Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
EDITORIAL INKLINGs.
The Blue Ridge Swindle.

scrip case. The decision is very lengthy, and
entirely satisfactory to the plaintiffs. The act
of assembly under which the scrip was issued
is pronounced null and void, as contravening
the clause of the Constitution of the United
States prohibiting the States from issuing bills
of credit; and the injunction heretofore grant
ed against the receipt of the scrip for taxes
and the issuing of it is sustained, and remains
of full force. The amount saved the State is
something over two million dollars. The
opinion of Judge Willard concludes as fol-
lows: "Considering the act in its entire as.
pect, as we'll as its integral parts, it is clear
that the Legislature intended that the scrip
should circulate as money, and that for this
reason the provisions of the act authorizing
the issue of scrip are in conflict with the pro-
hibitions of the Constitution of the United
seates as to the emission bills Of credit by
States. The act being unconstitutional, it is
void. So far as it contemplates the issue of
revenue bond scrip it is unimportant, there
fore, to inquire whether the scrip that was
actually issued was conformable to, and au-
thorized by, the act. The injunction hereto.
fore issued must be continued until the final
hearing and determination of the action"
Bankrupt Exemptions in Virginia.
BY recent decision of Judge Rives of
the u. S. District Court for the Western Dis
trict of Virginia, bankrupts who took the ben
e6ts of the act previous to the recent amend
ment of June 8, 1872, are entitled to the ex-
emptions allowed by said amendment, which
incorporated the Virginia homestead as an
integral part said act. Stripped verbiage,
Judge Rives' decree in the case before him is
as follows:
This cause on this day to be heard on the
petition of said bankrupt, to have further ex'
emption made him under the act of June 8,
1872, and was argued by counsel. On consid-
GRAFTON whereof, the court being Of opinion
that the increased exemption made by said
act is made by the express terms of the four
teenth section of the bankrupt act of March
2, 1867, "to operate as Limitation upon the
conveyance of the property of the bankrupt
to his assignees," doth adjudge, order, and de-
cree that Notwithstanding the said act of Con-
gress is subsequent to the adjudications in
bankruptcy in this case, the petitioner, so
long as the assets or effects are undistr1buted,
or the proceeds thereof under the control Of
the court, is entitled to the benefit of this add.
tional exemption, and should be now allowed
the same, which is ordered accordingly.
Secretary BOutweIl at Greensboro.
- Boutwell's recent speech at Greensboro,
N. c., which was not an extemporaneous
effort, but deliberately read by the speaker
from printed copy, Gt having been put in
type for the N. Y. Times before the Secretary
left his post in Washington,) although deliv.
cred before concourse of not exceeding two
hundred persons, .one-half of whom were
negroes, is attracting considerable attention
at the North, and provoking comments not
at all Aattering to the distinguished speaker.
That portion of the speech most severely
criticised, and which, indeed, is truly repre-
hensible, is contained in the following extract.
Said Mr.. Boutwell,: ..;.
"We are advised to clasp hands across the
bloody chasm made by the war. l protest
against this advice. Clasp hands across the
bloody chasm is the old and dangerous advice
of the Democratic party. Instead of Destroy
ing the causes of differences between US, they
attempt to conceal them. Instead Of remov-
ing general evils which are the fruitful sources
of public calamities, they shut their eyes to
the evil and deny the danger. This is the
old criminal conservatism of the Democratic
party, and it is none the less criminal now
that it is uttered in behalf Of that party by a
new voice."
This is an effort to excite the worst passions
of an ignorant and violent people; to array
race against race, and to persuade the negroes
that the white Democrats of the South are
their mortal enemies. Mr.. Boutwell, would
'fll up the chasm" clasp hands over it.
If we may judge by his language, he would
open afresh the wounds made by the war, at
time when the country is at peace, and
thwart the efforts of the best men of both
sections in their labors Of efecting perman-
ent and lasting reconciliation.
Commenting upon this speech Of the Radi-
cal Secretary of the United States Treasury,
the New York Herald assumes that President
Grant can have no sympathy with the policy
advocated by him. 1t reviews Grants re-
cord, and points to it as an evidence that the