Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10

McKissick, A. j. Sanders, and F. NJ. Arm
strong, of Union J. NJ. Mills and P. c.
McMakin, of Spartanburg.
David Bobo, also from Uion, was in
camp with the boys. He went to Kansas
on his own means, and from sense of duty
He has settled near Atchison City, in the
Kickapoo country, which is the finest por'
ton of Kansas, where he is making invest
ments in lands that will more than eompen
safe him for the sacrifices he has made.
Besides these, I met with many other
South Carolinians, all of whom seemed to be
contented and happy. Amongst them, Ib-
zan J. Rice, former Editor of the Anderson
Gazette, now associate Editor of the Lea0-
enporM Journal. In this Office, also met
Benz. Murtishaw, formerly from this village,
but latterly from Columbia. Mr.. Hinton,
its foreman, once Of the Mercury office,
Charleston H. F.. Hardy, once of the
Congaree House, Columbia; he is assistant
P. NJ. at Leavenworth, and was about clo-
sing a contract with Government to go with
Gen. Harvey to Salt Lake, at very fair wa
ges. Majr. Dargan, is also at Leavenworth city
engaged in commission and mercantile busi.
ness. I also had the pleasure of making
the acquaintance of Mr.. Boyd, of Kingstree,
who slapped the jaws of the notorious house
burner and robber, Gen. Mitchell, the lead
er of part of Lanes Free-soil faction
He is practicing law at Donaphon, is young
man of fine talent, character and habits, and
will do well
In regard to the political condition and
aspect of Kansas affairs, it grieves me to see
with what alacrity the newspapers generally,
and especially of South Carolina, seize hold
of and publish with editorial denunciations,
any telegraphic despatch, and news scraps,
calculated to detract and injure the charac-
ter and cause of the pro-slavery party in
Kansas. 1t is indeed lamentable, that the
entire newspaper press, with the single ex-
ception of the Charleston Mercury, and
perhaps the Courier,) should manifest such
a total want of correct information touching
a matter of such vital Importance to them
and the South To publish dispatches and
rumors without comment, if erroneous may
be excused but it is objectionable in Ed
itors, whose high and sacred business it is
to construct and enlighten public opinion, to
deliberately write and publish what is not
only improbable, but wholly false in fact
Since Gov. Walkers "Isothmnaal line"
policy was inaugurated in Kansas, the press
sustaining him, and the national democracy
generally seem to be perfectly demented
with the idea that soil and climate are to de-
termine the question of slavery in Kansas
and they argue as if they believed it
Foremost in this Isothermal" school in
this state, is the Sourh Corolinion, sup
ported by the Patriot and Nountaineer and
Spartantury Erpress. The first of these
and perhaps the most influential of the
three, in his blind zeal to sustain the Buchal.
an and Walker policy, before in fact, it is
known what that policy is, gravely asserts
that "it is because the country (Kansas) is
not, under providence, doomed to slave la
bor; X and thatthe winds of Heav
en- and the elements are against u.s." This
argument, if argument it can be called, is
not only uutenable, but is palpably and
plainly illogical it furnishes its own refu-
tation. If soil and climate will prohibi,
slavery in Kansas, why is it sthat such
clamor is made by the Abolitionists of the
North, and of Kansas, in favor of prohibit
ing slavery by positive lac? Now I an
swer the question? 1t is because, under
providence" slavery is "doomed to ex-
ist in Kansas, if not prohibited by positive
law. Gov. Walker knows this; the Abo-
litionsts know it, and the pro.savery party
know it; and the Editor of the Caroliniau
may know it, if he will visit that country.
In Missouri, some portions of which is
north of Kansas, slave labor is to-day worth
double what it is in South Carolina. And
so it would be in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana,
where soil and climate, and "the winds of
Heaven and the elements" are quite as fatal
to slavery as they are in Kansas; and slave
ry would exist in these States if not pro-
hibited by positive law. They contain the
finest hemp lands in the world, and wherev-
er hemp can be grown successfully, field
hand will hire for from $3.50 to $500
year, and will make from $500 to $500 a.
bove the ordinary crops of corn, Wheat,
Oats, Potatoes, &c. This is the case in
Missouri, and will be the case in Kansas, if
positive law does not doom slavery
there.
Not less injurious to the cause of Kansas,
and false, is the Carolinian's estimated
strength of the pro-slavery party there
Basing his calculation upon the census of
"Gov. Robinson"-as he is pleased to call
this notable murderer-he informs the South,
and Robinson's friends at the North, that
there is exactly l55 slaves in Kansas s.
600 pro-slavery votes, and 1900 abolition
votes The conclusion there arrived at is
far, very far from being true and it is su-
prising-unaccountable-that the Carol-
MAN should prefer the authority of "Gov.
Robinson " to that of the pro-slavery party
in Kansas. Under law of the Territory,
a registration of voters was made last spring
showing nearly 10000 voters, nine-t -tenths of
whom were known to be pro slavery men; a