Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-12-15
INvASIONs.

The thoughtful student of history is apt to refer
to the past and ask himself if ever any nation OF
people have witnessed such CALLING oppression,
as the South is now grosning under, from those
who set aside law and precedent to trample upon
her rights and institutions. Southwark the star
of aggression and invasion takes its way. In the
North have commonly arisen those dark clouds Of
fanaticism which, spreading their ebon wings over
the tropics, have carried ruin and desolation in
their wake. The fairest lands of earth-the no
blest productions Of genius-the proudest monu-
ments of Art-have thus been swept into an un-
timely oblivion.
The Pillipics of Demosthenes, which sent thrill
of patriotism through all the arteries Of Greece,
were uttered against Northern tyranny, which
prosecuted its oppressive designs till endurance
became crime. What speak Carthage and the
oath of Hannibai9 What fate did Rome meet
with in her turn?
Alas the lofty city, and, alasi
Her trebly hundred trumphs p
The barbarian hordes of the North of Europe des-
cended upon Italy: slaughtered her citizens; de-
molished her works Of art overthrow her govern
ment; and from her classic soil the shrek offree-
dom has ever since arisen to heaven for protection
and vengeance in vain. Is not Greece to this day
subdued, divided, broken-spirited people? In
modern times we now and then hear of revolution
breaking forth, like the eruptions of their own
Etna and Vesuvius, in these countries; but the
efforts of freedom there to break her shackles are
like the fretful impatience of the lion in his cage.
The North have caught the old Vandalistic
spirit; and are slowly but surely marshalling
their hosts to lay our homes in ashes make our
wives widows and our mothers sonless overthrow
our liberties and reduce US to state Of hel pess
inferiority. Fromthe press and the pulpit-from
caucuses and conventions-from private and pub
lie crcles-they are daily sending forth their fiery
fanaticism to set their whole section ablaze with
frenzed excitement GERaIT SMITH is il the
Asylum; and BEEcHER is 80 insane that, while he
regards the slaves of the South as better provided
for than the free negroes Of the North, he is still
for abolitonism though it should ruin fifteen mil
lion of his own race
Tropic countries, then, are very much exposed
to invasion, What is the cause-whether envy,
jealosy or an innate tyranny peculiar to Northern
climes is difficult to tell The luxuriant pro.
ducts-the prairies-the teeming felds-the load.
ed barns and garners Of the South, entice the
yearning appetite of the cormorant Icebergers.-
Even the happy -go-lucky condition of our slaves
may excite the envy of the starving millions
whose cry is ''bread or blood" Our growing
wealth and sectional Importance may beget jeal'
ousy 1t is, moreover, fact deducible from his
tory, that as we proceed North from the Temper
ate Zone, the warm emotions of the heart give way
to cold, sordid, calculating sel6shness.
We would not be understood to say that nc
great, liberal, conservative spirits, are produced
beyond the line of 46o 40/. They are needed
and Providence sends them-to counteract the de-
plorable tendencies of a vast section, possessing
great energy and ingenuity with shallow and un-
substantial human sympathy.
Shall this want of sympathy among our North
ern brethren be our ruin? They have annihilsted
the brotherhood of nations, established by our
forefathers; they have as much as called US dogs
and heathens; they have overridden the consttu-
ton and our rights with "the rough-shod foot Of
the people," Shall the drama of modern Italy
and Greece ne enacted again on Southern soil p
We are hers almost in the shadow of Kings
Mountain; and the voices of our ancestors who
fell, sword in hand, in the hero-dsys of the Re-
public, come ringing in our ears
nAwakeI artsei or be forever fallen -