Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-13

With these facts in view, will our people
hazard an election by the House of Repre-
sentatiyes' I trust not. And yet this mode
of electing President can be surely avoided
only by concentrating the united strength Of
the South in the nominating Convention at
Cincinnati.
There are, in reality, but two great par
ties to the Presidential contest-the Demo
cratic and Black Republican-which are re-
spectively the types Of the Constitution and
Of anarchy. Under one or the other Of these
banners, every man in the Union must rally.
He may call himself by any name which
pleases his fancy; but he will be Demo
crat or a Black Republican as he votes.
1t is fashionable in certain quarters in our
State to sneer at Northern Democracy, and
some would have us believe that deliverance
and liberty are to be found in the Know
Nothing organization. Well, in the last
vote for Speaker, the Know Nothing party
dwindled down to six votes, and every one Of
them q Freesoil vote Mr.. Aiken, the Dem
ocratic pro-slavery candidate, did nat receive
the vote of single Northern Know Nothing,
and he did receive the votes of seventeen
Northern Democrats, and the cordial support
of Mr.. Richardson, who could not at the
time vote himself, as he had paired of with
a Freesoiler. The circumstances and facts
connected with the recent election of Speak
er must silence the sweeping deuunciations
which sometimes are inconsiderately and
ignorantly made against the entire Northern
Democracy. The Northern Democrats of the
House have shown that they care not where
man is from, if his principles be right, by
giving to Mr.. Orr the same vote exactly
which they gave to Mr. Richardson, of Illi-
uois. And by voting for Mr.. Aiken, the
largest slave owner in the House, they have
virtually declared that slavery is not incom.
patible with their principles. How will these
men, who have been true to US, stand before
their own constituents, if they are deserted
and repudiated by us, whose battle they
have been fighting? With which party, the
Democratic or the Black Republican, shall
our State affiliate? Which will it aid and
abet? If We cast away our vote in the Presi-
dental election, as did certain Know No.
thing from the South in the Speakers elec-
ton, will it not be to do precisely what they
have done, and that is indirectly to contri.
butte to the power Of Freesoilism, and aid in
the election of Black Republican?
The meeting of the Convention at Ciucin-
natl is as certain as any human event can be;
and the appearance, or non-appearance, Of
delegates from South Carolina, will in no
wise affect the occurrence of that event. In
truth, what matters it if arguments against,
and objections to, the Convention are as plen.
tiful Gas blackberries," when we remember
that it is the established mode of nominat-
ing candidate, and trust whatever candi-
date is named, will receive the vote of every
Democrat in every State in the Union.
Gen. Pierce, I believe, is more accepta-
bic to our people, than any man now living.
I prefer him to anybody. But what would
it profit us or him, if every man, woman and
child in our State should nominate him, if
heis not the nominee of the general Conven.
tion? South Carolina will vote for any man
who is nominated by the Democratic party.
I care not who he may be, Buchanan, Doug
lass, Dallas, Hunter, Pierce or any body else,
she will vote for him, and just because any,
body is better than Black Republican,
Every opponent TO the Cincinnati Conven-
ton that l have met admits that the State
will vote for its regular nominee, and in the
same breath insists, that it is degradation to
unite in the selection Of the man, who is
most acceptable and just in his political SEN
timents to our people. If there be degrada-
tion in the matter, it seems to me that it is
when we vote for man who is not our
choice, and accept the nominee of Conven-
tion which we affect to dsspise. The line of
argument adopted by the opponents of the
Cincinnati Convention, if applied to criminal
judgments, would consign the accessory to
murder, to the gallows, and permit the prin-
ciptl W 20 sCOC Tree.
In the name of everything tina. is sacred
and honorable, let our beloved State be con-
sistent; and if she rejects the Convention
let her rejec. its nominee, be he who he may.
To be consistent, she should also censure
her entire delegation in the lower House of
Congress, for voting in common with North
ern Democrats for Richardson, for Orr and
for Aiken-in all one hundred and thirty
three times. To be consistent, she should do
more and recall her entire delegation in Con-
gress, for l assure you solemnly that if our
political relations with Democratic members
here were to conform to the relations which
some persons desire our State to bear towards
the Democratic States, the moment we set
up for exclusiveness and turn our backs up
on such Democrats as Clancy Jones and
Cadwallader of Pennsylvania, (who I would
trust as soon as if they were slave.owners,
and because they interpret the Constitution
as We do and obey it, that moment We be-
come powerless and might as well be at home
on our farms. But in the matter of consis-
tcncy, we are told that our State has uni
formly declined all connection with Nation
al Conventions. Ist this historically true p
In May, 1S4S, our people assembled in Con-
vention at Columbia, and appointed dele
gates to attend the Democratic Convention
at Baltimore, and for the ayowed purpose of
promoting the nomination of Mr.. Calhoun
for the Presidency. The two distinguished
gentlemen selected to represent the State at