Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-11-30
Henry A. Wise'a sNSsss.

tulS great enterprise.
Henry A. wise'a ssaliyllsss. sliyl
We have already publis1a, Extracts from
tho speech Of Henry A. WA4s containing
excellent advice to the young mon of Virgin.
la The Baltimore Sun in noticing tlcso
remarks, says:
The future of Virginia and tho South, in
our view, depends as much upon the question
whether tho young men of that section will
aot upon such advice as this, as upon any po-
litical ohangc in their condition. In the sub
tom, which is inevitable in some Of the States
of the South, tho Intelligent labor Of the own
cr is the great essential for success, and unless
tho young mon arc prepared to sec their State
pass entirely into other hands, they must seize
the spade and tho plow handles themselves,
and use them with as great energy as they
did the muskct and the cannon. 1t is difficult
to sec why labor should be regarded at any
time, as less honorable in creative than in de-
structivc arts and especially does such an idea
seem preposterous, when labor becomes abso.
'utcly essential to self preservation. IF they
cannot sacrifice 81 foolish pride tss thc sake of
their country; if they cannot work in peace
! us they did in war, then they must not com
plain if they sec their inheritance pass into
the strong, industrious hands of cmigrans
from other parts Of the land who, with their
coats of and sleeves rolled up, are coming ci-
ther to assist the native population in cultiva-
ting the soil; or, if they will not cooperate,
| to munopolixc it themselves. Mr.. Wis has
given his young fcllow-citzens the hest posi-
| hle advice, and We could wish that he had al
so dissuadcd them from onligrating from their
section. 1t is Ike dcscrting their colors in
| tho heat Of al action, to forsake the Sonth
now. What tho South wants Is population
as we'll as capital; but she can expect neither
from abroad during the present unsettled CON
dition of the country and her own young men
should stand by her at least till tie dawning
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! A GLIMPSE AT TIE ALABAMA CosyEN-
rioN.-The Montgomery Alabama oorrcspon-
dent OF the New York World" gives the
following sketch Of tho personcl of tho Ala.
bama Convention
Of the eighty seven present, sixteen arc
| negro BARRIERS, coach drivers, and Wallets, nine
teen arc men Of Southor.. birth, seventeen Of
such unknown antcccGents as 10 "acm, like
Tops, not to have been born but grow,u. aad
thirty-liy " Alahamians," born in Maine
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and illinois.
Eight o: the Southern mon and ono old negro
he III so to heaven for it---.haye some idea
OF mercy; bat t)lerc arc three acoro and ten
III >oHvcnlon, who, if our Alabama brethren
had ono single neck, would strike of the head
at hiow. One Of these men WIS once ridden
on rail, and has never forgotten it, Ano,],
er is uninvorab!y known in connection with
adultery and murder Still ancthcr has hccu
IN jail and openly ayows an intention to take
1t cut. Aud still forth and fifth are accus
ed swlndcrs llere sits pimp and there a
mutlneor This man deserted and the other
played the spy. To-day these spoke in favor
OF military dsfranchlscment, one who raised
a company OF infantry for the Confederate
service, and called it tho Yancoy Guards"
ana yesterday an ex-surgeon in the same ar
my introduced an ordinance that secession was
:" parricidal crime Of tho deepest eve, for
which those engaged in it should hayo bccn
punished and impoverished that is TO say
fined and hanged On tho left of the chair
sits, at odd times, tho State commandant
Swayne, to watch his tender sheen. On tho
right stood General Popo when he told them
what to do, and between tho two ccnturious
waves shrivelled little son of Gamalicf WHO
bcratcs the Convention daily for writing its
ordinances SO ilcgibly in lend ienol on paltry
Scrups OF paper, that neither ho nor his Soc.
rotary can make them out OF that Seorota.
ry say nothing. Neither is it for me to
speak tho glorios of the full debate. for No
pen could give that delicious medley, where.
with swcotly alternate tho shrll twann Of
prowling puritancal parsons, and that tdiccp
gohblc which transports tho rayishcl fancv r.
Africa's golden sands
SEwARD's ACoUlsIrIoNs.-A corresnon-
dent of the New York Times" thinks That
Mr.. Stewards reiterated attempts to ceta foot.
hold in tho West Indies, is part of scheme
for the acquisition Of all the West India Ts-
lands as future homo for the negroes of orr
Southern States. The great bulk of the IN.
habtnnts of Cuba, St. Domingo, Jamaica and
adjacent islands arc blacks; and tho prox;mi.
ty OF these negro countries to our Soutborn
coast, would made it an easy thing to br;no
about the migration or deportation Of tho two
or three millions of negroes, located in tbc |
States of our Southern oa-board. The tron.
ical climate and luxuriant soil of these sunnv
isles would suit to rroot odyonto,.o :: -. y