Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-10-01

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Represented to have been converted y decency ahd
christianity and to have forakeu his evil way.
New Yorksis great on sensations, aDd it now tur5s
out that this is ode Of the latest. AWiter in the
New York Times gives the following as the last
phase Of the affair."
1T is said thst the late excitement as caused
BY the colporteurs of city mission. For several
months they endeavored to make an impression
upon the scum of .Water-street, but. failed. At
length it was decided to create sehssti6nS and
compfisi the objsct he wss accordingly described
as the "Wickedest Man in New York, and his
place became frequented by religious persons and
others, who visited him out of curiosity His reg
uar business was broken up, and it is alleged that
proposition was then made to hire his rooms for
religious meetings. which offer was accepted, Allen
receiving rent of $3.50. 1t Is also alleged that
'.Kh' Burns has hired the use of his rat pit for
religious meetings at the rate Of $3.50 month, for
one hour day, and that Tom Haddep is joining
in the present movement in the hope Of escaping
trial Of an Indictment pending against him IN the
Court of General Sessions 1.' '''@' . ''-'
The writer then goes on teshow that thesrticle,
first calling attention to Allen, was mere money
speculation, to which certain coporteurs were par
ties in interest with the evident intention to shame
John Alien into change of life, and thus to ob.
tain foothold among his sie neighbors and com
pauions IN sin. The stroke was bold one, bat it
utterly failed in itspurpose to soften John heart
negro LAWYERS: =! -: - .'i q 'f'fTf ~;
Last week, the carpet bag members Of the
so-called Supreme Court Of South Carolina -one
Of whom, 1T least is said to be Ike Necessity =
tnbw1s, nd law admitted three goaEback negroes
to tiie practice ofths law IN thsState The names
of these ebony disciples Of Blackstone are WI.
Whipper, r. b. Elliott and J. j. Wright The
correspondent Of the Charleston Courier furnishes
tie following ID regard to the antecedents Of the
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a"As for the negroes themselves; have only
ity, j.; JWright, senator from Beaufort, has al
ready been admitted to the bar Of Pennsylvania,
and has an album with extracts from three hun
dred different newspapers, referring to his admis
sion, Which excited much attention at the time j
suppose he must have satisfied the Court of the
truth of this statement as he was admitted on mo-
| ton without examination. =, r. B. Elliott repre-
sentative from BarnWel, says that he attended the
Massachusetts Law School for two years, then en-
tered the volunteer service At the close of the
war he went back to Massachusetts and read law
nine months and at the end Of thres more would
have been admitted to the bar, but came down
South and was thus prevented from being admit
ted. W. j. Whipper, representative from Beau
fort, was before the war in lawyers Office, i'd De
foit, Michigan, but whether as Office boy, clerk Or
student, LIDO mot now reeollect. When he COM
menced practicein the Provost Courts of thisState
after the war, he was very green, but be has I'M
proved greatly, and gets along tolerably well as
chairman Of the judiciary Committee Of the House.
Ian these men are full blooded negroes, with black
skins thick lips and wo6lly heads, and yet, In jus
tee to them, Imust say that believe they are as
good lawyers as at least one of the judges who ad
mitted them; and certainly any one Of. them can
make better speech than either Of the judges" "
Interview, with Governor. Scott. =. ,..t
The Columbia correspondent Of the Charles
ton Me,os furnishes the following account Of re-
cent; interview between Governor Scott and Mr..
James g., Gibbes, Of Columbia. '.,..i,~ iii Il
. "Acting Governor Scott is said to be highly ex-
cited over reported outrages, and also the ru.
mored Introduction of arms into the State James
Gibbes,, Esa, had an interview with him to-day,
Of which have the following second hand account
Some time ago Scott received letter signed in the
name of one Graves, aformer serVantof Mr. Gbbes,
purporting to have been written in Abbeville, and
stating that Gen. MCGOWAN was going about ma.
king speeches. threatening to kill the egrot if they
dared to vote; &C. Scott sent for Gibbes and read
the letter to him. Gibbes promised to inquire IN.
to the matter. .Gibbes went to Newberry the 9th
er day, and there he saw Graves. The latter de.
MED ever having written the letter, and pronounced
- ha0 IN and (Nihhae xpopf
to-day to Scott to get the letter to try and trace
the authorship; but Scott said Whittemorc had
carried it with him: to Washington. Scott asked
Gibbes about the reported introduction of arms,
and said he understood they were being introduced
in every part of the State, and he believed they
were for the purpose of overawing the negroes and
I Keeping them away from the polls. He said If
that game was tried he would teach the white peo-
ple Of this State seyerer lesson than they had
ever learned yet. Gibbes asked him the purpose
of the resolution about garrsoning the State with
United States troops, and expressed his own opin-
ion that these troops were to be used for partisan
purposes, and that if So they had better not come.
This made Scott more furious andhe ripped, roar
ed and snorted around generally. and declared he
had great mind TO telegraph at once to Grant tor
enough troops to nip the thing 10 the bud, and
make the white people know that they must respect
tlt SUfeIuuicut ouu tue touo. ,... O..
The Georgia Democracy. 81, ~,
- The Democratic Central Executive Commit
tee of Georgia, has recently issued an address to
the party ip that State. Among other things it
says: .i, ~. &C.,. ..--,., 49,. ..i.. ,
Notwithstanding we hold the Reconstruction
acts of Congress were enacted outside of the Con
sttution and without constitutional authority, we
do not propose or intend to maintain our position
by resort to force Theconstitutionalityo of these
acts is question to be decided by the Federal Ju-
dietary upon proper case made, If their decision
should be adverse to the constitptionality Of the
Legislation, we will claim al the consequences which
viii legitimately result from such decision andit
viii not be unreasonable in this TO expect that
those who hold: opposite views will acquiesce in
the decision and accord to US all the rights to which
it may legally entitle us On the contrary, if the
constitutionality of the reconstruction measures
should be sustained by the supreme Federal Judi
ciary, as peaceable, law-abidng citizens, we will
yield submission to that decision, andcease all fur
ther opposition to those measures and in another
contingency, if the Supreme Court should refuse
to entertain jurisdiction of cases presented under
these acts, the only alternative left will be to yield
them obedience as laws obligatory and binding, or.
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