Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-02-25
IMPORTANT ADDRESS.

The Democratic members of Congress from
the Southern States have just issued the fol-
lowing address to their constituency:
TO the people of the Southern States:
You have confded to the undersigned, in
this conjuncture of affairs, the delicate and diff
ficult task of guarding, in the Federal Con
gress, your public interests, your rights and
reputation. You will, therefore, pardon the
liberty we take of addressing you, at period
so critical, upon matter affecting your desti
ny and that of your posterity. You cannot
have failed to observe the persistent effort Of
some of the leaders of the Republican party
to revive the animosities Of the late war, which
happily are fast giving place to spirit OF
concord and unity in every section OF our
common country. 1t is impossible to predict
certainly the effect of these appeals to passion
We believe that through the honest represen'
tations of few upright and conscientious Fed
eral officers and agents, an independent and
able public press, and Of many citizens, with
out regard to party, the true condition OF the
Southern States, and the real sentiment Of the
Southern people, are being gradually made
known to our fellow.citizens of the North.
We hope for their favorable decision when
fully apprised of all the facts. The great
ends Of good government will be reached when
the people of all sections forget that we have
ever been enemies, and come together again
as in the early days of the Republic, emula
ting each other only in devotion to the best
interest of the whole country. With this ex-
alted purpose in view, there is nothing incon-
sistent with the honor and manhood Of a
brave people to resolve to suffer with heroic
patience, whatever be their provocations and
wrongs, looking through the fearful present to
ahopeful future and repelling unjust epithets
and gratuitous insults with dignity and mod
GRAFTON. Let every white man in every neigh
borhood in the whole South regard himself as
commissioner of the peace, maintaining the
kindliest relations toward the black man, re-
membering that the responsibility for the ex'
treme poverty to which we have been reduced
and the corrupt government to which his vote
has subjected US, rests not so much upon him
as upon the bad men who, with the assurance
of Federal support, have, by appeals to his
worst passions, sought to make him our enemy
While we labor by all honest means to con.
vince him of the truth that our interest and
his is Identical, and that both must be pre-
served by good government, and that those
who stir up strife between us are the enemies
of both races, let US, at the same time, see
that he is fully protected in his guaranteed
right to vote as he pleases in all elections.
Let US continue to deal with him honestly and
fairly, and let US continue cordially to invite
to our midst those of any political party who
either seek to know the truth or to find a
home upon our SOIL We do not exaggerate
when we admonish you of the disheartening
fact that every street disturbance, every homi'
eide, of whatever character, by whomsoever
committed, by black or white, Republican or
Democrat, such as are incident to every com
munity upon earth, is perverted into evidence
of spirit of lawlessness and violence and
purpose to accomplish political ends. We
we'll know the gross injustice of such charges,
which have weight only where ignorance OF