Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-06-05
Necessity Of Organizations,

Necessity Of Organizations,
The Radicals have recognized the benefit
of organization, and have experienced it in
various elections Men, even the most staid
and philosophic, are moro or less affected by
grand displays mass meetings, rcjoicings,
professions, out-pourings, &c. Hence the
Radicals have manufactured much party cap
ital by catching the sympathy of the young
and uninformcd through means that appeal to
the imagination, by dazzling the popular
mind, as it were, by the blaze and trqppings
of military display. The old and well settled
in judgment arc not so much moved by
"cap-trap' and humbug, at least their
opinions can not be altered by such things,
but when these agencies arc put i'll force on
their orr side, their zeal is heightened and
their ardor becomes well nigh irrcprcssible.
1t becomes the duty Of the Democratic Party,
in combating the end of Jacobinism, to avail
itself Of all honorable means to fire tho pub
lie heart as well as inform its mind. All
peaceful and upright means within the com
pass of Jealous and unfagging effort should
be rcsortcd to, and, if necessary to the pres
crvation of their constitutional rights, force
must be used to rcpcl force. The Radicals
though their accredited mouth pieces have
throatcnc3 to use the stsoay APP If ne'yaf
in case tho people should fopudiafo them and
their obnoxious horosics.l Possessing, as they
do, a majority in CongRss,- Having bought
ar o,ou1, who certainly wicds o great inNu-
cncc in tho army, and who will not hesitate to
obey the bchests Of the Jacobin majority, they
hope to retain by violence what they have
gained by fraud. We sec that a Democratic
Military Organization, called, tho "Whitc
Boys in Blue" is spreading rapidly at The
North. 1t is composed Of honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors sfrom the Union
army and navy. Their object is to offset the
designs Of Ralicalism---by the balot-box or
tho bullet, as the Radicals may elect At
Convention, held in Indianapolis on the 9Th
April, they adopted series of Resolutions
to which wo invite the attention of our Read
orS:
CONSTITUTION.
This association shall bo known as tho
Union White Boys in Blue" and shall be
composed of those who served in the army or
navy Of the United States, were honorably
discharged, and now support the time honor
ed principles Of constitutional government, in
culcatcd by Washington Madison, Jefferson,
jackson, Webster, and Clay, and in defence
of which thousands of our comrades have laid
down their lives.
That, notwithstanding attempted secession
and consequent civil war, The union of these
States remains sacrcdly intact and unbrokcn,
and that neither by tho voliton Of tho pco.
pie of a State directly can disunion occur nor
as a'punishment for rebellion can soveracc
of this Union be indirectly forced upon tho
country by revolutionary Congress.
That all efforts by pretended legislation
and tho employment of military forco to af-
feet the sovereignty of the SO called "sccodcd
States" and impair their constitutional rights,
obligations and duties, arc falso and trcachc-
rous to the spirit and intont of our republi-
can institutions, and, intact, if accomplished,
render the failure Of tic principle of rcbcl-
THAT as soldiers in the teld true to tho
our Union against the assault of rebels in
"ih'oj Mo oHsi w SIuoiJ CAuo anu iaiIhlui aI
tho ballot box to save cur country and flag
from destruction at tho hands Of Radicalism,
and thus preserve and pcrpctuatc in civil life
chat rcstorationof tho Union wt.oi. we be-
lfcaed ,we had achieved in military conflict.
That the national honor pledged to tho pay
mcnt of public debt as it is, ronders the ma
tional faith equally pledged to the pcopc-
tho tax payers Of tho country-against aug
mcnting that vast public burden beyond the
express terms thereof; and that ip the alb.
scncc of stipulation to tho contrary,it that lew
full money which liquidatcs the claims, of dis
ablcd soldiers, widows, and orphans Of tho
war, is equally the just equivalent Of tho
claims Of the bondholdcr,
That without the false and decoptious pre-
tences Of 9benevolcnce, hidden undera chera-
table mask, bya secretly proscriptive political
earnestly recognizing in deeds,
not words only, the claims Of generous and
humane boncvolcnco, we pledge ourselves to
the widow and tho orphan Of tho
warsaDd to minister to their necessities.
That believing all secret aud OATH boupd