Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-05

The Twenty-Eighth In Yorkville.
Last Thursday, the anniversary of the Jasper
Light Infantry and the battle of Fort Moultrie
on Sullivan's Island, WAS celebrated befttingly
in our good town of Yorkville. The "Jaspers'
and the Cadets of the Military School assembled
at nine o'clock at the Male Academy, and march
ed to the music of drum and fife to the Indepen-
dent Church. There a large audience had as
sembled, or were assembling, to join in the pa
triotic joys and recollections of the day. The
marshall Of the day, Mr.. P. B. DARWIN, had re-
served seats for the two companies, which they
now occupied. The exercises were opened with
prayer by Rev. L. A. JOHNSON. Then followed
music by the Ebony Sax-Horn band; after
which Lieut. I. N. WITHERs, in his graceful and
elegant manner, read Mr.. SrMMs accountable
best to be had auywhere-of the battle of Fort
Moultrie given in the revised edition of his his
tory of South Carolina. As he spoke of the
wretched condition of the country. the advance
of the enemy against Charleston by sea- the desire
of Major General LEE to abandon the Fort and
defend Charleston only, and the stern determi.
nation of Gov RUTLEDaE and MoULrR1E to de.
fend it to the last, the listening audience had in
their minds eye vivid picture of the event;
and were prepared for the Grafton.
Mr.. E. McIvER LAW was the orator of the day
Mr.. LAW, on rising, rapidly outlined the battle
itself; paid an eloquent tribute to the memory
of him whose name the company bears-Ser-
gesnt Jasper-who, when the flag of the fort
was shot down, replaced it at imminent risk Of
life; spoke few words in honor Of Mrs. BER
NARD ELLIOT, lady of Charleston who present
ed the soldiers of Moultrie with a pair Of psrti.
colored silk colors after the battle; and ther
passed to the history of the past Of our country
With skillful hand, Mr.. LAW depicted tn,
causes which led to the formation Of the repub
lic; and the elements of discord and disunior
which existed within it at the very time of it:
birth. On the one hand, the feeling of brother.
hood generated by the war of Independence; the
felt weakness and inadequacy Of the "Old Ar.
ticles of Confederation :" md the desire to pro.
cure the general defence and promote the genera
welfare-these causes led to the union. On the
other hand, the difference in the interests, pur
suits and character of the two sections-the cal
culating GOODNESS and narrow minded prejudices
of the Puritan of New England in conflict with
the high and generous impulses of the cavalier Of
Virginia and the Caroinas-the consolidating
tendencies there, and the States Rights and States
sovereignty tendencies hereAthese were the ele.
ments of disunion.
Mr.. LAW then discussed the influences Of these
''ultmate causes" on the history of our country
He contended that the real ground of all our
troubles was not the slavery question itself, but
something underlying and producing this agita
tion-that is, the avarice and desire of power
existing at the NORTH. In accordance with this
opinion, he said that were the slavery question
blotted out forever, the agitation would still &c
on. He therefore said that, to secure our rights
one word must become familiar on every lip, and
that is disunion. 1t is, he said, the only remedy
for the disease. He spoke of the Democratic
party as the only one that had the name even Of
National; and said that was gone. He spoke Of
it's Platforms as an effort to reconcile that which
is irreconcilable; and quoted the Incarnation
song of the witches in Shakspeare's Macbeth very
forcibly: