Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-03-15
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

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On Saturday last delegation of color.
ed people from South Carolina, partly COM
posed of Congressman Rainey, Cain and
smalls, Judge Wright, Treasurer Cardozo,
State Senator Maxwell and Col. Winston,
called on the President. They give the, fol.
lowing report of the interview: The President
spoke with perfect frankness, stating that he
desired to remove the antagonism existing be-
tween the races, especially the political differ
ences resting upon the color line, that colored
men and the Republicans might not need the
protection of the army. He stated that the
use Of military force in civil affairs was re-
pugnant to the genius of American institu-
tions, andshould be dispensed with if posi-.
ble He, however, recognized the necessity
Of protection at present until that feeling Of
respect for the rights of political opponents
should be entertained by the Democrats of the
South. The President stated that With regard
to the peculiar difficulties at present existing
in South Carolina, concerning which the del
egates expressed great anxiety, he proposed to
preserve the status quo left by his predecessor,
and to examine the condition of affairs care.
fully and deliberately before he acted. The
delegation then withdrew after expressing
their thanks. ... .f ..t y
The Presidents Personal Appearance. az
-A A correspondent describes President
Hayes as large, robust and muscular; quick
but hot nervous of movement and speech.
His voice is a deep, strong, musical bass.
His eyes are large, blue and kindly of express
sion. He wears his sandy beard full and
carefully trimmed, and here and there in it
you notice gray hair, as you also do in his
full suit of closely cut brown hair. His form
is full, but. not corpulent his teeth are as
white as ivory, and his features strong and
we'll defined. His life has been 80 pure and
reproachless that all good men and women re-
spect him. He never used tobacco nor in.
toxicating liquors. He never used profane
language. He is candid, open, afable, and
has no secrets; nothing to explain, nothing
to refute. His character is above question,
even after six bitter political campaigns in
Ohio. -
Miss Fannie Hayes, the daughter Of Presi.
dent Hayes, who will occupy such q promi.
nent place in Washington society for the next
four years. is said to be very pretty brunette,
of medium height and very fine figure, and
is about nineteen years Of age. She is very
bright and intelligent, good conversational
ist, and will make decided sensation in So
ciety. as. ..
Death Of Chief Justice Noses.
-C Chief Justice Franklin J. Moses, who
was stricken with paralysis on the 23d ultimo,
died in Columbia, at the residence of his son
81. x.Governer Moses, on Tuesday morning Of
last week, in the 7Sd yeat of his age. From
the Columbia Register, We take the following
sketch of his life: :"
Judge Moses was the son of Major Meyer
Moses, an eloquent speaker and leading Israel
ite of Charleston. He graduated at the South
Carolina College in December, 1923. in a
class of six, of whom were William +. Co..
cock and J. Ramsey Davis. He studied Law
with James L. Pettigru, and settled in Sum-
ter District ffty-three years ago, when the
village of Sumter was but CROSS road. He
married Miss Mcclellan, of Alabama. be
was a Union man in the notification contest,
and was leading lawyer of Sumter. he
served for thirty years as member OF the
South Carolina State Senate, from 1885 to
1868 was appointed commissioner to North
Carolina in 1861 to induce that State to se-
cede was for awhile on the staff of General
Wise, of Virginia; was member of the con-
yention of 1855 to reorganize the State gov.
ernment, and was elected Judge in 1865. De-
prived of his Office with all the other State
Judges by the new State government of 1858,
he was soon after elected Chief Justice for six
years, and was reelected at the end of that
term"
The President and South Carolina.
-- Regarding the probable action Of Pres
ident Hayes on the questions presented by
Louisiana and South Carolina, the Charleston
Journal Of Commerce publishes the following
Washington dispatch under date of the 9th
instant:
: "Before taking final action in the matter of
the withdrawal of the Federal forces from
Columbia and New Orleans, and prohibiting
their further use at those points, except to
sustain the State officials in preserving the