Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-11-10
Advice to Freedmen.

Carolina to An educational convention of col.
ored people, met at Raleigh, last week. On
"Wednesday, they were addressed ty Governor
Worth as follows:
have come here, upon your imitation,
to give you, 10y my presence what countenancc
and encouragement | could, having under.
stood that all your proceedings were conducted
III becoming and orderly manner ] was not
notified that any remarks were expected from
me, til your President just informed me. The
few words shall say arc unprecedented.
In the first place, let ne assure you that
| am disposed to do everything [ can, as II
citizen and as Governor, to protect YOU in all
your rights, and to encourage you to lie indus
trious, to educate your children, and to make
yourselves respectable and happy; and while
you may expect my protection while you do
right, shall be equally ready to have those
punished who do wrong.
on are very poor Your irst care should
be. by industry aud economy. to provide g,od
supplies OF meat aud bread and devote all You
can spare to educate your children aud re
member that 1t IL the common interest of bot!,
races that no cnmity DC allowed to grow up
between them. -Aa far aY know. the gene.
raj feeling Of your late masters is I'd toxaris
you. The whites feel that they owo you =
debt o. gratitude for your quiet and orderly
conduct dusinp thc war, and you should en-
dcavor SD to act as to keep up this kindly feel
ing between the two races
q Let ne advise you not to mell!c in 60
vcrnmental affairs. You know how few Of
your race are now capable OF understanding
matters Of this sort, aud you sec the stritcs
and troutles in which party politics have in.
industry, virtue, and cultivate the kindly feel
~, III i.ts hat, mi
you will thus acquire competence and elevate
your condition"
New York, October 2s-Tho Secretary
Of State has addressed letter to Sir ircdcr-
ck Bruce. in behalf Of James Lynch and
John McMahon, recently convicted ua Colo
ninl Court, in Cat,ssla, and sentenced to death,
upon charge that, hcng citizens OF the Uni
ted States, they we're actors in the assault
made in the mouth of June last, 1T Fort Erie,
in that colony The Secretary says that the
United States Consul at Toronto has been in
structed to procure for the information Of the
Government copy of the record of the trial
aud conviction of Lynch and McMahon, and
also "f all further trials aud convictions of II
similar character which shall take place in
Canada. The Secretary says: The Presi
dent directs me to assure you Of his confident
hope that her Maje>ty's Government will not
only cheerfuly comply with the request thus
made, but that they will think it proper, also,
to examine the judicial proceedings sfurcsaid
with careful regard to the rights Of the u nj
ted States and to the mantenau &c of e od re-.
| latons between the two countries. For this
reason, it will he very gratifying to the Prcsi
dent if you shoul. be able to give me ussu.
rance that the execution of the sentences pro.
nounccd upon convicted persons will bc sus.
pended, if occasion for delay should arise in
the manner before mentioned, to make it de-
sirablc. 1t is the opinion of this Government
that sound policy comedies with the best i'm
pulses of a benevolent nature in recommend.
ing tenderness, amnesty and forgiveness III
srch cases.
The " Hcrald's" Toronto special says that
dispatches con,ng from all parts of the
provinces. demanding that no mercy be shown
the convicted Fcnians 1t is doubtful if the
Crown can find evidence strong enough to con.
Wet Rev Mr.. Lun,sdcn. The threats made
by the New York Nenians to uvcngc the death
of those convicted arc doing great injury to
the prisoners. Petitions are to DC circulated
and sent to tho Governor. General to forward
to the Home Government, to have tho sen
tences COMMITTED to imprisonment. David
Whalcr, Patrick Norton and Daniel Drum.
mona nave Deeh arfaigneu. Hehrs arc cX.
pressed that the prisoners moy escape, rs there
are in the city over 500 unemployed Irish
Americans. The Fenian prisoners at Corn
wall are to be Indicted, on Monday, for high
treason, and tried on the following Weducs
day.
CONTEMPLATE the works of God, and
thou wilt learn thine own insignifcanco.