Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-11-03
Idleness.
Idleness.
There is too much idleness in this country

1Here IL zoo muoh ldlcneSs In THIS country
1t is breeding vice and immortality It is
filling our jails with criminals. Crime hat
beon on the gradual increase for six months
This comes of idleness and idlcness comes
in great degree of that abominable idea that
n white man cannot be gentleman and work
He must get money, as that is indispensable
But how That'sit. Young men have not
the disposition to work and by patient ccono
my secure u basis for business operations
They must have it now. This suggests expe
dents These lead to temptation and temp
tation lead to crime. Hence we have mur
dcrs, house thefts and breaches of trust
why should u young man consider it de
grading or even undignificd to work? pres
dent johnson purchased lis present residence
in East Tennessee with the proceeds of his la
Dor rs u tailor. One of the wcalthicst bank
era in New York commenced the world as
gardener, selling to the huckstcrs the proluc.
of his own labor. Gen. Pat Cleburn ut ono
tinc the head of the Arkansas bar, subse
quently the ruling spirit in powerful army
began life as day laborcr. udgc Reagan
Postmaster General of tho late Confederate
States, was once wood. chopper on the bank.
Of the Mississippi The world is full of sucl
examples. But where can we point to n sue
ccssfu man who spent his early youth in hunt
ing business which he considered to be NOR,
genteel than manual labor? Who has heare
Of man succeeding who spent his early NAH
| hood waiting for something to turn up 2"
Young man, if you would succeed, go to ,corh
| If you cannot obtain clcrkship take some
| thing else. You had better be rolling bar
rcls, or blowing. or building fence, or chop
| ping cord wood or carrying the hod, than do
| ing nothing. Quit depending on your friends
Strike out for yourself. Learn at once tn,
greatest Of all lessons, that of self reliomcc-
Have head, will, purpose Of your own
(io to work and watch your opportunity. The
soil upon which you have been reared never
refuses competence to those who arc willing
to dig Then, if you can do no better, dig
1t will pay to dig. Nor is there anything un
digniied or vulgar in it. 1t is honorable, i
you choose to make it so. Then dig ant
watch your opportunity. But don tstand it'll.
and wait for something to turn up"
TIE DATE OF TIE NEGRo PERIoD.-Th,
Cincinnati Euquircr," of last Saturday
says: The date of the negro equality pcriot
IN the Northern States may be fixed at Octo
Der y, 1866. In Ohio, the negroes were al
lowed to vote, without distinction of color, a
all pc!!s-outside of few Counties where
radical judges oificaed It was the same il
Indiana aud Pennsylvania
One correspondent writes us
AENIA, October 9-Evcry negro voted to
day that offered his ballot.
| CEDARvILLE, Greene Co, Ohio.--Forty
live, ll.bb}lown bb}low khssks voted at this prsoino
today. The judges took their votes, dccIar
ing that under the civil rights bill they wcr.
entitled to vote as the whites
RICHMOND, Ind, October 9.-The judyc
here allow full bloodcd negroes to vote til,
same as whites, and justify themselves undc
the civil rights BILL
The Enquire, adds: We have no doub
that throughout Ohio and Indiana, wher,
there were radical judges of election, will
rare exceptions, negroes voted.
| We cannot say that we object. The popu
lar will must be carried out. The people o
Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania believe tn,
| blacks as much entitled to suffrage as them
selves; to be jurymcn rs themselves; Judges
Governors, Congressman, Senators as them
selves; they have the right to say so, and en-
force it. We submit to the popular will
that considers blacks rs good as whites, social
" and politically. We don't believe so, anG
never will; but politically, we submit to tn,
decision of the ballot. boxes of October 9
1866. Negro suffrage triumphs 1t is hard
~ worth while to submit the question direct
ly to the people Of Ohio.
The receipts from the internal revenue sour
ces exclusively, up to the 18th, amount to
1880 900, which is in excess of 81 600.
o0O per. diem, from the beginning of the pres
ent fiscal year, the 1st of July It's believed
that tho income from this source will reach to
nearly the same figures as those of last year
which will be largely in excess of the amount
estimated and required, leaving heavy sur.
plus to be appropriated to the liquidation OF
the national debt
A STORM swept over st Louis on Sunday
afternoon, causing great destruction of proper