Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-20
TOADyERTISERS

TO ADVERTISERS.
Our advertising friends will place US under es-
pecial obligation by sending in their favors as
early as Monday or Tuesday of each week.
WORDS OF CAUTION.
We think that no man of good sense can resist
the conviction that there has BEEN extensive
tampering with the slaves of the South by the
Abolitionists of the North. The recent plot at
Adairsville, resulting in the sudden death OF the
Northern instigator, shows what we have TO
fight. The case Of arms, recently exhumed IN
Clarke county, is proof that the Brownies are
among US. That there are several of them lying
perdu in this city, we have no doubt. lt'would
be unreasonable to suppose that they penetrated
into places away from the great thoroughtares,
and omitted to take advantage of the security
offered here by our large slave population and
slim municipal police. =,
In the older times we had no trouble with TO-
wing Abolitionists. Why? Because then they
were haaqed as soon as caught. We recommend,
as we have steadily done, a revival Of the old
policy. Let this whole region at once set pat
rolls to work-make thorough search-and where
.uspicious characters are found let them be
strictly dealt with. And no place needs a min
ute oyerhauling more than Montgomery. Spite
Of our avs, the town is overrun with irresponsl-
BILE negro deus. Let the citizens break up these
i, once. We could make a revelation which
would astound q good many of our citizens, and
chiefly the large slave. holders whose premises
are used-but it is not yet time.
The whole South needs q thorough ezpurgation.
For wears we have allowed all sorts OF lnterier-
snce, all manner of appliances, every descrlp-
ton of seduction to i~tinerant Northern emlssa-
ries. Now the time has come for wlplng these
creatures out. Let q strict search every'rhere
reveal them-it wiH bring them to Highland lie,
THE ROPE do the rest. We speak in cold earnest,
and we speak the words which rejecting, obser-
want men think and adcise US to utter.
The foregoing words of caution, from the
Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, should be commended
to the attention of our people. Happily, we
have yet seen no indications of the presence Of
Northern emissaries amongst us; but Texas,
Alabama and Arkansas were equally unconscious
of danger when, in fact, it pervaded their very
fresides. 1t becomes us to be everywhere on
guard for in this matter, an "ounce of preven-
tom may do much for the common safety.
We commend the action of the Fort Mills
neighborhood, an account of which was publish
ed in the last issue. Especially on the lines of
Railroads, Committees of Vigilance are deman-
ded, and they should be about their work with
a y ill--not systematically, but constantly and
persistently, as long as there are Migrants to ue
taken up or abolitionists to be hung. Indeed,
vigilance is everywhere needed. OF course,
insidious manner possible and therefore every
man who is @ stranger and canuot produce his
voucher,, should be watched. Theroving mendi-
cant, the tobacco-wagoner, the whiskey-pedler,
the sample-trader, may be very honest and reli.
able; but in such like DISCUSSES abolitionists
have prowled about elsewhere, and may do so
here. Besides concealing their designs very eff
fectually, such DISCUSSES enables them to do their
hellish work the more effectually. Watch them
all!
In this connection, we feel bound to say a word
in regard to the palpable ineficiency of our pat
rol system for, certainly, if the negroes are
kept in their proper places, no evil need be ap.
pretended. We have been told by an intelligent
citizen, that be had for two years past carried a
patrol commission in his pocket, had not done
an hours duty, and yet had not been called upon
for a return, which should have been made
promptly, fully and upon oath Is this the con
dition of affairs throughout the District Can
it be possible that the commanding officers, the
Colonies, Majors, Captains, and the Courts Mar
tial, are so utterly recreaut to public duty and
reckless of the public safety! Surely, we need
not urge the proposition that each beat should
be constantly and thoroughly patrolled and we
need not add that, if we are to get along without
the services of q mob, the duty of the patrol
must devolve upon our militia organization.-
Why, then, is thisimportant trust not discharged!
We answer for the ~people-the men in hle-'hat
they are not in fault. And if they were, the
law provides a punishment equal to their recre.
aucy. If the militia system is worth anything,
it is valuable in the feature which devolves upon
it the maintenance and right conduct Of our Dis.
trict police and if officers do not see that this
redeeming feature of the system is properly ad-
ministered, let them cease to talk of the system
at all, when on the parade. ground, and let the
whole concern 60 by the board!
1t is idle to assert that every man should pat
rol his own plantation. We have heard the re-
mark too often; for We may rest assured that ii
master or overseer to do without sleep entirely,
which an adequate discharge of such a duty
would require, such is the general confidence in
the integrity of our slave population, that the
large majority of owners would refuse volunta-
rily to place them under strict Surveillance. The
experience Of other sections demonstrates that
this confidence may easily be misplaced and i il
masters are left to do their own patrolling, our
people may be aroused to a sense of their error
when it is too late. With the militia authorities
the patrol is a duty, an urgent duty and under
the authority and sanctions of the law, let it bt
performed!
THE PRINCE OF WALES IN AMERICA
Notwithstanding the English queen has ex
pressed her qualification at the reception will
which her eldest son has been greeted and al
though his presence on this side the Atlantic ha
nigh enough turned the heads of the people, boil
of the United States and the British Possessions
vet there is a class-the Irishmen scattered owe
the continent, in the territory of both govern
ments-who have not been at all enthusiastic o.
the subject. He is to them a kind of index-6n
ger pointing to the wrongs and outrages whic
the English government has committed agains