Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
From the N. Y. Tribune.

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From the N. Y. Tribune.
Signs and Portents.
The Charleston Mercury renews the con-
sideration of the jeff Davis Constitution,
and is much concerned lest that provision
which allows the admission of Northern
States into the Southern Confederacy, may
work great mischief, and make a new deal
necessary. 1t now perceives with alarm
that "there is nothing to prevent the ad
mission of Northern States into the new
Confederation. Now we do not think
there is any immediate danger that any one
of the Free States will voluntarily knock at
the door of Jeff. Davis, applying to be let
in; yet, after all, there may be some ground
for the Mercury's suspicion. Leaving the
door open had a meaning, and was not al
together accidental Only few days ago
the same journal gave expression to its fore
boding that after all the independence and
supremacy of the Slave Confederaoy, which
has been the dream of his life, was to be
defeated. There are specks, it exclaimed,
upon the Southern horizon that ere long
may become dark and muttering clouds
We fear reconstruction on the basis of the
new Constitution" The correspondent of
the Tribune, at Montgomery, who is deep
in the secrets of JEFF. Davis, probably had
clearer vision of these clouds, when, a
few days since, he telegraphed us in the
following language:
"The Government of the Confederacy
intends to send ambassadors to the Demo-
cratic Conventions of all the Free States
except those of New England. The au-
thority of the old bulk of the Union will
De disregarded. Herschell V. johnson and
John Slidell will probably be sent as EN-
bassadors to New York to treat with Peter
Cagger and Dean Richmond. You may
expect soon to see some original and start
ling diplomatic movements"
Mr.. Breckenridge, when making his
speech in the United States Senate last
week. had the same thing 10 his eye, but in
stead of cloud, be appears to have re.
garded it as bow of promise. The late
Vice-President permits glimpse when he
cautiously draws the curtain aside:
THE Border Slave States cannot reunite
his Gonfederacy. The majority of the nom
sia:e holding States alone have the power to
do so, and he expressed the opinion with
grief, but with firm conviction that un-
less within a short time the Republicans
who are here manifest spirit to give the
equality which the Border Slave States
claim, the question will be solved in one of
these ways: We may drift into civil strife
if the people are allowed no opportunity to
speak but if we have not civil strife, then
peaceful separation by treaty. If the Re.
publican statesmen and their friends re-.
main firm, rigid and determined, there can
no other result than to drive the Border
Slave States into union with the Confede-
rate States, in the belief thct the Govern
ment represents the true principles of the
old Federal system. If the Border Slave
States hold Convention, which seems prob
able, and the people of the non-slaveholdiug
States deem it their duty to reject such
proportions as may be essential, then the
disruption of the Union will be inevitable to
the extent of fifteen States, and at no dis
tant day the new Confederacy will be the
largest on this continent
This is as definite as we could expect, at
present, from Breckenridge; but the Penn
syzvantun, discussing his speech, puts the
idea in the following emphatic language {:
"The issue, then, unavoidably arises, do
the people of the Northern States prefer a
Republican administration with principles
and policy which perforce, and of neces-
sity, excinds the whole of the slaveholdiDg
States, or will they repudiate these and Sc
cure harmonious confederacy of thirty.
four States? This is the root, the very
pivot of all discussions"
The N. O. Picayuue says the future is
free from all doubt, and that there will be
permanent separation on such terms as may
be demanded by the seeded States, or
shororable reconstruction" The same idea
crops out in various localities in the domin.
ions of Mr.. Jeff. Davis. We find it also
nearer home. At a Democratic meeting
lately held in the town of New Rochelle,
Westchester County, in our own State, the
proceedings of which we're published in the
Journal Of Commerce, probably on account
of its nearness in sympathy with the senti-
ments expressed, the following resolution
was adopted:
"Resolved, That the Democracy of New
Rochelle adopt as their party platform the
Constitution of the seven Southern Confed-
crate States"