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


ised. This is in accordance with humanity
and good feeling. This we will do, and I
predict that before these buds, which are now
Just beginning to swell and burst, shall have
grown into leaves and fallen by the autumn
blast, We will, indeed, be q united people,
zone and inseparable." We will then have
crossed the river, and we will rest in the shade
on the other side of Jordan.
Extra Session Of the Legislature.
BY the following proclamation, the
first official act of Governor Hampton after
the withdrawal of the troops from the State
House, it will be seen that the General As
sembly will convene in extra session on
Tuesday the 24th instant:
Under and by virtue of the authority vest
ed in me by the Constitution of the State to
convene the General Assembly on extraordi.
nary occasions, I, Wade Hampton, Governor
of the State of South Carolina, do hereby
summons the Senators and members of the
House of Representatives Of said State to
meet in general assembly, in the city of Co.
lumbia, on Tuesday, the 24th day Of April,
Ammo Domini, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy seven, at IL o'clock meridian.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal of the State
to be affixed.
Done at the city Of Columbia, this eleventh
day of April, Ammo Domini one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.seven, and in the
one hundred and first year Of the indepen.
dence of the United States of America.
.t.. WADE HAMPTON, ,iGovernor.
R. M. SIMS, Secretary of State.
Mr.. Hayes and the South. r
- Regarding the Presidents Southern
policy, the following Washington dispatch,
under date of the 18th instant, shows how
variousy his plan is viewed by different head.
lights of the Republican party:
The President is represented by his friends
to be very indignant over the tone of Cham.
berlain's letter, and looks upon the concluding
paragraph. which assumes not to doubt the
patriotic and honorable purpose of the Exc
cutive in removing the troops, % a quiet bit
of sarcasm added as an afterthought several
days subsequent to the writing of the letter.
The evidence of the coming revolt in the Re.
publican party az ,inst the administration.
however, continues to multiply, and will
doubtless continue to increase the Presidents
indignation. A noted Republican who ar.
rived here to-day from Boston, where he had
an interview with Wendell Phillips, says he
told him that he had bushel-basketful of
letters from Republicans applauding his re.
cent speech denouncing the President and his
Cabinet. Many of the writers are publicly
known as supporters of the administration. A
distinguished Republican ex-senator from
Ohio, Ben Wade, has also written letter
here severely abusing Hayes and his so-called
policy, and predicting disaster as the result
Of it. On the other hand, Governor Hart
ranft, of Pennsylvania, had two hours in.
terview with the President tonight, and as.
sured him of his warm approval Of all that
the administration had done, and expressed
the opinion that it would contribute to the
welfare of the Republican party and the best
interests of the country. The President, in re-
turn, thanked him for his support, and said
he believed bis policy was right, and that he
intended to fully carry it out.
Mr.. Blaine, Of Maine.
As was to be expected, there are sore.
heads among the Republicans, who affect to
believe that the Presidents Southern policy
will be failure, and that the Southern people
are not entitled to proper consideration at the
hands of the chief executive. Prominent
among these malcontents is Mr.. Blaine, who
publishes the following letter in the Boston
Herald:
AUGUSTA, Me-, April 10th, 1877.
To the Editor of the Herald Your Colum.
bia correspondent is in error in bis statement
that had conference with Gov. Chamber.
lain in New York. I have aeen Governor
Chamberlain but once for year, and that
was in the private Cabinet.room of President
Hayes, on the 9th of March. Nor have I
written or telegraphed him, or heard from
him in any way.
The same is true respecting Gov. Packard,
except in the matter of one telegram received
from him, which read publicly in the Uni.
ted States Senate; but I am sure that Gov.
Chamberlain knows that he has my profound
est sympathy in the heroic, though unsuccess.
full, struggle he has made in South Carolina
for civil liberty and constitutional govern.
ment I am equally sure that Gov. Packard
feels that my heart and judgment are with
him in the contest he is waging, against great
odds, for the Governorship that he holds by
title as valid as that which justly and law.
fully seated R. B. Hayes in the Presidential
chair. .... ......
I trust also that both Governors know that
the Boston press no more represents the stall
wart Republican feeling of New England, or
the pending issues, than the same press did
when it denounced the enforcement of the tu'
gitive slave law in 1851.
Very respectfully, JAS G. BLAINE.
The Louisiana Commission.
"A dispatch from New Orleans to tho
New York Tribune. says that it may be safely
stated that majority, if not all, of the men,
bers of the Louisiana Commission have been
led by their inquiries to the following conclu.
sions: ...
First. That the Packard government has
the best, if not the only, de jure title. If re-
turning boards be constitutional part of the
machinery of elections, then Packard, bis
court, his officers and his legislature, are the
legitimate products of that machinery. There
is room for fair doubt as to The constitutional
power of the board to make up the legislature
and to act judicially on the Supreme Court
decision, denying it the power. Its return
was binding. The Nichols party had, there
fore, no right to build up a government on
their own doubts as to the constitutionality of
the statutes under which the board acted.
The question goes to the President, however,
not as legal, but as political one, and he
may fairly satisfy himself, and be governed
by his conclusions as to whether the boards
action was constitutional.
Second. That the Nichols government ex-
ercises complete de facto authority throughout