Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-10-13

friends. They stand in need of their labor
and must employ them. The experience OF
the last twelve months proves unquestionably
that the negro has done better, and have beer
better cared for where there was no militar,
garrison or Freedmen's Bureau The only pla
ces where there has been any disturbance il
South Carolina or the other Southern States
have been where there was an interference or
the part of the military authorities
The attempt of the Radical party to force
| negro suffrage on the Southern States is tho
height of folly, injustice and madness. +,
all of the Northern States, with perhaps ont
or two exceptions, the negro is denied tho
right of unqualified suffrage And yet in
these Northern States the negro has been free
for grent number of years, and has had Ut
opportunity of being educated and learning
The duties of voter. With what Justice OF
propricty can the Northern people ask tho
South to give tho right of suffrage to hun
drcds of thousands Of ignorant and stupid nc
groes who have just escaped from slavery
when they deny the same privilege to the
comparatively few of tho same race among
themselves, who have been free all their lives
who have been taught the duties of citizen
In South Carolina there is largo majority o.
negroes over the white people. Consequently
they might elect some Of their own number
to serve the State in Congress. As my friend
p. O: pcrrinc, Esq, Of New York, has said
it will be a pleasant sight to sec these negro
and Stephens and all that class of politicians
in Congress. But think with him that the
association during dog days would make tho
instincts of the white man rcpel the outstinks
of the Blacknan!
The African has been, in all ages, savage
or slave. God created him inferior to tho
white man in form, color, intellect, and nc
legislation or culture can make him his equal
You might as we'll expect to make the fox the
equal OF the lion in courage and strength, OF
the ass the equal Of the horse in symmetry
and iicetncss. His color is black his head
covered with wool instead of hair, his form
and features will not compare with the Cuu
casan race, and 1t is III vain to think OF Gle.
waiting him to the dignity of the white man
God has created difference between the two
races, and nothing can make him equal
In n republican government the only hope
Of its perpetuity is in the virtue and intclli-
gence Of its citizens. They who vote and
conduct the affairs of the public ought to BE-
wise and virtuous. In England, the besSJ of
monarclies, the right of suffrage is linsted to
very small portion Of the populafon. No
where is universal suffrage allowed, Women
and children arc excluded fom voting every
where, although they and their property arc
subjected to the laws made by others.
1t was but few years past that this same
Radical party attempted 10 exclude all for
cigncrs from voting in the United Suites till
they had been here twenty years. They did
not believe that an 1rishman or German, no
matter how highly educated he might be, or
how much property he might own, was fit to
exercise the right of suffrage till he had un-
dcrgone pupiagc of twenty years. But
they wish the negro to exercise this right as
soon as he is released from the bonds of slave.
ry. In their opinion. the negro is to be prefer
land of liberty
the negro, with all of his ignorance and vice,
they desire, by constitutional amendments,
to disfranchise the great mass Of tho South
crn people on account of their participation
in the recent secession movement of the States
ted, and who have always been distinguished
for their adherence to honor and principle
They differed with tho people of tho North
in their construction of the Federal Constitu-
ton, and believed they had right to peace
ably withdraw from the Union for the prescr-
vation of their property and constitutional
rights. They have again renewed allegiance
to the Union, and sworn to protect and de-
fend it. This they will do with MS much f.
deity and patriotism as the people of any
other State. Why then, should they be dis
franchiscd and the negro placed above them
| would ask the iaborins, olasses of the
North and tho men of fortune at the North,
if it is fair and right for their hard earnings
end capital to bo taxed as it is, to support the
idle and vagrant and vicious freedmen of the
South? The last Congress voted thirteen
millions of their taxes for this purpose, more
than was suflicicnt under she administration