The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-07
TIE HAoKEY-sAnYER NAR.
THE LAST s Il @ T.
The Fx.CoIlector oommends tho Senator
to the Democrats as ga Dear Bargain. !"


to the Democrats as ga Dear Bargain" !"
Perhaps some OF the readers OF TIE NEWS
may have seen the long letter Of Senator Saw
yer, in reply to the public onslaught upon his
political record made at q Radi al meeting q
short time ago by DR.. A. G.. Mackey. The fol-
lowing rejolnder OF the ex Collector has been
seat to us for publication:
SENATOR F. A. SAWYER AS REPUBLICAN.
On my return to the city, after q brief visit
TO Columbia, found that Senator F. A. Saw
yer had, in communication published In the
Charleston Courier, attempted some sort OF
weak, diluted reply to the remarks which had
uttered on the subject OF his Repubhcanism in
nv speech of the 18th of July.
In that communication, extending to the
length of two columns and half. have look
ed in vain for any substantial defence against
the charges preferred by me. He makes no
denial Of my charge that ne came TO thus clt5,
originally, as a deyout 1mirer OF the old slave
power OF the South, aud that he was chosen
as q teacher by our commissioners, from
among bis Northern competitors, because such
was his character.
he saws nothing Of his former or his present
affiliations with the Democratic party He does
not discalm that his chief counsellor at THIS
| day ls leading Democrat OF thus city. Aud
| he takes especial care to be silent about my
illusions to his ''sbarp practice" in reference
| TO the bills Of the Bank of the State.
Instead OF this, which alone would havo been
relevant to tho subject OF discussion. ne In:
duIges in strain of personal invective and
scurrility, in which as "Carolna gentlemen
| "a term which he applies to me with sinister
maice,) l cannot attempt to compete with
| him, 1 presume that Massachusetts en-
| tlemau" would be as adverse as myself to the
uss Of such weapons, borrowed from The arm
ory Of Blllingsgste.
His only attempt. except by unsupported as
sertions, to place himself in the Republican
ranks, is by an appeal to the record OF how he
stood in the rebellion. This certsinly has
nothing to do with bis claim to hepubicanism
now. But apprehend that if he bad at the
time belonged to that party, he would have
been found, at the very commencement OF the
rebellion, rather in the army OF the republic,
fighting for the life OF the nation, than remain
ing amoug its enemies and picking up little
addition TO his income by indulging in the up.
the expense oi the revenues OF the Unlted
States. at the same time that he gave "aid and
comfort" TO the Confederacy. Knowing
| ss did how easily he could have
left the cit7 at that time. knowing that
| he and other Northern men had been invited
| Dy tQ6 auLQOrNtSo W u6phfI IIOA tuo Souio0C-
| racy, unless they were willing to become its
citizens, and knowing, toe, that he had no ties
of property or kindred to bind him to the
State, not only but some others who saw his
stslwart form and soIdierly bearing at the
Union Club, often thought that he was the
right man in the wrong place. II every son OF
! Massachusetts, had been inspired with the FEEL
ing of loyalty that actuateo the course OF Mr.;
Sawyer, that noble old State would have bad
no such glorious record as that which history
now gives OF Its part in crushing the rebellion.
shall make no reply to MIR. Sawyers de-
fence Of .Mr. Clark. II Mr.. Clark ls competent
to discharge the duties Of collector OF GUS
toms, he must certainly be able to defend him:
self; when he does 80 (f he ever does.) it will
be time enough for me 10 pay my compliments
to him. should like to hear him deny, in his
own person, the charge, that he sought the
nomination of the Democratic Iarty for the
Mayoralty. Neither shall be diverted by the
scurrihties OF Senator Sawyer into contest OF
personal inyectives. Nv quarrel is o political
one. seek to save the Republican party from
the results OF his political treachers. In that
quarrel, and in that quarrel alone, will light
until the battl. is lost or won.
10 but single sentence OF this TRADE OF
abuse will make any reply. Dir. Sawyer in
sinuates that I belong TO little knot OF
Sonthern-b born men who recently proposed to
each other to ignore and put down men not OF
Southern BIRTH"
Iauspect that Mr.. Sawyer has here drawn
upon his imagination or his invention. l
know Of no such "knot Of Southern born
men," and have heard OF no such proposition.
As far as am concerned, 1t is SIMPLY absurd.
The principle which has governed my entire
liie-a principle which did much to keep me
from the lieresy OF State SOW relgnty and the
SIN of secesslon-is that 10 this united land
recognize "no North, no South, no East, no
West" Every man. wherever born within our
vast do main. is citizen Of one great empire,
entitled everywhere to equal privileges.
My warmest and truest friends at this day
in the Republican party are men OF Northern
or Western birth. To me, all homes. Republic
cans are the same, no matter from what State
they may come. do not denounce MIR. Saw
yer because Massachus stts gave him birth, but
because the political course he is here pursu-
ing, il pursued ut Boston, would meet with the
same Just retrlbution that South Carolins will
yet award to him.
Ny MAN charge against Mr.. Sawyer is that
he is seeking to establish Conservative party
in South Carolina, on the ruins OF the Republic
can, by a sale to the Democrats, it they will
purchase him.
Tho only comprehensive reply to this charge
that he makes is contained 10 the following
paragraph OF his communication, Of which, as
On explicit recognition OF the truth Of my alle-
gatious, give hin the benefit Of republica
ton. with his own italics.
1T Is quite time for some Republicans to
take notice that the people Of South Carolina
will give their voices Tor respectable and upright
men, who may not be Republicans, rather than
for dishonest and disreputdbie men ,Dhose
soundness on the party issues m ~ be neuer so
sure. The day when partisan soundness would
Offset and outweigh the want Of all other requi-
sites for preferment has happily gone by, or is
now toward its close. II this be Cons arvatism,
let Or. Mackey mud his friends make the most
Of it."
This is Senator Sawyer's first open bid ten
dered to the Democratic party. II will not, l
presume, be accepted, because it is accompa-
MED with somo sort OF weak qualification,
which, although it means nothing, the Demo-
Gratis will require to be stricken from the
bond.
But Mr.. Sawyer hos been too keen q specu-
lator in blockade stock and in deprecated bank
bills to be driven from the market by 6rstre.
fusal. HIS next bid will be without the quail
dcation.
Lot me say to the gentlemen Of the Dsmo.
cratic party, that if they should buy the sena-
tor at ever 30 low price, they will be making
dear bargain. A. G. MAcKEY.
DISMISSAL OF THE Quo WARRANro.-In the
case Of the State ex rel. Attorney General, vs.
T. J. Mackey-Quo Harranto; same vs.. D..
Barrow-Pressley, Lord & Inelesby for rela-
tors; Same vs. ]. F. Greene-C. c. Bowen. r.
3. Tharin, for respondents, Barrow and Mack