Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-11-30

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seizure, four sailors of the Florida reached
the shore, and fifteen jumped into the wa
ter, but they were rescued by several YES
sells. When the American, Consul heard
the report of the firing from the Wachusett,
he got up in the night time and had it
| stopped. .".1erE.
The officer of thEF florida, when asked to
surrender, at once threw his sword into the
water. .... ss.s., sc.5I. IS al
Commander Morris, Of the Florida, has
sent communication to the President Of
the Province, thanking him for the efforts
be made to, prevent her capture in a neu-
trail port, and protesting against her seizure.
The matter is-a serious one, and may be
SC regarded by the Brazilian Government.
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Confederate Congress. 80
SENATE. . - q. 1850.
r RICHMOND, November 18. d.
Mr.. Henry, Of Tennessee, offered the
following :: -s>2 = s,.;'s - '&.''"N.sa !
Joint resolution defining the position Of
the Confederate States and declaring the
determination of the Congress and the peo.
pie thereof to prosecute the war till their
independence is acknowledged:
"Resozuea By the Congress Of the Con-
tederate States of America, That The peo-
pie of the Confederate States are endowed
by their Creator with the inalienable rights
of life, liberty and the pursuit. Of happiness.
That to secure these rights Governments
were instituted among men, deriving their
iast powers from the eonsent'of the govern
ed, and whenever any government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the right Of
the people to alter Of abolish it and insti.
-tuts new Government, laying its founda-.
ton on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form az to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety and ::hsppi-
ness. :, 'a '-., - =,
That on these principles, embodied in
the Declaration of American Independence,
the United Colonies in 1776 dissolved the
connection that bound them to the Govern
ment of Great Britain, and on them the
Confederate States have severed the bonds
of that political Union which connected
them with the people of the Government
of the United States of America, rather
than submit to the repeated injuries inAic-
ted upon them by that people and to;the
usurpations of that Government, and which
had the direct object to deprive them Of
their rights, rob them of-their property, se-
cured to them by constitutional guarantees,
and to establish an absolute tyranny over
these States. 80. ..
Resolued, That the Confederate States
appealed to arms in defence Of these rights
and establish these principles only after
they had in vain conjured the people and
the Government of the United States, by
all the ties of common kindred, to dis.
countenance and discontinue these injuries
and usurpations, and after they had petition
ed for redress in the most appropriate terms,
and received in answer only repetition Of
insults and injuries, which foreshadowed
usurpations still more dangerous to liberty.
Resozved, That sfter nearly four years of
cruel, desolatiug and unnatural war, in
which the people of the Confederate States
have unquestionably established their Ca
pacity for SELF Government, and their abiii-
ty to resist the attempts Of the enemy to
subjugate them, this Congress does not hesi-
tate to avow its sineere desire for peace,
and to that end proclaims-to the world the
readiness of the Government to establish
permanent and honorable peace between
the Confederate States and the United
States, upon the basis Of the seperate inde-
dence of the former.
Resolved, That the time has come when
the Confederate Congress, in the name of
the people Of the Confederate States, deem
it proper again to proclaim to the world
their unalterable determination to be free,
and that they do not abate one jot of ftheir
high resolve to die free men rather than live
slaves and farther, if the people of the U.
States, by re-electing Abraham Lincoln,
mean to tender to them four years more of
war, or reunion with them On any terms,
deeply deprecating the dire necessity 80
wantonly thrust upon them, and relying
upon the justice Of their cause and the GAL
lantry of their soldiers, they accept the
gage of battle, and leave the result to the
righteous arbitrament of Heaven. " 5"
Resozved, That in view of the determi-
nation Of the enemy to prosecute this horrid
war still further, against which the Coufed-
crate States have at all times protested, and
which the, enemy have waged with extraor-
dinary vigor, and which has been marked
by acts of extraordinary atrocity, in violation
of the usages of civilized warfare, the Con.
gress of the Confederate States will from
this hour dedicate themselves anew to the
great cause of self defence against the con-
stituted tyranny of the enemy. That it
shall no longer be the momentary occupa-
ton of the Congress and the people of the
Confederate States, but the business of
their lives to gather together the entire
strength of the country, in men and mate.
rial Of war, and put it forth as with the will
of one man, and with an unoonquerable
determination to defend their altarss and
their firesides till the last votary of freedom
fall around them. ..4,I -;
Mr.. Henry said it was not his purpose to.
make any remarks on the resolutions at this
time. BE would move they lie on the ia.
Bile and be printed. He should call them
up future day, when ha hoped it would