the North, and cannot be overcome, then what
initiative step towards Southern Union, for
the last resort, can be more effective than to
unite all the South on the Georgia platform
and instructions? Our influence in counsel
and in action will be increased, whenever We
show a hearty disposition to harmonizc with
our sisters in the South. Have we not hereto
fore kept aloof from their consultations in eve
ry instance, save in the Nashville Convention
and that was movement which did not de.
rive any popularity in the South from being
suspected of having originated in South Caro-
lima. Sooner or later we must learn the i'm.
portant truth, that the fate and destiny of the
entire South is identical. Isolation will give
neither security nor concert. When we meet
Virginia and Georgia, Alabama and Mississ
ppi, in consultation, as at Cincinnati, it is the
supremacy of pharisaism, to fippantly denounce
such association, either dangerous Or degra
ding. North Carolina, Missouri, Florida, and
Texas, will be there represented; and arc We