Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-14
pediency of measures originating even with a

&W"N~NWMNN
pediency of measures originating even with
Democratic Legislature.
The Captains assertion that we desire to
"solidify Western from Eastern York." is en-
tirely gratuitous Nothing could be further
from our DESIRE We would rather bring the
opposite sides of the county in closer commu-
nifty with each other than by word or deed do
aught to estrange the sections. Our very po-
sition on the new county movement contra
diets his statement. AS to eastern represeT-
tation we have never failed to vote for eastern
men and we accord to the eastern side of York
county an intelligence, patriotism and spirit of
enterprise Of which any people may be proud,
and we yield tonone in our respect and admira-
|tiop for those people. We should certainly
never asay the east of representation; nor do
we think that in the past she has cause for
complaint. We are not the champion or the
partisan of any individual candidate, nor
does the question of locality concern us. We
have every reason to believe that in the last
Legislature, York county was as fully repre-
sented by Messrs. Massey, Stewart and Jones,
all from the eastern side, and DR.. Black from
the extreme west, as if the same number had
been chosen from the central part OF the
county; and let the candidates he chosen at
the coming primary election live in what Sec
tions of the county they may, we have too
high an opinion of the Democracy of eastern
York to attach any Importance to the covert
threat of Capt. Witherspoon in certain con-
tingency, as expressed by him at Fort Mill
last Thursday.
But the 'smost unkindcst cut of alp was
when Capt. Witherspoon, with all the pomp
and show of mock oratory, paraded before his
hearers the attenuated ghost of Ku-kluxsm.
With Hamlet we are led to exclaim:
"Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
Be thou spirit of health or goblin dann'd.
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from
hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That will speak to thee.''
Certainly, Capt.. Witherspoon cannot frighten
US with this gaunt spectre, or any spirit that
he may call from the "vasty deep" To any
capital he can make by thus attempting to
create prejudice against us he is welcome.
Heinsinuates that when citizens of York were
being arrested and imprisonedby the strongarm
of the military power of the strongest govern
ment on the globe, our abuse of that power
would have been of service to those unfortu-
nate men. Not man arrested by Merrill but
had our sympathy. But abuse of Merrill
would not have alleviated the condition of any
of them, and might have caused them greater
h,,co nf
Capt Witherspoon insinuates, either by fear
of the powers that were or by a disregard OF
the victims of that power. Where was Capt.
Witherspoon at this time Did he proclaim
from the housetops the tyranny of Major Mer-
rill and his men ? We really don't remember
of hearing from his lips any loud denuncia-
tion at a time when even his voice ''could
have been of aid to the people of York" His
courage at this late day is only equaled by the
surprise with which the Amendment question
was s'sprung' on him at Hickory Grove on
the 31st of August-two months after it had
been the staple of discussion all over the
county!
In conclusion, we may be permitted to say
that Capt. Witherspoons onslaught upon the
"Editor of the ENQUIRER and few of his
friends" is only a cheap mode of electioneer-
ing. He hopes, by obscuring the main issue,
which, owing to the 'ssudden surprise" he Ia
bors under, is too hard for him to dispose of
to his satisfaction, to create little side-show
of his own, hoping thereby to attract a sympa-
thising audience. AS nobody he has assailed
has even used his name, so far as we know, OF
evenhad him in remote contemplation, tht
public will easily discern the motive of this
''tempest in teapot which he endeavored
to create. We have given this subject little
more space than it's Importance demands; but,
adopting the style of our assailant, 1--WE deem
it our duty to our fellow-citizens to say what
we do, or we should take no pleasure in doing
it,