Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-11
Correspondence Of the News and Courier.
FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, May 80.

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The signs of the reaction against the ex-
treme Radical policy which has prevailed
since the war are very abundant on all sides.
The revolution in Connecticut and the
election of "Copperhead" of the most ad.
vanced school to represent New England in
the Senate, the opposition of several Repub-
lican senators to the passage Of the supple.
mental civil rights bill, the decision Of the
President against his political friends in Ar
kansas, the passage in the House by large
majority of the bill excluding jurors in the
United States Courts who cannot read and
write the English language, are all examples
of this general tendency to undo the follies
which have grown out Of the unlimited power
exercised by the Republican party. But the
recent editorial articles in
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
on the political situation, are the most marked
features of this changing public sentiment.
Ever since the Tribune ceased to be the Or
gan of the Republican party, the Times has
been the vehicle of all that was most rabid in
Radicalism and exacting and merciless to.
ward the South. Flushed with the victory of
November 1872, the Times would never have
uttered such sounds as it has during the
past week. 1t has actually patted Senator
Eaton on the back, and declared that his
State rightsism (Which borders on secession
ISM cannot be put down with howls Of "Cop.
perhead," Bourbon" but if answered at all
must be by argument. 1t goes still further;
it questions the wisdom of the civil rights
bill. 1t thinks that negro social equality is
repugnant to the white people of the North,
and that if it should be decreed by law it
could never be enforced. A few years ago,
if these sentiments had been avowed by
Democratic paper, the Times would have as.
sailed it 6ercely. That it avows them itself
now is an unerring indication that the food
of Radical ideas has reached its highest point
and is receding. How far it will recede
Heaven only knows. But when reaction
begins it sometimes carries the world to the
other extreme DR.. Van Evrie, the editor of
the Day Book, is firm believer that the
South will return to its social and political
condition of before the war. He holds, with
a good deal of vehemence, that as soon as the
Northern Radical pressure is taken off
THE NEGRO WILL FALL BACK
naturally into his old relation of subordina-
ton to the superior race. The carpet.bsg
thieves, no longer protected by force Of opin-
ion in the North, will take their flight from
among the people they have plundered, and
even at the North the defenders of the chica-
merry and violence which have characterized
Republican rule will be extremely unpopular
and in danger of the lamp-post. The doctor
is an extreme man, and is inclined to take an
extreme view of things, and his predictions,
therefore, will fall short of realization; It
that the Republican party is on the eve of
being swept out of power is not improbable,
and that the South will resume it's former in
huence in the Union will naturally follow
such an event. The opposition developing in
the North to the civil rights bill is likely to
prevent its passage by the House, but if
it is passed, and is not vetoed by the Presi-
dent, it will be repealed by the next Congress.
In view of the improved prospects of the
Democracy, there is some pipe-laying going