Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-08
MORE OF THE FUSION

throw of the continued efforts of Southern
Know Nothiugs and Northern Black Repub-
licans, to defeat the election Of James Buch-
anan, had beaten little sense and patriotism
into the brains of the Know Nothing leaders.
The gallant people of the keystone State
nobly spurned the solicitations of such quasi
Southern men as Bolts and Rayner, to help
the cause of Fremont by sustaining the "fu-
sion" Fillmore and Fremont ticket, and gave
clear majority to the Democratic cause of
the Constitution and the Union. Thorough
ly routed on the Pennsylvania battle-ground,
there was some reason to ar 'icipate that the
Southern schemes of the "American party
would have been content to bear their inglo-
rious defeat with little equanimity, to bow
to the will of the people, and to abstain for
a little while from their baf1ied Vaccinations
of anti. Democratic fusion.
But the events of the past few days in
Congress satisfy US that "the creature is at
his dirty work again. The Democracy
must be resisted in its holy mission of CIV
ing peace to the country, at any risk The
movement of Etheridge, Southern anti
Nebraska Know Nothing, sprung in the
House on Monday, on the subject of the
slave trade, without consultation with his fel-
low-members from the South, looks like
wretched attempt to produce dissenslon and
division among the Southern members, and
thereby to play into the hands of the Black
Republican members. We rejoice that Mr..
Orr, of South Carolina, so promptly defeated
this Know Nothing movement by bringing
forward temperate resolution which fairly
represented the universal sentiment of the
South in opposition to the wild and visionary
project of the revival of the slave trade, and
which received the sanction of nearly every
member of the House of Representatives,
This wise and patriotic act of Mr.. Orr, cou.
pied with the action of the Savannah Con-
vention, will fall like thunder-bolt upon the
Vaccinations of the Black Republicans and
will blow up their basely cherished schemes
of making capital out of Southern divisions.
But there is still another striking phase Of
an unholy assimilation between Know Moth
ingism and Black Republcanism. The at
tcntion of the people of the South, and par
ticularly of the "American" party, should
be directed to the recent remark in the
House of Mr.. II. Marshall, of Kentucky,
viz: 81 would not give the toss of cop
per- as to which of the two political candi-
dates had been elected to the Presidency,
Mr.. Buchanan or Mr. Fremont - Such
declaration from the leader of the "South
American" party in Congress, is well calcu-
lated to give aid and comfortt to the chiefs Of
the Black Republican host. Are the South
ern Know Nothing party prepared to reiter-
ate and stand by the sentiment of their lead
er in Congress? Are they ready to admit
that John c. Fremont is as sound and safe
as the able Pennsylvania statesman who has
always stood by the constitutional rights Of
the South? What other consequence can
flow from such prejudiced and partisan op-
position to the voice of the people, than that
in their anxiety to defeat the success of the
incoming administration, they furnish weap-
ons for the Black Republican assailaDts Of
the South, the Constitution and the Union ?
As matters stand, Southern Know Nothings
must take their choice between the Democ-
racy, sustained by the people, and the Black
Republican phalanx. Can any true South
ern man, can any patriotic lover of right
and of the peace of the Union, hesitate for
one moment? To break down, or even
thwart the conservative action of Mr.. Buch-
anan's administration, is to act with the enc
mics of the Constitution, the real disunionists
of the land. No Southern man can in his
conscience mistake the obligations of duty.
Richmond Enquirer.