Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-12-02

solar SYSTEM ls preserved IN equlpolse and
harmonious bene6cent operation BY the re
eiprocal influence. q, its integral interests.
The undue preponderanee of one Or more
tends tadestroy the equilibrium Of the whole,
and consequently its existence. All the, parts
are, responsible for this, as well. the; weaker
for yielding without struggle, as the stron-.
ger for arrogating toe much influence, and
power. Unfortunately, there, are too few
persons, comparatively speaking, who seem,
to be alive to the policy of the States, or to
be sensible that upon their individual con-;
duct depends, in some degree, responsibility
TOR Its success. a'--et=-s .ii,-izea "A .>'Ty',.
There are Southern men of wealth yboubt-'
less, who expend the most of their surplus
profits In Northern Investments and objects
Of pleasure. Tthas been estimated that some
forty millions of dollars Of Southern income
have been disbursed in a single year North Of
the Potomac. A just regard to our iTserest
would seem to require that our surplus income
be laid out in Southern securities in improving
the homestead, recldiming and draining waste
lands, cultivating grounds, and pushing raiE
ways East and West between the Atlantic
and Mississippi, and still Westward to the
Pacific. Three millions of surplus profits in
vested in an aq1educt from the river santee
to Charleston, along the line Of the North
eastern Railroad, would 60 for to protect the
commercial emporium Of the State from the
fearful pestilence which TOO often infects her
Streets. When this forty millions Of money
is added to the still larger sum, that Of The
greater portion Of the Federal revenues, uns
der the ordinary operation. Of the Govern.
ment-one main cause as the thrift and
promise Of Northern cities, villages and coun:.
try, is made manifest. Far Be it from. me to
object to the widespread benefits Of mutual
intercourse, and the perpetual interchange
Of good Offices, between the people Of every
section Of our country; but the unequal in;
tercourse is noticeable as tending to blind
With prosperity. the one section 70 the ele-
ments of its true interest, aud to render the
other too arbitrary and proyincially Deepen
dent. Let us not shut our eyes against The
truth, but. uniting in harmony With each
other diligently, and in faith, perform the
duty that lies nearest to US. Let US contrib
ute what we can, collectively: and individ-
ually, towards the powers Of the State, BY its
improvement iu knowledge, in agliculture,
and the, useful arts,, in internal commerce
with theWest, by railway and public roads,
as we'll as fostering a.direct export and i'm;
port trade. Above all, let Us cultivate those
| moral virtues, those industrious and d9mes-
tic habits, which render our beloved State
an agreeable and happy home to her people,
and these more independent--at the same
lime that; all her Federal. obligations are
scrupulously observed .,,.e 81
nthe latter part (the 27th)' ofaAugust
vessel was sent into the :harbor Of Charles
ton, prize with three hundred and six ma
tive Africans on board, havins-been, on the
21st of the same month, captured by the
rnited States schooner Dolphin off fthe coast
Of Cuba: Thirty!eight died after coming into
port up to the goth of September, when
the remainder were shipped on boardthe U.
States steam frigate Niagara, and have been
sent to Africa in charge Of a government
agent-tbe Colonization Society having
agreed, fol: one hundred and fifty dollars each
as I understand, to take charge Of them for
2 years. Many have since died at sea up to
the 22nd ultimo, at which date we have ac-
counts of the Niagara at St. Vincents.
No instance, perhaps, could have better
served to present, in strong relief the devo;
ton to law and order Of the people Of Caro-
lima. The officers of the Government were
not molested in the discharge of what they
deemed their duty. I cannot omit, however,
in bringing the facts to your view, to ex-
press my regret at their occurrence, which
produced unwontede excitement in quiet COM
munity, by the exhibition of a species Of
traffic long since abandoned in the United
States. If. there be any treaty which sane
tions such interference with the commerce
of the inhabitants of Cuba, such treaty has
been framed in disregard of the sound -ad-
vice of Washington-not "to eutangle our
peace and prosperity in the tolls of Europe
an ambition, or interest or caprice;;" s'steer
clear of permanent alliances with any por-
ton of the foreign world",-and ought to be
abrogated. Once within our port,y it was
humane to land the suffering prisoners in or
der to release them from their crampeddeck,
and to care for them. They were we'll cared
for until transferred on board the Niagara,
where also they received every proper atten-
ton But the propriety of thus diverting
the vessel, with its cargo, from its destined
channel, and thrusting it under the notice of
our people, is what may be questioned. l
trust that a like case may not again occur
within our borders. ~.''-a.-: D..
The laws Of Congress, BY authority Of
which the officers were governed, I hope will
be revised and amended. 1t is enough that
the gallant navy of the United States be
charged with preventing the slave trade be-
tween the coast of Africa and our own
shores, under the sanction of the constitu-
ton. 1t is our policy to let foreign nations
regulate their own affairs, and enforce their
own police.
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