Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-06

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"CHARLOTTE, AND NOT CHESTER,' &C.
Day after day, in its several issues of last
week, the Charlotte Observer discharged its
broadsides, firing promiscuously, first at the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad and then at the
Yorkville ENQUIRER. The Observer is dog
matical and categorical, and, withal, quite
choleric and phlegmatc-a triae noisy, too,
and slightly bombastic, with abortive attempts
at wit.
Beginning at the beginning, and in order to
progress progressively, we will first note the
issue of Wednesday. In this, the Observer
takes the position that the Commissioners of
York are attempting to force the people of the
county to pay tax for the construction Of
the road, without their consent and against
their will. In proof of this position the Oh
server quotes sentence from Judge Mackey's
speech in Yorkville on the 9TH of April, and
the further fact that four meetings have been
held in the county, protesting against the ac-
tion of the Commissioners.
AS the Observer correctly charges, the
proprietor of the ENQUIRER was present at
the meeting and acted as secretary. We
heard the speech of Judge Mackey, and he
said more upon the subject of the manner of
making subscription than the Observer seems
disposed to quote from our published report.
Nor we're the utterances of Judge Mackey
mandatory upon either the Commissioners or
the people, as the Observer intimates. The
Judge would hardly be so "presumptuous." J"
His remark about the election, should one be
held, was in purely subjunctive sense; for
he had previously declared that "The County
Commissioners have the po,uer to subscribe to
this stock. In addition to an act Of the Assem-
bly,, in such case made and provided, the charter
of this company gives the County Commissioners
of each county, through sohich the road passes,
authorityto subscribe as much as they may think
proper" This was distinctly stated by the
speaker, and the fact that the charter contain
ed such provision was clearly announced.
The action of the meeting could not be predi'
Gated upon any supposed future course Of the
Commissioners, and the resolution offered by
Mr.. Thomson-whom we take to be friend of
heenterprise-coul not we'll have been in any
other shape. Without consulting the Com
missoners as to what they intended to do, the
resolution 50 read as to express the sentiment
of the meeting to be in favor of the road,
and asking for an opportunity to vote upon
the question ofsubscription. There was moth
ing else for the meeting to do.
As secretary of the meeting, when we wait
ed upon the Commissioners to give them
formal notice of the action taken, and they in
formed US that, as by the provision of the
charter they felt themselves authorized to
make a subscription without ordering an
election, we did not, in an editorial or any
other capacity, deem it incumbent upon our
self to protest against the action, supposing,
as we do yet believe, that they were acting
under authority granted them by the Gene
raj Assembly of the State. As we'll might
we have protested against unanimous vote
of the people, whose privilege to vote would
have been derived from the same source that
conferred the power upon the County Com
missioners. If we have failed to condemn
the action of the Commissioners, it is only
because we do not think they have usurped
authority, but have acted in accordance with
the power vested in them by the charter We
pursued precisely the same course that we
should have done, had the people of the
county voted unanimously for the subscrip-
ton. Upon the supposition that the Commits
sioners were fully authorized to make the
subscription, and in so doing were only COM
plying with the provisions of the charter, we
deemed the act as binding as if it had been
by vote of the people, granting that the
charter authorized such an election, which,
however, we do not admit. Had the subscrip-
tion been rejected by the Commissioners, we
should have had no more condemnation for
them in pursuing that course than we should
have had for the people, had they rejected
the subscription at the ballot-box. Either
act we place upon the same footing.
Abiding to the four meetings which have
protested against the action of the County
Commissioners, singularl enough the Observer
fails to inform its readers that three of the
meetings were held by people living immedi-
ately on and enjoying the advantages of rail-
road iues-Fort Mill and Rock Hill, on the
Charlotte Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
and Blacks Station on the Air-Linc-whle
the fourth, held at Coates Tavern, was by
those living contiguous to the former road,
and deriving from it the same advantages as
the people of Rock HILL But we deny that
these four meetings express the full sense and
feeling of the whole people of the county,
According to the last election returns there
are in the county 3772 voters. OF these,