Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-18
"UNCLOUDED PEACE AND TRUST


Col. \. X. Mcclure, editor in chief of the
Philadelphia Times, spent several days in
Charleston recently, and in letter to his
paper from. that city, he says:
1t was fifteen years after the sorrows and
sacrifices of war began, and ten years after
the tread of hostile armies had ceased that
Charleston began the work of rehabilitation,
and even the presumably energetic and YER
satile people of the North, with like pros
tration, wasted resources and sluggish sur
roundings, would have progressed little, if
any, better than has lhe city of Charleston.
Instead of repining over the countless woe
which befel them in thediscOmtiture of war,
the emancipation of slaves, the destruction
of wealth and revolution in popular gov
ernment, to which they were not only strang-
ers, but trainedt to misunderstood, they have
rapidly rebuilt their commerce, enlarged
their Industries, quickened their surround
ing producers, and entered the race to regain
their position and wealth with herOsm
and steady endurance that have accomplish
ed marvellous results. But it will require
years to restore the thrift, the beautiful
homes and churches and schools and other
monuments of wealth and culture by which
old Charleston marked her magnificent pro-
gress, and there is pardonable decay in the
external signs of the city while energy and
growing advancement are visible in all the
channels of business enterprise. There is
now unclOuded peace and trust between the
North and the South the advent of a ma
tional revolution in politics has disspated
the last hope of the partisan demagogue and
the last fear of the sensitive capitalist, as it
has proved with president elected by the
solid vote of the South there is thoroughly
loyal devotion not only to the Union, but
also to the irrevOcable judgments of the war.
If the administration of Cleveland were to
fail in all its confidently expected govern
mental reforms, it would still leave one
priceless blessing to the whole nation in the
absolute and stable faith it has established
between the material interests of the two
sections of the country.
THE BLAIR BLLL.-Senator Blair says
that the passage in the Senate of his bill for
the aid of common schools was no surprise
to him. He thinks that the amendments
adopted will strengthen the measure, nota-
bly, the addition Of 500, 600, 600 by Senator
Logan, which he thinks will secure about
twenty thousand school houses.
He is glad that the Allison amendment
making a race distribution to the disadvan-
tage of the whites was withdrawn.
The measure, if it becomes a law in its
present form, will add to the school fund OF
the Southern States about one half the pres
ent expenditures Of those States for educa-
tion purposes The money becomes a part
of the school fund of the State, and its ac-
ceptance insures distribution of the entire
amount, State and national, in such a way
as to best equalize the school privileges Of
all sections, irrespective OF race. Although
the distribution to States is made upon the
basis of iliteracy, according to the standard
of the census, which simply is inability to
read and write, the bill aims to do more
than teach reading and writing. 1t seeks
to bring good common school education
within reach of the children of all the freed
men, Senator Blair says, and to do this
without relieving the States of any sense Of
their own responsibility, and without Great
ing an impression that the blacks are the
wards Of the nation, to be forever cared for.
Senator Blair entertains no doubt that the
bill will pass the House, were it already has
many ardent pporters.-Anynsfo Nron-
ic'P.