Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-14

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GEORGE GRAHAM VEST.
The claims of Dakota, to be admitted into
the Union as State are exciting universal
attention. Heretofore the United States
Senate, and particularly the Democratic
members thereof have opposed the asplra-
tions of Dakota. The leader of the oppo-
sition is George Graham Vest, Senator from
Missouri. In her anxiety to become State
Dakota elected legislature which in its
turn chose two United States Senators, VINO
are anxious 10 take their seats in the Senate.
This action has been stigmatised by Vest
as revolutionary and he is using every
means to prevent Dakota's admission. The
friends of the Territory however claim that
the course taken is not without precedent
and that the situation is analogous to that
of California, Kansas and Michigan, when
those States applied for admission.
George Graham Vest, of Kansas City,
Missouri, was born at Frankfort, Kentucky
December 9th, 1880. He graduated from
Centre College, Kentucky, in 1S4S, and
at the Law Department Of the Transyl-
vania University at Lexington, Kentucky,
in 1858. During that year he removed
to Missouri and began the practice OF
law. He was presidential elector on
the Democratic ticket of 1860 and mem
ber of the Missouri House of Representa-
tives, 1S6O-61. He was member of the
Confederate House for two years and the
Confederate Senate for one year. tie was
elected to the United States Senate and took
his seat March 18th, 1879. His first term
expired March 3rd, 1885. He has been re-
elected.
BEECHER's TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTH
At the last "Forefathers' banquet, in New
York, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in re.
spending to the toast "The Day We Honor y
said: "Not alone in the North were the
Puritans to be found. There were great
many Puritans in Georgia (they were ignor'
ant but they meant right) and in Alabama
in North Carolina, and l think there were
some in South Carolina and all the way
through the South. / have no doubt there
were a multitude of men there who though,
they were upholding the cause of liberty
and they gave themselves to upholding thai
cause as l almost think no other people die
on the face of the earth. When / see what
the South dared and strove to do, and saw
everything passing away from them-theil
sons slaughtered, entire families of wealth
growing poor, everything that could make
their land attractive disappearing, YET
struggled to the last say that there Was
a herosm there that, when party lines are
effaced and party feelings have gone down
the historian will delight to celebrate. ZAP
plause. They acted under false lights, bu1
they acted nobly in their sphere. In the
presence Of my telloW-citiZens OF the NORTH
I wish to pay this tribute to my fellow
countrymen of the South. !, that was ar
abolitionist; l, that fought slavery as Ole
Putnam fought the wolf in the fold; /, thai
urged on the war, and relaxed no whit un
til victory was assured that stood at the
reconstruction Of this land-noW, after
twenty years, desire to 90 on record a:
saying that since the human race existed
on earth there is not spectacle of great
proud people spread over some twelve OF
fifteen States that, after a war, accepted
this condition-not without some remnants
of passion, to he sure-but, taking them al
large, the facility with which they came
together again in /, substantial and assured
amity presents 4 spectacle that the hlstOrl.
an has never before recorded. Applause.
There are Puritans at the South there art
Puritans at the North, and the PuritanS O
the North, in Gods providence, proved the
stronger in the contest, thank God ~
LoNGsTREET's STORY ABOUT STEPH.
ENs.-General Longstreet tells the following
good story: "On one occasion certain o
the Confederate leaders were discussing
the matter of putting the negroes into the
army. was against the policy, but those
above me sent me over to Aleck Stephens
with instructions to try to convert him tc
the policy Of putting the negroes in. lrode
over from the camp to where MIR. stephens
was, and after short conversation brought
up the subject was to speak with him on
No sooner had done So than he hoped up
and made me a speech of over an hours
length. You can imagine my feelings
When he concluded and sat down we talked
of other matters for awhile, and then
casually mentioned the negroes again. Up
Jumped little Aleck and made me another
speech of an hour or SOS length. /, a lone
auditor, sat it through. He finished, sat
down, and we had short conversation on
some other topic. n third time ventured
to speak of the negroes, and up hopped the
great cOmmoner and made me another
Speech When he sat down | stole glance
at my watch. 1t was O'Clock in the morn
rode back to camp. | reported that | was
perfectly willing to go on with the war. but
if anybody wanted Aleck Stephens argued
into anything they'd have to send some one
else-n0t me."-AHomta (Ga) Constitution.
THE PERPETUAL CANDIDATE.-Judge
David Key, of Tennessee, who was Presi-
dent Hayes postmaster general, after he
had served short term in the Senate, told
a good story of a man in the mountain
region of his State, who was stereotype
candidate for local offices of all descriptions,
but who would nevergive a decided opinion
upon any question. On one occasion when
he was a candidate for the position of sheriff
there was great eXctment on the enforce
ment of the school tax. He addressed quite
a gathering at muster, but evaded the
only question that the audience wanted to
hear about and just as he was closing fell
low shouted: "fel us about the school tax.
Are you for it or are you not?" The crowd
cheered. and the orator, thus pressed for a
declaration of opinion said: "Gentlemen,
you have a right to ask for an answer l
have no concealment to make. l am a
frank man, and to you l say in all frank
ness, if it is good thing l am for it, and
if it is a bad thing l am agin it."-Ben Per-
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