Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-12-18

letter to the News and Courier, Oh the subject
of the meeting, makes the following refer
ence to matters politically:
Looking the field all over, Messrs. Editors,
and analyzng the incentives that prompt the
actions of your legislators, ! am irresistibly
convinced that if we wish to live in peace and
prosperity under our own vines and fig trees
at the South, and cement this Union with a
cohesion really patriotic and true, the time
has come for "new deal'' politically; or if
not yet, is not far distant. Both the political
parties of this country have out-lived their
usefulness and should be wiped out. The
word Republican, used in partisan sense, il
hateful to every respectable Southerner who
loves the land that gave him birth. have
reason to know that the word Democratic,
used in partisan sense, is no less distasteful
to majority of the voters Of the North, and
they of the better classes. Then how can
these two discordant elements assimilate for
the public veal? They cannot. | would not
destroy parties. They are necessary to estab.
lish wholesome public opinion. But they
should never be allowed to become sectional.
A Solid South vs. a Solid North simply means
a house divided against itself, and as true as
the book in which it was written will be the
sequence of such division. We have the
"Solid South" to-day. The "Solid North
will come so soon that it will seem like to-
morrow when it is passed. My conviction is
the partisan does not live who can "carry''
New York as Democrat. Neither will De-
mocracy "carry" Indiana. All else is Repub-
lican. If this result is inevitable, as verify
believe it is, what alternative have we?
These and similar recent utterances by Mr..
Aiken induced the editors of the Augusta
Chronicle to address a note to him, and in
reply to the interrogations of the editors, he
refers them to this letter in the News and
Courier, above quoted from, and adds:
And now, as to "our duty" etc. We should
steer clear of President making. The nonina.
ton of any man by the South, be he the wisest
and best and purest in all the land, will Sc.
cure his rejection by the North and eventuate
in his defeat. We should detacb ourselves
from the Juggernautic car of Northern Dem
ocracy, and for time await events with the
hope and prayer that the better elements
of the North, those men who wanted good
government, peace and happiness. and SOL
i'd, substantial, real restoration of the Union
for the good of the whole country, woud erect
platform upon which the existing parties
should not stand, but upon which we of the
South, as Union.loving, law-abiding citizens
might fearlessly step, feeling and believing
that the purpose of the builders was to for
get the past, and, looking no more behind, to
push rig ght on with all the power given US as q
people to develop the material interest and
promote the social welfare of this great people.
I WOULD not destroy all parties, for parties
are necessities for our complete development
and continued advancement. But as at pres
ent organized. the existing political parties
are simply stirrers up of strife, and do not
and never will, by conflict of ideas, promote
the welfare of the masses. There are enough
of good men, North and South, of congenia!
ideas upon all important questions to unite and
organize party that would restore the Un-
ion, establish its prosperity and give content
ment to its people. The energies of the en-:
tire South, believe, should be bent toward
the creation of such a party, and when once
created, it should not be called Democratic.