Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
From the Y. Y. Tribune.
The Dominant Race.

1t is no novelty to iud dominant race
in the midst of nation. China, Russia,
Spain, Austria and England, have their
dominant races, who have controlled and
shaped the Government, and kindly accep,
ted its places of honor and profit Up to
the fourth day of this present month of
March the United States have had domi-
nant race, every way disposed to relieve the
rest of the people of the cares of Govern,
ment, and to rule and govern as it pleased
Oligarchies obtain the control Of Govern
ment not so much by the force of intellect
as by following the business of government
as pursuit or trade, and our Southern oil
garchs have succeeded only because their
perseverance has been indomitable, and
their victims unresisting. Banding togeth-
er as one man, training themselves for po-
litical work of every kind, establishing
satrapies in the North about as sure and
steadfast as the superior power at home,
they came finally to think themselves in
vincible, and issued their edicts-with a
sublime audacity which Chinese Empe
ror could hardly excel. Their power at
the North, although broken, is not yet
wholly spent. AS among their own slave
population the old religious idolatry of Af-
rica is said to linger, so among their SER
wants at the North the political heresies
which they have taught still live, and are
ready, upon fitting opportunity, to break
forth with noxious virulence. Thousands
of the disciples of the dominant race living
here in the free North are not ashamed to
avow Southern sentiments, and profess
Southern allegiance, thus proving how sad
ly men may be debased and beguiled by
impure contact Such mortifying facts
naturally lead US to look into the causes of
this malign influence, and learn the secret
of its success
1t will probably be conceded that the
men of the North are intellectually match
for the men of the South. Nature has en-
dowed them with ut least equal mental fac
ulties, and education has undoubtedly cul-
tivated their powers beyond the Southern
average. Yet it is undeniable that the
Northern man has proved inferior in some
material points to the Southern man, and,
as the weakest must 60 to the wall, has
yielded to Southern superiority. Again !:
who can deny that the Northern woman is
in all respects match for her Southern
sister-that she is equal in beauty, grace,
refinement, education, taste? Yet is it not
most true that the Southern woman every
where usurps the first social position, and
looks down upon the woman of the North ?
1t is not pleasant to admit facts like these,
but that they are facts every ones expert.
ence will testify. 1t is so at Washington,
and it is so even at our Northern watering
places and hotels The Southern male
and the Southern female not only expect,
but readily receive, the larger share of de-
ference and attention. And it is just be-
cause their arrogant claims are met only by
tame submission that they hare SO success.
fully domineered, politically and socially,
over the people of the North. They have
made good their right to rule by successful
ly imposing their yoke upon an abject peo.
pie. Their process has been simple one,
but it has been carried out with skill and
vigor. They have stood by each other as
a foreign nobility stands by its order
They have made much of each other every
where. No Southern woman has been
found so plain or i'll bred as not to receive
their preference over the most beautiful
and accomplished Northern woman. In a
mixed society, if a Southern man spoke,
they listened with respect and attention,
no matter how foolish his speech; but when
a Northern man opened his mouth, howev-
er wise his words, it was signal to 60 on
with the laughing and talking. They we're
Southerners, forsooth, and, the rest of us
only Americans or Yankees, and this dis
tinction was insisted on even in foreign
lands As a part of their plan of opera
tions they have set social traps to ensnare
Northern politicians, and the Wiuthrops,
Everetts, Filmores, Hunts, Changers,
Weeds, and many others of that sort-have
proved conveniently conservative aud merl.
dional, in obedience to social quite as much
as political influences. In public life they