Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-02-18

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Der has been appointed, by his Excallenoy
the Governor, the Agent of the State Of
South Carolina, to reside at Richmond for
the purpose of aiding South Carolina SOL
diers. This appointment has been made in
compliance with late Act of the Legisla-
ture.
Programme in the Northwest.
We have derived. the subjoiued informa
tionfrom gentleman ofhigb moral, social
and political character distinguished
citizen of one of the Northwestern States
-and the information, therefore, is strictly
accurate and entirely reliable. We make
the statement for the information and graf
i6cation of our readers and the Southern
public generally. ss
The States of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
have determined to stop the war and make
terms of peace With the Confederate States,
cost what it may and offend whom it may.
In one purpose, whatever the future may
be, they are firmly and unalterably united
and resolved aud that purpose is, the war
against the Confederate States shall cease
-or, if it is to be carried ;on, the North
west will throw itssmilitary power into the
scale against the saggressor. The citizens
of those States who have been drafted, or
enrolled in the Federal army, are leaving
that army by the hundred and by the regi-
ment, and there is no authority in the army
which can control this movement. Of the
one hundred and fifty thousand men organ
ized by the Federal Government to operate
On the Mississippi river, under Grant and
McC cClernand, not more than forty thousand
effective soldiers remain, and that number
is daily diminished by mortality from sick
ness, and by voluntary abandonment of
an enterprise With which they are most
thoroughly disgusted.
The Legislatures of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, and Kentucky are to convene at
Frankfort, in general convention, on the
18th day of February, inst, and will there
agree upon the principles upon which a
Northwest Confederacy is tosbe instituted,
and propose termsof peace and commerce
With the Confederaoy for the States border.
ing the Mississippi and its tributaries
proposing treaty, offensive and defensive,
with the South, or an adoption of the Con.
federate States constitution, to incorporate
those new members into the Confederacy,
if that be agreeable to the people Of the
Confederate States. But in any event, and
independently Of all other questions, rela.
tions Of peace, amity and commerce with
the South are to be established.
When these principles are agreed upon
in convention, commissioners will be depu-
ted to bear the result to Richmond to treat
with the Confederate government for a final
and satisfactory adjustment of all interests
involved. This action will be taken not
secretly, not clandestiuely, but openly and
with serious, dignifed determination, rep
resenting the sovereignty of those great and
populous States. When terms Of adjust
ment are settled at Richmond, they will be
submitted for the ratification of the people
of those States respectively, by organic ac.
tion ut the ballot box provided for by the
Legislatures of the respective States. When
thus ratified, the work of separation from
the United States will be regarded as final.
ly and irrevocably perfected.
"But," We suggested, "Maj -, what
if Mr.. Lincoln shall send detachment to
frankfort to arrest the Convention and its
peace delegates to Richmond"
"Let him dare to lift finger, or march
an army to disturb the deliberations Of that
Convention, or arrest its delegates, and
three hundred thousand Western men will
move to Washington City and hang Mr.,
/ Lincoln and his Cabinet"
Again, we suggested, "Mr. Lincoln has
the army and the navy and the treasury
.Let him send Grants army" said our
informant, "to Illinois, and that is the last
Grant will ever see of his army. He would
. not have corporals guard remaining at
tached to his command, while our South
ern allies would recapture every town and
city on the Mississippi, from New Orleans
to Cairo. Let Rosencraus take his army to
the Ohio river, and it will cease 70 exist in
like manner. We already have one hun.
/ .dred and eighty thousand returned Federal
soldiers in those States ready to join US, and
we have the army and we have its leaders,
and if the Black Republicans at Washing.
ton City dare to interfere with us, the maj
esty and power of great people will be ex.
erted to move to Washington City and hang
the last one of them. AS to operations
upon the river, the gunboats shall be yours. "
"And what will you do with the Federal
war debit" We asked.
awe will repudiate the last farthing Of
it," said he, cit was never constitutions
ally contracted. -
"And what will you do with the 'greeu
backs in circulation to the amount of many
millions 2"
"We will make a bonfire Of them, and
consume them at the altar of sacrifice"
"And what will you do with the Middle
and New England States?"
awe expect the moral support of New
York and Pennsylvania. We will cut of
Michigan to Canada, where she ought te
belong. And if New England interferes
ve'll whin her ont nf the Union, or into