Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-30
Orioinal Matter.
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENTS.
RALEIGH, N. C. May 22d, 1861.

RALEIGH DENCE.
RALEIGH, N. c. May 22d, 1861.
Editors of Yorkvile Enquirer:
The telegraph has long ere this borne on
lightning wings to every part of the conti-
nent the joyful news Of the Secession of the
Old North State from the Disunited States,
and her Union with the Confederate States.
She went out, and in on the same day-the
ever-memorable Goth Of May. Only about
one hour elapsed from the time of her d.
yorcement to the cousummation of her mar
riage to the new nation. To North Caro-
lima belongs the houor of having shed the
first blood in the Revolutionary struggle
her Regulators drew British blood on the
soil of Alamance before the battle of Lex
iugtor was fought. To North Carolina be-
longs the honor of making the first Decla-
ration of Independence Of the British crown;
and to North Carolina belongs the honor
Of having passed the Ordinance of Secession
from the United States unanimously, she
being the only State besides South Carolina
in which there was no dissenting voice.
This good old State has always been
sound on the "vexed question" Those
men who kept the State back from her true
position so long, are with the South out and
out. They are as violently opposed to 4.
Blinkun as the most wrathful South Caro-.
linian. The venerable Chief Justice Ruf-
fin declared in the Convention that he would
vote for the Ordinance of Secession if the
halter were already around bis neck, and
Judge Badger-the Hercules of the form
er Union party-asserted that he had rath-
er be under the rule of Queen Victoria or
Louis Napoleon, or any other monarch, than
to submit to the sway Of Lincoln.
John A. Gilmer, of Greensboro, who
has been suspected of being unworthy of
the name of Southerner is no Quaker, no
Abolitiouist- submissiouist; but South
ern STAKEHOLDER, whose only son is now in
arms against the Black Republicans. Mr..
Gilmer says that he has been egregiously
deceived, in having personal assurances
from Lincoln that the policy of the Admin
istration would be peaceful So We might
speak Of the residue of the defunct Union
party.
But must qualify these statements a
little. I know of nobody in North Carolina
now who is in favor of the old Union still
those who formed the old Whig party are
in some measure opposed to the Democratic
party even now, on the subject Of taxation.
The present laws of North Carolina discrimi
nate in favor of slave property; and this
lighter tax on slave property is right ac-
cordiDg to the creed Of the Democratic par
ty. The ad valorem, or Wbig party, con.
tend that all property should be taxed e.
qually in proportion to its value, and this
change will be energetically urged BY its
advocates. The doctrineis evidently popu-
lar in the State, and especially at this time
when war tax must be laid, and by this
means the old Whig party will s'ill try to
regain that ascendancy in the Safe which
they lost some ten years ago. 1t will be
perceived, therefore, that while the State
is unit for the South, there is still diff.
ference of opinion as it regards questions of
State policy.
There are few, doubtless, who do not
subscribe to the doctriue of Secession but
who at the same time h"!ieve in the right
of revolution, and are as uucompromising
for Southern Rights as the Secessionists
proper. The latter, however, are greatly
in the majority, as was shown by the adop-
ton of a Secession Ordinance in preference
to one which simply contemplated revolu-
ton.
The Hon. Weldon N Edwards-a name
clarena ct venera5ile-was chosen President
of the Convention, which commenced its
session at eleven o'clock, a. m. At about
six o'clock, the two Ordinances we're sue.
sively passed, cutting off this noble old
State from the Dtsunion and linking her
fortunes iudissolubly with the Confederacy
of the South. The scene which then trans
pired was one of the most jubilaDt imagin-
able. One hundred guns were fired on
Capital square, bells ruug, banners waved,
and the welkin was rent with the enthusias
tic huzzas of the multitude. Three cheers
acere given for South Charlottesville no.
51est Roman ofthem aN'-immediately on
the passage ofMe Ordinance.
Just at this time it was announced that
there was cannonadlDg going on near Nor
folk, and all present seemed ready to take the
field in the cause of Southern Independence.
Accordingly seven hundred brawny braves
from Old Rip left the city by the next train
for the Old Dominion. The time for their