Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-12-13
NO. SO.

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terests of the two sections came in conflict.
Our struggle, for most Of that time, has
been to secure the election of men at the
North who would protect us from oppres-
sion and extortion. As to receiving at
their hands any great boon that would cost
the North dollar, we long ago ceased to
look for such thing. live could get
President who would veto South-devouring
measures, and give our politicians, and
through them our people, Office, why we
gloried as though we had all Yankeedom
under our thumb. But 80 far is it from
being true that you can travel over the o.
nited States with all your home-born privi-
leges, the truth is, that there is not a civil
lied country on the face of the earth, in
which you may not travel with greater priv,
ileges than you have in the Northern States
of this Union. A few years ago, q rnans
was travelling with his slave in Prussia:-.
An attempt was made to emancipate the
slave; and Prussian judge decided, that
according to the law Of nations, the rela-
tion Of master and slave could not be. dis
solved by the mere temporary sojourn of
the two in that country. So all Europe
would decide. Hardly year has rolled
over our heads, in the last thirty, in which
some tourist in the Northern States has
not had his slave taken from him and set
free. Many years ago the brig Enterprise
left Alexandra with sixty or seventy slaves
on board, bound for Charleston. She was
driven by stress ofweather into Bermuda,
and the authorities of that Island set all
the negroes free. Our government demand.
ed reparation of the British government
for the injury done to the owner and the
British government made reparation "a
few years ago, some eight or ten slaves
were shipped from some port in Virginia,
for New Orleans. The vessel for some
cause touched at New York, but the feet
of the slaves did not touchsthe soil ofNew (
York. They were taken from the vessel
and set free. As this case did not.come
within the pale Of the "persoual liberty
law" of that State, the courts condescended
to hear the masters plea for his slaves
They decided against him Of course, upon
the principle, suppose, that the Constitu-
ton superseded the law Of nations, and
they superseded the Constitution. The
liberty Of conscience is as boldly invaded,
as the right of property in those States
In every church where majorities rule, they
have usurped papal power, without obser-
wing papal clemency to Southern christians.
3 With all power-civil and ecclesiastical-in
their hands, what is to become Of us Q The
Union has nothing in it to endear it the
! people of the South. How much has it
=. cost the South? I will not answer in
f round numbers, because you would not be-
). lieve me; and cannot answer it fully, with
! out wearying or bewildering Thereafter with
t figures. I will endeavor, by few simple
facts and illustrations, to open the eyes Of
the honest yeomanry and youth of the
country, for whose benefit mainly i am
4 writing, to the tremendous sxtortion to
!, which they have been subjected for four
and forty years by the things called tariffs.
f Suppose, plain farmer Of North Carolina,
t you should go to Kentucky and buy one
r hundred head of horses, at one hundred
dollars piece, for sale in South Carolina;
= and that when you came to the line, an
r officer should meet you and demand Of you
? how much your horses cost you You tell
r him the price. "That won't do" says he;
"show your bills of sale." You do it.
"All right" says he; "hand me over $2,-
500, and you may bring your horses into
= the State-otherwise you can't" "Why,
! what does this mean ?" say you. aAtWell,"
says the officer, 'the Legislature has pass.
ed law that every man who brings horses
f into the State, shall pay into the Treasury
D twenty-five dollars on every hundred dol
lars worth-in other words, Sz5 upon their
cost, or value; or, in common parlance,
r had laid an ad ualorem duty Cor tax upon
;. all horses brought into the State" "And
what is all this for?" you inquire. To
0 enable the people of South Carolina to do a
+. profitable business in horse raising, or, as it
is deceptively called, to '.protect" South
Carolina's Fhome' industry" They cannot
raise such horses as yours and sell them for
! less than S115, to make profit on them;
but if every hundred dollar horse that is
brought into the State can be made to cost
e Sl25, then the South Carolina raiser can
do splendid business-he can put his
price up to 1924, and sell for dollar
head less than the importers horses cost
him. But South Carolina, We suppose,
cannot supply tenth part Of North Caro-
lina's demand for horses how now? Why
hundred-dolar horses in Kentucky are
f worth $3.50 in North Carolina. Now, the
t drovers begin to import again-pay the
State S25 per head, and make S25 per
horse still. But the South Carolinian,
without any buying at all, makes thirty-6ve
or forty dollars per head; for We have seen
that without protection, he could have sold
at S115. In the mean time all the farm
ers are buying horses, simply saying, "why
horses have run up nightly" and having
no idea that it is the law of their State that
has run them up. Nevertheless, though
they do not know it, they are paying $50
more for every horse they buy than they