Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-31

ueaHs anarchy ana then despOtism and tyr
amy What inducement is held out to YOU
TO accept their propostions? You say it Is to
! get back into the Union and for this YOU are
! wiling to submit to disfranchisemeut and the
q Eianuguration OF policy that tends TO q war
tkoe,sssrtaees! all TO get back into the Union
omss where you are already, and always wero
ttsofs Union sfor7 If you are mot now in
" hat oaa you oxpoot by getting II stIch ~
4 ,they present to you? You say it is to get
4 representation in the Union Is not Ken
tucky in the Union Has she any rcprescn-
\ tation Tho telegraph informs us that res
T onltion has been introduced into the So. called
| congress making inquiries whether Maryland,
| l'claware and Kentucky have State govern
i hehts or not Are you SO stupid as not to
\ see what all this means? The result will be
+, tho substitution Of the Radical party for air
governments, both State and Federal: and
the substitution Of Radical ayiW for all law !
Take that home with you and digest it. That's
where you are going Kentucky is excluded
IRON representation because it is alleged her
representatives were voted for by disloyal men
j " hat s meant by distoyai? Every man who
does not support the Radical party will soon
bo declared disloyal and every State which
does, not vote the Radical ticket will be dis
loyal, and hcrgovernn,cnt illegal / tell you,
unless patriotism shall wake up from the stun
which the horrid confusion of war has given
| 1T, the Radical party will be our only govern.
ment, and Radical will our only law.
look for this revolution to go on Who,
| ever thinks this war on the Constitution will
stop within tue ten States is madman or a
s'mpleton to be piticd, or knave to be de.
sp,sed l have expected them to t Ike charge
oHf IN I.
Governor that did not agree with the Radical
party; and sure enough Sumner, in late
letter, strikes the key note He saws simi
lar bill for all the States is short cut to uni.
| versal suffrage. The socaled Congress, i'm.
mcdiatcly on its meeting, took charge of Kou
tucky, and excluded her whole delegation,
with one exception. II they can reject these,
they can reject every one who differs will,
them These they will receive / do not
care what may have been their sins hereto.
land will whine around the streets and say he
lis Radical now, he is as good as the saints
in Heaven ior Radical purposes Applause.
They care not for race or color nor fer ante
cedcnts if you now favor Radical schemes you
are loyal, and if you oppose them you are dis
loyal
But you say you are in favor of going into
the Union, because if you do not your proper
ty will be canfiscatcd, A gentleman of this
city few days ago said to me that he was in
favor of the acceptance of these military bills
because he thought it the best we could do
said to him: "You do not say that for
yourself, but for your Lrich, stores" TAP
plauso But you are not half so wise as you
are knavish i! You would lose the Constitu.
tion and the country to save your brick stores,
AID then by your very course you will lose
your brick stores also l am ashamed to talk
Or arguments about contscaton IN time ot
peace! 1t is rur pooer, not known to in.
ternational law except as war power, to be
used only in time CT war, upon an enemy's
goods Confiscation in time of peace is nei-
ther more nor less than ROBBERY
| But you say they have got the power and
they will exercise it, unless we do as they bid
us. And will you, in this case, abandon your
only protection! 1t is like going out into the
highway and snrrcndering your purse to the
robber to keep him from taking it
l could introduces a great deal Of high arl.
thority to establishths point, but will not
insult the Radical portion of this audience by
reading from any authority for them except
from a Massachusetts Judge Here is what
lhe says:
It has been supposed that if the Govern
meht have Che rights of belligerent, then,
after the rebellion is suppressed, it will have
the rights Of conquest; that,a State and its
1 inhabitants may be permanent divcsted Of
all}political privileges, and treatoi as foreign
territory acquiredby arms. This IS an error,
la grave and dangerous error. Bcligerent
i rights cannot DO ecercised tohere there dre no
5eNigerenfs"
A That is what said /" Con6scation is only
a war measure, and ceases with the war;
Again. Il
j "When tho United States take possession
of rabcl district, they merely vindicatc their
pre-existing ttle. Under dcspotic govern.
ments the right of confsce.ion may be unlinl.
tied; but under our government the right Of
4 sovereignty over any portion of State is
I given and limited by Tho Constitutions, and
! will be the Same after the war as it was be-
1 fore"
! There is one Lot in Massachusetts,, and If
| Abraham, were alive to-day would have hin,
! pray 10 God to spare that State and trust it,
not enly TO ten men; but---e9en toone. There
4 ffs;at least one good man in it, and he is a
Judge, and dares to proclaim to all that SO.
oarity to property is giaensby tho Constitu-
4 tion The samoa aftor as before theSwar And
a NOV IL will read for tho patriots of the audi.
iitenee something from the, most distinguished
Eof fallwriters OH international law 81
I%Sa St When sovereign, arrogating TO himself
Ethe eabsplute disposal Of a people whom, he has
\ aeuqaersd, attempts to- reduce them to slave