Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-12-19

no less attachment Tor reasons tndl
have been made obvious, being very
much impressed with the general In
terest that is being felt in the Foot
steps of the Fathers notes now be-
ing published in The Enquirer, decid-
ed recently that the best thing to do
with the old papers was to give them
back into the keeping Of the present
owners Of this paper.
With the acquisition of these files OF
the Yorkville Miscellany, the publish.
ers Of The Enquirer now have all the
complete files Of Yorkville newspapers
that we know Of, as follows:
The Pioneer-Patrick Carey, pub
lisher-1S22 and 1924. (
The Compiler-John E. Grist, pub
lisher-1S40.
The Yorkville Miscellany-Lewis M.
Grist, publisher-1S51-1S52 . 81. .-
Yorkville Enquirer from 1856 to the
present time.
The Yorkville Enterprise for three
years.
The Yorkville Yeoman, six years.
The Yorkvlle New Era. from No
vember 5, 1904, to July, 1907.
Glancing over the files Of the York
Vile Miscellany we find much that Is
of local and. historical interest, and 1t
is our hope to review it at, sometime
in the future, as we are now review
ing the files of The Enquirer; but as
to that we do not feel warranted In
making any definite promises.
One thing with which we are par
ticularly impressed is the trials and
troubles Of the youthful publisher, as
set forth in a personal editorial at the
time. It seems that the secession con-
troversy was at its height. The issue
was three-fold. Many Of the most
thoughtful and level-headed people Of
the day were opposed to secession
Others favored secession; but, were
unwilling to secede without the CO.
operation Of the other slave-holding
states. Still others were urging the
secession of South Carolina alone.
The then editor of The Enquirer was
known to sympathize with either the
Unionists or Cooperative Secession
lists, rather than the separate state Sc
cessionists; but was not undertaking
to impress his own views editorially.
Without resources other than his
brains and labor, and in position
where he could be easily crushed by
the rich and powerful, he allowed the
free use of his paper to PRO Bono
Publico," "Civis," "Secessionist." Co
operative" and the rest Of them to
discuss both sides as they would. The
files show what seems at this day to
be absolute impartiality; but 1t ap-
pears that in the course Of time the
Separate State Secessionists," OF
which there were a number Of rich
and powerful ones in Yorkvile, began
to charge the editor with partiality
and to threaten the establishment Of a
new paper with a view to compelling
the editor to surrender his property
and his convictions to their direction.
In this state of facts, the editor print
ed the following editorial under the
heading, Ourselves:
We have never heretofore brought
our private affairs in any particular
to the attention of the public. We
think that justice to ourselves requires
we should now do so. We learn that
prominent and wealthy gentlemen OF
our village, and in one instance a pro-
Tossing Christian, have made the
charge against us that we have given
our press exclusively to the Co-opera-
tionists-that we have refused to pub
lish the communications Of Secession
lists that therefore they are determin-
ed to put down our press, especially
by withdrawing the advertising OF
certain public offices Of the district
and establishing another press. In
reply to these charges we state the
following facts-facts which are ire
futable, and which cannot be denied
publicly under any mans proper sig
nature. The first article we ever pub
lished "by request" was handed US by
Secessionist. We never refused TO
republish an article Of this character
handed us by Secessionist in our
lives, and could not because none such
was offered us, unless 1t be claimed
by a young gentleman that we did so
last week. This was an article that
would have made about four columns
Of our paper. We had already been
furnished from another source with
the extracts from Senator Buffers ad-
dress and only about one-third OF
that gentleman's speech was given US,
so that our space might not be too
nj original
ter we had in hand and the latest
news. It must also be remembered,
this too was after the charges had
been made and known to us. Our pa
per of last week shows that an article
such as the above was, could not have
been inserted. The truth Is also, that
even no Secession paper we have seen,
has thought the article worth repub-
| fishing.
We state another fact. The first
| original communication published In
| our paper on the subject of Secession
was in favor of Secession, handed into
| us by a Secessionist, and we have new
| er refused to publish single original
article in favor of Secession in our
| lives. We deferred one last week be-
cause the name was not authoritative
ly given us. The true ground, how
| ever, was this. There was an original
communication and extracts on an
outer form. This was seen and read,
inasmuch as we worked off our out
side form early in the week. A COM
munication was afterward handed us
replying to this article, and we were
asked to publish it in the same paper.
We of our own will, after setting up
half Of the article, thought this un-
fair and distributed the type. The ar
ticle was then withdrawn Until our
paper has actually been issued, it is
our own private property. No friend
of ours has asked a like privilege.
Such are the facts of our conduct.
We are young, inexperienced and
poor. We know that influence and
wealth can easily break us up" We.
however, will still rely on truth, hon
esty and hard work for a living.
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