Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
Te'eraphcd 10 the Charleston Mercury.
WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

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WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Com
missioners from the Confederate Govern
ment have changed their policy. They dc
not now require or expect an answer from
the Administration on the subject of theil
recognition for week or ten days hence.
Gov. Roman held his first conference
with his colleagues to-day. Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford, it is understood, conceded
in the policy of delaying the issue until the
matter of Fort Sumter shall be quietly set
tied, and the post falls into the hands Of
the Confederate States. This course is SAID
to be pursued at the instance Of President
Davis.
The Abolition Administration is roundly
abused by friends and foes. Lincoln is now
universally admitted to be weak, vacilatins
and unreliable. He is afraid to take the
responsibility e::sher Of opposing the South
ern Government, or acknowledging it.
Scott seems to have reconsidered his de-
termination of transferring Maj. Anderson
to Fort Monroe. Whether his change Of
programme was made to avoid arousing the
Old Dominion, or because it was thought
impoitic to place Southern officer in com
mand of Southern fort, does not appear
but it is now given out that the Major is to
be sent to the Barracks, at Governors Isl.
and, New York, to superintend the recruit
ing service.
am reliably informed that the new Min
listers will be instructed to propose to Eng
land, France and Spain formal guarantee
of their talked.of protectorate over Mexico,
and also assurances to Spain of the undis-
turbed possession of Cuba, provided these
great powers will refuse to recognize the
independence of the Confederate States.
1t is estimated that there are between five
and ten thousand applications already for ap.
pointments connected with the Postof6ce
Department. The number of letters daily
received is unprecedentedly large, some
times amounting to six or seven hundred.
Nineteen clerks are engaged in attending
to them. The applicants for employment
in other departments Of the public service
are correspondiugly numerous.
In THE SENATE.-Mr. Douglas resolu.
ton was taken up. Clingman, of North
Carolina, argued that the inaugural meant
war, and that war was the real purpose Of
the Administration Within the last three
days, he said, be had been informed that
heavy guns and large reiuforcements had
been sent South to take possession of the
forts in North Carolina, Virginia and else
where.
Hale, Chandler and Simmons replied
And then, after an executive session, the
Senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The South
ern Commissioners received dispatches
from Montgomery, but they contain moth
ing of special interest.
The Commissioners are exceedingly apx-
ious to hear from Charleston tonight, in
order to know whether the Administration
is acting in good faith. They have received
semi. official intimations that the Federal
troops would be withdrawn to. day.
One hundred and fifty volunteers from
this city have offered their military services
to the Confederate States They are ready
to leave as soop as an answer is received
that they will be accepted.
Among the late cou6rmations by the Sen
ate in Executive session, was that of First
Lieutenant Theodore Talbot, of the garri-
SOD of Fort Sumter, to be Assistant Adju-
tant.General with the rank of Captain.
1t is now generally conceded that an ez-
ira session of Congress must be called to
get the government out of its present plight.
Nobody believes that Lincoln means to
shoulder the responsibility either of surren
dering or attempting to hold the Southern
forts. The problem of replenishing the
treasury begins to loom up with a very Sc
rious aspect. The Morrill, tariff, denounced
without stint by friends and foes, will not
mend matters. The Union, in fact, is f.
nancially, as we'll as politically defunct
In the Senate, Mr.. Hale offered a resolu.
ton (Which lies over) providing that the
Senate shall adjourn Oh Saturday next at
one o'clock p. m. 1t is thought that the
resolution will be agreed to, and the ad-
journment take place.
Mr.. Douglas resolution being taken up,
Mr.. Bayard of Delaware, said that the cri-
sis which he had long anticipated had at
length eliminated. Seven States have
Withdrawn from the Union. He intended
to offer a resolution, giving the Presiden,
power, with the advice and consent of the
Senate, to enter into treaty with the Con
federate States, and thus avoid the only al,
tentative left-civil war. He explained
the elementary principles of Government,
and defined the relations between the State
and the Federal authorities. Secession, he
said was not among the reserved powers Of
the States, but revolution was cont mon
right. He considered the present state ot
affairs as revolution, and in this connection
the will of the majority was to be consider
ed tie will of the whole. Insurrection and
violence in State might be put down by
the law, but you cannot meet the collective
act of a collective people except by war o'
peaceful negotiation. When revolution
comes, it cannot be met by the law of trea
son. Allegiance is due to States as we'll a:
to the Federal Government, and the law O
domicile must necessarily govern the case il
which State has departed from the Fedora
Government.
This speech of Mr.. Bayard produced I
great sensation. After short Executive
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