Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19
THE PROSPECT.

Carolina, seem to be of the firm opinion that
now, since Gen. Wade Hampton is the undis-
puted Governor of the State, that idleness and
plenty will soon be welded. This is all non
sense. Deservedly great as are the power and
influence of Governor Hampton, there are
some things be can not control. He can not
make lazy, idle and prodigal people happy.
He can not cause corn and cotton to grow
without work. He can not regulate the price
of bread.stufs. Gov. Hampton can control,
in great measure, the politics Of the State.
He has demonstrated that he has superior ad-
ministrative powers. Every honest man in
the State-we may add many in the United
States-has unbounded confidence in the ca
pabilities and integrity ofGovernor Hampton.
Still he, nor any other man, or set of men,
can redeem South Carolina from its pecunia.
ry thraldom, unless the people 60 to work.
The political condition of the State, we feel
convinced, Governor Hampton will redeem; !;
but the private pecuniary embarrassment in
which the multitude of the inhabitants of the
State are involved, can only be relieved by
individual effort.
1t is right and proper that the mass Of the
people take this fact into consideration. Gov.
Hampton does not engage to pay private
debts out ofthe State treasury neither does
he propose to establish mammoth poor house
in which he will feed host of lazy, idle loun-
gers. This is free country, and the prime
idea of freedom is that every one must work
for his living, steal or starve. GreenbackS
and corn will be no plentier with the lazy
man next spring, than they are to-day; but if
all our people, or even the majority Of them,
20 to work in the right way, the country will
soon be in prosperous pecuniary condition.
It will, 10 doubt, be said by not a few, that
the negro will not work. He will spend one
day in every week in running to the nearest
town or store, and knock off work every Sat.
urday at twelve o'clock. There is much truth
in this, as the rags of the negro population de-
monstrate; but the negro is free. Let every
tub stand on its own bottom. Ifevery white
man will produce enough to feed and clothe
his own family and pay not less than ten dol
lars of debt, the country will be greatly re.
lieved.
In South Carolina there are near two hun
dred thousand able bodied white men who are
able to till the soil. Suppose each one of
these feeds and clothes his family and clears
ten dollars. This will put two millions of
dollars in the State. This amount put in cir.
culation may be made to pay at least fifty
millions of debt and still be in the State. If
every inhabitant of the State will clear only
ten dollars during the present year, we will
have the best times we ever had since the
settlement of the country. If, however, our
people give themselves up to detestable
lethargy, we will see blue blazes yet Our
common country expects every man, woman
and child to work. There is gold and green
backs plenty in the old State yet, if we will
only 60 to work and dig them out. The time
for talking is over. The work season has ar.
rived. Woe be to the man who folds his
arms in idleness. Poverty will come upon
him like an armed man. Manfully the peo-
pie have purged the State of political misrule.
Let them now go to work and purge it Of
private embarrassment.