Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-10-02
From the Mobile Register.
THE FUTURE.

1t Is not to be disguised that there pre-
walls a general feeling Of apprehension that
the pending election will result in the tri-
umph of the North over the South in an
issue essentially sectional. We do not in
dulgc in this apprehension. 1T be rcali-
xcd, We do not dread the result 1t is how.
ever, the part of wisdom to look forward to
such contingency, and to "sct our house
in order," in anticipation Of its consequent
ccs.
We take it for granted that an admins
traion which should come into power on
the basis of Black Republican principles,
would be purely sectional--and that while
it owed its existence to Free State votes, it
would be l'rec-soil in all its details and
prrsone. No Southern man, having the
least respect for himself, could hold Office
under it, and all the places of Federal trust
and cmolumcnt, would have to be filed by
Northern men, chosen from the master Sec
ton of the Union. Thus, Boston would
probably supply Mobile and New Orleans
with Collectors, Postmastcrs and Z. S. Mar
shals, and Yankee officials would occupy all
the Federal Positions in the South. The
treasury, the archives Of the Government,
its foreign relations the post office, the army
and the navy would all be in the hands Of
the abolition North, and the Slave States
would have no voice or power in the Con-
federacy. Could the South long liv@ under
such state Of vassalagc ? If it We're craven
enough to make the experiment, would even
this humiliation be an end of the exactions
and expressions Of 4 fanatical Central Gov.
crnmcnt, animated by q morbid hatred to-
wards us and our institutions? History and
human nature tells US emo"
The madness that has produced this state
of things would never be satiatcd, except
with the annihilation of the object and vic
tim Of its passion, nor stop until the white
race was crushed and Southern plantations
should be converted into sites Of San Do
mingo desolation and jamaica negro barba-
rism. Shall we wait for this to happen p
Will any Southern man so debase himself,
so disgrace the mother that bore him and
the soil that has nurtured him, aSs to hold
in his heart one lingering feeling, or utter
from his lips one lingering lisp of Union
superstition, should Fremont be the Presi-
dent? Shall we wait in the hope that mcr-
cy for us may yet thaw the cold and iron
purpose of a bigotry that has shown no
shadow Of turning? Shall we trust the
lamb to the jaws Of the wolf and pray God
that he may not devour him? Shall we
venture cur safety to the tiger with the lap
of blood upon his tongue? If We are such
fools and towards, then the North has judi
ged US rightly-we are untitled for freedom,
and Yankee masters will be our righteous
doom. If We are not, what shall We do =
1t is our duty to discuss and determine this
question. We owe this to ourselves, and
We owe it to our countrymen of the North
to tell them, before the fratricidal deed is
done. For ourselves and for our friends We
can speak. We shall regard the election of
Fremont by the non-slaveholding States as
disruption of the bonds of the Union, to
be followed by immediate Southern action
for the formation Of new Government
The Yankee Pr;ctors and Qucstors sent out
to fill Southern Offices, should not be allow
ed to exercise their functions, and Southern
members of Congress, instead of going to
their seats at Washington, should repair to
their respective State Capitals to take coun-
sci with their State Executives and Lcgis
latures as to what is best to be done to guard
the interests of the Sovereign States and
the rights of the sovereign people. Luckily,
the Government at the moment Of dissolution
will be in friendly hands, and four months
will intervene before the Traitors an Fanat-
les can get possession of the Capitol.
The South will get more justice in the
breaking up and general distribution of
assets than it has done in the existence and
the administration Of the government. The
bigots tell us we "cannot be kicked out Of
the Cnion," and if watry to 90 out, no mat
ter under what provocation, they will whip
us back again. If they arc in earnest, we
must be prepared for that too, and burnish
our arms to sustain in the field the resolves
we shall form in council. Our Northern
countrymen may regard this as gasconade
and menace and we may not be able to per-
suade them that it is anything else. Per-
haps they will not believe us when we tell
them that we have heard no man (and we
have questioned many) hesitate or doubt as
to the effect and result of Fremonts election
NOT one who does not fully coincide with
US in opinion and purpose. The triumph of
Eramont will he tho last Mound nm the hack