Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-26

COTTON PLANTERS ASsOCIATION.-The
National Cotton Planters's Association was
in annual session at Little Rock, Arkansas,
on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
7. G.. Moorehead was reelected President
George McIin, of Mississippi, Treasurer; 5. r.
Cockrel, of Arkansas; R. NJ. Patton, of Ala
bama H. R. Lucas, Of Louisiana; II. r.
Jackson, of Georgia; A. p. Butler OF South
Carolina; M. Mc(iehee, of North Carolina
G. D. Shands, of Mississippi; A. Bradford OF
Florida f. Ensley and =. W: Kidd, of Tex
Vice-P Presidents. President MoOrehead sub
mitted his annual report and paper on cot
ton and land syndicates, by S. R. Cockrell,
was read The President was authorized to
appoint several travelling lecturers.
The Association resolved to hold the worlds
centennial cotton exposition in 1854 that year
being designated because Of the seizure by the
King of England 1884, of eight bales of cotton
as contraband, it having been charged that
America could not produce so large quantl-
ty. 1t was decided to establish Planters and
Farmers Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and resolutions were adopted urging that
the Commissioner Of Agriculture be made
Cabinet officer; approving the plans OF the
Mississippi River Commission and thanking
the President and Congress for their action in
the matter; asking reduction OF the tariff
and appointing committee OF one from each
State to- consider the proposition to establish
a cotton land syndicate and for an alliance
between the Manchester spinners and Ameri-
can cotton growers The next annual meeting
will be held at Vicksburg, the time to be
determined by the Executive Committe. The
Convention then adjourned sine die.
NEMUsT ELECT OUR CoNGREssMEN.-The
Democrats of this State should work Zealously
for the election of the candidates for Con-
gress as for the election of the candidates for
State officers and for the Legislature. They
should do this because, without a Demo-
cratic majority in Congress, there is no assu-
rance of tranquility and of immunity from
partisan and sectional legislation and they
should do it likewise for the larger reason
that the United States government IS our gov
ernment, and we should be unwilling to en-
ioy it's benefits and Slirk the responsibilities
and obligations of citizenship. 1t is no longer
an alien government. 1t is onr government,
and we are false to our government when we
allow the duty of representing us to fall into
the hands of men whose objects and aspira-
tiOns are wholly different from our own. The
power and opportunity to elect Representa-
tives to Congress is a public trust, and the
whole people should regard it as their business
to send to Congress the best and truest men
they can find who will cooperate with the
members from the North and West in making
this country as clean in administration as 1t IS
great in resources. The victory will be IN
complete in November # the Democracy
in this State do not elect Dibble, Tillman,
Aiken, Evins, Dargan and Hemphill to repre-
sent South Carolina in the Congress OF the
United States.-Ne,rs and Courier.
INTELLIGENCE AND WEALTH WILL RULE.
"My colored friends, let me tell you, that so
long as grass grows upon the soil of South
Carolina, as in the past so will it be IN the
future, the intelligence and wealth OF the
State will control it, These are the words
of D. j. Carter, Esq, of the Lancaster Ledger,
in his address at the Independent GreenDack
meeting at Lancaster on the 9th ultlmo,
which SO incensed the negroes that they not
only offered violence to Mr.. Carter but In
stigated terrific riot in which four OF their
number were killed and several wounded.
This is a sad record, and as suggestive as sad.
Mr.. Carter's sentiments represent the sober
common sense Of the world. Wherever men
think at all, they must think just as he does.
And the unthinking rabble throw themselves
against such sentiment, in their perverse
heedlessness, only to be bruised and broken
Southern Christian Advocate.