Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-01-09


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President Davis Message in England.
WHAT HER CABINET AND POLITICIANS
THINK AND HOPE FROM THE PAPER -
The principal intelligence conveyed by the
Easnburq from America, consists in the
message of the President of the Southern
Confederation, and we are glad to notice
the friendly tone in which it treats of the
relations of the South with this country,
while we are embarked in a critical nego.
tiatiou with the North; and while We are
also about to enter upon our Intervention
in Mexico, country bordering upon the
Southern States. This is, in fact, the only
satisfactory and significant information that
the present American packet has brought.
The "7rent question" remains in statu quo.
The opinion of the law officers OF the
Washington Cabinet. which is now repeated
had reached Us by the Persia on Monday
last, but the popular excitement which the
question bad provoked, appears to have In
some measure cooled down. For the mo-
mept, therefore, Southern politics arrest our
chief attention.
The message of President Davis to the
Southern Congress is, in our judgment, the
more satisfactory, from the firm and deter.
mined attitude in which it confronts the
Unionist party and the Cabinet at Wash
ington for if We concede the conquest of
the South to be next to impossible, it is BY
the exhibition of Southern strength, rather
than of Southern weakness; that peace Is
to berestored between the two belligerents.
President Davis recounts that throughout
seven months of hostilities the Confederates
have almost uniformly held their own, and
that in several instances they have thrown
their opponents into a defensive attitude.
President Davis is therefore fully euti.
tied to the bold ground which he assumes,
when he declares that 'sthe South will be
content to live at peace with the North, but
that the separation is 6ual." He adds that
the South will accept Of 40 compromise
He is now, perhaps for the first time, in
position to make use of this language. In.
deed, one is led to ask, after the trial and
exhaustion of so many designs, and the ex.
penditure of SO much money on the part of
the North. what is yet to INTRODUCE decisive
features into the campaign? The Federals
have enjoyed immense advantages in point
of men aud money, and also (as we showed
yesterday in drawing war like supplies
from this country, through their superior
command of the sea. President Davis will
no doubt derive fresh confidence when he
reads the two royal proclamations which,
in the latter respect, have now placed the
North and South on footing of equality
But there has been scarcely single State
oyerrun by the Northern army during the
whole course of the campaign, and it is
much questioned whether the naval expe'
ditions of the Federal Government to Hat
teras and Port Royal have done much more
than slightly to reduce the privateering &C.
tivity of the South. The assertion of the
Southern President must, therefore, be ad
mitted to be substantially true, that "the
reconstruction of the Union, which the
Federals seek to effect by force of arms, has
become more and more palpably impossible.
He maintains, also, that the causes which
brought about the separation not only re-
main in full force, but have been strength
ened since the civil war began. With q
view OF observing strict neutrality between
the eonteudng States, We have carefully
refrained from officially recognizing the
South, but the time has certainly arrived
at which we cease altogether to believe II
the possible reunion of the States, and a
which we must, at all events, recognize tht
independent confederation of the South al
an actual fact.
President Davis speaks with just indig
nation of the seizure of his ENJOYS to the
courts of France and England and there
is passage in this part of his message
which throws probable light on the dis
tinctive mission on which Mr.. Slidel! anc
Mr.. Mason we're sent to Europe. He re
marks, with some evident pride, that tht
Confederate States have been content tt
fight their own battle, and have solicited
no assistance from foreign Powers. But h'
declares that they have right to briug be
fore Europe the question of the application
of the existing blockades Of their own port
to the acknowledged principle of lnterna
tioual law, that blockades, if they are to b
respected by third powers, must be etec
tive. He is about to represent to the Eu
ropeau Governments, accordingly, the TO
tai inef6ciency of their blockades, and t
put the assertion upon evidence 1t is
fair Inference that this was one Of the ques
tons upon which Messrs. Mason and Sli
dell were sent to Europe.
But there is another statement in ou
present American intelligence which threa
tens to put the blockade question in ligh
altogether new. 1t is sunounced tha
twenty-five vessels have set sail, appareutl
from New York, heavily'loaded with stones
with the view Of their being sunk at th
mouth Of Southern harbor Now, lu al
probability iugress or egress would be
difficult at Southern port, with 6ve-and
twenty suuken vessels in front of the bal
Dor, as it was at Sebastopol, where tn