Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-08
APPREHENSION OF LINcoLN's ELEc'

We have not believed that the Union would
be dissolved by the election of President
under the forms prescribed by the Cousti-
tuition. Nor have we believed that any
candidate for the Presidency, fairly elected,
would be forcibly prevented from taking
the required oath, and discharging his du-
ties in legal and constitutional manner.
Our government provides for the punish
ment of the Executive officer, if proper, by
impeachment; and abuses or violations Of
constitutional duty, should be redressed by
peaceful means. There is power enough
in this government, under the Constitution,
and especially by aid of the ballot boxes,
to redress abuses without resort to revo-
lutionary measures
But withg few weeks, the we'll inform.
ed in New York, Washington, and other
places, have become alarmed. Concedipg
the election Of Lincoln, they are becoming
satisfied that in portion of the Southern
States, most deliberate measures are now 10
progress for the assembling of State Legis.
latures and the withdrawal of those States
from the Confederacy, The conviction
that this course has been determined upon
in cool, deliberate manner, has taken a
firm hold upon the minds of many within
the past two weeks. This conviction has
had its influence upon the price of stocks
1t induced the foreign capitalists to with.
draw all of their bids for the late govern.
ment loan of SIC, 100000, some three days
before the bids we're opened. 1t has sent
one million Of dollars in specie to Europe,
within the past week, the result of the
withdrawal of foreign capital. 1t has ere.
ated something of alarm in high financial
circles.
The President will, no doubt, do all in
his power to avert the calamity of with
drawal of any portion of the States from the
Union But it is at least questionable
whether be can by any possible means,
avert it. His couusels will have great
weight-these will unquestiouably be given
for union and forbearance They may not
prevail. The South sees the triumph of a
party organized on the idea of unfriendli-
ness to them and their institutions; and
though the Republican party may declare
in their resolutions, that they do not in.
tend to interfere with slavery in the States,
Mr.. Seward is declaring in the public
streets of great cities, that the higher law
and the doctrines of irrepressible conflict,
, are to be iauagurated into the government
of the United States. He asserts that
Kansas occupies pivotal position, and is
the depot of underground railroad, for rum
ming off stolen negroes from the South
Senator Wilson is publicly hurting the Sc.
verest anathemas against the institution of
slavery, and asserting that it must be swept
from the Union. Mr. Lincoln himself does
not deny or modify his own declarations in
favor of the conflict which he declares shall
be irrepressibly waged against slavery
The murderous raid of John Brown, has
been approved by presses and orators of the
Republican party These facts are apparent
to the South. The Republican party is
organized on the idea mainly, Of anti-slave-
ry; and if it comes into Office, it is quite
natural for the South to consider that they
are to be governed, so far as the Federal
Government can do so, by an unfriendly
power; that they are to be harrassed and
hnmiliated by party in power, that has
been elected on the issue of anti-slavery, or
unfriendliness to them. Then looking at
the fact that they came into the Confede'
racy of States, to establish justice and in.
sure domestic tranquility, they feel that
the object of the Union no longer exists
that their equality is in spirit and fact
trampled down, and they do not desire to
continue longer in such Union. In fact
it must be friendly union, or none.
Hartford Times.