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

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.er intended to carry out the pledge Of tho ma.
ton. They would acknowledge the indopen.
dence of the Confederate States to dny before
they would agree to restore tho old Union,
even with slavery abolished | respect the
Northern man who honestly fought for the
Union, but despise the traitors who, under
the name Of Union, have used the Northern
people to destroy the South, and then to de-
stroy the Constitution. The people of tho
North have been long discovering this decep.
ton, but they will bo compelled to SEQ it be-
fore the traitors can go much further in their
work
How many peoplci in Atlanta belong to tho
loyal league p Laughter. warn all
decent men to abandon such dcns. ,,now
the times have been such that many good men
have naturally gone astray. But save Your.
selves before lis too late ! Destroy ali the
evidences of your membership bind all your
comrades to mutual concealmcnt of the fact
that you were members, and como out You
| are pardonablo for the past; but if you con.
tnue you will be covered with shame, and your
| very children will disown you Come, Join
the Patriots League Our only pledge is to
support the Constitution-lov its friends and
hato its enemies, and proclaim our love and
hatred at noon-day and from the housetops.--
Save yourselves noao, or be forever lost to do
cent society and your own sclf-rcspect. All
the brave and true men, even at tho North,
respect mo this day more than they do YOU
The very Radicals will uso, but even they will
dcspise, tho Southern man who becomes their
| syoophant.
My colorcd friends, will you receive word
OF admonition OF all the people, you will
most need the protection Of the law. You
will oYH by
DO you believe that the man who is faithless
to tho Constitution Of the country will be
faithful to you If man will take an oath
to support the Constitution and then violate
it, can you rely upon his keeping any promise
to you? No; tell you such people are
friends to nothing but their own Interest,"
They are bctrayors of tho Constitution to
keep themselves in Office they desire to use
you to help them get Office, [applausc1 and
they will bctray you whenever they find it to
their interest to do so.
They tell you they are your friends. II is
false; they are your very worst enemies.
They tell you they set you Free It is false
These vile creatures who come among Won
and put themselves on level with you, nov
or went with the army except to steal spoons,
iewclry and gold watches. [Great applause. |
They are too low to be brave. They are dir
ty spawn, cast out from decent society, who
come down here and seek to use you to fur
thcr their own base purposes
They promise you lands, and teach you to
hate the Southern people, whom you have
known always and who never deceived you -
Are you foolish enough to believe that you can
get another mans land for nothing, and that
the white people will give up their land with
out resistance2
Ii you get up strife between your race and
the white race do you not know you must
perish? You are now ten to one the weaker
race. You will grow weaker every day. You
can have no safety but in the Constitution
and no peace except by outiyating relations
of kindness with those who arc fixed here,
who mood your services, aud who are willing
to protect you.
Tho same experiment which is now being
attempted with you by these Northern knaves
| who seek your votes was attempted by SINH
| lar people in France for the negroes in IIayti.
| They passed laws to give the negroes political
equality abolished all distinctions of color
and what was the result There was first
war of classes then war between the
whites on one side and the blacks and mu.
lattocs on the other. Then there was a war
between the blacks and the mulattocs, and
neither white, black nor mulatto have ever
seen peace or prosperity in IIayti since.
These men intend your exterminaton -
Some of them are writing books in favor of
your determination, and | have myself heard
some OF them avow that you ought to be cx
terminated or driven from the country These
are the same people whose fathers found the
Indians here. Thcy declared the Earth was
| tho Lords and belonged to his saints, and
| that they were his saints. Then they killed
and drove off the poor Indian and took his
lands. If you do not make and keep friends
of the Southern people, your fate is that of
the Indians Woe to your race You well
| know your race is not prepared to vote WHY
[ do yon care to do what you do not under
| stand1 Improve yourselves. Learn to read
and to write; be Industrious; lay up your
means; acquire homes live in peace with
your ncighbors and drive off, as you would
serpent, the miserable, dirty adventures
who como among you, and who, being too
low to be received into white society, seek
to foment among you hatred for the descent
portion of the white race. You can always
know gentlemen, whether from the North
or South, and all such respect and estcem--
for such will not deceive you. Do not desire
TO vote untit you arc lqualifed to vote, and
then look for the right,to BIO given, not in q
manner that violates the Constitution, but in
accordance with it, and through your own
State governments. | feel more deeply 70,
you than do for the white race White peo