Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-09
Mlistellaneu1ls &eadiug.
JUDGE MACKEY ON THE SITUATION.

JUUGE AAChEI UN InE SllUA1AVNs
In conversation with Judge Mackey, a few
days since, he gave us very interesting
sketch of men and things.as he saw them on
his recent visit North. He was profoundly
impressed with General Hancock, with whom
he had an extended interview and regards
him as in the first rank Of American states
men. The Judge states that General Han
cock is confident of victory in the pending
election, and expresses his firm conviction
that with a free and untrammelled ballot,
unswayed by the organized interference Of
Federal officials, he would be elected by the
votes cast in the Northern States alone. He
declared that in his judgment the great and
vital issue involved in this campaign is the
restoration of a spirit of fraternal concord
among all American citizens, and that this
can beet be effected by a just and equal ad-
ministration of the laws over all, without re-
gard to race, color or station. That the
political changes now transpiring throughout
the country but mark the general reaction
against those methods Of government and
that sectional party policy which have here
tofore tended to defeat that beni gn object
He expressed himself as highly gratiGed by
the broad and national platform adopted by
the South Carolina Democracy in 1876, and
reaffirmed in 1880. He especially commend
ed the first article of that platform which is
in the following words:
1--WE accept in perfect good faith the thir-
teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the Constitution of the United States; &C.
cepting and standing upon them, we turn
from the settled and final past to the great
living and momentous issues of the present
and the future"
Here the Judge made certain exculpa-
tory statement as derived from General Han
cock himself, touching the Surratt execution.
The Judge reports General Hancock as say
ing he made prompt return to the writ Of
habeas corpus, served on him by Judge Wy
lie, setting forth the authority by which the
prisoner was held in custody, and also the
proclamation of President johnson suspend
ing the writ, but declaring that he submitted
himself to the judgment of the Court and
would obey the mandate Of the writ if the
Court 80 ordered, after nearing the return; by
producing the body of the prisoner in open
Court.
Judge Wylie held the return sufficient and
quashed the writ.
Judge Mackey states that many of the
leading business men North, who have here
tofore acted with the Republican party and
aided to furnish it the 'snews Of war" dur
ing the past twenty years, have given in their
adhesion to Hancock. Among these he in
stances Union Adams, of New York, the
head of one of the largest, If not the largest,
wholesale clothing houses in the world and
worth many millions of dollars.
The chief fear among men of this class
merchants and bankers-has been that if the
Democratic party came into power it might
rudely disturb or change disastrously the
financial policy maintained by the Republi
can administration during the past four years.
Upon this vital point many Of them have
conferred with General Hancock, and are
perfectly satisfied with the assurances that he
has given them. 49,. --...
Judge Mackey has had long conference
with Mr.. John Kelly, of New York, whom
he characterizes as the War,cick Of american
politics. who, by his splendid party leader
ship, and bis unequaled political sagacity and
infexible resolution, averted great calamity
from the Democratic party. He states that
Mr.. Kelly is universally recognized as an
incorruptible public official, who, as comp
troller of New York city, has effected a re-
trenchment and reform in its financial ad-
ministration which has saved to the taxpayers
nearly seven millions of dollars during the
past two years. The Judge says Tammany
is in hearty accord with the regular Democ
racy on the Presidential issue, and has hung
the Hancock banner out from its historic
hall. He states that General Hancock and
the Democratic leaders of the North, who
are most distinguished for their political
forecast, regard New York, New Jersey and
Indiana as sure for the Democracy while all
the indications point to the great probability
that Massachusetts and Pennsylvania will
be swept from the Republican column.
All the political telescopes in the North
are now being directed towards the h Southern !.
Our friends in the North fear, and our
enemies there hope, that there will be col.
lisions between the races in the Southern
States that will furnish the Republican party
the raw material out of which to weave their
bloody shirt
The great danger of violence springs from
the practice of compulsory division Of time
with Republican speakers at their own called
meetings. This practice is regarded in the
North as an outrage upon the Republicans
virtually denying them the right of freely as.
sembling to hear their own chosen orators,
and it is earnestly advised that no attempt
will be made to enforce it in this campaign,
for it is certainly calculated to provoke vic.
lence.- Chester Reporter.