Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11


the two sections under the first census
There was small preponderance in the
House of Representatives, and in the Elec'
toral College, in favor of the North, owing
to the fact that, according to the provisions
of the Constitution, in estimating federal
numbers, FIVE slaves counted but three; but
it was too small to effect sensibly the perfect
equilibrium which, with that exception, ex-
listed at the time Such was the equality OF
the two sections when the States composing
them agreed to enter into federal Union" "
Since then, the equilibrium between them
has been utterly destroyed; and if the Black
Republicans succeed in their present politi.
cal struggle and continue to be actuated by
their ruthless spirit of aggression, the pre-
ponderance of the Northern section over the
Southern will absolutely forbid the hope Of
the continuance of the Union.
THIS EQUILIBRIUM ALREADY UTTERLY
DESTROYED.
According to the census Of 1850, the ag,
gregate population of the organised States
of the Union amounted to 23,047, ,39l; Of
which the North contained Is, ,434, ,622, and
the South 9,6l2,769 making a difference,
in favor of the North, in round numbers, Of
3,725,000. The number of States had in
creased from sixteen to thirty y-one-making
an addition of fifteen States and making the
proportion between Northern and Southern
States sixteen to fifteen, counting Delaware
among the fifteen Southern States. Accor-
ding to the apportionment under the census
of 1850, there were two hundred and thirty
four members of the House of Representa-
tives, of which the Northern States had one
hundred and forty-four, and the Southern
States ninety; making difference in favor
of the former in the House of Representa-
tives of ffty-four. There was difference
in the Senate of two members, in favor Of
the North and in the Electoral College, a
majority of tty-six.
The result of the whole has been to give
to the North preponderance in every de-
partment of the government, and thereby to
concentrate in it all the elements which con-
troll the federal governments majority OF
the States, majority of their population, a
majority of each branch of the federal Leg.
islature, and a majority of the college which
elects federal Executive. The Democrat
ic political organization, by securing a Pre-
sident and majority in the Senate, pledged
to the support of national principles, of con-
stitutional equality and justice as between
the two sections of the Union, is the only
barrier that now stands between the South
and Abolition aggression from the North.
Not only was the Union framed upon the
plan of an equilibrium, between the North
and South; but the history Of the admission
of new States indicates that it has been the
constant policy of the statesmen of the Unior
to preserve this equilibrium down to very
recent period. This purpose was strikingly
evidenced in the outset, by the fact thai
Virginia gave her Northwestern territory te
the North as condition precedent to the
formation of the Union. Afterwards, Yer
mont and Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio
Indiana and Mississippi, Illinois and Ala
bama, Maine and Missouri, came in respect
lively from North and South about the same
periods. Another striking instance of thu
pains Congress was at to preserve this equili
brium, was the remarkable circumstance
that when Missouri was admitted, the State
of Maine was cut off from Massachusetts, TO
the express purpose of compensating tn
North for the preponderance the South woult
have gained by the admission of Missouri
But the equilibrium, as we have shown
is now completely broken up and destroyed
and there is not only no probability Of it
being restored by the admission Of ne7
States, but the certainty of the present dis
parity being rapidly and considerably aug
mented.
Out of the seven Territories now organi
zed, six of them are free, to wit {: the Terri
tory of Minnesota-which the North intend
to divide into two, admitting one portion a
a State and organizing the other into Ter
ritory until its population shall authorize it
admission as State also; the Territory o
Oregon; the Territory Of Utah-which i
already applying for admission as State
and, of course, having no slaves, will be
free State; and the Territories of New Mex
leo, of Washington, and of Nebraska
leaving only Kansas to becomea slave State
if that thing can be, against the clamor 0
the whole Black Republican party of tn
North, and the money and minions whicl
the Aid Societies of the free States and o
Europe are pouring into that ill-fated bant
ling and forlorn hope of the South.
All of these Territories will come into tn
Union nearly at the same time, and will 6
to swell the present majority of Northern
States to seven, supposing Kansas be secu
red to the South-the majority of the Nor
thern population another million-the ma
jority of Northern Senators to fourteen, and
in the course of few years, the Norther
majority in the House to at least hundred
and in the Electoral College in the same pro
portion.
Well, how has this prepouderance of tn
North been brought about? If it were tn
result of the natural development of the tw
sections, it could be contemplated by tn
South with resignation. But, being the re
suit of aggressive and unjust measures take
by the North with intent to product it,
plants thorn in the flesh, sense of injur
and spirit of resentment in the bosom Q