Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-11-17
whfppino Into Obedience.

The following article is from the New York
Courier and Enquirer, leading commercial and
business paper of that city. We print it to show
the animus of its editors, and Of those who sup
port and patronize it:
After thirty years Of peace and quiet and when
the generation of men who had quailed before
Northern indignation in 1920, had passed away,
a race of Lilliputians arose in the South, VINO
foolishly imagined that because they had never
heard the roar of the Lion or seen him shake his
name, and brush away the insect tribes which oc-
casionaly annoy him, be was no longer to be fear
ed. They saw the whole North, year after year,
submitting to be bullied and governed by mere
handful of Southern adventurers and emooldened
by the repose of people conscious OF their
strength but loath to employ it, they finally ven.
tured to lay hands upon, and violate the great
compromise of 1920, accompanied with threats or
dissolution Of the Union. Then tho men OF the
North awaked from their slumbers, and hurting
back defiance, and treating with scorn and con .
tempt their cowsrdly threats of disunlon, told
these reckless and dishonored tricksters that not
only should the principles of the Missouri Compro-
mise be restored and enforced but that If need BE-
the State or States, which ventured to tri6e with
their ALLEGIANCE to the Constitution and the Union,
y
or insolent, or unruly schoolboy, is made to feel
that when necessary, the Birch will compel
prompt if not willing discharge Of all his duties
That lesson has been very fairly inculcated and
the South now understand, that if any portion OF
this great confederacy, whether it be the East or
the West, the North or the South, attempts to
withdraw from the Uaion, it will be promptly
whipped-aye, whipped into subsection. 1t is all
idle to mince the matter: The fiat has gone forth
and will be enforced let Washington, Oregon and
California, at the Northwest, or Maine, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts, at the Northeast,
or the agricultural States of the North and Centre
or the Slave States of the South and Southwest
let any one of them or any combination OF them
raise ths banner of rebellion against the American
Union-.we care not what their pretence TOR trea-
son-as Iertainly as there is God above, 30 Ger.
tain is it. that the offending States will be whipped
into obedience, and the traitors who encouraged
rebellion, terminate their career upon the gallows.
The North, the Centre and West-the great heart
and most efficient limbs of the Confederacy, are
all true to the Union and the Constitution; and
should disunion raise its head at the South, John
Brown has taught the world how much opposition
from that quarter is really worth. If seventeen
fanatics led by madman, could hold in subJec-
ton q town containing two thousand Virglnlans,
and keep at bay whole Regiments of Virginia
militia, who even under the eye Of their Governor
dared not attack their invaders, but stood by and
saw twelve U. S. Marines make the assault and
capture in ten miuutes,-what would these same
boastful soldiers do, when confronted by Northern
valor banded together under the Constitution, and
bearing aloft the banner of the Union !! Why,
our Seventh Regiment alone, in such cause
the cause of the Union and the Constitution-aided
as it would be, by the good men of the Slave
States would promptly overrun every rebellious
State of the South, and compel them to return to
their allegiance.