Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-11-16
eThes Recent Elections G ON m 9; ts Of the
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,rhe q National Intelligepc (, the SPresi-

isflmrdlya town OF; countyin:the Statcs that
hus not signi6ed Its Misrepresentation of the rad.
igal programme of destruction. While Con.
necticut and California hive beaten back the
wings. New York has pierced the centre of
the cohopts on radicalism, and written upon
their beaten banners the taismanic wcrds :
..sThe Constitution and the laws shall be :
'obayed. Even the old Bay State wheels into
line, and shakes off tho shackles of radical
despotism. New Jersey and Wisconsin fol- |
low, and gallant old observation-disclosures for
tho Constitution and the Union, whether
against Southern or Northern rebels-gycs |
almost an unanimous support
The "New York Herald" independent,
closes its comments as follows
" The decision of New York State in this
years contest has been looked for with ankle
ty all over the Union; and the loss of the
State by the Republicans will be more effec-
tual than the fifty thousand radical falling off
in Ohio, in finally disposing of Nlr. Chase and
{ his national bank and negro supremacy plat.
form. Ever since the war-with the cxccp.
tion of the temporary reaction cf 1862-the
State of New York has voted steadily on the
side of the Republican party, and her verdict
now is against the revolutionary policy Of the
radical Congress, rather than an endorsement
Of the Democracy. 1t is triumph of the
conservative sentiment Of the country which
now rcbukcs and rcpudiates those who disrc-
garding the popular voice, re.opcncd the agi-
tation for tho purpose Of forcing negro rule
upon the South aud securing negro balance
OF power in the National Government"
The New York Tribune" GnErLEY's
radical paper, surrenders this wise:
election go by default. it was held and argued
by the trim,ners and camp.folIowers would
crush out what they are pleased to stgmatize
as Radcalsm and render inevitable the non
ination of Gen. Grant for-Prrsident." y =
"We arc beaten by Republicans this year,
and the work of Reconstruction thus practi
;cnlly delayed if not arrested. The Southern
Rebels are virtually told by the State of New
York Hold on vote AGAINST Conventions
wherever you are strong enough 20 defeat
them; refuse to vote wherever YOU can thus
hope to discrcdit and damage the process more
than by voting; and you may yet resume con
'trol of your respective States, and tramplc the
White and Black Unionists under your feet
Through the disfranchscmcnt and virtual re-.
enslavement of the latter. We n,ay look for
more and more pnlpnble and powerful rcsis
tance TO reconstruction under the policy of
Congress-to any Reconstruction which i'm.
plies that Blacks have rights which Whites
are bound to respect-from this hour onward
But Bull Run did not dcstrny the Union, nor
did the Democratic victories in 1862 defeat
the policy of Emancipation. 1t may have
been necessary to pile proof upon proof that
neither the ex-Rebels Of the South nor the
llsseMasEats Of the Nar.h will concede TO the
3 experiences or the last seven years, wherein
our McClcllans and Buells proved equally
useful with our Grants and Sheridans to the
overthrow and cxtirpation of the Slave Pow.
or, we bate no jot of heart or hope, but unfal
terne!y trust that the rcverscs Of the present,
alike with the triumphs of the past, will in
the event prove conducive to the one great
end OF rendering this a country whose consti
tutlons and laws shall esteem, no man better ar
worse for his color, but impartially uphold
and affirm the Equal Rights Of All"
TIE OUTSIDE SOUTHERN STATES TO BE
HURRIED uP.-From nIl the signs of the
times in the North, the radicals will need the
support OF the ten outside Southern States IN
the Presidential election, and it is altogether
probable, therefore, that under the present
system of reconstruction they will be hur.
ried through the mill and rcinstaincd ip Con.
E..S's 't season 10 EOtc Tor PRESIDENT next No
vember. The late Southern elections make
this the safe policy, it is thought, for the radi
Gals, and they begin to perceive that further
delays may be dangerous York Her.
aM.
The following circular has been sent to the
several Assistant Commissioners of the Freed
mems Bu,cou
WAR DEPARTMENT., BUREAU Il g. A. H..
WAsnINaToN. November S, 1SG7,-S,R ::
AS there is still quiet an amount of abandon.
cd property of your returns and much of It
occupied by the former owners, who abandon
cd 1t, according to the definition of the law,
and who hereby show contempt of the Gov.
crnment of the United States, and of the
Presidents authority decline to mike any np.
p'cation under the orders approved by him
for its rcstoraton you are hereby instructed
TO give notice to all such persons, through
your Office and agents, that their properly
coming under the above head of {" Abandoned
Property" held BY the Government, and now
IN your returns, will be takcn formal posses
on sae lss Tue af JysppSgnEy JyeppSgnE,yn NEXT IL ,;d and
dance with the provisions of the law Tn
case they make application, in accordance with
the law, formal restoration will bc Immediate.
y made, and reported to this office. Vcrv
'ru'y yours, U. s. GRANT,
Secretary of War, al interim,