Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-07-18
The Danger to the South.


the North to spend hundred millions
year rather than permit the South to be in
dependent, he did not over. estimate the an
nual commercial and manufacturing valu
of the South to the Northern States. In
deed, the immense expenditures and effort
making to compel US to remain in the Un
ion, and minister to the wealth and powe
of the sordid, selfish and vulgar none,
lords of the Northern cities, demonstrate
irresistably that without the South, tht
North is commercially ruined, and her grea
cities in the midst of the audacious sspira
tions are hopelessly paralyzed in trade anc
commerce. They themselves admit the
fact; they no longer so much as attempt tt
conceal that the 'poor, barren, sandy South
is full of jewels which have made then
rich, and without which, they become pen
niless and bankrupt. This is the reason.
and the only reason, why New York, never
an abolition city, has surpassed even the
Western Reserve of Ohio in her fury a
gainst the South. But whilst all this i:
undeniably true, it is equally evident that
as soon as peace is accomplished, and the
independence of the South secured, these
very classes, the commercial and manufactu
ring, which have furnished the sinews Of
the present war, which have surpassed the
most rabid abolitionists in their bloody de-
monstrations against the South !; which have
raised regiments like Billy Wilson's, and
held up before them the prize of "Beauty
and Booty" will make another movement
of invasion compared with which thosc now
threatening our borders are comparatively
harmless, and forsaking the sinking ships
! of the Northern cities, will swarm like To-
Gusts in our Southern marts; grasping every
; department of business and trade, and
reaping in their own pockets the mauufac
turing and commercial harvest which assure
to follow the Southern blood and treasure
which they have caused to flow like water
in this great cause.
1t is clear as day; nobody now denies
it, that with the independence of the South
the commercial sceptre passes from the
North, and with that sceptre, mark the pre-
diction, will pass by tens Of thousands and
by hundreds of thousands those who have
hitherto acknowledged allegiance to it.
Where the carcass is, the eagles will be
gathered together. Hitherto the emigra
ton from North to South has been mere
drop in the bucket compared with that from
the North to the West, and has not been as
large even as that from the South to the
North. But We shall see very different
state of things when the South holds ont
rich rewards t. manufacturing and CONNER.
cial enterprise. Unless measures are adopt
ed by the Congress and Legislatures of the
Confederate States to meet this new inva.
sion, our own people will lose all the fruits
of the war their institutions will be en-.
daugered, and, what is worse than all, the
purity and simplicity of Southern charac
ter placed in perllous contact with the sor.
did and corrupt influences which overgrown
wealth has engendered in Northern society
This subject is really one Of the most Sc
rious and vital that can possibly engage the
attention of Southern statesmen. Our
Southern civilization will bein6nitely more
endangered by such an inroad than by a
million of armed men, As enemies, we
fear them not; as professed friends with
trade in view, heaven deliver us. We have
no need Of them, or anything they have
their brown paper sole shoes, their wooden
buckets, their hollow philosophy, tteir san
culinary religion, their Spiritualism, Nor
monism, Free Love or Abolitionism. We
can get every article We need of clothing,
household aud agricultural wares, and iu
every department Of business, from Eng
land aud France, and those articles will be
made in workmanlke fashion, by people
who have not learned 10 think it mark OF
smartuess and subject of graduation to
rob your ncighbor. But, unless ncutraliza.
tion laws are passed of the most stringent
kind, the Northern emigration will not only
monopolize trade and commerce, but will
commence, at the ballot.box, an insidious
war upon our institutions, and by the aid
of corrupt and aspiring dcmagogues, who
will court their influence, will undermine
the system of slavery in what were called
the Border Slave States, aud prepare the
way to cultivate theu, entirely by Northern
labor. 1t is for the Confederate Congress,
and the Legislatures of the South, to throw
up earthvorks against this, the greatest of
all dangers which meuaces the South. The
right Of suffrage should never be extended
by any slave community which properly ap.
preciates that right, and has any solicitude
for the preservation of slave institutions.
to any emigrant from the Northern Aboli-
ton States of America.
a COOP 1LLUsTRATIoN.-W When Presi-
dent Davis commanded the first Mississip.
pi Regiment, says the Aberdeen Conserra.
ttve, his troops were thoroughly disciplined.
They were taught to know, somewhat stern
Iy, that each man was expected to do his
duty. While his troops respected and ad.
mired him as an officer, they were not par
tial to him as a man. He did not court
them. He die not unbend to that personal
familiarity which is too often inconsistent
with true dignity of character, and which is
frequently fatal in the discipline of a camp.
And yet, it is said, that when the battle of
Buena Vista was to be fought, and the
troops we're ranged in order for the conflict,
the whisper ran along the ranks-"Where
is Davis ?" and when he appeared hundreds
of voices exclaimed. "Therc he is, now We