Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-10

ulStruSt tnree OF the DeSC lTleHuS you have efch
had. Those friends are Horace Greeley, Charles
Sumner, and Cassius M. Clay. These men have
done moreto abolish slavery than all the rest of
the radical party. Thesemen ask you not to band
yourselves together, as race, against the white
people. But you turn your backs upon these
men in consequence ofthe poison which has been
insilled into your 1t is time for you to think
ofthis. How much better off are you now than
you were whenyou were first set free? And how
much better offs the white man now than he was
then? Both are crushed with the taxation, and
you will be kept poor all your days unless you
have better government The landowners are
but the agents and overseers over you for the BEN
eft of this government at Columbia. You may
work day and night, but the surplus that is made
goes or,taxes, and is embeZZled and stolen by the
government. Ifthere is manly spirit in you unite
viii ia, and let give long pull, strong pull,
and phi! altogether, and see what we can do to
restore an honest government.
A reform movement has been initiated by the
Liberal Repubcans-the honest Republicans OF
such a President as General Grant, and nomina-
ted Horace Greeley as their standard-bearer.
They charge Grant with attempting to centralize
all power in the general government; with sub
verting the rights of the State; with acting in de-
fiance of the civil laws and the constitution; with
attempting to govern the country in military fash
ion; with lobbying measures through Congress.
He especially attempted to bribe Senator Schurz
in the San Domingo matter-an attempt which, If
it had been successful, would have been death
blow to your race there. He sent& messenger to
Carl Schurz and told him he would give him all
the patronage and offices he wished If he would
support the scheme But Schurz said mo" to the
proposition. What would our ancestors have
thought of Jefferson or Madison or Jackson had
they sent such message to Senator? Notwith-
standing their great services, the whole country
would have cried them down and damned them.
This reform movement at the North comes from
the Republican party. saw the other day a list
and it was like the list of army-Ofthe Generals
who were supporting Horace Greeley in prefer
to
grossest nepotism not only in reference to his own
family, but also with the kindred of his wife.
Good men asked him to remove his brother-ln-
law Casey, but he was not removed. Grant is sur
rounded by corrupt men. Bowen, the Post Me-
ter at Washington, who stands high in the Radi-
cal party, and who was the friend OF Grant, says
that Granthas defrauded him of S20,O0O-that he
has none of the instincts of a gentleman, and Is
most at home in drinking whisky and talking
horse.
Grant was elected President on his military rep
utation. If am not greatly mistaken, history
will make that reputation small. defy any one
to point to battle in which he was engaged in
which he did not have an overwhelming superior
ity in numbers to the Confederates. He lost one
hundred and fifty thousand men in conquering
Lee who never had more than fifty thousand.
General Grant graduated at West Point and grad
uated low. He then went into the army, but soon
contracted bad habits, and when about to be cash
Tered for drunkenness and unoff1cerlike conduct,
resigned. He then went and stayed with his faith
erin law, Dent, until the war broke out in Mis-
souri,. At that time he was negotiating with the
rebels to take command of some of their troops,
but receiving commission as Colonel in the Fed
eral army, abandoned the negotiation. He was
Democrat before the war and voted for Buchanan.
When he went into the army he said, II draw my
sword in defense of the Union but not to free the
negroes. If this war is for the purpose of abol-
ishing slavery, will sheath my sword and 60
back to my farm" But for thirty years Greeley
has labored for your freedom, and has always been
Rnt tbasa carnet baooers who are unwilling to
do anything for you, try to prejudice you against
those who are your friends. A gentleman told
me few days ago, that hewas on the railroad and
a black man was trying to borrow money 70 pay
his passage. He went to Carpenter the editor Of
the Union, who is always anxious to get the black
man 8 vote; but Carpenter Wouldn't let him have
the money, which, however, he did get from
poor Democrat of Laurens. -....
with that of Greeley. Horace Greeley was born
in poverty AS poor boy he worked on farm
in New England. He then went as workman
into printing office, and worked his way up un-
til now he stands one of the first journalists OF the
world. No journal in the land has higher char
acter than that which he controlled. The speeches
which he has lately made in his western trip show
| that he can speak as we'll as write. l am amazed
those speeches. Gratz Brown says that Greeley
has grand head. Iagree with him; but say, TOO,
that Greeley has big heart.one always ready at
the call of charity. When the Federal cavalry,
up-country, they took away two horses from
| poor Baptist preacher named Gwinn. Mr.. Gwlnn
| wrote to Mr.. Greeley an account OF the way IN
which he had been treated, and although Mr.. Gree
lev certainly has no cause to be partial to South
| Carolinans, he sat down and sent Mr.. Gwlnn
| check for 5000 In former times we South Caro-
linians veabused Mr.. Greeley roundy. Judge
Orr said to me the other day, "HoW can you sup
| for thirty years?" I told the Judge II would
support a man whom I had fought for thirty years
onissues now dead, rather than one had been
fighting four years on live issues. zee! ike tDe
Democrat in Alabama who was asked by big
Radical how he could support Horace Greeley
who had done 80 much to set all the negroes Tree:
| The Democrat said, that "Horace was such agood
| hand at freeing folks, he wanted to see him cleo
| ted so that he could set the White people 1reeE
But my friends, the Republican party were not
willing for the white people to befree Until late
ly I, an old Union man, was DISTINGUISHED; and II
| l had been elected to the Legislature as some OF
! my friends wished, would have been unaple 10
take my seat. was opposed to secession felt
that it was imprudent and told my friends that Sc
cession was the death-knell ofslavery. But when
| the State did secede went heart and hand for my
| country. And after the war, as cou!dnt Jake
| the oath of office, was disfranchised But when
| the Republican party saw the monster meeting in
Cincinnati in favor of amnesty and reform, they
! said we must checkmate this movement. They,
therefore, repealed this disability law except as 70
few hundreds of persons but they never would
have done had it not been for the Cincinnati Con-
| vention,
! But what was Horace Greeleys record on this
question of amnesty? The next morning after
the surrender at Appomatox he came out IN his
paper in favor of Cancellation. He asked that the
conquerors be magnanimous and that such mea-
sures be adopted as would make US all brothers
again. But for seven years General Grant ana ms
party have opposed him. They haye appealed TO
the prejudces of the North; they have spoken
about danger of rebels being in power and sur
rendering the Government into the hands rebels.
Their object was to fire the Northern mind, and
keep the North and South from coming together.
The Democratic party at the North are our friends
and have had to encounter much prejudice. was
in the Convention at Philadelphia in 1867, and
when grasped the hands OF Democrats there,
felt they We're my friends. They told us how
much they had endured for the sake Of that friend
ship. But they were jeered at and scorned by the
Republicans, and called sympathisers with rebels.
The Democrats replied that they had fought in the
war, and now the war was ended they wanted
harmony, and wanted us back in the Union on
equal terms with themselves. ! told President
Johnson that as South Carolina had first left the
Union, it would be matter Of pride for me that
was was delighted and m SO was Mr. Seward. The mag
unanimous treatment of our State proposed py MI.
Johnson was at first hardly believed by many in
our State. But Congress put an end TO u. IL dc,
tcrmined on Reconstruction" The whites and
blacks were getting on too amicably. About this
time there was meeting in Columbia at which
both General Hampton and Beverly Nash spoke,
highly complimenting each other. The RADICALS
were alarmed They saw that if the whites and
blacks became friends, the South would be strong
er than ever. Congress passed the reconstruction
laws and the South was flooded by horde OF car
pct-baggers. These carpet-baggers wereall poor
some not even able to pay their passage on the
cars. Many ofthem were men of no character:
They told the negroes ifthey voted with the whites
tutcd Union Leagues and swore their disciples to
vote for the Radical nominee. These Union
Leagues have been broken up and the United
brotherhood substituted, the object of which, as