Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-05-25
F. O OLIT Q a l.
Extract

livered in Charleston last week:
We'll let inc say to you gentleman, here
to-day that | trust tho State of South Carroll
ma, that led in the great contest this State
that has brought horsclf to her present posi-
ton, will turn her back square upon the past
and face the coming future. Every word
said, overy line written, every act performed
that preserves for moment longer anything
connected or associated with human slavery,
and with the policy of South Carolina Of the
past is only burden upon South Carolina in
the future. Cheers. | say to you, men of
Charleston, to-day your cause is lost and lost
forever. Your State that had her fortunes
invested in lands and in bondmcn has perhaps,
been made, according to your numbers, the
poorest State in tho Union. No State has
felt the effects of this rebellion moro than
South Carolina. You know this better than
l do. You know the condition of your pco-
pic better than know it. You know that
you want capital to make your fields bloom
again. You want commerce, diversified in
dustries, you want labor to look up and be
proud in tho midst of it's toll, you wan. new
beginning, living policy to place South Car
olna again among the advancing, prosperous
States of the Union. You know all this better
than do. You usee it, the country secs it, the
whole world sees it. Then, in Gods name,
be as bravo in the right as you were in the
wrong. BE as abo in the right as you have
been for eighty years in the wrong. Give
your able men to the public councils and com
mission them to speak and to vote for liberty,
Tor justice, for human Improvement and clcva-
ton and the capital now wanting or requiring
rates of interest that you cannot afford to pay,
and prosperity, will como back to you again.
Your wasted, uncultivatcd field will bloom
with the culture of free labor Trade will
como again as in the odcn time Your waters
that course through the central and western
portions of your State may turn busy ma
chinery, and with labor honored and rcspcc
tod, with laboring men respected, with the
property of elevation, that policy that stoops
and lifts the poor and owly up, and pulls not
the highest down, that policy will lift South
Carolina toward the heavens. The sooner
your. people enter boldly, manfully, hopefully,
and bravely upon this policy, the sooner vol,
will pass out of the difficulties, trials and loss
es imposed upon you by this war, and the
sooner you will make South Carolina great
State again. [Chccrs.] And let me say to
you that when [ say this, believe I express
the wishes of the people of my State and Of
my section of tho country. Our people do
not want your lands, your blood, or anything
that you possess. They only want these poor
enfranchsed bondmcn to be forever secured
in their equal rights, they only want'to see
your State, great, free, prosperous, proud
commonwealth again. [Chcers. say to
tho men who for many years have msunder-
stood, or misreprcscntcd our opinions, that
the christian men of Massachusetts,, and of
New England, on bonded knee, pray to AL
mighty God to mctc our justice to ALL BE
liberal, aud honor, prosperity and glory will
again crown your efforts"
New ORLEANS, May ia Republican
mass meeting was held Saturday night, at La
faytte square. Mayor Heath presided. Ad.
dresses were made by Mr.. Kelly, Of Philade.
phia, Mr.. Hamlin and Mr. Conway. between
1000 and 5000 persons were present five.
sixths of whom were negroes. The various
negro ward clubs came in procession, headed
by music, with tranparcncics. There was
considerable excitement, the negro procession
shouting on the line of March There was
no disturbance until IL midnight, when the
negroes stopped the car on St. Charles street,
and cleared it of the white occupants, show.
ing their clubs through the windows, and took
possession, compelling tho driver to go ahead
THE NEWEST FAsHIoNs.-A lady cores.
pondcnt writes Of tho New York fashions:
Some Of tho new fashions promise to bo
hideously ugly. For instance, that which ad
mits of the skirt and waist of dress being of
one color, and tho sleeves and pctticoat of an
other, thus forming garing contrast, is ono.
A gray skirt and waist, with cherry sleeves
and underskirt is combination of tints very
much affected at the present time Asa nov
city, it will do, but tho odd-looking sleeves
put one uncomfortably in mind of horse.
jockeying costume, and marvel very much
when see modest young girl willing to run
tho gauntlet of criticism Of men who lounge
about hotel doors and windows, by adopting
fashion like this, enc which is outrc and
pronounced in the extreme"