Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-22
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Br0wnlOw and the Canvass.

- Senator Brownlow has withdrawn from
the contest for Congress in the ID Congression-
al district Of Tennessee, upon the score that
his time is too valuable to be occupied in run
ming for Congress with view of dividing
the Republican party $50 as to elect Demo
crat, who would have no influence when he
got to Washington" The Senator also says
81 shall continue to fight the abominable
civil rights bill, and all such sectional, class
legislation, but I will do it inside of the Re-
publican party. The platform of the Repub-
lican State Convention is sound on civil rights,
and on this platform the Republican candi.
dates, from Maynard down, will, as they de-
serve, carry this district by several thousand
majority. This is my prediction, and I put
it in opposition to that of the small politicians
who believe otherwise, and who really know
nothing of the district"
The Death Of Gen. Morgan.
Don Piatt, of the Washington Capital,
has recently written lengthy account of
what purports to be history of Morgan's es-
cape from the Ohio penitentiary, and how, on
his reaching the Kentucky shore, at the house
of a Mrs. Ludlow, where he stopped the next
morning after his escape, that woman betray-
ed his presence to the enemy, and he was
ruthlessy shot. Mr.. Piatt is quite ignorant
of the subject on which he wrote his sketch.
Morgan, after his escape, passed through Ken
lucky, Tennessee, portion of Gergia, thence
from Anderson in this State by railroad to
Danville, Virginia, w.lere he was met by his
wife, and after a few days rest Immediately
Joined his command, several months after
which date, he was killed in skirmish near
the house of Mrs. Williams in Tennessee.
Mrs. Williams was stauach friend of the
Confederacy, and all familiar with the facts
scout the idea of her betrayal of Morgan,
though such aspersions we're at one time made.
Morgan was simply surprised, and for one
time his resources failed him, and he fell in
open conflict with a detachment of regular
United States troops.
Gen. Longstreet Defines.
-- The following extract from speech
on the situation in Louisiana, recently made
by Gen. Longstreet, explains his position on
public affairs:
81 suppose l am pretty cordially hated by
a certain proscriptive class of Southerners,
but that cannot be helped. Men can't all
think alike, and the trouble with the South
ern people always has been that they won't
tolerate any difference of opinion. If God
Almighty had intended all men to think just
alike, He might as we'll have made but one
man. I have decided and acted as thought
duty required, and other men are at liberty
to do the same. My opinion is that the only
true solution for Southern troubles is for the
people to accept cordially and in good faith
all the results Of the war, including the re-
construction measures, the acts of Congress,
negro suffrage, &C., and live up to them like
men. If they would do this, and encourage
Northern immigration, and treat ali men
fairly, whites and blacks, the trnr''es would
soon be over, and in less thaa live years the
South would be in the enjoyment Of greater
prosperity than ever before"
Chester Republican Convention.
- The Chester Reporter contains a ieng-
thy account of the Republican county con-
vention held in that town on Monday and
Tuesday of last week. Judge Mackey presi-
ded as Chairman, but so far from being able
to preserve order and decorum, he was fire.
quently interrupted, at one time being charged
by John Lee with being "the d-dest thief
of all, who stole five thousand dollars from
the State," which the member said he could
prove; and at the meeting on the following
day, the Chairman even came to the point Of
approaching one OF the membsrs-Purvis AL
exander-and with pistol partly drawn, de-
c1ared his determination to be allowed to
speak in the convention, to shoot or be shot,
and take the consequences, if necessary, on
the scaffold. This demonstration on the part