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

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bosom of single member nor will it
be found among our people. No, sir,
the fact is, and will be, that the fears
are ON the Black Republican side ; and
well may they fear, for a cruel and des.
tructive war awaits them in your own
country, that may prove aterrible scene
for contemplation. I find your people
are terribly y divided, whilst we are a
unit. (Here I sent him many proofs
of this fact, as published from his own
country.
You charge our 'slave-ocrats,' with
saying that ssthose who have no negroes
cry white trash, and have been accus.
toned to rule the nation" In answer
to this charge, I have in part already
shown, that we have been ruled with an
iron rod, by your ism-mongers. AS for
"white trash" I have no doubt but you
have sufficient quantity to fraternise
with all of the negroes that can be in,
duced or stolen away from us. So far
as regards our poor people, who regard
themselves as gentlemen above the low
sordid serfs Of degradation, we take
hold of their hands, in the bonds O!
friendship and fellowship, either in
Church or State, and do all such acts Of
kindness as properly belong to gentle
men. Poverty is no disgrace; it is on.
ly an inconvenience, that is all.
You ask the question if 81 am not
afraid that the Republicans will send
down an army and take away our ne,
groes, &c., &c. I have no such fears
nor do l fear the negroes, nor do | fear
any body else. Yet | do fear that the
still born, sneaking order of the Black
Republican party, may do us some harm,
to infest our country with pack OF
sneaking dogs; whilst at the same time,
they are making every preparation to
reinforce our forts. 1t was most fortu-
nate for them that Fort Sumter did not
get reinforced, for if she had been, there
would have been a terrible slaughter
among them, that could not have been
helped.
You say that you think 1.-The North
will rule us whether we remain in the
Union or not If this be the object
of the Black Republican party, the
sooner we are separated the better, as
then we will stand some chance Of
knowing how much we may have to
pay to Caesar for naught. What con-
temptible idea! Why, sir, if we are
thus to be menaced and driven about,
be assured of the fact that the day it is
attempted, will be a day of retribution.
You have advised me and your friends
''to come out of Sodom and Gomorrah,
and flee to the mountain tops, lest we
be polluted and partakers of the plaques
of your (our) people" If you mean
fanaticism on almost all subjects, it would
be we'll enough, perhaps, for us to retire.
But as the signs of the times bids fair
for serene and clear blue sky, we think
we had better stay where we are, for
fear if We should come up among those
burning volcanoes, that are pushing the
oil through the earth among you, that
when they burst, we might be found
nowhere. Therefore, be advised and
take counsel of those who are as wise
as serpents, and come out from your
place Of stay, lest you be swallowed up
in eternal ruin. (Since writing this
letter, one of those oil wells has explo-
ded and destroyed a vast amount of
property and great number of lives,
and is now burning volcano and des-
troying everything before it. So say
the papers).
I do not think as you do on the rela-
tive rights of supersors and interiors,
since it was the pleasure of God to make
such determinations. If he had made
all men equal, it would have been so
and we as intellectual beings, would
have been, from necessity, compelled to
have discovered the fact; but this not
being the case, facts drive us on to the
most certain of all conclusions, that it
was not his pleasure to have it so con-
sequently, we see the vast difference
that exists among men of the same race,
as we'll as of different races. There
fore, interiors must, of necessity, look
up to their superiors for counsel and as
sistance in time of need, even of the
same race, and when we come to sepa-
rate and distinct races, [ consider the
necessity of much greater magnitude,
and wholly to be regarded as duty on
the part of the inferior race, to be in
subordination and subject to the entire
management and control of the supe-
rior race. Therefore to say that all men
are equal of every grade, class or kind,
IS Il moral and physical no such thing.
You have asked me to do the thing
I cannot, although I might strive ever
so hard ; yet because Gods law forbids
such, how can I do it? In this wise
you have asked me to do thing, that
would require Deity to change the whole
organism of my organic structure, and
then to put within me new spirit, so
as to adapt my mental and physical a
bilities to the acquisitions of a suitable
subject of subordination. A question
I have answered Notwithstanding its i'm
pertinence.
I must now close, hoping that you
will review your works on the right Of
man, and think of the distinctions as
made by Deity; and for all time to come,
never descend to put yourself on an