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quently, be heavier upon each one. But as I
remarked, this would be a local question, and
I do not propose now to discuss it in that aspect.
When the question assumes a loc<U aspect,
I shall be governed in any official action
I may l?e called upon to take by whatever may
be your vote on the amendment. If a majority
vote to ratify the amendment, I should conclude
that a majority favored the division of
York county, and as your representative would
have to support it if such a proposition should
l>e presented.
But there is one paramount objection to the
adoption of this amendment that to my mind
overshadows all others. When the General
Assembly is clothed with absolute power to
create any number of new counties in the
State, at its own will, and without consulting
the people affected, you will find that rival
communities will, at every session, strive to
secure the erection of new counties, and rival
sections, strive for ascendancy by dividing
some county where the greatest advantage
would arise to it from representation. If it
should be our happy lot to escape for a time
its effects as a measure to swell the power of
some adverse party ascendency, I am distrustful
that we will not be able to avoid the
use of this power so as to give rival sections of
the State ascendency over each other. The
largest counties, and those most capable of division
lie adjacent to the seacoast. There has
always been, and I fear ever will be, a rivalry
between the upper and lower counties as to
the control of the State. Under the old Constitution
this balance of power was harmonized
by giviug to each parish iu the lower
counties a Senator, which gave the control of
the Senate to the low country, and the House
of Representatives to the up country. Under
the present Constitution the lower counties
liave increased representation in the House,
through the large colored votd, while the
smaller cdunties in the upper section equally
divide the Senate. Divide these lower counties,
as evidently will be done under this
amendment, and you will place all the power
in both Houses with the lower counties, and
thus revive a struggle that for years distracted
and divided the people of the State.
I for one deprecate such divisions among our
people. We cannot afford it. We are now
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practically uarmoniz-cu uii uiese uiu usuca,nuu
we should carefully abstain from any legislation
that would be calculated to encouiage a
revival of them. The happiness and prosperity
of our people cannot advance amid local
discord and division among ourselves.
Throughout the length and breadth of the
State there should be with the intelligent and
progressive element but one great political object
kept in view. That object is to control
and forever maintain for the people and by the
people, a safe, liberal and economical State
government, recognizing neither sectional
lines nor geographical limits, nor race or condition.
While party machinery may be necessary
to secure and maintain such a government,
its legislation should be wise and impartial,
commending itself to support by its
justice and moderation rather than by its reliance
011 party fealty. A government with
these objects kept steadily in view will bring
the blessings of peace and happiness to our
people. If we forget them, we will enter upon
discord and strife, and following these will
come misrule and disappointment.
Let us unite, then upon this platform that
affords the only safe promises for the future,
and that in itself is the true end of all government.
I have nothing to fear for South Carolina
if she is steadily guided forward under
the impulse of this sentiment ; and I am only
despondent of her future when I see evidences
of sectional jealousy and other causes of strife
among ourselves.
There has been much complaint of the action
of the last Legislature, which, summed
up, is that its legislation was aggressive, expensive,
and in some instances contrary to the
Vuict nf tli#? iu>rtnlp Afv jirmwer t.O
this is that you will never have a Legislature
that will give universal satisfaction. No lawcan
be passed that will be approved by every
individual to be affected by it. If injury has
been done, send better men pledged to correct
it. If the machine which has cost you so
much and done such admirable service for you
in the past, fails to work satisfactorily on one
or two occasions, don't break it in pieces and
risk trading off the fragments for a new and
untried one, but carefully examine the defective
parts and replace them with t?etter material.
The government you have is the best
you can possibly get. It may have some little
defective material to be substituted. But if
you get anew one it comes from the same makers?the
people. It contains the same good
and imperfect elements ; and if you act on the
principle* that every such machine, the moment
it "disappoints you by reason of some
weak bolt or joint, must be torn to pieces and
thrown away, you will be practicing poor economy,
to say the least of it. We are not in a
condition in this State to breakaway from our
present political organization and suffer it to
* dissolve, unless something better is secured to
us in its place. At thistime, under the threatening
aspect of the political horizon, there is
no promise of security or safety to our civilization
and happiness outside of the ranks of
the Bemocratic party. It may not be perfect
in itself, but it is the best that is offered for
our support; and sad will be the day for us,
when, in a moment of resentment, caused by
its real or fancied mistakes, we dissolve its
ranks at the approach of a mongrel coalition
of soreheads and broken down politicians mustered
together under the black banner of Republicanism
and the meaningless emblem of
(Jreenbackism. The latter is simply the mask
nf the former Both banners float. from the
same staff?both have the samefollowers ;and
1 warn Democrats not to be deceived by these
false ensigns. The man who tells you to-day
that he is a Greenbacker?although he may
not know it himself?is a Republican in disguise,
and when he supports a Greenback will
o' the wisp, he is aiding, either consciously
or unconciously, to restore to power in this
State that robber band from whose hands
came the bitterest infliction any Anglo Saxon
}>eople ever suffered. It preyed alike upon
white and black, rich and poor; no race or
class was exempt from its insolent rapacity.
Certainly no man, who retains his common
faculties and remembers the horrid nightmare
that enveloped us from 1808 to 1870, will ever
consent to its embrace again.
JOHN P. GAGE, ESQ.,
candidate for the oflice of Probate Judge, was
next introduced. He deemed it unnecessary
to make a speech on the political questions of
the day in announcing himself a candidate fortius
oflice. "While he did not claim to be a
l>olitician in this canvass, he would say that
it did not require a good politician to make
a good probate judge His opponent for this
oflice was not present, and in his absence he
would say that for him he entertained high
regards. Mr. Gage spoke of the duties devolving
upon the probate judge, claiming that
a knowledge of the law was essential to the
proper discharge of the duties, and as questions
arising in this court were included in
the branch of the legal profession to which he
had devoted most study, he felt that he was
peculiarly well qualified to discharge the duties
in a manner that would be satisfactory
to the people, and if nominated in the primary
election and elected, he pledged himself to
give his unremitting attention to his official
duties. lie therefore asked the position at
the hands of his fellow citizens ; and, said he
in closing, so far as new counties and new
court-houses are concerned, while it does not
devolve upon me to enter into a discussion of
this question, elect me probate judge and one
court-house will be enough for me.
W. II WILLIAMS, ESQ.,
candidate for reelection to the office of county
auditor was next called out by the chairman.
Mr. Williams took the speakers' stand, but excused
himself from attempting to address his {
fellow citizens. lie was not there for the purpose
of speaking, and the call was unexpected. |
The duties of his office were clerical, with j
which a discussion of political questions had I
nothing to do. He came out to meet the peo- I
pie and not to sj>eak, and regretted that his i
official duties would probably prevent him !
from meeting his felloV' citizens at any other j
appointments during the primary canvass, j
lie would say to the voters, however, that in |
the election before them they had a high duty !
to j?erform in preserving intact our present'
State and county governments; contrasted j
the present with the dark days previous to j
Democratic ascendency; and in order to main-,
tain our unity, counseled all Democrats to
vote for those who receive the primary nomination.
DR. J. B. ALLISON,
candidate for reelection to the office of county
commissioner, was next called and introduced, j:
He said he did not desire to make a public ;
speech, as he was present merely to meet the
people. Hut he would say that during his
present term of office he had, in every instance, j
endeavored to discharge his duties to the best <
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of his ability and for the best interests of the 1
whole people of the county. He had made it i
a point, as a member of the board, to study
the most economic measures in conducting i
the public expens& of the county, coming un- <
der the control of the county commissioners,
and so far as related to his acts as county
commissioner, he was ready at any time, cheer- <
fully, to make an exhibit of his administra- <
tion. If reelected, he would, in the future, as
in the past, attempt to discharge his duties in
a manner calculated to promote the best interests
of the county.
OU. E. L. GLENN,
also a candidate for county commissioner,
was next introduced. He excused himself
from attempting to make a speech ; but
in asking the support of his fellow-citizens for
the office of county commissioner, he pledged
himself to discharge the duties of the position
to the best of his ability, and closed by counseling
unity of action in the Democratic party
as the surest means of preventing a recurrence
of radical rule, which he deprecated.
No other candidates present desiring to
speak,
J. C. CHAMBERS, ESQ.,
the presiding officer of the meeting, arose and
said that as his name had been presented in
connection with the nomination for Representative
he deemed it not improper to respond on
the present occasion. He had decided to enter
the field as a candidate for nomination for
a seat in the House of Representatives, and
while he could not pledge himself as to his
line of action on all questions that might
arise, yet if elected he would serve the people
of York county faithfully, and with whatever
ability he might posses. lie would,'
however, indicate in a general way the principles
by which he should be guided if chosen as
a member of the General Assembly. First,!
he would endeavor to legislate so that moneys
collected as taxes from the people should be
as light as possible and properly applied. He
favored {is a general proposition the use oT
funds to increase the efficiency of the free
public school system. As regarded the proposed
constitutional amendment reducing the
area of counties he was opposed to it in toto.
Such an amendment, proposed at this time,
if adopted, would have the tendency to produce
a division of our people at the very i>eriod
of our history when we most want harmony
and united action with all classes and
all sections. The adoption of this amendment
would be the opening wedge to the severing
of York county, obliterating boundary
lines that have been the pride a State for
more than a century ; destroying associations
that have hallowed our soil since the days of
1776; blotting out, as it were, some of the
brightest pages of American history that can
be connected only with grand old York, the
echoes from whose battle-scarred hills sent a
thrill of joy over a continent proclaiming that
America should be free. Our veneration for
the traditions of a noble ancestry?our own
self pride, and our illustrious local historyshould
impel us to retaining our boundaries
intact, rather than open the way to have our
territory cut up and parcelled out, destroying
the identity of a county rich in glorious recollections
of the past, and promising of high
expectations in the future. But again I oj>pose
the measure on grounds of practical
economy. The formation of a new county
would involve additional expense on the j>eople,
for which expense there is no necessity.
Whom would one or two new counties, created
from portions of York, benefit? But one
benefit possible can be mentioned, and that
would be to parties in the immediate lo
calities of the new court-houses and the benefits
to these limited localities would be more
than counterbalanced by the additional expense
entailed upon the people of the new
counties, as well as those of the old county,
or the remaining strip that would be left of
the territory now forming our proud and noble
county. The people at large would not
be benefitted, while all would be injured. To
form the proposed new north-western county
would take from York 115 square miles including
the eastern bank of Broad River; and
he had understood that the line of the prol>osed
new south-eastern county would pass
near and including Massey's Store, only seven
miles below Yorkville and including some of
the best agricultural laiujs in the county. For
these and other reasons eloquently elaborated
by speakers who preceded him, he opposed'
the measure as impolitic and unwise, and
fraught with future danger to our people.
The adoption of the amendment would ever
be an apple of discord, and he took unqualified
grounds in favor of voting against it.
After Mr. Chambers1 soeech the meeting
adjourned.
COUNTY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The York County Republican Convention
met in the Court House last Monday. The
proceedings were conducted very quietly, the
delegates assembling in one of the jury rooms,
where the business before the Convention was
conducted with closed doors. Mr. John L.
Watson, the Republican County Chairman,
presided, and invited our reporter to witness
the proceedings, which were of the most formal
character. With the exception of the
Chairman, the Convention was composed entirely
of colored men?twenty-four delegates?
as follows:
Jtock Hill.?Wylie Davie, Robert Mitchell,
Charles Robertson, William Steele.
McEltccc''s Mill?Lewis Hiles, Francis Hill,
Greene Steele.
Clay Hill.?J. M. Clinton, T. S. Simpson,
J. A. Watson, Ned Miller.
Bethel?Prince Riggers, J. P. Philips, Thomas
Hill.
Bullock's Creek.?Thomas Watts, J. W. Jamieson,
L. A. Jamieson.
Blairsville.?P. R. Nichols, Rev. B. Burton,
Charles Leech.
Hickory Grove.?Dan. L. Witherspoon, E.
A. Byers.
McConnellsdlle?Samuel McKinney, Allen
Bratton.
As will be noticed, a number of the precincts
were unrepresented, among them Yorkville,
and enquiry as to the reason of this
latter omission, elicited no satisfactory answer.
After the roll of delegates was completed,
an election of delegates to the State Convention
was proceeded with, resulting as follows :
Hon. A. S. Wallace, John L. Watson, Rev.
li. 15urton, J. M. uiinton.
The following were elected as delegates to
the Congressional Convention : Col. W. 15.
Allison, T. K. Mickle, J. A. Ratchford, D. L.
Witherspoon, T. S. Simpson, Thomas Worthy.
No alternates were chosen for either set of
delegates.
The time and place of holding the Congressional
Convention have not yet been desig-;
nated.
Our information from the party leaders is to !
the effect that no county ticket will be brought i
out in the present canvass. The proceedings of '
the Convention did not tend in that direction, j
and it is very evident that any other conclu- j
sion on this point will be arrived at hereafter, j
COL. CASH ON THE RAMPAGE.
It was known that Col. E. B. C. Cash was j
in town for the purpose of making a speech, j
and for this reason the .Convention met in I
one of the jury rooms so as not to offer any '
obstruction to the Colonel's flow of oratory, '
should he decide to pour out his vials of in- j
vective before the Convention had concluded i
its labors. The Colonel restrained himself, I
however, until the adjournment of the Con-':
vention, immediately after which lie entered '
the court-room, neatly attired in a full dress '
suit of broad cloth, and carrying in his hand i
a valise and rubber water-proof?the rubber |:
garment being considered more appropriate to
the present showery weather than a linen '
duster. His entrance into the court-room j i
was the signal for the gathering of a large j 1
crowd of whites and blacks?about an equal. ]
number of each?the white spectators iinpell-' <
ed by curiosity to see the man, and the col-! J
ored auditory no doubt inspired by a desire to ; 1
drink in the political wisdom as it llowed
from his lips. As soon as the crowd had ]
settled down Maj. B. F. Briggs stepped for- :
ward and said : 1
Fellow Citizens : I have the honor of intro- i
ducing to you Col. E. B. C. Cash, Imlei>endent j
candidate for Congress, who desires to address 1
you. i
Col. Cash then commenced his speech. lie 1
commenced by saying that there was once an 1
old man in Chesterfield county, who swore i
that he would not vote for a certain candi- (
date because his pantaloons did not fit prop- (
erly. Fearing some voters might arrive at the
same conclusion concerning himself, just be- c
fore starting on this canvass he had ordered a 1
bran new suit of clothes, which fitted him so ^
well that he felt as comfortable as a bee in a tar c
bucket, and for that reason he hoped to be 1
excused for taking off his coat; and suiting v
the action to his words, he laid off his coat
and vest and then waded in.
He claimed that if he was a free citizen of
South Carolina he had the right to ask for any
office within the gift of the people, and if the
people were free citizens, they had the right to
vote for whom they pleased. If we are free
citizens, we have the right to meet and discuss
public affairs, the public acts of our pub-!
lie men, and we also have the right to investigate
the private character of our public servants
if we see proper. Assuming that he J
had the rights indicated, he appeared as a can- j
didate for Congress, and he should discuss
rjuestions openly and fearlessly. He had been
in battle, oy the field of honor, and his courage
had been tested on many other occasions, but
owing to the peculiarity of his being an Independent
candidate, he had been in the tightest
place of his life for the last six weeks. He
was compelled to differ from his old ]>olitical
associates. There are now five hundred prominent
public men in this State of the same notion
as himself, but, unfortunately, they have
not the courage to come out and declare their
independence of the party clique in control.
He could induce none of them to take the field,
and had he known in advance that he alone
was to come out from the Democratic party as
it is now constituted in this State and make a
canvass 011 the Independent movement, he
would have remained in retirement. It was a
painful, disagreeable task, and perhaps no one
else in the State but himself could stand it.
He was fifty-nine years of age, and had
lived in South Carolina fifty-seven years. Ilis
property is all in Chesterfield county, and lie
is the largest tax-payer in that county. He
had always acted with the Democratic partyhad
voted the Democratic ticket, except that
lie voted for Greeley for President and Green
for Governor. This latter vote was in the
interest of reform, and hundreds of other
Democrats supported the same candidate.
But in 1871) he announced publicly that he
would not again vote at the dictation of any
man or set of men. For this step he was
abused in 1880 by the Senator from his county.
He believed that he was the first man in South
Carolina to declare himself an Independent.
He argued that he was entitled to be a candidate
without being regarded as a renegade or
traitor.
He then spoke of the promises made to the
colored i>eople in 1870. These promises were
solemn and binding; he felt bound to them
for life. While the colored people might nominate
a ticket and "go back" on him in this
canvass, yet he felt bound by the pledges of
1870 to be their friend. He charged the Democratic
party, i>ossibl\' excepting Hampton,
with failing to keep their pledges to the
colored people. In the canvass of 1870, anxious
to rid the State of the Chamberlain horde,
lie devoted all the proceeds of his farm to the
success of the Reform ticket. But every
promise made in that canvass had been violated.
Hampton made the promise that the
black people should not be deprived of any
right. He did not say that Hampton broke,
this promise, but it was done by the ringed'
Columbia,
I am here to-day to secure white votd? alrid
I intend to secure white votes, and I intend
to secure them before I leave York county ;
but if 1 can get black votes, that is no reason
why white men should not vote for me. What
rights have the colored people now ? We have
deprived them, as also a large number of white
veterans, of the ballot, by the adoption of the
eight-box system. To cast his ballots intelligently,
the voter must be able to read ; he
cannot even lie instructed by his child who
may be able to read, accompanying him to the
ballot-boxes to tell him where to deposit his
ballot; nor must the ballots have any mark
or device upon them, by which he can identify
them. The enactment of this law was a
part of the purpose of the ring to deprive the
colored man of his right to vote, and in doing
this, a large numlier of white men are also
excluded. Do you approve this V
He next si>oke of what he characterized the
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five hundred of the best informed men in York
county were placed in a line, and each asked
what is going on in Columbia, not ten could
answer. The State is involved in a debt of
eight millions, and no preparations are being
made to pay this vast sum. As to taxation,
he said he could pay his taxes, with cotton al
15 and 20 cents per pound, more easily in Radical
days than he can now.
He then produced some merriment by charging
that the Legislature of 1878 adjourned,
forgetting to pass the tax bill, the very thing
they met to do, and had to be recalled at an
expense of $20,000 to the State.
The anti-weapon bill was next denounced,
as placing a weaker person at the mercy of a
stronger one; and for the further reason that
it was depriving a man of his rights. A man
has the right to carry his own 'property when
and where he pleases. And then it is enforced
against only one class. [Applause on the colored
side.] A certain class go armed to the
teeth and are not molested ; but let a colored
man or a poor white man be found violating
the law, and he is marched to the penitentiary.
I want the black man put on the same
footing with me. He is entitled to the same
political rights as fhe white man.
The South Carolina College was next excoriated.
He condemned the extravagant appropriation
for this institution, and as a specimen
of its management in the agricultural department,
said they had sent to California for a
professor who cannot speak our language, and
to Virginia for a man who did not know a
1 inch-pin from a coupling pole, to come here
and teach our boys how to raise cotton. The
whole thing is for no other purpose than providing
easy positions for the silk-stocking
gentry.
It was promised that all useless offices should
be abolished. One such office?the superintendent
of phosphates?has been abolished, but
how many have been established V I am told
eleven hundred and fifty, but think it even
more. Extra commissions, junketing around
at the springs, at a salary of five dollars per
day, to map out work for the Legislature, was
cueu <is one instance 01 me ornce-creaiingpropensity.
He next charged that an invisible ring at
Columbia rules the Governor of the State.
Governor llagood did not approve the stock
law nor the anti-duelling bill, but was forced,
though in the manner of coaxing, to approve
them. Members of the Legislature also were
driven against their will into the support of
measures they did not approve.
He then recurred again-to the election and
registration laws, repeating substantially what
he had previously said in regard to them, and
at the conclusion of his remarks on this branch
of the subject, stepped back to his valise,
which he slowly unlocked, much to the wonderment
of every body, which suspense was
only relieved by the production of a flask containing
some kind of liquid. Deliberately
pouring out a tumbler half full, lie nonchalantly
drank it down, and resuming his position,
smacking his lips the while, and addressing
his white hearers^said: 1 have no doubt I lost
twenty votes by that act; but I can't help it.
I believe in the largest liberties to the citizen,
and say, let a man drink what he pleases.
He then went on to discuss the uselessness
and extravagance of the appropriation of $0,001)
for the Yorktown Centennial; deprecated the
redistricting of the -State at an expense of $10,:?34,
when, as North Carolina and Georgia had
done, Congressmen-at-large could have been
elected from this State without incurring any
unnecessary expense. Hut in this measure,
as in others, Governor llagood was driven
against his better judgment. It was done in
the interest of the ring. In the redistricting
strangers were thrown together, all for no
other purpose than to send certain men to
Congress.
He next paid a compliment to the colored
man as a laborer. .Said the policy in this State
now seemed to be to drive them from our
borders, but without their labor the people in
the flat country would be broken up. Drive
them from our State, and who can take their
places r ^soi me ueriiiaii immigrant, wnose
only talent consists in keeping a beer saloon ;
nor the speckled-face Italian, who only knows
tiow to turn a hand organ or repair a watch,
[f you, in the hill country, are tired of the
negroes, send them to us; we have room for
ill and need their labor on our rich bottom
lands. [Cries among the negroes?"Let's go
10w," &c.]
lie then claimed that the colored people
lave no rights in the courts, and said that in
many instances the charge of crime was equal
;o a conviction. There were also instances
.vhere" they had been punished without the
'oral of law; and certain acts of violence,
lone in a statu of excitement he did not conlemn.
He said Marshal Ney was the greatest sol- i
lier of France; but after he had fought five j
uindred battles for his country he was charged
vitli treason, condemned and shot. Marching
?ut to the scene of the execution, and passing
>y his old comrades, he said, "If you think I
im a traitor lead me to my death." I have 1
fought many battles for the Democratic par- c
ty ; if in this act you think I am a traitor to c
my State, with Marshal Ney, I say, lead me j
to my death.
The speaker then addressed himself to his
flask and after taking a drink, sat down, an c
ominous silence pervading the hall, the won- t
der being what would he do next. Thereporter C
heard it suggested to him that the crowd was ?,
not tired, and would hear him longer ; but he c
excused himself on the ground that he did not
feel like speaking further. Nothing further
being said the crowd finally commenced to de- c
part in silence, and when it was apparent that (
the meeting had reached the period of adjourn- c
ment, the negroes flocked around the speaker, (
who besides having a smile and a kind word (
for each, distributed among them copies of a .
pamphletentitled The Cash-Shannon Duel. j
?he ^orkviUe inquirer. J
YORK VIL LE. S C.:
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. 7. 1882 ;
SIJPERIMEXDENT OF EDIJCATIOX. 1
The vacancy upon the Democratic State j
ticket, caused by the denature of the Rev.
tr_ in tn l.a fillo/1 1-.tr HlO lilvwil. '
iUIt 3, ID L>\l Ut IIJ1VU WJ VIIU bi?vv
tive Committee at its next session in Columbia
next Wednesday. In looking around for j
one as worthy and well qualified, in all respects,
as the honored gentleman selected by *
the Convention for this position?and surely
the Committee should not go below the mark j
of the Convention in this respect?we are
pleased to present for the consideration of the (
public the name of Col. Asbury Coward, so
long and favorably known as the principal of .
King's Mountain Military School. We are
aware that Col. Coward declined to allow his 1
name to go before the Convention; but his ,
friends are now renewing their efforts to in- (
duee him to reconsider, and we trust he may :
yield to their solicitations. To those who ;
know Col. Coward,.it is mere surplusage to say^
that his name will ,add new lustre to the already
brilliant ticket now before tlva^eople of
Sou^K Carolina for their suffrages.
f A DARK PLOT DISCOVERED. \ s
We produce in another column a very re- v
markable article from the editorial columns
of the Rock Ilill Herald. That paper has discovered
a huge mare's nest in what it evidently
conceives to be a plot on the part of voters
of York county against the Legislative candidates
now before the primary election, and
away down in tiie inmost recesses of the conspiracy
the HerahVs penetrating eye sees an
implied threat that any man will be defeated
for the Legislature who favors the proposed
I /i vorlnoinrr tha
l/OIKSULUUWIlitl iiuiciimiiiriii iui n,uu>/iiib w..v
area of counties. The Herald berates the Enquirer
for admitting to its columns the
communication, which, though short, it does
not print, that readers of the Herald might
see and read it for themselves, but contents
itself by saying that the suggestion of the
Enquirer's correspondent is out of time,
and hopes that it will meet with no response
from the people. As to the pertinency of the
communication in question, and to give the
public a second opportunity to detect the "imI
plied threat" we reprint from the Enquirer
of August 24th :
["Communicated.]
j "a practical and pertinent question,
j "We respectfully request that the Senatori
for York county, and the candidates for nom-'
ination to be voted foras members of the House
of Representatives, declare definitely whether
they are in favor of, or opposed to, the projiosed
Constitutional amendment adopted at
the recent extra session of the Legislature,
reducing the area of new counties in South
Carolina to four hundred square miles. Replies
to this interrogatory may be made at the
public meetings to be held previous to the pri- i
mary election, or through the county news- i
papers. Many Voters."
Such is the communication. Referring to |
it was the following innocent paragraph in
the local column of the same issue:
"to candidates.
"Legislative candidates may be interested in ,
a communication in this paper under the heading
of 'A Practical and Pertinent Question,'
and signed 'Many Voters.' In this case 'Many, ,
Voters' is not a mythical character; but the
same paper we print is in circulation and se- ,
^ T <.11 4/\ mlwvTYt Jf 10 1
CUl'lUg LUC Signatures UI till tu nnuiu ii> is jussented."
,
Where the "implied threat" is in either, or
how both paragraphs construed together, can
be perverted into an "implied threat" is more !
than we can understand. The communication ;
is terse and to the point, but it does not hold
out a rod. So far from implying a "threat" i
it does not even indicate whether the candi- I
dates shall favor or oppose the amendment, 1
but only asks them "tostate definitely whether j
they are in favoi of, or opposed to, the pro- j
posed Constitutional amendment," &c. The j
local paragraph referring to it stated that the i
paper was "securing the signatures of all to
whom it was presented," and this clause was j
simply meant to convey the idea, which was ]
true, that voters, irrespective of their predi- I
lections were signing the paper in circulation ; <
that it was known to contain the names of 1
those who are opposed to the proposed amend- !
ment as well as those who favor the formation |
of new counties. It was signed by all to whom j
it was offered, and for the simple reason that 1
one of the most momentous questions that has 1
been presented to the voters of South Carolina
is involved in the present canvass. It is a .
"Sfoto mipst.mn? .is t.he 7/prtild terms it. but i
its fate depends entirely upon the vote of the
people, and it is every voter's right to know
and to demand to know, before casting his
vote in the primary election that nominates
the ticket, what is each candidate's position
on the question. It were useless for the voter
to ask the question after tlie nomination is made, i
To arrive at an intelligible conclusion as to (
which candidate would be the man of his
choice, the voter must know the candidate's
position on the questions of the day. Before
we had read the HeraUVs article we were fully f
of the opinion that such was the object of the c
primary canvass ; and the writer of the offend- t
ing communication had for his object only the I
enlightenment of the voters of the county? ?
the Rock Ilill Herald included?on this vital
question. It is not an issue of our creation, ]
or of any person or voter in York county, as s
some i>ersons would make the people believe, r
The Legislature created the square issue when r
it adopted the resolution submitting the J:
amendment to be voted upon. We regret ?
that it did so ; but it is before us, and we c
must decide intelligently how to vote upon it. (5
We think the Herald is singular in its posi- r
tion that thequestion "and all such questions" ?
should be "eliminated entirely from our local J
canvass." It has not been long since the s
Gaffney City Carolinian, a red hot "new coun- a
ty" paper, contained a communication more v
nearly "implying a threat" than does the one
in the Enquirer which so disgruntles the n
Herald. It was in connection with the argu- ^
ment for forming a new county from portions h
of Spartanburg, Union and York, and arro- s
gantly demanded that the legislative candi- *
dates before the people should unmistakably
define their position on this question ; and our e
recollection is that the writer referred to can- a
didates in Union and York as well as those in a
Spartanburg. For aught we know, it was 0
this same communication that suggested the r
"Practical and Pertinent Question" in the (
Enquirer two weeks ago. And again, if (j
this and similar questions are not to be dis- ii
w
ussed in tlie county canvass?or the primary
:anvass, if that term is preferable for the
leraWs position?where can they be dismissed
? On this proposed amendment Demorats
differ, just as they differ on the lien law,
he Citadel Academy appropriation; the South
Carolina University ; the fence law ; sumptuiry
laws, and much other legislation that
lould be enumerated ; all of which are State
[uestions, and are discussed with impunity by
:andidates who think it rather "premature" to
liscuss a question now which is to be decided
>n the 7th of next November,-and on the dedsion
of that question may depend the fate
>f the State Senate, if not both Houses of the
[..egislature for years ! This is political wislom
with a vengeance ! Simply because a
Legislature, which is not remarkable for the
visdorn of many of its Acts submits a proposed
Jonstitutional amendment to le voted upon
iy the people, it does not follow that they shall
swallow it down, and vote Yes without stop)ing
to consider the consequences. "VVe ven;ure
the assertion that there is as much wislom
outside the Legislature as there was in it,
md that the people are safer to trust on vital
piestions than is a majority of that body who
idopted as "a party measure'' the very means,
is explained by Col. Wilson at Hickory Grove,
:o give the Republicans or even the negroes of
die lower counties control of the Senate ; and
is also shown by Senator Hart, at the same
Meeting, for owning the way, when ever local
interests should demand it?such interests
jenerally outweighing political considera;ions?to
the creating from portions of York(
md other counties two new ones, only one of'
which would have a white majority. Not a
iroper subject for discussion, indeed I The portion
of the Herald is sufficient commentary
)n that point. Probably a discussion of the
jubject would awaken the Herald to its im;>ortance.
This issue of the Enquiiier contains
a short synopsis of a discussion of the
question last Thursday, and we invite the Herihl
to give it a careful perusal.
We submit that the article we copy from the
Herald, under the caption of "The County Canvass,"
contains more an "implied threat" than
iloes the unobtrusive communication of "Many
Voters," and yet some of the candidates have
the temerity to deline their positions unequivocally
on the main issue of the canvass, though
it is a question which the Herald thinks ought
not to be discussed.
. y
^ From the Rock Hill Herald, August
THE- COUNTY CANVASS.
Under the order of the Executive Committee
a meeting of the candidates will he held at
IHckory Grove to-day. This will be first skirmi5h
in the campaign, and the neighborhood
will be regaled with an extra supply of patriotism.
All the questions now agitating the
people will be ventilated. In addition to the
numerous matters which the candidates may
feel themselves/called upon to talk about, it is
probable that tfrrfavoring of the constitutional
amendment to reduce the area of the counties
will be made an issue in the primary election,
but why it should be we confess we are
unable to understand. A correspondent of
the Yorkville Enquirer suggests, and that
journal seems to annlaud the idea, that each
Legislative aspirant make a public'statement
as to bis position on that matter. The suggestion
contains an implied threat that any man
will be defeated who favors such an amendment.
In other words, opposition to the new
county movement is to he made the test of a
man's right and fitness to hold office in this
county. We wonder if the correspondent
sloped to consider what a dangerous innovation
that would be. It is known that the
people of this section of York county favor
such an amendment, and if the suggestion of
the Enquirer's correspondent is adopted, its
practical operation will be to disfranchise all
our people who may come out for office. This
will not do, and it seems to us that a levelheaded
man like the editor of the Enquirer
out to be able to see the reason at a glance.
It is not right to make a county issue of a
State question. The question before the people
is not whether Eastern York or Western
York shall have a new county. That would
be a narrow and unpatriotic view to take of
it. The man who cannot guard the interests
of his state as well as of his county, is unfit to
serve as a legislator. He would be lacking in
the esssential principles which go to make up
the statesman and the patriot. One might
favor an amendment of the Constitution reducing
the area of the counties without being
desirous of making either Rock Hill or Gaffney's
a county seat, and be perfectly consistent.
It is not to be presumed the Legislature
had either the one place or the other in its
mindseye when the joint resolution was adopted
submitting the question to the people, nor
will the amendment when ratified apply to
any one county or section. It is, therefore,
wrong and unjust, unwise and unpatriotic to
make a local issue out of a matter that will
affect the entire State in its application.
We submit that it will be best to eliminate
all such questions entirely from our local can
VilSS. XI16 HglliillOU Ul Lilt; uue win a^iiug
others, and the Democracy of York county is
not in a position to fight and quarrel among
themselves over matters that should be discussed
calmly and thoughtfully, without prejudice
and without regard to the interests of
any particular section. The suggestion of the
Enquirer's correspondent is out of time,
and we hojie it will meet with no response from
the people. To threaten a man with defeat
at the polls because he may have the honesty
to approve of a question the adoption of which
lie believes will redound to the good of the
people of the State, as a whole, and which it
is perfectly legitimate for him to advocate,
is going a little too far
Sad Ending of a Route Agent.?Daniel
N. Sherwood, who, since October, ISO"),
lias been route agent 011 the North Carolina
Central Railroad between Goldsboro and
Charlotte, but whose route for some time
past has extended only from Greensboro to
joldsboro, committed suicide last Saturday
3y taking laudanum. For some months numbers
of registered packages had been received
it the Raleigh office rifled. He was suspected,
jut managed to elude detection. He then
segan on packages delivered at the Golds3010
post office. Detective Booth was put on
lis track, and on Saturday morning he was
irrested at Goldsboro with marked money in
lis possesion. He made a confession that his
"obberies had extended over a period of ten
fears. He was bailed in the sum of $2,500
ind took the train for Greensboro. Before
eaving he purchased a large bottle of laudalum
and drank a sufficient amount to cause
lis death and died 011 the train on reaching
[ialeigh. He was sixty years of age and leaves
1 wife and family. He was for many years
me of the most trusted men in the service.
MERE-MENTION.
It is estimated that *25,000 sheep, besides
:attle, horses and mules, and sixty or seventyive
persons were swept away by the recent
verflow of the Concho River in Texas. ?Of
.he 1,540 negroes in Utah, only a few have
jone into the Mormon church. A heavy
mow storm raged in portions of Colorado on
iVednesday of last week. The Indians of
irizona are again reported on the war path,
t is stated that last week a band of Apaches
ilauglitered twenty men, women and children
lear Calabasas. The brokers of Riclinond,
Va., are buying Confederate bonds again.
In Friday as high as ?7.50 per thousand was
aid for them. The railway service of this
muntry employs 1,200,000 men, and railroad
instruction 400,000 more, a total of 1,000,>00,
about one-eighth of the entire adult
nale working force of the country. Dick
mttle, an alleged member of the James gang,
s on trial at Iluntsville, Ala., charged with
eing of the Muscle Shoals robbers. The senation
of the trial on Friday, was the appearnce
on the witness stand of Mrs. Jesse James,
ridow, of the notorious Jesse.
Tiie State Military Academy.?A
aeeting of the academic board of the State
lilitary Academy was held at the Citadel
uilding yesterday. Col. J. P. Thomas, the
uperintendent of the institution, and Lieuts.
\ P. Mazyck and H. T. Thompson, assistant
rofessors, were present, Professor uain being
navoidably detained. The meeting was calld
for the purpose of discussing the matter of
curriculum. The course of studies was
greed upon and will be submitted to the board
f visitors for their approval.? News and Couier,
Saturday.
The trial of Captain Ilaile for the murer
of Major L. W. R. Blair was commenced
1 the Circuit Court of Camden yesterday.
?iOCAZi AFFAIRS. ?
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. d
Joseph F. Wallace, G. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sales. a
Withers Adiekes?Removal. a
R. H. Glenn, County Chairman?Governor's Day. '
Hunter & Outes?Just Received. !l
T. S. Jott'erys, Agent?The largest Yield. h
! Robert N. and Margaret A. Caldwell, Executors? .
Notice.
j Application lor Charier. i
A. Williford A Co.?Notice. }
' R. H. Glenn, County Chairman?Executive Committee.
?
F. E. Smith?Fodder Wanted. e
GOVERNOR'S DAY.
We are requested by It. H. Glenn, Esq., J
county chairman, to invite the ladies of the
town generally, to assist in decorating the
speakers' stand on Tuesday afternoon next. J
NEW COTTON. j
The first bale of the new crop of cotton sold
in Yorkville was brought in on Wednesday of
last. week, bv Mr. R. M. P. Robinson, of Blairs
ville. It sampled fair middling, and was
bought by J. W. P. Hoik?, at 12 cents.
DESTRUCTION OF LUMBER.
Last Friday morning a drying kiln of lumber
connected with Mr. W. L. Goforth's saw
mill, near town, on the King's Mountain road,
accidentally caught on fire and about 6,000
feet of lumber was destroyed. The loss to
Mr. Goforth is about $100.
DECLINES THE NOMINATION.
Rev. Ellison Capers has declined the nomination
for State Superintendent of Public Education,
and the State Executive Committee
will meet in Columbia, next Wednesday, for
the purpose of making a nomination to supply
the vacancy on the State tieket.
TO ADVERTISERS.
j\.s the State canvassers will be in Yorkville
next Wednesday, our regular day of going to
press, we have decided to anticipate our usual
time by issuing on Tuesday evening of next
week. Contract advertisers would confer a
favor by handing in their changes on Saturday
next, and others not later than Monday.
CHARGED WITH RIOT.
On Sunday last seven negroes?five men and
two women?were committed to jail by Trial
Justice Fewell, of Rock Hill, charged with
riot, the disturbance having occurred on the
plantation of Jerome McElwee, in Catawba
township. Twelve negroes were implicated in
nit1 uistuiuiinuf, uve ui Hiiuiu gave uan. ,
WORTH REMEMBERING. 1
Persons who have given liens on their crops
for advances are forbidden by a recent Act of i
the Legislature, to dispose of any portion of
their crops whatever without the written consent
of the party to whom the lien is given,
under a penalty of not more than two years
imprisonment or a fine of not more than five (
hundred dollars, or both in the discretion of ]
the court.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss, with Rev. "W. ?
0. Prentiss visiting. Services at 10? A. M., ;
and at 8 P. M. Sunday-school at 5 P. M. i
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. ,
Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regu- (
lar appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. i
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
There will be no service in this church next ]
Sunday morning. Service at the regular hour |
in the evening. 1
WITHDRAWN FROM THE CANVASS. 1
Col. Charles R. Jones, who, several weeks
ago, announced himself as an independent can- l
didate for Congress in the Charlotte (X. C.) !
district, has withdrawn, assigning as his rea- I
son that contrary to assurances made by Re- i
publicans at the time of his announcement, 1
inai party win prooauiy run a regular nominee, i
who, with himself in the field, would imperil i
the success of the Democratic party, to which i
disaster he would not be willing to contribute.
WEST POINT* CADETSHIP.
The competitive examination for a cadet- i
ship from this Congressional district, to fill a |
vacancy to occur on the first of next June, resulted
in awarding the prize to Air. J. AI. Jen- i
kins, of York county. Air. Jenkins is a grad- <
uate of King's Alountain Military School, and
since his graduation has been engaged as a
teacher in that institution. He is a most deserving
youth?a son of the late Gen. Alicah
Jenkins, and in congratulating him on his ap- i
pointment, we predict for him a bright career |
at West Point Academy.. i
CONDITION OF MR. FRANKS.
A private letter from Rev"."4 R. P. Franks to '
a friend, received last Tuesday, conveys the
information that he is recovering from the injuries
received several days ago by an accident
caused by the running away of a mule
that he was driving. Nine days after the ac- I
cident he was able to be removed from Air. 1
Suber's house to Lowndesville, where he now
is. He writes that considering the extent of
his injuries, he is recovering rapidly and hopes
soon to be able to return to his charge in
Yorkville.
SALES* DAY.
The attendance of people in town last Alon
day was larger than usual. The colored element
was present in full force, their attraction
being the Republican Convention, and the
promised speech of Col. Cash ; while a number
of white persons were also attracted by (
the desire to see a man who has attained some
notoriety in the State.
There was but one official sale?the interest,
if any, of W. I). Parks in that portion of
the W. I). Parks home place, heretofore sold ?
for taxes. Sold by the Sheriff, by virtue of <
writs of Jiere facias, and bought by T. X. i
Youngblood for S10. 1
THE WHEAT AMD DAT CROPS.
The following reports have been furnished
us as to the amount of small grain threshed
in York county the past season. We would
be obliged to other threshers for reports of
their operations, so that all may be aggregated : c
Wheat. Oat*. .
F. H. Dover, 4,675 2.500
L. N. Culp, 4,180 8,000 .
Hall A Brian, 4,000 3-,000
JT. P. Robinson A Co., 5,130 5,745
3. L. Milling 3,012 5,161
C. L. A J. O. Moore, 5,747 8,870 r
.S. L. Davidson, 2,000 4,018 c
MoGill A Jenkins 7,000 3,000 t
Messrs. C. L. & J. O. Moore also report that v
they threshed 44 bushels of rye and 27 bushels t
of barley. 0
THE MORMONS.
A report has been telegraphed from Colum- hia
to Hie New York Jleralil. and the same
dispatch seems to be repeated from Charleston
to the Associated Press, that the Mormon el- -v
n
ders operating in this county and Cleveland,
N. C., have been notified by a committee of o
citizens to desist their preaching and leave "
the country, or they may expect to be hanged d
by the outraged people. We have made in- "
quiry for the foundation of this report, but jj
have obtained no satisfactory information, e
From one person in that section we learn that 1]
such a notice has been given the elders and 0
their reply was that it would require a com- v
mittee of five hundred strong to carry out the a
threat. From another source we learn that a
it is not probable that such a notice has yet d
been given those emissaries ; but as the pro- ?
ceedings of a meeting at Whitaker, which we i
published two weeks ago, would indicate, a ?
committee was provided for to wait upon these JJ
Mormon evangelists. h<
The doctrines of this so-called church of jj
God are certainly, if correctly understood, repugnant
to all sense of decency and civiliza- w
tion, and a reproach to this enlightened day ; *
but we hope better counsels will prevail than a n
resort to mob violence to free the country of fc
those characters whose teachings, pernicious J
as they may be, are confined to comparatively b<
narrow limits. It is a fact that cannot be P
disguised, unpleasant as it is to recur to it, |J
that the operations of these evangelizing Mor
ions are restricted to sections not visited
ny too often by our own preachers of various
enominations. True, it may be said that there
re orthodox churches in each neighborhood,
nd preaching in them regularly, to which all
re invited without money and without price ;
ut yet we fear no special effort is made by
lie local clergy to reach the class in whom the
ilonnon "elders" pretend to feel so deep an
nterest. Their assiduous attentions to these
eople beget a confidence that can be awaken
(1 in no other manner than by direct and veronal
contact with them. In this we do npt
oean to reproach the local clergy; for we know
hey are zealous in the cause of righteousness,
ind as a class are overworked with the duties
>f their sacred calling. But we throw out the
lint that the Christian missionary is needed
n our own land as well as some others.
FINE FRUIT.
Mr. John Smith, of Broad Itiver, has sent
is a California pear grown in his orchard,
veighing 14 ounces. Mr. Zadok D. Smith
las also sent us some pears of the Bartlett
variety, grown in his orchard. One of these
veighed 14 ounces, and two of them weighed
[2 ounces each. Mr. R. G. McMackin, of
Bethany and Mrs. Samuel Blair, of Blairsrille,
have each sent us fine specimens of tonatoes
of the Trophy variety. From Thomas
Ballard we have received a basket of fine sweet
>otatoes, the largest we have seen this season.
Mr. T. J. Youngblood, of Mecklenburg
:ounty, N. C., has favored us with some of
;he finest specimens of fruit we have yet seen,
ncluding apples and pears. The pears are of
;he Bartlett variety, one of which weighs fifteen
ounces, and the aunles. of which there are
;hree varieties, names not given, are as fine as
we have ever seen.
PRIMARY ELECTIONS.
The Chester primary election was held on
die 28th ultimo. The candidates for Senator
were Hon. Giles J. Patterson and S. P. Hamilton.
Patterson received 808 votes and Hamilton
308. For Representatives R. T. MockDee
received 1002; TV. S. Hall, 648; Jas. F.
Barber, 538. A. G. Brice, 428; H. C. Brawley,
424; Alexander Wise, 418; T. C. Howze,
20S. Successful candidates for nomination,
Messrs. Mockbee and Hall. For County Commissioners
the nominees are J. O. Darby, S.
T. Anderson and S. J. Lewis. Treasurer?
7. B. McFadden; Auditor?W. J. Lucas ;
School Commissioner?James Hamilton ; Probate
Judge?John H. Buchanan.
The Lancaster primary election resulted as
follows: For Senator, T. F. Clyburn; for
House of Representatives, L. J. Perry and
R. E. Allison.
COLONEL CASH'S SPEECH.
A synopsis of the speech delivered in the
Court House by Col. Cash last Monday will
be found in another column. We give this
rei>ort, not that any peculiar importance attaches
to the utterances of Col. Cash, but
3imple to gratify public curiosity as to his
mode of conducting the campaign on the
stump. It is a correct portrayal of what he
did and said in the court-house last Monday,
and with the exception of one or two anecdotes
and frequent use of the name of the
Deity in a not very reverential manner, embraces
about all that he said. His speech was
more remarkable for what he did not say than
for what he did say. Though a candidate for
Congress, he never made the remotest allusion
to National affairs, confining himself to
fault-finding of the Democratic party on
State and local questions. We had hoped
that he would treat his dusky friends to a dissertation
on the tariff question at least, but
he seemed to know better how to please and
entertain them. It was also noticed that he
made no allusion to either of his competitors
in the Congressional race.
MR. MASSEY"'S POSITION.
TVe have no desire to misrepresent the position
of any of the candidates now before the
primary canvass, and in order to do Hon. B.
II. Massey full justice, we cheerfully make an
addenda to our report of his speech at Hickory
Grove last Thursday. In addition to what is
reported in his speech, on the first page of this
issue, just after the sentence: "It is a matter
for the people to determine," he also said:
"and I propose to be governed by their decision."
For the last two lines of the paragraph
on the subject of the amendment, he
substitutes: "and for these reasons I do not
think we should agitate the subject or divide
the county." He further said: "It has always
been my lot to reside a considerable distance
from the Court House, and I do not
think I have lost much by it; for those who have
the least to do with court-houses and jails are
generally the best off." This sentence was
eliminated from our report as not specially germane
to the discussion. It is due to say that
Mr. Massey makes these corrections from a
printed proof furnished to him of our own volition
; but we were compelled to go to press
with the portion of the report containing his
speech before we could hear from him.
%trial lUfitts.
Religions Notice.
There will be preachingat Allison Creek Chureh
in the third Sabbath in September.
L. R. McCORMICR, Pastor.
September 7 30 2w
Co in in u uion Service.
There will be preaching at Union Church on
3aturday, lGth instant, at 11 o'clock, and on Sunlay
morning at 10 o'clock. At the close of the
Sunday morning service, the Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper will be administered.
W. L. BROWN, Pastor.
September 7 30 2t
Religions Notice.
There will be sacramental service at Bethany
church on the second Sabbath of September,
lommenclng on Friday preceding, on which ocsasion
the pastor will be assisted by Rev. R. A.
Soss. E. E. BOYCE, Pastor.
August 31 35 lit
A Card from J. P. Hood, Esq, %
To the Voters of York County : I very much
egret that I am unable to attend the joint Demoratie
meetings of our county, on account of a
filious attack ; nevertheless, I hope my friends
vill remember me on election day. I am opposed
o forming any more new counties, and to any
ither measure that would unnecessarily increase
axation. Very respectfully, J. P. HOOD.
September 7 36 It
To the Voters of York County.
After mature consideration, I have decided to
ield to the wishes of my friends and permit my
iame to go before the primary election as a canlidate
for a seat in the House of Representatives
f the next General Assembly. My engagements
nd private business affairs may not permit me
0 visit every portion of tbe county between this
ate and the primary election ; and to those of
ay fellow citizens whom I may not have the
leasure of seeing, I would take take this methd'
of saying that should I be honored with an
lection at your hands, I shall strive to serve you
n the legislative halls of the State to the best of
rty ability, having in constant mind the support
f such measures only as will conduce to the
welfare of those whom I immediately represent,
s well as the State at large.
On the subject of the proposed constitutional
mondment reducing the area of counties?canidates
having been called upon through the
ress to define their views on this question?t
an only say. in this brief communication, that
am opposed to that proposition. I oppose it as
dangerous political expedient, which, while it
rould fail of the purpose for which it is ostensily
designed, viz.: the increaseol'Senatorial repreantation,
would afford an opportunity, ultimatep,
in case Of Republican ascendency* to incie&se
1 the Senate Chamber the colored or Republlin
rflnrauontofinn Rncwlfio fho foilnria u.'hir?h if.
ould undoubtedly prove as a political measure,
should also oppose it as opening the way for a
ivision of York county ; a scheme that I should
ever approve, unless better reasons weic given
>r such a step than I have yet heard advanced,
his, in brief, is my positionon the "new counr"
movement; but on it, as other questions
efore the county, ? shall be pleased, as occasion
resents, to define my position at greater length
ian I am permitted to express myself in the
mits of a newspaper card, very respectfully,
Geo. L. Riddle,