Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-02
Crenshaw for Sl55 On the 11th Of August,
1863, Dr. Crenshaw sold this lot to Leslie D.

l.. NJ. GrSt. On the 9th OF February, 1865,
Mr.. Johnson sold his lot (No. II to Mr.. A. G.
Sutton for $3.50. We may be prolix in the
mention of dates and figures, but we wish to
emulate the example of Mr.. Sutton in the mat
ter of particularly and conciseness, and espe-
cially do we propose to show by the above
statement how entirely mfounded is his story
Of our alleged conversation with him. 1t will
be seen that he came into possession of the lot
in 1855. Two years previously, l.. NJ. Grist
bought the adjoining lot, and subsequently, in
order to obtain more ground, did wish to buy
either of the lots adjoining his. Mr.. Sutton
conferred with him several times, offering to
sell, but the high price put upon it prevented
a sale and so to obtain the desired room, in
1865 we bought the Owen lot, after rhich time
ace nerer desired or ,Cdnted Mr.. Sutton's lot,
having no use forit, the purchase of the Owen
lot giving us all the additional ground we
wanted and consequently we had no occasion
to confer with Mr.. Sutton upon the subject.
We never walked with him to examine the lot,
there being no occasion to do so, us it was i'm
mediately adjoining the one on which we
lived, and our passing by it from two to four
times a day prior to Mr.. Sutton's ownership
of it, and for ten or more years afterward,
would render it unnecessary. We therefore
deny ever having such conversation as he al
leges under the circumstances alleged, or un-
der any other circumstances and we further
assert that subsequent to our purchase of the
Owen lot in 1865, we never entertained the
remotest idea Of buying Mr.. Sutton's lot, nor
never exchanged a word with him on the sub
ject of it's purchase until the year 1873, when
he came into our office and offered to sell it.
This sras just before he filed has petition IN bank
ruptcy, and he offered us the lot-a vacant lot,
containing 2 roods and 2S poles, and virtu-
ally the ''ragged edge'' of all old field, nearly
quarter Of mile from Main street-for the
moderate sum-startle not, kind reader-of
fifteen hundred dollars. And this on the eve
of filing his petition in bankruptcy. But few
words were exchanged between us on this oc-
casion, and this was the first and only CONVEX
satiOn we ever had on the subject Of his lot
subsequent to the year 1865. His petition in
bankruptcy was filed on the 14th of January,
1874, and as he did not succeed in disposing OF
his lot previous to filing his petition, it was
sold at the assignee's sale and bought by the
late John H. Adams for $71.50-rather de-
cline from the ante-bankrupt valuation. We
afterwards took the lot off Mr. Adams hands
lie owned land adjoining the lot, and bought
it at the sale merely for his own protection,
but before the assgnee's deed was made we
consented to take it off his hands at the price
bid by him. This explains our present owner
ship of the lot but we had no special use or de-
sire for it, having moved from that locality in
1869 to the house in which we now live, on Main
street. These are the facts in the case, and
though stated with some degree of circumspec-
tion, we trust they are void of the air of a
swift and willing witness, to which Mr.. SUIT
tons statement, according to legal maxms, is
certainly susceptible. Subsequent to 1865 we
had no desire to own the lot and never after
that date spoke to Mr.. Sutton on the subject,
until he approached us in our office, in 1873
Mr. Sutton and ourself, never at any time
walked tout together to examine the lot, :"
familiar with it ; and lastly, we never held
the alleged conversation with him in reference
to Mr.. a. S. Wallace.
Mr.. Sutton is very precise in his statements,
quoting our exact language" in a conversa-
tion, alleged to have ensued, he don't seem to
know exactly when, and then locates the date
of another important conversation two years
anterior to its actual occurrence. We refer
to the interview on the part of the committee
consisting of Messrs. Powell and Withers.
Those gentlemen did call on us for the pur-
pose stated, but it was in the year 1878 and
not during the canvass of 1876. In 1876 we
supported cheerfully every Democratic nomi-
nee from Governor down to coroner. In 1878
a ticket was nominated by the county Con-
vention, which in some respects was distaSte-
full to a large number of Democrats In COM
mon with many others we had, as we don't
deny, expressed our disapprobation of some OF
the nominees, but never to that extent that
was expressed by probably as good Democrats
as Mr.. Sutton We had no voice in the Con-
vention and felt under no special obligation to
abide it's result but we know that we voted
for Messrs. Massey, Garrison and McNeel on
the Legislative ticket, and all the other Dem
ocratic nominees except the one nominee for
the Legislature
We did somewhat doubt the authority for
appointing committee to catechise us, and
to this committee we ''concisely answered.
that we should vote for only such names on
the ticket as we pleased, or words to that
effect. Our memory is not as perfect as Mr..
Sutton's. But we are glad to have learned at
last the source of this committee. 1t seems
to have emanated from the inspiration of
Mr.. A. c. Sutton, a gentleman of undoubted
patriotism, probity and honor, and one to
whom the Democracy of York county will
no doubt look as bright eXemplar. Had we
then known that the Democracy of the coun-
ty was in his keeping, and that a gentleman
of his refined sense of honor was entrusted
with the weighty responsibility of leading the
party to brilliant victory, we could have
referred his committee to many other Demo-
Gratis who were more Outspoken in cOndemna-
tion of the ticket than were We 1t may now
be late to make the announcement, but for
Mr.. Sutton'S delectation we would say that
his ''committee'' could have been kept busy
s'conferring" with as good Democrats as him
self all over the county and so general was
the diSsatisfartin inn--with which had no
hand in producing, but did what we consis-
tently could through these columns to allay-
that only by the efforts of Judge Witherspoon,
then the County Chairman, who made vigo-
rous and active canvass of the county, the
ticket for which Mr.. Sutton felt so deep, pa
triotic and entirely disinterested solicitude
would have been badly demoraliZed, to say the