Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-30

this conduct on their part was very unWlse.
They have advised them to enlist under the
banners of the Republican party and to JOIN
in humiliating and plundering those among
whom they We're born. Some few-you can
tell them off on your fingers-have acted on
this honest advice, and doubtless the coTters
of the United States Treasury afford them am
ple compensation for the contempt with which
honorable men of all parties regard them. But
the great mass of the Southern people had too
much of the leayen of human nature IN their
composition to kiss the rod that smote them.
Nv fellow-citizens of the neutrality-suspicious.
and DemOcratS-put yourselves IN our places,
and then say honestly, would you, could you,
have acted otherwise than we did?
Ihave given you briefly some OF the reasons
why the South has been opposed to the policy,
the methods and the leaders OF the republican
party, and you may ask why, admitting the
cogency of these reasons, she should ally her-
self with the Democratic party. The answer
is simple and plain. The Democrats of the
North. it is true, opposed us during the war
with as much earnestneSs and vigor as dld the
Republicans. and without their aid the Union
could not have been preserved. No sane man
can deny this. A Republican would hardiy
venture to do so. But when the war CLOSED,
these Democrats who had fought us so persls-
tently remembered that we were still Amerl-
can citizens. They remembered the pieuges
made by the government during the WAL
They held that the Southern States were III
tegral parts of the Union and not mere con-
ouered provinces. Untiinching enemies III
war. when peace came they were willing to
recognize us as brethren. They extended their
hands in token of reconciliation and we grasp
ed and still grasp these friendly hands. we
see the Republican party now as 1t always mas
been. in ali its changes and under it's various
names, still the party of Sectlonallsm. we
hail the great Democracy as natlonal. we
pray to be saved from the Republican party as
we pray to be delivered from envy, hatred,
malice and all uncharitableness.' We cling
to the Democratic party because it promises
to restore peace to the whole country and to
bring about harmony and good will among all
it's citizens. We have been faithful to this
great party in storm as in sunshine. AS we
did not desert it's banner through all these
weary years when they were furled III de1eat,
we surely shall not desert them now when
they are proudly moving on to victory. we
hope, we trust, we pray that the VlctorV may
be wisely used as it will be triumphantly won.
We believe that it will be the blessed harDm-
ger of lasting peace to our "hole country
that it will bring back the government to the
dignity, the simplicity and the purity OF the
pristine days that it will cement the Union
firmly, and that it will make the Constitution
what it should be, not only the supreme law OF
the land, but of the rulers Of the land. The
South, if l do not greatly misinterpret her
feelings, proposes in any event to stand by the
Constitution and that Union. Both belong
to her by possession and by inheritance, as
much as they do to the North, and he mallgns
his country men who says that the South IS
diSloyal to either This is the only country
which we of the South can claim as ours, and,
by the blessing of God, we hope to aid in
making it prosperous and happy, worthy to
be for all time to come the home OF freemen."