Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-12-07

give orders to "strike tents and "march. ~
The debris Of the supper Of the night before
might be seen in the lobby in trays and wait.
era. Our modern statesmen seem to have.
been quite frugal, BY the way, or else very
hungry, and devoured every delicacy placed
before them, as the remnants in the lobby
consisted of few crusts Of bakers bread,
with here and there the undevoured jawbone
of Scotch herring, and the hull Of the in
evitable "goober pea" !" @.,s..'l'.1
The members were lolling around reading
the papers, the reporters were at their desk
looking weary and worn, and the telegraph
boys were occasionally seen to enter and de-
part, bearing away with them some scraps of
paper which in few minutes more would in
form thousands of people miles and miles
away of what was going on in the capitol OF
the once proud but now PROSTATE common
wealth of South Carolina. ,s -,
A little before IL, as on the day preceding,
some one on each side moved an adjourn
ment. First, Speaker Wallace and then act
ing Speaker Thomas put the question, and an
adjournment took place (in horn. .a,ezsss
Speaker Wallace called the House to order,
and acting Speaker Thomas called the rump
to order.
First Jones and then Colonel Sloan called
the roll of their respective sides, .t.a
Acting Speaker Thomas suggested prayer.
A very likely colored preacher by the name
of Marsell walked upon the Speakers stand
and offered q prayer-such an one as all
Christian men could listen to-the Democrats
paying respectful attention., as they. always do
on such occasions. .
The reading of the minutes was dispensed
with by both sides, for the very good reason,
we dare say, there were no minutes to read.
Tom Hamilton, of Beaufort, obtained the
floor, and said that the issue had to be made
sooner or later; that he might as we'll make
it now. He then proceeded to arraign the Re.
publican leaders Of South Carolina who had
denounced Chamberlain as a traitor, q Demo-
crat and a thief, after he had nominated him
in the Republican Convention. He proved
his consistency as a Republican, and pointed
them to measures which he had opposed, but
which they in their. madness and folly bad
passed over his head, and afterwards accused
him of disloyslty and want Of party fealty.
He told them Of his determination to. do right
and fulfill the oath he had taken 70 support
the constitution, regardless Of the consequen.
ces that might follow. He told them that
two years hence he would, be, q candidate for
reelection, and that he would be returned
from his county. He denied that the people
of South Carolina had any objection to North
ern people coming into the State, provided
they did not ceme as professional politicians.
He alluded to Leslie as . well-known thiei
who had fled the State. Hamilton ridiculed
the idea of Laurens and .Edgefeld being
thrown out, on account of the number of votes
cast, and said that his own county, which had
given the second largest Republican majority
Of any county in the State, had cast 5000
more votes than it had two years ago. Hamil
ton speech was long and exhaustive one, and
he closed it by warning the 'bob.tailed: :Legis
lature," as he termed it, Of their effort to force
upon the people Of the State their unlawful
body as genuine, bona Jfde Legislature, q
At the conclusion Of his speech, Hamilton
approached the speakers stand, with bis com,
mission in his hand, and requested to be sworn
in as member Of the constitutional body
Most intense interest was manifested all oyei
the House as Hamilton took the oath after
which he returned to his seat. 81
Pinckney, the "rural" member !! from
Charleston, walked down the aisle and began
to deliver a speech denunciatory of Hamilton's
course After getting as far as "the sight was
the most damnable," some of the old Radical
rats went up to him, whispered'in bis ear, and
the 'Santee orator." with aickly grin, SUBJ
sided. - .ai:t s-ii'n ...sa-s.,.
Thomas, of Newberry, then returned and
moved the passage of the report of the Com
mittee on Privilege and Elections, which
was adopted.
This report, recommending the exclusion Of
the Democratic members of Edgeheld and
Laurens, was adopted by the Radical wing Of
the House, which, of course, amounted to
nothing.
The time having arrived for the vote fol
Governor to be considered, that business was
dispensed with until Monday, upon which
day it must be considered. ,ez
Miller, of Beaufort, followed the postpone.
ment of the election matter in u speech 10
which he made an exhibit of the increase and
decrease of population in Beaufort, Edge6eld
and Laurens, and also made an exhibit the
ratio of votes in proportion to the population
all of which was very satisfactory to Miller, d
to no one else gz2}zs1 @t'tt5 .sj
Miller was followed by NJ. B. Meyers, Of
Beaufort. Meyers is q very intelligent colored
Republican, who has stood side by side with
Hamilton in his manly defense of the right
At the close ofhis speech, which was very
we'll delivered, he'also advanced to the Speak
ers stand and took the oath, which was de
livered by Gen. Wallace, the legitimate Speak
er of the legitimate House. .'t'al.
Whatever effect the independent course o.
these two colored men Hamilton and Meyers,
may have upon their large constituency, 9
great majority of whom are ignorant, unlet'
tered men, it is observable that their col
leagues, al of whom are ultra Radicals OF the
very worst school, attribute to them no dis.
honorable motive, and act towards them like
they knew them to be true men, whatever
their difference of opinion may be. Even
Miller declared Yesterday his lifelong and
unchanged regard for one and his ample re.
spect for the other. No word that could be
construed into anything like q belief that they
were not actuated by the best of motives has
escaped the lips of any Of the Radical speak
ers, except the "Santee rurial," and he wa
stopped in his first utterances.
During the afternoon session, it was discov.
cred that one of the bogus Representatives, by
the name Of Cave, who had been declared en-.
titled 70 seat from Barnwell, had never put
his foot inside of the hall, and that some tricky
Radical had been answering to his name fol
him.
Shortly after the discovery that Cave had
not turned up, the motion to admit the "con.
testauts" from Abbeville was taken up, and a