Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-16
MISSISSIPPI TROUBLES.

We publish elsewhere lengthy account OF
the recent disturbance in Mississippi, being
the version given of the affair BY the Clinton
Clarion, published at the immediate scene of
the occurrence. AS is the case in nineteen
twentieths of the disturbances which occur at
political assemblages all over the country,
whisky seems to have been at the bottom Of
the present riot. True, colored marshal
interposed to prevent party of young white
men-already, no doubt, inAamed with liquor
from drinking near the grounds of the bar
becue, and an alteration with fatal results
ensued. This, in some quarters, and by men
who know better than to make the charge, is
construed as war of the races, the whites
against the blacks, and a revival of the spirit
of rebellion predominating the entire South,
and which the sapient politicians of the North,
who are ever ready to make political capital
at the expense of the best interests of the
whole country, declare, with the most solemn
hypocritical cantng, to be the premonitions
of another attempt at secession, for which
the white people of the South are constantly
watching and waiting The backyard organ
the political scavenger-printed at the Ma
tional Capital, sezes the opportunity to lay
all the blame of the unfortunate occurrence
in Mississippi, not alone to the whites, but to
the spirit of secession which it alleges stalks
throughout the land in broad daylight. Such
an assertion is too absurd to demand contra
diction. No such feeling exists in the South,
nor is there that spirit of animosity on the
part Of the whites toward the blacks which
certain Republican politicians are ever ready
to parade on the eve of an important election.
We do not deny that there are violent, rash
and senseless men in the South-just thesame
as in some other sections of the globe-and it
is fair to conclude that had the marshal who
attempted to exercise his authority at Clin'
ton been white man, he would have met
with the same treatment by the party with
the bottle as the colored marshal received.
We, however, are not theapologists of the men
who persisted in violating the rules laid down
for the government of the meeting They
did wrong, and when demonstrated with, they
should have peacefully obeyed those in au-
thority But to couple the action of these
reckless, and perhaps drunken men. with an
alleged desire of all the whites of the South
to bring on war between the races, or to
precipitate another rebellion, is not only un-
just, but betrays weakness deserving COM
miseration rather than censure.
Governor Ames, we regret to see, is also
disposed to put the case before the authorities
at Washington as a conflict between the ra-
ces, and has already telegraphed for troops
AS yet, however, Attorney. General Pierrepont
is not disposed to heed the Governors de-
mand, and it is not probable that an insur-
gent proclamation will be issued, or that
troops will be sent to interfere. Justice de-
mands, though, that the guilty ones in this
riot should be punished, and we have no
doubt but the whites of all parties would, If
called upon, aid the State authorities in that
behalf