Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-07-13
POL or rOOAl,
The. Design to Destroy the South, as Ad-
mitted by our Present Enemies nearly
Three Years Ago.

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Three Years Ago.
1t is sometimes well to reproduce the ad-
missions OF our enemies. The following arti-
Gle was copied into this paper on the 9th No
ycmber, 1898, from the New York Ucrohd.
1t tells us what was the programme Of w.
III. Seward then, 1t will be seen, at this day,
how completely it has been Carried out by this
arch traitor, who is one Of the ci,;ct instru-
mcnts III The destruction of the lato Conlcd-
eracy. According to the Ucruid, speaking
more than two years ago, we sec what was his
deliberate design. We italicisc certain pas.
sugcs for the special bcncft OF such as may
be lukcwarm III the Southern States We
note here the deliberate admissions and the
bold avUwals OF an enemy; and with this
alone We uluy answer those miserable whining
complaints of Unoni>ts, North and South,
who reproach the Southern people with pre-
IcipItatiou. Had they waited three months
longer the iron collar would have been about
the throats Of every Southern State and pco-
pie, or the butcher at their doors ~ Lcrcu,y.
From tho New York Herald
The political issue which is to be submitted
! to the people of this State tomorrow has
been boldly and brutaly stated by William
III. Seward to be. whether the cotton and
rice fields of South Carolina ;nd the sugar
plantations OF louisiana shall ultimately he
titled by free labor, and Charleston and New
Orleans become marts for legitimate ner,
| chandlzc alone, or whether the rye and wheat
fields OF Massachusetts, and New York shall
be aGsss surrendered by their farmers to slave
culture and to the production Of slaves, and
Boston and New York become once more
markets for trade in the bodies md souls of
men" ,
1t was for the purpose of srrineirg this
insane issue upon the people OF New York
that Thurluw Weed refused, at Syracuse, to
take Il scat in the back Car of the opposition
train, and that the true features of the can.
vass in favor of Morgan for Governor were
kept back until the speech of Seward, at Ro-
chester, II few days since. The issue is art
fully stated in the quotation we have given
above, SD as to make it appear hat /. great
contest is going on between the social insti-
tutlons OF the North aud the South, in which
one must eventually triumph, to the utter de-
struction Of the other This assumption, so
Tar as regards amy effort on The part Of the
South to take possession Of the rye and wheat
fields of New England and this State, and Of
the markets OF Boston and New York, and
| I'LL thcm with slaves, is pure nonsense and
folly. No man knows this better than VIM
III. ScwMd. No man knows better than he
that the most activc scene of liic and cxpan-
sion in this country is in the Northcrp States
BESIDES the evidences which arc everywhere
exhibited III the North OF material prosperity
and increase o1 population and social power
II ls tie North that hurbors the unurcssivc
spirit which charactrriZes the country. 1t
Was the North that was ready to fight for
Aroostook aud the Northeastern boundary !;
hat endeavorcd to stir up the Canadian re-
beislon and stc"l those provinces from the
British crown; that has extended its grasp
over thrcc-Inurths OF the productive land OF
the Territories; that run six fighting men
into Kansas to one from the South that sent
its Eli Thuycrs uto Virginia to drive the
lii@gcrs southwark; and it is the Mouth
which now wishes to set up this raZzia on the
south. and VIM IL. Seward who wishes to
lead it.
The true issue, then, which he presents to
the voters of New York, aud in favor Of
which every vote cast to morrow for Morgan
will be claimed, is involved in the first part
Of his proposition, Will New York pro
claim that " the cotton and rice fields Of
South Carolina and the sugar plantations OF
Louisiana shall be titled by free labor nlcnc?'
This is the issue, lis MIR. Seward puts it and
it carries brutal and bloody meaning. 1t
involves a total destruction of all existing
things in the Southern States The bonds
OF society must be swept away. An inferior
and brutal race must be admitted to social
and political equality with the superior race
or it must be driven out. The cotton, tobac-
co, sugar and rice, that now form so large a
portion OF our commercial exchanges must
cease to be produced The scenes that have
marked the same policy in lIayti, Jamaica,
and many portions Of Spanish America,
must be reproduced in the southern portions
of this Union. The fields must be turned
into barren wastes, or allowed to be ovcrrun
by the forest; the springs Of commerce dried
up, industry everywhere destroyed, education
neglected, churches and schools allowed to
fall into decay, tho rite Of marriage and the
observance of family :es abandoned, and Il
savage barbarisin Installed where peace, or.
der and social progress now rule.
This ,s no imaginary picture It's reality
may be seen in every one of the intcrtropcal
countries of America where the inferior race
has been released from tho control and cui.
dance of tho superior. Tho islands of the
West Indies and the shores of Mexico and
tho Spanlsl, Main present reality far more
terrible than the picture we have drawn.
AN occasional island like Barbmlocs, crowded
with negroes. to starvation point, who hold
each other in check under white organization
aud rule, lis ITO logical exceptions. And how
is, this brutal programme TO be carried out
when tho constitution guarantees the right OF