Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-07-07

shall stay out and who arc willing to come il
You will certainly not to humbug your con-
stituents by pretending to any fear of the
physical strength of the South. The Con.
federacy has not under its control u single
cannon, musket, or single round of ampu
Iition.
You are bent on schemes which seem to
contain nothing but tho elements of mischief
and revenge, leading to continued and in.
definite separation of the Union, and aiming
at the degradation of the white people of the
South. This last you will not. and say it
in. the name of the American people, You
shall not accomplish
But there is something in the spirit of the
Southern people Which will tllwart your de-.
signs. If they have lowered the standard of
their pride-a becoming pride in the cstma-
tion OF an honorable enemy The Southerncr
has all around him, without speaking of tho
merits OF the late contest, tokens of the en-.
durance, courage, and prowess of his people
sad spectacle though it bet will not de-
minish his tone that he can on his own soil
walk over the graves of nearly three hundred
thousand OF his courageous enemies and -
''Stanlng the Yankee grave,
he will not deem hinself slave"
MIR. Speaker, all the efforts made here or
els or, to elevate the negro to au equality
with the white man in the Southern States, ei-
thcr civlly, socially, politically, are perfect
~ idle. The negro must be kept in subordina.
on to the white man, no matter how eloquent
you may deck off the theory of equality. In
my opinion there is, as it were, a declaration
OF war between the races. 1t is true, active
hostilitics are suspended and the negro is under
parole to keep the peace, but when and where
they approximate to anything like equality
in numbers the sword of power must be held
over them. There arc too many dear and cher,
ished feelings and interests of the white race
involved to relax that power for single day?
1'hc negro must know it exists, and if neccsSa-
ry he must feel it. / say this with the kind
est feelings and sympathy For the negro race.
Full equality of rights will never exist be.
tween races SO dissimilar that cannot socially
amalgamatc, especially when they live together
in large numbers. When a,nalgamation takes
place when the white woman shall bring
forth negro offspring without blush, and the
white grandsire shall aflcctionateiy pat his
nappy headed grandson, then equality may
be said to exist between the races You may
then with safety grant equal rights of all
kinds, and possibly prepare for the nillen;
mum Why, then, interposc such obstacles to
reunion?
But these are not all the difficulties inter
posed; some favor an almost indefinite post
poncnicnt, urging with zeal that the South
is too ignorant, too uncivilizcd, to BE- trusted
with any share in this republican Governments
Northern education aud civilization must and
should be more extensively spread among thon
before their admission to. representation. will
cease to be dangerous. The honorable mem.
Der from Minnesota Mr.. Donnclly takes tho
lead IN that position. Ina speech delivered
some time since he declared, "The great
bulk of the people Of the South are rude. H.
lterate, semi civilized. Their condition in
this respect would be shameful to any semi
civilized people, and is such as to render a re.
publican Government. resting on the ntell.
gent Judgment Of the people, an mpossrLil.
". But let US criticisc somewhat further
this Pharlsecism, this claim and hmstcd SUI
per'ority OF the North over the South in !" en-
llghtenncnt and Christianity." Education is
certaluly widely difiused>ovcr the North Her
people are great, enlightened, but they set
great many false lights. Whence sprung I'll
these isms, even in this nineteenth century.
and within the ago of the great reformcr from
Minnesota? think the cnligtcncdand Chris
tlnn North is entitled to credit for them all
Nlormonism, Millcrism spritualis,n, trcclove.
ism and worst of all Gf it should spread be.
yond alnssasclusctts) strong-mindcd woman.
ISM have sprung and spreud over that high.
ly:civilized and Christian region The poor
ignorant. uneducatcd South was incapable of
producing such evidence of ndvanccmcnts and
progress. But let us continue the contrast
little further
Booth, tho assassin was not caught, but
brovciH shot hy a company of soldiers He
was brought to this city dead, in order that the
reward for his arrest might be secured by
proving identity. After that his cntraiIs were
torn out and thrown out to the hogs his
head adorns some phrenologcoi museum his
heart is preserved I'm spirits; his spinal col
nmn can be seen, which will disply to the
learned how much he must have suffered by
the near approach of the bullet to the sn;n,I