Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-12-13

YORKVILLE, s. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. l3, 1877
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
All the material portions of the Presidents
first annual message to Congress are printed on
the first page of this issue of the ENQUIRER
To turn from the clumsy emanations of ex'
President Grants fuddled brain, which were
inflicted upon long.suferiug people at sta
ted times for eight weary years, the message
of his Excelency President Hayes, though a
lengthy document, is, nevertheless, "pleasant
reading" whether viewed as composition
alone, or whether we look only to the meas
ures it advocates.
With the exception of the terseness OF
Governor Hampton's last message, and the
fact that he treats only of matters pertaining
to our own State, there is sufficient similarity
between the two documents to warrant the
belief that the political localities of the two
executive officers run in the same groove.
While both are moderate in the tone of their
expressions, they are yet firm in the utter
ance of their convictions; and as any criti-
csm which we might no,0 make of President
Hayes cannot extend prior to the day he
took the oath of Office, candor compels US to
say that we believe he is no less actuated by
desire to serve his country we'll, than is our
own idolized Governor.
As will be seen by perusal of the message,
the President manfully stands up to his action
in Withdrawing military rule from Louisiana
and South Carolina, defending his course in
the premises, and assuring the country that
time will fully vindicate the wisdom of that
policy. True, there has already appeared
some captious criticism of this portion of the
message. The New York Herald querulously
asks if the President is now so bold in defence
of MS policy in this respect, why did he so long
delay putting it into execution, and intimates
that if he had withdrawn the troops within
three or four days after his inauguration, the
action would have been more in accord with
the theory of the message Looking through
the Heralds glasses this may seem true. But
we of South Carolina, who are probably more
deeply interested, are only glad to know that
the President did withdraw the troops, and
we are willing to admit that to his action we
are in great measure indebted for the quiet,
stable government we now enjoy. Why the
delay, we think it not now pertinent to
enquire-only feeling thankful that the day
of deliverance did come, and having no incli-
nation to reject it because deferred. With all
the pressure bearing upon the President, and
considering that it was bold step outside the
policy of the acknowledged leaders of his party,
we are willing to make some allowance for the
delay and more willingly when we reflect
that President Hayes is only man and not
imbued with the wonderful sagacity and states
manship which so eminently characterize the
writer in the Herald. Were the reins of gov
ernment in the hands of the paragraphist Of
the Herald, we doubt not but this earth would
be an elysium, and we would all feel that the
millennium was not far off, But while Mr.
Hayes was slow in adopting his policy, he now
congratulates the country upon the fact that
all apprehension of danger from remitting two
of the Southern States to local self govern.
ment is dispelled, and that there has been a
general establishment of order.
On the subject of currency, whether the
views of the President are fully in accord with
the views of the Southern people, or whether
his views, if adopted, would prove embarras.
sing to the people of this section, his argu.
ments donot seem to be prompted by sectional
ism or controlled by any particular money
class. In his desire that the resumption OF
specie payment shall not be retarded, he
makes himself plainly understood.
His recommendation of a tax on tea and
coffee will doubtless meet more universal op
position than any recommendation be makes
inasmuch as the proposition is not with the
view of increasing the volume ofrevenue from
internal sources, bat simply to take the
burthen from other subjects and place it upon
these two articles of daily consumption and
prime necessity. Yet the experience of 9th
or countries is that tea and coffee can bear q
tax the same as other luxuries-the duty
falling lightly on each consumer.
While the message could not be expected
to give all sections of the Republic equal sat
isfaction, and apply equally to the wants and
requirements of so many diversified interests
it is nevertheless conceived in liberal spirit
and will go far towards restoring confidence
throughout the country.
THE MOFFET LIQUOR REGISTER.
The practicability of the Moffst liquor reg
lister, placed by act of the Legislature of Vir
ginia in the bar-rooms of that State, has beer
satisfactorily demonstrated after an experience
of about three months, and the attention o.
other States is being turned to the expeden
as means of increasing their public revenue
At the last session of the Legislature of thi'
State, the following resolution was adopted
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