Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-06
TOO RESTLESS.

Why is it that we of South Carolina cannot hold
our lance at rest, and quietly view the lists and
tits, bidng our time to do battle when our PROV
ess is needed or will effect some great object in
the issue? Ever restless, we are always anxious
to be foremost in the fray, and needless of conse-
quences, expeuding our force on minor points,
while the plot thickens for the grand display Of
power and skill and united energy. These thoughts
occur while we see the progress of events in Kan
sas where skirmishing is practised, and we make
issues with light troops against the heavy artie-
ry of numbers and preparedness. Better did we
look into the future and burnish our arms and
drill our ranks for the day, not far distant, when
right will overcome might and power will yield to
principle.
The union of the South quietly and firmly, with
the fixed determination to defend to the end the
Constitution and our rights under it, is our duty
10 meet the great issue rith the North when does
come should be our purpose, and to prepare for 1t
without being led into collateral issues of minor
Importance, and should occupy our ceaseless vigi-
lance.-South Carolinian.
1t is strange that men look at things so differ
emily and draw differences from the same data so
widely dissimilar. The above extract from the
Carolinian puts direct question, to which, in
another place, the same paper gives, We think,
quite an opposite answer. tits easy to understand
why portion of South Carolina, and of the South,
are restless, when we consider the situation and
prospects Of the South, as exhibited by the Caro-
lnian, even while trying to look on the bright
side. But the coolness with which the Carol;nian
speaks of the abotionizng of Kansas is to US real
lya mystery. 1t is quite equal to SIDNEY SMITHS
cool idea of taking off his flesh and sitting in his
bones" In short paragraph about Kansas that
paper says:
By private letter, we learn that there will be
no fight in Kansas. The Lawrence people have
given up to Gov. Walker, and the force Of law and
order supported by dragons. Our correspondent
states that the proslavery party had given up the
contest for slavery before the arrival of Gov.
Walker-that the country is not suited for slaves
that Judge Elmores negroes had most of them
been frost-b bitten during the wnter-that the cold
winds from the Rocky Mountains, sweeping over
the land, with no wood to keep the negroes as
warm as they require, render the country insult
ed to them. We learn from the best authority Of
friends, who have just visited Kansas, that this
information is correct.
This, we think, is sufficient answer to the inter-
rogatory, why is the South restless? This news
if true, is but confirmation of what we ad-
vanced in our last issue-that the hope of the
South lies in herself and not in the Democratic
party. And when we see the territory of the
South daily circumscribed, we can but wonder at
the unaccountable fimnapism of the do.nothing
policy, which expects to cure evils by the same
treatment which has produced them.
But what "great issue with the North does the
Carsl,nian expect? Are we to suffer our rights
to be trampled on without murmur yourselves
to be cheated Of every foot of territory, and eve
ry bulwark, one by one, to be frittered away, and
yet sit like the fated MACBETH and wait
'Till Birpam forest come to Dunsianne ?"
Is it wise to wait for great issue when we are be-
ing ruined daily by small issues We may be
sure that the great issue will never como, but grad
ally will the chain draw around US, in series of
collateral issues of minor Importance" which
separately cannot awaken US from our Rip-Van-
Winklitude, but which, finally, by their collective
strength, will crush US into utter insignifcance
and dependency. There is only one way in which
we can have great i,sus-an issue which is to
save US from oppression and eternal trouble, and
that is for the South to make it by demanding in
superable guarantees of her constitutional rights,
and if refused, taking her destiny in her own
hands