Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-12-20


Constitution-yet, in attempting such CO.
erciou, the Federal Government will neces-
sarily defeat its own object, will convert
inaurrection into legality and, to the very
contrary of what it desires and intends, will
thus Itself produce the legal dissolution OF
the Union.
LETTER FROM JUDGE LONG
STREET.
Judge Longstreet, in the following letter
to the editor of the Richmond Enquirer,
tries to enlighten the people Of that State
as to the true position of South Carolina
Just at this junoture of public affairs:
COLUMBIA, s. G., Dec. 6, 1860.
GENTLEMEN Allow me small space
in your paper to disabuse the minds OF
Virginians of a very false impression which
they have of the secession movement in this
State. Almost all your distinguished cor.
respondents speak of it as thing gotten up
by politicians, and being entirely under their
control. Never was there greater mis-
take. 1t is the result of one universal out
burst of indignation on the part of the peo'
pie at Lincoln's election-one spontaneous
and almost unanimous resolve, from the
mountains to the sea-board, that they never
should come under Black Republican rule.
sirs, you never saw anything like it; the
world never saw anything like it.
You might as we'll attempt to control
tornado, as to attempt to stop them from Sc
ccssion. They drive politicians before
them like sheep. They do not wait for lead
ers to appoint meetings, with intent to ad'
dress them. They gather iu multitudes,
find out whers speaker is, visit him, and
compel him tc speak and they have mol
yet found one bold enough to denounce Sc
cession-separate secession-before them
And yet there is no tumult, save the tu
mutt of applause; no r:otous conduct, nc
strife, no heart rt-burning-nay, quite the re-
verse. It is all smiles, JOY and good fellow
ship. Their meetings are generally al
night; in the day every man is quietly a
his business, and everything is going
smoothly on. Flags in hand, flags across
the streets, flags at printing Offices, stores
shops, booths, on omnibuses-in every di
rection. Now, gentlemen, why do you
people talk of rostponements, consultations
cooperation, deliberation, &c., to Soutl
Carolina? Why do they speak of her a
they thought she was experimenting witt
the other States, or trying to force then
to bitter alternative. When she tool
her stand I dc not believe she expected
the cooperation of any other State.
am sure she looked for no such thing fror
Virginia. In 1888 she sought co.operatio
with Georgia, and she was very courteousl
dismissed. In 1850 she sought co.opera
ton at Nashville, with all the other South
ern States She found no encouragement
there. In 1860 she offered cooperate
; to Virginia, aud she was delicately dismiss
ed. What ground Of hope had she that an
other State in the Union would make con
mon cause with her in this movement?-
The truth of the matter is that the impuls
which moves her, moves seven-teuths
the people of the South Put up you
strongest men anywhere in Virginia, befor
+ large multitude of her unaspiring people
let them propose temporiziug resolution
and let the most unpopular man in the a
: semblv offer substitute resolution, for in
e mediate secession, and mark the effect I
' the two upon the people. You will Sc
every sign of favoritism to the last, and
e three instances out of FIVE they will adol
the last with accclamation. The who
S country is stirred from Maryland to Texa
> Why is this 1t is because everybod
S knows what Black Republicanism is, an
: what they are to look from it. What is the
n to consult about, to debate To see whet
J., er we cannot get guarantees of future goo
d conduct from them? The people kno
g full we'll they will give no such guarati
e in the first place, nor keep them, if give
in the second. A gang of self-infuriatt
q fanatics, who have been tormenting Il
n South for thirty years, and threateniI
o worse things than they have perpetrate
Vt have now all power in their hands. He
e much deliberation do the people want,
I. decide whether they will live under the
J. or not? A. b. LONGSTREEI.
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