Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-07-25

would do as some are now reported to be
doing in Virginia (of which neither at.
firm or deny the truth capture the black
population and send them off to,Cuba for
sale. But there is one thing certain, that
they can no more carry out their fanatical1
designs than they can make the Savannah
run to the mountains, for the Great Creator
the Ruler of the Heavens and the earth
He that made man and fashioned him
made one inferior to the other, and made
some to differ from others as one star differs
from others. This fanatical sentiment Of
the North will no. more make the negro
equal to the white man than it will make
the leopard change his spots or the Ethio-
plan his skin. It is war against the in
terest of those who wage it, and, Of all the
people who will suffer by it, the New Eng
land States will suffer the most. Their
trade cut of, their supplies cut of, their
source Of wealth cut of, where are they to
trade hereafter? We furnish them mar
ket; no other people Of the world do, They
cannot sell their goods to Great Britain
for they are supplied by British manufac'
tories. Nor can they furnish Germany or
France. Out of these two hundred and
fifty millions Of goods they sold, they did
not send ten millions to the old world. It
all came to the South. We are their mar:
ket. We wished to continue to trade with
them, but they would not perform their
| part of the compact, and carried out the
old adage Of the etmau who cut off his nose
to spoil his face" [laughterl; and | cannot
for it except on the old Roman maxim, that
he ,"whom the gods want to destroy, they
first make mad" This is war against the
principles which their fathers and our faith.
ers fought for-that every State Govern.
ment should act for itself, and that the Gov
ernment derived its power from the consent
of the governed: These were the princi.
pies of Hancock, Jackson, Madison, Ran.
dolph, Pinckney and others. They. were
the principles their fathers and our fathers
united in fighting for, and now they have
made them mockery of all history and the
shame Of their. ancestors. These people
are now warring against chat principle, and
attempting to govern 10 just as King
George did; it is, therefore, an unnatural
and irrational, and suicidal war, and you
cannot count upon its duration. When a
people becomes mad there is no telling what
they will do. It is SO in the history Of
other empires; it was so in France. They
soy we are revolutionists; they call Us reb
els. I think it will be a revolution before
! it is over; but if a change of. government
makes revolution, the revolution is at the
North. At the South our movements from
the beginning have been planted upon the
principles, as l have told you, Of our revo'
lutionary fathers, and the Confederate
States to-day have rescued the Constitution,
with some improvements, some changes, all
ofzwhieh We think; Improvements They
stand to-day the defenders, supporters and
maintaiuers of that constitution, which was
1 the admiration and devotion of us all. But
change of government has taken place at
the North. The Constitution of our faith.
ers has already been trampled in the dust
From the time Mr.. Lincoln went into his
Office until to day, it has been but one step
after another, one stride after another upon
the Constitution of. the country. The first
thing he did was to call out seventy five
thousand militia. He had no power to do
it. That Constitution, that Madison and
/ Washington, and the patriots Of the South
as we'll as the North gave their consent'to--
that Constitution that was our admiration
that Constitution the Southern States have
rescued, declares that Congress alone shall
raise armies. His next act was to increase
the army to twenty-five thousand men. This
he did by an edict. The Constitution says
Congress shall increase the army. After
that he increased the navy to twenty five
thousand. Louis Napoleon or the Gar o1
Russia never assumed more dictatorial pow
er. The North responded to it. That
Constitution that had my admiration (and
manyof you doubtless have heard me speak
upon it, for if there was anything upon
which my whole soul rested, and forwhicb
l would have devoted life and everything
dear, it was the Constitution Of my country
that Constitution that the Montgomery GOV.
ernment has rescued declares that no man
shall be deprived of his life, liberty OF
property but by due process of law. -,
That was the old Constitution. 1t is the
Constitution we rescued. The. Constitu.
ton the Confederate States presents to all
people, high or low, is the surety; to defend
them [applause]; but, fellow citizens, Mr..
Lincoln, by his own edict, has nullifed,
abrogated, destroyed, .trampled under foot
this great constitutional right. He has
suspended the right Of habeas corpus, and
to-day if any one in Maryland or Missouri
is down trodden or overriden BY bis myr.
midons, oreven in Massachusetts if any
freeman rises up in the land Of Hancock
to-day, and says or afirms that the people
of the South can govern themselves as they
please, that for which Massachusetts, once
upon time pledged honor and fortune and
everything dear--ifa freeman was to-day
to announce the great truth upon which
the revolution was fought, he, would be ar
rested, put in Jail, immured in dungeon,
and the courts being closed, he would have
no hearing except before a court martial,
and be executed for it.
tell you the revolution is at the North.
There is where constitutional liberty has
hean dastroved. and If you wish to know