Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-08-18
philadelphia Convention. q. :. :.

WIFI HciebaUes :3H Sisitofs tO$tHc SrcaC Con-
yention, andsthe hotels are oyerfowing. oy The
Reception lsponi1 1oftho Excoptiye Committee
has been tltgpsngod \ with; delegates sistering
their namess Every State aud Territory is
represented; Tho harmonious feeling of yes.
tcrduy IS still more marked to-day. Fernando
Voc S lctter declining to nppearas delegate
has luado him many friends. Nallandigham
will not go into the Conventions and has writ
ten n letter to that effect.
Gov Ori. spoke ut ihc National Guards
Hall, last liiglt. lie said t!.e pruple If the
South believed they had the right to scccdc.
The North did MT u. rec on tile question, and
submitted it, to the arbitrahent Of arms. The
Nortlcr, Interpretation of the Constitution
has been firmly and legally established, and
that decision, was pronounced on the field Of
battle, ,ialid the decree is ilconttovc;tiLlc. The
South hns surrcnaercd l,cr principles and nc.
oepts tho Northern Interpretation. We aro
willing to abidc by it forever. BY this war.
tho people 81 the South lnvc, to II very large
extent, bSeis stripped y! .heir property, their
b"pksarc gonc aud thcir'cre,lit gone, and in
many localities the great staud d;point of civil
! aw has been lost Plus the people of the
South have far more need of u stable Govern
ment than you have, and it is mad iuly to
support this Government We claim this Is
vnr Government as well as yours; ; but that we
may be equal, we must have representation liz
Congress 1t is not just to tax us aud cx-
clude us from representation.
LArISr--P MI lie Convention ASSEM-
bled i'll the wigwam ut 12. 80 p NJ.
Mr.. Randall opened the Convention, sav.
ing: Gentlemen, | have to announce that
delegates from Sonth Carolina and MInssaclu-
scctts will now comc, arm in arni into this
Convention.
Ihis announcements was greeted with great
applause. The entire audience risin.! ut this
moment Mni"r General Couch, Of N,aSS;,chu.
sctts, and Governor Orr, of South Carolina
at the head OF their delegations, marched, arm
in arm, with banners flying and music pny
ing. Shout upon shout spontaneously rent
the air. and tears filed the eyes of the del
egates and electors
Gen. John a. Dix was nominated as tenn
porary Chairman. In accepting, lie said -
| regard this us Convention of no ordinary
character, not only on account of the high So
cial and political standing of the gentlemen
who compose this Convention, but beouuse it
isa Convention of the people Of all the States
OF the Union [Applausc,l and because VIC can
not doubt, II its proceedings are conducted
with harmony 49,. s;uu, Judgment, that it
WI, iead to I'm Important results. It may be
this continenf 1Hhder circumstances, SO momcn.
to,s and 80 important since the year l7ST.--
| Applause, The year when our ANCESTORS as
scnb'ed III this city to form better Govern
mcnt Tor the States Which composed the con-
federation; a Government which has bccm
confirmed and made more end.ring, wo trust
ny the fearful trials which it has encountered
and overcome. Applause.
Ten States have yet no representation in
the legislature of this country, and it is this
wrong VIC have come to protest against, and as
much us IN our power to redress. When the
President of tho United States declared that
the. war had ceased, all tho States had tho
| rightof representation. The cxactiny of new
conditions is subvc,siye to onr national lil,cr-
ty, and dangerous to the public peace. TAP.
plarse, Is this the Government our fathers
fought to establish, or which we have fought
to maintain? lie trusted that in the dclibcr-
| atons of the Convention the main idea would
DC to change the present complexion of Con-
gress, to purify the Republic, and bring it
back to its original st,ndarl--nnc country
one fiag-onc union of equal States.
RED" Bismarck, the great Prussian, on
whom all European eyes are now centred, re-
joices in the name of Charles Otto Won Bis
| mark and Schonhauscn and Kniepllof Good
for him. h,& Guiasa 'l0 'nI-
SALE OF SrocKs.- M Ees.rs John 8 Riggs
| u Co. sold'ths following stocks, at Charles
ton, on Wednesday last
S2,713.50 City Of Charleston G per cent.
stock, $74!. to SIS; $4,000 State of South
Carolina 6 percent stock. $50 81 900 State
Of South Carolinh @ per cent. bonds, $50 :;
s794 State Of South Carolina 6 per cent.
stock, 500; $4,000 in City Of Columbia per
cont bonds, s59.50; $500 in Sonth Caro-
lima Railroad Z per cent. bonds, s72; 25
shares Charleston Gas Company stock, Sl6.75.
&Ar BY some curious coincidence, il mn