Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-30
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The National Convention. =
THE OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, NORTH AND
.,,. SOUTH.
We gather from our exchanges, North
and South, as far as received, q summary
Of the views of the press Of all shades OF
political opinions, concerning the action OF
the National Union Convention. As illus
trating the spirit in which the result Of tie
great movement has been received through.
out the country, these extracts will doubtless
be read with peculiar interest: ....
80. WHAT THE NORTHERN PAPERS SAT-.
From the New York Times, Republican,
It's ten resolutions and the accompanying
address are q more substantial foundation
than ten orations multiplied by ten. They
touch the right keynote at starting-the
desire Of large majority Of our country.
men "to forget aud forgive the past" to
reverence the Union as more sacred than
ever, and to heal the wounds which the war
has made
From the New York Tribune, Radfcall
The johnson Convention afirms that the
whites of the South who fought for years to
destroy the Union have to-day all the rights
therein that they ever had, while the loyal
blacks of those States have no rights what
ever but such as the late rebels choose to
concede to them. ---s<s--r-a-..
90 the side Of the rebels all is matter of
right; on the side Of the Unionists there is
but grace and favor, and precious little Of
these If tomorrow the "restored" rebels
of Mississippi and Louisiana should see fit
to arrest, try, convict, and hang as traitors
every black who served in the Union armies,
they have a perfect right to do 80 under
the Cowau platform, and there is no power
in the Union to prevent or resist them in
so doing
IF this platform is sound, then Andrew
johnson (whom it unmeasurably lauds) is
the most gigantic usurper that the world
has known; for he compelled the whites
of the South to ratify the anti. slavery q.
mendment, and rerudiate their rebel debts,
and do other things uost distasteful to them
all which, on the Cowan platform, he
bad no more right to do than to compel
them to join the Roman Catholic Church.
He dealt with them for months as though
they had forfeited every right by treason,
and could only regain chem through national
grace; when, according to Cowan, they
might have challenged this right to
the Presidency, and insisted on new
election forthwith, wherein they should all
vote. ... -.-...,..
The ex.rebels in the Convention assented
to many most distasteful propositions in or
der to procure q concession of the main
auestiou-that of their assumed right to
d. as they shall see fit within their respec
tive States 1t is the ancient Democratic
right of every white to "larrup his own
bigger" that they are intent on, with such
notifications as the change of circumstan.
oes have rendered inevitable. And this
Cowan & Co. readily concede. The States
are supreme over all internal matters; the
loyal blacks are under their feet and the
Doolittle Convention says they shall stay
there, and be dealt With ss lately at Mem.
phis, and more recently at New Orleans.
Such is the SUM and substance, the gist
and marrow of the Cowan platform. The
Unioniss who assents to it betrays those who
helped Us in our necessity, aud the blood Of
the innocent wapsouly shed and to be shed
by malignant vengeful rebels, will rest
heavily on bis soul. ....
(From the New York News. Anti War Democrat
These resolutions were evidently con
ceived in spirit of enlarged patriotism
and of great kindliness towards the South,
and are so expressed as to give no cause Of
offence to the people of that section. No
one will be disposed to question the Con-
vention's declaration against the doctrine
of secession, or 10 complain that it is offeu-
sivrly made. They declare distinctly in
favor of the right of the South to be rep
resented in Congress, and make that the
main issue of the fall campaign. We wish
that they had made more explicit decla-
ration against the enforcement of the test
oath, but that could hardly have been ex
pected under all the circumstances. a
closer analysis and examination of the reso
lutious would probably disclose some objec-
tionable features, but we are not disposed
TO be hyperoritical with the work Of con
ventioo which seems to have been earnestly
desiious. of peace and friendship between
the sections, and the re establishment of the
Union upon its ancient and sure foundation
the Constitution as it was
From the New York World, War Democra,.l
The Convention has been the occasion
of public solemn, formal recantation by
the Southern people of the doctrine of
secession. That this rccantatiou is autho
rized, and therefore binds the honor of the
South, is proved by the unanimous voice of
the Southern press, and the universal partic
ipatious of the Southern people in the
choice of delegates.
From the nature of the case the war
could not terminate by treaty of peace !;
but the frank surrender uow made by the
South, of all that was involved in the con-
test, gives Us the same solid assurance that
would be given by treaty Of peace at the