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

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will teach them a lesson of good man
ners, as we'll as of good breeding, for
the edifcation of their offspring.
So far as numbers" are concerned,
there can be but one contingency that
can possibly produce a disturbance be-
tween the white and black races and
but for the abolition doctrines, there
never can and never will be any want of
ability to control the negroes. 1 will
now state to you and your black repub-
lican friends, that the doctrines they
teach, as avel as yourself, tend only to
disturb this relation; and but for this
intermeddling, the brawny arm of the
naturally ignorant slave, and incapable
of intellectual culture to any great de-
gree, would never have been raised a
gainst.his only true and benevolent 5en-
efactor, who has brought him out of
bondage the most se'vale, ignonasnaous,
degraded and degrading, that the humaaa1
mind is capable Of eonceiviaeg. And
yet, Notwithstanding all this, your party
has had the audacity to induce those ig-
norant creatures to visit, in the dark
and secret hours of the night, the hou-
ses and abodes of friends, who are to
them the best and greatest benefactors,
that God has been pleased to bestow
upon them; and thus to put an end to
their existence, by such means as the
abolitionist may confer upon them, or
advise them to use. What an awful ac-
countability must rest on all such as
are conscious of such misrule and de-
votion to He'll bound SINNERS. But for
such, and the like causes, the negroes
would be undoubtedly the most happy
people on earth, and we would never
have any dificultyi in their management.
No sir, the negroes of themselves, by
and with the advice of one white man
and his family, could and would be con-
trolled in the proportion of one to the
hundred or more, as they (negroes) know
full we'll that their subordination is ab-
solutely necessary for their own happi-
ness. 1t is true, that the course pur-
sued by your party, has caused much
greater structures on the negroes liber-
ty, but in no other way, than with those
who have foolishly pandered to the fan
cy of those strikers, who have been
sent in among us, and who have had to
leave, on account of their insolence, with
a coat of tar and feathers, or the lash
and shaved head. This, [ have no
doubt, will be called the act of SLAVE
ocracy, mob-ocracy, or by some other
hard name. Be this as it may, we are
bound toprovide for our own households;
otherwise, we would be worse than inf
dels.
You say "during the contest for pow
er in the government, that the slave
ocrats' took the lions share in the pur-
chase of Louisiana. Suppose I admit
this to be fact, and then prove that
we paid for it; when, at the same time,
We were paying your merchants, manu-
facturers and paupers, on merchandise,
at the rate of so to $50 per cent, on
account of the ungodly law of protec-
tion to your manufacturers, what would
you then say? The fact is just this,
that we are an agricultural people, and
have had to support the government,
your manufacturers, shippers, ironmon-
gers, and almost every other enterprise
that has infested the brain of your ism
for the last 40 or SO years;
and now the time has come when We
have determined to shake off the man
acles that unscrupulous demagogues
have imposed upon us; because of the
majority being from the North, and
having it in their power to out vote us,
of the true meaning of the
Constitution, thereby converting the
government into machine shop, to
make shavings of our people, so as to
turn to their account all advantages, re-
gardless of consequences. The result
of which has aroused our people to a
pitch that has completely enveloped the
whole populace to most daring atti-
tude.
You thought "there would be no war
at this time;" that old Abe was very
clever fellow and that he would not hurt
us if he could help it." We are not a.
fraid of any man, who has had the i'm
pertinence to say, there has been mo
harm DONE nobody hurt, all is right,
when the reverse, to an alarming ex-
tent all over the Government, was the
fact. Why, sir, if you or l had said
such thing, we would have been mark
ed as fools, if not as idiots. He is a
coward, and puppy of the sneaking,
sheep-thief kind, or he never would
have used such language, and much less
to have attempted to reinforce Fort
Sumter. Our brave boys gave him a
reinforcement on his war vessels lying
outside the bar of Charleston, from the
rascals within Fort Sumter, that ought
to have been hung.
1t is true, as you have said, "that a
President and Vice President have been
elected without leave of the South, and
that the like never was done before y
GdsForbid that it should ever be again.
If the course be pursued as proposed by
your people, 1t aviU, IN time, be mared