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

OVERT ACTS.
The following recapitulation of the ous
RACES and aggressions of the North against
the South, and the equality of the States
and the federal purity of the Union, il
given by Henry A. Wise:
1t obtained its own compromise in the
Constitution to continue the importation Of
slaves, and now sets up law higher than
the Constitution to abolish property in
slaves which it sold to its neighbors.
In 1920 it deprived US of equal set
Element in more than half the territory &C
quired from France.
1t seized upon Texas, North 36 deg. &c
min, and carved out of Texas ID, ,00C
square miles of slave territory South sc
deg. 80 min.
1t seized upon all the territory acquired
by common conquest from Mexico, and de-
prived slave labor of the privilege of ope
rating in the wealthiest mines of earth
the gold mines of California.
1t had brbed slave State with ten mil
lions of common funds to sanction prohi
bition of slavery in New Mexico.
1t claims to abolish slavery in the dis
tricts, forts, arsenals, dockyards and Other
places ceded to the United States. Tt
abolish the inner slave trade, and thus cu
off the Northern slave States from theil
profits of production, and the Southern
from their sources of supply of labor.
1t claims to forbid all equality and com
petition of settlement in the common terri
tories by the citizens of slave States.
1t repels all further admission of new
slave States.
1t has nuliiied the Fugitive Slave Acts
in fourteen States of the Union. 1t has
denied extradtion of murderers aud ma
rauders and other felons in several others
1t has caused and shielded the murder
of masters or owners in pursuit of fugitive
slaves.
1t has refused to prevent or punish BY
State authority the spoliation of slave prop
erty, but, on the contrary, it has made it q
criminal offence in the citizens of several
States to obey the laws of the Union fol
the protection of slave property.
1t has advocated negro equality, and
made it the ground of positive Legislation
hostile to Southern States.
1t opposes protection to slave property
on the high seas, and has justified piracy
itself in the case of the Creole.
1t has kept in our midst emissaries ol
incendiarism to corrupt our slaves and in.
duce them to run off or excite them to re.
bellion and insurrection.
1t has run off millions of slave property
by system of what is called "underground
rail roads," and has made it's tenure SO
precarious in the border slave States as
nearly to have abolitionized two of them
Maryland and Missouri and it is making
similar iuroais constantly upon Virginia
Kentucky.
1t is iDcessantly scattering irebrands Of
incendiary appeals in our midst.
1t has extended fanatcism into our own
borders.
1t has invaded territory by arms furu.
ished by Em:graut Aid Societies, under
State patronage, and by funds furnished
by foreign enemies in Canada and in Great
Britain.
1t has invaded Virginia and shed the
blood of our citizens on her own soil.
1t has justified and exalted to the high
est honors of admiration and respect the
horrid murders, and arsons, and rapine of
the raid of John Brown and has canon
lied the felons themselves as saints of mar
tyrdom.
1t has burned the towns and poisoned
the cattle, and formed the midnight con-
spiracy for the depopulation of North Texas.
1t has proclaimed to the slaves the hor-
rid motto: "alarm to the sleep, fire to the
dwellings, poison to the food and water"
of shareholders.
1t has published its plan for the Aboli-
tion of slavery every where. To rescue
slaves at all hazards-form associations
to establish presses-to use the vote and
ballot-to raise money and military equip
ments-to form and discipline armed CON-
panies-to appeal to non-slaveholders and
detach them from shareholders in slave
States-to communicate with the slaves
so encourage anti.slavery emigrants to the
South and West-to seize other property
of shareholders to compensate for the cost
of running off their slaves-to force eman-
cipation by all means, especially by limit
ing, harrassing and frowning upon slavery
in every mode and form, and finally by the
Executive, by Congress, by the postal SER
vice, and in every way to agitate without
ceasing until the Southern States shall be
abandoned to their fate, and worn down,
shall be compelled to surrender aud eman'
cipate their slaves.
1t has repudiated the decisions of the
Supreme Court.
1t assails us from the pulpit, the press,
in the school room. 1t divides all sects
and religions as we'll as parties. 1t de-
nounces shareholders as degraded by the
lowest imm Qualities, insults them in every
form, and holds them up to the scorn of
mankind.
1t has already a majority Of the States
under its domination, has infected the Fed