Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-12-03

q Splash ab tnStr tait, D 5suTSe Ottue luVau'
ing waters, thesdrum is sileDced, an army
of bubbles swarms on the surface, and calm,
silent, and steady, the last glare Of the
polished steel reflects adying ray Of mourn;
fullight -
Confederate and Continental Money.
at has been withsurprise and regret that
we have heard men; who ought to know
better, express the apprehension that Con-
tfederate money will become as worthless
as'the old Continental currency. Such an
Eopinionaass this amounts. to- an, admission
tthat the eausesof the Confederate States
is hopeless, ,and thntwe shallfa to achieve
ourindependenee, for just as sure, ,aszwe
succeed in establishing our position as a
free and independent nation, just so surely
will every obligation incurred in the attain
ment of this great end be redeemed, IF,
on tbeiother hand, We fail, what, weshould
like to know, willbe the value Of any State
Bank money or any other description Of
property in the States now composing the
,Confederacy? Not one copper, Thiscon-
Estiuuads sdisparagemept of Confederate cur
|rsney---this apprehension that it will be.
comeaas worthless as Continental money,
is calculated to have no other effect than
to bring disaster upon our cause, and the
|losssof all our property, ifnot by,confsca-
ton outright, by the somewhat slower, but
not less certain process Of the most grind
ling taxation. Should Che South be con-
Equered, her citizens will be taxed aforathe
payment of The enormous debt incurred by
the North in the war waged for our subju-
cation, as we'll as fdf the payment of the
large debt incurred by us 10 the impotent
efforttto achieve; ouri independence; These
are uBdeniable facts, and it does sseem to us
most extraordinary. that men will not see
that ttfhe surest way to hold our property,
asswell as to secure our liberty, is! !to. main
tain in our. dealings the credit Of the Con
;federats Government, aud that the sarest
way of bringing about the loss of both is to.
!disparage that credit. e.4 -, -s.z,. .
FsfThe comparison Of the Southern Con.
fsderacy, when it shallhave- established its,
Independence asa nstiod: with the United
States when.they emerged from she war of
the Revolution, as it regards stheirrespees
tive ability to redeem their obligations, rs
preposterously absurd. Our fathers came
out Of a seven years. war with asparse pop
ulation, an undevelopsd country, and adebt'
which was Ito them indefinitely larger to
them than any that we shallsi Siuce
that timetheStates Of Louisiana, Alabama,
mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and
Florida-States all within the Confedera-'
cy-have been acquired, and since that
time the culture ofthe Cotton Plant, the:
great lever Of commerce, has commenced
ia. this country, aud we all know to what
Ipeiut'ths production of that article has been
carried Can there be doubt, then, that,
sap independents Gonfederacy, containing
withinsits limits climate and soil admira-
.bly adapted for the production, on an<exten.
sige scale, of cotton, sugar, tobacco aud
grain crops Of every description, and, pos.
sessing, too, mineral resources of incalcula-
BILE value, with railroads and large,naviga.
BILE streamssin every direction to afford &C.
cess toamarket, will possess a basis of credit
which will enable,it fullyto meet every OBJ
legation wnich it. has incurred orsmay in,
cur? How worse than idle, then, is the
comparison of the "promise to pay of'such
a. Government with tho Continental money
issued during the Revolutionary war with
Great Britain! Let, then, the croakers, if
their disease is not chronic and incurable,
think of the undeniable facts we have sta
ted, and discontinue course which so d.
reesly tends to cripple the Government,
and bring on the loss Of the cause in which
is involved property and liberty, and every
thing worth living for, or-dyiug for. The
Southern man who now does everything to
hold up and strengthen the hands of the,
Confederate Government, is not only good
and patriotic citizen, but sensible man,
and the Southern man who does; anything
to injure its credit or weaken its hands, is
not only miserable traitor, but consum:
mate fool.-Raleigh Register. y.
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BRIG. GEN EDWIN PR1oE.-A para.
graph, copied from Abolition sheets, has
been extensively republished atthe South,
in relation to Ger. Edwin Price, which.
contains bald, grouudless and malignant
falsehood. Gen. Edwin Price never held
any commission in the Confederate ser.