Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-22

scenes in "Uncle Toms Cabin" What an
ingenious device to impress the youthful
mind One of the best written and, batting
its abolitionism, one of the most captivating
books in the Massachusetts, Sabbath School
Library, is the life Gmagiuary) of a Ken
tucky girl of great intelligence and of most
devoted piety. A pattern Of meekness, pa
tence and faith, amidst severe and protract
ed sickness, she is made, on her dying bed
when the interest of the reader has been ex.
cited to the highest pitch, TO confess the
horrible sin of slaveholding and to give the
strongest possible testimony against this
moustrous evil How much like Satan in
an angels garb! Is it strange then, that
in thirty years, by thus directing their ef'
forts to the elements-to the very founda-
ton of Society-aud with such instrumen-
talities, they should have succeeded in
educating the public sentiment Of the North
to its present lawless and irrepressible
pitch? The sagacious Calhoun saw these
forces at work he understood their tendeu.
cies, and fully comprehended their tremen.
dous results. Hence in one of his last con.
versations with Gen. Daniel Wallace-as
Mr.. W. stated to the writer, he remarked
to him in the most emphatic manner -
sWallace, am sure, it is the will of Provi-
deuce, that this Union shall be dissolved.
believe it just as firmly, as l can any
thing, which has not already transpired.
see causes in operation, which must bring
it about, sooner or later. 1t is only ques.
tion of time. Don't you see it?" The time
has come-fully come. Let us move for.
ward We will not insult our sister South
ern States by expressing doubt as to
whether We shall have cooperation. They
have spirit, patriotism, and interests a,
stake dearer than life itself, as we'll as we
Let US, then, one and all, nerve ourselves
to our work A glorious destiny awaits US.
We will not now speak of our political
power, and our vast commercial prosperity
and glory. But we would glance for mo-
ment, at the grand work of protecting and
saving more than 100000 of Africans
amongst US; the nobler work of civilizing
and christiauizipg the benighted countries
of South America, and sending the light
of heavenly truth to the dark millions on
the shores of Africa. A new impulse, l
am sure, would be given to our Southern
Church. Her countless wealth and her best
energies would be given to meet her pecu.
liar responsibilities. She would awake to
a realizing sense of the duties, which grow
out of her local and other peculiar relations
and going forth in the name of her divine
Master, she would endeavor to discharge
her debt to her Southern neighbors, to the
sable sons of Africa and to the rest of the
world.
Especially do We believe, that Presbyte.
rians iu the South would have no cause to
regret dissolution of the Union-on the
contrary, great reason to rejoice in its hap
py results. 1t would probably necessitate
division of their Church into Northern
aud Southern General Assembly. But this,
we conceive. would be blessing. The
division of the Methodist Episcopal Church
has not been curse, at least to the South
ern wing. We are told, that It has aroused
her energies and increased her efiency 100
per cent; and by making it necessary that
her members should examine carefully and
scripturally the doctrine on slavery, as set
forth in the old Book of Discipline, has led
to the adoption of sound views, and con-
tributed in no small measure, to prepare
the South for the high position she occu-
pies in this great question. Judging, then,
from the experience of sister deuomina.
ton, there seems to be no reason why Pres
byterians should look with special horror
upon the division of their church The
line ola Northern and Southern Confeder-
acy could not divide their Christian love
for it would not take away from them a
common faith, common order and CON-
mon Saviour. If we mistake not, it has
been frequently urged and with force too,
that the Old School General Assembly is
becoming too large. A division would
remedy this evil. Besides, are not the agen.
cies, by which all the most important be-
uevolent operations of this church conduct
ed, located in the North ? Would not the
members in the South, take deeper inte-
rest in them, if they were brought nearer
home? But we do not design, at this time,
to argue the question.
Only one more word in reference to
the Church. In the event of a dissolution
. of the Union, from the analogy of the past,
we may reasonably hope, that the various
divisions will provoke each other to love