Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-29

! the country; that he further regarded 1t as q
! trick of the Democracy to oppress and crowd
out the poor man and the negro race, Dut
that at this time so much had his views
changed that he would not for thousand
dollars see it repealed. After its passage he
Immediately went to work and fenced in his
pasture lands with the rails around his farm,
and now he says in the evening he simply has
to 90 to his enclosure, to look at hls hogs,
&C., milk the cows and come home, without
the trouble Of running all over the country
to Get up his stock. In addition thereto he
says that he has not lost cow, hog or sheep
since lie fenced them in--a very unusual oc"
currence, as he termed it, and Furthermore,
'smy stock never looked so well as they do
now, and | expect to get finer breed next
winter.n This ought to have made him vote
the Democratic ticket next Fall, and we SO
suggested, but his reply was, 81 will see."
JUDGE MACKEY'S LETTER.
The ''open letter. addressed by Judge Mack
eyto Senator Hampton sets out by reviewing the
canvass of 1876 and the causes that impelled
the white people and taxpayers of the State to
rid themselves of the Radical bondage by which
|
reminds Hampton that while his nomination
was made ostensibly by Democratic Conven-
ton, the platform on which he was placed was
distinctively Republican that 1000 colOred
Republicans cast their ballots for him in that
election and while lie applauds Hampton
personally for keeping in goodfaith his pledges
TO the colored people, he quotes Sections 20
and 30 of the Election law enacted by the last
Legislature, as showing how the Democrats
have broken the safeguard pledged by Hamp-
ton, and then proceeds as follows:
Did ever legislative body frame such a
tremendous piece of enginery for crushing the
rights of free citizen You will perceive
that the managers alone (all Democrats are
permitted to speak to the illiterate voter who
presents himself at the poll to cast his ballot
for the candidate of his choice and they can
only read to him the names on the boxes.
This gives him ''no light, but rather darkness
viSbe.''
TIE VOTER WHO CANNOT READ
stands in such case so far as is his power to
correctly place his six ballots concerned,
precisely in the position of blind man who,
if the boxes were designated by colors, should
he informed that they were paintedr red, white,
blue, green, and yellow respectively, and that
he must deposit the red ballot in the red box,
&C., or it would not he counted. The per-
picked voter, whose right to vote has been SOL
emnly certified by the supervisor of registra-
ton stands with his six ballots in his hands,
unable to read the name upon any OF them,
and when lie asks to be informed which bal
lot he shall place in the box labelled for
'Members of the House of Representatives"
&C., the law forbds any one to answer.
HERE IS AN EDUCATIONAL TEST APPLIED
in the most odious form, in open defiance of
the Constitution of the State which fOrbids
the General Assembly to prescribe an educa-
tiOnal qualification for voters There have
been political eXigences where honorable NEIL
have reconciled it to their conscience to vio-
late the law Of the land as where people con-.
tend for the supremacy of their civilization
and their rights of property against the threat
encd rule of an inferior race In such SUI
preme emergency shall answer to the roll
call of my race wherever its camp-fres burn,
and cheerfully hazard the penalties of violated
law. The present Legislature of South Caro-
lima is, however, the first law-making body
THAT HAS EVER DARED TO MAKE
the statutes itself the vehicle of fraud In so
doing it has polluted the very fountain Of the
law, and Sapped the Sinews Of public order.
Says that enlightened publicist, Helvetius, in
his treatise on Man and his education (vol. 2,
p 49, ut is not on the truth of a revelation
or the purity of a worship, but solely on the
justice or viciousness of the laws that the vir-
tues or the vices of the citizens depend"
TO EXECUTE THIS FRAUD-BEGOTTEN STATUTE
which violates alike the Constitution of the
State and every principle of natural justice,
three thousand and four 1904 managers of
election are appointed, all Democrats, each Of
whom takes the following oath:
l do solemnly swear that / will
support, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States and the Constitution of
South Carolina, as ratified by the people on
the 10Th day of April, 1865 so help me God.
Limerick, Ireland, in mournful reminiscence
of q great National wrong, which, for nearly
two centuries has clouded the memory of it's
perpetrator with nfamy, is termed 1.-The City
of the Violated Treaty." This system of Or
ganiZed fraud must cause South Carolina to be
execrated by the American people as
THE LAND OF VIOLATED OATHs.
This great crime. to effect which the deadly
virus of fraud is made to circulate through all
the veins and arteries Of the body polite, can
not be sustained by the plea that it is done to
maintain white supremacy in the State. AL
though the colored population exceeds the
white, according to the late census, by two
hundred and thirteen thousand 3,0GO souls,
in a total population of nine hundred and nine
ty-fve thousand (995, ,000), showing majority
| or at least TOrCy-LWO thousand (4Z,UUU) cOlOTeu
voters. yet neither as colored citizens nor as
Republicans have they nominated State tick
ct since 1876. Our House of Representatives
consists of one hundred and twenty-four men,
bers, and the Senate of thrty-three. In the
House there are, / believe, but nine colored
members, four Of whom
WERE COUNTED IN AS DEMOCRATS,
and are generally regarded by their race as the
mere servile creatures of their political task
masters. In the Senate there are but two COL
ored, both Republicans, from the strong color
ed counties of Beaufort and Georgetown,
where the blacks outnumber the whites more
than seven to one, and can thus awe the DEM
ocratic managers into making fair count.
Yet even in those counties, the colored people
have generously shared their power with the
respectable whites, without regard to party, in
the filling of county offices, and in Georgetown
they elected Mr.. Aston, Liberal Democrat,
on their ticket to the Legislature. In few
other counties they have nominated some few
| of their number for the smaller local offices
and for the Legislature and Congress, all Of
whom have been ineXorably counted out, un-
der the general scheme to annul the cOlOred
mans rights Of citizenship.
THEY STAB HIS CITIZENSHIP
to the earth through the shields of two consti-
| tutions interposed for it's protection-and this,
| not to save Il civilization, but to aggrandiZe a
party A starving, shipwrecked man, obeying
his instinct of self-preseryatiOn, has been
known to slaughter and eat his feebler CON-
paniOn, and moralists excuse the act but no