Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-09-11
MIs5 s5GEIIA.A.NY
To tho Colored Pooplo,

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We publish below an extract from q spccoh
mado to tho colorod people Of Georgia by an
eminent gcntloman of that STAKE 1t contains
some excellent suggestions, and is worthy Of
careful porusal. Wo commend it to tho
careful consideration of tho colored peoplo Of
this State:
What glorious future thoro is for you in
thcso Southern States. a mild winter,
fruitful spring and summer, and autumn, with
its rich and abundant yiold Aoclinmtizod
and accustomed to the culture Of tho; soil
and in tho midst OF those who from infancy
havo looked upon you, with feelings Of affoo-
tion and you, with gratitude, as the roopi-
ents of their kindnoss. What oan prevent
your advance in all tho blessings Of lifo p
Surrounded with oil its comforts and assured
of its safety. Nothing! nothing but tho
evil advice of bad mon contemptiblo aspi.
rants for political positions, who hayo como
amongst and are hurryins you to ruin and de-
struction, by arraying you in opposition to
your friends and forner ownors Thoy tell
you if the Democrats gain tho clcotious you
will DO made slavos This is false, and they
tell it with the energy Of truth aud want you
to believe it. Believe them not, fellow oiti-
zens. You are FREQ; mover, no novor, to bo
slaves again !; savo to your own passion and
their evil advice. Free as the whito man,
protected as the white man by tho samo laws
of your country, in all that is right, just and
honorable. But this Government is whito
mans Government. The Indian never rulod ;
tho negro will never rule, and it is madness
to think otherwise. do you think, that ono
million and half Of people, two thirds Of
whom cannot read, nor do they know the sim
plost letter in tho alphabet, will govorn thir-
ty millions of mon who have mado laws for
these States; led armies to battle, aud whose
elo1ucnco held in brcathcss suspense the
Congress of our country. AFRO such men as
these to bc governed by you? Believe not
their falsehoods Iistcn not to thom. Oh
that my voice could reach you from the sea.
beach to tho mountain Of every Southern
State, and convince you that your only friends
arc those who will give you employment and
offer you the protection Of life and property,
under tho samo laws that gua i their own,
and that onlya quiet submission to thosu VS.,
which we must all obey, will give peace and
plenty whcro want and oppression now roigns
triumphant. Now make your choice, and
God direct yor mako it wisely, for it will
be want and exile, or life, peace and prospori-
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a RADICAL LIE NAILED TO THE WALL.
IL. \. Aston recently wrote to General
Blair, enclosing a copy Of the Atlanta Now
Era" and referred the General to the lines
at the head OF that paper. IN which he quotes
General Grantas saying "Lot US have pcacc,"
and General Blair as saying g Let us have
war" lilo received tho following lcttor in re.
ply, which will show to the people how un-
blushingly tho Radical press persist in faIso.
hood, to accomplish its wicked purpose of do
stroying this Government
FoRr SAUNDERS, Wyoming Territory,
August l6, 1868.
Col. R 4. Aston, atlanta, Ge:
DEAR SIn:--Your noto in regard to the
misrepresentation of tho carpet bag editor at
Atlanta received. This is tho business for
which he is paid, and by which he makes his
living l would not advise you or any other
gentleman to notice him in any manner cxco-,t
| to correct, through tho press, any falsohoods
which you p!ay consider Injurious to our
cause.
have novor made any such statement as
nc attributes to me- On tho contrary. am
for that policy which alone can give peace to