Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-03

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GEN. GARY's POSITION.
In recent speech at Aiken, General Gary
took occasion to explain his attitude toward
the colored, race, and to correct what he al
leges to be the Misrepresentation Of his posi-
ton on the race issue. While we are satisfied
with General Gary's recantation, 80 far as it
goes, yet We can hardly understand how his
Greenville speech was misrepresented, when
the same report of it was given Simultaneous
ly by different correspondents, who could
have had no object in misrepreseDting him.
In his Aiken speech, General Gary spoke as
follows:
He said that he esteemed it great privi.
lege to be allowed to address the Red Shirt
Democracy of Aiken, for he considered that
no county in the State had contributed more
to the success of the Democracy in 1876, than
Aiken, even though it was the youngest Of all.
Shoulder to shoulder, Edge6eld and Aiken
had battled together in 1875, and we are
ready to stand beside you again in 1878. He
then contrasted our present surroundings with
those of 1876. Now, said he, we have
Governor of our own choice, who is truly
representative of South Corolina. We have
executive, legislative and judicial departments
composed of the wisest men in the State, thus
giving to the Democratic party the control of
the three coordinate departments of South
Carolina. We achieved this against the great
est odds in 1876, when the carpet-bsgger
Chamberlain, was Governor. We have the
government now, but we propose to give every
man bis rights. He stated that be had been
misrepresented in the papers; that be had
been charged with acting outside of the plat
form of 1876, but the charge was false from
beginning to end. He was member of the
committee that reported the platform Of rs,
and also of the committee that moved its re-
adoption in 1878, and had opposed the injec-
ton of any new planks into it. The platform
of 1876 had been that of the Strai ight.out
Democracy, and he knew that if the banner,
with it's words inscribed upon it, were unfurled
again, it would be bound to win. He said he
had always been the friend Of the colored
man-every man in the South is his best
friend, because we have grown up with him.
He was an inheritance transmitted to us by
our fathers My position though, be said, is
this: I do not think the colored man equal
to the white man in intellectual structure
The Caucasian is superior to the Mongolian,
superior to the Indian, superior to every race
on the earth, and the history of>races proves
this to be true. But while this is 80, there is
no reason for antagonism between the white
and the colored man. | stated in Greenville
that the Republican party had raised the race
issue. We had always rendered the olive
branch to the colored people I stated that
if they do make the issue and the white man
accepts it, the black will be driven to the wall.
If it is made they are bound to 90 under. I
have been charged with putting an improper
construction on the Democratic platform.
The main point about the platform is the
method to be used for the control Of the col.
ored vote. I think the best mode Is not by
speaking to him, and I reached this conclusion
upen seeing the result of the speeches made in
Edge6eld during the reform campaign. We
can't expect the colored man to understand
the intricate principles of politics. His mind
has been clouded by long years of ignorance,
and to expect him to understand the United
States Constitution, from the different con-
struction of which the several parties in this
country take their rise, is to expect too much.
Most intelligent men differ in constructing that
instrument, and some white men do not un.
derstand it at all. thought each Democrat
should take upon himself to control one col
ored vote at the election. This is practical
politics. We should leave it to the clubs to
control them the best way they can. The COL
ored man, he said, is controlled in different
ways, by love of money, Gas the whites some
times are) by vanity and love of display, by
superstition Gas white men are not) and by
fears, which they have as race born to SER
vitude and born in subjection to the white
race, and from the instincts to yield to those
who have so long had the mastery over them.
We must take the colored man as he is and
not as we want him to be. He then spoke of
the contest in South Carolina, as being one for
civilization, and referred to the brilliant re-
cord of our people. That question is above
all others, whether Of race or of the United
States Constitution. He spoke of the distin.
gushing features of the two parties, and said
that every true man should look to the party
which will perpetuate republican institutions.
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dency, the perpetrators of which had been re-
warded by Hayes. No persons, he said, are
more true to the Constitution than those Of the
South, and the charge Of disloyalty is untrue.
He went into an extended discussion of the
ruin caused to the country by the thirteen
years administration of the Republican par
ty, dwelling specially on the National banks,
as contributing to consolidation of power and
discriminating against real estate as a securi-
ty, though that was about the only property
left the South after the war. The reduction
of the volume of currency he also considered
as as an injury to the country. He concluded
with the assurance that the people would
never allow Grant to 60 into the White House
again, but that the Red Shirt Democracy of
the South, and the Blue-Shirt Democracy of
the North, would unite to keep him out and
restore the government of Washington, Han.
cock, Witherspoon, Adams, and the other
great men who have gone before US.
BLUsH1Ne.-Nothing can be more absurd
than the idea that "looking guilty proves
guilty. An honest man, charged with crime,
is much more likely to blush at the accuse.
ton than the real offender, who is generally
prepared for the event, and has his face
"ready made" The very thought of being
of any thing criminal, will bring the
blood to an innocent mans cheek nine times