Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-23
From the Washington Star.
Kansas.

Kansas.
The efforts of abolitionism TO clutch Kansas,
which have within the last fortnight been renewed
with intense ardor, Judging from the columns Of
the journals in its interest," prove clearly to our
mind that it is we'll aware Of the immensity Of the
stake for which It phys; and also that it is per-
fectly reckless of the ultimate consequences ofits
success in that game. The mere question of the
existence of slavery in that far off Territory can
not be- per Sc, the cause of the remarkable expen-
diture of money and of the time Of the thousands
on thousands in the non. slaveholding States who
have wholly or in part devoted themselves to the
mission of making Kansas non Acknowledgements
bit ont. Upon the future character Of the in
stitutions of Kansas we sincerely believe, hinges
the solution Of the problem Of the Unions dura-
ton. That will last SO long as the balance Of
power shall be kept mp so that the whim or will
of the majority may not usurp the place Of con-
stitution and law, in the action of the General
Government. Once let the opinion generally pre-
vail throughout the South that hope of the OBJ
servance of the obligations of the constitution be-
tween the two sections is no longer to be nationally
entertained, aud with well nigh unanimous accord
her people will look to the first law of nature
self preservation; and 10 that end only.
Time was, and within our own remembrance
too when no American statesman dreamed Of ad-
ding States to the Union except BY pairs; q pol
icy so necessary for the preservation Of the bal
once of power among the sovereigns Of the Con-
ledcracy, upon which their harmony hinged
Under the influence, we sincerely believe, of the
policy of the General Government for tlle most
part, that wise rule has been abandoned, and one
great section has obtained o majority in both hou-
ses of Congress, over the other. From the hour
of the abandonment Of that policy down to the
present day, the fury of anti.Southern sectional.
ism has been increasing in the national legisla-
ture until doctrines which thirty years ago would
have been universally condemned as involving the
certain destruction of the Confederaoy if carried
out by the General Government, are now almost
alone to be heard from the lips of popularit- nun
ters in the n-slaveholding States. The right Of
people, who have adopted the institutions COM
mon to all the States when the Confederacy was
formed, to demand entrance into the Union is de-
pied, we fear by o majority of the voters Of the
non-saveholdiug States, md holds sway by the
megrest conceivable majority in the House of Rep
resentatves if at all, only through the joint ac-
ton of the unanimous South and handful of pa-
triotic Northern statesmen of sufficient nerve to
brave public opinion in their section in the dis
charge of their high public trust. What is to
stay the increase Of the power Of anti-slayery,
which must be stayed if the Confederacy is to
hang together? Surely, notsuccess in its progress
proofs of its power to work its will.
1t struggles for Kansas as it does, because
knowing that her obtainment places it firmly on
the sure line of its intended future operations
against the institution Of negro slavery through
out the whole South. s.s-nlT,-
Suppose it carries the day there? Missouri
will then be surrounded on three sides--North,
East and West-with non-slaveholding States;
while she is bordered on the South with o slave
holding ndan territory, worth little to the South
as such because from more or less cf the attrib-
utes of its condition, its Businesses ong to contn-
ue such) con hardly fail to become herbors for her
runaway slaves, and those of Mississippi, Tenncs-
see, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; Kansas be-
ing, in the MEANWHILE from the character of the
Northern population thrust into it for political
enls, as ultra an abolition State as Massachusetts
herself.
Under such circumstances, who can rationrlly
entertain the hope that Missouri will not be COM
PEELED re' jas ani ur jas TO abandon slavery: Who,
also, fails to comprehend that the promise of the
Constitution and law, that New Mexico may, at
will. adopt the institution Of slavery, and thus aid
awhile longer in the preservation OF show ofthe
necessary sectional equilibrium, will be the idfest
dream conceivable. How could a Southern man
carry his slave property there, when 1T would be
necessary to pass through non slaveh0lding Mis-
there-.Ncw Mexico.
Abolitionism, in this Kansas game, is thus play
ing for the adjustment Of slavery in Missouri, and
an insurance that it shall never exist iu New Mex
leo. Kansas is, indeed, the ou;work of the cita-
del of the Souths defence against the progressing
assaults Of abotionism. When that falls, where
is her refuge from the infuriated hostility Of abo
l!tionisn as preached from thousand pulpits
weekly, spoutcd from as many stumps and lecture
rooms, and printed in a thousand newspapers
daily:
The patriotic policy of the late Administration
with reference to Kansas, railways struck us, was
based on thoughtful appreciation of the state Of
things that will surely arise throughout the South
when that outwork, as explained above, may have
fallen into the enemy's hands. We are for the
preservation Of the Union with all our heart and
soul; and We regard the, defeat Of the slupcn-
dous efforts that abolitionism is sessaying to make
the Territory its own rs the key to the accom-
plishment Of its preservation.
In the adoption Of lis far-seeing policyin this
connection, the late Administration planted itself
wisely, indeed, on the true principle of the Con-
stitu,ion--on that of the right Of the people Of