Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-07-20
p O LITI O a /.
The South as Seen by Senator Wilson.


OF the South, in reply to tho statement OF
Philips and othcis, he sad it WINS today more
radical than radical Massachusetts, In his
tour over the South he had heard nothing
hut the very essence Of radical sentiment.
but the great danger to Republican institu-
tions in the South is the want Of education
AS things now 60, the slave is in danger of
acquiring habits of his old muster that of
intoxication and brutality. Of the liberty of
speech, he said that he was not afraid to say
in the South anything that he deemed or
seemed proper, to say in the city of Boston.
While in the South, he u,adc tl,irty-twos speech.
O. to large audiences, and on no occasion YVES
TIC Kissed or Interrupted, and lie never spoke to
grcat masses of people who listened with great.
crattcntion, or who seemed more anxious to
learn and understand every word that lie said
There was no more danger in speaking there
than in any part of the North lie then spoke of
the election, and felt sanguinc that tl~y would
return both to their State Legislatures and to
Congress good mcn and true both white and
hlrck, and if he was not mistaken, the Re.
publican party would, in the next election,
carry eight of the eleven Southern Statcs--
1t is therefore, our duty, as good citizens, d.
encourage the good work now going on, ratlcr
than to be qunrreng with each other In
ton years, he believed thc<o Statcs would hc
the radical StJtcs Of the Union, In rfcrrin.
to the amendment (inr tho Stntcs) bcaring up.
ON the right of suffrage, lie said that if it was
not clfct tive. if it did not dc the work as it
ought tn be done, then he would have it en-
grated upon the Constitution Of tho United
States. where no ncn or set of men cnn change
it. The military men in command of the
South, ho regarded as.all Republicans of the
most trustworthy class and If things progress
under tllcir administration as they urc now
moving on, in less than five years South Car
,olina and Georgia will be accusing Mnssacl,u.
sctts ot being too conservative.
a spccinl correspondent of the "Ncw York
Herald writing from Boston, on the lst in
stant, says that lie las had an interview with
Senator Wilson, and VIC extract from his let.
ter the following interesting statement Gf
true) concerning the Senator's views on the
political situation: .
Concerning tho condition Of reconstruction
MIR. Wilson said that he held the same orin.
ion now ms when he returned from the South
AS tothc' matter of admitting the Southern
states to their former status, he claimed that
if they complied with the terms laid down in
the reconstruction bill, apa elected men who
could take the oath, no member of Congress
had any right to say flat new conditions should
he imposed for the law said that they shall
be admitted when they comply with it's re-
quircmcnts lie wou,l like tn have added
another condition-tllat it should be obiga.
tory for every State to establish an impartial
system Of common schools but he felt bound
10 say that he met no man, of whatever par
ty, ut the South, who was not in favor Of ca
fablishing such system. lie believed that
II would be established, ccausc ali intclli gent
men were agreed that, now that the ncgrees
were free, il was important that they sleuld be
educated.
He believed, he said, that all the Southern
States could be represented in Congress be
fore the next Presidential election; that they
would participate in it, and that it was very
important, both from party and national
point of view, that they should do so. If the
Republican party went into the campaign with
the South under military rule, il would be
charged upon h>". with powerful eject, in
such Statcf as Pennsylvania and New York :
that while the military )c"'Ts had crushed
the rebellion, there was nou 'atcsmanshil'
enough ar:onr political lead RS to ,.storc those
conquered States to their proper pos,.. -
also, it is important that, rs soon as the South
all, can be restored it should be done; for
then the republic and the Republican party
with the Southern States in Congress, would
both be stronger. lie believed that the Re-
rublcans would carry half Of the Southern
States, and lie wns elaite surc Of QUO third
na4 lie WINS nso of the belief that, at tae next
election, the Republicans will carry the eeun
Try overwhelmingly; for inasmuch MS they
Iavc freed tho nation, they ought to admins
ter it for some time to como. He had no
doubt whatever that the speech Of General
Rawlings 10 on approved exposition of the
political creed Of General Grant, and he was
equally confident TINT he will be the next
President Of the United States. He had the
most perfect faith in General Grants thorough
sympathy with Congress and tho principles Of
tA@ Republican party, and spoke Of him as an
outand out Republican, radical-and said
further, that lie had always advised the South
ern men who come to sec him to 90 in for the
Congressional platform, and not toaffliato with
the copperhoads, whom the country would
mover again tolerate in power. General Grant,
lie snid, had declared thatall his generals who
60 South turn radicals, and that thoy will nv
crage moro radicals than tho Massachusetts
delegation. /. Grant hosaia,. was squarcly in
favor of manhood suffrage. and has quietly
piven all the aid in his power to tho Conprcs.