Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-18

duce civil wars and revolutions; and it is
nothing now but the want of harmony be-
tween governments and societies which oc-
casions all the uneasiness and trouble and
terror that We see abroad. 1t was this that
brought on the American Revolution. We
threw off a Government not adapted to our
social system, and made one for ourselves
The question is, how far have we succeeded?
The South, so far as that is concerned, is
satisfied, content, happy, harmonious, and
prosperous.
In all social systems there must be class
to do the mean duties, to perform the drudg-
cry of life. That is, class requiring but
low order of intellect and but little skill.
It's requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity
Such class you must have or you would
not have that other class which leads pro-
gress, refinement, and civilization. 1t con-
stitutes the very mud-sills of society and of
political government; and you might as well
attempt to build house in the air, as to
build either the one or the other, except on
the mud-sills. Fortunately for the South,
she found race adapted to that purpose to
her hand 4 race inferior to herself, but
eminenrly qualified in temper, in vigor, in
docility, in capacity to stand the climate,
to answer all her purposes. We use them
for the purpose, and call them slaves. We
are old fashioned at the South yet; it is
word discarded now by ears polite; but l
will not characterize that class at the North
with that term; but you haveit; it is there;
it is everywhere; it is eternal.
The Senator from New York said yester-
day that the whole world had abolished sla-
very. Ay, the name, but not the thing, and
all the powers of the earth cannot abolish it.
God only can do it when he repeals the fiat,
"the poor ye always have with you;" for the
man who lives by daily labor, and scarcely
lives at that, and who has to put out his Ia
borin the market and take the best he can
get for it ; in short, your whole class of man
ual laborers and operatives, as you call them,
are slaves. The difference between US is,
that our slaves are hired for life and well
compensated there is no starvation, no beg
ging, no want of employment among our
people, and not 700 much employment either.
Yours are hired by the day, not cared for,
and scantily compensated, which may be
proved in the most deplorable manner, at
any hour, in any street in any of your large
towns. Why, sir, you meet more beggars
in one day, in any single street of the city of
New York, than you would meet in life
time in the whole South. Our slaves are
black, of another inferior race. The status
in which we have placed them is an eleva-
tion. They are elevated from the condition
in which God first created them, BY being
made our slaves. None of that race on the
whole face of the globe can be compared
with the slaves of the South, and they know
it. They are happy, content, unaspirlng,
and utterly incapable, from intellectual deg
radiation, ever to give us any trouble by their
aspirations.
Your slaves are white, of your own race;
YOU are brothers of one blood. They are
your equals in natural endowment of intel
lect, and they feel CALLED by their degrade
tion. Our slaves do not vote. We give
them no political power. Yours do vote,
and being the majority, they are the deposl-
taries of all your political power. If they
knew the tremendous secret, that the ballot
box is stronger than an army with bayonets,
and could combine, where would you be?-
Your society would be reconstructed, your
government reconstructed, your property di-
vided, not as they have mistakenly attempted
to initiate such proceedings by meeting in
parks, with arms in their hands, but by the
quiet process of the ballot-box. You have
been making war upon us to our very hearth
stones. How would you like for us to send
lecturers or agitators North, to teach these
people this, to aid and assist in combining,
and to lead them?
Mr.. WILSON and others. Send them a.
long.
Mr. HAMMOND. You say, send them
North. There is no need of that. They
are coming here. They are laundering at
our doors for homesteads of one hundred and
sixty acres of land for nothing, and South
ern Senators are supporting it. Nay, they
are assembling, as have said, with arms in
their hands, and demanding work at 81 ,OOO
year and six hours day. Have you heard
that the ghost of Mendoza is stalking in the
streets of your big cities; that the inquisl.
tion is at hand? There is afoat fearful
rumor that there have been consultationsfor
vigilance committees. You know what that
means already. Transient and temporary
causes have thus far been your preservation
The great West has been open to your sur
plus population, and your hordes of semi
barbarian emigrants, who are crowdlng IN
year by year. They make great move.
ment, and you call it progress. Whittier?
1t is progress; but it is progress towards
vigilance committees. The South have sus-
tanned you in agreat measure. You are our
factors. You bring and carry for US. One
hundred and fifty million dollars of our
money passes annually through your hands.
Much of it sticks; all of it assists to keep
your machinery together and in notion
Suppose we were to discharge you; suppose
we were to take our business out of your
hands; we should consign you to anarchy
and poverty.
You complain Of the rule of the South +: