Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-27
S. G.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TRUE oLICY OF
THE SOUTH.

NIT to the undisturbed current OF events, and per-
NIT slavery to propagate by its own expansive
power or subside from its own impotence. But
the character of the crusade against our peculiar
institution is such, that we can no longer WIN
safety to our selves, with due sense OF our honor
and our rights, or with on eye to our paramount
interest remain quicscent and permit the issue 10
be determined against us by the fanatlcal en-
croachments of freesoilism. Opposition and per-
sstent wrongs have induced us to Investigate the
question of slavery in its moral and economical
aspects, and from that investigation we have been
led to regard it blessing and not curse, an IN
stituton of heaven for wise purposes, and the just
graduation of the races by which no oppression is
felt by the subjugated, and no natural law VIOLA
ted by the dominant caste. And if We expect TO
secure permanency to an institution, and on order
of civilization which we think are best calculated
to deveope all the resources of the South, physi-
cal and mental, we must adopt new policy-that
of propagandism. Instead of Warrington the slow
and strongly resisted spread of our civilization
we must thrust it out into the widernesses OF the
West and South West, and where the fertile prai-
ries spread beneath burning sun, send that spe-
cies of labor which alone can make them the gar
den spots of the world. Imagine solid wealth
and splendid civilization supplanting the prl-
meval forests and dotting with churches, schools
and towns the broad sayannahs of the South West.
Where the buffalo now roams and the ill-fated
Indian is unmolested in his barbarous rites, will
spread like wreath of snow the whitening cotton
fields and be heard the careless corn-song Of the
happy negro. The glowing sun which euervatcs
the Caucasian will be his strength, and the poison
GUS malaria which blasts the white man, will pass
him by unipiured. Such will be the desirable re-
suit if we can succeed in establishing our iustitu-
ton IN those rich domains, so well adapted to 1t
from climate and from situation.
But unless we take this course, or adopt some
new policy, what will be the consequence? The
selfshness and fanaticsm of freesoilism will lead
it to appropriate magnificent country which 1t
cannot develope, while the outward pressure on
our stationary civilization will cause its decay and
ultimate destruction. What else can be the result
when deprived of the power of resistance, and its
vital energy weakened by exclusion from new fields
of enterprise and the prospect of more glorious
triumphs? The lessons of history teach unmis-
takeably this fact-that a civilization cannot re-
main stationary. 1t must proceed to fresh victo-
ries or decay from the want of stimulus and en-
l. &c, g. ,Lao osy,o.
ton of the Mussulman, gradually periShing as it
lost the spirit of proseytism, to the older systems
of the East to the Grecian and Roman, and like
wise to the Feudal which rose upon their ruins
The moment they became stationary, the vivifying
principle appeared lost and they again relapsed
into the darkness from which they originated.
rnu0Iy u piopagahulsul 10 he
put in operation? How with restriction on the
slave. trade, and large majority in Congress op.
posed to the removal of that restriction, can We
plant our institutions in the western wldernesses,
before the influx of emigrants inimcal to our civ
ilization shall virtually exclude us forever from
to the South. Let her unite and test the inclina-
ton of the North to do US justice in the Union,
by bringing up the question in definite shape,
and with the clear understanding that South of
the MASON & DIXON Line, the territory is to be
forever open to Southern slaves, else the Union
is dissolved. This will of course, do away with
many fine spun theories, but it will place the
South in on attitude of defence where chicanery
and duplcity cannot reach her. And there will
be no injustice done to either section of the Union
because Northern emigrants have wide territory
open to them and let them occupy it, while to the
South, the Southwest justly belongs. There will
be no room for evasion on this platform. If the
North desires a continuation of the Union she
would accedc to the proposal, restore the lost
equilibrium, and give peace once more to the
country If she does not desire to preserve the
Union, it shows mean and craven spirit in US to
cherish longer the fatal alliance.
There could be no doubt as to the result of such
decisive course. The North would refuse to
comply with our reasonable demands, and by that
refusal, let US understand that the warfare on
slavery is to be persistent and unfinching. Our
only hope would then be disuuion. But we are
told that this is utraism Is it not in reality the
true and the only conservatism for the South Is
ltnot even desirable, when we look at the compli-
Gated interest and permanent antagonism between
the North and the South This seems to be the
growing opinion with the South even while she
cings with faint hopes to the democratic party
To this result the Knoxville Convention, in which
the real sentiments of the Southern people may
be supposed to have centered, seemed to look. In
the able speech of Mr.. BRYAN on recalling the
American squadron from the African coast, lie uses
the following significant language -
ssThus, with the Northern maj jority, with British
influence to back it, irretrievably opposed to every
measure beneficial to the South, nothing more is
to be hoped for, during the continuance of tho
Union, than the formation of Southern party, the
propagation of sound and enlightened Southern
opinion, and the preparation of the Southern mind
for those issues necessarily resulting from such
coalition"
Looking to the same issue, the President of the
Convention, Prof DEBow, uses the following Ian
guage in relation to the rights and resources of
the South:
Therefore, without discouragemcnt should the
Southern Convention continue its appeals, teach
ing the people
/. That they have rights more to be valued and
defended than any theories or sentiments about
Union and thousand times more important, be-
cause involving everything for which Government
OF Union is at all to be valued.
2. That they have resources, which, though ade-
quate to render them an important member Of the
Federal Union, are at The same time sufficient to
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