Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-16
OMINOUS.

Whenever people situated ike the ooutnelh
people in the midst of danger, manifest such a
tendency to sink into repose and forgettuness' "
seems The omen of evil tmes--thc inevitable pre-
ludc to national dccadence. Did not singular
lethargy herald the downfall of the Republics OF
Greece? Did it not preface the destruction Oh
Roman Liberty ?-and has not every nation that
has undergone a revolution whether for better or
worse, whether from internal or external causes
been subjected to change, from Incidence or disin-
clination to put forth in time, the cxertion neces
sarv to still the internal commotion or to repel
the external danger There is another sign, IN
dicative of evil to the South-the croaking raven
of sinister auspices-in the difficulty OF harmon-
zinp her counsels when she does awaken 10 spas
modic effort. The exertions of our ablest states
men, have failed to 10y the foundation OF consls-
tent plan of action, which would meet the appro-
baton of the Southern people, and enable them
to resist successfully, the combined attact Of fa-
natioism and political profigacy
Is it not omnous? And now, when we are Hat
tering ourselves with new hopes and cheering
prospects, of peace and quietude, under the new
administration, comes the announcement that the
war has opened on new scene-that the stealthy
tread of the foe is even now in our mldst-that
the fetters, which like Xerxcs of old, the Demo-
cratic leaders have cast upon the waters and the
voice which rung out over the sea, ''peace, be
still n' from thousand democratic presses, are
alike impotent and unable to control the war OF
elements so essentially antagonistic. That commo-
tiou must exist so long as there remains diversi
ty of interests between the two sections, North
and South and when will that diversity cease p
Well does the South know that it will only cease
when separation places US beyond the baleful in
fluence of brethren, who seek to rob US of our
brthright, or total emancipation satiates the
Maelstrom of Aboltionism. If we remain inac.
tive. and listen to those lemagogucs who sing
peaus to the Union, it requires no great foresight
to see the result. One by one will the Southern
States, be in infected with the riru' of cmancipa-
ton, until the confines of slavery will be narrowed
down to contemplate territory
This is not chimera of the brain; There IS re-
al danger of such n result We are not idle a!ar-
mists, but the recent demonstrations against Fir-
cnia and Missouri, show too plainly that the
South, like the boastfal Achilles is not nyulnera-
BILE.
The New York Herald, sometimes utters truths
to which it would be well for US to listen. 1t uses
the following language in relation to fact, which
in itself may we'll startle the South.
"TuE ST. LOUIS CITY ELEcTIoYs.-1t appears
that the party in st. Louis openly advocating the
policy of the gradual abolition of slavery as the
true policy of the South, have in their very first
battle, carried the city by some fifteen hundred
majority. This is sign. 1t is the entering wedge
to similar movements in oil the border slave States
No doubt of it. No help for it Efor the solid az
gument of the pocket is irresistible aI,ong COM
munties and States, as among families and indl-
viduals. Meantime, we recognize in this st. Louis
election n significant reaction in Missouri against
the Kansas border rufian policy Of Atchison,
Stringfellow and Company, and movement of
very great import in reference to tic slavery
feature Of the great campaign of 1860. Hence
forward there will be no sleep to the disunon
fire. eaters of the border slave States. The Nor
thern hive is swarmng and Its outpourlnS mil
lions must have room"
Yes, it will shave room" and if we remain in
the Union, it will shave room at the expense of
the South. But there is one way to check its en-
croachment. When the "Northern hive" poured
into England, they were at first successful. But
the Great Alfred, having united the English and
calmed their internal dissensions, victorousy re-
PEELED the plundcring hordes. Let the South take
the lesson. United among ourselves and separa-
ted from the North, we need fear no danger.