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

we were pleaseu, as' neoA'
our distinguished Representative, and extend TO
him another welcome to our District. And we
were specially gratifed, too, to greet him in SUCH
excellent health and spirits looking asst the Sc
we're service of the last term, in which he has
borne q .laborious part, had left no impression
upon him.
At Ebenezer and in Yorkville, Mr.. BoTcE ia
vored our people with an expose of his political
opinions N leading topics, and his course during
the last Congress. Other duties deprived US OF
the pleasure of hearing him, but we learn with
Measure, that be was rewarded by an unqualified
approval. At our request notes were taken OF his
remarks, from which We publish. the following
compendium, for the benefit of those of our read
ers who we're not fortunate enough to be at the
hearing:
At the outset, Mr.. BoYcE spoke at considerable
length upon the Kansas question. He said that
after CAIHous's decision, gi7ing the Legislature to
the Abolitionists, it was evident, the South had
nothing practical to gain by the admission Of Kan
sss. 1t was no benefit to the South to admit m
Abolition State, merely because she had q pro-
slavery Constitution; for q constitution that's not
sustained by public opinion is worth nothing. The
pro slayery Constitution would have been immedl'
ate|y altered, and our enemies weuld have derived
all the benefits from the admission of Kansas
The only question, then, was how we should dis
nose of Kansas 1t would not have done to leave
it-as an unsettled question with which to create o
revolution. For Kansas to have been a good revo-
lutionary issue, it would have been actually and
really what it merely seemed to be-a slave.State;
and not whatit actually was-an intense Abolition
State. 1t should have applied for admission I'M
der unexceptionable circumstances, instead Of
having proceeded without any enabling act, au-
thorizinc the formation of State Government,
and with a population utterly insufficient; and 1t
should have been rejected by the Black Republi-
cans whereas in their profound duplicity, even
they, with SEWARD at their head, had in voting
for the CR1rTENDEN Bill, authorized the admission
of Kansas even as a slave State, if the people so
desired on a popular vote. Under all the circum-
stances of the case, Kansas rejected, as a revolu-
tionary issue, was q dead ''cock in the pit" If
we had been so weak as to have created this issue,
the result would have been the utter discontinue
of the Southern Rights party, in almost every
Southern State and the cause of the South would
have been put back indefinitely. We did not
choose to commit this stupendous folly we did not
intend to originate intestine contests at the South,
which were obliged to end disastrously. There
were only two principles involved in the admission
of Kansas; first, that a State should not be rejec-
ted because it's constitution was pro-slavery Sec
ond, that Congress should not intervene to say by
what process the Constitution should be formed
We d~espaired Of the question securing, unimpair-
ed, both of these principles. We said to Kansas,
''we accept everything you have done and consent
to your admission, on the single condition that you
agree not to seize upon more of the public land,
than we have hitherto granted to new States if
you refuse this, then you must stay out until you
have o. 400 population"
The South cannot object to this. The Black
Republicans complain Justify on this point of pop
ulation they say it discriminates against free
dom. Kansas has voted upon this land proposition
and refuses to accept the terms offered, and there
fore remains out of the Union. This conclusive
" establishes the fact that Kansas is ultra anti
slavery. This being the case, the best thing for
US is for her to stay out of the Union. Her com
ing in would only give an accession of strength to
our enemies. If she should stay out forever, oil
the better. The rejection by Kansas of the con-
dition proposed for her acceptance before admls-
sion, ~evinces the extraordinary prejudice she has
towards the South. Rather than come in under
the Lecompton Constitution, q constitution which
she would speedily have altered, she prefers the
disadvantage of Territorial condition. The loss
of Kansas was deprecated, principally because OF
the entrance it might furnish the Abolitionists in
to the Indian Territory west of Arkansas, and the
preiudicial influence upon Missouri. But MIR.
Boyce thought there could be no doubt that the
South Gun, by the exercise of proper energy, obtain
possession of the Indian Territory west OF Arkan'
sas; because the climate Of the Territory is well
admitted to slave labor; the Indians now settled
there arc considerably civilized and Shareholders f;
and the territory is accessible to the South: AS
regards Missouri, slavery will not be abolished
there, in Mr.. Boyce's opinion; if the adjacent
Southern States prevent the introduction Of the
| slaves of Missouri into their limits. There are