Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-23

did acquiesce in this dcspotislnl TO acqu-
cscc, fellow.citzens, is to consent that the
white laboring man should be brought down
to an equality with the negro. That is what
1t means. Aud it means more; it means that
the white laboring man shall be taxed to death
to feed and olothe his newly christened black
brothers, in idloness The expenses Of the
negroes bureau for the current year will not
! be o mill uuder fifteen millions of dollars
And what is this negro bureau. Why it is
oimrly the ncHro's new mnstnr 1-on have
suffered thesnogro to be taken from lis lawful
master and given to bureau of Yankees,
ssp'rtualists, free lovers, and tanatical vaga.
bonds generally. Practically the negro is not
as free under the control Of the bureau as he
was under tie control of his lawful master. -
l''e great. difference in his condition is, that
{ formerly he supported himself. and now YOU
have to support him and the horde of official
sco,rndfe's who are appointed to take charge
OF him Morally and physically, poor Cutie
Is thousand fold worse off than he was be.
fore. Indeed. before he was the best off of
any negro OIL the face Of the earth. Now he
is the worst He is, pcrislhing at the rate of
fifteen per cent. annually! The poor creature
''"' ~" iiStu " uSHtH w IVY VIII nOt the
wrctchcs, who have composed his ruin, aud
the ruin Of ouf country, inflct the same blcs
sing upon themselvcsY Why do such men as
Ihad: Stevens, Charles Sumner, Ben Wade,
Stanton, and the legion Of such dcvilish spr.
Its llvel We will not seek to fathom the
mysteries of divine Providence:
"If storms and earthquakes break mol tTcavel's
design,
br tl,o,,o n ~.
Lot them live; bnt let us reserve the ctcr
nal right to dcspisc and dcnounce them. In
proportion we love our country We must
take care that the bloody, the brutal, the dcs.
potic deeds of the Abolition war, arc not per
United to be precedcnts for the future. All that
has been done IN this new march of dcspotisn.
must be undone. 10 say that We cannot un.
Sap %pd tdan thT S'saa sa Of o hst
again. Who says that? Who says that white
men must sit down content to be only the
equals of negroes? Who says that the land
of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, of
Patrick Henry and of Lee, shall become the land
of Thad. Stevens, Sumner. Ben. ,Butler,and old
John Brown? Who says that the immortal
Revolution for white men and liberty, in l776,
shall be obscured or washed out by rcvolu-
tion for negroes and dcspotism in 1866 p
Not yotl, fellow. citizens; for if there were a
drop of such. craven blood in your veins you
would not have done me the honor of this too
Auttcring demonstration. Your presence here
is proof that. in your political principles, you
are white men, aud that you arc determined
that the Government shall be preserved "for
the benefit of white men and thoir posterity
forever" Your presence here is proof that
you will stand for the Union rs it was, and for
the Constitution as it was, before either was
tinkcrcd by the traitorous hand Of Black Re-
pubicanisn. The Union our fathers nude
that is your platform, and it is mine. We stood
together upon this platform during the war
in opposition to tic Abolition traitors who
were seeking TO overthrow the great American
principle of consent, and to establish the old
dcspotic European principle of force? We
are Democrats of the same school MS vie wise
and patriotic founders of our Government t.
We, fcllow.citzct,s, arc Democrats without the
Black Republican improvements: During
the whole Of that black and bloody time be-
tween the. years of 1861 aud 1866, we stood
the Democratic party had stood upon all the
way from 1898, to 1860. If others got got offthat
platform we did not. IfJcn;crson and the foun-
uciS VI tuc tjulon WCIc IlShC We VIC IlHllt. IL
theimmortal platform of priciplcs known as the
kentuckyand Virginia Resolutions, on which
the Democratic party was brought into exis-
tencc, were right in 1898, they were right
in 1860. They arc right now, and they will
be right forever. They involve ho funda-
mental organic principles of our Government
If they have been overthrown, their overthrow
is crime, and we must treat it as crime.
To aquiescc in "a crime is to be n party to it of.
ter the fact. If We arc honest in wishing tho
Union our fathers made restored, we must re-
turn to the principle on which our fathers
based it. The Democratic temple of self Gov
erninent aud liberty can never be made 70
stand upon the foundation of Black Ropubli
oan despotism. And every Black Republican
stone or plank put in the foundation for the
Democratic edifcc will be a source of weak