Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-02-03

they wouldent work gals in their fnktoyies if
it warent so profitable, for they are conscien-
tiously opposed to everything that don't put
money in their pockets After awhile they
went into the. striped almanak business, MAJ
kin bloody pikters of poor laseratcd niggcrs
gettin hundred lashes for nuthin, and mourn
in for their first born because they were not.
Then they started the stealth program, and
while we were trying all the big courts and
little courts to git back one silky nelatter by
tho name Of Dred Skott, they were stealing
from five to fifty a day, and GOVERN their car
casses all over with nigger larceny, and SNUG
Gin the Constitution into an abolishun mush
They buita fence around the institution as
high as Hamah's gallus, and hemmed it in,
and laid siege to it jest like an army would
besiege city to starve out the inhabitants.
they KEEP. peggin at us untcll we got mad
show nuff mad-and we resolved to cut loose
from EN- and paddle our own canoo
Now all this time we had some good friends
among en--some who swore we were imposed
upon, and said We had good cause to dissolve
the partnership. They said thatif we did Sc
seed and the abolishunist made war upon us,
they would stand by us and throw their lives
and fortunes and their sakrcd honor right in
the breach, and the first fight would be over
their dead bodies and SO forth and SO on NV
memory is bad, but [ remember that some of
EN- were named James Buchanan, and Dan
Dikinson, and John Cochran and Logan, and
Gushing, and Butler, surnamed the Beast and
Mclernand, and Stephen A. Douglass, who
GOT his commission about the time he died
and carried it with him to parts unknown, and
lastly man By the name of Andy johnson,
w | cir, nrn ;cf, o1,4;o, ~
President of the United States of Ameriky
duct of his relations, and don't throw it up
to nobody | suppose that our President are
doin the best he can, and Mr. Ethsidgc ought
not to be raken up his record.
We'll the war come on, and show enuf 10
gan and Cushn and McLernard and Butler
and Company buzzed around "a while, like
bumblebccs till they were brought up and then
they light over on the other side They cot
their reward and they were welcome to it so
far as | am concerned.
How is it now Mr.. Happy7 They CON
quered by the sword, but they Haven't con-
v.aced US of nuthin that know of. All is
lost save honor, and that they can't steal from
US nor tarnish
| { If they had held out the hand of fellow
ship, we would have made friends and buried
the hatchct. But the very mint they whipped
us, they begun to hollcr treason from one end
ofthe country to the other, just like they had
| made bran new diskovery. 1t seemed to
strike me all sudden like an X post fakto law,
and they wanted to go into general hanein
business, and keep it up as long as they could
find rope and timber.
Now the idea of several millions of Amer-
kan freemcn being guilty of treason at once
The idea of appyin such a crime 60 eleven
great suvreen States, which met in solemn
convention and in the light of day dissolved
Union they had created, and which had been
disunion for twenty years The idea Of
\ applyin treason to the Old Dominion the muth-
or of States and of Washington and Jefferson
ahd Madison and Marshall and Patrick Henry
and all the Lees, and who give away all the
territoryin the northwest for nuthin! Is she
to be scandaizcd by these new light christians
who are compounded from all the scum of all
creation, and think that Paul and Peter and
Revelations hay been for two hundred wears
mckn special arrangements for rcceivin their
sanctificd souls in Paradise Treason the
dickens Where's your dictionary? Where's
Dan Webster? Where's the history of the
Amerikin revelations
No it amt treason nor secson-but it's dew
lllsh internal human hate. What do they keep
MIR. Davis in jail for? I hear sum saw that
it amt Mr.. Johnsons voluntary doings but
the tremengions pressure of surrounding cir
cumstances. Durn the circumstances. Aint
Mr.. Davis great and good man? If Andy