Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-03-19

treaty with Mexico, negotiated by Mr.. Forsyth
no action has been taken. In many respects IL Is
said to be highly conservative of our interests
but the unprecedented feature, providing for loan
of fifteen millions of money to Mexico, is deemed
sufficient for the rejection of the entire docu-
ment.
- The important measure of the regular ses-
sion is that modifying the Tariff. 1t will mate
rally affect tie country in more respects than one
To those who have marked with regret the pro-
grcss of bribery and corruption, it will be the
harbinper Of n return to pristine purity IN our
National Legislature. surplus revenue IN the
keeping of partisan leaders, is positive ana ag-
gressivc evil, which would corrupt the most pat
riotic body of Legislators who ever assembled IN
the Amphyctrionic Council, or wore the grave and
solemn mir of the Roman Senate. BY the new
tariff, this surplus will be diminished; the coun-
try will be relieved Of q burden OF taxation n
mounting to fourteen millions Of dollars ; new
impetus will be given to commercial enterprise
and our people may enjoy, in some degree an
era Of wealth and plenty-a fcretaste, Tor time
at least of the enriching blessings Of free trade
The manufacture es of England and France Will
come in fairer competition with Northern industry;
and we shall experience less Of the high-handed'
wholesale extortion which has so long crippled
the industrial energies of the Southern people.
True. the qualification which this legislation
should impart, is diminished by the fact that the
evil is only mitigated, and not thoroughly eradl-
Gated. The odious principle protection, against
which the South has long raised her voice, still re-
mains-a deforming feature in our governmental
system. But the idea that the interests OF one
section arc to be forever sacrificed to promote the
prosperity of another section, is too gl"ring and
repulsive to be permanently entertained BY the ad
vocates of truth and justice and we gladly re-
cornize in the new tariff schedule ameasure right
ly to be regarded the precursor of practical and
radical reform.
The decision of the Supreme Court in the
Drcd Scott casc attracts the attention of all par
ties-a source Of congratulation to the lovers OF
the Union and the friends of the South, and the
object of direst animadversion on the part OF
the Black Republicans 1t seems to have struck ter
ror along theis path. The Herald, and arch enemy
of the South, has the boldness to admit that, mt
single blow, it shivers the anti-slavery platform
of the late great Northern Republican party into
atoms" We are tempted to copy large sample
Of its hypocritical stuff "1t is of more vital I'M
nortonce." saws the Herald, sin reference to the
settlement of the slavery question than any or all
the other acts and proceedings upon this SUBJECT
Legislative and judicial, State or Federal-since
,be organization of the General Government
This supreme and final tribunal in the interpreta-
ton of the constitution and the laws has deere
that Negroes or men of the African race, whether
bond or free arc not citizens of the United States
by the Federal Constitution that the ordinance
of 1857 was superseded by the Constitution; that
the Missouri Compromise of 1920 was an uncon-
stitutional act that shareholders have the right
TO carry their slaves into the Territories; that
the legal condition Of 4 slave in slave State ls
not affected by his temporary sojourn in free
State: and that Congress has no power over the
question of slavery in Territory, and cannot
delegate any power over the subject to the Terri
torial legislatures The Importance and compre'
bcnsive bearings of these decisions cannot be over
estimated-they coverall the disturbing party and
sectional issues upon the slavery controversy, nnd
strike at the root of the mischief in every case
But the masses of the Northern people 10 not
seem to be so dreadfully affected. They know full
we'll that this decision has touched vulnerable
point. and placed them at great disadvantage
They do not surrender, however. The Abolition
presses publish in ertenso the opinions OF the dis
senting Justices, while the decision of the Chief
Justice and the opinions of those asserting thereto
are studiously avoided. The New York Assem-
bly Immediately considered resolution offered
for Joint Committee to take the case in special
charge In the Massachusetts, Legislature, an
order was adopted constructing the Committee on
Federal Relations to consider the expediency Of
ipstructinr our Senators and requesting our Rep
resentatives in Congress to propose an amendment
of the Constitution of the United States electlng
judges of the supreme and inferior courts by the
people for term of years" The proposition for
an elective Judiciary has been seriously mooted;
and everywhere, throughout the North, agtatOrs
are arranging plan of bitter warfare against the
hitherto incorruptible tribunal before which they
have been so completely discomfttcd. The old
issues must be thrown aside, and new platform
erected, prominent amongstthc features Of which
is to be deadly hostility to the Supreme Court.
So early and so skillfully, are the counsels taken
for the great and decisive struggle of 1860
COURT WEEK.