Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-08-25
late contest.

late contest
She had oontcndcd for the principles of sc.
cession, right in which lie never believed
HIMSELF and he had almost stood alone among
his ncighbors, the friend and advocate Of the
old Union. The State Of South Carolina had
honestly believed in secession. But her sons
had fully accepted the situation; and, rs hc
hud told President johnson last summer,
when appointed provisional governor, South
Carolina is as loyal to day MS Massachusetts.
She had sworn obedience to our govern.
mcnt; and however warm. bloodcd her people
may be- they are honest and honorable in all
their doings. They arc now rs loyal to tho
United States as the people Of Pennsylvania.
Her people have now thrown down their arns,
| have formed conventions and have restored
the State to its allegiance. South Carolina
was the first State to accept the Constitutions
al Amendment ahnIshing slavery and has de-
creed that it shall never be restored Truly
| that was some evidence that her people were
| loyal South Carolina may have done wrong
and snncd heavily but is it not the character
of Christian charity to forgive brothers sins
as ones sins are forgiven? South Carolina
expected, after she had conorncd to all rcqui-
sitions of the President Of tho United States,
that the Union would be again restored aud
she would become member She had ur-
derstood that tho war had been carried on for
| the Union, and that after its close with loss
of 400, 900 lives and hundreds of millions Of
,oilars, her representatives are not allowed to
enter Congress. Are not ten States deprived
of their represent .tion while their citizens
are taxed without their consent? Is that
| republican form Of government? 1t the South
! ern States arc to be lowered to the conditions
of c""nics the country is forming series of
! degraded sections which can br used to the
destruction Of the government.
Erroneous opinions prevail at tho North in
regard to tho status of negroes III she South.
lie wished to sl,ow few facts to illustrate
their position. When the prcsid"nt's procla-
nation declared them free he Informed his
fifteen d,mcstcs rhas they were free TO do as
they chose, but that if they desired to ao sc,
| tllCv might remain MS before umdcr his cnre.
Not one Of them had left hiu. III South
Narolna, at present, there wns scarcely as M
| hIbitant but takes the warnrSt interest in that
race No oppression exists there except it be
ns great an anomaly as the robbcrics or MUIR
ders which occasionally occur in Northern
cities
In regard to the national debt, South Carp
lima with her sister States, though the dhSa
was incurred in concuering the Sonthcru
F.. States, yet they will not consent to rcpudiatc
one dollar of it. The South has lost ala hat
her honor, nor does any sane man in South
| Carona bclicrc that the Confederate debt Will
cvcey ba accepted Ly the United States.
Iney 10 not ask It. They are wiling ta be
taxed u TO pay the NATIONAL debt. The lncaf,a's
VII, NOT 'oag remain upon our county; for
w'th'n thc course OF twenty or thirty years
th's d'et VIII be wiped o"1s 's Congress ~'l2
use mat cconcan3 >" expenditure Which is now
OF most vital Importance.
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