Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-12-07


. the real foundation Of the collision between
The ssctions The South engaged in it ts
g - preserve. and perpetuate it !; the North tc
destroy it. -Four years Of bloody, desola
Z ting war was spent IN settling the issue
/. which had been committed to the arbitra
.<szmsnt Of the sword, and that High Tribu,
nal from which there is no earthly appeal,
decided the cause against u.s.. It was f.
nal, irreyersihie decree We were exhaus-
: { ted, our armies surrendered, our last availa.
tble recruit had been sent to the front, and
ell our resources were consumed We sue.
cumbed to the power of the United States,
and under the wise and ragnanimous poll
cy of President johnson we will, hope
and believe, very soon be restored to all oul
personal and political rights in the Federal
Union. ON terms of perfect equality with all
] the States Of that powerful sisterhood.
The war has decided, first: That one or
more of the States of the Federal Union
s lave not the right, at will, to sscede there.
from: The doctrine of secession, which
was, held to be orthodox in the State Rights
school of politics, is now exploded for any
practical purpose The theory of absolute
sovereignty Of State of the Federal Union
from whence was derived the right to se-
eede1 (which wss believed almost universally
) 10 bess sound constitutional construction,
mast also be materially modified to conform
10 this imposing decision. In all the pow
ers granted in the Constitution to the Fed,
eral Government, it is supreme and sover.
eign, and must be obeyed and respected
]. accordingly. Where:the rights of State
are disregarded, or unconstitutional acts
: done by any departments of the Federal
I Government redress can no longer be sought
BY interposing the sovereignty Of the State,
either for nullifcation or secession; but the
remedy is BY petition or remonstrance; by
: reason, which will sooner or later overtake
justice by an appeal to the supreme judi
seial power of the Union or by revolution,
which, if unsuccessful, is treason.
u
The decision was far more imposing and
obligatory than if it had been pronounced
8by the supreme Court of the United States.
Had It been tried there, an effort to reverse
sit might have been made, because its mem.
2 bsrs and opinions often change. But the
= God Of Battles has pronounced an irrever-
: sible Judgment, after long, desperate and
ssnguinary struggle, and it would be Meth.
; er polite or patriotic ever again to invoke
q new trial Of the fearful issue
81 The clemency which President johnson
! hasso generously extended to many of our
citizens, 10 granting full aud free pardon
for participation ID the late revolution, does
honor to his ststesmauship and to his sense
lsof Justice: He is the ruling power of
great and triumphant Government, and by
his policy viii attach by cords stronger than
sssriple steel, the citizens of one entire
section of the Union to that Government
which he, has 80 long and SO ably supported
AMI maintained. He was well acquainted
with the South-with her politics and pol:
itinians, and knew, however erroneous in his
judgment may have been their political
principles, that they honestly entertained
the sentiments which they professed, and
! for which they perilsd their all and, after
iaiiiug fu their end, when they proposed to
return 70 their loyalty that humanity and
policy dictated that they should not be
hunted down for ignominious punishment
/ shall give his policy OF RECONSTRUCTION
an earnest ana jealous support .
- The var decided, second: That slavery
should De totally anu acsoiute,y eA'erm,na, III,
ted IN all the otstes OF the Union: Inc
Convention OF TINS State, with singular una
znimity aud Promptness, accepted the result
OF the issue MADE, ana declared 10 the lon-
damentai law "tnas sns slaves having oeen
emanoipsted .by the action OF tne United
= States antnorlies, slavery snould never Dc
.re,estaollsned IN snis etale,
Inc LEGISLATURE nas iohoWea up sne &C,
ton OF the oonVen'lon' ~ passing .le oo1'
statutional amendment PROPOSED oS tue 7 gu
ersi congress pfohlplting slavery every
where in the United states, an9 conferrlng
ON Congress power to carry the same into
effect. Slavery in America is, therefore,
forsser extinct. The people OF South ia.
> roiina have acquiesced N this sequence OF
, the war with remarkable chesrfulness, es-
: pecially when it is noted that her people
have been the staunchest:: defenders of the
. institution, on principle Of policy, for more
than century-thas her interest in the in-