Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-03-01

ty days, declare Hampton ano Nlchoiis 70 % 3
estimable gentlemen and lawful Governors,
and they will pay tribute to peace and u6i- :
versal brotherhood as the shrines at which es-
cry patriot should bow. =. #i,5'est z
STRONG LANGUAGE IN WASHINGTON.
The following article appeared in the Wash,
ipgton Capital of the 18th ultino, for the
publication Of which the editor, Don Piatt,
has been indicted for seditious publication:
Don is an Independent Republican, but 3lit
seems that his utterances are unsuitsd Just
now to the palates of the horde of ofics.hold-
ers and hangers.on in Washington ,,3ss4
The sickening apprehension felt BY the
people, to which we referred last week, that
the Supreme Court would be found q rotten I,
as the other powers of our unhappy govern
ment, has been realized. t '.s.z
The swift decay that in the last ten years
has made our selfgovernment sham and 8
mockery, and in the executive and legisla.ivs
branches shamed US before the world, has
been silently, working It's way through the
judiciary, until now, in its first trial. it of
fends with its stencil the nostrilss Of all honest
citizens. -, s.. ty.,,; !; " -
The appeal made to Judges of the Supreme
Court from the people, sorely distressed and
perplexed, was to save .hem from the wicked
conspiracy of men they had repudiated atthe
polls. They saw their faithless agents for
years robbing the treasury Of their hard earn.
ed taxes they saw their highest officials in.z
dicted for The meanest crimes they saw o
President, coarse, brutal and ignorant, APP
pointing sycophantic pimps to the highest po-
sitions; they saw him the associate Of ro1ghs
and commissioner Of thieves they saw car
pet. .bsggers, sustained BY bayonets, tnanipula-
ting the polls, that ignorance and rascality.
light tyrannize over the South; they saw
rings organized in the lobby control their
Congress they saw huge monopolies created
BY their government eating out their sub
stance they saw themselves reduced to want,
trade parslyzed and labor without employ,
and they made a desperate effort to right
their wrongs through the ballot.
With subsidized press against Them, with
an army of hungry oficeholders. that, count
ing those of the general government with
those of the States, make horde Of treasury
eaters greater than any standing army Of
Europe-with all the accumulated capital il
the hands of monopolies arrayed on the side
Of their oppressors-they made one despair.
ing effort, and came up from the polls with 8
majority of over half million IN their be-
half. And of what avail !?
Through dishonest returning board, made
up of criminals who have escaped conviction
and punishment under the protecting arm Of
a corrupt government, enough votes are
thrown out to render all their efforts vain, and
saddle upon them the old corruption and old
horde for another term Of years perhaps
forever. !, Il sal::at,,
From this an appeal was taken to FIVE jus
tices of the Supreme Court-for that, no more
and no less, was the commission created. It
was believed that by such process the ques-
ton at issue, being a charge Of conspiracy
against certain corrupt men, could be lifted
from the political arena to tribunal Of high
toned, impartial judges, who would decide in
accordance with law and justice. a.
To the amazement and disgust of all
thoughtful minds, these justices divided, as
the partisans bad, on q political line, and
three indecent old men joined with the enc
mics of the people in fixing corruption upon
US, and destroying all confidence in the very
foundation of our political structure-the
ballot. They decide that fraud does not VI
tiate, and beyond this that they have nothing
to decide, and so send the question to the
people: ..~. -.
We have not the patience. to argue what
the people in their broad common sense will
not considerable fne.spun legal technicali;
ties under which these aged scoundrels seek
to hide their shame. Their real brief is to be
found in the utterance of one of their COM
mission, James A. Garfield, who said, boast
ingly: "You'll have to grin and bear it wa
hold the cards and intend to play them." :"
Poor political gambler. The stakes for
which he plays are the rights Of 100000
people, the peace and prosperity of the only
republic known to humanity. For all thak
freemen hold most dear, these hands, stained
with plunder gamble, as the soldiers of Plate
severed in division the garment of the cruci-
fed Christ
As we said week since, this is not law-it
is revolution and if the people tamely sub
nit, we may bid a long farewell to constitu-
tlOnaI governments. Cf6uQ no longer Vltl8Le9.
A corrupt administration has only, by its bay
onets, to hold State usurpation long enough
in power for corrupt returning board to do
its vile task, and the work is done. '.
If a man thus returned to power can ride
in safety from the executive mansion to the
capitol, to be inaugurated, We are fitted for
the slavery that will follow the inauguration.
We do not believe the people of the United
States are of this servile sort We do not
believe that they are prepared, without .
blow, to part with their hard-earned, blood
stained possessions. Notice is now served on
the citizens of Louisiana and South Carolina
that they must care for themselves. How
soon lamp. posts will bear fruit is for them to
say. To the people Of the North and West
notice is given that all the toll to which they
are subjected, that bondholders and nonopo-
lists may fatten secure, is repaid BY no secu-
rity for their rights, and that shrinkage Of
values is now in order If there is,law for