Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-15
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

of WoHord College on the 23rd Of June.
Latest from the Lava Beds.
- On the 7th instant, according to latest
advices, the Modocs captured quartermas-
ter's train of three wagons, eleven mules and
three horses. Three soldiers were wounded.
1t is thought that Capt. Jack has evacuated
the Lava Beds. All the available horses will
be employed by the troops in hunting the
Modocs. A guerilla system of warfare will
be inaugurated, which will doubtless last all
the summer.
Stephens on Grant.
- Alex. H. Stephens, member of Congress
elect gives evidence of the good showing he
intends for President Grant by complaining
that the press discusses the man and not his
policy; but in President, who by virtue Of
his office is coordinate branch of the Gov
ernment, it is not easy to separate the man
from his policy. In reply it is we'll said Gen.
Grant was not under any legal obligation to
install the Kellogg government in Louisiana,
andyet he did this ; nor was he legally bouud
to proclaim martial law in South Carolina, and
yet he proclaimed it. We see him to-day
lending Federal troops to the Kellogg usur.
patton in Louisiana, to oppress and subjugate
white men there, in arms to defend their fam
lilies and their property, against bands Of in
surrectionary negroes. So of the Presidents
Civil Service policy. There can be no escape
from the conclusion that the President is re-
sponsible for the character of his appointments,
nor any doubt that what he promised-with
ample power to make good his pledges-he
has failed to perform. The President is q
man of strong will, and in matters relating to
himself he knows how to have his own way.
Death Of Chief Justice Chase.
- This distinguished man, who has been
in public life for many years died in Wash
ington City on Tuesday evening of last week.
The immediate cause of his death was stroke
of paralysis which attacked him early the
day before; about a year ago, however, he
had several strokes, from the effects of which
he. yer recovered. His age was sixty.6ve-
having been born in Cornish, New Hamp-
shire, January, 1908. At an early age he re.
moved to Ohio, but afterwards returned to
the Granite State, and graduated in Dart
mouth College, in 1926. He shortly after.
wards took up his abode in Washington City,
where he practiced law; but afterwards re-
turned to Ohio, his adopted State, where he
has since resided. he was elected to the
United States Senate in 1S49, and at the close
ofthe term filed the Ohio gubernatorial chair
for two terms. He was made Secretary of
the Treasury, upon Mr.. Lincoln's election to
the Presidency-a position which, it is said,
he filled with great ability. On the death Of
Chief Justice Taney, in 1854, he was nomina-
ted to the highest judicial Office Of the coun-
try, as Chief Justice of the United States, by
President Lincoln. This office he filed with
great dignity, learning and fidelity until his
death.
Brigham Young on the Modoc War.
- Brigham Young has been recently in.
terviewed on the subject of the Modoc war,
and he freely gave his views of the Indian
question. He said that in 1S47 he settled in
Utah with one hundred and forty souls, and
for thousands of miles around them the land
was infested with hostile Indians. He gained
their friendship by acting honorably with
them and never STOPPING to deception. When
he made promise he kept it. He had no
doubt that the hostility of the Indians had
been augmented by the robberies committed
by unscrupulous agents Of the Government;
that they had lost all faith in the honor and
integrity of the Government officers, and that
the Modocs did to the commissioners just
what they thought was being endeavored to
be done to them. He thought that peace
should be made at any cost, or the entire
West would be embroiled in general Indian
war. When the correspondent asked Mr..
Young whether he endorsed President Grants
Indian policy, he replied: II endorse the
policy so far as it corrects abuses and tends
to lasting peace and to the civilization of
the Indians" He also said that the Indian
war would destroy all commerce and immi-
grafton between Missouri and the Pacific coast,
and retard the settlement of the country for
twenty years, which would in itself be great
calamity.
Scientific Plans for Conquering the Modocs.
1t is amusing to read the different modes
for conducting military campaign and push.
ing war to successful termination, as recon-
mended and strongly urged by men who have
never received military training, and who,
while they are lavish with their gratuitous ad.
vice, take particular pains never to put it in
practice themselves. A correspondent of the
New York World suggests that if line or
series of calcium lights were drawn around
the Modoc campit would help to the extermi-
nation of its occupants. 1t would, he thinks,
prevent their escape by night, and forbid
them from stealing out of their camp for wa.
ter. 1t is also suggested that company of
men in bullet-proof armor could track them
to their lairs and exterminate them.
This latter suggestion seems not without
weight. Bullet.proofarmor is made in France,
and though adapted to only few of the emer-
gencies of modern warfare, the Modoc cam
paign is precisely one which it is adapted to.
If the Indians had artillery the armor would
Of course be useless; but their most powerful
are rifles, and the balls of the most
powerful of them Aatten hsrmlessly upon these
habergeons of cork, chain-mail,
and gutta.percha. Edmond About relates
that one of the African kings of the Gold coast !