Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-07-08
The Celebration In Winnsboro'.-Mr. Boyce's
Address.

We were in Winnsboro' on Monday, and witnes
sed the celebration of the eighty second ~anniver-
sary of independence, by the patriotic citizens Of
Fairfield. About l03. the procession was form d
in front of the Court House, under the marshall
ship of Maj. ]. H. Rion. 1t then proceeded to the
beautiful oak grove behind the Presbyterian
Church. There was prepared a stand and tempo
rary seats. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr..
Mccullough, after which the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was read by Mr.. n. A. Gaillard. Mr..
D. W. Aiken, the orator Of the day, then delivered
q spirited address. After on intermission of ff.
teen or twenty minutes, the Hon. W. W. Boyce
then took the stand and proceed to address his
constituents. He spoke of the great pleasure it
afforded him to be once more in his native State.
He reverted to the measures that had agitated the
last Congress, and proceeded fully into a vindica
ton of the course the Southern members had pur'
sued with reference to Kansas.
Among other questions of o vexed nature that
had come down to Mr.. Buchanan's administration
was this Kansas difficulty. His first act was to
appoint R.. j. Walker Governor. This was a very
unfortunate appointment. But it was urged upon
Mr.. Buchanan by Southern men. lie had even been
recommended very strongly fnr Secretary of State.
He lacked directness Of purpose aud his first
speech was q blunder. He, moreover, had Interior
motives, and was looking himself 20 the Presiden-
cy. At first the Kansas issue promised to be a
partial one; but as facts developed themselves, it
became evident that the South had nothing to gain
by the admission, even under the Lecompton Con-
| s%titution, for towards the conclusion of the contest
it h became apparent beyond all doubt. that the free
State party was in O neutrality-suspicious. had given
the State, and thus the first consequence of the
admission would have been to place Lane and Rob-
inson in the United States Senate. 1t was allied
ged that frauds had been p~racticed under the Lee
compton Constitution, and the misfortune was,
they proved them true. He alluded to her def
cheney in population and the absence of any emma.
bling act, and referring to tho case of Michigan,
showed that this had been regarded rs of great
Importance by Mr.. Calhoun. The pro-slavery
party in Kansas, too, had given up the contest,
and in convention, with enc single exception, had
declared that the opposition was so overwhelming
that it vas useless longer to contend.
Gen. Atchison had withdrawn from the contest,
and had said there was no use to make any further
efforts. In this condition the South then found
itself. 1t was actually contending for the admins
sion of a free State. The pro.slavery Constitution
was not worth the paper. it was written on, and
would Immediately have been altered. But there
was no retreating from the first position they had
taken in favor of the Lecompton Constitution
The Conference bill was then proposed aud was
passed. and thus the whole matter was thrown out
of Congress. Some thought that the bill should
have been rejected, and thus an issue for revolu-
ton would have been made. But it was necessa
ry in all issues that they should be clear and point
ed. Such would not have been the case here
Alabama was committed to revolvtion-but it was
believed by many that the Conference bill had
saved the Southern Rights party Of Alabama from
defeat; for if the bill had been rejected, and O
movement for revolution been made upon so doubt.
full an issue as this, the Know Nothings and union
Democrats, it was thought, would have combined
to oppose it, and thus the thwarted effort would
have been attended by great moral injury to the
cause of the South. Mr.. Bryce was proceeding
with his argument which we have meagrely sta
ted, when the threatning aspect of the weather
admonished the Committee Of Arrangements that
it would not be prudent for him to continue any
longer. He was, therefore, much to the regret of
his audience, requested to discontinue his address.
He stated that it was his intention to have spoken
on the subject of direct taxation, the Mormon
question, and the Nicaraguan difficulties and 9th
er issues.
The ladies beat a hurried retreat before the
black and impending clouds. But not so with the
less fair but fearless sex. In defiance of the Gle
ments, they needed rather the invitation of the
Committee, and repaired to the lengthy aud bOun-
tifully supplied tables, and enjoyed in good old
fashioned tree-and easy style, the substantial pro-
visions of the barbecue. The exercises were re-
lieved by music from the young SAKE Horn Band,
! from Yorkville, whose fame has no doubt reached
most of our readers. Everything passed off hap
PLY, and the day was concluded by a prolonged
and copious shower Of rain, which sent gladness to
many a farmers heart. 1t had the appearance of
being very general. We were informed that it
vas much needed throughout the district.
Il South Car0l1ian, til inst.