Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-05-04
The Canvass in Virginia.

said that after its close, the North had no il
feeling for the South. The South was sub
missiYe, and had the measures now pending
bee0adopted at its close, tho South would
hays said the Government was just and lib
cr,tss hut R hen Johnson assumed power, h,
adess}ed y dit itfefett policy, which has broagh
on 81. TINS dissatisfaction. Lincoln had pre-
pared eight conditions for the pardon of tho
rebsls, all OF which met his (Wilson's) an
proyai: johnson prepared fourteen, which
were Six too many lie (Wilson) had never
! favored the $4,000 clause, for he wanted the
men OF the South except few prominent
leaders, to be at liberty to 60 to work. The
South had complained of Congress violating
the Constitution, and yet upheld johnson in
hisjvolations of the Constitution, in restoring
the States. The speaker was opposed to a
black mans party; or a white mans party ;
letsall who favor human bondage 20 together,
and all who favor freedom, and progress 90
together. If any rebels had cast aside their
delusons, let them come and join the Rcpub
lican party.
Major j. Ice, State Senator from Orange,
replied to Wilson He charged the introduc.
tioh Of slavery upon the North, and said Lin
coln did not at first intend to liberate tho
slaves, and that the Southern people were the
blaSks' best friends.
Wilson replied that, in year, the North
would give the negro suffrage. lie said con-
fs1ation might follow, il the reconstruction
bill was not accepted.
The Legislature Of Virginia has passed
lay levying tax of thirty cents on the SlOO,
toPay the four per cent. annual interest on
thS public debt, as heretofore authorized
Certificates will be issued for the deferred
stVtO CpOtS II hno ,1o
saidating the four leading railroads, conncc.
tibg the waters of tho Ohio and Mississippi
with tho Atlantic at Norfolk also consolida
Stihg tho Virginia Central with the Covngton
Sa}a Ohio Railroad. The law provides that
,st interest the State owns in the roads con
:Sit,,aAtspG. AMOUNTING to avar SlA 900 900. is
to be sold, and payment made.on or boforo
the 1st of May, 1868, in the bonds of the
State at ar. There are, also, pending before
the Legislature, similar bills for the sale of
the entire interest the State owns in ynriou.
railroads, amounting in all to $31, 100000.
Senator Wilson addressed crowd of about
5000 persons, from the Capitol steps, this af-
ternoon; nearly all of those present were col.
ored, though all classes of whites were repre-
sented. He was introduced by Gov. Pierpont
After alluding to the fact that he visited
Richmond upon invitation Of several members
of both Houses of the Legislature, he pro.
cecdcd to give history of the reconstruction
bill. He then rected events since the close
of the war, to show that Johnson's 8 policy was
adopted against the will of the nation, and
had caused more uuhappincss than the work
OF any other man i'll America. 1t again ex-
cited men who had been more than willing to
accept the terms of Congress. The recon
struction bill wac not passed to humiliate the
South, but to meet the needs of the whole
country. The question now before the South
ern Stutcs is whether they will elect men to
State Offices and Congress who favor all hon
est acceptance of the policy of the nation, or
men who still mourn over the "lost cause"
erthrow that policy and restore old ideas and
old measures. Patriotism demands that the
latter class shall never more be permitted to
participate in the management of tho State
or the General Government. The apostccy
Of Andrew johnson had made Republican
triumph at the next Presidential election ccr-
tain. The speaker wanted all classes of men
tho colored, the white the loyal, and those
WIN had abandoned the wicked hcresy of Sc
oeaion-to stand together on the national
platform of tho Republican party. AS for
the colorcd vote of Virginia, he had no fear
of its being controlled by the secessionists.
Heappeatod to the old Wings of Virginia
the followers Of Henry Clay, who declared
that slavery was grcvous wrong, that no
contingency could make right TO seize the
occasion and unite their fortunes with the
Republican party. Now was their day and
hour to carry Virginia by an Overwhelming
majority 70 that class who arc disfranchised
for participation in rebellion, he would shy,
that by speaking and working for the national
policy, they would show their countrymen that
the disabilities now imposed on them ought to
be removed, and a country that had proved
its generosity would not forget them.
Gov. rie,pont, after Wilson concluded,
made brief speech, advising the colorcd
people to work and make the old State bloom
again. Messrs. Hunnioutt and Tucker fol-
lowed in short addresses. The former an
nounced his intontion of appealing Immediate
ly to the military tribunals against tho attacks
Of the Richmond press.
HUSBAND AND WIFE--With astruc wife
tho husbands faults should be secret. a wo