Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-06-26

there be Of the white race of the South re.
forming their governments and ruling them
selves?
Compared with this question of solfrule,
all other questions with tho whito race of tho
South arc absolutely insignificant. 10 Afri-
canizc--mongrclize tho South, has been tho
one great leading policy Of the Radical party
for the last three years. For this, thcy have
tramplcd on the constituton-sot up military
dcspotism over the South--wrcstcd his exec
utive power from the Prcsidcnt-arrcstcd the
decisions Of tho Supreme Court of the United
States, and finally impeachcd tho President
They have failed, failed in the elections in
the Northern States, and failed iii their efforts
of impeachment; and now, after all their fail
urcs, their policy is to be lifted up and made
triumphant by tho election of Chief Justice
Chase to the Presidency of tho United States
by tho Democratic party
The ground on which the Democratic par.
ty is to accomplish this feat, is exposed by the
"World." It says:
"What is once established can be upturncd
only by some positicc action 1t is too evi-
dent for argument that negro suffrage cannot
he uprootcd by tie Federal Governn,cnf, even
under Democratic control. If the Democratic
party makes any declaration on this subject
in the approaching National Convention, it
can only GRi'm tho principle that the Federal
Government has no constitutional right to
prescribe the rules Of suffrage in a State"
"Can be upturncd ouly by positive ac-
toni" Certainly, nothing can be changed
but by "positvc action" The positive ac-
ton by which the Radicals began their rcvo-
lutionary reconstruction policy towards the
Southern States, was by rejecting their Rep
rcscntativcs from Congress. Cannot the Dem
ocratic party by kindred "postttvc action
admit them into Congress
"Ncgrp suffrage cannot be uprootcd by
the Federal Government even under Dem
ocratic rule" Why not7 According to the
standing declarations Of tic World " for the
last two years negro suffrage was wrongfully
and unconsttutionaly forced into existence
over the South by the Federal Government,
| why cannot the Federal Government Cup
root it? IF the constitution is ovcrthrown,
is it not the most solemn duty Of all the ad.
ministrators of the Government to restore it?
If tho whole fabric of government which the
constitution establishes is perverted, and
revolutionary element is introduced fatal to
its peace or stability rs free government
| ought it not to be crushed out? Can free
government be preserved on any other princi-
plc2 But the white people of the Southern
States neithcr ask nor expect the /" Federal
Government to uprcot" negro suffrage in
their States. Withdraw your troops and
leave us to ourselves. Is it "too evident for
Argument T" that the Democratic party, in
control Of the government of the United
States, cannot do this ?
The "World" says, "if the Democratic
party makes any declaration on the subject in
the approaching National Convention, it can
only affirm the principle that the Federal
Government has no constitutional right to
prescribe rules of suffrage in State. But
tho Federal Government has prescribed rules
of suffrage in the Southern States. 1t is not
tho duty of all who arc faithful to tho consti-
tuition to upset this usurpation? If affect
cd only these Statcs,-a wrong that the FEEDER
al Government has done, these States hayc
right to require tho Federal Government to
undo. But negro suffrage docs not affect the
Southern States alone. 1t affects all the
States, and the Government Of the United
States, in tho vital matter Of its constituency.
1t intro duces negroes, Chinese, and all other
races, into participation of the elective fran
chisc. And is it not tho right and the duty
of both branches of Congress to inquire, be-
fore they admit representative to seat in
Congress, whether he has been elected, not
only by majority, but by n far higher quail
cation--a constitutional constituency? Tho
formor qualification, affects tho Representa-
tive and tho people of his congressional dis
trict but the latter affects tho whole gov
ernmcnt, and all tho people of the United
States, in the vital matter of liberty and FREQ
government itself. Shall representative bc
rejected from his scat, on account of few
fraudulent votes md shall ho be admitted,
although ho comes by constituency uncon-
stitutionally created and forced upon States
4 by a revolutionary tyranny which assimilatcs
them TO tho mongrel despotlsms Of Mexico
and South Amerioa2 We beg leave thore-
fore to suggest that tho Democratic party at
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