Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-01
Mistellaueuns &eading.
MACKEY TALKING MALONE.
Remarkable Speech by State Judge.
From the Georgetown Is. C.) Timcs.I

treated to a genuine political feast, quite un-
expected, but none the less refreshing. Music
from the two colored bands of the town ad.
vised US of the fact in the earl y part of the
evening that something more than usual was
on the tapis, and it was soon discovered that
his Honor, Judge T. j. Mackey, was expect
ed to make speech. The two bands tender
ed his Honor serenade at the boarding house
where he was stepping, and quite large num-
Der of white and colored citizens assembled
there to hear him speak. About 9 o'clock
the Judge was escorted out on the piazza and
introduced by the intendant of the town, Mr..
David Risley.
After express ng his sincere thanks for the
kind and courteous invitation that had been
accorded to'him of addressing his felow.citi.
zens of Georgetown, the speaker directed his
attention to the condition of political affairs
in South Carolina, claiming that there was to
be found much that was wrong here, and sug-
gesting remedies which, in his judgment,
would cure the evils that exist. He claimed
that there was very. little, If any, progress in
South Carolina, and said that prosperity
would never again gladden. the hearts Of South
Caroluians, unless radical change was
brought about in the political affairs of the
State. He advocated a compromise on the
part of the whites with the blacks, and a ter
mination Of the political dissensions which
agitate the State, every two years, from the
mountains to the sea, as the only means OF
bringing lasting peace and prosperity to our
people. He believed that the white man and
the black man should move shoulder to shoul-
der, and work out their fortunes together in
the grand march of progress. He thought
that great injustice was done to the colored
people in not allowing them fair representa-
ton in the General Assembly of the State.
[Hear! hear j He claimed that the white
people could and should allow the colored
race larger representation than they now
have, and that they could do so and still re-
tain the controlling power in their own hands
AS South Carolinian who loved his State
and remembered her before the rude disasters
cf war had marred the comeliness of her form
and dimmed the lustre of her eye, he longed
to see change in the present political condl
tion of the STATE. As long, said he, as the
race issue is injected into political campaigns
and the drawing Of party lines continues
making it almost criminal for men to express
their political sentiments just so long would
Northern men and Northern capital shun the
soil of South Corolina, [hear hear j and
Just so long would our State remain in the
background Of progress. He desired to see
so far as State issues are concerned, party
lines done away with, and political strifes and
disseusions ended and he wanted to see the
day when any man, black or white, Northern
er or Southerner, can come into this State
and express his political sentiments without
the apprehension of fear to person or proper
ty. Then better day would begin to dawn
upon South Carolina, who was now in such a
deplorable condition, financially, that her av.
erage planter, at the end of each year, is SC
poor that he owes for the clothes that he wears
and the average laborer so ragged that if he
were to attempt to cross forty-acre field and
we're caught by heavy northeast wind, be
would be whipped to death by his rags
Loud cheers and laughter.] Judge Mackey
was frequently applauded during the delivery
of his speech, and he succeeded in keeping
the undivided attention of his audience
throughout.
The intendant of the town, Mr. David Ris
ley, was then introduced, but declined to
make speech, on the ground that he though,
it would be impossible to add anything to
what had been said.
Ex.School Commissioner, F. W. Macusker
was next introduced Mr.. Macusker stated
that he was a Democrat, and that everybody
knew his past political record. Laughter
Hear! hear!] He heartily endorsed the sen.
timents expressed by Judge Mackey, and was
sorry that he was not as we'll prepared, or he
would like to be heard on the questions which
had been presented. He went as far as any
other man in the Democratic party, at the
past several elections, to further the interests
of that party, but that he was now ready and
willing to 60 as far as any other man in effect
ing compromise between the whites and the
blacks. He said he had always been in favor
of such a compromise, aughter,] but party
feeling ran SO high that his efforts in that d.
rection all proved abortive. He promised
that he would be found, at all times, ready to
lend his influence in efecting an arrangement
of the kind SO necessary and replete with
good results for both races.
Mr.. George E. Herriot was next introduced,
who expressed himself as being in thorough
accord with the speaker, who bad preceded
him, and said he wished to see harmony pre-.
vail among the whites and the blacks through
out the whole State
Mr.. L. S. Enrich was introduced as the
last speaker. Mr.. Enrich said that he hearth
ly subscribed to all that Judge Mackey had
said, and stated that six years ago he would
not have dared publicly to avow the senti-
ments which he now expresses for fear of So
cal ostracism. He was glad to be able to
say that such was no longer the case, and he
considered it one Of the most cheering signs
of the times. He followed pretty much the
line of argument pursued by Judge Mackey,
and held that no substantial progress in this
county or in the State was possible as long as
the white people and the colored people stood
arrayed against each other in politics. We
want to build railroads and cut canals and
build up enterprises. said the speaker, but so
continues, and the races are kept apart and
made to look upon each other with suspicious
fear, we will never be able to accomplish
these results, and the result is that stagna-
ton must everywhere prevail in business.
Mr.. Enrich thought that the whites and
blacks should sink their differences in poll
tics and come together, and that the former
should make advances to the latter He knew
that the blacks would never come over to the
whites, as they were taught to believe that
there was something terrible and to be feared
in the word "Democrat" Mr.. Enrich spoke
in the same strain for sometime, and was
frequently interrupted with laughter and cries
of "hear hear w
When the next political contest is over,