Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-02-26

government was in duty bound to sustain law.
For one he WAS not in favor Of violating any
of the laws of the land.
OF the address to the people of the State,
he said, all the people already knew the
grievances lahored under, and it was. in his
mind, useless to make any such address.
Sympathy did nothing; it would not do away
with negro majnrites. He did not believe
the Northern people would feel any sympathy
with this movement. He had been among
them and believed from what he SAW that
many of them were glad that the South Car.
Gilman WAS humbled. A lady at Saratoga
had told him that she was glad they were
humbled. The State had been run over, but
the spirit Of the people and their manhood,
he told her, were not trampled down.
As to the arraignmeut of theving officials,
he did not know rs that was practical. The
only thing-the cure for all this, in his mind
was to obtain white majorities at the ballot
box. Suppose the chief thief in South Caro-;
lima was Indicted, what kind ofjudges and
iuries will he 20 before? We all know, he
said. The judge might wink the negro Juror
would never find an indictment. The Exec
utive clemency would be extended immedi
ately. Treasurer Aliens case was referred
to. Never, said he, could any scheme work
until, by immigration, white majority was
established. The whole remedy was ut the
ballot box. 1t is question Of race, not OF
politics. God Almighty had created the
black man, the white man, the yellow man
and the red man. 1t was planted in the
bosom of the Caucasian to be the dominant
race, and with them the whole matter lay.
He held that the great Grange movement
North and West, could not effect any good in
South Carolina; it might do good in Virgin
ia, where there was white majority, but
never here. In this State is all the form OF
Republican government, but entirely ridden
over by corruption. The black men are uni
ted against the white men the white men
are not united against them. 1t is, therefore,
certain fight Of race.
He was not willing to be knocking at the
door of the White House for political or other
favors. He conceded that Grant was great
soldier, but had tarnished his good name for
ever by his subsequent course; that to cover
up some of his bad deeds, he had sacrificed
his own wife, He arraigned Congress upon
the Credit Moblier especially, and said that
the members should stink worse in the nostrils
of the world than the negro in this State. He
sarcastically belabored Congressman Butler,
and after a general castigation Of members,
said it would be hopeless to ask any of them
for aid, as they we're chief thieves themselves
He believed it was the growing spirit of South
Carolinians to offer the most superior attrac'
tions to the immigrant. He believed the
State of South Carolina was the best in the
Union had the best soil, climate and people
no other State, as to its statesmen, its CONNER
cial reputation, ETC., surpassed her. 1t was
useless to despair A country that had been
so blessed by nature could never become the
home of the proAigate. Her material devel.
opment compared favorably with any other
State. To sustain this, he called attention to
the pecuniary progress that had been made.
He believed the emancipation of the slaves
was blessing in Disguise There had been
too much money invested in perishable prop
erty. In twenty or twenty-five years South
Carolinians will be richer than they ever were.
The constant whining about distress was not
the way to build up the State. People must
set. themselves to work in earnest. The con-
struction Of recent Southern railroads was ev.
idenced, u. an instance of the great prosperity
that had repaid true labor. Concert and uni
ty of action was recommended in everything.
The Germans were naturally honest, and they
should be welcomed. The majority of negroes
could never be overcome by trying to settle
party differences; he knows he is black and
you are white. The white mans natural
sympathes 60 with his race it is the instinct
of race that God has placed in the breast of
every Caucasian. Hehad no unkind feelings
toward the negro, and remembered kindly,
the many faithful acts they had performed
they had been misled by the adventures Of
the North, and the low scum Of natives. They
are entitled to remain here, but not as the
dominant race; that race was the Caucasian,
and to the accomplishment of this, every white
man should work, and action should be united.
Never 60 back upon the record Of South
Carolina gentleman. 1t is virtue so strongly
planted in the heart of every man that it can.
not be purchased.
Mr.. Chatfeld, of Aiken, said every good
general concentrated his forces when he un-
dertook to reduce strong fortress. He be-
lieved the convention was undertaking to do
too much. Every other sui bject but that of a
reckless expenditure Of the States treasure
should be excluded. Many of them were i'm
portant, and deserving of consideration, but
every endeavor should now be placed upon the
subject of taxation. 1t was not so much the
amount that people pay as it was the use that
was made of the money. The subject of tax
alton everywhere was a perplexing one, but
here in this State there was no return for the
expenditure. When he looked over the meet
ing and saw the intelligence of its members,
he was convinced that it was a power that
would be felt throughout the length and
breadth of the State. No one, however, would
counsel resistance to the payment of taxes
As to the labor question, he would ask
that gentlemen would not deceive themselves.
He said the class of immigrants that was
needed was that class who could buy lands.
1t was vain hope for gentlemen to think to
change the form of government by bringing
white laborers into the country. If class is
brought here who will have to be fed, the
State will be worse off than before He be-
lieved that there was an element Of labor
here that was more adapted to the country
than any other that could be found for the
next twenty-five years. Labor is reliable
when it is made the object for the laborer to
work for you. So far as his experience went,
which had been large, it made no difference
whether that labor was white or black. He
had one hundred black laborers working for
him, and he would not exchange them for any
white labor. He had taken them North and
brought them back again. He tried to make
it an object for them to work for him. he
liked the colored man as laborer, and be-
lieved that he could be made useful. 1t was
too much the habit to think that things that
come from abroad were better than those
sonnd r;nht at onr doors In this regard he