Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-08-22
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CAMP Psrrus, Fairfax County, Va. }
Sunday Evening, August II, 1861.

CAMP Perrus, Fairfax County, Va.
Sunday Evening, August II, 1851.
Dear Enquirer The comments of the
English press on Liucoln's message have
reached US, and they meet very fully our
highest anticipations. The London Star,
which without circumlocution or hesitancy
strikes at the heart of the matter, says that
the demand for 100000 men, aud S4OO,-
100000, to crush the rebellion, is uumis-
takeable evidence of Southern power and
unanimity. If the rebellion embraced "on-
ly few discontented men," the exhorbi
tant demand for men and money would be
perfectly absurd and ridiculous. This
glaring exposure of Southern power, and
that other glariug exposure--the victory
of Stone Bridge--place our cause, abroad
as we'll as here, securely and certainly upon
the course of final achievement. Foreign
nations can hesitate to recognize our inde-
pendence now-and the North can prose-
cute this wicked war longer-only from
prudential considerations or from desperate
malice, aud not from averting the manifest
decree of a gracious Providence aud relent-
less destiny.
These are the views entertained by our
soldiery as we'll as people everywhere, as
far as we can learn; and nothing can ex-
ceed their sublime devotion to the cause,
or their joyous and undoubtiug hopes of
success in the end Whatever hardships
they may be called upon to endure, they
are bearing, therefore, and will bear, most
cheerfully, in Eie@of the resplendant re-
ward which lies in their country's future.
We have been about month and half
with this corps of our army; We have met
numbers of volunteers from almost every
State in the Confederacy; aud we have yet
to see the first one whose words and &C.
tions, and very couutenance, did not indi-
cate that he would spuru the least idea of
submitting with the utmost Indignation
This is true, We are proud to say, all over
the South. Our whole people are as de-
termined, as the world ever saw people,
to "never look back never, never,
until our Confederacy stands out as dis
tinctly upon the mass of nations as the
Pleiades upon the mass of Heaven.
While this deathless determination will
assist US against our enemies and with for
eign powers, very materially, it may posi-
bly, lead US frequently to misconstrue signs
of returning peace. The peace resolutions
of Connecticut, and perhaps other States,
and Mr. Cox's resolutions in the Northern
Congress, produced, with many, the hope
of speedy solution of our difficulties. Yet
they only amounted to truce, and nation,
al convention to treat of terms of reconcile.
alton on the nsonstroats basis of preserving
the Union. The insolent North, which
boasted that the South could not be kicked
out of the Union, and threatened to bring a
crusade of 100000 freemen against her
if she went out, still hug the delusive phan,
tom of hope-the abortive kenneling OF
jaundiced reason-that the government Of
our fathers, pure equal and just in its be-
nigu intent, will rise stronger and purer
from all this fiery ruin. Every sign OF
peace that comes from the North is colored
with this infatuation. Europe sees that
the Union is hopelessly dissolved. The
South feels it to the marrowbones. Yet
the North fights on. Why? Can it be fol
aught less than the blind hope that the rent
s:Stars aud Stripes will be cemcnted in
blood and will wave, after the cloud o.
war shall have disappeared, as proudly il
the Southern sky as ever before?
i Just the other day benightcd portion
of western New York, sent into Congress ;
petition for an armistice and natona
convention. Other petitions Of the same
class have been laid before that body. Thi
is simply adding ''insult to injury" These
propositions are based upon the assumption
that the South is capable of backing dowl
that if she cannot be whipped, she cal
be wheedled and fooled into the Union a
gain.
Even after the war is virtually overland
we think at least one more great battle vii
Mace it there-even then We fear Ion!
period of disgusting cajolery will ensue. 1
| is sickening to contemplate to what an ig
noble prostitution Of all manhood, our enc
mics have reached No means are too dc
5 grading to be used, if they promise success
: and when the war programme shall hav
. viudicated its utter futility, even to thel
own eyes, will they not resort to Othe