Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-01-04
Aa1unrulls department.
From the Louisville courier-Joumal. .
BILL ARP ON THE SITUATION

DALI ,AhT UN InE S1IOAAlVNs
You must excuse me, but It is impossible
to suppress myself altogether at this time l
feel like little CROWN will open the pores
and help digestion, and do me good generally.
And didn't we lick 'em and did you say his
name was Hayes? And is he the man who said
he didn't mind it himself, but his heart bled
for che poor nigger? Priests and levites Of
Jericho how much will he bleed his pocket.
Why. bless your soul, the niger is free. He
can go to Ohio if he wants to: We haven't
got EN- penned up. If Hayes, or whatever
his name is. will call 'em, they'll come. Amt
: it curious these dark;s don't goto their
friends? Amt it curious their friends don't
come down to see them if they are so ever
lastin' sorry? Maybe they are intimidated.
The truth is, Mr.. Watterson, them Radicals
give the niger suffrage to humble US and
out-vote US, but they never counted on it Civ
in US 30 more votes in maxim a President.
The nigger voted for Hayes, if that's his
name, and elected Mr.. Tilden. Hurray for
the niger. Next thing you hear of these
Radicals will be tryin' to take away his vote,
or colonize him in some furrin' land. =
But it's too late-the dog is dead. They
may talk about intimidation and countin' out
and holdin' on, but it can't be, did. Knaves
don't take kings in this game. They stocked
the cards and had the shuttle and deal, and we
won it, and the stakes we are bound to have.
Well fight on it, sur. Yes, sur; if the worst
comes to the worst we'll whip 'em agin. Two
hundred and fifty thousand majority has set
tied this question. As General Gordon said:
"Stand up, my countrymen, stand up; don't
wilt nor wither; we have met the enemy and
they are ours-that is if we can keep 'em. |
know they are as slickery as eels, but we must
hold 'em. The life of the nation depends on
it. Liberty and free speech and habeas cor
pus are all in peril. Four more years iof
Radical rule and this country will be as life
less as an Egyptian mummy. They must not
be allowed to steer the old ship any longer.
Its agin natur. Its agin the law of Moses,
and Revelation, and the Shorter Catechism,
and the long-meter doxology. My wife says
if the fight must come, the women ought to
take hand this time, and she is ready to-
tare hair with old mother Hayes, if that's her
name, or any, other woman who is mournin'
for the niger.
Mr.. Watterson, sur, we have patiently bided
our time. We saw this galorious event
comm. If it wasn't star in the East it
was roarin' borealis in the North. We
knowed there was justice and generosity in
the bosoms of Northern Democrats. For a
long time we've been lstenin' to the rumblin'
thunder of their Indignation. Ever and anon
it has vibrated upon the air like the shake of
young earthquake, and we've lived in hope
and de6ed despair until at last the pent-
up storm came down upon 'em like an Alpine
avalanche, or a simeon in the desert, or a ty-
phoon of the tropics, or cyclone of the ra-
ging seas. Oh it was terrible, terrible! Ex-
cuse me for CROWN eloquent, if you please,
for it seems to me I still hear the mighty
voices of three millions of honest Democrats
exclaimin' with trumpet tongues, "Get out
ofthese Augean stables and let US turn the
Potomac in. The stencil of your corruption
has overspread the land. Ye have made the
rich richer and the poor poorer. Ye have
smothered honesty, garoted industry and sown
discord among kindred. Ye have put your
Southern brethren in pit and dyed their
shirts in pokeberry juice, and called it blood
to deceive the people, but like Joseph of old,
they will yet be put in power and save the
land from ruin and destruction. Joseph's
brethren repented in tears and sorrow, but ye
will not repent. They did not steal his silver
cup, but ye will steal and carry away in your
carpet-bags not only the cups. but the saucers
and the spoons"
Why sur, the first official advertisement
Mr.. Tilden will put in the Washington pa
pers will be 6xin' day of thanksgiven, and
calm for sealed proposals for penitentiary
big enough to accommodate 10000 Radical
thieves who have stolen thousand million
of dollars from the national treasury.
Mr.. Watterson, sur, Uncle Sammy Tilden
is agoin to take his seat in that cheer-if he
lives There's doubts about heap of things
in this subloonary world, but there amt no
doubt about that. Let EN- rip and roar and
snort and cavort like dyin' alligator if they
want to, but my private opinion is heap Of
'em had better be marshalin' their assets
for transportation to some furrin and un-
known cline. Intimidation! Oh my coun-
try! Amazin impudence Who has been
intimidated for the last ten years? Haven't
they kept us under bayonets all the time.
Haven't they divided the army about half
andhalf between US and the Injuns? Let
'em hunt for intimidation nearer home.
Why, sur, there was thousands of humble
Democrats in Ohio and Pennsylvania who
wanted to vote for Mr.. Tilden, but their bread
and meat depended on not doing it. How
about all the workmen in the shops, mills, fac
tories, that belonged to the Radicals who
made their bloated fortunes out of the late
war? There was no intimidation, of course,
but the boss calls them all up and says:
"You vote as you please, but if you don't vote
for Hayes didn't you say that was his name,l
you can come to the captains Office and set
tie, and get your walkin' papers,"
The truth is, Mr.. Watterson, those Radical
towards have been afraid of US so long that
they have got intimidation on the brain.
Ben Butler was invited to 60 to New Or
leans to help count, but he didn't go; he re-
piled by telegraph-"Great spoons! I can't
go. I feel intimidated." Now the worst case
I have heard of is Jack Allan's. He had
three hundred negroes on his sugar planta-
ton, and bein' pressed for labor he offered
every darkey who would stay at home an ex-
ira dollar in silver, and they stayed. The
shine of the coin intimidated 'em, and 80
Louisiana is to be set down for-did you say
his name was Hayes?
Now for the other side of the picture.
These Radical rascals made the poor niggers
believe that if Mr.. Tilden was elected they
would all be put on the block and sold into
slavery. They auere made to believe he and
put in fear Of losin' their liberty, and that
wasn't intimidation was it? Why, sur, in
the last ten days II of 'em have axed me to
buy 'em when the sale comes off; but I'm
afeerd to do it. They have follerd these Rad