Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-25
THE yyHIG MOVEMENT,

Day after day, new and unlookcdfor develop.
ments are made in our political word-new ele-
ments are set to work-startling schemes, in the
full tide Of success, are brought to light-od and
time-honorel bulwarks are crumbling to earth,
while new defences are springing up as if by mag.
ic-all conspring to render the future in very
truth "scaled book" and dashing, perplexng
and putting utterly at fault the clearest foresight
and the maturcst counsels of our wsest men.
Not the least to be noted among these develop
ments is the movement now in progress by the
scattered remnats of the defunct, old-line Whig
party Some of the best and purcst of them
those now in position-have taken sage counsel Of
the times, and, acting as men independent of par,
ty, have declared their conviction that the Union
is in imminent danger, and their determination to
promote its salvation by contributing to the elec-
tion Of BUCHANAN. Others, the main body of those
who are yet outside of party influences, have act.
ed upon the same startling conviction; but,
strange to say! their hopes for safety have turn.
cd in an opposite direction, and brought them into
the struggle allied to the feeble, tainting and dis
pirited ranks of Fillmore and DonelsonI The
first "grand rally" was held in Baltimore, last
week-attended by several of the most distinguish,
ed Wings in the country: Gov. Graham and Gov
Morehead, of n. c.; W. C. Rives, of Va; John
Bell, of Tenn, Judge Bates, of Missouri; Wash.
ington Hunt, of New York, and others; the resolu
tions reported were adopted without dissenting
voice, and the proceedings throughout were mark.
ed by the most upbounded enthusiasm. We are
tempted to copy two or three of the paragraphs
which make up their "Platform -
Resolved, That all who revere the Constitution
and love the Union must take alarm at the atti
tude assumed by two of the great parties in the
field in the present Presidential canvass the one
claiming only to represent sixteen Nothern States
of the Union; the other appealing mainly to the
passions and prejudces Of the Southern States
and that the success of either Of those factions
must add fuel to the fame which now threatens to
wrap our dearest interests in one common ruin.
Resolred, That the only remedy for evils so ap-
palcing, is the support OF u candidate pledged to
neither of the geographical sections now 'arrayed
in political antagonism, but holding both in just
and equal regard. We congratulate the friends
of the Union that such candidate exists in Mil
lard Fillmore, of the State of New York.
Rcsolrcd, That in the present exigency of public
affairs, We are not called on to discuss any suoor
dinate questions Of administration in exercising
the constitutional powers of the government; it is
enough to know that civil war is raging and the
Union is in peril, and to proclaim our earnest con-
viction that the restoration of Mr. Fillmore to the
Presidential chair will furnish the best, il not the
only, means of restoring peace to the country.
It is difficult to account for this action on the
part of the old Wing party. Possibly the election
of Fillmore might preserve the union of these
States for few years longer. 1t would be the
defeat of no party; the triumph of no party; the