Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-29

the government o unit. Suppose an act, Of Con-
gress pass calling D national convention TO revise
and amend Che Constitution of the United States (;
with half the determination and none Of the ras-
cality employed by this administration to carry
the Lecompton outrage, therco-operation OF q ma
jority of the State legislatures might be secured
to appoint delegates to the Convention, and the
Convention might proceed to amend the Consti-
tuition by abolishing the slave representation and
the surrender of fugitive slaves, altering the ap-
portionment to correspond, and remodeling the
Supreme Court, so as to vacate the bench 1T once,
and require new Judges to be appointed, and then
simply order the next succeeding election to be
held under the new schedule, the returns to be
made and elections certified by the President Of
the Convention.
"On the 4th Of March, 1866; the Government
would be peaceably inaugurated on the new basis,
ready for harmonious and r~esistless action in all
its branches-legislstive, executive, and judicial.
And any minority of States would find themselves
without remedy Ut deliverance. TheySaHonld be
within the boundaries and occupying the territory
of the United States, and subject to all the laws
thereof, as at present. Other nations would at
once recognise the authority Of the Government
and its right to the exercise of its laws with
in its own bounds, as heretofore. And no power
on earth could review or alter the result"
With these prospects, it is astonishing that the
Southern people and their Representatives in Con-
gress, should remain as quiet, and exhibit as much
unconcern and apathy, as if there was no impend-
ing danger to our dearest interest and rights, and
the existence of slavery. They close their eyes
to the two great truths which, though as yet in
the future, are yet certain to occur, and from this
time there neper ,wiH be another slaveholding State
admitted TO the present Federal Union, and there neu-
er niH be another Southern man elected Presdent-
unless, indeed, he is q renegade and o traitor to
the South, and as such, is made use OF by the
Northern Abolitionists to the ruin of the South.
If the latter of these great truths only were fully
acknowledged, it would put life and vigor into
the now almost dead political body Of the South.
But Southern a~spirants to the Presidency are
blinded by their ambitious hopes, and viii not see
what is plain and palpabls to other thinking men.
And, unfortunately, the known Southern sspirsnts
in Congress may be meptioned by the dozen; and,
perhaps, twice as many others entertain such
hopes, whose concealed aspirations have not been
suspected by the public. -. To- :
Now, unless in the rare csse'o a man Of such
Roman virtue and perfect integrity and noble am
could and did dare to stand alone and unsupport-
ed by any friend or power, when. required by his
sense of right, duty, aud his couutry's great in
terests-no candidate for the Presidency can eIer-
else much OF what otherwise would be his in1u-
ence, to sustain the cause Of the South. However
~foolishly sanguine he may be, in seeking what is
impossible to attain, he is obliged to know thathe
can be elected only by Northern votes. Then the
purest Of living men, so situated, will be cautious
Of offending the North, aud will be more. silent
and less earnest and active in opposing Northern
aggressions, than he would be otherwise. Hall
the value of such a supporter OF the South whine
~cassarily be lost, even though his votes and his
acts are always on the right side. And If so much
would be lost to our cause with even the best men
how much more in any aspirants who would bid
for Northern votes unscrupulously, by. sfording
positive aid and service?
If Seward, or any other Abolitionist or "Black
Republican" is elected in 1850, and, Of course,
by an entirely sectional vote, and shall be- imam.
gurated and arrange his administration, there will
be no prospects for safety-no hope for the very
existences of the South--eveni il respectb be paid TO
the letter of the Federal Constitution, and all. its
guarantees Of the equal rights Of the Southern
States and people