Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-16
foundation of a fourishing and prosperous
| community.
General Blair Of Missouri ON Negro Suffrage
and New England ideas.

speech of General Blair. It will be remem-
bered that General Blair is a Republican, and
was one of the strong supporters of Mr.. Lu-
coins Administration
l tell you, my friends, that this idea Of nc
gro suffrage Is the one ruling idea with this
party. 1t is the reason why the Union isstll
disrupted. The blood of thousands of men
have been shed in vain, and millions of treas
ure have been thrown away to cement, and
bind, and bring together the States of this
Union, simply because there are in our midst
party who are determined that this Govern
ment shall never be whito mans govern
mcnt, but shall be mongrel cur Tlaughtcr],
mixed with all low relations, and in which he
shall exercise the same power. Gentlemen,
you would be deceived very much in the be.
lief that this idea Of admitting the negroes in
the Southern States to suffrage arose from any
sentimentality on the part of these New Eng
land statesmen They have other views which
lie down deeper than the rhetoric which they
expcnd over tho hardships of excluding the
Their intense anxiety and desire is to have
zcns-with that last great right of individual
sovereignty because it is the ultimate right
of determining who shall rule this Republic
to make them our equals in every point
to insist that they shall be our equals in this
Government. Some people arc fain to believe
it rises simply from a morbid sentimcntaity
an abstract conviction of the equal rights of
all men-and that every man created in the
image of his Maker should be entitled to equal
rights under our form of government I be,
icve that any person who imbibcs this opin-
ion is utterly mistaken when we come to sift
down to the very dregs the motives which ac-
tuate the leaders of this radical junto That
there are men who are led by this idea of sen
timcntality, believe; that those bright rhc-
torical phrases and beautiful metaphors which
are thrown outby the finished and accom-
pished orators in Congress, like Sumner, have
msled some young and simple minded young
men-our own Senators, for instance, laugh
teri [ can well conceive to be true.
But the New England men-who govern
New England, that rule this party-havc far
other and far different motives. With them
it is power; with them it is dominion 1t is
with them the desire to retain in their hands
the control of all the affairs of this Republic.
They wish to bring to their side these four or
tive millions of negroes cnfranchscd in the
South, and they wish to extend these States
of New England into eleven more at the South.
Why, my friends, by that means they could
still maintain those high tariffs that grind to
powder the people of tho West. In the
midst of our suffering, when throughout the
West we are bleeding at every pore, and when
our produce, which we have succeeded in ma
king the earth yield by the most laborious
toil-when it sells for scarcely anything on
the markets-wc have been compelled to pay
the most enormous prices for those fabrics
which are made in the looms of New Eng
land, and they receive the most enormous
prices, almost fabulous, upon the products of
their machincry,in New England and Penn.
sylvania, and we are loaded down with almost
the entire debt which has been incurred in
the prosecution and maintenance of our glori-
Gus Union. am not as familiar as other gen
tlemen, for have not recently made the pro.
cecdings of Congress my especial study, and
therefore do not profess to be as wol acquaint-
cd with the details of the measures which have
passed and are still being pressed through
Congress for the benefit of the New England
interest but there is one example which |
desire briefly to alude to hero, and which will
illustrate their whole scheme.
CHURcuEs BURNED.-A writer in tho
f" New Orleans Christian Advocate" who has
been making some inquiry into the matter,
one thousand and twelve hundred church
houses were burned during the war. These
churches, he thinks, had cost the people not
less than five millions Of dollars In the loss
tho N1ethodists were the greatest sufferers
the Baptists next; then the Prcsbyterans
the Catholics least.
A FREEDMAN EXrLAINs.--A freedman
explains the diflcrepce between Yankee and
Southerner I" thusly -
Now, white folks, Use gwinc to tell you
the difference tween Southern man and de
Yankee. Well, de Southern man he stop at
de hotel, he ak for room, get de key; he say,
here Jim, take my yalisc." When he get
in de room, he say, "Jim, you black rascal,
brush my coat and boots, and be in hurry"
While Use doing dat he wash hissclf comb
his hair and take drink, and when / gives