Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-06-20
VOLUME Z.
Artitles.
A Calm Appeal.

a Calm Appedl.
John A. Green, Esq, we'll known to
many readers as Chairman of the Mozart
Hal! (Wood) delegation that sought ad-
mission to the Charleston Convention, writes
a very calm and coseut appeal through the
Syracuse Courier and Union. We quote
the following paragraphs:
Without the sanction of Congress, which
is alone empowered to "declare war; A
brabam Lincoln, the accidental choice of
minority of the American people, giv'ng
himself up to the extremists of his party.
has precipisated the Northern and Southern
States into armed hostilities.
Having accomplished this dire result, lie
calls special session of Congress. He
convenes it, not at an early day, when yet
it mi ght avert the great calamity, and when
it mi ght advise and consult with him to
that happy end, but rs if fearful lest it
might thwart the blood scheme, or as if,
in imitation Of the rulers of the Old World,
who deem it the chief Office of legislativ"
bodies to provide the means for the wars
royalty may see fit to engage in, he post
pones it to period when his fatal, if not
criminal, policy shall have left it no choice
but to pay and provide for the fleets aud
armies he has raised. Why else was the
session of Congress cahed on the 18th of
April, deferred to the 4th of July? Did
not every reason connected with the public
good require its instant aSsemblage? Or,
if it must not assemble earlier, ought not
every step tending to civil war, except as
called for by self defence, to have been de-
layed until Congress should have been con-
vened and its advice taken? Impartial
history, when it shall record these events,
to the shame of our nation, will declare
that civil war seemed the object of the Ad-
ministration and of the leaders of the Re-
publican party, and that both studiously
avoided the paths of peace.
This accursed fraterual contest into which
Mr.. Lincoln has fastened US, in contempt
of the Constitution he had just sworn to
support, is the long foreseen result of the
wicked and persistent assaults made by the
party which now holds power in these
Northern States, upon the rights and prop
erty of their fellow citizens of the South
The statesmen of the Democratic and Con-
servative parties of the country, from JEFF
ferson to our own times, have constantly
and assiduously warned the people every
where of this inevitable result of a section
al anti.slavery agitation. You and l, sir.
have ever been loyal to the Constitution Of
our country; loyal to the interest of every
State in our Confederacy; loyal to every
section and the entire Union; loyal to the
flag of our fathers, and the hopes of man
kind. Those who now denounce US as
traitors, in past times have derided Us as
"Uuion savers; )" fox years they have sui
leply nulifed the Constitution, resisted the
execution of the laws, and encouraged those
who pronounced the Union can accursed
bond"-yet they now claim to be par ex
cellence "Union lovers" *
Abraham Lincoln is but carrying or; t:'e
war tan begun. He came into the Pre-
deucy twelve weeks age, to find seven States
seeded he, and the Republican nrai1ri'!
in Congress, adopting the no concessivu
and the no compromise policy Of the Trl-
bune school of politicians, and aggravating
the disastrous influence of that policy by
menace. Of coercion and subjuEatou. have
since succeeded III lri .ng out OF the Cuion
four more States; and according to every
public indication is yet pursuing policy
Which will as certainly make the Southern
States still adheripg to the Union a unit
with those already seeded, and then pro-
poses to carry on, unless soon and stern-
ly forbidden by the voice of an outraged
people, war which must rival the blood
lest and mos: desolating in all the world S
records, and all for the sake of negro cmaa-
cipation. Let the white men of the North
calmly consider the causes and count the
cost of this war. 1t is they who are beg
CARED by taxation, ruined in their property,
and drafted off by hundreds of thousands
to the battle field, to murder or be murder
ed by their brethren of common country.
The American people of this generation
do not know what war is. They cannot
realize its suferings. They cannot anticl-
pate its horrors. War, among thirty mil
lions of the most chivalrouS, ingenious,
brave, disciplined aud martial free people
the world ever saw, must present scenes OF
terrible tragedy such as the most hardy will
shudder to contemplate. War in the Nine
teeuth Century proposes means and appl'
apces for the destruction of human lie
which convert battle into mere butchery,
where every wound is fatal, and tlc death
of thousands may be the work of an instant.
War involves the stoppage of trade, the
cessation of peaceful industry, stagnatlon
and irreparable injury to every interest.
Factories are silenced, warehouses closed,
fields lie uucultivated, ships lie idle at the
wharves, the work shop and the counting
room are abandoned, agriculture receives
diminished returns from its labors, taxation
increases ten fld, churches are turned into
hospitals, school houses and Senate cham
bers are converted ipto barracks, the peoFIt
are impoverished, labor goes uncompensa
ted, properly uses its value, debts aud IN
comcs are uncollec'able, starvation W r
abroad in the stress and roads, noble {. g
sink into piles of smoking and 5loojy ruins
heinless women and innocent childreh >ni
fer untold miseries, aud the wrath and MA"
ness of n.au call down the vengeance