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

The decisive movement initiated by the
State of South Carolina renders it necessa-
ry for her sister Southern States to move
promptly in response to her action. Some
persons profess to have been surprised by
the energy and decision which that gallant
State has displayed, in taking measures to
relieve herself from the odium of an impli.
ed, or even possible, submission to an Abo-
lition administration. But these are few
in number. The large majority knew per-
fectly we'll that the election of Lincoln
would arouse the South to a sense of the
perils that environ her, and would stimu-
late the people of the Southern States to
immediate measures of preparation. The
Legislature of South Carolina being in ses-
sion at the time, for the purpose Of choos-
ing Presidential electors, it would have
placed her in false attitude before the
country, had she omitted to take action with
reference to the question which presses on
the South for immediate solution.
So far as we have had an opportunity to
observe public sentiment in this city, it
heartily responds to the action Of South
Carolina. We hear very little now of those
expressions of devotion to the Union, those
appeals for submission, which before the
election were in the mouths of that large
number who seemed appalled, by the assert
ed terrors of resistance. All that is changed
now. The terrors of submission far exceed
the terrors of resistance. If there is alarm,
| it is not the alarm which depresses, but
the alarm which exats. If there is dis
trust, it is not distrust of our capacity to
maintain our liberty, but distrust of those
hypocritical pretensions of conservatism
with which some of the Black Republican
organs have attempted to delude the South.
Those who imagined that the election Of
Lincoln would precipitate New Orleans into
frenzy of Unionism, have miscalculated
the character and temper Of our population.
It is quite evident that the professions
of SO many of our citizens before the elec-
ton, of devotion to the Union, and their
votes for the candidates who we're consid.
cred as occupying the least sectional posi-
ton, were regarded and intended as the
last compromises for the Union.
The ultima thule of compromise has now
been reached. Henceforth the conserva.
tives of the South array themselves on the
side of sectional resistance to sectional ag-
erosion. Louisiana, the most conserva-
tive of the Gulf States, will take her posi-
tion in the front rank of Southern resis-
tance. There will be universal acquies-
cence in the proposition that Louisiana
should meet in council with her sister slave
States, and cooperate heartily and earnest
ly with them in the measures that may be
adopted for the common defence.
The emergency contemplated by the
Democratic convention which met at Baton
Rouge last spring, for the convocatiou of
the Legislature, has occurred, and the Gov
ernor will consult the interest and honor
of the State, and respond to the general
sentiment aud desire of the people, by an
immediate call of the General Assembly,
to take measures to secure a cooperation
on the part of Louisiana with the other
Southern States. This should be done be.
fore the meeting of Congress. Every Rep
reseptative from the South should go to
Washington in December, with full instruc-
tions as to the will and purpose of bis State.
Our Senators, especially, will need such
authority and instruction.-N 0. Delta.