Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-02-25
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.

WASHINGTON, Feby ~, 1858.
1t is very doubtful whether the army will be in
creased at all. The reasons are two-fold-fnan-
cial and political There is an awful deficit in the
Treasury, which is getting, ''broader and deeper"
daily. The South are not keen to increase the
power of the Government, for no one knows what
the morrow may bring forth. The Black Repub-
lcans choose to think that the army has been US.
ed to subjugate Kansas, and hence they don't take
to the army very kindly. Present necessities are
very likely to be supplied by temporary volun-
tecr force. This news may have the effect of pre-
venting any further increase to the "coud of wit
nesses," who are testifying from all parts of the
country, their anxiety to serve as "hossifers" in
Uncle Sans new regiments. Let these gentle
men philosophize on the evils of the war, and the
cxpedency of turning their thoughts to ripping up
the bowels of tha earth with good plows, instead
of fleshing their maiden swords in hostile breasts.
Kansas wi pass Congress "dead sure" 1t will
be a barren :ory for the State Government will
he in the hands of the Free-State party. The
South gains the privilege of marching out "with
the honors of war, drums beating, and flags fy-
ing The North gains a new and rabid anti
slave State. The South saves her pres tige-the
North saves her bacon. You may talk about the
matter a month, and this is the Inclusion you
must come to. Every day indicates that the deci-
siye struggle between the two sections is approa-
ching. 1t is not slavery exclusively, that is on
ly the form of the issue. 1t is only a question
of sectional domination. There is only portion
of the North that really sympathise with the
slaves. This is minority element North. The
North hate negroes in every shape and form as o
general proposition. The North having the nu-
merical majority, are determined to reduce the
South to subjcction in the Union, so as to get all
the benefit possible from the connexion Mt as lit
tie expense to themselves as possible. To inten-
sify Northern feeling, they use slavery and every
other available argument. The detection of DoU-
GLASS will, think, break the back of the great
Democratic party; if so, then the Union cannot
last. As TALLEYRASD would say, DOUGLASS has
committed worse than crime-a bunder" He
has killed himself With the Democratic party
he was the arbter of American destiny-without
it ne is nothing. He cannot go to the Black Re-
publicans. If lie would 60, they cannot, they will
not take him. His role is therefore already play
ed out. He may ''bustle about" awhile longer be-
tween the two camps, but having the confidence
of neither, he must retire from the field, spec
tator of the contest he might have Controlled
Public men may make mistakes and be forgiven,
but some errors have such fatal consequences,
that they 60 in the consideration of mankind in the
category of crimes. Such is the case of Dou-
GLASS.
The Committee of Elections of the House are
considering the case of CAMPBELL and VALLAS-
bingham.
The earth is covered with suow, and weare now
in the ''winter of our discomfort" The President
is calm and confident DOUGLASS is "perplexcd in
the extreme" CATAWBA.