Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19
Maine) Gazette-Rs.

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The New York Herald, speaking of the
withdrawal of the Federal troops from South
Carolina and Ex-Governor Chamberlain's re.
tiripg address, shows how. the latter demon
strates, by bis own confession, the fact that
his government was failure. Upon this the
editor comments: $50. s..
"Be it observed this is Governor Chamber
lain's own description Of what took place un-
der his government. 1t was q government
that be did not govern. Even With Federal
troops to back it, it was powerless to preserve
order; powerless to repress violence. protect
life, or punish crime; and government of
which this is true picture painted by 2
friendly hand, passes an irreversible sentence
of condemnation upon itself; and when it is
added that during this condition of anarchy
and violence, this government, which did not
govern, ate up the substance of the people BY
exhorbitant and ruinous taxes, and was q
hotbed of resking corruption, Mr.. Chamber.
lain's protest seems absurd to the degree of
being an insult to the common sense and NOR
al feeling of the country. There is every
reason to expect that this hideous picture
will be reversed under the wise, just and en-
lightened administration of Governor Hamp-
ton"
The Tribune comes to the rescue Of Cham.
berlain 80 far as to say: He has spared the
country and the State the afliction Of legal
contest for the possession of shadow; and
for this, as we'll as other things, the State at
least owes him debt of gratitude. The let-
ter of protest in which he announces bis. with.
drawal is no more fervent than was to be ex-
pected under the circumstances, and so fkfs
from indulging in the cheap sneers at the ad-
ministration, to which Mr.. Packard lately
treated us, expresses an unsel6sh and patriot.
ic hope that the Presidents policy may be
vindicated by events in South Carolina af-
fairs. Yesterday he was angry, but to-day he
is willing to accept the situation. '.'
The New York Times says: The President
has assumed the responsibility of the step be
has taken, and we must at least hope that it
will lead to satisfactory results. The coun-
try waits patiently for these. And it will not
look spprovingly upon any effort designed to
thwart the successful operation Of the policy,
or to make it q pretext for reviving partisan
trouble in the States concerned. The feeling
which thus predominates will be strengthened
by the moderation and good sense which
Wade Hampton has displayed since his re-
turn to Columbia. His pledges to the Presi-
dent, given before leaving Washington, we're
sufficiently explicit, and they are reiterated
With increased emphasis in his Columbus
speech. He bids bis friends give up parti-
sanship fer time, and address themselves to
the material interests of their State. He calls
upon them to forget "for the next four years
everything about politics." The fruits Of
their victory, he tells them, depend upon
their good faith toward the freedmen, the
welcome they may extend to Northern citi-
zens, and the broad views which they may
apply to the government of the State and the
development of its resources. These are. wise
utterances Whether the man who uttered
them is ahead Of the men who voted for him,
brief period will determine; but, at any
rate, they are honorable to him, and their
immediate effect will be to strengthen the
hands of the President and his advisers.
Their justification will be all but complete if
the aid indirectly rendered to Mr.. Hampton
be followed by the improvement in the rela.
ton of the races, and in the condition of the
State, which he promises as consequence Of
the policy inaugurated by the President.
The New York World thus gives welcome
home to the State Of Marion, Sumter, Pinck-
ney and Laurens: The respectable people of
South Carolina have succeeded ut last in 70.
gaining control of the destinies of the Com.
monwealth. During the canvass of last sum.
mer and the exciting contest which followed
it, South Carolina proved conclusively that
the welfare of the State and all of its people,
white and black, was safe in the hands of its
best citizens, and nowhere else The firmness,
the devotion to duty and the respect for law
which South Carolina has exhibited uuder the
leadership Of Hampton has convinced her Bit
terest enemies that she is fit to take charge of
her own interests, and that the lessons learned
by the English-speaking race through ages of
experience in the management of free govern.
ment have not been forgotten in the Com
monwealth of Rutledge and of Lowndes.
She has 80 far overcome the animosity of the
North, and so far won its respect by her wise
and temperate bearing, that something of the
old feeling Of fellowship will come back to-day
when the news flashes through the country
that the Federal military no longer dominate
in Columbia, and that South Carolinians have
once more assumed the full stature of Amer
lean citizenship. We bid hearty welcome
home to the State of Marion, Sumter, Pinck-
ney and Laurens. .ss.,.r .r... ...,-