Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury.
From New York.

The two chief topics of interest here just
now are Fort Sumter and the Morrill, Tariff.
Nothing can exceed the rage of the fanat-
les at the humiliation of their party and of
the President of their choice, by the dire
compulsion which forces them to surrender
Sumter, after all their empty gasconade
and violent blood thirsty threats. Nothing
can equal the CONSERVATION of the merch-
ants at the prospects before them arising
from the operation of the new tariff. They
are hurt alike in their pride and their purse
the latter being the most sensitive point
about a Yankee. Poor old Abe is CIVIL
ling to wound but afraid to strike"
The Black Republican journals feel that
the moral effect of the abandonment of Ft.
Sum'er will be 80 great, that they are labor
ing hard to prepare the way for the news
of the order from Washington to evacuate
it. They shift the responsibility to the
shoulders of Floyd and Buchanan and even
Major Anderson is now absurdly accused
of completely in the "treason" to the Uni
ted States. But the true causes of the pol
icy of surrender are to be found in the
pluck of South Carolina-uow the heeled
and pitted game cock of the Southland
in the "duughill" imbecility of the malig-
nant Rail.Splitter and his Cabinet. If
they mean to coerce the cotton States by
armies or invasion, the reinforcement of Ft.
Sumter, and the defeat of the forces at
Charleston, would be worth to them more
than the reinforcement and permanent oc.
cupation of all the forts they hold in South
eru waters, and the moral value of the con-
quest would be such that it would be cheap
ly purchased with the loss of fifty thousand
men. They say twenty thousand would be
sufficient. Could not New England and
New York, whose Governors made such la
wish offers of men and money to Mr. Buch-
anan, furnish twice twenty thousand of their
militia to Linooln to "execute the laws of
the Union" to say nothing Of the oontin,
gents of the beligereDt Northwest, which
sometime ago INDUCED in terrible meuaces
against Southern "rebels?" Where are
now the "ei ighteen millions Of freemen"
with whom Hickman, of Pennsylvania, in
the House of Representatives, threatened
to march upon the South?
The vaIor of South Carolina, however tar
dy the preparation, has not only saved the
Southern States from invasion, but the
North from insurrection, at least for time !;
for if am not greatly mistaken in the feel
ing of the people of this city and of other
localities in the Northern States, any troops
raised to invade the South would have to
march over the dead bodies of at least their
own number before they ever set foot Oh
Southern soil, and Greely and Beecher and
Field, and the other truculent Abolition lea
ders, would be seen some fine morning
swinging by the neck from the lamp posts
of Broadway. But fear that even your
determination to stand by your rights,
though it has cowed the poltroons whose
tongues and types were so brave, will not
ultimately prevent Instructions at the
North. The whole city of New York, you
may rely upon it, is on the verge of bank
ruptcy. Not i've dry goods houses will be
able to stand. There is no business being
done. The number of hands discharged is
immense. The Morrill, tariff viii! bring the
commercial crisis here, made from political
causes, to an explosion next month. The
greater part Of the foreign trade will be di-
verted southwark, and in short time pau
perism and general distress will be so great
that risings and riots will take place, and
the white slaves of commerce and capital,
both in New York and New England, will
administer to the lips of their taskmasters
toe poisoned chalice which they have pre-
pared for the planters of the South, An
ignorant proletarian mass, whose condition
at best is infinitely inferior to your negroes,
will be sure to "better the instruction" they
have received from their oracles. Long
taught that "property is robbery" they will
put the doctrine into practice at last upon a
scale of fearful Dimensions. At this mo-
ment there are fifty thousand human beings
in New York and Brooklyn who do not
know where they will be able to get their
breakfast tomorrow morning, and every
day the number Of the destitute will In
crease. The New York papers conceal or
gloss over this terrible reality.
If the South want recruits to fight its
battles against invading hosts of Abolition
lists, and to spare the lives of its own cltl-
zens, let the Confederacy exploy a few
agents in New York and other cities of the
North, and it will soon have as many troops