Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-07-13

! pfeNs, started for that very purpose, and as
I legislator, that cause for which those soldiers
| fought, to whom he now appeals, by their
votes at the ballot, to oppose reconstruction of
the Government. There is, We must be per-
intted to say, all Inconsistency in the public
aud golitieal course of our distinguished cor
Respondent, that lis supaecountabIe, if we look
for itsst xistcncet to3any ordinary causes.
,ifItthe bugbcar of negro government, the
daSS aud dismal spcctres of /" San Domingo"
aNdn.Januca, are again heldyupi,, nlftheir
fearful s ig,hastncss TO alright our people. On
nd grounds whatever can such apprclcnsions
exist Even tho writer himself ,itin,ates,
when speaking Of the history Of Africa that
| the .llphg association of tho race with tho
wiites'of the South his endowed him with
.'a low degree of civilizations" But we are
discussing facts, and il is facts wc have to
I deal with now, and we would ask where, in
the two Years they have boon cmancipntcd,
have the freed people given any reason for
tbc apprchcnSlons expressed by Gov Perry.
They are building churches ana school, houses;
many OF 'thcm are protesting Christians and
Ea.lurgc 'uunbcr Of them intelligcnt-suilicen
! to control the more uncnlightcned among
Itho,il; and the sonibre forcbodings INDUCED
ia by, Gov. Perry, so far MS we can discover,
[llave Eno tinundation whatever, that we can
|, ,perocive-and, therefore, We regard them as
;iftht dfspiing of the gloomy imagniuss of
ldrspairing mind. Were it. otherwise howcv-
et. OUR esteemed correspondence has failed to
I'cniEhten Us how all these terrible evils could
be arrested by voting "agsinst convention
the only Mlnety he proposes, the only pan
acca Tor the mitigation of present or future
woes. .E
To our plain, common sense, and, perhaps,
limited understanding, the course recommend
4 ed by Governor Pciry, is that which, If any
! thug could do it, would bcget the state of
affairs he apprchends' and dcprccatcs, Ii.
Fwonldat onre create M antagonis,E. between
tho two races, and wnuldaintlaWc and excite
l,that population. who have been and are still
Fbei,ig taught that the whites nt the South will
not coieodc to them the rights and privileges
i .Econferfcae upon them by Congress and the
4 G.aNet aon.,ff ". ia casysto toresce that this
4 antagdIism, fostcrcd aud promoted by bad
Wcn and politicians, would become beyond
flcuntfes were the white people of this State or
tho Seslth to stubbornly oppose law which
they believe confcrs, and which does confer,
upon thom a certain cnhanchisemcnt, and en-
dows them with certain privileges We re-
gret that Governor Perry saw fit, in order to
strengthen his position, to call up the exam
/ pies lie has. brought forward, anI in this
! way, suggest to the more ignorant and untu-
';''p ,naa ";tcn ng'''"s o"' tne ah'age nlsnl
,,.s po'uy, - o"'tieu "ut' eou'u e,Sc"ocr
".no"s .'n '"o'o 10 ~'o"' nc ic'e's' " "'c
tnotou.".y r' cohsi"Ge!'' ena' ms co""se'S are
''aagst M'.n n',sch'cls 10 pom races ""u
s""aiu WI oo "So'ueu.
we nave 'naeaVorea 10 sh"" t'at oPpoSi-
a'on 70 lne reconstruction Jaws must i'', 10
an ah''soh's.l between Tue races, ana tha'
Soah S antas'h'sm miSht esentua'c m i, III open con,
a.etItno most terrible Oh an inc eV,ls cou'o
%. pe'"'' ''c southern pe"P,e' ~ uoser'!or r,
nloWn sa,u IN regent rec aourrss 10 'nc ,rero-
tieh e, al ,'l''''u4rV''le' 'he eh'ng mos. 70 pe
!oaru y quafre' or war OF races. u ""u'u
oe nearly inc rum OF poth' Dut they ('hc
treeuncH1 "oulu DC the greatest suIefcrs'
from tne iact tnat inc ~hites III IN tne oo"t'l are
ma majority OF Two 10 u"e. bu' ,h's meme
W. W. oo ""1 WIS" !" o"f'' "p""' ""u tiuS! '',' n
'''e Spo' sense "' p''h "'l' s"'"e ''lei' u 'hc
way )" h'','ohy aug peace ~ .No So'' o' 'cs-
'oi,.'o', NJ. "na rt,"o'.eu co''t,y. ro p,us,
n"s :s 70 o'e o'nef po''s' uoye'"", no, ! cry
snysii we nave no co''vent'o''' we M WI remain
',s'Sc alc ihoer ,h.!.aty rue h's IS eyer, ;.
uooptiu, ior We Dcl'e'F soVorer RUE woa'o
nvns'ap'iSnen, II no. u"isers" o's'ra"0"se,
mclt a"d conilscat'oh. hen,alh as VIC afe
Are our people prepared l1r th1s continuance
ere our planters, win haltistocked lsrms anq
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