Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-08-19

eighty thousand slaves in Missodri-a number too
great to be set free, whether-we regard the sacri'
6ce of property involved in their emancipation,
or the injury to the State by SO largely increasing
the class of free negroes. The Southern States
therefore, must observe the course of events IN
Missouri with great vigilance, and if there be any
tendency to emancipation, il muskbs made a thing
to be done by the people Of Missouri at their own
expense. -.
Some. persons are inclined to take great alarm
| at the immense increase Of new free States, antic.
ipated as designed to grow up IN the heart of the
Continent between the Missouri river and, the Pa
| cifc. This region of country is indeed formida-
| BILE m:eStcnt, but fortunately it has been so order
ed IN the Providence Of. Coo. that it is almost en-
tirsly. barren and in a.great degree destitute of
wood and water, and unsuited to sustain o COM
pact,Scivilized society. The army Of civilization
must soon pause in its western course. IT, there
fore, we can maintain a settled policy, the princi-
nile embodied in the Kansas Bill, that the people
| of o Territory should not be permitted to form a
State Government until they have a population
eoual to the ratio of representations ratio in
creasinp with every census-we will not be over
run with new free. States. Some additional free
States will doubtless grow up on the Pacific coast;
but Mr.. Boyce does not apprehend our enemies
will b. much strengthened by the admission Of
these States. California, though admitted against
the wishes of the South, has almost uniformly nc
ted with the South. The same result may beam
,;c;nated from the action of the future Pacific
States. The negro mania does not exist on the
Pacific coast. California has recently legislated
to rid herself of her free negro population. Orc
gon had q strong tendency to adopt African slave
~ by her constitution. She did moi do this, how.
ever. though there was a considerable popular
vote for it. But she excluded free negroes.
This conservative tendency of the Pacific States
could readily be explained on obvious principles
hut Mr.. B. was content with merely noticing the
fact; arriving at the result, on this point, that
there is no likelihood Of the free States becoming
sufficiently numerous to change the Federal Con-
~sitution to tie detriment of the South.
But this only removes one form of danger with
which we may be threatened. The free States,
though they may not have sufficient power to
change the Constitution, yet may have a majority
in every branch of the government; and can, If
they unite in a sectional party, take possession Of
the Government. Are they likely to do this The
sectional movement North, hostile to the South, is
caused BY three leading ideas: l. Love Of the
negro: 9. Love for themselves 8. Hatred for the
South. The abolitiouists, who constitute the first
class, are in q minority in every Northern State;
hut thew have an influence beyond their numbers,
caused by their enthusiasm and the necessity 9TH
er parties are under of counting them. The form
of moral education North, the influence of the
press and the pulpit would tend, it would seem,
gradually to strengthen this party. On the other
hand, the failure of the emancipation experiment
in the Vest Indies and elsewhere, has had a pow
erful influence on the enlightened public opinion
of the civilized world. This effect must have been
experienced ut the North likewise; and must in
some degree have counteracted the moral mania
movement there.
Under the term '.love for themselves" Mr.. B.
included not merely the desire for political pow
ers, with its manifold advantages, but the desire
for the material advantages to be obtained from
settling up such portions Of the new territory MS
are adapted to free labor. The remaining idea
alluded to, shatred of the South" requires no ex-
planation. 1t is o fact Beyond dispute, that o large
portion Of the Northern people absolutely hate Us.
No better proof of this could be desired than their
line of political action, and the tone Of their press
and of some of their public speakers.
This hostile sectional movement North has a-
tained its most formidable proportions upon ter
ritorial questions, where the territory in dispute
was adapted to free labor. Missouri, California,
and Kansas, were the instances. 1t has always,
hitherto, required q practical question, involving
all of these three classes of ideas alluded to as
the cause of Northern sectionalism, to give it its
fullest development. Louisiana, Florida and Tex
as, with her four prospective Slave States, were
acquired by the aid of Northern votes. The
North said she would gain great material advanta-
ges by the acquisition of these Territories; there
fore, she consented to it, though they were slave
territories.
Judging of the future by the past, it would
seem that there is no question Of a practical M
ture likely to come up Immediately, which would
combine the whole North in a hostile attitude to
the South. If Fremont, with the practical issue
of Kansas, aggravated as it was by accidental
| circumstances, failed to carry the North on a hos
tile programme against us, it would seem that
there would be less likelihood o: such q result be-
ing now attained. Kansas has lost its magnitude
as a political question. tits a free Territory, and
will not be anything else but . free State there
fore, there cannot be any great degree Of agitation
further on that account.
The three great occasions, as already indicated,
on which tie North and South came near q COLI
sion, were in regard to Missouri, California and
Kansas. After the two first were disposed of, the
antagonism between the two sections was for a
while much mitigated. Political parties we're i'm
mediately formed on o National basis. 1t would
seem, therefore, according to the laws Of parties,
the same result should follow now; and the Black
Republican party, as o distinct political organiza-
ton, should die ont; and instead Of one general
party extending over both sections, and one Sec
tional party limited to only one section, there
should be two general parties. If this does not
take place if the effort to form q National sec,
tional party is continued, it will indicate o more