Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-23

Inc DauOless .... r..E o..
The High Daddy that has been held in Janney 8
Hall for the past week, has been higher than usual.
The elections for u s. Senators have been rich,
beyond all precedent, in scenes Of the lowest and
most doggish character.
The short term was filled at the first ballot-T.
J. Robertson (scalawag) seemed to have had all
the ropes ready. His election was almost unani-
nous which arose probably from the fact that he
is so perfectly representative man-that he com:
bines in himself the elements of radicalism that
make the Daddies such gay and festive set Of
worthless ..
But the long term was prize for which there
was sweet contest. F. A. Sawyer IA Charleston
Yankee) won in the race and South Carolina may
be eternally grateful that she has thus escaped
that prince of scalawags-A. G. Mackey. ~ ..,
In this squabble the Democrats gave their votes
merely as compliment there was no hope Of
eecting either-for j. B. Campbell and B. F. Per-
ry but the grand battle for the senatorship was
among Sawyer, Mackey, and NJ. French. ..
Sawyer is Massachusetts, man who came to
Charleston dozen years ago to be principal Of the
Normal School and served acceptably in that CO.
pacity. He was received with much favor by the
people of that city and is said to be gentleman
and scholar He is radical, however, and that
tells all. 1t is just to add that he is conserva-
tive man. and perhaps the nearest man in the par
ty to the interests and feelings Of the white race.
He is the least bad of all his party.
Mackey is or should be, known as one Of the
most hateful men, to the white race, in our whole
State. In his public speeches he has violated all
the principles Of moderation, truth, and decency,
in his yituperative madness of hate towards the
white people of this State. There is probably not
a man in the South who has 80 cursed everything
respectable, decent, and noble among us; and
who has siezed with such avidity, upon the basest
passions of the lowest negroes, in his frantic efforts
after Office and money. H.. ,...... ,.., ,E.s-.
Mansfield French is preacher; was chaplain Of
q negro regiment in this State during the war !
and is carpetbagger Of the sanctimonious style.
Two years ago we heard this fellow French, speak
ing to negroes, tell them that while slaves they
might lie and steal, and indeed could not be blamed
for so doing; but now that they were free they
should feel above such things. This struck us as
rather liberal morality for reverend gentleman
to justify lying and stealing on the ground Of sla-
very, and to recommend truth and honesty as based
upon pride. The correspondent Of the Charleston
Me,cs very broadly intimates that French has been
buying votes with money in thissenatorial canvass.
giving the prices as varying from $50 to $500 EACH
We have no evidence in the case ourself; but from
our own personal observation we do know that this
fellow French carries about with him one of the
meanest faces that we ever saw. 10 call him dog
would be an insult to-the dog. .s.,...i tii,g
These three worthies-Sawyer (longo tateruaao
primus) Mackey and French, had good time in
the three days Of election. Sawyer used the ordi-
nary means of canvass-favors, promises, liquor,
cigars, and hand.shakings French kept close but
treated by proxy and where promises would not
do, is said to have given something more tangible,
He used prayer and tears and talked Of temper
ance Ito them drinking in his room), Of honesty,
Of truth, and of God (meaning money!. He
hobnobbed with the dirtiest negro in the legisla-
ture button-holed him; and smiled sanctimoni-
ously close in his face. He was, upon the whole,
sweet chip of sanctimoDy. But Mackey!-Nev-
er before have such stump harangues been heard.
His foul-mouthed abuse of Sawyer and French
has been stupendous-raile scurrility, curses,
SANDERS, back biting indecency, brutal malignity,
buster, and Billingsgate, poured from his vile lips
in vouble rapidity upon all occasions. In failing
to elect Mackey to the Senate, the Daddies have
saved South Carolina from the lowest depth Of
humiliation and shame They had the power to
inAct this last damning curse upon her, and have
not Feeling, no doubt, that in sending Robert
son they had done enough in the way Of humilia-
ton already, they shrank from the responsibility
Of putting upon us such another monster as Mack
ey. .... g.. 3.
Dieu n,erci! .....
These elections is all that the Daddies have done
in one week-it cost only $4,000 cheap as dirt
and forty times as nasty.