Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-08-14
The Way to Peace.

Iiia following extract is taken from g
speech delivered at Dayton, Ohio, on Tues
day last, by Hon. q. L. Vallandighan:
Icpend upon it, gontlcmon, no party whose
onlsJ ee@onting element is a sympathy of ha-
trea asn oSor bo permanent in power, or ovon
In afatenoo. ~
With largo multitudes Of mon this spirit
Of hato was the controlling motive throughout
tho'latc civil war, and has continued to gov
ornithcm at every step in their efforts at ro-
construction. But with smaller, yet far
moro dangerous class of politicians, tho sole
aim for tho last thrco years has boon tho por-
petpation Of Republican lulo, through the
negtocs of the South. 10 this bascst of mo.
tives and purposes tho public good and tho
paoDcation of tho country have hecn steadily
sacrificed; and worse, yet constitutional limi-
tations altogether disrcgarded Signally do.
feated in their efforts to establish negro suf.
rage and equality in tho North and West,
they have now impudontly in thoir platform
proclaimed that hcrc each State shall regulate
suffrage for itself, while at the South the oleo.
tive franchise shall be determined by tho Con.
gross of the United States. Acting upon the
double motive Of hato and the desire to main
tai,, partisan supremacy, they have disfran.
chisSd q large number of tho white popula.
tion,of tho Southern States, and conferred Up
on the negroes, by act of Congress, the right
to vote; and then, at the point of the bayo-
not, have proceeded to establish seven State
governments, controlled by negroes or white
adventurcrs meancr than they-merc sojour-
ncrs, birds of passage, and vory foul birds at
that-~-and have gone through the FARGO of ad-
mitting them into tho Union and to tho right
of representation in the Senate aud the House,
aud full vote in the electoral college for Presi-
dent, In this manner, gentlcmon, they ex-
pcct TO control tho legislation and tho cleo.
tiopssistsIf, MA the country. And these iennrant,
'brutfsR negroes of South Carolina and Flori-
da anl the other Southern States do now
make laws, and levy taxes, and create public
debt for you, white mon of Ohio; and thcy
expect to ovcrrulc your choice for President
Yes, gentlemen, under these Republican re-
construction acts, enforced by an army for
which you pay heavy tazos out of your hard
earnings, half million Of negroes in South
Carolina, reinforced by somo thousands of ad-
vcnturous white loafcrs from tho North and
West, will control as many electoral votes as
a million Of white mon in Ohio. Aye, and
at this present moment tho "Govornor' So
callcd. of that State, elected by negroes, uu-
der an act of Congress, and through tho old
Of your army, is citizen of Ohio, having a
legal settlement here so that if he would bo.
como a paupcr-and South Carolina is very
poor now, and no longer ablo to enrich her
satraps-thc proper township in tho county
of Horny, in this State, could be compelled
to maintain him as public charge. Aud
moreover, Goncral Willard Warner, noblo
confrefc Of his from Ohio, has, observe,
just been elooted d United States Senator from
Alabama.
These arc the doings ;of tho Republican
party, and if not marvellous in your oycs, they
are at least costly to your pockets. Those are
part Of tho blessing over which tho Chica.
go plstform cxults, and a continuance, and
indeed a multiplication, Of which thcy prom
iso upon tho ooction Of General Ulysses s.
Grant.
Now, gentlemen, suppose for moment that
tho caso woro reversed, and that tho South
had wRged successful war Of conquest
against you hero in the West, and had oom.
PEELED, by force and arms, tho introduction of
slavery hero, and you surrond ,rod in gond
faith, under ploago and promise Of all othor
rights within tho Union, under tho Constitu-
ton and that when you had no further pow.
er to resist, q Southern Congress had, at tho
point of tho bayonot, forced constitutions.
governments and laws upon you against your
will, and that victorious and insolent South
Carolina,had sent up here tho meanost and
basest of her vagabond (" Sand Hill" citizons
with carpot.bags in their hands, to represent
you, tha onco free white mon of Ohio,
in the Ssnato and House a. tho Federal capi,
tai, and 70 usurp tho places once filled by tho
Mosrows tho MoIoans, the Corwins, tho Ew.
ings, tho Hamers, and tho Aliens Of this glo,.
rious Commonwealth, what would havo been.
tho emotion of wrath and indignation which
would hAEe burned within your bosoms ~
And yet 10 just such indignities arc South
Carolina and Virginia, and their, sister States
Of tho "pld Thirteeu," scorchsd and scarred
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