Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-31
VOL. II.,"+o",NO. 40.

1:o ~. i'1i NY ctihlnais OF long ago Aslf III
ala steai, would try to steal something betlS
ter and fronfa more respectable source. s
II you will examine, and compare w;tha
former times, the productions Of siSh Ia en- Yaal
Stevens, Phillips, and tSumnc cr, and their IesI
ser followers and secondhand plnpiari ixeTa. h
down South, you will find oil btheir iseiabIe
jargonl about I" liberty and edua thx: I
natural Of man. at, born e figl
manhood suffrage !" arc borrowed ffonS Ii, o3
men men who fomented social and civil wars ii, 1
nome, nome, ana which have been repeated id egelS,
cry age since, by those who have no states..
mhnsship but tho devilish ability Of exciting
ignorant men to cut each others throats -
tep9bilehs,' FoIae hada large number of slaves.
freedmen, and non-vosine citisens. She had
a landed aristotracy embracing comparatively
few Of her people: $ -
:. AN agrarian law was proposed, and fora
time was Immensely popular, but it failed and
Its hrst author was slain. His Brother are.S
newed the law and enlarged it hy pronosing,
suffrage to The slaves and freedmen with e0ma1
political rights. 1t was said "thero could
De D no freedom without equality But the
6fothera' persisted. Then great general
became ene leader of the Radicals of chat
oay. and ne had moro fame md merit md
aoll'sy tiian all the Radical party of ishis
day combined, but he also failed. And whye
did they all fail Because they were At. 1
tempting to engraft goyernmentof force and !
ROBBERY upon republican. forms attempting.
the absurd task of making equal, things B
winch God had made ial---attelnptits 4
equality by taking that which industrious
ana frugal men had made and giving It to /
'thriftless vagabond and by :depositing in the
Keeping of ignorance and vice powers and (
trusts which intelligence alone can know how
to exeroise:and preserve Is 4. &. s..ss.@
But by the struggle Republican Rome. per-.
ished and never knew liberty again. Nor
was this alf;. hsf history from the beginning
OF the agrarihh attempt was one Of blood, and I
faction, and Waste. and ruin, until the goal Of
Empire was reached. In the social and civil
wars which marked the struggle. more than !,
seven hnndred thousand Of her best: citizens. :.
were slain; and besides these, whole popula-
tlons OF some Of her most populous territories
"a 1ay Do that ne OF the :Unffed St,Sss
nave been SO crazy in leaving Ire Junsursss
ton-the only Ark Of thatour Heav-
enly father has doomed us to perish, but am
gratified with a hope that it is not so. If.
not, there is baS one method for our rescue,
and that is By 4 prompt restoration Of the
Constitution. Viii it Gomez WIN we aa,
cape an agfaTiat war with resulting despo-
tism, and save our institutions for our insti-
tutions for or ehildren2 I hope we shail;
believe Nc shall. Though great effort is
being made--a designed effort--to DESTROY ,1a
as Rome Was destroyed I believe the effort,
will fail / have great faith in the Anglo.
Saxon blood. derive great encouragement
from Anglo-Saxon history. Our liberty was
not born in day. 1t is not the work ofsone I
generation. 1t is the fruits of Murdered.
struggles, and its guarantees have; been Der.
fecting for eight hundred years. Many Have
been the efforts to destroy it. Often the Eng.
liah Cnnsttt,,tSnp -,
traitors sought to substitute arbitrary will Cor
well established law, and often have the peo.
plesstor a time been misslcd. But thus far
they have always walked up and called the
traitors and tactionists to account. Charles
l. tranpled on the Constitution. He had
judges who decided that his will was the law. !
and all who resisted that will and defended.
the Constitution wore punished as disloyaL-4.
And it did seem as if his power was irresistal
ble. Nc, doubt if you weak k-kneed Radicals Z
of the South had lived in that day you3wopld
have said, "the Constitution lie dead and wa
must consent to what we oannot resist Bnt 4
John Hampden would not consent Here.
sisted He was tried as criminal for resist
ing, and was condemhea. Eat What aas tSa /;
sequel Tho people finally assorted theisss
power. Charles ard his sministerrs ;poriish ned
The very judges shat condetnned Hami, dom
were themselves tried and j con- slen,iied ass
criminals, and the worry officers even Siis,
sheriffs, who executed the ord ers of Iest
and his courts, were sued by The 81 itizens FOR !
damages, and had 10 pay nearly d million 8Sf I
dollars for executing the processesS Sof d void:
uncopstitutionaI lawl For a time straaitoIssS
held the power and tlampled on rights but
lowed. {.f,lcs q. 81 tsF. 4 FSs'1
So 3 Cromwell m and ais rstlisialasns yieisssaS