Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-31


the execution of Patrick Hester, Hugh Tully
and Patrick McHugh, Of Columbia county,
convicted of the murder Of Alexander w.
Rae, Superintendent of a colliery, in the fall
of 1868. The Governor also fixed the same
day for the hanging of Thomas F. Curley,
the murderer of Miss Whitby, of Montgomery
county. The number of unexecuted death
warrants issued by the Governor the past two
months is sixteen, all of which will be carried
into effect in June, July and August. On the
21st of June ten murderers will expiate their
crimes on the gallows of Pennsylvania. Nine
of them are Molly Maguires. There is a
prospect that Duffy, one ofthe Yost murder
ers, will hang with his accomplices at Potts.
Vile, if the Court records in his case should
reach the Governor the present week. He is
desirous of executing as many murderers to-
gether and on the same day as possible.
What Mr.. Tilden Says.
"A citizen of Alabama, who recently
had an interview with Mr.. Tilden, on the SUBJ
ject of the Presidential election, reports the
following as the substance of their conversa-
tion:
He said to Mr.. Tilden that the people of
the South were convinced that he had been
fairly and lawfully elected to the office of
President of the United States; that the peo.
pie of that section, in common with the great
body of the people of the whole United
States, thought that Mr.. Tilden, as the law
fully elected ruler of the country, should
have taken, early after the election, decided
attitude and insisted upon his rights that
had he done 80, and the proper announce
ment of the Electoral College been prevent
ed. the House of Representatives would have
elected him according to the forms of law,
and made itself responsible for bis induction
into the Office which belonged to him.
Mr.. Tilden listened intenty to the remarks
Of his visitor, gentleman nearly twenty
years his senior. He replied that he had
thought carefully and most conscientiously
over the subject in all its possible phases
that he had become convinced that, should
he adopt the course suggested, it would be
resisted by the Radical party to the extent of
drenching the land in blood; that he shrunk
from the responsibility Of precipitating anoth-
er teIllUlo CiSh "oi oPo ITO "ouhtiy Aoob'
and consented to the compromise which avert
ed so dread disaster. He felt as keenly as
any one the improperly of the means by
which the present result had been brought
about, but for all that he did not regret his
own action. As it was, the people of the
United States understood it, the Democratic
party to-day occupied such a proud attitude
before the country as it had never occupied
before, and no mortal power could resist its
triumphal march to success in 1880.
Morton on the Political Situation.
- Senator Morton has written lengthy
letter on the political situation. The gist Of
his letter is, that while he does not intend to
break with President Hayes if possible, yet
he is determined, if such scheme can be &C.
complished, that the Republican party shall
not participate in the policy that recognizes
the war as having at last come to an end, and
that regards the Southern States as restored to
the Union. He has not abated particle in
his hatred of the South, and abandoning all
hope for the negro votein the future, his pur-
pose is to offset a solid South with solid
North He thus concludes his letter:
"The Republican party South, with all its
errors, waged noble contest for right, and
the courage and self.sacrifce displayed by its
members are embalmed in history. The
warmest sympathies Of the Republicans of the
North attend those of the South in their DESC
late and undone condition, with the earnest
hope that the dark, overhanging cloud may
have silver lining, and that there may be
day of speedy resurrection. By the voluntary
Withdrawal of the army, the South has been
placed on her good behavior. Following
their bloody campaigns for political power,
they have been treated with magnanimity,
and should they fail to protect all classes and
races in the enjoyment of their rights, the
most conservative Republican will see there
is no security but to preserve the government
in the hands Of the Republican party.
GAS the Democracy have acquired solid
South by force, the Republicans should &C.
quire solid North by their vigilance and the
eternal justice of their cause. Northern Re-
publicans are now admonished that they can
endure no divisions that will endanger their
success. Should the North by unhappy dis
cords be divided, and thus fall prey to the
solid Confederate South, the rebellion will
have been suppressed in vain, the fruits of the
war will be lost, and our last condition worse
than the first"
Mr.. Stephens on the Situation.
The New York Tribune gives the fol-
lowing summary of what it claims to be the
views of Hon. A. H. Stephens:
The Hon. A. H. Stephens gives the hear.
tiest and most complete sort of an endorse
ment of the Presidents policy. He is sure
the political feeling of the South fought to be
hearty support Of Mr.. Hayes" for "he is
doiny we'll, very WE'LL" As for the Northern
Democrats, the ey "endorse him and his poll
cy." When correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer asked him if they ought to in.
dorse man "who holds bis office by fraud" }"
Mr.. Stephens replied: "That has nothing to
do with it. Whether Mr.. Hayes went into
Office by fraud or otherwise, it makes no diff.
ference now that his policy has become known.
And that policy is, as you see, concession of
all that the Democrats have asked. Occupy
ing their ground exactly, they can't afford to
abuse him. What do the people care who
governs? They don't stop to think whether
it's A B or G D, this man or that, this party
or that. All they care for is good govern
ment, and then they don't mind who is in
power-nobody except the few miserable pol
iticians who make living off of Office. / am
greatly pleased with Mr.. Hayes, because |
think he wants to do the fair thing. He has
come up to the principles of the Democratic
party in relation to the treatment Of the
South. That was all that in reality separa-
ted the two parties before He having come
to our way of thinking, 1 cannot help admi-
ring him for it," "Will this course of bis
split the Democratic party here in the South'"
"Why should it? 1t doesn't split up party