Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-08
M(istellameuns &eading.
MACKEY,s VERSION OF HIS SPEECH.
From the Clarendon Enterprise

lima was redeemed from long misrule by a
supreme effort of her best citizenship, guided
under Providence by that wise leader and
humane ruler, Wade Hampton. The Re-
publican party, as the dominant organization
in this State, thus passed away from power,
but not until all of its distinctive principles
were plainly embodied in the platform of the
South Carolina Democracy. The declared
principles of the Republican party survived
its supremacy in the State. That party, my
friends, did not 60 down amid some awful
convulsion of nature, nor was it blasted by the
red lightnings of heaven, but it rotted down
The victory of 1878 has, however, failed to
bring the repose that it promised. Every
two years the people of this State are mar
shaled on the line Of race in fierce political
conflict. In this conflict each race is impell-
ed by fear, the whites sincerely ly believing that
their property and their civilization both de-
pend upon the event of the struggle, and the
colored citizenship, with equal sincerity, feel.
ing that their rights as free citizens depend
upon their party success. This ceaseless ag-
tation has brought, and is still bringing, Bit
ter calamity to both races. 1t has stamped
South Carolina as the dead line of American
civilization, and capital and immigration
have shrunk from it as the land of perpetual
unrest. Our great necessity is to create con-
idence throug ghout the mighty States of the
North in the political methods aud purposes
of the now dominant party Of this State.
1t is due to want of this confidence that
the planter of South Carolina, when forced
to borrow, must pay from twelve to eighteen
per cent. per annum for money, while the
farmer of the North, with like security bor-
rows readily at four and FIVE per cent.
AS South Carolinian, earnestly desiring
to advance the common good of the whole
people of his State, I propose what, in my
best Judgment, is the only practical remedy
for this constantly recurring evil which so
retards their material prosperity.
1, must be admitted that according to the
Constitution Of the State, the majority have
the right to rule. This indeed is now held as
fundamental American doctrine. AS a
consequence it must be conceded that the
colored citizenship of South Carolina, with
its majority of forty-two thousand voters,
have the constitutional right to govern it.
But my colored friends, it is not wise al
ways to demand the enforcement Of every
right to its extreme limit. You must deal
with this grave issue as practical question
of applied politics.
The white people of South Carolina pay
ninety per cent. of the taxes, and embody in
themselves a still greater proportion of its
intelligence, and they will rule, either by le-
yal frand or bv nhvscal force
Wherever you plant the Anglo-Saxon,
whether upon the banks of the Congaree, the
Ohio, the Hudson or the Penobscot River, if
he pays ninety per cent. of the taxes, he will
either do the most Of the voting, or all the
counting of the votes. This counting is the
silent force that moves the political machinery
of the State. In your unwise assertion of the
right of the majority to rule by your claiming
too much, you have provoked reaction that
has resulted most unjustly in your receiving
too little, practically excluding you from any
personal or race representation in the govern.
ment Of the State.
Concede then the rightful supremacy of the
white race in South Carolina, and on that
basis demand fair representation of your
own in its government, State, County and
Municipal, and l know that majority
of the whites of this State will accede to
your just demands, and thus end forever the
unrest and political discomfort that have so
long vexed and harrassed both races upon her
soil. The government of the State, it is true,
is Justly and humanely administered, in the
main over both races, and the law is keeping
watch and ward tonight under the stars, a
silent but sleepless sentinel over the cabin
of the poor and the mansion Of the rich, yet
the cause that have pointed out still denies
to her whole people the political repose they
so much need.
1t is time that this long discomfort should
end and that the rights ofeach should be sa'
credly respected by all. The great and pure
statesman Edmund Burke, speaking Of the
discontents in England in his time, wisely
said, that "all substantial progress in govern
ment and every material benefit to the peo
pie has been the result of timely compromise
and barter"
A WICKED sA1LoR-One day Mr.. Brily,
the wicked sailor, was going by old CATERS,
and he found him digging we'll, and boy
was pulling up the rocks in a bucket with a
windlass. So Jack gave. the boy ten cents
and said: "You 90 and git some candy, and
I'll pull up for you till you git back" and
the boy done it. Then Jack put his bulldog
in the bucket and let it down and the dog it
jumped out in the we'll with CATER, who hal
loed wild, and the dog too. Then he got old
Gafferses cat and pitched that down too, and
the dog tackled the cat between Gaderses legs,
and the cat run up CATER like he was tree,
all yellin' like linens. There wasent never
suca 6te! After a while Jack he let the
bucket down and hauled old CATER up with
the winlas, looking nifty beat and his clothes
tore. Fore CATER cude get his breth, Jack
sed: "Tell yer wot, CATER, if hadn't come
along yude had pretty rough time of it, |
ges, cos that boys gone for another cat"
PARITY OF REAsoNING.-Lately at a dis
tribution of prizes at German village, lit
tie girl seven years old, whose parents had
just been turned out of their lodging, because
they had failed to pay their rent, was asked