Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-04-10


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wFuture if Defeated in the Struggle
- The Rev. j. r. Thomas, President Of
Emory College, Georgia, in letter dated
the 10Th uitimo, says:
s Much has been said Of late about oul
prospective condition if the Yankees sue.
. oeed in, oy.~-runnipg the country. Some
of the pictp, IS which have been drawn are
frightful olook at, and yet / do not be-
slieye that any one of them truly represents
the facts Of our future history if we are to
be aconquered people.
The phrase tcolonial vassalage," has no
force or meaning to convey the slightest
idea of what will be our real condition
5 Whether we make differences from just
estimate Of Yankee character, or from the
appsling facts Of Yankee history since this
war commenced; whether we credit their
!. own declarations as to their proposed line
of policy towards the South after our sub
jugation, (of which they seem to have no
doubt, or whether we reason from the pre-,
mise Of .monstrous national debt which
the war lis entaiIing upon them-a debt so
5frightfully enormous as to preclude all hope
of payment, unless it be by the total con.
6scation Of all our property and the levying
i, of lifetime tax upon rs and our children;
in any event, we shall reach the certain
conclusion that our doom will be that ofthe
most debasing bondage ever imposed upon
any people. The present condition OF
Southern slaves will be paradise IN COM
parison with what these malignant fanatical
marauders have in store for US, if they sue.
I. ceed in their wicked purposes. An eppor.
tunity viii then be furnished then, for sa,
ting q long cherished feeling of bitter ha,
tired. There are doubtless millions at the
North who are SO deluded and euslaved to
the sway Of a devilish fanaticism, that they
would deem it an act Of service to God to
subject ,us to tortures worse than those OF
the old inquisition.5
The horrorso our fate would be aggra,
yated by the semi-barbarous element which
predominates in the Federal army, Thell
; soldiery would, doubtless, be qaartered upon
US by the half million to keep us in subjec'
ton, and perpetrate daily outrages upon us
Ia soldiery very largely made up of raw
emigrant Duteh--many Of whom are the
most savage, mereiless and ferocious brutes
that ever disgraced the form of man 1t
has been my III fortune to know something
of these remorseless monsters. Many -o1
our German emigrants-especially OF those
who are partially or we'll educated, are no.
BE specimens Of humanity, and make the
best of citizens, but the ilhterate, low
Dutch, recently landed upon Northern soil
and constituting large element in the
Northern army, are, beyond conception
coarse, vulgar and brutal. They have nc
sense Of decency. Their cruelty is beyond
measure-there is no bounds to their lust,
and their rapacity has no limit that is moi
prescribed by the strong arm of power
Only imagine our condition, with countless
hordes of such demons quartered upon US
everywhere, through all time to come, as
the ninions of Yankee despotism, to coerce
our obedience, to control our labor, and te
exact as tribute all our earnings, beyond q
mesgre living for the dear ones whom TOD
has given us. What is worse than all, and
sure to occur if we should be subjugated
our wives and daughters would be exposed
to the insults of these degraded myrmidonE
of Yankee power, and we could resent II
only at the risk of being arrested upon false
accusation and confined in Llncoln's Bas
tile for life !
Southern freemen, what think ye of this
The man who can, for moment, think o
it, without being almost frantic, must be a
cold and torpid as frog.
If, with the knowledge of Yankee char
acter in general-if, with the facts of thi
war before us, and the avowed purpose ane
policy of Northern functionaries and news
paper editors, together with the obvious
necessity of keeping in our midst strong
and rapacious military force in order tha
we may be perpetually awed into subjeotio1
and coerced to pay the expenses of this in
human war-if, with all this in full view
we withhold anything of toll OF mean
which our Government may need, surei!
the heritage of our fathers has been un
worthily bestowed, and we'deserve even
worse state of bondage than Yankee cruel
ty can infict upon US.
Contemplating the supineness OF thous
auds who have done nothing, as yet, to all
the Southern cause, and the cold-bloode'
mercenary craft of thousands more, Wn
have lost sight of every interest but that o
growing rich out of the spoi!s Of this war
and that, too, at-the expense OF the poo
soldier and his family, who have laid thei
all upou the altar Of our country, [ am con
strained to acknowledge that | had miscon
ceived, Southern character-greatiy over
rated Southern patriotism in supposlng sta
we bad but few if any such creatures anon!
US. A mere money maker, 10 this hour
peril to our country, is monster Wnos
infamy ought to be commemorated IN op
probrious legend or song, through all sue
ceeding generations. ~,
Yet far more infamous and detestab|e
the man who, for the sake of making mon