Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-12-06

is moving-Alabama is moving-Mississippi is
moving-Florida is moving-Louisiana-he had
been assured by q leading spirit ~there-urged US
North Carolina, slow to decide,
then prompt to act, with the memories of old
Mecklenburg still alive, would not and could
not lag behind.
Can we maintain a separate government!-
We now contribute $500, 900 of bounties, annu-
ally, to Northern fisheries we pay 40 millions
by customs; 80 millions to manufacturers GO
millions by travel 40 millions for shipping
s millions for teachers 10 millions to brokers
and agents; we contribute 80 millions of capital
and, in all, we pay 1922, 500, 900, to a govern.
ment from which We gain comparatively nothing,
besides the immense contribution dragged from
us by the unequal operation of coasting trade,
a contribution beyond calculation in numbers
To support separate government in the South
we have the labor which produces $500, 600, 900
annually. By laying imposts, we would have
$50, 900, 900. If We approximate free trade, a
tariff of 20 per cent. would yield S4O,O 0 900
and at 10 per cent, we would have 500, 600, 900,
amply sufficient for all the purposes Of a South
ern government. Our industry need not pause.
The young men only need fight; for there are
among them brave hearts and strong arms e
nough to defend the soil against any invasion
from without.
Col. Chestnut thought the government would
not attempt coercion. No money, for the North.
in that fight! They have no wrongs to brood
over-the South has ever kept her faith, and
has given the North no stimulus save that of
plumber. Would q fight pay them? We would
welcome them, not to a feast, but to hos
pitable graves, and to . conquest which would
be to them as "bitter ashes" Could an army
and navy, numbering 10000, do the work p
Half of them are sons of the South, and would
rally to her standard; and even now an empty
treasury gapes at the President and his Con-
gress, and forbids the organization Of o Northern
army for purposes of conquest. Suppose they
do attempt to coerce: Our condition in the
Union is hopeless; and whatever may be the
dangers without, he would if need be, Ego alone
put his trust in God and fling the banner to
the breeze!" Can 300, 900 freemen, upon their
own soil, defending their homes, their wives and
children, their all, be conquered? People have
changed masters, but never have a people, once
free and armed, been brought again to the yoke.
The Goddess of Liberty now wears q stern and
"grim-visaged' look and at her shriuea people
must worship, ''iron-clad, b~rsitliug with steel
and covered with the dread panoply of war;
The first tramp of the hostile soldier on The soil
of North Carolina, or Virginia, Georgia or Flori-
da, would strike fire from the very earth, and
consume the hosts that would thus seek to pull
lutte it. But it it is said, the contest will come
by sea by blockade IT, have no commerce,
no ships, to suffer. With our ports free, France
and England, in quest of cotton with which to
uphold and support their millions, would walk
through such a blockade "as o giant strides
through the fimsey meshes of n spider" The
blockade, besides, will furnish an covert &C" "
to those who 80 much desire it. Every State
in the South holds and must defend the right Of
peaceable secession and if the blockade cannot
be removed by us, we can at least man n fleet
of boats and spill enough blood in Charleston
harbor to cement forever the bands Of a glorious
Southern Union.
But however greet the dangers of resistance,
they caunot compare with the terrific perils Of
submission. Lincoln's election is a decree for
emancipation. Slavery cannot survive the four
years of an administration, whose overwhelming
influences are concentrated and brought to bear
against it. We shall have four millions Of slaves
unaccustomed to liberty, unfit for self-control,
turned loose amongst US, to commit horrid deeds
of murder, arson, robbery, and every offence
marked in the annals of crime. To this We must
submit, and consent to fly from our native land
or accept IN equally dread alternative and muir
der our own innocent. peaceful and happy Deepen.
dents. We cannot obey laws enacted by foreign
power, and remain free; and We cannot consent
to have amongst US a horde of free negroes, fl
ling every channel of occupation, meeting us at
every effort, sitting with US in the jury box. and
voting at the ballot box. We must then STAY the
negro, or ourselves be slain.
1t is not only q question of slavery, but of hon
or, of freedom. Shall We pause because Of A
.love for the Union? A Union, formed to es-
tablish justice, and yet establishing the most I'M
equal laws? A Union, formed for domestic
tranquility, and yet giving US such as John
Brown and the Texas incendiaries can provide ?
It is a bond of servitude, and a freeman cannot
"love'' it.
Every man in the State will stand by the old
Palmetto. From the lowlanls to the mountains,
the sentiments of independence pervades the
people /; and "if there be a man in South Caro-
lima who has heart that falters now, let him
tear it out; for it is ours flesh and deserves not
to p~ulsate in the bosom of a freeman" Colonel
Chestnut closed by saying, he knew that Old
York would be true-her hills and valleys are
now shouting the songs of liberty; and would
echo and re-echo the sentiment with which he
would leave them: CAROLINA, NOW AND FOR.
EAER SECESSION! LIBERTY"
Col. ISAAC W. HAYNE, our accomplished At
torney General, was then introduced, and was
received with a hearty round. A native of York
District, and endeared to her people by the ear
Hest recollections of life, he had come amongst
them first of all, because he was s~olicitous that
old York should deport herself in this crisis in q
manner becoming her spirit, her intelligence,
and, above all, her sacred memories. He was
no young Hotspur-had passed the meridian of
life-had ever been engaged inpeaceful pursuits
noror hold mr. desired ~nolitical ofice-neither