Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-05

that session of any administrative details tnaC
might improve present methods designed tor
the protection of all citizens in the complete
and equal exercise of right and the power OF
suffrage at such elections But with the views
both of the constitutionality and Of the value
of existing laws, cannot approve any meas
ure for their repeal except in connection with
enactment, or other legislation which may
reasonably be expected to afford wiser and
more efficient safeguards for free and honest
Congressional elections"
SENATOR BUTLER INTERVIEWED.
A. Washington correspondent Of the New
York Herald has been interviewing Senator
Butler of South Carolina. From the pub
lished report of the Senator's views on the
questions of the hour, we extract the follow
ing: ..
CONTINUING THE APPROPRIATIONS.
Correspondent 1t has been suggested in
some Democratic quarters to continue the
appropriations by joint resolution or to pass
the Civil Appropriation bill, and let the
Army bill fail by defaultf
Senator Butler: Yes; have heard some
such suggestion, but / am not prepared to
say how far it will prevail. l do not see that
we have anything to gain by such course
We shall be confronted by the same difficulty
next December, and, in my judgment, the
more maryland wiser course would be to
pass the Appropriation bills now. The Rad
icals do not want US to pass them, and it Is
always safe to do just what our enemy does
not want you to do. Besides that, the issue
is now squarely joined, and it will lose none
of its vitality by having the appropriations
passed. 49,
MR.. HAYES POSITION.
Mr.. Hayes, in his last veto message, has
rome further than any man has ever before
ventured in this country. General Grant
''practiced" his theory, but he never commit
ted to writing SO bold doctrine as to the use
of troops as has Mr.. Hayes If the Amerl-
can people are prepared to accept his doctrine
they will have the opportunity in the next
elections The battle-ground will be at the
North, and hence have thought it best that
the South should allow the Northern men
to conduct the fight in Congress, except to
have the Southern view presented in one or
two temperate speeches in each House by
= Southern men.
! WITHHOLDING APPROPRIATIONS.
Correspondent: What do you think of the
advisibility of Withholding appropriations
from the army?
Senator Butler: can see no good reason
for doing that. In the first place it is visit
ing upon the army sins that belong to others,
and besides, I believe standing army is a
necessary adjunct of the branch Of the Gov
ernment 1t has been so regared by the
ablest men in the past since the foundation OF
the Government. We have always had a
standing army, and why dispense with it
now? 1t is singular fact that the best
friends the army has has had in the past
were Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Poinsett, as Secre
tary of War, from South Carolina, and Mr..
Jefferson Davis, as Secretary of War, from
Mississippi. If gentlemen of their political
faith and peculiar views Of the constitution
al powers of the General Government could
sustain standing army, promote its efficien-
cy and acknowledge necessity for its exis-
tence there is not much reason for our be-
coming alarmed by its continuance.
I do not believe we have any moreright to
withhold supplies from the army than from
the navy, or any other branch OF the Gov
ernment and it is not good policy or good
Judgment to do so. Let the army be kept
in. its legitimate and proper sphere, and if it
should be used to influence elections or domi-
nate over the civil power in time of peace:
punish the man who perverts the law, and
not the army, which simply obeys the orders
of its superiors. If we cannot get the right
man this time we must try again, arraign him
before the bar of public opinion and the peo-
pie will be very apt to rendeg proper yer.
dict. There is a strong under-current of con-
servatism running through the masses of the
American people, South and North, and we
should do nothing harsh or extra constitu-
tional to shock or frighten that element, but
should try and reach it through the avenues
of reason and argument. The people are
tired of foolishness on both sides, and they
want straightforward, practical statesman
ship They want to be let alone to pursue
their peaceful business avocations in their
own way, and The man or party who diverts
them from such paths will suffer the conse-
4uences
THE FINANCEs-NEGRO EXODUS.
Correspondent: What are your views of
the late financial legislation in the House?
Senator Butler: 7 ou have asked me to tell
you my views of the negro exodus, and we
had better proceed to that. In my judgment
the best thing Congress can do with the 6nan.
ces is to let them alone. AS to this move
ment of the negroes, believe it had its origin
in Washington, and is largely inspired by
Republican politicians.
Correspondent: Do you think the exodus
will be as disastrous to the South as has been
prophesied, and as some of the Southwestern
people seem to fear?
Senator Butler do not think so. The
exodus is and will be blessing to the South
if it continues long enough to take North two
or three hundred thousand negroes, and the
negroes themselves will be benefited by the
change I trust that hundred thousand
may leave South Carolina. Their places
would soon be supplied with white labor,
while in Mississippi and Louisiana, in the al
luvial malarial regions, the places Of those
who have left or who may leave will be sup
piled by negroes from the hily or healthier
localities, aud their places in turn. will be
supplied by white settlers. We have too
much cheap negro labor in the South. 1t is
demoralizing to the intelligent white labor,
and we cannot prosper and improve and de.
velop rapidly until this superAuous cheap Ia
Dor is transferred to fields where it will be
vitalized by contact with the more vigorous
white labor of the North. Our people de-
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