Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-01-03
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For ihe instruction of our readers, we
shall give, so far as our space permits, ex-
tracts from the comments and remarks of
the press on the secession of South Carroll.
ma. We begin with the New York Tri5-
une of the 2lst instant, which says:
"The King is dead long live the King"
"The Union is dissolved; long live the
Union p A star the less in our armament,
or rather, South Carolina thinks so
According to the general expectation,
that State has gone outof the Union, but if
we do not forget that it is not the first time
she has done so, we shall tremble the less.
We remember when she was ready to go to
the death for Gen. Hamilton's sugar, when
it was said of her, dulce ct decoruns est pro
patria mori." But it was swester yet to
come back, and she came back. She may
do so again. It is so easy to pass resolu.
tions; so difficult to execute them. Her
first act of sovereignty is rather ludicrous
She asks the Government from which she
secedes to conduct for her her postal sys-
tenn!
However, she has gone, and if she is
grati6ed by the manner of her going, the
qualification is one which nobody, we fancy
will grudge her. If she chooses to be
without the advantages of the Union, which
her sister States enjoy and will continue to
enjoy, the loss is hers, and the advantages
80 far as the saving Of some heavy ex-
pense is concerned-are ours. How in any
other sense she is to get, out of the Union,
it is not easy to see. Her Commissioners
will presently appear at Washington, and
will have the honor, doubtless, Of dining
with the old public functionary, who still
holds high court in the White House. -
They may wait upon Congress, but Con-
gress has no authority to treat with them
upon the subject of dissolution. What,
then, can they do? Like the French King
who marched up the hill with twice ten
thousand men, and then marched down
again, they can return to Charleston and
report progress. Only let the State con.
tinue to pay the regular duties on imports,
and keep her hands off the forts, and she
can secede as long as she pleases. 4
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Some feeling was excited in the House
of Representatives at Washington yester-
day by a resolution, offered by Mr.. Delano,
of Massachusetts, inquiring Of the Presi.
dent whether a statement made in the S.
Carolina Convention, to the effect that no.
tice had been given him that reinforce:
ment II Fort Moultrie would be the signal
for an attack, was true. What with Mr..
Clarke's resolutions in the Senate, which
were again brought up yesterday, and the
urging of this similar inquiry in the House,
it is not improbable that Mr.. Buchanan
will yet be compelled to explain and de.
fend his do-nothing policy in regard to the
insurgeant Carolinians.
The Richmond Dispatch says:
The solemn act of the secession of a sov.
ereign State from the American Union has
been accomplished. With unutterable sad
ness We are compelled to speak of the A.
merican Union as thing THAT WAS. I,
exists no more. One Of its brightest stars
has disappeared from that resplendent gal
axy which has so long lighted up the West.
ern heavens, and to which the oppressed Of
all nations looked for hope and deliverance.
1t is but one star, and yet how soon 9th.
ers may follow none can tell. The golden
cord is broken. The falling of single
pearl from the silken thread gives reason
to fear that the rest are not secure-that
soon the ground may be strewn with the
scattered gems. She is but single Com
monwealth, and new States may be added
to the Union, but they will not be of the
old thirteen. One of our old Revolution
ary comrades, and one of the bravest AID
best, who never, in those days of trial and
of peril, deserted a friend nor turned his
back upon foe, has gone out from among
US, and stands alone. Where shall We sup
| ply the vacant place?
The Baltimore Sun says:
The result has been generally anticipated
by our readers, and the act itself only full
fills general expectation. 1t has signif.
cance, however, which it is impossible to
regard without deep emotion; and unless
there is an instant return to the obligations
of the Constitution and the equality of the
rights of the States, this secession Of South
Carolina is the beginning of the end.
The fact that this "Sovereign Conven.
tion" has been elected directly by thespeo-
pie !; that none but delegates pledged to Sc
cession were chosen, and no others entered
the canvass; that upon assembling the act
of secession is promptly adopted so soon as
as it is presented, and that by unanimous
vote, shows the deep and settled purpose
with which the State resents the indignity
of sectional -lawlessness to which she has
been exposed. .
This act of South Carolina will unques-
tionably impart quickening impulse to
other Southern States, and there remains
no hope now but in an unconditional return
to the Constitution, and an ample recogni-
tion of the rights Of the South by the peo.
pie of the North of the restoration of the
Union-as it was.
The EFFECT IN PHILADELPHIA.-If
any South Carolinians fattered themselves
that the Secession Ordinance was going to
create panic and alarm at the North, they
have been mistaken. To-day everybody is