Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-30
Fanaticism Run Mad,

Fanaticism Run Mad.
The following from the New York Even
ing Post, of the 1lth inst, proves incontes
tibly that Abolition fanaticism makes intel
ligent men fools, as we'll as thieves an
towards:
"These brsggarts, who talk as if the.
were in the habit of eating Union mai
for breakfast every day, lose no time in ap
pealing for foreign help for their bad cause
But they will not get it. Great Britain
and France understand very we'll that al
the cotton which the South has to sell vii
be shipped from the loyal ports withou
their intervention. They know that ths
planters cannot eat cotton, that they cauuo
afford to keep it, and that New York, Phil
adelphia and Boston are excellent avenue.
for the safe export Of all that is raised
They are not alarmed about their cotton.
The Confederate States have asked fo
no "foreign help" They have not appeal
ed, nor are they going to appeal, to "Grea
Britain and France" for assistance. Al
they are going to ask those governments Ii
for recognition, and that they will obtain
So far as the North is concerned, they fee
fully confident of whipping Liucoln's myr
midous wherever and whenever they have
fair chance st them.
But the Posts idea about the cotton
crop finding its way to market, foreign oil
otherwise, through 'New York, Philadel
phia and Boston," is SO supremely rich thai
it convulses us with laughter, and viii
cause grim smile on the other side Of the
water. Why, are you such fools as not t.
know that such contingency has already
heen provided for; aud that the planter
factor, conductors and managers of rail
roads, shippers and captains Of steamboats,
or controllers of any other means of trans
portatiou, would be shot like mad dogs
and deservedly, too-and their property
con6scated, if they attempted to forward q
bale of cotton Northward, until the blocka
ding squadrons we're withdrawn, peace de-
clared, and the independence of the Con-
federate States recognized?
We "cannot eat cotton" and don't in
tend to, having plenty of substantial food
to eat, and plenty of clothing to wear, but
we can keep our cotton on the plantations
and there the new crop is going to stay safe
ly accomplishing in value, paying its owners
wells,f@ the detention, until those who
wal smc for it, and take it away
bribgng all We want to buy in exchange,
and the balance in gold. If the aforesaid
"Grsaaitein and France" don't want our
cottd trade with us-won't allow
us to sf 6si;a Bith profitable cargoes
of onr cottonIis4 48f be rather hard on US,
but we will accommodate ourselves to cir.
cumstances, and will cheerfully endure any
privatiou, any ruin, any fatc-even death
itself, were death million fold more terri,
bic than poor mortals imagine-sooner than
live undor the foul rule of Abolitiondom
That is what We will not submit to under
any circumstances whatever.
If the New York Post will tell US the q
mount of Cotton the Yankee manufacturers
have on band, We will tell the Post when
their manufactures will become silent
desolate-deserted-when some hundreds
of millions of invested capital will cease to
yield a dividend-will become valueless
Will the Post vouchsafe the information !!
1t makes little difference, however. The
uurelieved 6sndishness manifested by the
Abolitiouists towards the Southern people
amounting, in language scarcely disguised
10 dubious phraseolgy, to wholesale murder,
violation of mstrons and maidens, to gene
raj cor8agrations and universal destruction
has brought forth its patural fruit, and
We are rejoiced at it, for it has prevented d
reconstruction of the old Union on any
terms.
But, editors Of the Post, you get no more
cotton from the South. If, after two o.
three yesre of ruinous probation, you de
monstrats that you are making honest ef
forts to reform, We may let you have fe"
bales-but not before ~ O. Crescent