Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-30

The view, that under the Senate bill, Kan
sas might have insisted upon the unreasona
BILE ordinance, never occurred to any mint
before the defeat of that bill. That bill wa
supposed to be all we could wish ; it wa
never questioned that Kasas, as did Califor
mia, under somwhat similar circumstances
would abandon her preposterous claim. L
was not questioned by any one, that if ad
mitted under the Senate Bill, the Legisla
ture would at once assemble, and send theil
Senators to take their seats, and J. do MOI
doubt it. And can it be controver!ed thai
they would then have been in under the
terms of the Senate Bill, their ordinance g
dead letter; and who believed then or does
now, that they would have had the effronte
ry to set up a claim to more land than we
were willing to give them?
The Senate Bill admitted the State at once.
Both the Crittenden-M Montgomery amend.
meut and Conference Bill purportei to .ad'
NIT, but did not in reality. The two latter
also provide for the admission of slave State.
This is claimed as triumph on our part
1t is a most barren victory in the case Of the
Conference Bill, and would have been no
better in the case of the Crittenden-M Mont
gomery amendment The Black Republi.
cans supported that feature as concession
to the Southern Kuow-N Nothing and Douglas
Democrats, to detach them from the support
of the Senate Bill, knowing that if they
could get the Lecompton Constitution again
before the Black Republicans in Kansas, it
would meet the doom it has received under
the Conference Bill.
If the Conference Bill be better bill than
the Senate Bill, I ought to have supported
it, but not so regarded, I could not. A dis
tinguished member from Tennessee, Col.
Savage, has said before his constituents, that
"he had voted for the English Bill as he
had for the compromise measures of 1850,
not that it was the thing he wanted, but that
it was the best that could be done under
the present circumstances" And so said
many others at the time, who reluctantly vo-
ted for it. The President, although anxious
for its passage when the Senate Bill was de-
feated, certainly did not regard it as a better
measures.
Time does not allow me to 60 further into
the objections to the Conference Bill. I
have the satisfaction Of having been sustain-
ed in my views by one whom you have long
honored, and whose memory you will ever
reverence, and who, when the Palmetto
Flag was planted on the Garita Of Belin,
stood shoulder to shoulder in its defence
with your Moragne, your Blocker, your
Goode, your Crooker and your Lyles--names
which have place in one of the brightest
pictures on the rolls of fame.
The Lecompton Constitution has been de-
feated. The question now presents itself,
will the $4,000 population restriction be res
pected? did not support the measure, but
I will join heartily with those who did, in
ezacting compliance with its provisions.
Presses at the North, and the Black Repub-
licuns everywhere, are taking the ground
that the Act must be repealed and Kansas
must be admitted next winter, under some
properly prepared Constitution even without
the 90 900 federal population. 1t would be
an indiguity to the South, little less in mag
nitude than the rejection of the slave State.
Gov. Denver may not convene the Legis-
lature. Ifso, Constitution cannot well be
gotten up regularly for the next session till
January. I am sure no such irregular Con.
stitution as the Topeka will be accepted
Hence the application may not be made this
session. If it is, orr bill to repeal the res
friction should be introduced, the member
who votes to repeal it, having voted for the
restriction last winter, deserves the execra-
ton of the entire country. will Tote with
the friends of the Bill against the repeal at
any time. And 1 will cheerfully support
general law to the same effect.
The course of President Buchanan, last
winter, after the dismissal of Walker, was
all the South could ask. His firm but dig
nifed course on the question with England,
as to the exercise of the right Of search,
brought that question to peaceful and sat
isfactory termination. With all the difficult
ties in his way, by his promptness and firm
ness, be brought the Mormon difficulties to
a most happy conclusion without bloodshed.
The election for Senator in Illinois excites
general interest Gould Judge Breese, who
is said to be an Administration Lecompton
Democrat, be elected, it might be desired.
But running two democratic tickets before
the people may give the Black Republicans
a majority on the joint ballot of the Legis-
lature. AS between e. Black Republican
who says all free States and down with the
Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision,
and Judge Douglas, who, however wrong he
was on the Kansas question, manfully oppo.
ses those views, we can but prefer the sue
cess of the latter.
; The Black Republican party proper is one
of the best organized and most dangerous
parties which has ever arisen in our country.
1t has sustained temporary check In the
defeat of Fremont, and is not so strong as in
1856, but let no one despise its power. 1t
furnishes the rallying point for all isms-
the odds and ends of the broken down par
ties, old line Wings, Know-Nothings, and
disaFected freesoil Democrats, and may yet
some day acquire the power which will break
up this Government. I do not believe they
can carry the fall elections, and had Judge