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

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fused to give the negroes any political rights
how can gentlemen representing those State
now seek to fastcn that policy upon the pco
pie Of the South
Having made the experiment under th,
most auspicous circumstance and fairly tes
ted in tho free Statcs--1 moan in the State,
where men were free to act aud to decide
ana your own people having everywhere dis
carded your attompt to establish negro sufF
rage, with all the inducements and temnta.
lions you could hold out to them, it docs seem
to me that as faithful representatives of the
people, whose will you know aud whose in
structions you have received after full and
fair submission of the question to them by
yourselves, you have no right to place the
white men Of the South under tho DONNA.
tion Of the negro--no right to use the coer.
ced and Ignorant negro vote in the South to
neautralizc the free, intelligent vote of the
Northern aud Western States, for this is real.
iy not vote, but an Indirect and efficient
mode OF stuffng the ballot boxes of tho North
as Migrant, when fairly looked at, as burning
all the ballot boxes in the States of Now
York, Pennsylvania and Indiana would be-
Ihese three grcat States having about the
same electoral votes as the five military dis.
riots In tue South, would it not be more man.
~, equally just andprcsent your claims more
ntelligcntly; if you would allow the ten States
embraced i'll those districts to remain. as tho
distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania,
Mr. stevcnsl says they now are, waste. out.
lylog provinces, conquered territories, tillaf-
ter.thc November election, and send your
bureau agents or other suitable cmissaries in.
to the States of New York, Pennsylvania and
Indiana, on the first Tuesday in November
next, and in tho presence Of all the peonle
thereof, burn up the balot.boxes and ballots.
z !esfsnm lief. N that you have rigl2les. acprivo
on tho ella astoa OF s~.s pav'.. I'm to ~: p'ssS Il
the Douootatic c,tidiil"io e foFp pay preasiden
cy of that number of votes, to set|off the pol
itical power of these territorial dependencies,
| which you claim to own and control by right
Of conquest The pcopleewould understand
the issues and have something to say about
it; yet that is precisely what you are doing
now in an Indirect wry, aud the people are
beginning to open their eyes to the truth of
| it. fa
/ know this Congress thinks it is omnpo
tent 1t is nearly so. lthas acted as though
it was, in spite Of the decision of the highest
judicial tribunal made coordinate in power
and authority with Congress by the Constitu-
ton; tribunal erected as barrier against
legislative usurpation on the rights of the
States apd the people; tribunal whose OK.
position IF tho. Constitution has always been
dcemcd to be binding and conclusive on all
the departments of the Government. Con-
gress, in these so.callcd Reconstruction Acts,
in time of profound peace, nearly two years
after the last hostile arm had been raised, and
long aftcrit, by its own legislature, recognized
the war as ended, subordinated the civil to
the military power, suspended tho haJcas cor
pas, struck down the trial by jury, declared
oil civil government at an end, and in all
things civil and political, substituted its will
and orders Of it's agents, for the will and the
nets of the people themselves. 1t can i'm
peach the Chief Executive Magistrate, cleo.
ted by the people, without canse, or beoause
Lc is al obstruction in it's onward march to
power. 1t can withdraw tho authority from
the Supreme Court to question any act Of out
rage committed by it's servants on any Of tho
people of tho South. In short, itis almost
omnipotent, or seems to be 50. But there is
one appeal left. Presidents, Courts, States
and citizens may be stricken down BY those
in power, but tho servant is not above his
master; ho has to retire after term from
these halls and give an account Of his stew.
ardship to those who sent him. The majority
here will then find before that court of last
resort, that all their acts will be reversed and
annulled; that the Constitution is still the
supreme law; that oil their doings here are
known and disapprovcd; that this is whit,
mans Government, and because they hav,
sought tosubvert it, they have been weighct
in the balances and found wanting. Th
handwriting is upon the wall, "the Meme
!, memo, takelupharisn," is seen and underlood
. and the guilty Bolshazzar did not trembl
q moro. at the recorded verdict Of offende
D Heaven, than do the radiealsloaders now
y when called to face an indignant and outrage
people, whose trusts they have betrayed
: whose liberties they, have sought to saubver
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