Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-30
For the Yorkvillc ENQUIRER.

fall, by death you will gain the victory
of eternal life. MENTOR.
For the Yorkvllc Enquirer.
Messrs. Editors You will please
insert the following letter, which was
written in answer to one Ireceived from
gentleman in Pennsylvania, in which
I have copied certain of his remarks, as
sent to me. I make this request in an.
swer to many of my friends, as we'll as
yours, who have insisted upon it's publ.
cation in your journal.
Rock HILL, April %, 1861:
Mr.. -: Yours of the 18th Of
February in reply to my communica.
ton, has been received, and contents
noticed. You say, that agreeable to
your reading of the Constitution, that
it was the purpose and desire of its ma
kers, ''that slavery should soon die out,
and that "a republican and christian
sentiment would confne it to the con-
troll Of the State authorities" requi-
ring Congress to have nothing to do
with it, "except securing the rendition
of fugitive slaves
In reply to this suggestion, I beg
leave to say, that if your construction
be correct, then language can have no
meaning; as if there was no such in
tention on the part of those who framed
it, and solemnized the same by one a.
mong the most solemn oaths that can be
penned on paper for it's protection, it
could have been nothing less than an
act of knavery, to delude and deceive
the great mass of the American people.
Now had they intended to have nothing
to do with it, why was it, that negroes,
as property, was at all put into the Con-
stitution in any shape or form, more
than that of any other species of prop
erty? Why say that the slave trade,
may or may not be suspended by the
year 1903, leaving the question open
for the consideration of Congress, as to
whether it would be expedient to allow
| it or to suspend it? This position,
am sure, can not be denied by the most
ultra abolitionist, upon a plain logical
view of the claims of the Constitution
alluded to.
So far as slavery has to do with Ell.
ther Church or State, there can be nei'
ther moral, religious, or political
wrong attached to 1t ; on the contrary,
socially vieved, by both races, (where
capable of approaching their relative
condition. will have natural tendency
to an acquiescence on the part of both
parties, so that they will naturally agree
to abide their respective situations, sc
long as the black man and woman shall
produce after their kind, and the white
man and woman after their kind. 9th
erwise, revolution must take place ir
the order of Gods DEGREES, that must
put him to shame. This, I presume
you are not prepared to admit, nor an
| prepared to admit that a negro IS {
black white man, to be put on an equal
ity with the white race, any more thar
God was when he made us thus. Blu
you may appeal to reason, as you have
done, rather than abide the declaration
of the Bible, within whose lids are pre-
cepts, examples, and commandments
regulating the institution of slavery
more numerous than | have space for a
this time. A few of which | will cal
your attention to, viz: Gen. 9:25, 26
, 27 Levitt. 25: Is, A, As, 46; Ex
21: 16, 80; Eph. 6:5 to 8, inclusive
Outside of the Bible, and agreeable t.
: the cardinal laws of physiology, natur
: ever has and ever will produce after tn
7 prime cause of her termination of lik
, kind, hence we see her so perfect an
t uniform in all of her developments, an
: rarely ever swerving, unless brought a
t bout by some second cause producin
t corresponding Developments; so tina
: the mind caves in at the thought of be
e ing forced to any other conclusion.
In political point of view, take
s for granted that the slaves who are We
: informed, consider themselves better o
), than thousands of the poor whites, 8
: we'll as that of their free born brothers
i and that they will contend alongsid
: of their masters for their places MOI
Y assiduously, than any of those who al
> living as hired servants in many par
|. of the world; because, they have a
2 ways good pr0vider and one avhose a
|, terest 1t IS to look after them wath car
IS and often scith much anriety for the
e safety. So that, peradventure, shou
d your philosophy prove true, that v
e may be surrounded by a Gordon of FRI
n States, whose people may come dow
If upon us like pack of "vandals," ne
# ertheless, we can and will meet them
1t the gateway, and play bomb and bar
b to their tune of Yankee IWadale, tn;