Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-02-03

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The Negro to be Crushed.
A correspondent Of the New York Times
writing from Norfolk under the signature Of
"Wm. Turbis," says - ~ ~
Whatever may be the fate of this war,
one thing is certain-it;isWritten as by the
fngersof sinspiration-the negro will be
crushed beneath its iron tread. Subjuga-
ton, if that we're possible, will neeessitate
the quartering upon Southern soil two hun.
dred thousand bayonets to guard and pro-
tect him; and this for generations to come.
The feeling of hatred, intensified and in.
famed by Northern domination, BY injustice
and violence, by perfdy and fraud, viii burn
with increased fury; and like the Indian,
whose imperial rule over this beautiful land
no white man once questioned, but who
paled and Waned beneath the advancing tide
Of civilization, he will lsbs hunted and prey
ednponlbythe instinct Of antagonistic! for.
ces, until his name and very existence will
have disappeared forever.
Union, then, upon the basis Of emancipa-
tion and the proclamation being utterly i'm.
possible, fthe war will 90. on; slaughter,
blood. and carnage will follow In its train;
hundreds of.thousands will perish and be.
wiped out. of existence forever, billions of
treasure expended and for whatp 20
crafty the most 6endish feelings-the most
senseless purpose--that ever controlled the
bosoms of men. The issue then 10 fairly
made-subiagation or Independence, Mr..
Lincoln has made it by this, his nltimatum;
and doubtless the South accepts il in its
spirit and it's purpose. IF / were interro.
gated to know, ,;canthe South be subjugated?
3 Ishould answer, if there be any truth In
history, never! never! I know Southern
character WE'LL know her ability, her
means, her purposes, her aim, herresources,
for defensivewar,i When the Spring opens
her soil will be trod by ythe finest soldiery
the world ever saw. She viii, BY that time,
have equipped and put in the field more
than six hundred thousand men, waose
hearts beat in unison to the popular will,
and who, as thesissue is now made, will
court death and danger on every bloody
field. Her circulating medium will, by
legislative fat, be reduced to the pecuniary
wants Of the war programme. Stripped of
its redundancy and its. plethora, twill give
vitality and yigor to every department. of
the Government, and restore the confidence
of the people in the ultimate SUCCESS Of
their cause.
Believing that history is philosophy,
teaching; by example, she will read her own
future glory by the brilliant light reflected
from the pages of revolutionary story She
will recall the time when Washington was
driven from New York through Jersey,
when Philadelphia was evacuated when
our Congress, dismayed,s fed iprecipitately
,tosAnnapolis when the feet Of our half
starved, half.fed Continentals trod the frozen
snow-clad earth at Valley Forge, without
the hope of relief; when Tarleson galloped
at will over the ,fairest portion Of Virginia
when Petersburg and Richmond we're burn
ed, and the Governor was chased to Char.
lotteville aud sought the mountain for.safe-
ty; when the Carolinas were oyerruu BY the
conqtering iegions Of CORVALLIS; when
women and children were driven from their
homes and hunted like beasts Of prey; when
her fields we're made desolate by the hsstile
tread of the invader, aud her heroic women
wept in bitterness Ger the gloom that en-.
circled her future. Amid, however, this
sad and sickening picture she will turn to
the siege Of Yorktown and read her glowing
future by the light Of its brilliant success
She will recall the struggle Of the Neither
lands, the cruelty of Alva and his still more
cruel master; and her heroic heart will
take courage as she reads, though sad and
touching, the story that after years of blood
and carnage and cruelty, which has no par
allel, save as this war may furnish it, anoth-i
er brilliant illustration of successful endu-
rance. And she will turn over with mel.
ancholy satisfaction, the philosophic records
of Greece and Rome, and by the light of
her monumental history, shedding its bril-.
liant rays athwart the worlds future pro.
gress, she will be nerved for the conflict
Can she then be subjugated3
To every picture there is a'background, |,
and it is gloomy enough If the radicals
continue in, poWer-I confess in sadness
no hope CLEANS in the future-no ray of
gladness cheers the political sky. If from
pages of history and the ensanguined plains
Of monumental records the Northern people
have not learned lessons of wisdom they
perhaps may be taught when too late, by
bitter experience. It is said /
The mills of the gods grind slow,
But they grind fine. /,
All history attests that there is a law of
retributive Justice, invoked by power a.
bove that of man and falls with unerring
alike upon nations and individ-
1als it is the immutable, legitimate, logical
sequence of crime. :.
."He who stings heart,
That sting shall bring
To him a smart"
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