Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27
load itself of Blaine after this speech, If

will add damnation to defeat.
The Times comments after this manner:
Blaine took the occasion of serenade
at Augusta last evening intended as a
personal compliment by his toWnsmen to
deliver the most bitter and mischleVous
sectional speech that has been heard IN the
North for many a day. =.
An honest defeat seems to have eXtin-
gushed all the generous sentiment when
he professed to have when he penned his
letter of acceptance, or rather 1T shows that
the letter was paraded in the hope of win
ming Southern votes, and having 1alled Ill
that he shows his real temper.
He belittles the Northern influence that
contributed to his defeat and treats the
result as transfer of the control OF the gov
ernment to the South which, he processes 10
believe, is fraught with misfortune to the
country. He shows no conception or the
principle that the Government belongs to
the people of the whole country and not
to a party or section. He endeavors to
revive old antagenisms and hatreds and
to inhame the fears Of the Southern negroes:
A more unpatriotc mischievous and
bitterly sectional and narrow spirit than
Blaine exhibits in defeat is inconceivable,
and adds another to the many causes OF con-
graduation that the country has been saved
from an administration dominated by such
a spirit.
The World writes:
There is little that is new in his voice
from the valley of humiliation. The Amer
lean people have heard recently about all
that he has to say of the danger OF admit
ting the South to a full participation in the
affairs of the Government, and about all
that he is able to say on the subject of pro-
tectng our industries.
The verdict pronouhced against him has
been emphatic. He has been told that ne
is not wanted He has been told that his
stories about the Southern people are SLAM
ders, and if he had more sensibility and
lust q shade of personal pride he would
| have quickly subsidized when the fiat was
pronounced against him.
! Blaine seems determined, however, to
leave nothing undone to prove that he is
entitled to the contempt Of all true friends
of the Republic. His implacable speech
may disturb and disquiet the poor negroes
of the South, but the country will see IN 1t
only the coWardly rancor of defeated can
diCate and relegate it to the limbo OF tin
helmets, shrivelled plumes and other dis
carded campaign properties.
The Tribune, the StM and the Nmt0nGt
Republican published at the National Capt.
tai, all earnest Blaine organs, refrain from
editorial comment upon this very remark
dDle SpeeCll llelI Sl SlsuliCtlllSC 10 'iio iiio'''
eloquent and powerful denunciation OF the
conduct OF their darling hero. Blaine has
made fool of himself and every intelligent
man, woman and child in the country knows
it. He is harmless now, though, and his
harangue on the South is but the echo OF
his dying wall. He is dead, and we are
happy in the thought that the South helped
to pile the clods Of national contempt on
his political grave.
Ex-senator Bruce, of Mississippi, a repre-
sentative colored man of the South, was in
Philadelphia last Saturday, and in an inter-
view was very frank in expressing his opin-
ion regarding Blaine's attack upon the
South. He said:
"That speech of Blaine's at Augusta will
doubtless be the cause Ofgreat uneasiness and
mental distress among the colOred people
of the South. Fortunately its effects can on
| ly be short lived. Such utterances were
only demagogical in the extreme and who'll
ly unwarranted. / think l ought to know
something about our people in the South.
The greatest harmony exists between the
white and colored races. Blaine's charges
of intimidation and violence at the polls
are absolute and unqualified falsehoods.
To-day the South is loyal and peaceful. y
Continued Mr.. Bruce, "Its people, white
and black, are, or were until MIR. Blaine
fomented this new antagonism, in the
right frame of mind to enter upon harmo-
nious relations with the people of the North.
! They were especially desirOus that the
pleasant business relations should not be in
terrupted. This Is exactly what Mr.. Blaine
strikes at, and his Augusta speech lowered
him more in popular estimation than any
| oct Of his life -