Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-30

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u THE NEWS.
Ar HoME.-Since our vacation of the editors
, 'easy chair three weeks ago, events have steadl'
. ly kept on the seven tenor of their way" Al
ready, then, the great topic of discussion was
the next Presidential election and, involved IN
this, the slavery question. The American peo'
ple have been houted in the London Statistical
Congress; an English association have bought a
city of refuge in the shape of Is miles square
of land, in Canada, to assist in the escape OF
our fugitive slaves and the abolitionists have
set on foot a wicked scheme to murder the slave
holders of Northern Texas, and destroy their
property by fire. The Republican party are
marshaling their hosts to victory. The wisest
and most experienced statesmen of the South,
despair of the election of Breckenridge and
Lane. They give up the republic to Lincoln and
Hamlin. The farthest-sighted paper of the
North, perhaps-the New York He, ald-says
LQaC III Indt cFeut lue OOuiu piCPhio >
Disunion and n Southern Confederacy at once,
or forever hereafter submit to the domination Of
a party whose policy is the destruction of slave
ry everywhere, from Maryland to Texas. What
is the South to do in this e~vent-which is almost
certain-is now the all-absorbing question.
This is indeed a grave question. 1t addresses
itself primarily to the Southern people through
their State Legislatures. In other words it ap
peals to the States, as Sovereign States. The
politicians of our State, questioned by their fel-
low citizens some, others of their own accord,
have publicly declared their position. Messrs.
Boyce and Keitt, aud our gallant Governor Gist
have unequivocally broke ground for sthe seces-
sion of the Southern States-aH together, i! pos
s6le if not, as many as wtN fnone other, South
Carolina should go out alone" A large part Of
the State Press is of this sentiment. Col. Orr is
willing to 60 out with Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi; but repudiates separate State &C
ton. Senator Hammond believes that Breckin
ridge and Lane will be elected ("the next best
thing says he ''for which everything but prin-
ciple should be sacrificed ~ and this belief pre-
cludes his utterance of any opinion on the above
subject. Maj. Ben. Perry thinks that the South
should not make the election of Lincon an issue
for the dissolution of the Union but should wait
for some covert act'' hostile to slavery and the
constitution. Whatever the result may be, that
re sult must be attained through the Legislature
of each State, acting in its sovereign capacity.
Hence one great point which should be attended
to is the election of our wisest, purest and most
reliable men to the Legislature. We firmly be-
lieve that the conflict, if there be any, will be
not for slavery but for State sovereignty. The
fact of going into a Southern Confederacy would,
in any other view of the case, be treason to the
Federal Government. The Inauguration of the
Republican party as the rulers of this country
will be a new era in our history-will produce q
radical change in the very nature of our govern
ment.
A friend of ours who has lately returned from
Texas, states that he was in the neighborhoOd of
Dallas when it was burnt, and that the citizens
did not think it the work of incendiaries. On
the day of the burning, a heated current of air
passed over Dallas, raising the temperature to
114o and this, it was thought, caused the igni-
ton Of matches in the stores and elsewhere,
which produced the confagration. 1t was Sab,
bath the doors were shut; and no one observed
the flames until it was too late to save the town.
On the next day, matches were seen to ignite in
the same way. Our friend says, however, that
the citizens of Northern Texas thought there
were some grounds TO apprehend n concerted and
general servile insurrection-produced by aboli
ton agitators for the purposes Of revenge, MUIR
der and rapine. The continued accounts which
we have received, and are receiving, of villages
burnt, suspicious white persons arrested, and
negroes taken up who acknowledge their connec-
ton with such a plot, confirm this apprehension.
A negro woman of Hendersou-one of the towns
destroyed-has confessed to have been the frs,
one who applied a match to that town and thus
to have set on foot the destruction of two or
three hundred thousand dollars worth of prop
erty. She was instigated to the deed, it seems,
by white persons. Since then, report says that
Tyler 10 Tyler county, and Mckinney in Collin
county, have met with the same fate. Many
negroes have been arrested and many of them
implicate themselves and white persons in this
nefarious plot. The fire, added to the exhaus-
ton of the drought, has left many localities in n
truly deplorable condition. Indeed calls have
been made for an extra meeting of the Legisla,
ture, both to supply the people with provisions
and to crush the insurrection.
vINE-GROWING AND WINE.
A Vine growers Convention was held OF Aiken,
on the 2lst August, which the Vine growers and
wine makers of the United States were invited to
attend, for the purpose of ascertainiug and ma
ming our different native varieties of grapes,
estimating their adapteduess for wine. brandy,