Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-03-09

in immortal infamy.
Gen. Robert E. Lee, in recent battle
order, stated to his invincible legions, that
the "cruel foe seeks to reduce our fathers
and mothers, our wives and children to abb
ject slavery" He does not paint too strong
ly the purposesof the enemy or the corise-
quences of subjugation. What has been
done in certain districts, is but the prologue
of the bloody drama that will be enacted.
1t is we'll that every man and woman should
have some just conception Of the horrors Of
conquest. The fate of Ireland at the Pc
riod of its conquest, and Of Poland, dis
tinctly foreshadows what would await u.s.
The guillotine, in its ceaseless work Of blood,
would be revived for the execution of the
"rebel leaders," The heroes of our contest
would be required to lay down their proud
ensigns, on which are recorded the battle
fields of their glory, to stack their arms,
lower their heads in humiliation and dis
honor, and pass under the yoke Of abolition
misrule and tyranny. A hateful inquisition
made attocious by spies and informers; star
chamber courts, enforcing their decisions by
coniscations, impris6nments, banishments
and death; band of detectives ferreting
out secrets, lurking in every family, exist
ing in every conveyance; the suppression
of free speech; the deprivation Of arms and
franchises; and the ever present sense of
inferiority would make our condition abject
and miserable beyond what freemen can
imagine. subjugation involves everything
that the torturing malice and deyilish inge-
nuity Of our foes can suggest. The des-
truction of our nationality, the equalization
of whites and blacks, the obliteration Of
State lines, degradation tocolonial vassalage
and the reduction of many of our citizens to
dreary, hopeless, remediless bondage. A
hostile police would keep "order' in every
town and city. Judges; like Busteed, would
hold our courts, protected by Yankee SOL
diers. Churches would be6lled by Yankee
or tory preachers. Every Office would be
bestowed on aliens. Absenteeism would
curse us with all its vices. Superadded to
these, sinking us into a lower abyss of de-
gradation, we would be made the slaves Of
our slaves, hewers Of wood and drawers Of
water for those upon whom God has stamp
ed indellbly the marks of physical and In
tellectual inferiority. The past or foreign
countries need not be sought unto to furnish
illustrations of the heritage of shame that
subiugation would entail, Baltimore, St..
Louis, Nashville, Knoxville, New Orleans,
Vicksburg, Huntsville, Norfolk, Newbern,
Louisville, and Fredericksburg are the first
fruits of the ignominy and poverty OF Yam
keo domination" @.
The sad story of the wrongs and indigni-
ties endured by those States which have
been in the complete or partial possession of
the enemy, will give the best evidence Of
the consequences Of subjugation. Missouri
magnificent empire of agricultural and
mineral wealth, is to-day smoking ruin
and the theatre of the most revolving cruel.
ties and barbarisms. The minions of tyr
amy consume her substance, plunder her
citizens, and destroy her peace. The sa.
cred rights of freemen are struck down, and
the Blood Of her children, her maidens and
her old men, is made to flow, odt of mere
wantonness ana recklessness. No whispers
of freedom 60 unpunished, and the very
instincts of self.preservation ars outlawed.
The worship of God and the rites Of sepul.
ture have been shamefully interrupted, and
in many instances, the cultivation Of the
soil is sprohibited to her OWE citizens. These
facts are attested by many witnesses, and il
is but just tribute to that noble and ehiv
afrous people, that, amid barbarities almos
unparalleled, they still maintain PROUD
and defiant spirit towards their enemies.
In Maryland, the judiciary, made sub
servient to executive absolutism, furnishes
no security for individual rights or persona
freedom members of the Legislature are
arrested and imprisoned without process O
law or assignment of cause, and the whole
land groaneth under the expressions of
merciess tyranny.
In Kentucky, the ballot-box has beer
overthrown, free speech Is suppressed, the
most vexatious annoyances harrass and en-
bitter, and all the appliances of an unscru
pulous despotism are freely used to prevent
the uprising of the noble patriots Of "the
dark and bloody ground, Notes of glad
: ness, assurances Of brighter and better
day, reach us, and the exiles may take cour
age and hope for the future.
In Virginia, the model of oil that illus
trates human heroism and self-denying pat
riotism, although the tempest Of desalatlo1
has swept over her fair domains, no sign o
repentance for her separation from the Nortt
can be found. Her old homesteads dis
! mantled, her ancestral relics destroyed, he
people impoverished, her territory made th'
battle ground for the rude shocks of con
tending hosts, and then divided, with hire
ling parasites mockingly claiming jurisdic
ton and authority, the Old Dominion still
stands with proud crest and defiant mein
ready to tramp beneath her heel ever.
3 usurper and tyrant, and to illustrate afresl
) her sac semper tyrannis, the 'proudest mot
to that ever blazed on nations shield or
warriors arms"
/. To prevent such effects, our. people ar
= now prosecuting this struggle. 1t is n
mere war of calculation. no contest for
b. particular kind of property, no barter Q
g precious blood for filthy lucre. Everythin
t involved in manhood, civilization, religion