Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-12-12

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political party to win, by them the people OF
the State must always lose.
I, therefore, appeal to the men of my own
race, in South Carolina, in the common inter-
est of her whole people, to place themselves
abreast with the advancing civilization Of the
age, and cultivate nobler spirit of liberation,
worthy of the ancient renown Of the State.
Garner up-if you choose-all that you may
Justly deem honorable in the mouldering ira
ditions of our people, and walk with reveren-
tial tread near the graves of the brave and
devoted men who, however mistaken they may
have been, died willingly in defence Of what
they believed to be right. But deal more
justly and kindly with our dark foster-broth-
ers of the State They are your fellow-citi-
zens, by the constitution and laws of our COM
mon country, and your destiny is bound up
with theirs-for good or evil-in all coming
time. Rise above that spirit of sectionalism
which has so long been the dark stain on the
escutcheon of our most distinguished States
men, and which marred the noble character
and narrowed the intellectual range Of the
great Virginia senator, of whom Whittier, the
great "Poet of Liberty" has said, with kindly
severity:
''Too honestor too proud to feign,
A love he never cherished,
Beyond Virginias border line
His patriotism perished,
While others hailed in distant skies
Our eagles dusky pinion,
He only saw our mountains bird
Stoop O. 'er the Old Dominion"
Let the American citizen feel that wherever
may have been the place Of his birth, when
he enters within our boundaries he will find
with us safe home and hospitable welcome.
Thus will our brethren from the great States
of the North be encouraged to dwell among
u.s. The men whose skilled industry and ex-
haustless energies have builded mighty cities
in the remote wilderness will level our forests
and replace them with blooming harvest fields
and cover the spots now marked by the sad
ruins of disastrous war with the enduring
monuments of their peaceful and civilizing
arts The magnificent and unfailing water
power of our State, which is now running to
waste, will then be rapidly utilized, to put in
motion thousands of busy spindles and looms,
in full view of the fields that are whitened by
the plant that supplies the material for the
fabric they weave. The hardy yeomanry of
Europe-who seek abroad the liberty and
prosperity denied them at home-will also be
wooed to our shores, and will swell the volume
of our industrial wealth.
1 would also appeal to those people of the
State, who were formerly the ruling class, to
cultivate and cherish loyal and devoted sen.
timent to the great Government of which we
form a part, and to revere and worship the
flag whichit represents-a Government whose
mighty arm is ready to be uplifted in your
defense, at home and abroad, on land and on
sea-a flag which you can no longer call the
ensign of power hostile to you. The illus
trious soldier who is now the Chief Magistrate
of our great Republic, and whose magnanim-
ity in peace should make the brave men who
opposed him feel that he deserved to triumph
in war, desires to see all citizens of our State
dwell together in harmony-in obedience to
just laws of their own enactment-and he
stands prepared to foster by generous encour-
agement loyal sentiment of devotion to our
country, wherever it may make itself mani.
fest.
To those ofmy fellow-citizens with whom
am affiliated in political sentiment, and who
were pleased to designate me as the candidate
of their choice and to accord me their SUIT
frages in the recent election, | desire to say
that in all matter of public policy, so far as
any effort of mine may avail, | will regard
the platform which was framed by the repre-
sentative body that placed me in nomination
as an authoritative exposition of my official
duty, which demands, and shall ever receive,
my highest respect.
shall avail myself of the earliest oppor-
tunity to communicate with you as to the re-
forms and amendments in our system Of State
which I think are contemplated by the spirit
and intention Of this platform, by which |
hope we will be governed.
To those who deemed it proper to assail me
during the canvass with unparalleled ascerbi-
ty, would say, in kindly spirit, that the oblo-
guy of their assaults has been met and an
swered at the ballot box, and do not desire
to revive the recollection of their defeat, save
by proving in my public conduct that their
reproaches were undeserved.
trust that it will not be deemed inappro-
pirate for me to refer, on an occasion like the
present, to an event which, following rapidly
the official announcement Of the election OF
the Republican candidates in the State and
Nation, has thrown a cloud upon even that
splendid triumph. I allude to the death Of
Horace Greeley, which occurred on the even
ing of the 29th ultimo, and which may be
considered as national calamity.
History is but the record of the lives and
deeds of the few men who have been either
the benefactors or the scourges of their race.
This man was in his sphere illustrious above
all his compeers in the service rendered by
him to the cause of human rights, during the
past quarter of century. Standing at the
head of a great journal, whose pages were
disseminated as widely as the English Ian
guage itself, he did more than any Of his CO.
tenn poraries to mould the opinions of the rep
resentative men of his generation, and to es
tablish and vindicate the bene6cent system of
free government now incorporated into the
organic law of this nation.
Springing from the toiling millions of the
people, he never forgot his origin, but was al.
ways, amid his well deserved wealth and emf.
nence, the out-spoken champion of the poor
and oppressed, and of the rights of labor. No
man was more uncharitable in speech than he,
and never was man more charitable in deed
Possessed of hardy and rugged honesty
which the breath of slander dared not assail
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