Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-10-04

The man in the Southern States who accepts
Federal Office under q President and party with
such avowed purposes, will soon find that a
nicely adjusted rope about the neck is stronger
than the tenure Of his Office. What ought the
States to DO? At Baltimore every Slave State
united for the protection and defence of slavery
in the Territories; and can you distrust their
fidelity and readiness to unite for its protection
in the States! The South will demand such a
guarantee of her rights as will bring security
and save the Union but if thatdemand be spurn-
ed and Black Republican bayonets threaten US,
there will be no want Of cooperation in any &C.
ton required for our safety. Submission and
distraction, he said had had their reign; resist
ance and union of the South would come.
You are gravely told, he said, that there is a
secret Secession party in the State whose pur-
pose is to jam the next Legislature with separ'
ate State action men, and by stealth some night
run the State out of the Union! Such a party
had no other existence than in the distempered
brain of this candidate. The witness summoned
to the stand-the journal Of the last Legislature
wouldn't sustain the gentleman. He couldn't
see Secession in the simple Resolution to sp-
propriate 800, 600 for arming the State to pro.
tect your wives and children from raids like
John Browns into Virginia, or in the innocent
declaration that as to fraternal feelingSbetweeu
the South and North the Union is already dis.
solved. If the gentleman saw s~ePerate State
action in these things, he will be suspected Of
seeding from bis senses. The Legislature is to
shove the State out of the Union "a view Of
its powers for which he should spply to Lincoln's
administration for a patent. The balance of US,
he said, had supposed that this could be done
only by the people in Convention. He was
opposed to any separate State action of this
State; because it was an absurd and mischievous
issue tending to defeat cooperation. He denied
that there was any such party in the State, and
said that the cry alb out it originated with those
who are for resisting cooperation. He would
not wait for an "overt act" What, said he,
would you think of the man who saw a dagger
drawn over his child, and waited till the blow
was given. If any man there wanted South
Carolina tamely and basely to submit to every
thing, and voted for him, he wouldb be cheated
in his man.
MAJ. THOMAS LOWRY.
For the HOUSEKEEPING absent from the meeting,
writes to the ENQUIRER as follows:
From extreme illness of q member of my fam
lily, I was unable, land totally unfit from e1-
haustion, consequent from broken rest and con-
tiuued watching at the bed side of the same to
answer in person to the call made on the candi-
dates, on aale-day last. The only subject pre-
sented in that call was our Federal relations.
Our system of Government being a Represen-
tative one, and having no desire to shirk the
question, J. give below, in o few words, my po'
litical creed; and in doing so, must 60 back to
the creation and objects of the Federal Consti-
tuition. The Constitution of the United States
is the creation Of sovereign, independent and
~co.equal States, each State reserving its sover-
eighty intact. Reared in a State that has chung
and still clings to sovereignty as her only ark Of
yafety, the signs of the times indicatethat we
must stanc manfully and fearlessly at the helm,
or else this doctrine of State sovereignty, this
vital principle of liberty, this corner stone OF
our free government, will be swept from the face
of the earth and we will be drifted to despot-
isms more fearful, and prosecutions more op-
~pressive, than those from which our fore fathers
fed in the old world. Establish the doctrine of
that arch. demagogue, Judge Douglas-that the
Federal Government has the Constitutional right
to coerce 6. sovereign State-then in vain our
fore. fathers struggled and toiled and when
poor in the means and appliances of war they
took up arms against a power, whose warlike
renown extended from sea to sea, and from pole
to pole, better had they remained vassals of
England, than this doctrine of State sovereignty
should be lost. We would have had one guar
antee at least of liberty-the Magma Charta of
Englisbmen, wrenched from the hands of Royal
ty on the Fianks Of the ~Runnymede.
From the days of Hamilton to the present, the
object of the Northern States of the Union has
been to destroy State sovereignty, consolidate
the Government, and place the minority at the
will of a f~anatical majority. In scanning the
political horizon, its murky clouds betoken all
else but peace and harmony. The raid of John
Brown in Virginia, and the recent outbreaks OF
a similar nature, in Texas and other slave hold.
ing States, are but fore stadows of what will be,
if the Black Republican party should be success
full in obtaining possession Of the Government
To relate a history of the wrongs of the South
would be superhuous. They are of daily occur
renee. The citizens of the Northern States
steal your property: they murder your citizens
when in accordance with d plain and expressed
constitutional provision, they attempt to recover
the same. They have laws on their Statute
Books, abrogating articles in the Federal Con.
s~titution, and making it Penitentiary offence
for any Southern citizen to attempt to recover
his Constitutional rights. Why, fellow citi'
zens, will We close our eyes to these stubborn
facts? Will we wait until the practical issue is
forced upon US? Wait until the admission of a
sufficient number of free States to change the
Constitution? Then, when we are powerless to
act. this Government which was made for oul
protection, will be used as an engine for our des'
%truction.
How then can we preserve the Constitution,
and make it subserve the ends for which it was
created? Can it be done by compromise and
concession The history of the country will
show that we have heaped compromise on com
promise; and still the i~nsatiate demands of the
North in nc manner decrease, but the march Of
the 'irrepressible conflict" is onward. This
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