Year: 1878

| For the Yorkvile Enquirer


A FEW THOUGHTS FOR THE HOUR.


Rock HILL, May %, 1878.


To the people of York county respect
fully desire to present the following ideas
for their consideration, viz:


First.-To whom are we indebted for the
privilege Of enjoying the right to exercise our
own free wills in the selection of our officers
to superintend our affairs of State? "Fort
MILL" in a recent communication in the Ell
QUIRER, thinks he and few others have thE
indubitable right, and insists upon the present
regime as being entirely acceptable. In this
I desire to inform him of his great mistake,
as have heard hundreds say it won't do to
send men to stay at $500 per day for months
to do what ought to be done at $500, and
in one.fourth or one-third of the time spent
Gn quibbling) that the tax-payers-the labor
ers-may be burthened to the extent of their
capacities, without proper cause, only to
feather the pockets of the tew at the expense
of the many.


Second.-We admit that all of our repre-.
sentatives are clever, social, good men, and
worthy of any place they are qualified to fill
and that our regret is that they stayed 80
long and made no show of tact, but seemed
to leave it all to few dictatorial spirits to
manage the whole affairs of State!


Third.-Have we not some plain, unsophis'
ticated, practical farmers and mechanics,
with the finest cultivated minds to be found
in this countr7, who have been educated in
theory and practice, who know all about our
peculiar system and form of government, and
the actual rights and necessities under its
forms for the people : I know that we have
and now is the time for the people all to cast
about and see if they cannot find such as will
do their bidding under their constitution, re-
gardless of all the notions of clique combina-
tions for fat Offices and chartered monopolies,
gotten up in violation of all constitutional
rights, as sacred to the people, against them


Fourth.-Under the old system, when the
officers were lean and poor and not creased
with the entire cream of the peoples labor,
they had a freedom of speech, of candidates
of choice and of will commensurate with the
mandates of their Wills, as expressed in their
constitution. Now, we have none but the
beggar's choice, and that in minced pieces
otherwise foot from behind, or bruise on
the front, and then we are used, by inuendoes,
for the qualification of all who think they
know all things and little more besides


Fifh-As we are afraid Of shadows, it
may not be amiss to hold premature elections
for the purpose of bringing out suitable men
to fill the Offices that are to be supplied; and
as such feel in duty bound to aid in setting
aside all plottings, schemings and menacings,
that we may, by the free volitions of our own
minds, be led to make our own selections by
an election at our regularly organized clubs
where the people, by their votes, may express
their preferences all over the county, as we'll
as over the State, if they choose; when and
where candidates may, if they choose, present
themselves or not, as may seem best suited to
their ideas. Otherwise, the people may vote
for whom they please, and when the clubs re-
port at the general meeting Of all the club
delegates, those who get the highest number
at the club meetings must be the choice of
The people, and will be the choice determined
| on.


Sirth.-We all know that our people have
been dispirited and made to feel the bitter
pangs of disappointment. And now, after
an exhaustive suspense in waiting for better
times, worse is staring US in the face, and we
have nothing to buoy us up and free the mind.
1t is true that our taxes are lessened but not
in proportion to our prospects-in price.
And if 1 am not mistaken, it will take, this
year, G87S,) more cotton to pay the present
tax levy, than in the days of extreme Radi-
calism when we compute prices, qualities
and levies of taxes, with a redundant curren-
cy, and compare with the present, when there
is, in manner, no currency!


Seventh.-I want all good, well-educated
men to present themselves as living sacri-
fee to public right and private opinions; and
if they do not, then 1 propose that we, the
people, vote for just whom we please, and
whomsoever we nominate, force them in. If
they resist, then duck them in some puddle
hole until he or they become willing. This Is
the only ,oay to secure a good representation
without greasing the Golfers of Office with sill
yer and gold Innings, for the following rea-
sons: First-because good men are not apt
to vote for demagogues ; and second-beeause
the minds of the people will not be set to
work to think about whom they ought to
nominate. AS many minds are Of many
kinds. 80 we may have a great number of
nominees, and finally, those getting the high
est number for the House, as we'll as for other
officers, must be the men centered on by the
natural impetus of the human mind, that has
and ever will be moved by power unknown
to the subject of the mind and so will be
the result in all of the Offices sought for.
This will be- in effect, the apse darlt of the
election for the side moving in the matter, and
will be perfect bluff to all other associations,
combinations or trick. .schemings, and free
from any censure from any quarter-either
from friend or foe, all of which we should
strive to reconcile as far as possible, for the
good of society generally. A VOTER.


INVENTION BY A CoLoRED MISSISSIPPI
AN.-Bep Taylor, a colored man living in
this place, has lately returned from Washing
ton, whittier he has been to secure a patent
for new steam engine which he had invent.
ed and which, if the judgment of many ex'
perienced and scientific men to whom he has
| ahown his modal ia correct ia calculated to