Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-10-13
saving the republic.

| ~ Wv ItuoIilUuS NCnCrul Qu0 most
OF his gallant officers who conquered peace.
as well as by the distinguished head Of the
navy. The men who oppose him in Congress
are those who never served in neither the ar
my or navy, or made any sacrifices during tho
war for their ilnperiled country. They were
never Mon meh At heart OF; to have tiio
l5s lniosl sayssi have alsay "a
been Hing To sacrffic6 The q Union for :tiis
'aeeo"0 of tl'eirpasty. They were willing to
carry on the war to enanciputc the Southern
slaves and conquer the Southern States If
their secret hearts could be read it would be
seen that they would, this day, rather see The
Contcderacy restored, aud their indcpcndencc
acknowledged, than to see the Southern mem
bers restored to their seats in Congress. They
are under the impression that, as soon as tho
Southern members arc admitted into CONGRESS-
their party asccndancy in that body will be
gone. Hence their desperate struggle to keen
out the Southern representatives, or have ne
gro suffrage i'll the Southern States. They
arc willing to degrade the ballot-box and dis
grace the representative principle Of rcpub-
llc, to obtain their party purposes.
1t is we'll known to them, aud to every ono
else who knows anything about the history of
our country, that tho American Government
was formed exclusively by white men, and for
white men, aud is cmphatically the white
mans government. At the formation of tho
Federal Constitution slavery existed in cycry
State-not excepting Massachusetts. Mr.. Jcf-
fcrson, who penned the Declaration of Indc
pcndencc, was STAKEHOLDER at that time and
no lived and died STAKEHOLDER. When he
declared that all men arc created equal ho
could not have alluded to, or thought of inclu-
ding the slaves on Ills farm in Virginia. His
expression, many years aftcrward, about the
Missouri compromise clearly provo this. lIo
spoke of white men, and alluded to white men,
who alonc were then recognized as oitizcns-
If any one will take the trouble to look into
Nloore's History of Slavery in Massachu-
setts," he will see that slavery never was e-
Tina and tie athSr' h sSuastG i'll SQgl llSts{re
the constitutional amendment abolishing slave
ry in the United States. Until this amend
mcnt was adopted, there was no law abolish
ing slavery in Massachusetts, There wcro
many laws and statutes recognizing and cstab
fishing it in that State And [ will venture
to say that in no State wcrc the slave laws SO
atrocious as they were in Massachusetts,
Mr.. Jefferson does not seem to have been
very precise or correct in his use of language
in drafting the Declaration of Independence.
llc says that all men arc created, when it is
obvious that Adam alone was created, and all
of his descendants have been born, and not
created 1t would have been equally ncor-
rect to have said that all men were born equal
BABIES arc born, and not men. Babies grow
to be men, but they arc not born men. Now,
if Mr.. Jefferson had said all babies are born
equal its absurdity would have been patent
Some are born rich, and some arc born poor
some are large, and others arc small, somc are
fhr, o,,I L.
with far greater capacity for intellectual i'm
provcmcnt in after life than others.
It wa, to be hoped that after slavery was
abolished, all agitation about the negro would
cease. There is no purpose or wish on the
part of the Southern States to restore slavery,
if they had the power of doing So Nor is
there any feeling of hostility on tho part of
the Southern people towards the negro. lie
behaved we'll, generally, during the war, and
was faithful to his master limo will show
oonolusiycly that ho has been benefited as q
class by freedom. There may DO some indi-
yidual exceptions. But as a people they arc
destined to go MS tho Indian did, whom brought
in contact with the white man. No people
increased more rapidly than they did in slave
ry, and mono will diminish faster in freedom
If all the children in Now York City were
turned loose to provide for themselves how
many would live, prosper and do we'll !? The
negroes are os improyidcnt as children, and
require the guardian protection of some one
almost as much as they do The ngcd and
helpless will soon perish. 1t is a popularity
of the negro character that they will not wait
on each other, and take care of each other in
sickness, unless made to do so.
a long bill of indictment might be prefer
red against tho Rnmp Congress" by their
constituents when they come before them this
fall for re- election, and on every count of the
indictment they would be convicted before an
impartial jury of want of patriotism and rccf-
less disregard of the interests of the country.