Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-22
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

EDITORIAL INkLINGS.
The Postage Law in Court.
"A curious case, involving the constitu
tionalty of the amended postage law has beer
brought in the United States Circuit Court fol
the district of New York. A gentleman offer'
a book for mail transmission to Philadelphia
from that city, postage at the old rates being
affixed. Being refused, he applies for man
damus to compel the postmaster to receive the
package. The argument Of the applicant il
that the sundry civil appropriation bill into
which the amendment increasing the rate or
third class mail matter was inserted, was moi
the bill for raising revenue that amendment
did not provide ways and means for raising
revenue; that the Senate has no constitutional
authority to provide measures for that pur
pose; that being the sole prerogative of the
House, and the postal amendment having
originated with the Senate and been grated
on the bill which was not one for revenue
purposes, is unconstitutional.
Crop Reports for July.
The July returns to the Department o.
Agriculture show an improvement of the
cotton crop during June in all the cottor
States, except Texas. The State averages are
as follows:
North Carolina, 95, an improvement o.
three per cent South Carolina, SO, improved
two per cent; Georgia, 81, improved six pei
cent; Florida, 101, improved seven per cent.
Alabama, 102, improved one per cent; Mis-
sissippi, 103, improved three per cent.
Louisiana, 103, improved ten per cent; Texas
SO, declined three per cent; Arkansas, 1O4
improved fourteen per cent Tennessee, 1O9
improved ten per cent. Some portions of the
cotton area were effected with drought, which
however, was less injurious to cotton than tc
other crops. Its injuries were mostly compen'
sated by the opportunity it afforded for the
better working of other crops. In Texas cu
worms, cotton caterpillars and grasshoppers
we're injurious in some localities. A few
isolated reports also mention cotton lice, bu
insect depredations 80 far have not affected
the crop to any extent worth estimating.
Ihe Negro prODlem.
-The Chattanooga Commercial depre
Gates the course of portion of the Southern
press in advising the colored population tt
emigrate westward, and argues that such
course is unchristiau, and impossible. Th'
presence of the colored race in our climate
the Commercial contends, is inevitable, anc
the sooner their moral, intellectual and physi
cal condition is improved, by properly insti
tuted measures, the better. The Commercial
further remarks:
"The part of wisdom, then, is to foster anc
encourage self:reliance, steady labor, frugality
and all other virtues among the race. Ane
no less should we see that it is enlightened anc
elevated in the scale of humanity. Suct
treatment insures not alone more intelligence
and therefore more intelligent labor, but re-
moves the danger that always threatens free
institutions where the voter is sunk in igno
rance.
Upon this subject the press of Tennessee is
a unit. We are far in advance OF any othe
State in the Southland of many in tht
North-in our Christianity, as exemplifed II
the treatment the ex-slave has received from
our people. The most industrious, enlightened
and deserving colored men in the State fee
and appreciate this, and are opposed to tht
foolish emigration schemes, which are neither
more nor less than small speculations of rail
roads and their agents"
The North and the South.
-The New York Herald closes an article
on the Fourth of July with the following re
marks bearing upon the relations existing be
tween the North and the South and the atti
tude of each section during the rebellions O.
1776 and 1861:
"It has of late been customary, to express q
wish that the centennial, with its prelimina'
ries, may restore the old fraternal sentiments
between the South and North. Such senti
ments are wise and timely, and they are GER
tain to gain strength with the approach of the
centennial festivities. But we apprehend that
the repeaters of this wish or this advice see
as yet only part of the strength of their case
1t is not merely that Massachusetts and South
Carolina stood side by side in rs, powerful as
this appeal to early recollections is and ought
to be- The strong point is-and before the
close of the centennial year the North will
it-that our Southern brethren
have livelier appreciation of the patriots OF
the revolution than is possible to us. What
we inherit as tradition, they have expert
enced as reality. They have been them
selves in the position of rebels They, too, have
fought for independence, and while so fight
ing, they nourished their hearts and strength
ened their fortitude by constant meditation on
the deeds and the heroes of the revolution.
The position into which we of the North were
forced for the maintenance of the Union tend
ed to put US out of sympathy with revolution
ary spirit We learned, for the time, how
governments feel that are rebelled against, and
lost our former admiration of rebels. UP to
the outbreak of our civil war, there was not
rebellion in Ireland, or in South America, or
in Greece, or in Hungary, or in any part OF
the world, in which the warmest sympathies OF
this country were not freely given to the re-
bells against their government The South
continues to retain this feeling, and as danger
to the Union is forever past, there is no reason
why we should mot relight the partially extln'
guished torch at the Southern altar, where
the fire has been kept steadily burning. Our
Southern brethren will ultimately acknowl'
edge that we did them an invaluable service
in frustrating their attempt and making its
repetition hopeless and, on the other hand we
shall yet acknowledge that they acted from
the noblest sentiments to mistaken object
We have something to gain from them in the
capacity to enter into the spirit which achieved
our independence"