Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-30

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presses abound in abuse ofsyhe loyal States
and efforts are made to pcrpotuatc the deadly
bate and discord between th9tYo sections and
excite hostility aguinst the Federal Union
The report, which is a long ohe, concludes ,as
follows, which may be regarded as SUMMARY
| of tho whole case sSs3$fia, -
The evidence Of an intcas9hostifityi to TIC
Federal Union and an equalSNiitense loyeso ot
the late Confedcracy, by the; war, is decisive.
While it appears that nearlya arc wilinr7to
submit ut least, for the tmo being to Federal
authority, it is equally clcarsthat the ruling
motive is desire to obtain the adyant,ucs
which will be derived from representation
in Congress. Officers Of the Union army on
duty, and men who 20 South to engage in
Southern mon who adhered TO the Union are
bitterly hated and rclcntlcssly ybersecutcd In
soue localities prosecutions have been insttu
ted in State Courts against Union officers for
acts done in the line of official duty, and sim
liar prosecutions arc threatened elsewhere as
soon asthc United States troops are removed.
All.such demonstrations show state of feol
ms against which it is enthusiastically nescssa-
~ to guard.
The testimony is conclusive that after the
collapse Of the Confcdcracy the feeling of the
people Of the rebelli6us States was that of ab
icct submission Having appealed to- the tri.
hnnal of arms, they had no hope except that
by the magnanimity of their conquerors their
lives and possibly their property might be
preserved. Unfortunately the general issue
of pardons to persons who had brcn prominent
in tho rcbclion, and the feeling of kindincss
and cancellations manifested by the Executive
and very generally indicated through the
Northern press, had the effect to render whole
communities forgctful of the crime they had
committed. defiant towards the Federal Gov
crnment and regardless Of their duty as citi-
zens. The conciliatory measures of the Gov
ernment do not seem to have been met even
half way The bitterness and defiance cxhib.
'ited towards the United States under such
circumstances is without parallel in the his
tory of the world. In roturn for our lcnicncy
we receive only an insolcnt assumption of
rights and privileges long since forfeited. The
crime we have punished is paraded as virtue,
and the principles of Republican Government
which we have vindicatcd at so terrible a cost
are denounced as unjust and oppressive.
If wc add to this evidence the fact that al
though peace has been declared by the Pres
ident lie has not to this day deemed it safe to
restore the writ Of Hubcns Corpus, to relieve
the insurrectionary Statcs.of martial law, nor
to withdraw tho troops from many localities,
and that the commanding general deems an
increase of the army Indispensable to the
preservation Of order and protection of loyal
and well disposed people in the South, the
proof of a condition of feeling hostile to the
Union and dangerous to She Government
throughout the nsurrcctionary States would
seem 10 bo alarming
We now propose to rc-state, as briefly as
possible, the general facts and principles ap,
plicablo 10 all the States recently in rebellion:
Nrst.-The seats Of Senators and Repre-.
scntativcs from the so called Confederate
States became vacant in the year 1861, du.
ring the second session of the Thirty sixth
Congress, by the voluntary withdrawal of their
incumbcns, with the sanction and by the d.
rcction of their respective States, This was
done as IL hostile aot against the Constitution
and the Government Of the United States,
with the declared intent to overthrow the same
by forming Southern Confederation. This
net of declared hostility was speedily followed
by an organization Of the same States into n
Confcdcracy which, levied and wagcd war by
sea and land against the United States This
war continued for more than four years, with.
in whicl period the rebel armies hcsicgcd tho
national capital, invaded the loyal States,
burned thcir towns and cities, robbed their
citizens destroyed more than 25O,O0O loyal
soldiers, and imposed an increased national
burden of not less than S3,500,000, ,0G0, of
which seven or eight hundred millions have
already been met and paid. From thc time
those Confcdcrated States thus withdrew their
representation in Congress and levied war
against the United Suites the great mass of
thoir people became aud were insurgents, trait.
ors, and NIL of them assumed and occupied
the political, legal and practical relation of
enemies Of the United States. This position
is established by Acts Of Congress and Judi
cial decisions, and is recognized repeatedly by
the President in public proclamatons, docu-
ments and speeches. ~
Sccond-eThe States thus confederated pros
t5iltcd their war against the United States to