Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-23

Eerl both expired III INC HaPilolj the Dll'
ish statesman pleading the rights of the pee
pie of the Colonies, and laboring to preserv
the unity of the empire; the American ex
President striking down the constitutions
rights of the South, and destroying the unit.
of his country.
Time was when it was fashionable to 'laugl
to scorn' the Garrisons and Tappans of tn
North. Time was, when the Southern peo
pie, with indolent and languid look, smiled
derisively at what was even then to them, I
matter of vital concernment. But timc
have changed. The dial indicates not tht
translucent MONDAY, But the black and silen
night. The cloud has overspread the hea
vens until not star wrinkles, and the rec
arm of the thunderbolt is barred for the stroke
The Northern cohorts are laundering dowr
upon US, and the cry of our leaders still is
Union Union Peace Peace i
And has the reckless spirit of demagogue
ism at the North received no aid but from
the seven devils that inhabit it g.! Truly We
were blind not to see it. For it, from that
black hole of Calcutta of England, yes, from
the solemn mockeries and demoniacal orgies
of Exeter Hall, abundant missionary aid has
been furnished. Who does not remember
Geo. Thompson, of Tower Hamlet and Fan,
Gull Hall notoriety? Is it any wonder that
the great, warm heart of Southern Americans
beat sympathetically with the Gar, in his
gigantic struggle with the Allied Powers p
Who did not know that the fat German beg.
gar, whose Office it is to be husband of "Her
Gracious Majesty, the Queen" was President
of that very delectable body Of English Alb
oltion Solons, the "Worlds Convention p
Who can forget the reception of the prudish,
petticoated "Uncle Tom," the boldest female
slanderer that ever wore frill or sported a
furbelow, by the effete and bedzzened no.
bility of Britain led by "Harriet, baught
Duchess of Sutherland" And who did
not know the Romanoffs were free of the
taint of the leprosy of Abolition, and had in
all the Russias an institution similar to that
Of the leading institution of the South?
Yet, London newspaperdom, in, pompous
and dogmatcal leaders, swore it was anna
zing, that its transatlantic cousins did not
feel their common blood redden to deeper
crimson, instead of glorying in the success
full defence of Sebastopol. Insolent vitupo-
ration, swelling rhodomontade and fanatical
irrationalism, filled to repletion the robust
columns of the English journals, because
the United South would not "damage its
hat" when screaming shot doomed through
the Redan and the Malakoff. Not true
heart in all this widespread South cared the
toss of straw what became of the Red Cross
flag on the shores of the Euxine Jamaica
and Exeter Hall are subjects not likely to
awaken Southern sympathy.
British gold and Yankee mendacity have
sown broadcast the Internal tares that tester
in our soil The Roundheads of New Eng
land, those close-cropped, canting, nasal
twanging, Cromwellian hypocrites, whose
cupidity is only equalled by their tremendous
blasphemy, have brought about the "begin-
ming of the end" The Protector labeled
his cannon with the scriptural adage: "Lord,
open thou our mouths and We will show forth
thy praise !" Ward Beecher, with attenua-
ted impiety, squeaks from his brooklyn pull
pit "One Sharpes rife In Kansas is worth
hundred Bibles v' Gerritt Smith, in the
imbecility of staggering intellect, cries
"Slavery must 60 out in blood ~ and Wilson
stands up in the august Senate Of the Nation,
and tells the South, with brazen check and
audacious tongue, that when slavery is ex-
PEELED from the Territories, the North will
abolish the institution, not only in the Dis
trict of Columbia, but in the States where
it exists, and boasts that the South will thank
them for it
The South has been too long playing the
game of Fabus Maximus. She has retreat
ed before the enemy, hoping, from mis-
guided loyalty to Constitution violated con-
tinually, to weaken the resources of the foe,
and weary him into subjection. The same
game, naturalists tell us, is played every day
in the wilderness between the pursued stag
and the pursuing panther. 1t is full time
that this Fabian policy were stopped, knock
ed on the head and "laid up in lavender" >"
1t is time that Southern men of pluck, pas
sion, and laudahleambitinn. should hug their
glittering blades to their hearts Firm re-
solves should succeed political arliquinading
aud all this burlesque vociferaton of Union
Union when there is no Union; Peace q!
Peace when there is no peace, should be
the clarion of fools, knaves, and hypocrites
alone. The tide of Fate flows on. and man
is impotent to stop it. Revolution, like a
terrible Bucephalus, is coming in-never
fear, o doubling reader there are in the
South to-day more than one Alexander to
bestride it. The dramatist has put into the
mouth of Jack Cade sentiment, flooded all
over with. inefable glory and ehulgeuce of
Truth: "God is for US !. God is for the Right
and Victory is with God" The South is
omnipotent if the South is united.
Many years ago-they are sad years to
think of-when South Carolina drew over
her face the black veil of mourning, and her
throat grew hoarse with lamentation, all
that could die of Man married to Truth,
and therefore married to Immortality, min
eled with the dust. He warned the South
of the impending danger. He heard with
nn;ol, nranhatin nar. that the volcano on