Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-24
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From the Columbia Phoenix.
Has the time Come for Re-acti :?


The New York lI,rld." of Thursday,
published d remarkable article under, the cap.
ton Of 81 The New Crisis" the concluding
and summing up paragraph Of which publish
cd yesterday morning. This was followed by
another leader on Friday, in the same paper,
under the head Of "The new Issue of South.
ern+ Negro Supremacy tho Time for Re.ac.
tion Now COME from which We extract the
concluding paragraphs, as embracing all the
pitll Of article. After noticing the probable
result of registration in the Southern States
as being large in favor of the freedmen, the
Iirqid concludes as follows:
Ihns h"rl"".", Fr"". tl,o Development,
and all the evidence before us touching tn.
reconstruction programme Of Congress, that
1t carried out according to the laws as applied
by Secretary Stanton and the present comman,
ders of the live military districts the whole
ten Of the States involved in tls orlc Il will
be nt the mercy of the blacks. We arc called,
then, to meet the question of the ncg'o su,
premacy. The return Of twenty, thirty or
4 forty negro Senators and Rcpr, sentative to
Congress Is but an item among The results
which may be reasonably anticipated. The
consequences of negro ,asccndancy in the
Legislature of this or that State, arc most to
be feared when VIC consider the unsettled bal
anccs rs slaves which these Southern blucks
will be apt to enforce against their late white
masters Snnc very significant hints in this
direction have already been thrown out in tho
resolutions Of the negro reconstruction meet
i"gs OF South Carolina. We know, too, that
those Northern white radical stumpcrs in
the. South who have most broadly suggested
tho possible application from Congress of
Old Thad Stevens" panacea o1coniisca,ion
hav" excited the livclirst enthusiasm among
the blocks. Is it.any wonderI then. that cx-
Gov. Perry of South Carolina, and other
leading Southern men, counsel the policy of
quiet submission to their present military gov
crnment indefinitely, MS preferable to this re-
construction and restoration scheme which
will ppcc The State absolutely under the con
troll OF tho blacks DO we not also perceive
that in this mntcr there il an opening for a
decisive political diversion on the part Of
Presi'lcnt Johnson IN his execution of these
rccnn> truclin' laws, in the interval to the next
meeting Of Congress?
Granting thrt the Northern States are
prepared tor he recognition and acceptance
OF equal suffrage 10 the blacks, is New York
or is Pennsylvania, or is Ohio, prepared for
tnll blown eN pertinent of negro supremacy in
ten Snnthern States, as contemplated 10y the
Republican radicals in Southern rcconstruc
ton? Assuming that if. with conservative
acting Secratary of War in the place of Stan
ton, and With five military commanders of
Mr.. Johnson's way Of thinking in the places
Of the five commanders who think and act
according to the gospel of Mr.. Stantnn-as
suming that the results will be to dclay the
work Of Sonthrrn restoration for even two or
three years--will this not DC wiser than to
rush hcadlong into this danger of Southern
negro supremacy Will not the inevitable
tendency Of negro supremacy In South Caro-.
lima, for example, bc to drive ont the white
population, or to precipitate that war of races
which. if commenced, will be apt speedily to
ripcn into war on both sides of indscrimi-
nate cxtcrmination Will social harn,onyor or
peace, or systematic industry, ever be restored
to the South, undnr the threatening danger
Of negro supremacy
/" We cannot answer these questions truly
without recognizing the sagacity and wisdom
of President Johnson's policy of giving to
tho Southern whites, as far as possible, under
tho terms of Congress, chance to recover
their lost ground, and to take tho load In
Southern reconstruction We are, indeed, SO.
far Impressed with the idea that in this view
nG the question he standsin a strong position,
that wa,fanfi bound to advise him to make the
mostaof his opportunity in bringing the issue
before .theipepple Of tho Northern States for
their & sobari second thought upon it in the
coming fall eloctiqps There is no security,
and there are thousand dangers, in the rad
iQal programme, which now distinctly fore.