Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-23

ties of the country, with it's shaping hand, TO
disentangle the financial web which Republic
can craftsmanship had wound round and
round the great industries OF the country un-
til it stood like lion in the meshes. The
small operations of daily life, gradually cut
ting mesh after mesh, would in due time, and
with wise providence and patience, have re-
lieved the distress of the country; naturally
and permanently Sudden resumption, in my
view cost the people of the country too much
to be advocated should have preferred
more of what the doctors call the tentative
process than the enormous physicking through
which the country has been put. No one can
tell the countless loss and sorrow through
which the people Of this country have passed
in this rapid resumption measure, which can
be compared to nothing else than the Egyptian
order to the Israelites to make bricks without
straw. Yet, when the hard pan has been
reached, painful though the process may have
been, it does seem to me to be unwise to go
back and, perchance, have unwisely to travel
over the same ground again. do not think
it wise for the Democracy at this stage to set
back the wheels Of resumption. Let us rath-
er now take advantage of whatever good may
be found in it. The past, with all its sorrows,
it would be as well with all might and main to
put bravely behind us, and look out to the
wide future before us. The truth is resump-
tion will prove partial success or failure be-
fore 1880. We, in our own interests, whether
Democrats or otherwise, should wisely endeav-,
| or to make the most Of it, and the country has
right to expect this much at our, hands.'
THE JACKSON DEMOCRACY. I,..r
Correspondence believe, Governor, you
have always stood on the platform Of the jack
son Democracy" =; .,.;...-,,
GoYernor-"E -"Eyer, and stand there to-day.
To my view, we should get back there as fast as
possible: The true Jackson policy, asI ppre-
hend it, is to disentangle the business transac-
tiOns of the country from the legitimate fnan-
cial conduct of government affairs. To mix
the two things is unwarranted by the constitu-
tion, and dangerous to the. last degree. Why,
does not everybody see, from what has trans
pired before us, that the moment that the gov
ernment becomes involve in its financial 0pe-
rations with those of the country at large, the
moneyed men of the country and the great in
dustrial classes become involved in san ire
pressi5le conhict,p even more terrible than
that which the great New York politician of
former day pressed upon the attention Of the
country !? The moneyed men, in their own in
terest, endeavor to shape and control the fiian-
cial policy of the country, more or less, as the
necessities of the case or the greed Of the
moneyed men might demand. The Industrial
classes, at first unconscious Of control, or pa
tient under it so long as business prospers with
them; as soon as reverses come-either arising
from the exigencies of the times or the mis-
shapen policy of the government, it matters
not-begin to howl against the undue control
of the moneyed classes, who in turn, cry re-
pudiatiOn, until there is a lost confidence, a
general lookup Of current notes, and c0nse-
quently universal stagnatiOn in business. Thus
in attempting to join that together which the
constitution has left apart, we erect a danger
Gus propinquity of interests, which must lead,
in the end, to anarchy, actual reputation, if
racy, on the contrary, puts the conduct Of the
financial affairs of the business and industries
of the country at large in it's own hands, to
expand and contract according to it's own ne
cessities and the uncomfortable laws of trade,
more or less variant in different sections, and
hence, more or less adapted to the wants and
interests of each section. The State Legisla-
lures incorporated the banking institutions Of
the country, which, in the enlightenment OF
the times, will only permit such variations
from the common standard of chartered priyi-
leges and requirements as the special industries
and necessities of the case may demand and
justify. ~ iG .@@.4 rH 2hUL s. 26i gaf
efl. #, THE CAMPAIGN OF 1880. :.. ada
$50 far as 1 can see," continued the Govern
or, do not recognize the necessity just now Of
the Democratic party taking OH its back the
responsibility of the financial question. The
Republicans, as a whole, have shaped out the
financial problem which they now claim is a
success Let as not meddle with it, but give
it fair chance of success. If they have
brought the country to deaths door in achiev-
ing it, let us at least strive not to make it an
actual funeral, whereas it will in such emer-
gency become our funeral, no less than theirs.
Let us look to the permanent interest of the
| Ix1yho nfrv Jyh We vii
or lose, to deserve well of the whole country.
II am convinced we can win in 1880, if the
Democratic party of the Union will have done
with men of expediency and learn to toe the
mark squarely and fairly on established princi-
pies, and know no better school than that old
line Jackson Democracy. Then let us put good
trusty men in nomination, fearlessly avow our
principles, and show ourselves worthy Of trust
by being willing to take defeat at the hands Of
the people should they disapprove of our policy
A constitutional rule, sey-goreTnnent and no
sectionalisna should be the sum and substance
of our platform, fitted to good, honorable,
trusted and tried standard-bearers, it matters
not whether they be from the East or the West.
I have no patience with an Eastern Democracy
and Western Democracy, Northern Democ-
racy and Southern Democracy. It is no
Democracy at all that is not as wide as the
whole country. Until we can find an Eastern
constitution and Western constitution, or
Northern or Southern constitution of the Uni
ted States, let us have done with this sec,
tional Democracy, which means and ought to
mean certain defeat. Let us trust the people
with the matter, and believe the sober second
thought of the people Of this great country will
90 back to the constitution of our fathers with
one consent and find in it's wide bosom what
we all want, with the exception of class Of
wicked mischief makers-peace; blessed heaven
born peace!'
"' -. STATE FINANCIAL QUESTION. t.1"%
The Governor then, of his own accord, turned
to "a consideration of the State debt and its
being met squarely. He said he began his adj
ministration advising and advocating the
broadest generosity to the public creditors in
the interest of the people of the State them
selves. Nothing could make him believe that
the people of South Carolina, if let alone,
would do wrong in this matter. The whole
debt just as it is, could be carried by the peO-
pie, and they would find it more to their inter-
est, in the end to carry the last dollar Of it as
it stood, than to repudiate or seem to repudi-
ate one dollar Of it, Even if there was no
other consideration, no higher: one, we were
too poor not to protect our credit even from
scandal Still further, the political attitude
Of 1880 demanded that we should not add t9
our troubles the influence Of commercial men
against us in our final struggle for righteous
government and home rule" .'.n "a in:a! 10
,''When I first went to Washington to see
Mr.. Hayes said the Governor, ''the COM
mercial men Of the North sent a delegation
ahead Of me urging the President to recognize
my government in the interest of intelligent
and honest rule. I found their good word
had proven, as it. ought to have done, potent
with the Chief Executive. 1t seems to me to
come in bad grace from our people now to turn
their backs fatty against this same class