Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-01-05
aNON-1NrERvENTIoN." &"

passed quickly away, and as first fruits there
have arisen throughout the South o grateful and
doubly. y.assured sense of domestic security and
tranquility, along with bitter, ranking, defiant
and uncompromising hatred of people who could
originate and encourage so ruthless an invasion
upon our persons, our property, our homes and
our fresides. And from such sentiment it is
not difficult to infer that, deep-seated in the
Southern heart, there remains firm and deter
mined purpose, by prompt and potent action, to
rend asunder forever the ties which bind us to
such people, and achieve for ourselves not on
ly political but q social, industrial and COM
mercial independence.
Leading the way to the accomplishment of
this noble and patriotic purpose, the Merchants
Of the South, hitherto the media through
which our life-blood has flowed to nourish and
invigorate Northern strength, are Withdrawing
their patronage from Northern houses, squsripg
their accounts and, quietly yet in earnest, adopt
ing course of dealing by which they hope to
afford no more laid and comfort to the enemy
And the Medical students attending the schools
of Philadelphia and New York, in pursuance of
the same purpose, and closing up, we hope for
ever, another. avenue through which our wealth
has been borne to Northern Golfers, have, in the
high toned and gentlemanly manner which be-
comes their section, Withdrawn their presence
and their patronage, and in the Medical schools
of Richmond, Charleston, Augusta, Savannah,
Atlanta, and New Orleans, have found cordial
welcome and, free of charge, an equally valuable
tuition. Other instances of the practical sppli-
cation of this non4intercourse policy might be
multiplied, but these are enough to assure us
that the South has begun to achieve her own
salvation, in earnest, from the highest motives
and in the right direction. Verify, the day is
gone, when the Southern people willingly sup
ported the industry and enterprise of theirIens-
mics. We have learned from experience how
CALLING and how ruinous it is to be dependent up
on a community to whose ears the ring of the al
mighty dollar is sweeter music than Tabrian
lutte or pipe of Already. We have read and learn
ed by heart this lesson Of inglorious feebleness
and enervation, and we now turn, self-reliantly,
to ourselves and our own great though dormant
resources. Henceforth we believe the South will
be equal to herself, whether in the night or
the day-whether in danger or rcposing in Sc
curity, ever 'animis opibusque parati.'
Promptly following this as yet partial suspen-
sion of business relations with the North, comes
the wall of distress from the mercantile and Ia
boring classes of Philadelphia, New York, Bos-
ton, and the manufacturing towns Of the East.
Panic-stricken and verging upon ruin, they rush
to any and every miserable and contemplate e1-
pedient In immense Union Meetings, they cry
'hosannah' to the South, and with lavish liberal.
ity offer to us their transparent and hollow heart
ed sympathy while, like pitiful coward, they
eat the words they have just uttered, hypocriti-
caly affect to despse the sentiments of their in
most hearts, and with lie in their mouth spit
upon the hideous offspring themselves have be-
gotten into life and nourished into monster
strength. But we ore not to be cheated by such
shadows, while the pervading sentiment of the
rural population of the North, with bitter en-
phasis, withholds the substance and we mis-
take alike the determined spirit of the South and
the unbridled fanaticism of the North, if these
pharisaical money. changers do not speedily learn
that, both here and there, the storm will rage
with unabated fury, until the last and strongest
of the bands which have bound US together is
broken-untl, from the ruins Of Northern pro-
press are evolved the elements out of which to
buld-up for the South an enduring prosperity
q high and glorious destiny.
In pursuing this train Of thought, it will not
be inappropriate to refer specially to the card
of the wholesale dealers Of Charleston, publish
ed in our columns, and to commend it immediate.
ly to the merchants of our District. To them it
belongs, in no mean measure, to decide how far
this prompt movement in behalf of Southern In
dependence shall be successful; for when we
claim with pride that in no locality can be found
class of businessmen more sound and reliable,
we assert the responsibility, thereby the more
urgent, which rests upon them, to respond read
lily and heartily to the appeal and the assurances
of merchants of Charleston.
While we appeal thus to the patriotic impulses
of our merchants, we do not fail to appreciate
the force of the argument that it adds nothing
to our progress, and that patriotism does not
require US, to build-up Charleston, while she
in turn, persists in pouring the wealth thus &C.
quired into the houses of New York City-tha
if their money must find its way into Wall-street
they may with all propriety carry it there in
their own pockets-that if Charleston desires
the wholesale trade of the South, she must con
form to the laws which control commercial in
tercouse. But let us remember that Rome wal
not built in day Ever since the governmen
was organized, Charleston and other Southern
cities have labored heavily under burdens impo.
sed by the unequal operation Of federal legisla
ton, and whatever success has attended then
has been achieved against mighty current
originating in political nisrule, and irresistibl!
bearing to Northern centres the monetary ant
commercial power Of the country. Causes ar
now ut work, however, to throw of these bsne
full influences for, the day has come when fede
raj iniquity and oppression must have an end
The politicians and the people of the South nov
appreciate fully the burdens imposed upon then
by hostile legislation, however indirect it ma.
have been and henceforth we believe our me
tropols may enter the lists of commercial com
petition, with an unfettered energy. But Will