Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-01
THE POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS.
Barnwell People.

BarnWell People.
The drummers of BreWster's outrage mill
are secretly gathering up grist for the April
term of the United States Court. A few
white men, who claim to be decent citizens,
are the catspaws of the Radical party in this
dirty work. Their tracks have been found
and their trail is leading towards the office
of Mr.. Melton.
Anderson Inteligencer.
The reason the Government wants to con-
yict South Carolinians is that they are white
men and are Democrats. To do this they
stand aside every respectable white man.,
and try to force verdicts regardless of fjustice.
As long as there is one honest man on the
United States juries they will fail of convic-
tiOns, because the success of the design re-
uuires, in addition to the other officers of the
government, twelve jurors to consent to an
iniuuitous verdict. This being our only
safety, it is the duty of every true Carolin-
ian drawn upon these juries to report to the
Court at the appointed time. 1t is the most
important service that the citizen can rem
der his country, and at the sacrifice OF busl-
ness or pleasure those drawn on these juries
ought to attend the Court. Only in this way
can the iniquity of false convictions be
averted.
Aiken Recorder.
Again is the disgraceful attempt to be
made to convert an American court OF JUS
tice into an engine OF oppression as ma
NOUS as any ever utilized by the Spanish
Inquisitors or the brutal Jeffreys. Brew.
ster, the moral monstrosity and dandified
babboon, who disgraces the nation by the
position which he occupies as the head OF
the department of justice, is determined
that batch of South Carolina Democrats
must be convicted and sent to the Albany
Penitentiary at the April term Of the United
States Circuit Court which will be held III
Charleston Quiet and respectable citizens
are to be dragged from the bosom OF their
families to the neglect of their daily aVoca-
tiOns, at most critical period OF the year,
and made to confront an array OF perjured
witnesses, who with malice in their hearts
and red-hOt lies on their tongues, would
swear away the life of an angel in their lust
full greed for the thirty pieces. The hand
cuffs must be riveted on the innocent Dem
ocratic victims, and the doors of the Albany
penitentiary must close upon their hopes
and liberties. The last turn of the thumb
screw is to be made, and nothing that dia-
bolic ingenuity can devise is to be left I'M
done. Brewster has employed this time,
in the place of the brainless but brassy San
ders, an attorney by the euphOnious name
of Snyder to overdose Melton and keep him
we'll up to his dirty work. Besides this an
array of detectives are now at work manu-
featuring testimony and spotting suitable
witnesses to perform the hellish work OF
perjury. The juries will be made as black
as Erebus if it lies in the power of the dis
trict attorney. In other words, justice, is to
be burlesqued by handicapping the political
prejudices of the ignorant and irresponsi,,
Bile negro against the honor and liberties OF
the white man. This woeful but q truth
full picture of the work carved out for the
next term of the United States Circuit
Court. We therefore urge our Democratic
fellow-citizens to be forewarned and fore
armed. Innocence is no protection when
we have to grapple with villainy and ty-
ranny.