Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-26

secured its passage as the first step tosOard
preparation for another csvi1 s0ar. Al
though no debate was had upon it, members
were urged to vote for it by direct conVer
satioual appeals on the floor on the part OF
the few who were privy to its introduction.
Some were told that it was necessary, to
enable the Southern loyalists to protect
themselves; others that it was simply
matter of detail in the War Department;
others that the arms must be taken out Of the
hands of the President, and others that it
was proposed at the instance of the Secreta.
ry of War. An appeal was made BY Mr..
Kasson, of Iowa, to allow debate upon it,
as it seemed to be matter Of importance,
but this was refused.
Most of the leading and rejecting radi.
Gals in Congress takes this view of the po.
litical future: IF the fall elections result
in the choice of Northern Democrats enough
to constitute, when added to the members
from the Southern States, majority of the
House, they assume that this majority, thus
constituted, will claim to be the Congress,
and will act accordingly, aud that they will
be recognized by the President as the body
to which he will send his message, and
whose sessions be will, if the necessity
should arise, protect by military force
They assert, on the other hand, that the
Union members from the loyal States-if
they constitute majority from those States
will claim to be the only legal Congress,
and will, if necessary, invoke an insurrec
ton of the people to maintain them In that
position. They do not in the least conceal
their purposes, 10 the event of such COLI.
sion, to appeal to force, and drive the Pres
ident and his Cabinet and supporters, into the
Potomac" to use the language of one of the
ablest and most sincere of their number. If
you will recall the remarks of Mr. Bout
we'll, of Massachusetts, in the last weeks
first caucus, you will see this movenen
clearly foreshadowed, inded avowed. He
declared his belief that an issue of force
was rapidly approaching, and that We must
be prepared to meet it. He acts, and all who
co operate with him in these measures pro-
fess to act, under the apprehension that the
President intends to resort to force-that he
means to disperse the present Congress, on
its re-assembling iu December, if it refuses
to admit the Southern members and Mr..
Farnsworth ascribed to Mr. Seward the de.
claration, that this Congress should never
re.asseuble, unless the Southern members
we're admitted in support Of this belief, I
need scarcely say that Mr.. Seward never
made any remark of the kind, nor that the
project ascribed to the President is purely
an invention, or at best the crazy dream of
a political nightmare But in either case
it serves the same purpose. 1t covers, and
is held to justify the determination TO arouse
the North, and prepare for resort to force,
upon the assembling of the fortieth Con.
gress in extra or in regular session and
this determination is avowed. And the
resolution to which I have referred, for an
organization of the militia and distribution
of arms in the Northern States, is the initial
step to its execution.
Mr.. Raymond does not propose any com.
ment upon the result of such movement,
but be says that if any such contingency
should arise, "the war would not be sec
tional war, as was the last-it would be
war of political parties and of neighbor.
hoods" He does not believe the Republi.
can party at large entertain these views,
but "that the extreme radicals do entertain
them, there is not the slightest doubt"
We have not room for further extracts
from the letter Mr.. R in the concluding
paragraph, writes as follows:
The Italian army suffered sad reverse
the other day, because, trusting in the good
ness of its cause, it marched boldly upon
fortresses whose strength it despised. The
Union party will consult its own safety and
the good of the country BY not throwing it.
self against the Philadelphia Convention
until it knows little more of the nature
and strength of its armament.
As our readers know, Raymond, at the
late radical caucus, went over bodily to
Thad. Stevens. The import of this brief
piece of advice with which he closee his let
ter is simply this: If the radicals find them.
selves strong enough, they should begin the
war; if not, defer action.
These are truly startling disclosures, and,
we think, should arouse the people Of the
North to their perilous condition. We of
the South will scarcely be participants of
the coufict-we have had enough of civil
war for many year to come. God help
the country in her present distracted condi-
tion-a condition to which, as we have Of
ten said before, the radicals have brought