Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-11-03
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The Course of the South.

The following is an adnirablc article from
the New Orleans Bulletin :"
L. We should take no active part in Fed
eral politics. Like the State prisoner who
represents her acts aud her msfortuncs, the
South should be dignihcd silent and resigned
to whatever fate even the trcachcry of orprcs.
sion may inflict upon her. Nothing should
be done to cxaspcratc the North-nothing to
degrade ourselves. The South should await
the terms of restoration offered her. submit
them to domestic decision, and signify her ac
ceptance, rejection modification of them.
2. The South should apply itself earnestly
TO preparing for amy possible future which
an9 a9y dcmase Es h ayano;es @ L has " t"
monopoly of great staples. Let it secure the
capitalization aud control of the specie which
these States authorize us to import
The South is an immense consumer of the
merchandise Of the world. Let it organize in
those quarters where such enterprises may be
established. manufacturing interest which
shall supply this great home market The
South holds the key to the commercial inter.
course between the great and growing North
west aud the Southern oceans. let her opcn,
organize and conduct this commerce with her
own sons and her own shipping. The South
has cast upon her 5000 600 Of persons unfit
for social OF political equality; let her. BY en-
couraging appropriate immigration, and de
vclopng new elements Of, aud substitutes for,
physical force render the white population the
protectors and directors Of tho blacks The
Southern States the Southern social standard
Of courage and virtuc-must be perpetual.
Let the South adopt the means which modern
civilization demonstrates to be essential to the
preservation of moral as we'll as political insti-
tutions.
Such, in our opinion is the course Of duty
should be impressed upon tho country 10y the
united press Of the South
The Southern legislators have high duty
to perform. They should at once nationalizc
each State by adopting system of State ad-
should not lay on the table bills for raising
money to maintain the poor, to take up and
discuss resolutions protesting an abicct loyal.
ty-rcsoutions to be thrown back in their
faces as insinccre and trcasonable.
TO natonalize the separate States, or pre-
serve their separate identity, "ysem of State
organization is indispensable. This can alone
counteract the fact of Capitalization, and pre-.
vent our local government by distant MAORI
ties
Each State should organize system of cd
ucaton, industrial and material development.
There should be, in each State, bureaus of {:
/. Education, literary, scientific and political.
2. Manufactures. 8. Commerce 4. Miner.
ais. Inquiry should be made into the pro-
prcty and practicability Of aiding, by State
credit or capital each Of these departments of
State prosperity. BY such policy the South
crn people would live at home, cultivate do
n,estic harmony, cease to disturb the scnsbil-
tiles Of the political god fathers and godmoth.
ers now so much exercised by the moral re-
sponsibility undertaken on behalf of the South.
The result of this pacific and unobjcctiona-
BILE policy would be this If the Union shall
endure in its present form, and in spite Of the
lawless Indications at the North, the South
will enjoy inestmable advantages from it's
protection if from the incapacity Of Northern
parties to enjoy civil liberty themselves, or let
others enjoy it, except according to dictatiop,