Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

uly. Lincoln wants war, but is not prepar.
ed for even digni6ed peace; Davis wants
peace, but is able and willing under heaven,
to meet the issues of either
EDITORIAL INKLINGs.
"The aurora" is Southern Lite.
rary Magazine, published at Memphis, al
So per annum, and edited by D. A. Hol.
man at the office, and Edwin Heriot al
Charleston. 1t has ladies' feature. The
list of contributors is large. Stories, es'
says, poetry, criticisms and costume pic.
lures, are leading attractions Of the maya
zine.
That excellent and diversifedly in.
teresting journal, the Charleston Courier,
for Saturday, says: "Mr. D. W. Came.
ron, the gentleman who fingers the tele.
graph wires at Branchville, S. c., sends
us minute specimen of that we'll known
vegetable, the Irish Potato. He informs
us that it is the produce of this season, and
was uneartbed from his garden" Where
upon we infer that this season is very "pro.
ductive," and the potato must have been
qnite an "unearthly" sight at this early day.
The Virginia Methodist Conference,
lately in session at Staunton, repudiates the
"new chapter on slavery" introduced into
the discipline by the Northern General
Conference. They regard it as not law
and recommend their members to ignore it
entirely. The last resolution of series
passed on this subject, reads
Resolved, That we utterly condemn any
attempt, in any way whatever, to interfere
with the legal relations of master and slave,
and that we will seek to protect, as did our
fathers, their best interests, by preaching to
them the unsearchable riches of Christ,
and by teaching them their reciprocal du'
ties as taugh' in the Holy Scriptures.
- Nothing more than the facts connect.
ed with raising the Confederate loan oi
s15,000,000, shows the confidence at home
and abroad in the permanent and digni6ed
establishment of our new Governments
The Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Confederacy
says: GA distinguished politician Of the
North came on to Montgomery last week
with offers for the whole of the fifteen mil.
lion loan at par, the bid being made by
English capitalists. We learn that Mr..
Memminger declined the negotiation, pre-.
ferring to give domestic capitalists the re-
fusal of the bids Since this offer was
made we have been told that New Orleans
takes ten millions, and Georgia house FIVE,
all at par!'
- Some weeks ago, just before the Con,
vention election of Texas, letter villain.
ously slanderous of South Carolina, appear
ed in little sheet published in Texas, pur,
porting to have been written by one Judge
Robert Lyon, of Abbeville. The letter
declared that ten thousand negroes had left
our State; that the taxes were insupporta.
BILE; that everybody's property was confs.
Gated by the secession party in power; and
mentioned one man-the Judge himself
we believe-who had S27, 900 in bank stock,
and, poor fellow had every cent of it ia ken
from him. There was more of the letter,
but this is enough to show the reader its
character.
You cannot conceive of the chuckling
gusto with which the Abolition press and a
few papers of the border States, published
and circulated this letter as :'high authori-
ty" 1t now turns out to be complete
falsehood and was probably designed
merely to influence the Texas election. No
such man ever lived in Abbeville. 1t is
highly probable, however, that the majority
of the papers which have published this
slander on South Carolina to injure her fair
name, or to stultify the border States, will
leave it uncontradicted, now that its foul
character is seen. So much more ready
are we, often, to ipjure without cause in or
der to crafty prejudice, than to make a.
mends for the best of reasons, when it goes
against the grain.
- The interesting correspondent of the
Charleston Courier from Montgomery, thus
speaks of the Alabama Convention which
is in session in that city:
"It is really the best exhibition of the
true Democracy, in its original, genuine
Specification, to be found in the limits of the
South Not the wild, turbulent, unman-
ageable, crushing together of the ignorant
"sans culoNe," nor the faetious assemblage
of political demagogues, but the dignifed,
liberal, generous representatives of the peo.
pie. Those who meet together for the ben
eft of the public and not themselves; those,
whose ambition is laid out upon their coun-
try, and not their clothes; independent,
fearless of public censure, desirous of pub
lie appreciation, each seems controlled by
the dictates of his own conscience, and not
the outcry of sedition. There is no display
of vanity, no strivings after self-aggrandize.
ment, no longings for Egyptian flesh pots
The body is composed of those who have
Inherited the virtues of our ancestors un-
mingled with the vices of the present day.
No one seems apprehensive that his motion
won't pass because he has not clothed him
self with broadcoth. One may see men,
bers occupying the most prominent positions
in the State, whose elbows are not confined
within proper limits, but seem to have been
eminently successful in their struggles for
independence and liberty. The want Of an
odd shoe string, or the loose flowing cravat,
is not national dishonor. The homespun
coat, the cotton vest, and the untanned