Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-09

| fusion of their miscegenation and equality
| ideas, are calculated to do the negro infinitely
more injury than can ever be compensated by
! what smatteriug of an education they may Be
able to impart. The people of tue South,
however they may be oppressed aud troddcn
upon by the heel Of fanatiosm and tyranny,
csnnot aud never will submit to be insulted
and treated with indignity by those whom they
have always regarded as slaves. And howev-
er high aud enthusiastic notions Northern
"ciyil rights " advocates may entertain; and
despite of all cnactmonts and laws they may
succeed in driving ovci the head of the Pres
ident for putting Tho negro on an equality
with the white man-thc true Southern man
never can nor never will, consent to sit at the
same table, to sleep in the same bed, and dwell
i'll the same house, and adult to the same
privileges and immunitics the sons o. Africa
Our very hearts swell ut tho thought!! Our
very nature revolts at the bare idea And
yet this is the doctrine aud these the senti-
mcnts which Northern Pcdants are assiduous-
ly laboring to impress upon the minds of our
people of color We cannot alter our nature
nor can the enactment Of law, nor the rage of
tanaticism accomplish the task. There is a
great gulf fixed between the black and white
race as to c4uality which all the whining cant
and bombastic braggadocio and windisms of
STEVENS and SUMNER and their motley clique
can never lill up.
If the negro has friend on earth that friend
is the Southern man, and the change of rela-
ton between him aud his former master has
not destroyed that attachment for him which
grow with his growth and strengthened with
his strength. And the true men of our coun-
hy us deeply Interested, lr not moro, for
his welfare now, than while he was under our
protection and guidance. We know the ne
gro's native instinct of dependence and his
imbccilty in judgment, forcthought, and econ
omy, and we cannot but look after him as he
starts out on his untricd voyage in his untrcd
barquc, toward his unknown destiny, with
feelings of the deepest interest. And for this
reason we would remove as far as possible from
his way cvery barrier that would impede his
progress and success in his now career "Be-
fore cxaltation is humility" The sentiments
which these Northern "Ncw Lights y are en-
deavoring to instill into the minds of our col
orcd people are to the last degree pcrnicious
to their best interest. What man among us
is going to employ servant (and such they
must necessarily be for years to Gomez who
has been taught to believe that he is in every
respect the equal of his employer7 and because
he cannot conscicntiously admit his notions of
equality and take him to his board, bed and
firesidc must submit to any indignity and in
suit which his Dcgroship may see proper to
infict. / know not your sentiments, Mr..
Editor, but can speak for myself, that l
would rather undergo any hardship no matter
how severe, than expose myself to such treat
ment. And believe J. am but echoing the
sentiments of large majority of our pooplo
when say that if those pernicious principles
aro persisted in, the day Is not distant when
we shall see thousands of our oolored people
wandering through the country without en-.
ploymcnt, food, raiment, or homes, and our
cars will become familiarized with tales of
murder, robbery and burning. Then will the
sum of hope and future greatness sink amid
the blackncss Of darkness forever, and the ne
gro like the Indian, pass into oblivion be
forgotten and his name despised among tho
people Of tho earth. The question now arises !:
How are these evils to be averted, and how
may We best secure the interests of our coun-
try at large, and those of tho colorcd people
in particular? | would suggest, that we takc
the mental and moral development of these
people into our own hands, and that ut once !;
and so occupy tho ground as to leave no room
for the ingrcss of these Northern moths into
the social hive, and while VIC endeavor to i'm
part to thcm tho benefits of sound practical
education, so far as books and figures are con-
cerned, impress upon their minds those sent-
ments of honesty, truth, sobriety and industry
which will render thom useful to themselves
and the country ut large Teach them that
hnnailiku, md q .checrful obcdiance to ill law