Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-27
THE POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS.
COMMENTS OF THE STATE PRESS.
A REMARKABLE PRODUCTION.

| A REMAhhABLE EhOOOS1lot>s
| From the Winnsboro News.
District Attorney Melton 8 speech in Charles
ton was most remarkable production. Fol
effrontry it is unparalleled. After deliber-
ately endeavoring to pack the jury with knaves
and subservient tools, through an assumed
right. which if existing has never been prac-
ticed before, thus accomplishing by indirec-
ton what Congress by repeating the test oath
had expressly forbidden, he stands up before
all men and protests and reiterates that his
heart is heavy, because stern duty impels him
to prosecute his friends and neighbors. His
heart may be heavy. We trust it is. Heaven
knows it should be-.
THE DEMOCRACY sOLIDIF1ED.
From the Sumter Watchman.
Although the Democrats of this State are
being yictimized, and the whole Radical Ad-
ministration are applying the party lash under
the guise of duty and for the salvation OF a
pure ballot box, it will be the means of per-
fectng the very object these trials are intend
ed and hoped to destroy-a solid Democracy
at the next election. This political step ON
the part of the Administration has been the
most effective cure for the Independent mama
that could have been devised, and for that
reason the Democrats have cause to rejoice IN
the satisfaction of knowing that it they are
prosecuted with all the severity the Admins
tration can infict, their ranks will ever re-
main solid.
MIR. MELTON'S PURPOSE.
From tho Barnwel Sentinel.
1t is evidently the purpose of United States
District Attorney Melton to pack the Jurles
before whom are to be tried the election otfi-
GERS and others, and his departure from an
EXPRESSED desire for fairness in the makeup OF
these juries goes to prove that, If possible, the
accused parties must be convicted, whether
guilty or not. In his strict partisan attitude
he is willing to exclude all decent, fair minded
white men, and accept a class OF negroes,
whose animosities towards the people OF the
State are sufficient guarantee that no one
shall escape whose case comes before them
WHY SINGLE US OUT?
From the Kingstree Herald.
Why single us out and pass by unnotIced the
gigantic frauds that were practlced IN the
great State of New York and many other
Northern States during the last election
The reason is too plain to be mistaken. The
chances of success in South Carolina are much
better than Notwithstanding of the dissatis-
faction existing amongst us at present, and
by pressing the election cases to extreme
measures, they hope to succeed in raising
third party by which they can elect their Con-
gressmen. During the campaign IN ieeO re-
publicans violated the election laws far more
frequently and fagrantly than Democrats, but
because protected by the friendship of the
Stawarts, they 60 ''unwhipt of Justice
t'IT DOES SEEM STRANGE"
From the Anderson Intelligencer.
1t does seem strange that in the opinion of
the district attorney the colored members of
the panel were fair, impartial and competent
to try the case, and that two-thirds of the
whites were biased, partial and ought not to
be trusted under the solemn sanction OF an
oath to sit upon it. He must have very ex-
allied opinion of the virtue, fairness and COM
potency Of the colered race for jurymen, and a
very low one for his own color and race
IN HIS TRUE COLORs.
From the Chester Reporter.
United States District Attorney Melton,
who has professed in print great anxiety for