Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17

ishrd, they will fight until from their bones
the Ecsh be backoh.p
lie proposes the following plan of operations:
|. Thorough organization and indepcAidcut
political action on the part of the non -slavehold-
ing whites ci tho South
= 1neligibihty of pro-slavery Shareholders; !;
never another vote to any one who advocates
tho rctenlion and perpctuaton of human slavery
3. N"co9perntion with Pro-slavery politicians;
40 fellowship with them in religion no afiilia-
ton with them in society
T. No patronage to pro.slavory merchants
n" gneStship in slavo-wnitnc hotels no fees to
pr"Slavcry lawyers no employment of pro-
slavery physicians; no audience to pro-slaYery
pars0us.
O. omOrc hiring of slaves by non sluvcholl-
crs.
g. Abrupt discontnuanco of subscription to
pro-siavcry newspapers.
II fhn greatest possible encouragement to
free white labor
This volume which advocates an agrarian in
snrrccion against the South by the poor whites
III combination with servlc revolt. compre-
hcndlng the massacre of the Soutl,erncr and
tire confseation Of his property. This incendi-
any and reasonable volume we find suprortcd
anu endorsed hy seventy members of the House
ol Representatives. the natonoi Congress-, and
Governor Morgan, of New York. Horace Greedy
w. 9. Bryant, j. A. Kennedy Tlurlow Weed
w. llarton, and over one hundred prominent
business men of tho imperial city of New York
lt-bchoovcs the South to demand an assurance
III future of safety or to retire from the Union
and institute Southern confedoracy.
On. Wednesday the election for Mayor will
take place. There are three candidates for the
lucrative post. Fernando Wood Democrat 4:
ilnrcmeyer, half.and-half Republican; Op-
dyke, Black Republican. Considerable excite
mcnt ls manifested, and most rowdy time is
anticipated, in consequence of which the Sev.
enth Regiment has been notified to turn out to
preserve order. 1t is calculated that i've hun
drcd thousand dollars will change hands on the
day Of election. 1t is believed that ono of the
Black Republican candidates will be elected
The election is regarded by the papers as n ma
tiorra question, aud the New York Tribune dc.
clares that the election Of Opdykc as Mayor is
tant0mount to the election Of w. H. Seward as
President OF tho United States in 1860. The
iLsidM endorses the remarks of the Tribune,
and adds; =" The Republican victory in this city,
which is highly probable would be but the be-
ginning of the end tile fOregone conclusion of
Seward nndrevolution, and the inauguration
of n fierce and civil war" ...
The HleFodd as severe upon the candidates for
Ahermcn. Hear his description: The can
didates for millions of plunder-the aspironts
to seats in the Common Council--are the great
est set OF scoundrcls and cutthruats that ever
dared to put forward their names i'm IL munich
pal election They arc indicted thieves, con
Victod tclons and alleged murdcrers-mcn who
ouEht either to danSlc from the gallows or he
sent to Sing Sing, where there arc far better
men,"
This is certainly. - liberty of the press"
We had Il light fall of snow to-day. followed
by sleet The winter thus far has been exceeding.
iy mud. Crowds are aocking every evening to
the Winter Garden to view Play by Dnurcic-
| ault, called The Octoroon. or Life in Louisi-
ana have not as vet seen the performance.
but intend So doing. The Octoroon is a South
cru name given to the eighth blood-bcing the
child of quadroon by white,
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