Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-17


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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The Presidents message, which we publish
entire this week, is calm, cautious and with
al conservative document, evidently conceived
with the view of pleasing the captious aims of
none of the party leaders, and we'll calculated
to commend itself to the majority of the Amer
lean people. The financial question first oc-
cupies his attention, and he urges upon Con-
gress the duty and necessity of placing the
currency of the country upon basis common
to and recognized by the civilized world. In
this portion of his message the Presidents
views are sound, and will be generally ap-
proved. He advocates the repeal of the legal
tender clause to take effect as to all contracts
entered into after the day fixed in the repeal
ing act; a revenue sufficiently in excess of ex-
penditure to insure an accumulation of gold
in the treasury to sustain resumption; and
lastly, system of free banking as essential to
give proper elasticity to the currency.
His reference to affairs in the South is in
more conciliatory terms than might have been
expected from his political surroundings.
While he deprecates the necessity for any exc
cutive interference in the local affairs Of the
Southern States, he justi6es his recent action
in Louisiana by reference to the failure Of Con-
gressat the last session to act upon the recon-
mendations Of his former messages. AS to
the generality of Southern outrages he explic-
lily states that the truth is to be looked for
between the statements of two extreme parties
to the transactions, which fact will be conce-
ded by all. He admits that the Southern
peoplehave suffered grievous wrongs,and that
the better part of them have a disposition to be
law-abiding and to do no violence either to in
dividuals or to existing laws and further, that
he sympathizes with their PROSTATE condition,
and would do all in his power to relieve them,
acknowledging that they have had most trying
governments to live under, and very oppress-
i've ones in the way of taxation. In this view
of the case, all acquainted with the facts will
most heartily concur, while it must be graft
flying to know that light upon this subject has
at length broken upon the presidential mind.
EDUCATION.
In the inaugural address of Gov. Cham
berain, whilst he advocates retrenchment in
various particulars, he insists that no reduc-
ton ofpublic expenditures be made by reduc'
ing the appropriations for educational pur-
poses There is no question about the general
principle. Money appropriated by govern
ment for the education Of the children and
youth, is a frst.class investment. The great
defect with large portion of South Carolina,
and in fact of all the Southern States, is that
they are ignorant and care nothing for educa-
ton, and have no just appreciation of the
value of education. The heaviest load South
Carolina has to carry, is the load of crime
which the ignorance of her citizens heap upon
her. A very large number of the people of
the State do not care one cent whether they
are regarded as honest or dishonest. They
dread punishment for crime, only because of
the smart it causes their bodies. They never
think of the disgrace of being sent to the pen
itentiary. In fact, the word disgrace means
nothing with them. Turned out Of the peni'
Tertiary, they feel like, and act like hog
turned out of pen. They see no reason why
they should hold down their heads. Now,
the proper and the cheapest way to remedy
this state of things, is to educate the children
and youth of the country.
In the carrying out of the common school
system of South Carolina, grave blunder has
been made. The blind have been made lead
ers of the blind, !, and both are now in the ditch.
There are men teaching school in the State
that are totally unfit. They have no educa.
ton, and worse than that, they have no moral
character This is especially the case with
regard to the colored schools. Unless a
change takes place with respect to the charac-
ter and capabilities of the teachers of the col.
ored schools, this class of our citizens are
doomed to hopeless ignorance. The revenue
of the State would not avail anything, were it
all appropriated for educational purposes, SO
long as the schools are taught by such indi-
viduals as the majority of those who are now
in charge of them. In no other respect have
the colored people been so humbugged and
bamboozled as with regard to the manage
ment Of the common school system Of the
State.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 9th, bill was intro