Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-11
consequence
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The bill for the admission of Kansas is still be-
fore Congress, and orators of every grade arc
defining their positions on the vexed question:
Senator HAMMOND made his first speech in the
Senate on the 4th inst. 1t did moi fall short of the
great expectations which his name and FAM had
awakened. The speech is forcible and statesman
like. Of il, the correspondent Of the Baltimore
SWn thus speaks:
THE Senate chamber was the theatre of unusu-
al attraction to day. Gov. Hammond of South
Carolina. made n speech full Of power, interest
and eloquence, upon the subject of the bill for the
admission of Kansas. After treating some minor
points, the Senator considered the main question
which was at the bottom of this agitation-that is,
slavery. He cited the declaration of Mr.. Seward
that the battle had been Tough. and won-or, in
other Y ords, that the South was conquered, and
nothing remained to be done but to prohibit all
Southern occupancies Of slave territory and re.
model the Supreme Court 70 complete the destruc-
ton of the South. The South would then be OPP
pressed with protective tariffs for internal improve
ment systems, fish b%ounties, and q stupendous
national bank to control the financial power Of
the country and next, the North would proceed
to abolish slavery in the States, &c.
ale thought it proper that the question should
be practically considered. He was disposed to
sec the question settled as soon rs possible. He
proceeded, therefore, to bring the South and the
North face to face, and compare their resources
and means for the maintenance of q separate or
ganization. lie drew q picture Of the vast reseur-
ces Of the South, and her ability to sustain her.
self as one of the most prosperous and peaceful
empires Of the world.
Mr.. Hammond spoke only about an hour, and
was listened to with profound attention.
The phh of Nj. HAMMoSD's remarks was the
clear expose of the resources of the South and her
ability, even without any more territory, to main
tain her position as a separate and independent
nation. lie proves that she not only could main
tain her position among the nations of the earth.
but that she would be one of the most powerful
and prosperous. On the other hand he shows how
anarchy and poverty" must overtake the North.
We will publish the speech in extenso next week.
From Gov. HAMMOND, we turn to Senator Sc
WARD, the %shrewdest, the most profound and the
boldest politician of the North. 1t is we'll to COM
pare the general tone of the two speeches-ta-
king the speakers as the opponents of their sever
al sections. Ofthe effort of the New York Sena-
tor, the Washington States remarks:
The speech was a simple and forcible effort,
careful in language, free from ornament-almost
too parsimonious in this respect for q popular
speech-broad in its peculiar views, and only mar
now in the persistency with which the speaker
built up political fabrics without the slightest CON-
sideration of the Southern material in the present
fabric OF the Union. His manner was graceful
without affectation, easy with heaviness, and bold
without being bombastic. 1t was pleasant to hear,
even if you disagreed with the philosophy, end
condemned the polite and well tempered etfront-
cry with which Southern hopes were treated as
chimerical.
Mr.. Seward opened as the grave-digger does in
Hamlet-over a grave. Eight years ago we slew
the Wilmot proviso, he said, exactly as the grave
digger says: Alas, poor Yorick, l knew him
well! We buried it, not Yorick, but the proviso,
under the floor of the Senate, said the Senator,
insiuuating that it was inferred in the Supreme
Court. We rather think that the grave gave up its
dead, (ride Drei Scott vs.. Sandford.) Four years
ago We had the Kansas Nebraska bill, and popu-
lar sovereignty, whose ways were heralded as the
ways of wisdom, and whose paths were to be flow
cry with peace. Yet the question of slavery or no
slavery is here to-day.
At first, in the early days of our history, there
were twelve slave States and only one free State;
now there we're fifteen slave States and sixteen