Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13
EDITED BY
JOHN L. MILLER....JO JOSEPH 81. BLACK
YORKVlLLE, S. G.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST Is, 1857.
KANSASANA.

generally called Iortn the ceusuie VI WIG DN
Press and, we think, rightly enough But we
cannot say that he has disappointed US In the
least. We did not expect him to be, in any sense
of the term, pro-slavery Governor. We have
long since learned that there is wide difference
between men who tolerate, and men who prefer the
institutions of the South. Any smo othed-taced
william will tolerate slavery when it is to his inter-
est to do go, and the moment it becomes anvanta'
geous, will oppose it with the virulence OF raoa
abolitionist And it is such men who are most
dangerous to the South. We very readily belleVe
because they are willing to tolerate slavery in or
der to gain certain object, that they are IKE
ourselves convinced that it is not necessary evil,
but wise institution, ordained of God and fraught
with the prosperity and happiness of the Southern
States. Unless a man really believes this, he is
not O reliable pro-slavery man. lie Will 20 70
trust so long as his interest is involved III the per-
manencv of the institution and no longer. And
we have no doubt but WALLER is just such man.
IF it suits his selfish views to favor the abolition
lists, who doubts but that he will do 1t! But we
do not think him an abolitionist in the strong
sense of the term. He is what most Of the Nation
al Democrats North, and few of those South
are-an accomplished hypocrite by nature and
practice. He has invested his funds in National
Democratic stock, and to raise that stock above
par, is now the main object in view.
There are presses in this, and other Southern
States. who mention that Gov. WALKERS course is
rot sanctioned by the administration. 1t is easy
for a man with one dominant idea in his head to
believe any thing. If man sets out with the pre-
mise that JAMES BUCHANAN is immaculate, that
under his rule the South cannot possibly suffer
the least detriment that with his election all
cause of anxiety and vigilance on the part of the
South ceased that the progressive spirit OF aoo'
ltionism was checked forever; why, of course,
it is to be expected, that he will believe the equal
" absurd proposition that WALKER 'ro"'d not "nre
to act contrary to the express wishes of BUcHAS-
AN But no man. we presume, who does not en-
tauge and mystify himself in the false premises
we have just mentioned can believe that WALKER
went to Kansas without explicit directions as to
the course he was to pursue. But we are told
that bis directions could not be explicit, and that
large discretionary power was necessarily entrnst'
ed to him. What fimsy stuff! Cannot we tell
his instructions as we'll as if we had been admitted
into the secret conclave OF BUCHANAN, COBB 20
s.To you, ROBERT J. WALKER, is entrusted the
delicate task of putting the National Democratic
collar on the neck of Kansas. As the South
claims you let it be your first object to concllate
the abotionsts, for they will naturally be jealous
of your precedents and it will not be difficult to
cajole the South. If You can only succeed in
quieting the agitation, the frebrand will die out
of itself, Kansas will be Democratic State and
the Union will be preserved"
Such we may reasonably presume were the gen.
eral instructions which BUCHANAN and his Cabinet
would dictate, and WALKER, hitherto, has reli,
gously observed them. There is nothing in them
which Southerner, with the idea of the preser-
vation of the Union uppermost in his head, could
object to. WALKER is told to make II a democrat
tc, net slave or free State. The steps he has
taken seem about to prove successful. Why
then say he has acted contrary to his instruc-
tions? Is there anything in the directions which
we have supposed were given him, to justify his
course in Kansas? Can we suppose his instruc.
tions were more favorable to the South than those
given above? 1t is very easy for BUCHANAN tc
say that WALKER acted on his own responsibility
1t is very easy for his accredited organ to proclaim
this to the South. But WALKER is not recalled
and the prestige which the South had in Kansas
is lost forever These arc facts. They speak fol
themselves. He must be wilfully blind who can
not understand the transactions of WALKER in
Kansas, so very potent are they.
So far, every friend of the Administration viii
acknowledge, that we have been liberal in tht
construction put on WALKERS course. And in i
all, where do we find injustice to the South p
What if we do not try to find any injustice to tht
South? What if we say that the South has beer
treated impartially? Against what party woult
these admissions initiate; the National Demo
cratic party at the South or the State and South
ern Rights men, or rs they are otherwise termed,
the Extremists? Surely against the former.
the Democratic policy is to weaken and ruin th
South through her own assistance and co-opera
tion surely of all parties, that is most to be dread
ed Give us an open foe and we care not how higl
he rears his naughty crest, nor how fierce and de-
fant the fash of his eye, sustained by the justic
of our cause we will meet him with hopes of sue
cess. But we cannot so meet an insidious enem,
''who makes the worse appear the better reason.
He convinces US that we are getting justice, Will
at the some time, We feel that, like the victories
PYRRHUs, such manner of dealing out justic
will ruin us. So that really, in attempting to jus
tify BUCHANAN and the Democratic Party, We dea
one Of the severest blows at that organization
which could be given it, did the South understan
her vital interests or could she be brought to loo
beyond the present to the gloomy future.
But with the admissions just made, how are W.
to prove that the South has received the least in
justice, or what can we possibly find to object to
The injustice is found here. In electing BUcHAN
AN, the South expected her interests to be fost
ed equally with the interests of the North, he
rights to be protected, the countenance and infu
ence of the President and Administration in re
storing the equilibrium between the two autagon
istic sections of the Union, by which alone, he
rights can be made secure in the Union. She eS
pected the natural laws, as Senator MASON, re
marks, which govern immigration, would give Ne
braska to the North, and Kansas to the South
She expected the Administration, in other word: