The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-09-19

VIEWS oFTHE CITIZENS ON THE ISSUES
. PRESENTED BY THE ELECTION.
Election day passed off very quietly.
No,soldiers were permitted about the
polls. General Benefits. orders to the
officers of the day were chat no guard
should be stationed at any of the ward
precincts, unless special request was
made necessary.
The citizens generally are very much
pleased with the result, and deny that
any issue of unionist or secessionst was
raised in the selection and election of
candidates. They claim that they are
Union and nothing else, and that all will
cordially support the views and policy.
of the administration AS. all evidence
ofthis intention they instance the cleo,
tion of 2. j. Coogan, an open and
avowed Unonist during the war, who
received respectable and successful
vote.
On the other hand the friends Of DR..
a. G. Mackey and tie "Union ticket"
view the result as u complete triumph of
the old hmkers and secessionsts. The
election of Mr.. Coogan, they say, was
effected bysthat candidate merging him.
self with the ssecessionist$. The Unior.
men and former friends of Mr.. Ooogan
have no confidence in any good result.
ing from his election. They also saw
the most ,monstrops Elsehoods, caumnies
and ISLANDERS We're heaped upon DR..
Mackey's personal character to effect his
defeat. He was openly and uniformly
denounced in street conversations as a
traitor to his native State in her time of
troublt and distress Many of the Ma.
sonic brotherhood opposed Dir. Mackey
on account OF his visit North which
they characterized as begging tour,
Notwithstanding that visit was made at
the urgent solicitations Of his Northern
brethren. In fact the Union men clam
that all sorts @f'ics and tricks were re.
sorted to for the purpose of keeping
their candidaLc--the friend of Unionsm,
popular rights and progressive Improve.
ments away from the convention, fear.
iul of his intellectual abilities and inAn.
ence in pProolng oligarchy and aris,
trcracy.
Such arc the statements YOU will hear
from the two sides at the hotels. in the
stores, on the streets, or at private resi-
dences. 'T
REPORT OF COLLECTOR MACKEY's RE.
T ~ Ft MoyAL.. BY gN
a report was in circulation that Col.
lector Mackey was to ,bo displaced from
the Custom House and thefonner in,
'cumbent, Collector ColcocE, reinstated.
Twas said that this report arose from a
letter received here, written by a mem.
Der OF Congress, stating that Collector
Mackey's nomination would not be con.
tfrmed by the Senate. This report,
raised Immediately before the election
also excited the Indignation of the Doc,
tors friends, who regarded it as ..nother
trick to inilame popular prejudice againss
him, They believe in this case his enc.
mics will be defeated. The greatest OBJ.
lection to DIR. Mackcy by the old foees
arises, his friends say, from the President
having honored him with an Office to
which only the chi3alry are entitled, for.
getting that Presidents johnson, like the
present Collectorof Charleston, is. a self,
made man. AS al. evidence Of this
feeling. they still poiTff to the language
sso freely used by the old party in refer.
encesto President johnson rs "a tailor
and President Lincoln "a rail aplitter@
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