Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-09


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EDITORIAL INKLINGs. 8:,a3
The .ssPlucky Widow.' zig - ~ .aan
IL The Charleston Nescs and Courier &C.
knowledges contributions to the amount of
$l67.75 for the plucky widow toiaid her in
buying the acre of land on which sheso hand
somely supports herself and family. Among
the contributors is gentleman of Baltimore,
(no name given) who sent $4,000; and Mr..
w. G. Deshler. President Of the National
Exchange Bank of Columbus Ohio, who, also
donated the sum of $4,000. In his mote en-
closing that amount, MI. Deshler saysagdrs
"Although I am q. Northerner and q Re.
publican of the irmest kind, am more than
that-a man who admires pluck, and who
sympathizes with the distress of those who
have seen better days. I send fifty dollars
for the lady, trusting that time and pluck,
and common sense and mutual good will
among us all, both North and South, will, ere
long, alleviate the SORROWS and distress now
so prevalent throughout our land"
Amity in the South. .....s. -,
A delegation Of gentlemen from the
Edgefeld, and Ellenton Districts of South
Carolina, composed of Republicans, both
white and black and of Democrats, called
upon the President few days ago. The OBJ.
ject was to lay before him the proceedings of
the late mass meeting, participated in BY all
classes iH those portions of the State, at which
the people on each side pledged themselves
hereafter to live in peace with their neighbors
of every class and race, and agreed, each
with the other, that violence and disorder
arising out of political differences should
cease. As result of this agreement, all the
parties to it have united in asking the Presi.
dent to cause to be dismissed all the cases re-
Gently tried by Chief Justice Waite, and at
the same time they say that the State author
tiles propose to dismiss number Of political
suits begun in local Courts against Republi-
cans. The President expressed much salts
faction at the improved condition of affairs
in South Carolina, and members Of the dele
CATION report that he promised to take into
consideration the request they had made.
Patterson Heard From.
Honest" John Patterson is in Wash.
ington, and according to a dispatch from that
city, says he intends to remain there. If they
want him in South Carolina, be says they
must 60 to Washington for him. He says he
,xiu have reeourse to tho laws thnra, and not do
pend upon the snap judgments of the courts
in South Carolina, 1t is his opinion that the
three colored Republican members of Con.
gress will have charges Of some kind or anoth-
er trumped against them, so as to compel
them to resign, and the same kind of game is
being evidently played in his case, but he
does not propose to resign. He says that
there is no merchant or professional man that
did not deal in the certificates or scrip that
Moses issued. Every one thought this scrip
was genuine, and if there was completely be-
tween Moses and the State Treasury, why
should the innocent be made to su1er7 He
denounces the action of Hampton and his
people at this time, and AYERS that it is just
trick to get all the most prominent leaders Of
the Republican party out Of the State. 1t is
just the same game that they played in Geor.
gia, when they gained possession of the State.
He thinks that Scott and Chamberlain will
be arrested under some trumped.up charge,
and looks upon the attempt to villify Worth
ington, the present Collector of the Port of
Charleston, as great outrage.
Complimentary to the South.
- The New York Journal Of Commerce,
speaking of the conduct of the Southern peo-
pie during the recent strike in the Northern
States, pays the South the following compli-
ment:
The. Southern papers do not praise the or
derly and law.obeying conduct of the South
ern workingmen during the recent strikes q
whit too highly. 1t may be said that poverty
and suffering are not so common among the
laboring classes of the South as among those
at the North and West, and the former had
not the motives for an uprising which actua.
ted great masses of thoughtless and passion.
ate men in other sections. 1t is true that the
cities of the South are not as crowded as those
of the North with men who cannot get work,
or tramps, or dissatisfied laborers But the
real reason for the quiet of the South, when
all the other parts of the country were over
run by mobs was the peaceful disposition of
her people. If the poorer whites of the South
had felt quarrelsome, either toward the rail.
road companies or individuals, or toward the
colored race, they would not have failed to
show their teeth during the late riots. That
they went through all that week of crisis and
kept the peace in Richmond, Charleston, Sa-
vanuab, Mobile, New Orleans. and other
large cities of the South, where there were
few regular or volunteer soldiers on hand 10
keep order, is test proof of their willingness
to obey the laws, to work for living, and to
dwell in amity with all men. .ss.
An Interview with the President.
- Mr.. Hearsey, editor of The New Or
leans Democrat who is in Washington on
brief visit, called upon the President last
The telegraph gives the following
report of the interview:
Major Hearsey expresses himself much
grati6ed with the courteous reception extended
him and with the very kindly sentiments ex-
pressed by the President towards the South.
He thinks, indeed, that it is the honest pur-
pose of the President to be the executive of
the South as we'll as of the other sections of
the Union-ts true friend. In the course of
the conversation, Mr.. Hayes expressed bis
qualification at the peaceful attitude Of the
South, during the late riots, and remarked
pleasantly that the two most antagonistic
sections Of the country-New England and
the South-were, during the excitement and
conflict, the most tranquil. The President