Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-09-12
N. Y. News in Reply to Indictment.

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On the morning after the day the Ne~s
and other New York papers were indicted,
it came out with the following manly and
straightforward replication: , .a..s. q.
Strenuously, consistently and unswer'
viugly, the Daily News has maintained,
since the bombsrdment Of Fort Sumter, an
event for which the Administration Of
Presidential lincoln is wholly and solely res.
ponsible .-
l.. That the civil war in which the coun.
try is involved is iniquitous, uucalled for,
and destructive of the prosperity Of the
Republic, and that it has grown sRtt of q
wicked aud demagogical catering tdabo-
lition fanaticism on the part of the authori-
ties at Washington, which cannot be too
severely reprobated. ...
2. That every drop of blood that has
been shed in the present contest has been
a calamity, and that every life that has
been lost has been a murder, which might
have been avoided, had patriotism and
moderation prevailed in Federal councils.
2. That the increase of our army; the
expenditure Of money without permission
of Congress the blockade of Southern
ports the proclamation of martial law the
suspension of the writ of habeas corpus ;
the invasion Of sovereign States without
summons from their Executives or Legisla-
lures the overthrow of the authority Of
local Courts; and the abrogation of our
military and naval laws, have been utterly
Unconstitutional acts, committed in defiance
and violation of the oath of Office of the
Chief Magistrate of the land, and for which
he ought to be impeaohed and deposed.
4. That it would be far better to permit
the disconnected portion Of the United
STATES to depart in peace, and more in con-
formity with the views and intentions Of
the original trainers of the Constitution to
suffer the Republic to be divided into two
Confederacies, than to array the different
sections against each other in interneciue
strife, and to blast the future prosperity Of
the whole Union, by an expensive, unpro6ta.
BILE and bloody war, which must inevitably
end in leaving sectional issues as unsettled
as they were before it began.
5. That the grievances of which the
Southern States have complained have
been, mainly, we'll founded, and that the
compromise plans suggested by Senators
Crittenden and Bigler in the Thirty.sixth
Congress, and by other conservative rep
resentatives of the people in the extra
session of the present Congress, ought
to have been adopted.
G. That the acknowledgment by the Fed
eral Government of the right of slave own
ers to convey and hold their property in
the common territories, would have been
pre-emiuently just, and that the Confede-
rate States will do wisely to insist upon a
constitutional right so self evident, at all
times, and under all circumstances.
7. That civil war is to be avoided, aud
that anity between the several States is to
be cultivated.
8. That the pecuniary proaigacy of the
of President Lincoln is ut
terly condemnable, and the system Of whole
sale speculation and pluuder which has
the different branches of the
Government, since the fourth of March,
has no parallel in the history of our coun-
try.
9. That We are firmly and earnestly con-
vinced that the mass of the people are hos
tile to the President, hostile to his Cabi-
net, hostile to the usurpations Of the last
six months, and believe they must, if con-
tinued, end in anarchy or military des-
potism.
These have been the constantly reitera-
ted views of the Daily Neos for several
months past, and if they render our paper
worthy of indictment, We have only to say
that We covet no better fate.