Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-07-18
Artitles,
Bloody Black Republican Toryism,


itself just now, con amorc, with the tasl
} Of urging the Government to hang the Of
6cers and crew Of the privateer Savannah
landed here, on Tuesday, by the Harrie
Lane. "Their crime," it says, sis clearly
piracy, and is punishable with the extreme
penalty attached to that crime. Let il
therefore be inflicted" What contempt
ible, short-sighted imbecility! Has the
editor of the aforesaid newspaper ever read
the history of the earlier stages Of the wal
of independence? If SO, has he forgotten
that certain George Washington, noto
rious rebel against the British Grown, was
similarly menaced with death as q traitor,
if he could only be caught? And that
! Lords this, that and the other, issued proc.
lamstions, declaring that every single colo
mist taken with arms in his hands was gull.
ty of undoubted felony, and would be hung ?
Washington did not affect to deny the re-
bellion. He justified it as having been
forced upon Americans by British despo.
tism-not the tithe as bitter as the South
has groaned under at the hands of the Alb
olitionists of the North ;and in answer to the
threat that his soldiers should be executed,
contented himself with soleunly assuring
the Commauder.in.C Chief of the Tory army
that where the latter hung one man, he
would striugu two. Let MIR. Lincoln and
his advisers proceed to the length of hang
ing the crew of the Savannah, and we have
no hesitation in predicting that such bloody
reprisals will be inflicted by Jefferson Da-
Wis that an out-cry of horror and indigna-
ton will arise against the senseless maniacs
at Washington, who shall have aroused his
just wrath.
The Lincoln Government affects to re.
gard every single individual who has taken
up arms to defend Southern soil from inva-
sion as punishable by hanging, and all who
have aided them or rendered them comfort
as guilty of misprisou of treason. At least
four hundred thousand individuale ought,
under such teachings, to be led to the gal
lows to morrow, and the remainder of the
population of the Confederate States should
be subjected to fine and Imprisonment
This is, substantially, the doctrine held BY
all our leading Abolitionists, although,
when the time for carrying their threats in
to effect comes, a certain instinct of self
preservation whispers in their ears that the
cbalice they so recklessly hold up to others
may, later, be returned to their own lips.
If they were thoroughly consistent: they
would not rest contented unless each pris.
oner captured were visited with an iguo-
minious death. They should either directly
advocate such brutality, or else they should
cease to impose their reckless clamor upon
the public Americans have been accus-
toned to express sympathy with Italians,
Hungarians, and even SepoyS in state of
insurrection, condemning, as worthy of per-
petual infamy, rulers who have decreed the
penalty of the law upon their subjects !;
but never under any foreign nationality
not within the most barbarous Turkish
Pashaliks--have theories of punishment
been promulgated, so ferocious and savage
as those which have formed the staple Of
Republican rawlings since the middle of
April.
One of the most painful phenomena of
! these dark and distracted times, is the eff.
fort that is being made by the aatocracy at
Washington, and its organs elsewhere, to
discourage every tendency to kindly, con-
ciliatory or peaceful feelings towards the
Southern States, and to create such embit-
terment between the two sections as may
render future settlement of difficulties
impossible. The mparatively mild policy
of General Mcclellan in Western Virginia
and Kentucky has been condemned, al
though contrary course must inevitably
lead to local guerilla warfare Of the most
deplorable description. Murderous attacks
upon women and children, and the slaugh-
ter of innocent citizens of a Court of JUS
tice, and massacres like that of Bonneville,
excite the jubilant applause Of the demonl
acs who hold the destinies of the country
in their hands. Enulating the Robespierres
and Murats of the Reign of Terror, they
scent out the possibility of sacrificing life
with a keen, blood hound instinct, as COW
ardly as it is barbarous. No patriotic con.
sideraton will bring them to their senses,
but they will soon be checked by their own
fears, when those retaiations have com-
menced on Southern soil, which are newt
able, if the recommendation of a general
resort to capital punishment, is carried into
execution.
In accordance with international law, it
has been officially declared by no less than
two ex-Chancellors of England, as we'll as
by the present Lord Chancellor, that priva.
teering is not piracy, and that to punish it
as such would be murder. The Confeder.
ate States occupy position as lie ftcto
Government, which the U. States would
instantly recognize, did they hold their
present relation to any other power besides
itself. England and France have both re,
cognize them as belligeren,s, and, not i'm
probably, both of these countries will, ere
long, assume an attitude, in their behalf,
hostile to ourselves. The blockade of the
Southern coast, which has been unconstitu-
tionally proclaimed by the President, is al.
most exclusively maintained by vessels as
much privateers as the Savannah, and,
the refore. equally liable to be considered
pirates. If secession is unlawful, so has
been the invasion of States, the closing of
sea-ports, the massacre of citizens, the en-
forcement of martial law, the raising of ar