Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-10-29

respective officers from our army, as the said
Commis.es may hereafter determine. Aud
lit IS further recommended that the Central
! Committee st Columbia, allow to agents IN.
/ der their direction such reasonable compen-
sstioa m will be just aud proper.
I Your committee further recommend the
adoption Of tho following resolutions !:
H. L Resoiusd, That the address and re-
port 70 tho people Of the State, herewith
aubmittsd, be adopted; by this meeting.
j q Resolyed, 'Thatall the papers Of this
Estate be requested to publish the same, aud
THAT three shoasand copies Unpublished in
pamphlet form for general distribution.
+ 8; Resolued, That copies Of the above
named pamphlet Be furnished to the ofhoia:
ting ministers Of all religious denomiua-
I.ions throughout the State, with q request
that they be read to their congregations i
address, TO THE PEOPLE oFs. CAROLINA.
+ FELLOW CITIZENS :-Less than three
months have passed away since the capital
Iof cur Gonfederaey was bsieagusred by the
lmost formidable army which has8ever been
msssed together on this continent 1t was
Equipped with every weapon of war Of the
tlatsst iupfovsmsntS Gin orduanceI ammuni.
|tion aud small arms, (which modern science
1could invent, or the most tlavish expenditure
of money could provide; its appointments
| were sonplete. in everything, which 2the
most powerful nation on earth, assisted BY
an hnlimited commerce., could supply the
perfection of its discipline, after eighteen
months drill, by masters sin -the1art, made
tit'ths admiration and boast Of its country,
men ;5and It was assisted in its movements
by one of the. most powerful snavies In the
world. An army like this, thus formidable
liu everything shica, could make var des;
trnctiye, and swarming over our county in
numbers like the losusts Of Egypt, was we'll
calculated to create anxiety for the aafety
| Of our capital. Il was knownthat We could
oppose 70 this host an armyidferior to theirs
|in everything, except coursge and discips
line and although We had every confidence
in these quaIisies;of our soldiers, Setto ey-
iery rejecting. man IN the South, contempls:
| ting theifsarful odds against'us, there was
an uudefnsd dread for the. result, which
pressed like an overwhelming load upon his
heart aWhstif our army be overpowered,
routed, destroyed and Richmond taken r.
Was the anxious problem whieh7eEery man
tpondsred In his heart ~"Whatif that bar
rier Of brave hearts should be broken down
! by oar enemies; aud having nothing to- ops
pose them, They should sweep down over
the South leaving desolasion behind them,
as they dons in, Northern Virginia to be
followed BY other Northern hordes,, greedy
for plumber, burning with lust and raging
With fapsticisn! These were the painfully
anxious musings Of thoughtful men, asthey
contemplated the two armies confronting
each other before Richmond, and the enc
my possessing SO many aud such vast ad.
vantages over us. : =" 80, :. =
| The. military reyerses which had befal.
! len us, one after another, for several months
previous, had cast gloom over the public
mind, and had greatly intensified their aux
liety about the fate of~ou army. The fall
| Of Forts Donelson and Henry aud those
near Port Royal, the occupation of Beau:
| fort and the sea islands iu this State, and
Fseverai of the sea-eoast towns in North
Carolina, the surrender Of New, Orleans
and Nashville, their occupation of large
portions Of Tennessee and Kentucky and
the Mississippi River, the evacuation Of
Pensacola and Norfolk and the blowing up
Of the Merrimac-these and other reverses
hung like murky cloud over our political
horizon, and caused many to. despond, and
few even to despair. And now the enc
ny, with their vast and we'll appointed
army is advancing upon Richmond. The
peninsula is overrun, and their Notifications
are planted almost at the gates of our capi
tai, whilst their immense feet is occupying
all the approaches BY water, But our ar
my is there to meet them at every point. :
AT spectacle which was SO full of mo-
mentous consequences, both uations, stood
agazs, and men held their breath, under the
intensepess of their anxiety, whilst the pl'
ous raised their. supplicatious to God for
his blessing upon our arms =. " :.-a
q, And now, fellow citizens, can any man
forget that, amidst the underlined fears and
doubts and anxieties with which his mind
was then distressed, he fixed his trust in
our Army Of the Potomac as the only 10.
strument, through God, to bring Us to de-
Iiveranee-th very army, Cor what is left
of it, after the killed aud the wounded aud
sick in the hospitals are deducted, ;, which,
having heroically performed its work, stands
now before their country, in their destitu-
tioD and sufferings, and demands of her
Justice, as the evidence Of our gratitude. =
And have they not claim to both, in full
lest measure? Consider the condition f
the country, Immediately preceding the
battle before Richmond, as it has been
briefly presented to you-consider the fear
full odds against US everywhere and 10 every
thing, shut out from assistance, as We were
from all the world-consider the feverish
temper of the public mind, under the inau.
ence of these discouragiug circumstances,
as it waited, from day to day, for the burs.
ting forth of the tempest which was to de-
eide, perhaps, the fate Of our country, and
then form some estimate of the immeasu-
rable benefits which that army secured to
US, and the lively gratitude which was then
felt, and which will ever be due to II. Car
ry your memories back to the time when,