Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-06

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of things and it is the duty of the South and
every Southern man to take care that no in
jury shall come to harm the South or disturb
the public peace from any act of indiscretion
and impulsiveness. The policy of the Presi-
dent has completely reversed the Southern
policy of the Republican party. 1t ends the
war policy of that party, and terminates the
strategy of sectional hostility and the means
of perpetuating the power of Republicanism.
1t is plain that there must be reformation
of parties and platforms. There must be new
issues to take the place of those which are
crowded out. We are therefore passing
through transition state in which prudence
becomes great virtue. The South has suf-
fered most, and has most to gain and most to
risk now. The Northern parties are animated
by the desire to control as the road to Office
and emoluments. But the South has higher
motive the desire to secure her rights and
her social safety. She cannot look upon
struggle political with an ordinary party pas
sion. She regards it as affecting vital inter
ests her peace and right nay, all she holds
dear. She cannot, therefore, trust to party
prejudices and passions things so dgni6ed.
The Democrats have won the Southern
sympathy in the past, yet it cannot be safe to
adopt their impulses and imbibe their passion.
Behold at this time the denunciation of the
Electoral commission, which is plank in the
platform of Democratic Conventions at the
North. Should such denunciation appear in
a Southern platform? We hold that the
Electoral Commission was one whose arbitra-
ment was binding, and that it is not now open
for partisan strife and certainly if such be the
fact, it would be the greatest folly imaginable
for the South, who found in the man seated
by the Commission deliverer and patriot
whose Justice and whose motives are elevated
above suspicion, to wage war upon that trl.
bunal.
Death Of the Great Mormon Leader.
Brigham Young, the great Mormon
leader, died in Salt Lake City on Wednesday
of last week. Although his name has been
prominently before the people of the United
States for the last thirty years, the following
brief summary of the leading incidents in
his notorious career will be of interest to
many readers:
Brigham Young was born at Whillnghan,
Vermont, June /, 1901. He was the son of q
plain farmer, but acquired education enough
to give him plausible address early in life.
He at first connected himself with the Bap-
tist Church, and preached in that connection,
though he was never regularly ordained. In
1881 he Joined the Mormons, then at Kert
land, Ohio, and under the leadership of Jo-
seph Smith. His shrewdness and energy
soon gave him influence with them, and in
1885 he was chosen one of the Twelve Apos
ties. Soon after this he was elected Presi-
dent, and was sent out to make converts
When Smith was killed, Young was made
leader, and it was under his guidance and
leadership that the Saints in 1S46 started for
Salt Lake, the Promised Land.
In July, 1847, he made settlement at the
present site of Salt Lake City, and from this
time forth Young became the very head and
centre of Mormonism. In 1849, the colonists
organized themselves into a State, and ap.
piled for admission into the Union, under the
title of the State of Deseret. This was re.
fused, but the Territory of Utah was organ
lied and Brigham was appointed Governor.
He held this position from 1850 to 1854. At
this time, from the very considerable immi-
grafton and their isolated position, Young
felt strong enough to defy the government.
In 1857, q Governor, who was not Mormon,
was appointed. His lite was threatened, and
a large body of Federal troops were sent to
Utah by President Buchanan to enforce his
authority. A compromise followed, and the
Mormons confined their hostilities to assas
sinatons. ---,--.---,.-~
Polygamy was openly proclaimed in 1852,
and the Prophet set the example to his fol.
lowers by sealing himself to many wives. In
1874, Ann Eliza. his seventeenth wife, petit
toned to the United States Court for di.
vorce, and pending the suit the Court decided
that Young should pay $4,000 for counsel
fees and make her an allowance Of $500 q
month. The revelations of the Mountain
Meadows Massacre, of which Young was EVIL
dently the instigator, are still fresh in the
minds of the American people.
Young was buried last Sunday. An early
selection of successor to him is not ex-
pected.
Woodruff and Jones Surrender.
- The Columbia Register of Tuesday says
that Jones and Woodruff have made restitu-
tion, so far as lay in their power, by returning
to the State the accumulations of which they
became possessed during the days Of Repub'
licau rule and rascality. They turn over to
the State property, real and personal, the cash
value of which amounts to 100000, though
they claim that its real value is 100000.
The Register says:
Woodruff, who is stenographer, and has
for years been Clerk of the Senate, has kept a
diary of the most minute transactions in which
he has been engaged during that time, aud is
at present engaged in translating his short
hand notes into long hand, for the benefit of
the committee. When once converted into
readable manuscript, they will tell the com.
mittee of all the thefts which have been per.
petrated under his eyes, from the beginning
of Radical reign down to the time that the
real people of the State got possession of the
government. Among these thefts every little
petty stealing, including coffins for deceased
members or their friends, or cradles furnished
for the legitimate offspring of the members
are included, as are also the wine,
cigar, book and furniture bills of these wor-
thies as we'll as the sums paid the various
members for their votes they so patriotically
cast for measures which did, even if they were
not intended to, bring ruin upon the State.
At least $50 checks given to these statesmen
Is bribe money were also turned over by
Woodruff, with the signatures or the "marks"
IF these worthy and enlightened men, witness
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